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ancianita

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42. Quote where I suggest it's a battleground state. Yes, it's red. Yet you & other DU'ers suggest
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 01:39 PM
Mar 2023

that Florida Democrats get tossed into the dustbin of history instead of helping Florida Democrats win.

Did anyone here contribute to Charlie Crist against DeSantis?
Or to Maxwell Frost?
OR TO VAL DEMINGS, IMPEACHMENT MANAGER, for heaven's sake?

Easy for you to say "no, I will never forgive FL Democrats for the butterfly ballot and pregnant chads" when Democrats weren't in charge of ballot manufacturing.

With all your hate for those who counted, you fail to remember two major events that caused Democrats almost irreparable harm in Florida:

1. the Brooks Brothers riot, which included

Brad Blakeman, Republican strategist.[2]
Chuck Royal, legislative assistant to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)[15]
Duane Gibson, a Don Young aide on the House Resources Committee who worked for Ted Stevens, then became a lobbyist associated with Jack Abramoff[16]
Garry Malphrus, who became deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council during the Bush administration[14]

Joel Kaplan, who became a policy advisor in the Bush administration, and later Vice President of U.S. Public Policy for Facebook, Inc[17][18]
Kevin Smith, a former GOP House aide[14]
Layna McConkey Peltier, a former Senate and House aide[19]

Marjorie Strayer, an aide to New Mexico's Republican congresswoman, Heather Wilson.[7]
Matt Schlapp, a former Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) House aide, becoming the White House political director during the Bush administration,[14] and director of the American Conservative Union in 2014
Roger Morse, a former House aide who became a lobbyist

Roger Stone,[20] a self-described "GOP Hitman"[21] and former member of Nixon's Committee for the Re-Election of the President
Rory Cooper, a former staffer for the National Republican Congressional Committee and later the White House Homeland Security Council[14]

Steven Brophy, a former GOP Senate aide to Senators Fred Thompson, Bill Frist, and in 2003, Representative Marsha Blackburn, and later became V.P. at Dollar General[22]
Tom Pyle, a former Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) staffer who later worked for Koch Industries[14]

2. The landmark interference by SCOTUS in the Bush v Gore decision -- what they ruled in overruling the FL Supreme Court was unconstitutional

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a landmark[1] decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 2000, that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court had ordered a statewide recount of all undervotes, over 61,000 ballots that the vote tabulation machines had missed. The Bush campaign immediately asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the decision and halt the recount. Justice Antonin Scalia, convinced that all the manual recounts being performed in Florida's counties were illegitimate, urged his colleagues to grant the stay immediately.[2] On December 9, the five conservative justices on the Court granted the stay for Bush, with Scalia citing "irreparable harm" that could befall Bush,



And here we are. The current SCOTUS failure to have ANY ethics. Nevermind an ethics office. ALL begun by John The Pirate Roberts in 2000.



Everyone who broadly condemns Florida can knock off the virtue signaling outrage suggested about Florida Democrats.

We're still fighting the good fight. Where is the DU support? HUH?

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And North Korea. TFG's BFF Kim would approve. Ocelot II Mar 2023 #1
The state of Florida is infected with an illness SouthernDem4ever Mar 2023 #2
Amputate Florida and let it float out to sea and sink. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2023 #5
Bugs has the right idea. catbyte Mar 2023 #14
Yep!!! LOL!!! and wouldn't take much as Florida is already sinking. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2023 #16
It's the legislature of Florida that's infected. It's not the state. There are plenty of sane, ancianita Mar 2023 #12
After the 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections, speak easy Mar 2023 #37
Quote where I suggest it's a battleground state. Yes, it's red. Yet you & other DU'ers suggest ancianita Mar 2023 #42
They (TPTB who dictate to the media) like to use maps like this to divide us: CrispyQ Mar 2023 #39
Yes, big ones! ancianita Mar 2023 #45
Yup. To be properly careful, Hortensis Mar 2023 #40
but they elected them treestar Mar 2023 #62
The state of Florida has filled itself with rightwingers from malaise Mar 2023 #20
Yes, but to escape from those authoritarian governments, not to intentionally re-establish them. ancianita Mar 2023 #44
It's so damn pathetic. And FFS, these fools talk of freedom. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2023 #3
1A: Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press LonePirate Mar 2023 #4
I thought the press was slow to react to McCarthy's giveaway of the J6 material to Carlson. CrispyQ Mar 2023 #10
haha, that's genius! LymphocyteLover Mar 2023 #29
Exactly Farmer-Rick Mar 2023 #30
Koch, big dog oligarch of the DeSantis 42-billiionaire network, vows to beat TFG in the primaries. ancianita Mar 2023 #52
You wouldn't think Florida would have so many snowflakes Walleye Mar 2023 #6
Do any of these idiots know anything about Constitutional law? PJMcK Mar 2023 #7
Malevolent delusions know no bounds... MayReasonRule Mar 2023 #17
They have judge, particularly SCOTUS, in their pocket so the Constitution only means what they want. LonePirate Mar 2023 #27
I've always said repugs LOVE the Constitution louis-t Mar 2023 #51
I'd be willing to bet good money they've never actually read the Constitution. Initech Mar 2023 #64
This is a Florida bill? usedtobedemgurl Mar 2023 #8
The Streisand Effect is now The DeSantis Effect MayReasonRule Mar 2023 #22
I hope he chokes publicly and then he is never seen again! nt usedtobedemgurl Mar 2023 #24
To say nothing of the greasy mafia movie reject who wants to ban the Democratic Party (!) peppertree Mar 2023 #9
Backpfeifengesicht. I nearly lost my lunch. WHO, exactly, is going to keep track niyad Mar 2023 #11
Republicans no longer care about the Constitution. CaptainTruth Mar 2023 #13
Ah, our Communist Overloads have spoken. NT SWBTATTReg Mar 2023 #15
It is a prior restraint on Freedom of Speech. No way this is legal. They are politicians and public Ford_Prefect Mar 2023 #18
Florida is basically just morphing into North Korea at this point. Initech Mar 2023 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2023 #25
Fiefdom of the press. Harker Mar 2023 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2023 #23
Did anyone Traildogbob Mar 2023 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2023 #34
😂😂😂😂 Traildogbob Mar 2023 #43
fucking fascists!!! LymphocyteLover Mar 2023 #28
So you have to have a license to be a journalist? Raven123 Mar 2023 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2023 #36
Interesting from the the party that complains of too much government interference Raven123 Mar 2023 #55
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2023 #57
K&R Thanks for posting. n/t TeamProg Mar 2023 #32
Chalk-up another lawsuit in the mind-state of Floriduh.. These official positions (jobs) are paid TeamProg Mar 2023 #33
Sounds like good time to brush off the prank names Marthe48 Mar 2023 #35
Nothing to Hide, Reich. Kid Berwyn Mar 2023 #38
Papeles, por favor n/t aggiesal Mar 2023 #41
This guy looks to me blueinredohio Mar 2023 #46
Florida wants to be the home of American fascism. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 #47
this is what snipers refer to as "painting the target" which, in this case, is FREE SPEECH🤨 bringthePaine Mar 2023 #48
I dont even think THIS Scotus would let that fly. nt oldsoftie Mar 2023 #49
Propaganda is necessary for the Russiapublican party to survive. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2023 #50
It's literally a Russian law from 2014: muriel_volestrangler Mar 2023 #53
This doofus won his seat in 2020 thanks to a ghost candidate. Rhiagel Mar 2023 #54
👍 And they'll repeat this tactic. Duppers Mar 2023 #56
Da, Tovarisch. COL Mustard Mar 2023 #58
I wish Pics of the day showed fewer r's Marthe48 Mar 2023 #59
Maybe zippy the pin head should re-read the Constitution and the First Amendment.... turbinetree Mar 2023 #60
The entire party is our biggest threat to democracy. Evolve Dammit Mar 2023 #61
That is fascism. How can they be so fucking stupid! Maraya1969 Mar 2023 #63
GOP skips the first amendment and goes all in on the second IronLionZion Mar 2023 #65
The Constitution is just a damned piece of paper AZLD4Candidate Mar 2023 #66
First Amendment whfinlay Mar 2023 #67
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