that the main stream folks writing these both sides and sanewashing of him seem to believe that they are not part of the enemies within he declared war on today.
Posting emergency communications on a platform ran by algorithms that almost guarantee they won’t be seen until far after they’d be useful has got to be the biggest dereliction of duty a government can do.
Our county has e-mail and text weather alerts you can opt into. Nobody should rely on FB or ExTwitter or Mastodon, etc. for emergency alerts. And if your local government does you need to hold them accountable for tragedies like this.
the man that ordered it is about to get a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary and SCOTUS has basically said’ if we didn’t say it, it doesn’t matter’
I would dearly love to know how much of our tax money (I sadly live in FL, it has been alarming how quickly it has gotten this insane) we are spending defending all of the blatantly unconstitutional bills that governor shitheel got rammed through the legislature the last few sessions - everythig he does generates a new lawsuit he uses to campaign to the shittiest people in the state.
Since he was elected our lovely dictator wannabe has moved and gotten his tame legislature to pass bills to restrict any local government from doing things he doesn’t like repeatedly. This was most evident during pandemic when he moved to forbid cities and counties from having masking mandates, any rent control laws, and also to prevent Key West from limiting larger cruise ships from docking due to the disruption it caused to the city and environment.
He’s the absolute worst governor I’ve seen since moving to FL in 1987, he’s making us go ‘Hey, I miss Rick Scott’.
Unfortunately he has his own local cult and the democrats in FL have the fighting ability of a 2 day old kitten.
I don’t like Newsom’s posturing, but he’s just refusing do do business with a company. DeSantis is threatening to ruin a company by not allowing it to manage it’s parks and property if they don’t change their content to suit him instead of the market that consumes the product - with a hand picked board that includes a man who believes tap water makes people gay. So I’m going to give DeSantis a bit of an award for being slightly worse than Newsom.
I had told her about another friend who had been stopped in AZ for a GPS above the dash that led to a search of his rental car and she remarked that she thought that SCOTUS had ruled against such things, I just said that cops don’t bother actually adhering to the law.
I had just come to comment with that after I looked it up (only one news article has bothered to mention this that I've seen so far)
O.C.G.A. 40-6-52)
A "truck" is defined as any vehicle equipped with more than six wheels except buses and motorcoaches.
On roads, streets, or highways with three or more lanes allowing for movement in the same direction, it shall be unlawful for any truck to operate in any lanes other than the two most right-hand lanes, except when the truck is preparing for a left turn.
Whether or not this stands up in court, along with the bill he signed today (HB 7, the so called anti-woke law) this has his name all over the country as it makes national news. If this law (along with the anti-woke law, the don't say gay law, the attempts to control social media companies law) fails in court he gets to rail against activist judges and gain even more support amongst the population that are just looking for verification that they are being oppressed by the "elites" (all the while voting for people who attended Harvard, Yale, and live in country clubs) and given permission to direct their hate to marginalized people they can feel superior to and justified in their hatred against.
All of this is just dog in the manger politics - because certain groups of people are now being treated more equally, we'll just burn everything down to gain power.
This move will cost the taxpayers in Orlando and Kissimmee more than it will Disney, but since they vote mostly democrat, that may be part of the appeal for the party of punishing anyone who votes against us. I can't wait to find out how much money our state government will waste fighting all of these recent laws in court.
All of this is to boost his inevitable run for POTUS in 2024 where he'll most likely win.
DeSantis has moved to remove all aspects of local authority from counties and cities since he was elected, he's absolutely transparent about his autocracy - he was unhappy that the state republicans weren't carving out the congressional district maps in a completely partisan way so he vetoed their proposal and has somehow arranged it so that he alone gets to choose the new districts.
Because he can use Disney as a convenient scapegoat now he's moving to remove the local authority they have had for self government of their property since they purchased the land in the 60s - this is arguably not a completely bad thing, but his reasons for it are not any of the reasons that have brought up before, but because they dared to speak against him. Since Disney has more money than god or the state, I'm sure the court battles over this are going to be long and and costly to our state, but our AGs under this and the previous GOP administration have not been afraid to waste taxpayer money fighting court cases they know are absolutely without merit.
Unfortunately his posturing works, he's treated like the second coming of god, right after his orange king.
The recent "parental rights" law is already being challenged in court for being overly vague (and horrendous) and they'll likely spend a shit ton of money defending this one as well. As far as small government goes, the current Florida administration and senate have been pursuing a campaign of removing all local governments ability to make decisions on everything from zoning, pandemic measures, zoning and pretty much anything that the state GOP thinks are bad. They have absolutely no actual principles except power.
So you're suggesting that the blog in question is being hosted on the defendant's laptop and cellphone and not a server in a data center somewhere? Interesting suggestion.
We do already down here in the state.
Unfortunately despite things like willfully destroying the unemployment system and continuing to wreck the environment, he's quite popular with the base, because the whole point now is apparently to see how horrible one can be to people that 'ain't like us'
I can't find the video now, one of our democratic state senators posted it a couple of weeks ago when she asked the sponsor of that part why and got a really nonsensical and illogical reply about Disney+ which doesn't even host any user generated content.
That would be the state senators who created this shit bill and the Governor for signing it.
I'd love if there was any actual repercussions but it's my taxes paying for free advertising for him in re-election next year by trumpeting his standing up for the unfairly blocked nutcases.
He's a very smart and loathsome toad our governor is.
Dickey said Publix did not demand that he shut down the social media account, just two related businesses that were profitable for him. Last year, Dickey said he had made $5,000.
“I’ve decided that I’m not going to let not making money get in the way of me living out that mission statement of bringing joy to the internet and connecting people through Publix subs,” Dickey said.
It’s always amusing
that the main stream folks writing these both sides and sanewashing of him seem to believe that they are not part of the enemies within he declared war on today.
Notifications on Social Media are worthless
Posting emergency communications on a platform ran by algorithms that almost guarantee they won’t be seen until far after they’d be useful has got to be the biggest dereliction of duty a government can do. Our county has e-mail and text weather alerts you can opt into. Nobody should rely on FB or ExTwitter or Mastodon, etc. for emergency alerts. And if your local government does you need to hold them accountable for tragedies like this.
Good point. Yes, this.
Well fortunately for them…
the man that ordered it is about to get a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary and SCOTUS has basically said’ if we didn’t say it, it doesn’t matter’
History erasure button
They’re gonna bulldoze Manzanar and the like aren’t they - case there’s no way to erase what those sites were for.
more tax money wasted
I would dearly love to know how much of our tax money (I sadly live in FL, it has been alarming how quickly it has gotten this insane) we are spending defending all of the blatantly unconstitutional bills that governor shitheel got rammed through the legislature the last few sessions - everythig he does generates a new lawsuit he uses to campaign to the shittiest people in the state.
This has been his playbook since the start…
Since he was elected our lovely dictator wannabe has moved and gotten his tame legislature to pass bills to restrict any local government from doing things he doesn’t like repeatedly. This was most evident during pandemic when he moved to forbid cities and counties from having masking mandates, any rent control laws, and also to prevent Key West from limiting larger cruise ships from docking due to the disruption it caused to the city and environment. He’s the absolute worst governor I’ve seen since moving to FL in 1987, he’s making us go ‘Hey, I miss Rick Scott’. Unfortunately he has his own local cult and the democrats in FL have the fighting ability of a 2 day old kitten.
One difference..
I don’t like Newsom’s posturing, but he’s just refusing do do business with a company. DeSantis is threatening to ruin a company by not allowing it to manage it’s parks and property if they don’t change their content to suit him instead of the market that consumes the product - with a hand picked board that includes a man who believes tap water makes people gay. So I’m going to give DeSantis a bit of an award for being slightly worse than Newsom.
I’m reminded of a conversation with a friend recently…
I had told her about another friend who had been stopped in AZ for a GPS above the dash that led to a search of his rental car and she remarked that she thought that SCOTUS had ruled against such things, I just said that cops don’t bother actually adhering to the law.
I had just come to comment with that after I looked it up (only one news article has bothered to mention this that I've seen so far) O.C.G.A. 40-6-52) A "truck" is defined as any vehicle equipped with more than six wheels except buses and motorcoaches. On roads, streets, or highways with three or more lanes allowing for movement in the same direction, it shall be unlawful for any truck to operate in any lanes other than the two most right-hand lanes, except when the truck is preparing for a left turn.
Vintage Hawaiian style shirts, a straw hat and a big cigar.
DeSantis is getting what he wanted from this
Whether or not this stands up in court, along with the bill he signed today (HB 7, the so called anti-woke law) this has his name all over the country as it makes national news. If this law (along with the anti-woke law, the don't say gay law, the attempts to control social media companies law) fails in court he gets to rail against activist judges and gain even more support amongst the population that are just looking for verification that they are being oppressed by the "elites" (all the while voting for people who attended Harvard, Yale, and live in country clubs) and given permission to direct their hate to marginalized people they can feel superior to and justified in their hatred against. All of this is just dog in the manger politics - because certain groups of people are now being treated more equally, we'll just burn everything down to gain power. This move will cost the taxpayers in Orlando and Kissimmee more than it will Disney, but since they vote mostly democrat, that may be part of the appeal for the party of punishing anyone who votes against us. I can't wait to find out how much money our state government will waste fighting all of these recent laws in court. All of this is to boost his inevitable run for POTUS in 2024 where he'll most likely win.
tin pot dictator
DeSantis has moved to remove all aspects of local authority from counties and cities since he was elected, he's absolutely transparent about his autocracy - he was unhappy that the state republicans weren't carving out the congressional district maps in a completely partisan way so he vetoed their proposal and has somehow arranged it so that he alone gets to choose the new districts. Because he can use Disney as a convenient scapegoat now he's moving to remove the local authority they have had for self government of their property since they purchased the land in the 60s - this is arguably not a completely bad thing, but his reasons for it are not any of the reasons that have brought up before, but because they dared to speak against him. Since Disney has more money than god or the state, I'm sure the court battles over this are going to be long and and costly to our state, but our AGs under this and the previous GOP administration have not been afraid to waste taxpayer money fighting court cases they know are absolutely without merit. Unfortunately his posturing works, he's treated like the second coming of god, right after his orange king.
This is just the start
The recent "parental rights" law is already being challenged in court for being overly vague (and horrendous) and they'll likely spend a shit ton of money defending this one as well. As far as small government goes, the current Florida administration and senate have been pursuing a campaign of removing all local governments ability to make decisions on everything from zoning, pandemic measures, zoning and pretty much anything that the state GOP thinks are bad. They have absolutely no actual principles except power.
Re:
So you're suggesting that the blog in question is being hosted on the defendant's laptop and cellphone and not a server in a data center somewhere? Interesting suggestion.
Re: Time for a name change?
We do already down here in the state. Unfortunately despite things like willfully destroying the unemployment system and continuing to wreck the environment, he's quite popular with the base, because the whole point now is apparently to see how horrible one can be to people that 'ain't like us'
Re: aka Disney Censorship Bill
I can't find the video now, one of our democratic state senators posted it a couple of weeks ago when she asked the sponsor of that part why and got a really nonsensical and illogical reply about Disney+ which doesn't even host any user generated content.
Re:
That would be the state senators who created this shit bill and the Governor for signing it. I'd love if there was any actual repercussions but it's my taxes paying for free advertising for him in re-election next year by trumpeting his standing up for the unfairly blocked nutcases. He's a very smart and loathsome toad our governor is.
New updates to the story
From the Orlando Sentinel, who knows what's actually gong on here.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-ne-publix-twitter-pubsub-dispute-20210429-hqomjrnroraizpq7t3kswn3cny-story.html
Dickey said Publix did not demand that he shut down the social media account, just two related businesses that were profitable for him. Last year, Dickey said he had made $5,000.
“I’ve decided that I’m not going to let not making money get in the way of me living out that mission statement of bringing joy to the internet and connecting people through Publix subs,” Dickey said.
Re:
Well it was the NY Post who has a very tenuous grasp on ethics.