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IMPORTANT: If you're a Florida voter, make sure you are still "active"...check your status here. 👇🏼
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So Nazi symbols were projected on buildings in Jax and West Palm Beach for extended periods of time this past weekend.
We all know why this is happening now. We all know why these people feel comfortable operating in Florida. But no one says anything.
The silence is deafening.
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"A federal judge in Boston has ruled that migrants flown from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in 2022 can proceed with a lawsuit against the Florida company that took them there."
I hope they all become millionaires.
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The Marathon, FL Locals Facebook page has video of a pod of orcas that was encountered off of Key Largo today...
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I'm sure there's a great reason why
@marcorubio
wore a University of Sioux Falls jersey to get his vaccination yesterday. He's definitely not dumb enough to think it's the University of South Florida, right?
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"About 18,000 Dade high school students not currently immunized against measles, mumps and other diseases could be banned from school until they get their shots."
[Miami News - November 17, 1981]
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From a
@Publix
news release dated March 1, 2024...
"Net earnings for the fiscal year ended Dec. 30, 2023 were $4.3 billion, compared to $2.9 billion in 2022, an increase of 49%"
49%.
Think about when it was you were paying $7 for eggs, folks.
source 👉🏼
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"The most glaring contradiction of this governor is his compulsion to control virtually every aspect of our lives — including what we can say and how and where we can say it — while claiming, with a straight face, that Florida is “the freest state” in America."
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Bob Graham will be remembered for what he did *for* Floridians.
@GovRonDeSantis
will be remembered for what he did *to* Floridians.
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.
@GovRonDeSantis
this morning vowed to "destroy leftism" if he is elected.
What exactly does this mean? No more Democratic Party? No more Democrats? How does this even happen?
And imagine if a Democratic candidate for president vowed to destroy conservatism.
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This account managed by
@ChristinaPushaw
is misrepresenting the military service of
@GovRonDeSantis
in order to take a cheap shot at the
@MiamiHerald
.
To be clear, DeSantis never commanded or led any troops. He was a Navy JAG officer. Full stop.
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Parkland teacher who volunteered to carry gun in classroom leaves firearm in a South Florida public restroom where it is found by a homeless man and fired. It happens.
@KagroX
@NRA
@GunFreeZone
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JFC.
Florida is going to investigate Bud Light.
Insurance rates are soaring. People in SW Florida are still living in tents after Ian. Inflation going down everywhere *but* Florida...and this guy is investigating Bud Light.
DeSantis: We are going to launch an inquiry about bud light and it could lead to a derivative lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the Florida pension fund
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For the folks who continue to insist that Florida was not locked down and, if it was, it was only for a couple weeks, here is
@GovRonDeSantis
in June of 2020 threatening Florida bars with losing their liquor licenses if they didn't follow pandemic restrictions.
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"Gov. Ron DeSantis has one of the highest disapproval ratings among governors in the country...DeSantis’s disapproval rating of 44% was tied for the third-highest of any governor in the survey..."
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After selling his stock, the Republican Senator "...called his brother-in-law, according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
They talked for 50 seconds.
The very next minute, Burr’s brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, called his broker."
New: According to the SEC, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, then chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had material nonpublic information about coronavirus impact. He and his brother-in-law dumped stock before the market dropped in March 2020.
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I want to live in a state where the Health Department and Surgeon General aren't the biggest risks to my health and well-being.
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Is
@GovRonDeSantis
going to ban
@ChickfilA
? Are Republicans going to boycott?
The suspense is killing me.
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@CollinRugg
@ChrisMZiegler
I don't know, man. President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan got a nice serenade by Trump's granddaughter at Mar-A-Lago. Seems pretty special.
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The
@SunSentinel
Editorial Board has some advice for
@GovRonDeSantis
after
@Disney
turns the tables on him.
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"Sea turtles are moving further north along our coast, or south to the southern hemisphere, as waters are warming and they are expanding their ranges. So when we get these quick swings from warm to cooler, the turtles that haven’t made it south definitely get into trouble.”
😟
Close to 190 dead sea turtles were found frozen off the coast of Cape Cod Friday after low temperatures stifled their ability to make it safely to shore.
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In shocking twist, Roberts and Kavanaugh block the march toward one-party rule...
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Asa Hutchinson with a truth bomb at the
@FloridaGOP
event in Orlando today. And because MAGA has no room for the truth in their narrative, Hutchinson gets an earful.
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.
@GovRonDeSantis
: Today I am announcing that I am banning UFOs from FL airspace.
Reporter: Governor, are UFOs a problem in FL?
RD: Not yet. And they won't be with my new law that protects Floridians.
Twitter: "Best governor ever!" "Ron for President!" "Thank you!"
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@RonDeSantisFL
@helenaguirrefer
You locked down Florida.
It actually happened. There's video.
🤡
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I want to live in a state where the state's surgeon general doesn't receive letters from U.S. public health agencies telling him to stop "harming the public."
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In a world of horrible human beings, Bob Graham was one of the good ones. Those who value decency & integrity will never forget.
Godspeed, sir.
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The
@FloridaGOP
rigs elections.
This is a truth now, backed up by sworn testimony from a Florida Republican operative who did it.
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What does this even mean? Did he ignore the doctor's advice? Did he mock and deride her oncologist and his staff?
Casey Desantis on Ron: “What he did for me during my cancer battle was the same thing he did for the people of this state during covid.”
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10 people shot by a 16yo in Sanford last night. This was after 2 Polk County deputies were shot & 4 people were shot in Daytona Bch earlier in the day.
Florida has the most mass shootings of any state in 2024.
But there's so much poop in California!
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Jimmy Buffett died 4 days ago. President Biden and past presidents have issued statements over the past few days remembering the American music icon that embodied the Florida experience.
Even Ted Cruz and Kari Lake paid him homage.
The one man who hasn't said a word?
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"Florida is the Utah of the Southeast."
-
@GovRonDeSantis
, yesterday
Yeah, I don't see it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Twice impeached.
Liable for sexual assault.
Led an insurrection.
Criminally indicted under the Espionage Act.
Welcomed at Versailles.
Somewhere, Fidel Castro is smiling.
🚨Our Cuban-American community in Miami welcomed President Trump with open arms at the iconic Versailles Café.
The cafecito there is my favorite! ☕🇨🇺🇺🇸
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@BryanRuss1
Local stations have covered it to some degree. WPEC and Action News Jax both carried stories on it. But they're just reporting the incident. There is no kind of delving into why this is happening in FL. We all know why, of course, but our silence strengthens them and him.
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The President of Hungary and the Hungarian Ambassador to the US visited the Florida's Governor's Mansion less than a month ago.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban "identified the United States as one of his party’s “top three adversaries” during a political strategy session on Feb. 22'"
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Tell me you know nothing about Miami without telling me you you know nothing about Miami...
...featuring DeSantis propagandist
@ChristinaPushaw
.
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When someone says that he wants to get rid of a political ideology that 50% of Americans subscribe to, should they feel threatened? How does he rid the country of this ideology, "destroy" it, without destroying the people?
Why is
@GovRonDeSantis
threatening Americans?
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Broward County S.O. just issued a countywide BOLO for "40-50 vehicles that just left Tropical Park and will be traveling via I-95 to Mar-a-Lago. FHP has been advised."
The crazy is already starting.
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Trust these two clowns instead of the hundreds of epidemiologists, virologists, scientists, doctors, and PhDs working at the CDC and NIH?
Are you freaking high?
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With
@JeremyRedfernFL
making $126K, a total of $441K of our tax dollars goes toward feeding, clothing and putting a roof over the heads of these three right wing fanatics.
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BREAKING...
Below,
@GovRonDeSantis
arrives in Fort Lauderdale to check out what assistance the state can provide.
I kid...he's actually heading to Ohio for his presidential campaign that he claims doesn't exist. He could care less about Lauderdale Democrats.
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"Publix did not respond to New Times' request for comment."
And that should pretty much tell you all you need to know about what
@Publix
thinks about your concerns regarding their soaring prices.
"It bums me the fuck out," says Marlee Gleiberman, another Miamian. "Growing up, Publix was our staple for groceries. Now that I'm an adult, Aldi is the only option."
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I want to live in a state where teachers are valued just as much or maybe even more than law enforcement officers.
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To watch a Cuban-American Republican from Miami adopt the language of South Florida racists and bigots from the 60s and 70s as they watched their cities being transformed by new arrivals from Cuba illustrates just how deep the rot in the
@GOP
really is.
America is being invaded by 8000 illegal migrants a day from all over the world because Joe Biden is refusing to execute the immigration laws of the United States
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"Last week, Ziegler approached party staffers to inquire about rules related to removing a chairman. At the time, the inquiry confused the staffers, who were unclear why the chairman would ask about those specific rules..."
He knew it was going down.
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Did anyone ever think that governors would be controlling what kinds of hamburgers residents were permitted to eat? And that the governors doing this would belong to the party of smaller government?
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This 2018 Florida Phoenix article has more...
"The records show that DeSantis’s duties included a physical fitness coordinator, a recruiting officer, an assistant urinalysis coordinator (a program related to drug screening), and an awards officer."
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Here's
@GovRonDeSantis
taking issue with NBC talking to a few people who were leaving Florida. NBC accurately reported the numbers of people moving into and out of Florida but because they had the nerve to interview a few people who were leaving, it's bad journalism.
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The DeSantis campaign backing down and realizing, maybe too late, that their "boycott the activist media" strategy that was crafted by
@ChristinaPushaw
and
@BryanDGriffin
is a miserable failure.
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Colorado's mascot, Chip the Buffalo, took one for the team when he shot himself with the t-shirt cannon during Saturday's game. Ouch.
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When 55 out of your state's 67 county sheriffs believe that a rapist who has been charged with 91 crimes is fit to be President of the US, it's a reflection of the quality of the law enforcement agencies in the state.
Nice job,
@FLSheriffs
.
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"Florida's chief export, its primary contribution to the rest of the nation, is cruelty. It is a mean place that makes people meaner, and it shows others how to be mean, too."
Great column from
@NateMonroeTU
that describes how Florida has changed under
@GovRonDeSantis
.
Nate Monroe: The loss of former Governor Bob Graham left a hole in Florida's heart
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So this is how you do it.
Kudos to
@DeFede
for not only aggressively challenging the shameless hypocrisy of
@MaElviraSalazar
but then sticking with it as she played dumb and tried to deflect.
WATCH: Rep.
@MaElviraSalazar
continues to take credit for projects brought to
#FL27
made possible by bipartisan legislation she voted against like the CHIPS & Science Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
When pressed by
@CBSMiami
, Salazar says she forgot how she voted.
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Two years ago today,
@GovRonDeSantis
became a "Lockdown Governor" when he issued a stay-at-home order for Floridians.
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Can't wait until
@GovRonDeSantis
announces the "War on Outrageous Insurance Premiums."
When do you think that will happen?
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WPLG's Michael Putney came out of retirement for the day to remember Florida's Bob Graham.
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Loved this paragraph from George Will in the Washington Post this morning...
via
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Attention DeSantis campaign: you probably don't want to spend too much time highlighting Nikki Haley's disastrous slavery remarks.
Just sayin'.
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Remember when guys like
@TuckerCarlson
used to have to keep a low profile because the great majority of Americans really despised white nationalists and their ideology?
Now they command prime time slots at
@FoxNews
and are watched by millions of America every night.
Tucker Carlson proposes Hungarian PM Viktor Orban's far-right authoritarianism as "an option to the chaos and filth and crime growing all around us"
This is calculated. This is purposeful. He means it.
Tucker is steering his audience straight into white nationalism.
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It's been almost a month since
@GovRonDeSantis
deployed dozens of LEOs and air national guard assets to So. Florida to "protect" the state from a Haitian "invasion" that never materialized.
Lots of money spent. Lots of LEOs not doing their regular jobs.
Zero interdictions.
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News that Jacksonville community organizer Ben Frazier passed away last night. You might remember Mr. Frazier from January of last year when he was asked to leave a room in a public building where
@GovRonDeSantis
was holding a news conference.
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Both
@BryanDGriffin
and
@ChristinaPushaw
have returned to the State of Florida payroll after their presidential campaign assignments.
Griffin gets $160K of our taxpayer money as the "Director of Press Relations."
Pushaw receives $155K as a "Senior Management Analyst II."
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Thoughts and prayers, right,
@NRA
?
Thoughts and prayers, right,
@marcorubio
?
Thoughts and prayers, right,
@MarioDB
?
Thoughts and prayers, right,
@RosLehtinen
?
Thoughts and effin prayers, right,
@realDonaldTrump
?
#Parkland
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Everyone should go to the
@FLStateGuard
website to see how this was sold to Florida taxpayers.
@GovRonDeSantis
deploying them out of state to Texas is a blatant abuse of that original mission and a misuse of Florida taxpayer money.
website 👉🏼
.
@GovRonDeSantis
announces State Guard deployment to Mexican border, expanding the scope of the military force he created and commands
Reporting by
@AGGancarski
#FlaPol
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So
@FrancisSuarez
says he didn't vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020 but now that Trump has been impeached twice, been held liable for sexual abuse, led an insurrection against America and just been indicted, Trump is his choice for POTUS.
🤡🌎
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@Esqueer_
@UncrossEm
Actually, that's not true.
It's only applies to undocumented immigrants from those states.
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Imagine if Rick Scott cared half as much about America's kids getting gunned down in schoolrooms as he does about college football.
🚨 BREAKING: I am demanding answers and transparency from the
@CFBPlayoff
Selection Committee following its unprecedented exclusion of
@FSUFootball
from the playoffs.
Read my letter to Chairman Boo Corrigan ⬇️
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"In Florida, we know the difference between free speech and harassment..."
Unfortunately, that keen sense of perception is very selective. Isn't it, Bryan?
In Florida, we know the difference between free speech and harassment, and we enforce the rules. That's why the
@UF
plaza "occupation" by the Hamas crowd only lasted about 5 minutes.
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There is no one who has betrayed his country, his party, and his own principles more than Senator
@marcorubio
.
His legacy will always be that betrayal and he'll be forever remembered for it.
.
@MarcoRubio
in 2016: “For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.”
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A federal judge actually ruled that DeSantis violated the 1st Amend. & the FL Constitution by removing
@AndrewWarrenFL
, the prosecutor that DeSantis is referring to here.
I want to live in a state where the governor doesn't brag about violating the rights of citizens.
Governor
@RonDeSantisFL
has a civics lesson for Soros and the Left...
"If a prosecutor disagrees with a law, the appropriate thing to do is resign your office, run for the legislature, and try to get the law changed. But you do not have a veto of what the law is." 👇👇👇
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Even with all the new residents moving here, there are over 1 million LESS active registered voters in Florida today than just 2 years ago.
576,903 are Democrats.
499,582 are NPAs.
68,823 are Republicans.
The lack of curiosity by anyone in these numbers is rather stunning.
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Anyone else notice how quiet the DeSantis comms team has been this weekend?
🤔
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@JeremyRedfernFL
You voted for Trump twice and you would do it again in a heartbeat. That defines you, your integrity, and your character.
This...well, this is just icing on the cake.
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Wonder who foots the bill for DeSantis EOG employees to travel to Iowa to help out in the home stretch?
Is this on their own time? Who is paying their airfare and lodging expenses? Certainly not Florida taxpayers, right?
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If you're a pundit, politician or journalist & you're going to talk about how
@GovRonDeSantis
kept the state "free," you also should note how those policies resulted in some of the worst COVID case & mortality rates in the US.
Yes, he kept businesses open...at a huge human cost.
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It's a long read but if you want to get a sense of what Christina Pushaw was doing in Eastern Europe prior to getting a job with DeSantis, this
@politico
piece is a good start.
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@LucasFoxNews
@JeremyRedfernFL
In should also be noted that DeSantis is the same guy who plans to close down the National Weather Service, the National Hurricane Center and NOAA if he is elected POTUS.
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@foxandfriends
@KellyannePolls
speaking of someone with a platform inciting people's worst instincts...
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2,436 Floridians have died of COVID in 2024 thus far.
Perhaps if the deceased were neatly stacked on the front lawn of his $2M Pinellas County house he would feel differently.
.
@FLSurgeonGen
Joseph Ladapo says mask wearers simply 'like to hide their faces'
Reporting by
@AGGancarski
#FlaPol
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Hold on.
I was told that
@GovRonDeSantis
had rebuilt the Sanibel Causeway bridges in 3 days after Hurricane Ian came through over a year ago...
🤔
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Our
@NRA
World: OK gunslinger fires rifle at person driving a family car that he thought was stolen. Turns out the driver was his 13yo son. He’s dead.
@KagroX
@GunFreeZone
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@FoxNews
@POTUS
@NextRevFNC
Well, yeah. For Pete’s sake, he’s been telling them for 2 years to Make America Great Again…he spent an entire campaign calling America weak or stupid. Yeah, I'm pretty tired of it.
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The question every Floridian asks at the end of the day...
What did
@GovRonDeSantis
ban today?
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And, as a bonus...
"Jerich may face penalties under Florida's newly passed "Combating Public Disorder Law..."
....which was passed by the Trumpist
@FLGOPMajority
in response to BLM protests.
🤜🏼🤛🏼
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If you don't believe that the Zieglers and their attorney are currently digging through the victim's background looking for anything that they can use to publicly embarrass, intimidate or disgrace her then, well, you don't know how garbage people like the Zieglers operate.
A search warrant affidavit released Friday sheds more light on the sexual battery accusations Christian Ziegler is facing amid growing bipartisan calls that he should quit his job as Florida’s Republican Party chair
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