A Florida man has been charged with wire fraud for allegedly trying to get $2.5 million out of the Gaetz family in exchange for trying to get a pardon for Matt. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/politics/florida-man-charges-gaetz-family-fraud-scheme/index.html
$25 million, not $2.5 million. That is a lot of money for a pardon. Also, Gaetz was one of Tr*mp's biggest cheerleaders. Couldn't he request a pardon on his own?
Of course he could request one. Probably even did so. Trump, as you know, doesn't give a ******** about loyalty.
I'm shocked I tell you, shocked! Meanwhile, based on 14 day moving averages, Florida is 4th for new cases, and 1st for hospitalizations and deaths. The good news for it is that new cases have declined 15% in the last 2 weeks and it will now be overtaken by other Ivermectin states in the horse race of new cases.
I posted this in the Hurricane Ida thread. Not the first time a storm has been politicized. EDIT - I left a Stormy Daniels joke just sitting out there.
Maybe the $25 mill should have been paid by Gaetz' dad to Tr*mp directly. Little Matt would have his pardon. He doesn't give a ********* about loyalty, but does about money.
“Fifteen staff members in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools District have died from COVID-19 in the past 10 days.”When will the national media hold DeSantis responsible for the carnage he caused in Florida? https://t.co/boycfZRLve— Murshed Zaheed (@murshedz) September 4, 2021
How Ron DeSantis won the pandemic. https://t.co/MbUic35ncG— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) September 5, 2021
This is what success looks like. pic.twitter.com/HsmFjEwmEP— Heath Mayo (@HeathMayo) September 6, 2021
Florida’s 7-day deaths average just passed 300 for the first time in the pandemic. It currently happened on August 21 and with Florida’s new reporting method resulting in a 3-4 week delay, the 7-day average on August 22 is likely to rise even further and the 300 threshold could have been broken a day or two earlier, but we won’t know for awhile.
Florida Man hired guy to do crazy things. "Another substantial change in the revised rule deals with protocols for students who have been exposed to COVID-19. The new rule says schools “shall allow parents or legal guardians the authority to choose how their child receives education after having direct contact with an individual that is positive for COVID-19.” It gives parents the option of allowing the “student to attend school, school-sponsored activities, or be on school property, without restrictions or disparate treatment, so long as the student remains asymptomatic.” Parents also would have the option of quarantining their students for up to seven days." https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cl...arents-power-over-quarantines/?outputType=amp
This ad pounds DeSantis. He deserves it & more yikes. brutal ad https://t.co/UkiXwRCLzW— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 29, 2021
Florida man is at it again. What a ********ingly stupid idea. This dude is so full of hot air. Miami Mayor Wants to Pay Employees In Bitcoin Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said it’s “a major priority” for the city to be able to pay government employees in Bitcoin, Bloomberg reports. Said Suarez: “I want us to differentiate ourselves as a crypto capital of the United States or of the world.”
Miami Herald doesn't hold punches... https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article255175642.html Nothing can hide Florida’s descent into Crazyville. Not the “Don’t Tread on Florida” alligator signs held by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ supporters at his latest COVID-19 policy proposal announcement. Not the state’s new Ivy League-educated surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who, as reported by FloridaPolitics.com, refused — refused! — to wear a mask when he met with state Sen. Tina Polsky in her office in Tallahassee. The state senator, who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties, has cancer. Crazy. We thought things couldn’t get much worse in DeSantis’ handling of the pandemic, but we were wrong — then we were wrong again. Just when you think he’s done enough to undermine our chances of exiting a pandemic that has killed nearly 60,000 Floridians, he has a new trick up his sleeve. DeSantis’ latest move, announced Thursday, is to call a special legislative session to undermine federal requirements announced by President Biden that some workers be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Among the laws he wants lawmakers to pass is making businesses liable for medical harm that results from mandatory vaccinations, even though millions of vaccines have safely been administered in the United States. DeSantis has for months tried to walk the tight rope between pleasing anti-vaxxers and not undermining the vaccines his own administration has distributed. If there was any doubt of which side he favors, Thursday’s announcement put the nail in the coffin. He has every motivation to ignore the facts and continue to stoke COVID denial and anti-vaxx fervor. His policy proposals are usually followed by a fundraising pitch from his campaign to potential donors, as the USA TODAY Network has reported. That model has worked for DeSantis, who’s outraised his Democratic opponents in next year’s elections. Not that he cares too much about 2022. It’s 2024 he probably has his eyes on, and he will do whateve it takes to appeal to the “Don’t tread on me” crowd, which he hopes to inherit from Donald Trump. That’s if the former president doesn’t crush his protege’s presidential aspirations by running himself. The state’s death toll is all but a footnote in the governor’s playbook.
Good editorial, but descent into craziness? Florida has been crazy for so long that Carl Hiassen and Dave Barry have gotten rich by writing about it. And I'm pretty sure it was already crazy a. f. when those guys started out. . . if not when they were born.
It's all relative. If your starting point is Jeb, Death Santis is definitely a descent into further craziness...
Oh it goes way back. I went down a Dixieland google wormhole for some reason & found this ditty sung by Union troops Away down South in the land of traitors, Rattlesnakes and alligators, Right away! Come away! Right away! Right away, come away! Where cotton's king and men are chattles, Union boys will win the battles, right away! Come away! Right away! Right away, come away! We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! (Back to singing) I wish I was in Baltimore, I'd make secession traitors roar right away! Come away! Right away! Come away! Right away, come away! We'll put the traitors all to route, I'll bet my boots we'll whip 'em out, Right away! Come away! Right away, come away! We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away! Away!We'll all go down to Dixie! (Continue singing) O may our Stars and Stripes still wave forever roar the Free and brave! Right away! Come away! Right away, come away! And let our motto forever be for Union and for Liberty, right away! Come away! Right away, come away! We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away, away, ! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away, away, we'll all go down...