No Sunshine in the Sunshine State

Thank you Tengrain for another wonderful post that puts the cards on the table and shows who holds the chips.   But this one paragraph is to me everything the republican maga fundamentalist Christian right wants to do.   Hugs.   Scottie

If you happen to be a kid in Floriduh, there’s so many ways this jamoke is taking away your ability to learn about the world around you, from banning books, to expressly banning LGBTQ information, to now banning social media. It’s almost like Bootsie is afraid of what you might learn on your own.

By my dogs that love gravy, it is another Sunday and if this gets any longer it will need to have its own zip code

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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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Off topic Donnie Dementia Watch: During last night’s SOTU, Donnie was posting up a storm on his shitty social media ripoff site and demanded to know why Nancy Pelosi wasn’t sitting behind President Biden, apparently having forgotten she’s no longer Speaker nor Dem Minority Leader.

Breaking my usual no-Xitter rule to post proof:

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So a homeless person who has no money and perhaps even mental illness is going to get a permit? Yeah right. Now, if they don’t get a permit then what? Fine them? They have no money. Jail them? For what? Being poor in a Plutocracy.

What the fuck is wrong with these assholes?

Narrator: There will be no permits available or issued.

The recently increased the state line item for private jails.

Florida has privatized prisons. They make money on every person they incarcerate. And like any business, they are incentivized to find ways to bring in more customers.

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This is not a chicken.

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ALT RIGHT A.I.?

I am so tired right now having not slept last night, but I wanted to post this as I felt it was important.  This is a direct diversion of every search to the Republican agenda presenting in the best most convincing light.  Pushing project 2025.   So much for a neutral only the facts’ news AI media.  Seriously a bot designed to push pro-fundamentalist republican anti-choice regressive view points?  Is it deliberate? We people that love our democracy and progressive country better get engaged and vote, or we lose it all.  The wealthy owner class wants us to return to the guided age, when only businesses had a say, government had no power, and workers were slaves to be worked to death for profit.    Hugs.  Scottie

Microsoft’s A.I. bot copilot has been produced some strange results lately that make it seem like it may have been trained by alt right bros.

QAnon/GOP Arizona Rep: If Slutty Women Want Birth Control, They Should Put Aspirin Between Their Knees

Wow how do these rejects get elected?  Sex is the fault of the woman?  That is not how it works.  Tell him it takes more than a woman to make a baby.  Guys are taught to want sex all their lives, and from puberty they’re told not to masturbate but to find a girl.  But girls are property of daddy and they are told not to have sex to preserve their value.   WTF.  If boys / men get to enjoy sex, why can’t girls / women?  Hugs.  Scottie


 

 

The Arizona Mirror reports:

A bid to make birth control a right in Arizona that was a top policy priority for Gov. Katie Hobbs has stagnated in the Republican-controlled legislature and is likely dead.

Sen. Sonny Borrelli, the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate, responded to a question about whether he would oppose future efforts to restrict access to emergency contraceptives by saying that women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous.

“Like I said, Bayer Company invented aspirin. Put it between your knees,” he said, implying that, if women hold aspirin between their legs, they won’t be able to have sex and risk pregnancy.

Heartland Signal reports

Borrelli’s comments echo those made by late Wisconsin pastor and former GOP mega donor Foster Freiss. In 2012, while Freiss was the head of a super PAC that backed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Freiss contended that women putting aspirin between their knees was a cheaper alternative to contraception.

In 2001, Borrelli plead guilty to a domestic violence charge. His then-wife’s child told police he witnessed Borrelli rapidly punch his mother three times in the mouth before shoving her to the ground.

Borrelli said he only plead guilty to keep custody of his children, and he later blamed his wife for the incident, claiming she was having a “stress-induced meltdown.”

Borelli, an election denier, first appeared here in 2021 when he and several other Arizona lawmakers spoke at a QAnon convention organized by a man who had just approvingly posted a link to a neo-Nazi film. We heard from him again last year when he tried to force Arizona to discard all voting machines.

 

Yet no talk about men controlling themselves, fancy that.

None of these yahoos make even the slightest effort to encourage men to take more responsibility for their own sexual behavior even though men are usually the ones who are more sexually eager due to the influence of testosterone (and even then, using that as an excuse really only goes so far!). They don’t even bother encouraging men to use condoms more often even though condoms actually have many advantages over most female forms of birth control. Condoms are relatively reliable when used correctly, aren’t difficult to find, aren’t difficult to use, don’t become less effective if you gain or lose weight, don’t cost much, don’t have any potentially dangerous side effects, don’t have any restrictions for age and/or existing health conditions, don’t require administration or authorization from a licensed medical professional, and don’t require much advance planning like most female forms of birth control do — and they have an double advantage in the sense that they help prevent the transmission of STDs.

It’s amazing the number of people who refuse to believe that sometimes things go wrong. That’s why abortion is healthcare, not every fetus is viable. Some of the ones that are born, don’t survive either.

It’s not about whether abortion is health care or not

It’s about whether women have any rights or not

It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.

It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.

As we saw in Texas in the case of Kate Cox and her ectopic pregnancy, it doesn’t matter. They don’t consider anything to be life threatening.

And every time, it’s none of their fucking business. I get what you’re saying but there’s also nothing wrong with having sex.

It’s none of their business. And a clump of frozen cells is not a child

And a rapist is not a legitimate father

But to the MAGAts, women are inferior to men

Just as gays are inferior to heterosexual and blacks are inferior to whites

What’s amazing is that most of the anti-abortionists think women are sluts who get what they deserve.

Until it’s their wife, sister, or daughter that needs one. Those are moral abortions, of course.

 

The Christian religion is apparently based on the premise that women are by definition sluts, since Eve in Genesis disobeyed God and accepted advice from a serpent.

Oh the aspirin between the knees bullshit again. Only thing these sexist fucks hold sacred is their access to Viagra.

Indeed. If these christian freaks really believe that it’s all up to the gods, then they should ban drugs like viagra.

I am still waiting for the day that a pharmacist refuses to fill any prescriptions for Viagra or Cialis unless the man is wearing a wedding ring, or produces a marriage license, or signs a sworn affidavit saying they will use the drug only to have sex with their wives. I want to see the heads of a few right-wing males explode.

This is where we are. We are staring down American fascism

It’s here. It’s already a foot hold in the red states

It’ll come to the blue states if the federal government falls

“But honey, I’m feeling romantic. This is your 30th headache this month. Why don’t you use that aspirin between your legs to make your headache disappear.”

*wife thinks a divorce attorney would do a better job at making her headache disappear.*

15 years ago, this Neanderthal would have been sent back under his rock, but Trump/MAGA has emboldened their misogyny, allowed them to use their “religious freedom” to spew this garbage in the public square, and encourage even more wackos to spew their hateful, medieval views

INCOMING RANT

How is forcing women to continue with an unwanted pregnancy not an economic concern?

I can’t wait for these old white, white haired men and women who agree with them to die out but I know there is a crop of them right behind on the conveyor belt.

Contraceptives a.k.a. birth control are not just prescribed for birth control.

Here again we have elected officials who know nothing about the medical field making laws regarding women’s bodies that they know nothing about. Here again we have one of these old dinosaurs yapping about women not needing birth control if they weren’t promiscuous.

Someone will pay for those unwanted babies! Just not them. You know, after they’ve killed off SNAP and other social safety net programs.

Funny how they get away with ignoring the fact that it takes two people to be promiscuous when making a baby… and funny how nobody points out that, if women must be forced to endure a pregnancy, men should at least be financially responsible for that same pregnancy.

 

 

Gallup: 7.6% Of US Adults Now Identify As LGBTQ

This is why republicans are so desperate to end any talk or, protection of, or acceptance of LGBTQ+ in schools.   The more people see it, the more people have friends and family that are LGBTQ+, the more open it is in society on social media, the more normal and tolerant people are.   The more young people will come out and live as the person they are.   Republicans are desperate to stop this.  Hugs.  Scottie

Gallup: 7.6% Of US Adults Now Identify As LGBTQ

 

Gallup Polling reports:

LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012. Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population — 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBTQ+ adults say they are bisexual.

Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults are transgender. Overall, each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it to identify as LGBTQ+. More than one in five Gen Z adults, ranging in age from 18 to 26 in 2023, identify as LGBTQ+, as do nearly one in 10 millennials (aged 27 to 42). The percentage drops to less than 5% of Generation X, 2% of baby boomers and 1% of the Silent Generation.

Read the full article.

 

There would be more boomers and Gen X if they would have survived HIV

I came out in March, 1983, six months after the CDC coined the name Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome and about a month after HIV was first identified as the likely cause. I was 15. By the time I could legally enter a bar, I had been to more funerals that most people will ever see in six lifetimes. And all while Republicans laughed and openly pondered how they could speed up the deaths.

There is a reason why so many of us survivors have CPTSD.

Yes.
It also explains why gay men of our generations have no patience with the politics of appeasement.

Yes, indeed there would be SO many more…as a Black gay elder I do my part to speak, interact and love younger Black LGBT members…

 

Don’t ever stop. There is so much more that needs to be done within the black community. As usual the disparities between communities of color and whites persist in spite of all of our efforts. Every young man you educate is part of your legacy.

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Kinsey found that, among the men he surveyed, 37% had had sex with another man to orgasm.

That figure has been vigorously disputed by researchers who couldn’t accept his figures – and their own surveys managed to reduce the number a lot by excluding same-sex sex between young men, claiming that those orgasms weren’t really same-sex sex because mumble mumble mumble, and some altered their results by doing their surveys insecurely, where the men surveyed couldn’t trust that they’d be anonymous.

Now, with changes in attitudes, men are being more honest and researchers are doing less data manipulation to obscure men’s actual sexual activity – and the numbers in modern surveys are steadily increasing. I think we’ll find that Kinsey was much closer to the actual numbers than any of his critics would ever admit.

I know that, as an out gay man in the corporate world for several decades, the coworkers who hit on me over the years weren’t the other gay men I worked with, it was married men with kids who called themselves straight – but who tried to persuade me to have sex with them although that was obviously not straight-man sex. Sometimes I said yes, sometimes I didn’t – when I did, I enjoyed their intensity and enthusiasm. Those “straight” men were so, so hungry for the body of another man. It’s always seemed to me that there’s a lot more man on man sex going on than most people will admit.

I’ve been to the steam room on a “straight” cruise. Very frisky, it was.

“We didn’t kiss, sooooooo …”

 

Florida teachers can discuss sexual orientation, gender ID under ‘Don’t Say Gay’ settlement

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sexual-orientation-gender-id-can-talked-florida-classrooms-lawsuit-set-rcna142870

So everything is basically reset back to where it was before this law.   The only difference is teachers and schools will have to deal with fundamentalist Christian maga parents and wing nuts who don’t even live in those schools claiming that teachers are teaching gender or sexual orientation for allowing a rainbow sticker, that the schools are violating the law because the library returned the books with and about LGBTQIA characters / plots in them, and it will tie all schools up in lawsuits the state won’t help them with.   DeathSantis is really just admitting he was wrong without saying it.  Kaplan said that she was sure that the law would be ruled unconstitutional if they continue with the appeal, but that it would take at least two years of kids being bullied and the books out of the library.  Of course DeathSantis is claiming a total win when it completely rolls back his law.   Gay teachers can let the kids know they are gay, those married can talk about their spouses and post pictures.   Anti-gay bullying programs are allowed again.  Plus maybe the best thing, the gay straight alliance clubs are allowed again.   The real thing you see is DeathSantis only pushed this as long as he was running for office, and once he was no longer needing to suck up to the fundamentalist Christians he backed down, and did not fight for it.   I think he knew all along it was an illegal bill.   Hugs.  Scottie

*** Personal note.   Was not feeling well all weekend and this morning I woke up at 4 am needing to throw up.  But all I could bring up was air.  Then after half a cup of coffee, I started to throw up last night’s meal.   All morning I keep feeling dizzy and nauseous every 20 minutes or so.   I have spent a lot of yesterday and so far today, in bed.    Hugs.  Scottie1`


Opponents said the law had created confusion about whether teachers could identity themselves as LGBTQ or if they even could have rainbow stickers in classrooms.

 / Source: The Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — Students and teachers will be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”

The settlement clarifies what is allowed in Florida classrooms following passage two years ago of the law prohibiting instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades. Opponents said the law had created confusion about whether teachers could identity themselves as LGBTQ or if they even could have rainbow stickers in classrooms.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attends the drivers meeting prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway, in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Feb. 19, 2024.Jared C. Tilton / Getty Images file

Other states used the Florida law as a template to pass prohibitions on classroom instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation. Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and North Carolina are among the states with versions of the law.

Under the terms of the settlement, the Florida Board of Education will send instructions to every school district saying the Florida law doesn’t prohibit discussing LGBTQ people, nor prevent anti-bullying rules on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or disallow Gay-Straight Alliance groups. The settlement also spells out that the law is neutral — meaning what applies to LGBTQ people also applies to heterosexual people — and that it doesn’t apply to library books not being used in the classroom.

“What this settlement does, is, it re-establishes the fundamental principal, that I hope all Americans agree with, which is every kid in this country is entitled to an education at a public school where they feel safe, their dignity is respected and where their families and parents are welcomed,” Roberta Kaplan, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said in an interview. “This shouldn’t be a controversial thing.”

In a statement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office described the deal as a “major win” with the law remaining intact.

“Today’s mutually agreed settlement ensures that the law will remain in effect and it is expected that the case will be dismissed by the Court imminently,” the statement said.

The law, formally known as the Parental Rights in Education Act, has been championed by the Republican governor since before its passage in 2022 by the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature. It barred instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through the third grade, and it was expanded to all grades last year.

Republican lawmakers had argued that parents should broach these subjects with children and that the law protected children from being taught about inappropriate material.

But opponents of the law said it created a chilling effect in classrooms. Some teachers said they were unsure if they could mention or display a photo of their same-sex partner in the classroom. In some cases, books dealing with LGBTQ topics were removed from classrooms and lines mentioning sexual orientation were excised from school musicals. The Miami-Dade County School Board in 2022 decided not to adopt a resolution recognizing LGBTQ History Month, even though it had done so a year earlier.

The law also triggered the ongoing legal battles between DeSantis and Disney over control of the governing district for Walt Disney World in central Florida after DeSantis took control of the government in what the company described as retaliation for its opposition to the legislation. DeSantis touted the fight with Disney during his run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, which he ended earlier this year.

The civil rights attorneys sued Florida education officials on behalf of teachers, students and parents, claiming the law was unconstitutional, but the case was dismissed last year by a federal judge in Tallahassee who said they lacked standing to sue. The case was appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Kaplan said they believed the appellate court would have reversed the lower court’s decision, but continuing the lawsuit would have delayed any resolution for several more years.

“The last thing we wanted for the kids in Florida was more delay,” Kaplan said.

Of note, the lead attorney in the lawsuit is Roberta Kaplan, who is best known to most as E. Jean Carroll’s attorney. Kaplan was also Edith Windsor’s attorney in the landmark Supreme Court ruling on DOMA.

Legislature passes bill mandating history of communism classes

This is the teaching of ideology, republican capitalism ideology, something republicans keep claiming they are trying to wipe out in schools.  We can not teach comparative ideas of systems or how anything including capitalism can be taken to unhealthy extremes.  Plus this law mandates stressing how bad and harmful communism is, which means stressing how great republican strongman democracy backed by run away capitalism is.   In Florida you can not teach anything in public schools that might make straight white cis Christian kids uncomfortable (or their parents unhappy) such as the truth about racism and how it still is in effect today or how some people are not straight cis or even Christian.   But none of these laws including this one doesn’t apply to any private or voucher school.  Just public ones?  Why because poor disadvantaged kids go to public schools, so let’s force right wing Christian nationalism white supremacy on to these kids.   Hugs.  Scottie

Rep. Ashley Gantt raised questions about what would be included, at what point a deep dive into totalitarianism would be “age appropriate,” and why voucher-funded schools are exempted from this requirement.

Rep. Anna Eskamani noted that the Legislature had established bans for discussions of diversity and sociology, and “in the context of what’s happening in K-12 schools,” she claimed the legislation was based on “teaching that a political ideology is bad” rather than a good-faith comparative study of ideologies.

Ahead of the final passage, Democrats floated amendments the day before to try to expand the bill to include analysis of “McCarthyism” and how the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Riots could lead to communism, but these did not make the final product.

 

 

A.G. GancarskiMarch 6, 20244min

The sponsor says this is not ‘indoctrination.’

The mistakes made by the Soviets, the Chinese and other communist regimes are one step closer to being part of Florida K-12 classrooms.

The House passed by a 106-7 vote SB 1264, a “History of Communism” product previously passed by a 25-7 vote in the Senate, putting the bill on a path for a Gov. Ron DeSantis signature.

Ahead of the vote, some Democrats sought to knock the bill down, while Republicans and one Democrat loved it up.

Rep. Ashley Gantt raised questions about what would be included, at what point a deep dive into totalitarianism would be “age appropriate,” and why voucher-funded schools are exempted from this requirement.

Rep. Anna Eskamani noted that the Legislature had established bans for discussions of diversity and sociology, and “in the context of what’s happening in K-12 schools,” she claimed the legislation was based on “teaching that a political ideology is bad” rather than a good-faith comparative study of ideologies.

 

Rep. Bruce Antone, a Democrat, rose in support of the bill until he was reminded he was speaking during the block of time reserved for opposition.0

Rep. Chuck Brannan, closing on his bill, said the real purpose was to address concerns of Florida’s “diverse communities” of refugees from communist countries, not to “indoctrinate anybody or promote fear mongering.”

Students in traditional public and charter K-12 schools are on track to receive instruction on the history of communism beginning in the 2026-27 academic year in what is billed as an age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate way.

The bill would also compel the creation of a museum of history of communism, create the Institute for Freedom in Americas at Miami Dade College, and rename the Adam Smith Center for Study of Economic Freedom as the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom.

There is a key party

..split on these bills among actual voters, meanwhile.

 

Polling conducted by Sachs Media found Republicans were overwhelmingly supportive (74%) of an effort to teach K-12 students about the “horrors of communism.” By comparison, only 41% of Democrats believe kids need a crash course on Soviet genocide.

Ahead of the final passage, Democrats floated amendments the day before to try to expand the bill to include analysis of “McCarthyism” and how the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Riots could lead to communism, but these did not make the final product.

 

When I was a senior at Lake Worth High School, in 1964, the state of Florida required us to take a 6-week course in Americanism vs. Communism. One of the textbooks was J Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit. Not a lot seems to have changed.

Florida Fascism pretends five year olds can understand economics, but not that LGBT people exist.

We aren’t allowed to explain in the classroom why Billy has two daddies because their poor innocent minds are not developed enough yet to comprehend it, but we can tell them about Communism.

Too young to learn about love, but old enough to learn about complex economic theory? Okay. Fuckers.

The fact that kindergarten friend Johnny has two moms? VERBOTEN!

Advanced socio-political/economic theory for a system of government not a single country in the world actually practices? Totes appropriate for a 5yo, sure.

 

obviously, the object is not to actually teach the kids anything – it is to establish that communism == bad, so that democrats can then be accused of being communists

 

They’ll say something like “communism is the destruction of America and evil democrats love communism “

And yet Fascism will be left off the curriculum. Not surprised, just noting it.

There aren’t communists in the USA. Fascists, however, we have plenty of and they are working pretty damn hard to overthrow our democracy.

Eventually resulting in a ban on the Democratic Party.

This.
They are trying to turn kids against Democrats early.

Hey, but what if it makes some of the kindergartners feel bad? I thought that was the cult excuse for banning accurate teaching of US history.

Oh. I assumed that they would teach the tykes something like “Communism is anything that the Republicans hate”.

Probably teaching raw fear and disinformation on base levels before they can process any of it.

Not a single one of these morons could even define what communism means.

If you fed them 6 beers, they’d define it as ‘Blacks’.

 

Half a beer, and they’d define it as Blacks.

And Browns.

 

They will tell them that sharing is communism. I’m sure that will go over well with the parent’s.
“Billy, share your toys with your brother!”
“But mommy, the teacher said that’s COMMUNISM!”

 

The parents will eventually be denounced, for not being anti-Communists.

I’m confused. Are they going to teach the little children about sharing–and how bad it is?

To be followed in Sunday school with “What Jeebus ACTUALLY Meant”.

are they going to teach the little ones how the communist leaders seized power just like the GQP is trying to do?

So in classes where we used to teach kids that sharing and treating others with courtesy are important we’re going to tell them they’re all on their own.

Technically, that is the American way, the wholly rugged individual Fuck You nonsense. I know many (I’d like to think most) Americans don’t think that way, but it is a reputation that the US has promoted over the decades.

I think this is the indoctrination the right keeps talking about.

Brought to you by people who couldn’t distinguish between communism, Marxism, totalitarianism and socialism if their lives depended on it.

I wonder how the curriculum is going to handle the whole cult leader thing. Then again, self-awareness is not a MAGA strong suit while immunity to cognitive dissonance is.

They should also do a live-action demonstration of that cartoon about capitalism, with one guy with one cookie, one guy with no cookies and the capitalist with a pile of cookies saying to the first guy, “Hey, that other guy wants to steal your cookie!”.

not to “indoctrinate anybody or promote fear mongering.”
– so, it’s an indoctrination class.

Rep. Chuck Brannan, closing on his bill, said the real purpose was to
address concerns of Florida’s “diverse communities” of refugees from
communist countries, not to “indoctrinate anybody or promote fear
mongering.”

I thought taking diversity into consideration was illegal in Florida.

 

 

 

 

DeSantis Gets Bill Requiring Permit To Sleep In Public

By my dogs that love gravy they are talking concentration / prison type encampments surrounded by guards with prison like rules.  Basically no freedoms that all adults enjoy.  Plus the Republican Party is seriously going all in that homelessness harms home values and harms tourism / the attractiveness of the state for businesses / people moving to the state.  Those conditions, funded by the counties, include clean restrooms, running water, security on premises and bans on drugs and alcohol. They must also be located in places that don’t impact the value of nearby properties.   The legislation accords with a stated desire of the Governor to have camps with restrictions on what occupants can do and “help” available, in efforts to include what he has called “judicial scrutiny.”    DeathSantis has long wanted to institutionalize that he terms undesirables.   Right now it starts with the homeless, but soon who else is going to be put in camps or other style forced confinement?  The poor?  Trans people?  The entire LGBTQIA?  What about those who don’t follow the correct and proper god?  Like all these culture war type laws it is deliberately written very vaguely so that it can be interpreted as strongly as the most extreme person would want to take it.  The same vagueness held true for how a homeless person would get a permit for outdoor camping.   Basically the law gives permission / compelling these localities to round up the homeless and put them somewhere.   Detain them, jail them, just hide them from the good more well off people of society.  One last thing.  This was written by a right wing think tank, it is legislation they want to use in every red state.  Just like the anti-trans laws / don’t say gay laws Florida will be the test place to see if it will pass, because Florida is run by a crazy maga governor.   If it passes here, they will try pushing it everywhere.  Democratic Sen. Jason Pizzo, who contended Tuesday that a “think tank” wrote the legislation.   Hugs.  Scottie


 

Florida Politics reports:

The Senate has passed a House bill creating a new financial obligation on localities by banning homeless people from sleeping in public, setting the stage for a Gov. Ron DeSantis priority becoming law.

The measure from Rep. Sam Garrison (HB 1365), passed by a 27-12 vote after being substituted for the Senate version, would ban counties and municipalities from permitting public sleeping or public camping on public property without explicit permission, compelling these localities to round up the homeless and put them somewhere.

The Governor, who has suggested institutionalization should be brought back, said mental health help for the unhoused is “important,” but that he didn’t want “Sodom and Gomorrah” style homeless camps.

Read the full article.

Well they are building and funding more for profit prisons. You need people in those prisons in order to make money. Problem solved.

Democrats: People are living on the street. We need to build affordable housing.

Republicans: People are living on the street. My wealthy donors don’t like seeing poor people in public. Homeless people need a permit to be homeless. If they can’t pay the fine, toss them into one of the many for-profit prisons owned by my wealthy donors.

Caitlyn Jenner’s suggestion was to bus them out to the desert and have them camp there, instead of near the beaches.
No food, no water, no sanitation, but hey, they’re homeless. I guess they’ll adapt somehow?

Republicans want to do this to trans people. She thinks she’ll be okay because she’s rich.

Ron says mental health help is “important,” but weirdly he has not seen fit to fund it.

““Sodom and Gomorrah” style homeless camps”

That sounds simultaneously fun and biblical, a rare combo.

I fully understand that sodomy comes from Sodom, and I understand what sodomy is. But what do we get from Gomorrah? Gomorrahmy? And what the hell is that.

Mr. DeSantis, from me, fuck you,
The only difference between Nazi Germany an Florida, is the weather.

I hope his last sound is a scream

Got to keep those private prisons full. At least the homeless will get food and a roof.

Only for mandatory labor. No labor, you get only a single bowl of oatmeal once a day. He can please his constituents by bringing back literal slavery.

So, living on the street becomes a crime that will lead to one losing their freedom. They will be shocked when the read the headlines about a mass casualty shooting incident when law enforcement went to enforce this law.

Think they will go after the rich white kids passed out drunk, sleeping in public, during spring break?

Of course not. However, the number of highway patrol officers assigned to the Spring Break week is increased, in order to keep the- ahem – darker elements away.

Or this: (from Mock Paper Scissors)

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It should also be a crime for assholes pretending to be taller by wearing 5 inch lifts.
I can hardly wait for the day when Bootsy and his never ending cruelty comes to a very painful end.

“…compelling these localities to round up the homeless and put them somewhere.”

But, apparently, that “somewhere” must be on private property which would have to be compensated by the state local government. See, pro-business. /s

The law applies to all equally. Rich man and poor man alike must have a permit to sleep in public.

It’s a famous quote, satirizing the purported “equality”.

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This woman is a doctor and takes the republicans to the woodshed on abortion claims

Eagle Pass, TX Residents Sound Off on the Real “Invasion” | The Daily Show

Eagle Pass, Texas has become the epicenter of the national immigration debate, but who are the real “invaders” of this community? Michael Kosta talks to residents of Eagle Pass who have had it with the right-wing media, politicians, and fearmongering Trump supporters taking over their town and jacking up their hotel prices.