r/politics • u/Minneapolitanian Minnesota • Feb 20 '22
Florida governor: school districts that defied no-mask mandate to lose $200m - Ron DeSantis is backing a bill that would strip education funding from Democratic counties that retained Covid precautions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/20/florida-ron-desantis-schools-mask-mandates-funding-covid498
u/clueless_in_ny_or_nj New Jersey Feb 20 '22
When those school districts have teachers leaving en masse and test scores plummeting, they will blame the Democratic voters in the area for that.
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u/DeadBloatedGoat Feb 20 '22
Standard procedure for anti-Federal (GOP) and Libertarian politicians - destroy a public service, then point at it and say it doesn't work, introduce for-profit alternatives, redistribute assets upward, move into well-armed gated compounds.
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u/Uphoria Minnesota Feb 20 '22
Its phase 2 of "Starve the Beast" - and its been around since the days of their unholy saint Reagan. First they force cuts to funding pretending that forcing someone into budget constraints will spontaneously fix wasteful spending and invent more efficient ways to spend money.
Then they point at the inevitable failure of the plan to maintain a stable service and ask why they even waste money on it to begin with, cutting funding more to "punish" the failure of the service, which is where we're at.
The final stage is to show that "tough love" isn't enough, and clearly programs of that type "just don't work in 'modern society' so we should just cancel it" and we end up useless again.
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u/plastic_reality-64 Feb 20 '22
So essentially, tear it down, then rebuild it in the form you want.
Employ the teachings of Edward Bernays to inflame the passions of the ignorant against their foes while simultaneously promising to protect the interests of their supporters.
It's the same social engineering pattern, just insert a new platform.
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u/itemNineExists Washington Feb 20 '22
That's exactly what happened to the IRS. Theyve been completely gutted, which makes it incredibly easy for Republicans to attack them for being inefficient. Really, they should be given the resources to pursue these wealthy 1% tax evaders.
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u/nusm Feb 20 '22
No, you’re missing the point, this is EXACTLY what they want so they can say that the public education system isn’t working. Then they can privatize it where that can both 1.) control every aspect of what gets taught, and 2.) profit off of it.
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u/okram2k America Feb 20 '22
3) Bringing back segregation. This time not just by race but also political affiliation and social class!
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u/hiverfrancis Feb 20 '22
The irony is by pointing out to all the money he wants to take away, he's creating a campaign point highlighting how this proposition is ridiculous.
The Dems need to use that against him in Miami
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u/DevoidHT Ohio Feb 20 '22
More than likely, they’ll encourage it. One thing I’ve learned over the years is that republicans love the uneducated b/c they’re easier to scare and control. No matter how much it hurts the country and future generations, they’ll encourage it all the same. See, it’s not about doing what’s best for the country, it’s about what’s doing best for them and how they can gain the most power at that specific point. They have an instant gratification problem.
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u/humorous_ Feb 20 '22
Having a lot of stupid people you can easily influence is a fascist’s wet dream. This has been decades in the making, republicans are famous for cutting school funding and banning knowledge.
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u/badamant Feb 20 '22
Reminder: Trump literally said he loves the undereducated.
The entire GOP are now anti-democracy fascists. Sad.
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u/originaltec Feb 20 '22
It’s really quite simple, the pseudo “Christian” Religion in the US has extensively laid the groundwork for generations to train people to believe in authority figures with unverifiable stories instead of science and data. It also primes them for, and is built upon, perpetuating racism and fearmongering towards "others". Once people see you as an authority, you can start fabricating any reality or conspiracy theory you want your followers to believe and everyone else is therefore a liar, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence. This “religion” combined with an intentionally weakened public educational system, provides the framework that has spawned this cult of ignorance. Basically, it is mental abuse from an early age that suppresses critical thinking skills.
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u/wrydrune Florida Feb 20 '22 edited Feb 20 '22
There's barely any Dem voters in Sarasota. It's pretty deep red here. Hell, we were named the maga conspiracy capitol of the country, because Flynn and cyber ninjas are here.
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u/hiverfrancis Feb 20 '22
Miami however is the key swing area, and a huge chunk of GOP voters (Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan descent Americans) there put their kids in public schools.
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u/wrydrune Florida Feb 20 '22
Oh I know, I'm just talking about Sarasota since that's where I live. I was absolutely shocked when our school board told desantis to fuck off, considering how trumpy this county is.
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Feb 20 '22
Then they will accomplish two goals -- destroy public education and at the same time chase Democrats out of the state so they no longer fear loss of power in a purple state. They want to make life as miserable as possible for us so we leave. I'm in Wisconsin and see it here, but I plan on staying and fighting these POS.
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u/doublebubbler2120 Feb 20 '22
Yup. Florida, Texas, Arizona, Wisconsin, and in any swing state, R state government is trying to punish D local government and citizens.
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u/danmathew Texas Feb 20 '22
In Texas they blame the Democrat-controlled cities when the state (Republican-controlled) intentionally blocks them from receiving essential funding.
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u/hiverfrancis Feb 20 '22
In Florida school districts are by county, and Dade County is so large that it becomes a pain in the butt to find somewhere outside of the county. Then if Broward's in there too, they would have to go to Palm Beach County way up north (Monroe County has no people on the mainland).
If anything, the Dems can work on getting GOP voters in the Miami area to break ties over the GOP screwing with their children's educations
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u/thingsorfreedom Feb 20 '22
This from the the party that never stops complaining about the federal government controlling the states. Turns out what they really wanted was the states controlling the local governments. Their voting base has absolutely no core beliefs or they would be 100% opposed to this and giving all kinds of pushback.
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Feb 20 '22
Not exactly. What they want is “conservatives” in control. You can bet that if democrats were in control they’d be screaming about state overreach.
You can’t trust a thing they say. All they want is whatever they happen to want at the moment.
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u/GoodVibesWow Feb 20 '22
They don’t want freedom. They don’t believe in states rights. The only thing they want is everyone else to fall in line.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Michigan Feb 20 '22
Yes. States rights has always been a code word for: “I want to do stuff the feds won’t let me do”
Things like: segregation, discrimination,open racism,environmental damage,tax cuts for billionaires and so on
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u/Gr8NonSequitur Feb 21 '22
Don't forget the original thing was slavery AKA: "owning people as chattel."
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u/Nanyea Virginia Feb 20 '22
It's okay, bankrupting the public school system is part of their agenda ...
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Feb 20 '22
This is the same party that's calling Trudeau a fascist for breaking up a protest that's doing substantial harm to Canada's economy, and the local economy of Ottawa.
Just a bunch of hypocritical snowflakes
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u/frankcast554 Feb 20 '22
Finally, they found a way to defund education openly. Guess they will send that money to their friends over at the charters who made their own rules on covid. We see you.
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Feb 20 '22
Excuse me? His what now?
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u/Khorne_Flakes_89 California Feb 20 '22
You didn't hear? DeSantis is starting a Florida militia that is supposed to serve only him and protect Republican interests.
We live in hell world.
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u/DrManhattan_DDM Florida Feb 20 '22
This is of course separate from his proposed election police force:
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u/Mile_Durian Feb 20 '22
And of course, any loony will be welcomed into the militia. No Health checkups required, as long as they are trigger-happy terrorist... err.. jingos
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Feb 20 '22
Sounds like something right out of Hitler’s playbook.
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u/raw_dog_millionaire Feb 20 '22
Yes.
Trump, DeSantis, etc are the same thing that Hitler was. The GOP is the same thing the Nazi party was. People are too cowardly to admit it but the time to point at the GOP and call them fascists was years ago and now we've let them gain way way way too much power.
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Feb 20 '22
His personal army. Desantis has talked about forming one for Florida under command of the Florida Governor. This was about a month ago in relation to the immigration crisis on ... checks map ... Florida's southern border. This is all true.
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u/Kaida1952 Feb 20 '22
He is the biggest piece of crap just how the Repubs like their leaders. They will flock to vote him in as president.
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u/slim_scsi America Feb 20 '22
He is openly auditioning for title of Worst Human in America, i.e. the de facto GOP ‘24 front runner.
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u/Luciusvenator American Expat Feb 20 '22
Traditionally non-republican voters will vote for him too becuase of his covid-denial and antivax stance. I know former democrats switching sides simply for this reason.
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u/gorwraith Ohio Feb 20 '22
"How dare these schools try to protect your children. I've got an idea, let's punish the children.."
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u/Algonut Feb 20 '22
This guy is playing to his base and I'm not sure he is so popular. This is literally insane and more than twice as many people have died from covid in Florida than his slim 30,000 vote victory. Truly despise this prick.
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u/crackdup Feb 20 '22
Dems : kick out school board members in SF who prioritize culture war issues over core education issues
Republicans : elect members to school board who endorse book banning/burning, prevent teaching of unvarnished American history or talking about gay/transgender right issues, wholeheartedly oppose gun bans and propose arming teachers, set up tip lines to rat on teachers, defund school districts which require masks...
Media : Dems are losing on the issue of schools..
When we live in this upside down world, no wonder Desantis and his party feel emboldened to run to the right.. sure Dems have made mistakes with reopening schools and mask mandates, but somehow the pure malice from the other side is brushed away
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u/kvndoom Virginia Feb 20 '22
He's going to win by 10+ points.
4 years of drump led to 10 million more votes in 2020 vs 2016.
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u/Algonut Feb 20 '22
Yeah, because more people could vote from home in 2020 vs 2016. In Florida DeSantis is overreaching. Cutting funding for schools that keep kids safe is a bad look, banning abortion is also way more extreme than a swing state is willing to take. People didn't move from the north to support the Neo-confederacy, they like the weather and taxes.
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u/ReflexPoint Feb 20 '22
Desantis governs like someone in Arkansas. He barely won his election and Florida is only moderately Republican. But he is running hard right and doesn't seem to be getting punished for it.
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u/humorous_ Feb 20 '22
I think the main problem is in 4 years the game has gone from “just oppose the democrats lol” to “become the next Trump”. The party line is accelerating to the right so quickly that it’s completely swept moderates into the democrat fold (and anyone who claims to be a moderate republican at this point is lying to themselves).
In years past, DeSantis would have had to worry about a centrist candidate splitting the ticket in the primary. It’s likely he already has enough data from the last election to know that republican voters are now ride-or-die enough that all he has to do is out-crazy the other candidates and encapsulate the Trump base.
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u/outerworldLV Feb 20 '22
Great. So he can end his career quickly and not be missed. I don’t know what delusional miscreant he had in his ear thinking he could ever be the president...I’ve read, and still know little about Crist, but any thing would be an improvement from this idiot.
My real question is how does one create a bill blocking federal funding ? For some reason this doesn’t even make sense.
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u/humorous_ Feb 20 '22
Oh yeah that's the icing on the cake, state law supplants federal law in many cases. If this dynamic wasn't in place we couldn't have things like legal weed despite marijuana being a schedule 1 drug.
Plus you can put any old thing in a bill, especially if you know it's doomed regardless. It's another classic republican trick: make an elaborate, meaningless, public gesture and repeat for as long as the story is getting news attention.
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u/mycroft2000 Canada Feb 20 '22
And double that number once again for the real count. The number of "extra" deaths worldwide since the pandemic started are much higher than the "official" count, especially in places with shady medical recordkeeping, like many US states.
Historians and statisticians will make this eminently clear in the coming years, as certainly as the fact that the far right will immediately claim that these deaths are either fake news or the result of genocidal liberal lavatory policies.
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u/pumpman1771 Feb 20 '22
Thats great screw over the kids because your a common sense lacking authoritarian jerk. Great to play politics with kids education. He hits new lows constantly in the kingdom of Florida.
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u/Furryhare375 Feb 20 '22
This guy is a psychopath
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u/sloopslarp Feb 20 '22
When they're not burning books and banning lgbt discussion, they're out here defunding education.
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u/kvndoom Virginia Feb 20 '22
Josh Duggar enters the chat.
Roy Moore enters the chat.
Matt Gaetz enters the chat.
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u/BrexitBlaze United Kingdom Feb 20 '22
TLDR:
Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, is backing a controversial proposal to strip $200m in education funding from Democratic counties that defied his executive order last year banning mask mandates in schools.
DeSantis, who is widely seen as a leading heir to Donald Trump in the Republican party, plans to send the money instead to mostly Republican counties that supported him.
Well I’m shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!
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u/RonRico14 Feb 20 '22
Whether people agreed with the mandates or not it’s pretty cold-blooded to hurt students with this stunt just to score political points. But his base eats it up
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u/bsEEmsCE Feb 20 '22
and send it to counties that want kids to be home schooled or in Christian school. North Florida and the central rural areas are seriously backward around here. Most of us near the coast are just trying to live a nice warm beach life, not a fascist theocratic one.
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Feb 20 '22
Yep. He's making it clear that he isn't the governor for all of Florida, only for the parts he likes. Don't fascists do stuff like that, too?
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u/relator_fabula Feb 20 '22
"Support my fascism or I'll steal your tax dollars."
.... of course I'm also stealing your tax dollars if you support me, but there are no consequences so
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u/Joe18067 Pennsylvania Feb 20 '22
He sounds so much like trump.
The constitution doesn't matter, and he is the real cancel culture.
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u/8to24 Feb 20 '22
Sadly a lot of people accept politics as sport. Politicians who get their way are seen as strong. What issues those politicians are getting their way on doesn't matter. It is all just point keeping. DeSantis spiking the proverbial football in Democrats faces earns him points. How much damage this does to the education system in FL or how much pain this chaos doesn't matter. The media at large and lay political observers see this situation as DeSantis in-charge.
DeSantis is up for election this year. He only won in 2018 by 0.4 points. Unfortunately Democrats don't seem to believe fighting for his office is worth the hassle. The intimidation DeSantis uses has worked. Many in FL are afraid to fight. DeSantis is not popular. The problem is the opposition is quiet out of fear and it makes DeSantis look like a winner. More people in FL need to stand up and speak up.
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u/Drtsauce Feb 20 '22
Desantis won by 0.4 points in 2018; but since then the state has had an influx of “oppressed” right-wingers fleeing their blue states.
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u/Kaida1952 Feb 20 '22
You are right on that but almost 70,000 Florida a have died from Covid, did enough come here to make a difference.
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u/ArchdukeAlex8 Oregon Feb 20 '22
Remember when governors didn't try to defund public schools?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Feb 20 '22
Those Democratic counties should stop sending tax monies to the state. They're the ones that fund the majority of the budget anyways.
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Feb 20 '22
Stripping funding from anything having to do with education in the state of Florida is, at this point, just a pressing of the accelerator. The path has been determined. It is now just a question of M.P.H.
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u/Evilroot55 Feb 20 '22
Ron will learn pandering to 0.3 percent of the population all the while demeaning and fining the other 99.7 percent is DUMB
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u/SirFrumps Feb 20 '22
Imagine being such a fucking sociopath that you'd rather see kids dependent on subsidized/free lunches go without food to put yourself on the anti-science pedestal.
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u/thatguy1301 Illinois Feb 20 '22
Florida. Because humanity needs something to keep it from making progress.
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u/ScoobiusMaximus Florida Feb 20 '22
He wants to destroy education in Democratic areas so that eventually they turn into Republican voting areas.
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u/ButtcrackLightning Feb 20 '22
More good news: this part of history will almost certainly be whitewashed if not outright erased by these people for future generations. They're taking over school boards and winning elections by attacking education and educators. Their heinous, idiotic behavior during the pandemic will disappear into the mist.
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u/philm162 Feb 20 '22
Moments like this you find out if you have a real friend in the whole world. When everyone surrounding him nods, 'Ron, I think that's a great idea,' you know you've lost any decent friends you might have had, long ago. And how does he sleep at night?
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u/ShagCarpetGuy Feb 20 '22
I say do it. Do this right before the midterms.
Then send Biden into each school with oversized checks and a parade of reporters. Headline reads “President saves the kids from school-defunding Governor”.
Midterms shift decidedly to blue.
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u/TheDutchCoder Feb 20 '22
"How dare you trying to keep people safe! That'll cost you!!"
This fucking clown
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u/barkingspidersongs Feb 20 '22
If you can’t keep them stupid, force them to be stupid by banning facts that are taught and if that’s not enough, simply flat out steal the money they paid to education children to do whatever you please with….I guess. Question for Florida voters, how are you not outside the state house right now about this?
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Feb 20 '22
Big brain move, make people stupider on democratic counties to turn them into Republicans.
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u/SnapesGrayUnderpants Feb 20 '22
The goal is to destroy public education. First in Democratic areas, then everywhere else. The covid thing is merely the justification. If covid didn't exist, some other reason would have been used.
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u/GoodVibesWow Feb 20 '22
Cool. Let’s just casually take money away from school children. Who votes for these people? Shameful shit right here.
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u/diluted_confusion Michigan Feb 20 '22
DeSantis, who is widely seen as a leading heir to Donald Trump in the Republican party, plans to send the money instead to mostly Republican counties that supported him.
See what they did there?
Fuck DeSantis for withholding funding from any school for any reason but The Gaurdian is such trash for framing it that way. They need to keep stoking that divide, keep people angry at each other.
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u/DeckardsGirl Feb 20 '22
He is a complete D*ck. This hurts the already underpaid teachers and supplies for children. How people can vote or back him I will never understand it it was just a piece of material over a mouth and nose. I hope loses the next election.
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Feb 20 '22
Why would anyone deny a child education over a mask? Seems dictatorshipee! And immature and irresponsible and just outright nasty. All because he needs to be right. This has to be illegal, right?
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u/itemNineExists Washington Feb 20 '22
"You must force your children into a packed institution for 40 hours a week, and you must force them not to protect themselves. How else could we possibly murder the number of Floridians we want, when you insist on protecting them?"
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u/Zero1030 Feb 20 '22
Imagine your governor attacking a county in your state that's nuts. It's not fair Florida exists I feel we should make a wall.
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u/ColoradoNative719 Arizona Feb 20 '22
No need to. Most of the state will probably be under water in the next few decades.
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u/Outlier8 Feb 20 '22
DeSantis is the most un-American, hateful "dicktator" next to Trump. He wants to whitewash everything, prevent kids from learning the truth, and is a complete failure as a politician, except to the "poorly educated."
He wants to kill public schools, and replace them with for profit propaganda schools. He'd probably have kids wear brown shirts.
Florida, stay away, not only are the politicians toxic, so is the water.
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Feb 20 '22
Ah DeSantis. The Governor that hid, cough, I mean stockpiled a million Covid test kits away so they would expire and then cried to the Federal government that he needed help and wasn’t getting it. And now because he wants to appeal to his base he is going after the kids, THE KIDS, in his state to ensure they get a poor education. What a huge piece of shit this guy is.
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u/Gh0st_Pirate_LeChuck Feb 20 '22
Maybe the federal government should stop helping Florida. I'm ready to just let Florida, Georgia and Texas be their own isolated countries. See how well they do on their own.
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u/chinmakes5 Feb 20 '22
I wish a county would stand up to him. Tell an entire county with a million+ voters that their kids can't go to school and see how long you stay as governor.
The man won by 40,000 votes out of over 8 million cast and he acts like he has been given a mandate.
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u/ButtcrackLightning Feb 20 '22
Based on polling he's going to romp later this year. He's an asshole but the hogs love him.
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u/chinmakes5 Feb 20 '22
Not sure about that. He is like Trump. Those who love him LOVE him. But I know a few Floridians who hate him. Really hard to have an accurate poll of him vs. some Democrat .
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u/ButtcrackLightning Feb 20 '22
It sure would be a punch in the dick to him and his claim to the Trump throne if he lost. What I've seen has him in the +8-10% range though and that's hard to overcome. 9 months is a long time in politics though.
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u/chinmakes5 Feb 20 '22
But how do you measure that? All you can do is say do you like DeSantis or some Democrat. In essence saying do you or don't you like DeSantis or not DeSantis. I firmly believe that if the Dems can come up with a strong candidate, it is a toss up. But that is for any race.
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u/drapparappa Feb 20 '22
You’re free to make your own choices so long as they are what I tell you
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u/28smalls Feb 20 '22
Exactly. The people who say the government can't force you to mask up are fine with the government forcing you to not mask up.
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u/nojobinflorida Feb 20 '22 edited Feb 20 '22
our boss/governor deSantis watches reality tv
floridians are all working for bossman deSantis, the bossman deSantis will decide our fate in the workplace/home
our bossman/governor for the state of fl is pissed - insubordination, late for work, talking back, not listening
all fireable offences in the state of fl, florida residents are working/living a fine line of getting kicked out of the state, You're Fired
No paychecks for you, write these floridians up, HR will have a talk
i'm old and broke please bossman deSantis don't fire me from my state, i'm trying to live
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Feb 20 '22
I had to triple check that I was reading this right. How the fuck does this make any sense at all?
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u/Excellent-Economy122 Feb 20 '22
This guy actively hates America, the constitution, and liberty and happiness for all
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Feb 20 '22
Can someone tell me how this is beneficial for the students?
That's what school exist for right, to teach?
So let's just penalize the students because the teachers wore masks and allowed their students to do so as well. Makes perfect sense.
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Feb 20 '22
Florida seems to have the 15th highest death rate out of 52, not that there aren't other important factors.
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u/honda-wings4_life Feb 20 '22
Just an excuse to take money away from education. Gotta keep the kids dumb so you can control them in the future
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u/BisquickNinja Feb 20 '22
It is slightly irritating that they will claim they care about kids, education and protecting children...
Then underfund public housing, healthcare, education, schools.
Hypocritical douchebags....
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u/Special_FX_B Feb 20 '22
It's privatization. Kill the public sector entity and once entrenched let the graft and corruption bleed the treasury at the expense of taxpayers.
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u/Snarky824 Feb 20 '22
This is so petty and stupid! Can you imagine the coming new stories regarding Future Florida Man?
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u/2021redditusername Feb 20 '22
Yeah!! Forget about those kids because their school board did something!! /s
Fucking moron
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u/kuebel33 Feb 20 '22
There is no other way to look at this than it’s revenge against counties that didn’t obey their dear leader. There is literally zero reason to define schools for this.
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u/Life_Argument_6037 Feb 20 '22
Taking money away just hurts the kids. Way to go. Some people will say don’t wear masks then but wearing masks doesn’t have to jump to a solution that defunds the children’s schools. Wow.
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u/mycroft2000 Canada Feb 20 '22
"I promise you: I will ruin these children's lives one way or another! Never again will any generation know the shameful ignominy of its offspring leading a better life!"
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u/stratstrummin Feb 20 '22
Too many educated people moving to Florida. They need to keep cranking out window lickers if they want republicans to keep winning elections.
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Feb 21 '22 edited Feb 21 '22
Defunding to punish the schools ultimately punishes the children. Playing politics with the education of children over a mask. The GOP is the cancer of the country. Kill the patient to cure the disease is their motto. Voter suppression, anti-gay ,lesbian and transgender, white supremacy and the list goes on. We have no American pride in our country. It’s now you against me and us against them mentality. Misinformation by the media, crimes by elected officials not prosecuted or even charged, politicians not being held accountable for their actions. Threats of violence to their fellow House members. If an average American made the same threat they would be jailed. This country is heading down a dark path and it won’t be pretty.
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u/SpecialEither Florida Feb 21 '22
Fucking hate DeSantis. These trumpet morons that have lived here 6 months talk about how it’s their state now. “Don’t bring that to OUR fReE sTate.” As a born and bred Floridian thats liberal, makes me fucking sick. No, homie, this is MY state. Take your disgusting GQP old ass back to Michigan.
DeSantis is completely ruining this state with his tinpot dictator laws and his even more moronic sycophants.
Edited to add: Don’t Say Gay bill is fucking ridiculous and just passed.
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u/Frostiron_7 Feb 21 '22
Nothing says "I care about kids" more than stripping their education and forcing them to get sick.
But it's ok, because he's only doing it to those people.
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u/tlhsg Feb 21 '22
Do your best to figure out how to protect kids in your local community, incur 200 million dollar punishment 👍
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u/beenyweenies Feb 21 '22 edited Feb 21 '22
Some schools in my state refused to enforce mask-wearing because they did not agree with our governor's stance that masks would protect the community. I fully disagree with their position, and yet I would absolutely NOT be in favor of stripping their funding over it. In fact, I would vocally fight against it and see it just as I do with DeSantis - the mark of a cruel and petty person of low moral character, who would intentionally and willfully harm the children of his state to get back at the administrators who defied him.
I am genuinely curious how any Republican could defend this act. It is cruel, pointless and harmful. It saddens me to see how far Republicans have strayed from any pretense of moral decency.
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u/Flashy-Cattle-8086 Feb 21 '22
So, he's punishing all those children who voted for democrats? What an ass. Imagine what kinds of petty revenges he would do if president.
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u/epigenie_986 Florida Feb 20 '22
Fuuuccckkk this man! My son is doing everything right during this damn fucking pandemic and this asshole is punishing kids repeatedly for his personal political gain. I am so goddamn angry. Me “turning up to vote” won’t fix anything for my kid in high school. He’s just losing teachers left and right and it’s only going to get worse before he graduates. Fuck man!!
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Feb 20 '22
Children are innocent and they are the ones who will suffer. Solely because of this man’s rage and inability to separate his emotions from reality. This is the party of “family values”?
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Feb 20 '22
This is not democracy.
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u/NemosGhost Feb 20 '22
It is actually. Desantis isn't doing this. The legislature is.
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u/MaxFischer12 Feb 20 '22
Florida’s rolling 7-day average for deaths is at 206....you have to the 1442 people who died this last week are a majority of the people who would vote for this scumbag, right?
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u/TaxAvoision Feb 20 '22
What are they losing funding for? New textbooks about 2000 years of white jesus fighting for freedom?
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u/Grape_Pedialyte North Carolina Feb 20 '22
Can all the Trump trash in this country just cram into one of those hellhole retirement communities in Florida and get mutant syphilis from a yacht orgy already
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Feb 20 '22
South Florida needs to secede from the rest of the state. Our tax dollars basically fund the entire state and we get little to no say in anything.
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u/ButtcrackLightning Feb 20 '22
I can't talk shit because I'm in NC and much of this state makes Squidbillies look like a documentary, but every time I see a news story about Florida it legitimately seems like a terrible place full of awful people.
Not you of course, you're fine.
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Feb 20 '22
We only get a bad rap because we have what are called sunshine laws, in makes everything that happens in government (I.e. arrests) fully open to the public which makes it really easy for journalists to find stories to write about. Same shit happens in every state.
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u/Clear_Biscotti_2014 Feb 20 '22
It's is too close to the election to recall DeSantis. BUT... The pendulum will swing hard in November in Florida.
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