Until now ive had no love for Desantis. But just heard he made co stitutional conceal carry legal in florida... first time i heard of sometbi g he did that i really like, i migbt need to look into hin some more and see if maybe he is t so bad as i thought... maybe...

@freemo Nah, he's still very bad, and I doubt he's doing anything out of principles, but populism.

@olives that could be... ill let ya know once i do some research if my opinions have changed

@freemo To give you an idea of how populist he is:

He went on about how he'd shoot drug smugglers on the border.

He went on about how he'd blockade Mexico with the navy to "stop the flow of drugs".

He went on about abolishing unanimous juries to administer the death penalty.

He wants to expand use of the death penalty outside of murder.

Censorship of books in libraries.

Censorship of views in higher education.

He talks big about all that tough on crime stuff.

Lots of talk about the border and "finishing the wall".

@olives I dont mind a strong border, though its not a priority for me... a lot of that is very concerning i agree.

@freemo @olives

When he gets up in the morning he thinks who will I screw over today to amuse and distract my base , while throwing them a few ideological bones.

Who will I target with rhetoric to incite a visceral/emotional response to quell logic & distract .

Never does he think how can i help all those that elected me to serve. What can I do to benefit them . What needs fixing not f*king .

@PBruce

From the comments Im hearing it sounds like you may be right. Once i have a chance to do a deep dive on his past ill post whatever opinion I form, I'd be happy to discuss it if you choose to jump in.

@olives

@freemo @olives

Fair.Some exs

Banning Abortion

After the US Supreme Court to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion,DeSantis
banned the procedure after six weeks - before most women know they are pregnant.

Banning "Gay "

Don't say gay bill

Legislative & rhetoric assault on Disney for 1 comment

Banning history

Limiting history in school,

Banning books

on his religious /moral basis

sending asylum seekers from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard

bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6

@PBruce @freemo @olives Make sure you understand what Pat means by those phrases, though, Dr. Freemo. 'Banning "Gay"' *of course* doesn't actually mean "banning gay". And so on.

@PBruce @freemo @olives Similarly, "Banning history" means a certain thing that isn't banning history.

@PBruce

Honestly just his stance on the wall alone causes me to loose a lot of interest in him. I am not against strong borders, but a wall is idiotic.

@ech @olives

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@freemo @PBruce @olives Bush & Obama built hundreds of miles of border walls, with bipartisan support. 🤷

I think you're right that it's idiotic; it doesn't really address today's immigration problems IIUC.

I'd rather the money was spent on "smart walls" i.e. drones to patrol the border areas to make sure e.g. nobody is stranded/etc. (It's a dangerous trek!)

@ech @PBruce @olives

I am against the idea of border walls regardless of who builds thrm.

Yes better drones and other enforcement tools woukd make more sense to me. They woukd atleast be cost aware. But really we just need better enforcement on american soil but that goes hand in hand with providing good aide to those in need too and provide good pathways to citizenship.

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