Daddy's home...

 ...and he had a really bad time on the road.

Nikki Fried, chair of the Florida Democratic Party, warned, "He's gonna come home with a vengeance.  He's going to try to reclaim the mantle that he had after November 2022.  And he's going to try to bring everybody back together and continue on this anti-woke, anti-democratic, anti-freedom platform."

Yes, Ron DeSantis's road trip did not end well, and she thinks he'll take it out on the people of Florida.  And while many are fine with this, many are not.  The governissimo's final term is not going to be pretty for immigrants, the LGBTQ community, people of color and anyone who still cares about free speech, public health or even the existence of libraries.  "The most expensive presidential primary bid in American history" blew up in his face and if you think Trump can't handle losing, find a place to shelter from Hurricane Puddin' Paws.

This week the Florida House passed a bill that would bar everyone under sixteen from social media and another one to keep them from visiting adult websites.  It's not clear how they could be enforced.  I suppose the election storm-troopers could make surprise visits to random homes in their spare time.  

No one is safe.  The state's chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis wanted Florida to contribute $5 million toward Trump's legal bills.  (Actually he called it a "Freedom Fighters Fund" for "Florida residents running for president who face legal, partisan, political attacks by the Department of Justice or State Attorneys" but most people figured it out.)  Patronis withdrew the bill after DeSantis promised to kill it, so he won't even have the pleasure of pounding the VETO stamp.  Of course he endorsed Trump -- he signed the blood oath with all the other contenders.  It just made him meaner.


Not much the governissimo can do to stop the "partisan, political attack" that the House Ethics Committee has resumed on Matt Gaetz.  In addition to his friend Joel Greenberg (eleven years for trafficking) and the woman who says she had sex with Gaetz when she was seventeen (statutory rape), the committee is talking to "numerous" other witnesses.  After the Comer impeachment debacle the House needs for at least one committee to act like it doesn't have its head up its ass.  

Nikki Fried thinks Democrats can benefit in November from DeSantis's descent into vengeful dementia.  I hope she's right.  Anyway, no matter how bad your state is, it's not Florida.  Unless it's Texas.


   

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