The strategy is to define who could possibly be the next threat to the New World Order and go after them well ahead of time. It took them years to stop shaking after Trump snuck past them, and they're not about to let that happen again. So anyone that even resembles someone not a team player (and by team I mean their team) will get attacked relentlessly.
All true. But mixed in with that will always be the fact that that there is nothing much exciting going on with Sleepy Joe.....and his administration ....will be.......well......err.......sleepy...shall we say. "America's back....follow...the science...we will work with our allies......let me circle back for a circle jerk on that." Rinse and repeat.. If Trump gets caught in the sack with Pam Bondi, it will be over. It will dominate the lefty news for the entire next four years. I mean let's face it, the political, governmental, corporate, financial, and residential center of gravity seems to have shifted to Florida these days. Mind you I am not saying that Joe's basement in Delaware is not exciting.
"DeSantis for the win" -- let's trash the Bill of Rights edition DeSantis’ attacks on Big Tech are political theater and go against the First Amendment https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article249428520.html He calls them the “Big Tech cartel,” and ever since Twitter, Facebook and other social-media companies banned his political godfather, Gov. DeSantis has launched a crusade against them. Speaking at a news conference on Feb. 2about the proposed “Transparency in Technology Act”(it goes by the unfortunate acronym “TiT”) DeSantis vowed to protect Floridians — or a certain Mar-a-Lago resident — from tech companies’ censorship that he says discriminates against conservatives. DeSantis’ plan has less to do with substance and more with appeasing Donald Trump and making DeSantis the next messiah of his base. But there’s no evidence that social-media platforms disproportionately target conservatives and, in fact, conservative pages such as Fox News and Breitbart dominate engagement on Facebook, according to a New York University study released in February. POTENTIAL FINES There’s another tiny detail: Much of what the Transparency in Technology Act attempts to do is what the First Amendment prevents government from doing: telling private businesses what kind of speech they should allow on their platforms. The proposal would impose daily fines of up to $100,000 on tech companies that de-platform a political candidate in Florida, and fine a company that uses its content and algorithms “to suppress or prioritize the content related to political candidates.” Social-media platforms also would be required to reveal how they became aware of any content they censor. What DeSantis is trying to do is similar to an old law the Supreme Court struck down in 1974’s Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo. That law required newspapers to allow equal space to political candidates to respond to that paper’s editorial-page criticism. The court ruled newspapers should have full control of the content they publish, a protection that’s been expanded to internet companies. “(The Transparency in Technology Act) would compel social-media companies to host speech they don’t want to,” Clay Calvert, a First Amendment expert at the University of Florida’s law school, told the Miami Herald’s Editorial Board. “ Instead of a newspaper print medium, you’re now compelling social-media platforms to host the speech of individuals.” USERS’ PRIVACY DeSantis’ heavy-handed and regressive political theater aside, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and others deserve their day of reckoning for their use of consumer data. The price we pay for using those platforms is our own privacy and personal information that is sold for a profit. On this front, DeSantis and House Republicans are onto something. While “TiT” has not been filed as a bill — and it shouldn’t be — lawmakers filed a different bill last week. Despite DeSantis’ combative anti-Big Tech rhetoric, House Bill 969 is a “pretty mundane standard privacy bill,” Corbin Barthold, an internet policy lawyer at the think tank TechFreedom, told the Editorial Board. HB 969 would allow users to know what data companies collect, request it be erased and ask whether it was sold or shared. The state and individuals would also be allowed to sue companies that violate their rules. Consumers deserve to know what happens once they hit the “accept” button on terms and conditions. But experts warn the best place for such regulations is Congress, and not state legislatures, because tech companies operate across state lines. But the proposal deserves a discussion. Unike the DeSantis’ misguided crusade, HB 969 appears to have consumers’ interest at its core.
"DeSantis for the win" - His political crony who scheduled his Manatee County vaccination event for two wealthy zip codes with donors now being investigated by police. Florida Official Accused of Choosing Herself, Friends for Coronavirus Vaccine Priority https://www.thedailybeast.com/flori...self-friends-for-coronavirus-vaccine-priority A Florida sheriff’s office is investigating a county commissioner over the allegation she abused her authority to put herself and two wealthy ZIP codes at the front of the line for the coveted COVID-19 vaccine. Manatee Commissioner Vanessa Baugh chose two high-income ZIP codes in her district as the sites of two pop-up vaccination centers last week, and an ethics complaint filed against her alleges, “Baugh ignored the Vaccine Standby Pool process and selected two zip codes within her own district, including friends and herself, that would receive the additional doses of Covid-19 vaccine at the pop-up site.” Detectives are investigating the complaint. A Tuesday vote of the Manatee County Commission to remove Baugh from office failed narrowly, 4-3. Read it at ABC7
Excellent. If she is guilty of this she should be prosecuted for it. Doesn't have anything to do with DeSantis, though.
Wait, can you explain how it is a 1st amendment discussion to ban Twitter (as an example) but when Twitter bans someone (including a former President) it is not a 1st amendment issue? Genuine question. But there’s no evidence that social-media platforms disproportionately target conservatives and, in fact, conservative pages such as Fox News and Breitbart dominate engagement on Facebook, according to a New York University study released in February. Conveniently pick Facebook for your "New York University" study. Well, I don't know about Facebook (I don't have an account there) but there is plenty of evidence on Twitter of this exact thing.
She set up the event based on a request from Governor DeSantis so he could promote it via a press conference.
Holy cow! She "set up an event" because DeSantis reached out to the local county commissioner (that's kinda the procedure for setting up the event)?? DeSantis is such a crook!!
"DeSantis for the win" -- Yet another community offering special access to vaccines for wealthy GOP donors and supporters Another Wealthy Florida Community Reportedly Offered Priority Access To Covid Vaccine As DeSantis Calls Criticism ‘A Joke’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...antis-calls-criticism-a-joke/?sh=6b20b88e26a5 TOPLINE An upscale community in Venice, Florida, that includes a neighborhood splash park and bocce ball court among its expensive homes was offered special access to Covid-19 vaccines, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported Wednesday, the latest in what critics say were a series of politically motivated decisions on the part of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to push vaccines to his supporters first. KEY FACTS The newspaper said Wednesday the Grand Palm community in Venice was among a number of others whose residents were reported Tuesday to have been given invitations for Covid vaccinations at a pop-up clinic in Charlotte County, Florida. Grand Palm is one of several communities developed through a company owned by Pat Neal, a high-dollar DeSantis donor who also served as a Florida state senator where residents were given priority access to the vaccines. Neal has said DeSantis contacted him about setting up the pop-up clinic. DeSantis fired back at criticism the clinic was politically motivated, calling U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist's (D-Fla.) suggestion of a federal investigation "a joke" during a news conference Wednesday. DeSantis's office did not respond to a request for comment from Forbes on this story. CHIEF CRITICS Democrats, including Crist and fellow Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), have blasted the vaccine prioritization for wealthy communities. It was also parodied on a Daily Show skit where the vaccine pop-ups were called "Ron DeSantis' Club Vax." WHAT TO WATCH FOR Another vaccine pop-up site in Manatee County drew criticism from county officials who would have rather seen the vaccine offered to more residents. DeSantis responded with a warning: “Look, if Manatee County doesn’t like us doing this, then we are totally fine with putting this in counties that want it,” he said. KEY BACKGROUND Like most states, Florida is still struggling to keep up with demand for Covid-19 vaccines, with a recent complication being some 209,000 doses delayed from arriving in Florida because of the massive winter storm that slammed much of the southern United States. The state is ahead of most in administering vaccines, though. According to a Bloomberg tracker, 7% of Florida residents have been fully vaccinated for Covid-19, compared to 6% of the U.S. as a whole.