DeSantis Blackmailed Special Olympics Into Dropping Vaxx Requirement

[packman]

the guy who boasts about Florida’s freedoms has found yet another one he can’t tolerate: the right to keep high-risk athletes from COVID. So, just like he decided to punish Disney for daring to exercise the freedom of disagreeing with him, DeSantis blackmailed the Special Olympics into dropping a vaccine mandate he doesn’t like.

As ABC News reported, the State of Florida threatened the Special Olympics with the $27 million fine on Thursday night. Shortly afterward, the vaccine requirement was lifted.

DeSantis spun his authoritarianism as something democratic. "We want everyone to be able to compete," DeSantis said at a press conference Friday, celebrating his bullyboy victory. "Finally, we can report that all the athletes will be able to compete. This will be a relief for a lot of the athletes."

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/06/desantis-blackmailed-special-olympics

[gopiscrap]

1. fascist asshole

[sop]

2. DeSantis The Punisher will be wearing a skull motif on his chest before the year is out.

[NCLefty]

10. The guy who made Punisher is pissed that righties keep using his symbol incorrectly.

Police and military personnel have adopted the Marvel character The Punisher’s iconic skull as a symbol of force in recent years—but the character’s creator, Gerry Conway, told Forbes that the character was never meant to symbolize oppression, and he now hopes to reshape The Punisher for this moment in history.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/06/11/the-creator-of-the-punisher-wants-to-reclaim-the-iconic-skull-from-police-and-fringe-admirers/?sh=d031360b4348

[Initech]

3. What a colossal piece of shit!

[Ritabert]

4. Let's hope everybody's vaxxed by now

....so it won't matter.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. And 75 million gOP voters LOVE that he did this. They secretly HATE

The Special Olympics, and they not secretly hate ALL of us actual patriots.

[Raven]

6. I believe Down Syndrome kids are especially suseptable to lung/respiratory problems. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Double-Cultured Dictator.

I don’t think he’s an anomaly. I think he is doing precisely what he was raised to do.

[Irish_Dem]

8. This is the GOP governance model.

DeSantis plans on being POTUS one day.

He is showing us what the US will be like in the near future.

[gldstwmn]

9. How low will he go? Is DeSantis so confident that he will win no matter what that

he can just go around making enemy after enemy? That is a frightening thought to me.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

11. Hope the voters of Florida are happy

They have a fascist dictator in the governor's mansion. A vile, wicked, mean-spirited fuck who clearly got elected to see how much pain and death he can cause. What's the goal, DeSatan? Eliminating everyone who isn't white, male, cishet and conservative?

I'm sorry. That was awful of me to say. I take that back. Satan is nicer than DeathSentence.

I for one think it's time for the Special Olympics to pack up and find a new home. One where you're safe from Governor COVID and his cruelty fetish.