So the moment someone does some actual journalism, ABC News suspends them?
Sounds about right.
Yesterday, the LAPD released a statement calling the protests peaceful. They had no reason to do that, except that it’s true. Meanwhile, the administration is planting instigators and inflaming tensions to justify its own lawless actions. No one, not even Trump, gets to trample the Constitution.
This morning, Trump thanked the National Guard for handling protests they weren’t even present for. That’s how far they’ll go to sell the lie. Trump wants this fight, not to keep peace, but to justify using the military against Americans. A textbook authoritarian move.
The role of the press is to criminalize all legitimate protests and then twenty years later write about how important they were.
Um, I’d prefer not to…
we already know that MoRon is engaged in fascist-like fascist lite fascist action and decree in this state. his administration is the picture of corruption. that his wife, Casey “dollar store Jackie” desantis, is in charge of dark moneyed “charities” is part-and-parcel of the depth of the crony pay-to-play state government he has been running.
that she was ever even floated as a successor to the governorship is laughable and frightening.
desantis’s florida is and has been a workshop for the fascist overtake of Constitutional government.
cruelty and corruption is the order of the day.
Or, just “fuck no and fuck you. Now fuck off, fucker.” Or words to that effect.
Yeah, towards the end of the article, you can see what this is really all about:
Prosecutors in Tallahassee have opened an investigation related to the Hope Florida Foundation. A public records custodian in the office of Second Judicial Circuit State Attorney Jack Campbell confirmed the existence of “an open, on-going investigation” last month in response to a records request from The Associated Press. The investigation was first reported by the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times.
Republican state lawmakers in DeSantis’ own party have been scrutinizing Hope Florida and its nonprofit foundation, which gave $10 million from a state Medicaid settlement to two nonprofits. Those groups in turn gave millions to a political committee, chaired by DeSantis’ then-chief of staff, that campaigned against a failed referendum on recreational marijuana.
In April, Republican state Rep. Alex Andrade wrapped up the investigation he had been spearheading into Hope Florida, saying he would leave the rest of the inquiry to “the FBI and Department of Justice,” though there is no public evidence that either is doing so. Andrade has alleged that the flow of funds from the foundation to the nonprofits and on to the political committees amounts to “conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud.”
The governor has dismissed the investigation of Hope Florida as a politically motivated smear against his wife, whom he’s floated as his potential successor when he terms out in 2026.
The DeSantis’s are trying to pull off what Ma and Pa Ferguson pulled off in Texas a hundred years ago.
an update:
Tom Cotton is an attorney. What he is advocating for is explicitly illegal.
That’s not even accurate. That city really would explode in protests and riots if they did that. That might actually be the start of a civil war. These people are so stupid.
These types of people have an unhealthy passion for a violent end of the world, which in their view would be a pornographic orgy of violence that would only affect those they don’t like or don’t even care about.
That xitter account posts nonsense about every conspiracy theory out there. They have some crazy shit on there.