IT: Florida Gov. DeSantis signs restrictive voting bill into law, and... 🐻 Should animals be used for publicity stunts?

DeSatanist is such an evil guy.

Please reverse this foolishness. More voter suppression. When cheaters lose they find a way to cheat.

No animals for publicity stunts. DeSantis is just another Repugnant a-hole who lies, lies, lies!

I have read that the death rate from Covid is more like 900,000. Perhaps if the Dump hadn’t killed, or disabled, so many people with his dumbass or no action policies, we’d have enough people to staff their low-paying jobs!

Right on, Larubia! 😊❤️

Stop this man ! He’s a menace

This is how it’s done

Georgia & Florida, I spy a theme. Who’s next? Let me guess...Texas? Republican governors must have had a conference on how to minimize the non-white/Democratic vote. Congress, your move. Please, we need minimum national standards to preserve voting rights for all citizens! Better yet, we need tech giants to devise a way to verify identity & allow our citizens to vote from their couch. We put men on the moon in the 60’s...we can do this!

Just another example of the insurrectionist party becoming more and more fascist!

Causes we don’t need your opinion. Print the facts and we the people will decide if we agree with the new voter act.

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This from Lindsay Graham, and I’m not sure if it’s ethical or legal to take money donated for his campaign and give it to Georgia without his donors’ knowledge or consent. When I donate to charities, I expect and,I think have the right to expect that the money will be used by that charity for the charity’s identified mission, not given to some other charity that I may or may not support because of how they allocate donated funds or because of their mission. “Here’s what happened two days ago when I was in Georgia speaking to the annual Republican party fundraising dinner for the Republican Party of Georgia, 18 corporations who money gave money last year, decided not to give a dime this year. Only one corporation in Georgia helped the Republican Party, Georgia Power. They lost $150,000 because corporations in Georgia have been intimidated by this idea of Jim Crow 2.0. So I’m going to give $75,000 from my campaign to the Georgia Republican Party who we're going to need to take the Senate seat back in Georgia.” https://www.foxnews.com/media/lindsey-graham-to-corporate-america-have-you-lost-your-mind

And Trump and Republican supporters’ Big Lie or deliberate Delusion lives on: “Arizona is committing all the same sins that Trump’s supporters have been denouncing, using a brazenly partisan process run by apparently unqualified parties, with procedures kept secret and subject to change. Observers are being asked to sign nondisclosure agreements, reporters have been kicked out of the site, and the exercise is being largely funded by interested outside parties—even though the Arizona legislature recently passed a law that prevents local boards from accepting outside funding..... ...The premise is that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud, but despite frantic efforts, Trump and his allies have failed to produce evidence of widespread fraud. (In one of the few proven cases of individual fraud, a Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty this week to voting absentee for Trump in the name of his late mother.) ... In November, Maricopa conducted a hand count of a sample of ballots under state law and found no discrepancies in the county. Earlier this year, Maricopa County also ordered a forensic audit of votes, which was conducted by three separate firms, including a certified public accountancy and two voting-systems labs accredited by the federal Election Assistance Commission. The audit searched for hacking of machines, vote-switching, and malicious software, and found none. All of this was done under the law as laid out by the Arizona legislature....l The state Senate allocated just $150,000 for the audit, far too little to cover all the costs. So despite recently banning boards of elections from using private money, the Senate has turned to private donors to fill the gap. Cyber Ninjas hasn’t disclosed all of its funding sources, though some have emerged. Unsurprisingly, much of it has come from people invested in the idea of fraud. Patrick Byrne, the eccentric former head of Overstock.com, has donated $1 million and set a goal to raise almost $2 million more. Employees of One America News Network, the conspiracist pro-Trump news outlet, have also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the outlet has been given special access as the official broadcast partner of the audit.... Usually audits and recounts are conducted with teams of people from different parties to ensure fairness, but most observers are Republicans, and Cyber Ninjas has not made clear the arrangements for reviewing ballots. Some of the tables where counting is occurring aren’t being watched at all. Cyber Ninjas has required observers to sign a nondisclosure agreement, which defeats the purpose of having observers present. One official told a reporter this week that auditors are examining ballots for bamboo fibers, apparently because of a baseless conspiracy theory about China flying in 40,000 fake ballots. .... Now that it has the ballots, Cyber Ninjas doesn’t seem to be bothering to provide adequate physical security. Reporters have witnessed workers moving boxes around without any obvious scheme, and nothing about Cyber Ninjas suggests that the company is capable of maintaining tight control. In addition, reporters have spotted workers with blue pens, which could irreversibly taint ballots.... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/arizonas-election-audit-is-a-trainwreck/618834/

Of course he did. I read that he’s being looked at by the Republican Party for a possible run for the presidency in 2024. He’s followed the mist recent trends in Republican party goals and tactics including supporting Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election and resisting COVID measures and maybe the data about COVID in Florida. I suspect that he knew of the Republican party successful election fraud to unseat an incumbent Democrat by putting forth a false Democrat contender who neither campaigned or intended to seek office to draw votes off of the incumbent. A poster child for integrity. Not!

DeSantis like several other tTrump bunnies are following anything that might allow them to climb the ladder into a higher office. It is awful and I hope that lawsuits stop the BS! My Mom has voted by mail for many years. She is now 97 there is no way she could stand in a line for even 15 minutes waiting to vote. Make sure that tRump and all of his assholes vote in a line too..Melania, your parents and all of the tRump crooked children. Allow no one to do other than what the vote changes put on other residents.

Off topic. From the US arm of UK’s The Guardian offering a different perspective on why some places are finding it slow going to re-staff: ‘No one wants to work anymore’: the truth behind this unemployment benefits myth At restaurants across the country – from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Forth Worth, Texas – the same sign is popping up: “We are short staffed. Please be patient with the staff that did show up. No one wants to work anymore.” Unfortunately for them, what’s happening is a feature, not a bug, of the US economic system and the blame can’t entirely be placed on a $300 weekly check. University of Pennsylvania economist, Ioana Marinescu, said: “In the absence of the benefits there would probably be a little bit more applications and hiring would be a little bit easier, but the main drive of the recent change in sentiment is that hiring is accelerating.” Job openings rose to a two-year high in February, according to the US Labor Department’s job openings and labor turnover survey published last month. And in March, employers added nearly one million new jobs, with many economists expecting similar or better gains in the April jobs report on Friday. If job openings accelerate faster than people apply for work, there will be pain for business owners. The pandemic has added some quirks to this economic reality. It is true that a sliver of people would rather stay home for a few months making as much, or more, from unemployment than they would defrosting meat patties or answering phones. But would-be employees are also concerned about safety - 46% of the population hasn’t received a single vaccine dose and the spread of Covid-19 is uncontrolled in the US. Potential employees also have caregiving responsibilities: this recession has disproportionately affected women, who largely take up these duties and in late March more than half of schools were still doing remote learning or a combination of remote and in-person classes..... University of Massachusetts Amherst economist Arindrajit Dube said the fiscal stimulus, including unemployment benefits, could lead to a once in a generation or two generations increase in wages and reduced unemployment rates. The last time this type of wage growth happened was in the late 1990s when the labor market tightened, with a lot of employers chasing after fewer workers. “You had a tight enough labor market which led to broad based wage growth of the sort we hadn’t really seen since maybe the 70s,” Dube said. “And that was unusual and yes, employers had a hard time filling vacancies and they had to raise wages a lot and that’s OK” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/may/07/truth-behind-unemployment-benefits-myth

Off topic This is an example of the influence of packing the judiciary that the Republican party has pursued for the last decade and more. At best, a former congresswoman gets away with substantial fraud. At worst, she gets away with fraud and the taxpayers foot the bill for an appeal that could go all the way to SCOTUS which returns the case to a lower court for re-trial. I thought jurors were purposely selected for juries on the basis of expected objectivity and cautioned during instruction to rely on evidence and witness testimony for determining guilt or innocence. Does this overturning because a judge dismissed a juror who violated instructions to the jury and the foundation of our current jury trial process mean that a hung jury due to religious convictions with the result that someone is retried at taxpayer expense goes free mean that jurors that hold personal opinions which outweigh evidence should never be dismissed? What about the wife raped by her husband if a juror doesn’t believe or the Holy Spirit (by their report) tells them after the trial has begun a wife can’t be raped by her husband? Or a person who feels or is wronged by another kills their betrayer and the Holy Spirit tells them “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” but the judge doesn’t find out until the trial has begun?

As a lifelong Republican I think it is time for the Tea Party, the Progressives, and the Trump followers (conspiracy theorists & QAnon) need to register as their own party. The rogue factions of each party are not true Democrats or Republicans and should be seen that way so true principled Dems & GOP can vote with like thinkers. Stop changing a system that is not broke. Instead expand the choices on how voters identify. Lumping all voters into the just 2 main parties when it is obvious there is at least 3 factions besides Democrats & Republicans. It just makes more sense to breakdown the groups by their mindset to keep government more fair to the American people and reduce the gridlock & partisan legislators legislation.

Yes support voting integrity! Due to Covid voting mail-in and drop boxes went unchecked with these new processes. Inflation and high cost of goods is here. I just went to buy a piece of plywood and it was $95 and gas is up. No thanks to sleepy Joe. Vote RED 2022!!

Part of me is for it just to save lives the other part lis opposed. These pharmaceutical companies deserve some kind of payment. Time to sit down and hash out the details.