#a Republican Presidential candidate

[shinobicyrus]

Hey, yanno how Climate Change is a real thing that is tangibly, at this moment, affecting our world?

Well it turns out, the wealthy and their investment firms have been seeing the mounting evidence that oil companies have had for decades and are slowly starting to think more long-term about their portfolios in the face of rising sea levels, more extreme weather, and the myriad of ways climate crises are affecting...well. Everything. Maybe this means they invest more into sustainability, green energy, building more resilient infrastructure, or carbon offsets. Some of it, of course, is simple corporate greenwashing, but there are those that are taking this trend and packaging it into something called ESG (Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance).

Now some people would say this is predictable, even sensible. Just the good ol’ Free Market(tm) rationally responding to market forces and a changing world.

But those people would be fools! Insidious fools! For conservative sorcerers have come out with a new cursed phrase to explain this new market trend: Woke Investing.

What makes this investing “woke?” Well, much like how conservatives normally flounder when trying to define a word they stole from black people, “Woke Investing” essentially just means any kind of capital investment that they, the fossil fuel billionaire class and their sycophants, don’t personally profit from.

One of these aforementioned sycophants is Andy Puzder, conservative commentator, fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and former fast-food CEO. He calls this kind of so-called woke investing “socialism in sheep’s clothing,” further explaining in leaked audio of a closed-door meeting:

“My father's generation's challenge was the Nazis, who, by the way, were, of course, very proud socialists[citation fucking needed]. The challenge of my generation was the communists, who were, of course, very committed socialists. The challenge of your generation is ESG investing, and it's more insidious than communism or the Nazis.”(source)

You heard it here first, folks. Not investing as much in fossil fuels is more insidious than the Third Fucking Reich.

As usual, the Heritage Foundation is putting their petro-chemical donor’s money where their mouth is. Bills are being proposed to blacklist banks that don’t invest in key state industries, such as West Virginia coal or Texas oil. Fourteen states have already passed bills to restrict ESG-type investing, with Florida Governor Ron “Bullies Kids for Wearing Masks” Desantis leading the charge.

In other words, Climate Denial has reached such a point that so-called Free Market Conservatives who claim to hate big government are trying to make it illegal for banks, investment firms, and financial institutions to make any financial decisions that acknowledges Climate Change is real.

#of course ESG has also been used to describe any kind of internal corporate action #to increase diversity in the work place or implementing new anti-discrimination policies #(which are usually more performative than actually meaningful but that's a separate issue) #a Republican Presidential candidate #Vivek Ramaswamy #has even made ESG investing his personal bugbear #writing such books as 'Woke Inc' and warning of socially conscious investors ''forcing'' companies they invest in #to devote resources to environmental and social policies that are anathema to the right #which is just...a brand new invented crisis by a political movement #in constant need of a crisis to rally their base and justify for draconian legal controls #to favor certain industries and undercut their competition #all under the guise of red scare-type moral and economic panic #ESG #Woke Politics #Climate Change #Capitalism #Republicans #Investment

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

Jeff Yass just bought Trump. Here’s what he stands to gain.

The right-wing billionaire and TikTok investor is about to help the former president add billions of dollars to his net worth. This is what oligarchy looks like.

March 25, 2024, 4:42 PM EDT

By Ja'han Jones

Billionaire investor Jeff Yass is playing his Trump card.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Friday that the right-wing megadonor and major TikTok investor is a part owner of the company that merged with Donald Trump’s media company, which owns Truth Social, the former president’s struggling social media platform. The head-scratching deal stands to add billions of dollars to Trump’s net worth.

Yass’ name recently started popping up in news reports after Trump denounced legislation in Congress that could ban TikTok unless the social media outlet is sold from its China-based parent company. This was a major reversal of Trump’s previous opposition to TikTok and came after Yass met with Trump in Florida, with the backdrop of the former president’s mounting legal fees only adding to suspicion that Yass essentially could be purchasing a presidential candidate.

Trump claimed afterward that he hadn’t spoken with Yass about TikTok, and Yass is a major backer of efforts to promote school privatization, so I guess it’s possible that the right-wing billionaire didn’t say a thing about one of his most prominent investments. (Yass recently declined a request for comment from NBC News.)

But it certainly looks like Trump is under Yass’ thumb now.

It also looks like TikTok — or at minimum, one of its key investors — has just tried to one-up other social media companies in Big Tech’s ongoing battles over influence in Washington. Two years ago, The Washington Post revealed that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, had waged a behind-the-scenes pressure campaign that involved trying to get media outlets and lawmakers to scrutinize TikTok more heavily. And although Meta can’t take total credit, that effort does seem to have helped get us to the present-day scenario, with a possible TikTok ban under consideration at the federal level and several other bans enacted at the state level.

With Trump, Yass appears to be employing the oligarchic approach to protecting an investment: transfer heaps of cash to a desperate presidential candidate and hope they do your bidding.

☝️😡🤬

#Jeff Yass just bought a presidential candidate #oligarch #Jeff Yass #republican assholes #traitor trump #crooked donald #maga morons #resist #never trump #tik tok

[deadpresidents]

Which President, in your opinion, was the most reluctant to seek the position? Which wound up hating it the most by the end of his term?

I am a strong believer that nobody truly becomes President of the United States "reluctantly". That's not exactly the kind of job that seeks you, especially the modern Presidency.

For a significant slice of American history, many of the people nominated for President acted as if they were being called upon to run when, behind-the-scenes, they were very active in building their campaigns and corralling supporters. Until the 20th Century it was frowned upon to openly run for the Presidency, but almost all of the Presidents wanted the gig.

I'd say that George Washington was probably more reluctant than most of his successors and likely would have preferred retiring to Mount Vernon after the Revolution, but I think he also recognized that he was the guy who needed to be the President that set the precedents. I think Ulysses S. Grant would have been perfectly happy to not be President, but once he was elected in 1868 he also wanted to keep the job. He even tried to run for a third term in 1880.

That 1880 election might have been the one case where the winner -- James Garfield -- genuinely wasn't interested in the Presidency at that point. He had gone to the Republican National Convention to support fellow Ohioan John Sherman (and defeat Grant's hopes for a third term) and gained some major attention after giving a well-received speech placing Sherman's name in nomination. When the candidacies of Sherman and James G. Blaine -- another anti-Grant candidate -- stalled, Garfield became a compromise choice and was eventually nominated on the 36th ballot. Garfield was apparently legitimately shocked by the events leading to him leaving Chicago as the GOP nominee.

By most accounts, William Howard Taft was far more interested in a potential seat on the Supreme Court than becoming President. At heart he was a judge and believed himself to be better suited for the judiciary than the Executive Branch. But Taft turned down three offers by Theodore Roosevelt to be appointed to the Supreme Court (in 1902, 1903, and 1906) because he felt obligated to complete his work as Governor-General of the Philippines and then Secretary of War. But Taft's wife desperately wanted him to become President and by the time of President Roosevelt's third offer of a seat on the Court, Taft was already being talked about as Roosevelt's hand-picked successor in the White House. And, as with all other Presidents, once he had a taste for the job, he didn't want to give it up, running for re-election in 1912 against his former friend, Roosevelt.

Gerald Ford is the only other President who hadn't spent a significant portion of his political career with his eyes on the White House. Ford spent nearly a quarter-century in the House of Representatives and his main ambition was to be Speaker of the House, but Republicans weren't able to win control of the House when Ford was in Congressional leadership positions. But even with Ford being a creature of Congress, he did attempt to put himself forward as a nominee for the Vice Presidency, first in 1960 and then in 1968, and Nixon kicked the tires on picking him as his running mate in 1960. No one wants to be Vice President without seeing it as a potential stepping stone to the Presidency, particularly at that point in history before Vice Presidents were empowered with some real influence within the Administrations they served in.

As for who wound up hating it by the end of their time in office, I think it's safe to say that John Quincy Adams didn't shed too many tears when he was defeated for re-election in 1828. And I'm sure he wouldn't use the word "hate", but nobody can convince me that George W. Bush wasn't thoroughly ready to escape Washington by late-2007. There were times in 2008 when he seemed like he just wanted to hold a snap election like they have in parliamentary systems and go home to Texas. If some Presidential insider published a book that said that Bush asked if he could just give the keys to the White House to Barack Obama in July 2008, I wouldn't be the least bit shocked.

On the other hand, if there were no term limits, Bill Clinton would have been running for President in every election since 1992 (and the crazy thing is that he's still younger than both of the presumptive 2024 nominees). I'm kind of surprised that he didn't make an effort to repeal the 22nd Amendment in the past 20 years. Clinton loved being President and was trying to find something Presidential to do until minutes before his successor was inaugurated in 2001.

#History #Presidents #Presidential Candidates #Presidential Nominees #Presidential Elections #Presidency #Reluctant Presidents #Politics #Political History #Presidential History #George Washington #President Washington #General Washington #Ulysses S. Grant #President Grant #General Grant #1880 Election #1880 Republican National Convention #James Garfield #President Garfield #William Howard Taft #President Taft #Chief Justice Taft #Gerald Ford #President Ford #John Quincy Adams #JQA #President Adams #George W. Bush #Bush 43

[havegaysex]

Why are you telling people to vote for the guy committing genocide :/

because voting is not an endorsement it's harm reduction.

Trump is going to be at best doing the same as Biden and likely much worse for Palestinians and all the countries suffering from American Imperialism than Biden is.

Republicans want to bring back child labor and get rid of social security, medicare, Medicaid. As someone who is surviving on Medicaid and social security I don't want those taken away. The Republican majority house already put a lot of limits on food stamps in this past term and I don't think we'll still have food stamps if we get a republican Congress and a Republican president.

They've made it pretty clear that if they get a republican Congress and a Republican president they're going to enact project 2025 and call a conference of states and try and take our rights back to the days when only wealthy white men had any rights when women and racial minorities had no rights, they want to make it illegal for LGBT+ folks to safely exist in public and get lifesaving healthcare.

In short

Do I support every single thing Biden has done as president?

No.

Do I like him?

Not particularly. But I'm still voting for him because apathy is not a choice.

Do I think that Joe Biden having another term means that we can actually make more progress for labor rights, trans healthcare, abortion access, advancement of the rights and protections for disabled people and so much more?

Yes absolutely.

Do I think that the genocide in Gaza needs to end and the United States needs to stop sending weapons to israel?

Yes, I think that un restricted flow of humanitarian aid into Palestine needs to happen, the siege needs to stop, and the country of Israel and the United States need to be held accountable at an international level. I think that the soldiers of the IDF/IOF need to be held accountable for their war crimes and pillaging that they continuously post evidence of on social medias. I'm trying to put a read more here so ce I've put a few linked articles and quotes from them.

A quote from the article below:

"While our map focuses solely on high school aged youth (age 13-17), some states, such as Oklahoma, Texas, and South Carolina, have considered banning care for transgender people up to 26 years of age. "

I've seen lawmakers in some states try to make it felony punishable by life in prison to get your trans child healthcare to keep them alive because they want to make it illegal for us to exist and a legal for anyone who helps us exist.

some quotes from the article above:

"Led by the long-established Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials, the far-reaching effort is essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s second term — or any candidate who aligns with their ideals and can defeat President Joe Biden in 2024. With a nearly 1,000-page “Project 2025” handbook and an “army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the “deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers. “We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” said Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project and a former Trump administration official who speaks with historical flourish about the undertaking. “This is a clarion call to come to Washington,” he said. “People need to lay down their tools, and step aside from their professional life and say, ‘This is my lifetime moment to serve.’” The unprecedented effort is being orchestrated with dozens of right-flank organizations, many new to Washington, and represents a changed approach from conservatives, who traditionally have sought to limit the federal government by cutting federal taxes and slashing federal spending. Instead, Trump-era conservatives want to gut the “administrative state” from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing. The goal is to avoid the pitfalls of Trump’s first years in office, when the Republican president’s team was ill-prepared, his Cabinet nominees had trouble winning Senate confirmation and policies were met with resistance — by lawmakers, government workers and even Trump’s own appointees who refused to bend or break protocol, or in some cases violate laws, to achieve his goals. While many of the Project 2025 proposals are inspired by Trump, they are being echoed by GOP rivals Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy and are gaining prominence among other Republicans. And if Trump wins a second term, the work from the Heritage coalition ensures the president will have the personnel to carry forward his unfinished White House business. “The president Day One will be a wrecking ball for the administrative state,” said Russ Vought, a former Trump administration official involved in the effort who is now president at the conservative Center for Renewing America. Much of the new president’s agenda would be accomplished by reinstating what’s called Schedule F — a Trump-era executive order that would reclassify tens of thousands of the 2 million federal employees as essentially at-will workers who could more easily be fired. Biden had rescinded the executive order upon taking office in 2021, but Trump — and other presidential hopefuls — now vow to reinstate it."

"There’s a “top to bottom overhaul” of the Department of Justice, particularly curbing its independence and ending FBI efforts to combat the spread of misinformation. It calls for stepped-up prosecution of anyone providing or distributing abortion pills by mail."

Personally I think that voting for Joe Biden is better than someone who wants to enact this stuff on day one. It's like they read handmaid's tale and want to make that the reality of this country.

"Chapter by chapter, the pages offer a how-to manual for the next president, similar to one Heritage produced 50 years ago, ahead of the Ronald Reagan administration. Authored by some of today’s most prominent thinkers in the conservative movement, it’s often sprinkled with apocalyptic language." Ronald Reagan is a big reason we have a lot of problems we have today with our economy and with a lot more things. The people that supported Ronald Reagan do not need another term in office.

A quote from the article linked below:

"Trump has given no indication that he would be more sympathetic to Palestinian claims, nor that he would place more pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire. “The approach of the United States would be that Israel needs to win this war, it was attacked brutally,” Trump’s ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, describing how Trump would act. Friedman is now a campaign surrogate for Trump."

Personally I think Trump telling Israel to finish the job is indicators that another Trump presidency doesn't mean that weapons would stop being sent to Israel from United States

I fail to see how another term of Donald trump will be any better for the victims of the ongoing genocide in Palestine than President Joe Biden.

i think our system is absolutely messed up and broken but I don't think abstaining from voting is going to actually help.

#I don't support the genocide happening but I don't think that a republican will improve the situation happening in Gaza #I think that there needs to be a lot more grassroots effort for any third party candidate to be viable on the presidential level #We have two choices this election another term of Biden or another trump term #(if by some miracle the republicans managed to elect anyone else for their party nomination I still don't believe that a republican will #Improve the situation of Gaza or anything the United States is doing in the international level) #Asks #Mutuals #Im open to having further discussion about this #Also since this wasn't a DM or marked for private response I'm assuming you're fine with me posting my answer publicly. #I tried to pick out decent articles to link sorry if there not the best #None of my responses above are me trying to be hostile or combative #I'm genuinely trying to answer this question and I am not great at proofreading before posting but I did try here #vote blue no matter who #vote biden #vote democrat #vote blue #voting #us elections #election 2024 #trump 2024 #2024 election #biden 2024 #biden administration #president biden #joe biden #2024 elections #kamala harris #palestine #Israel

[sbrown82]

If this white woman dipped in turmeric don’t go sit her ass down!!! 🤔🤬

#politics #nikki haley #gop #republicans #racism #black people #presidential candidate #2024 #campaign trail #yeah whatever nimrata #damage control #she’ll say whatever is beneficial to her in the moment

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

screaming crying coughing up blood every time i have to fucking defend genocide joe bc ppl wanna lie and say he isn't responsible for most of the best domestic policy we've seen in decades

his foreign policy is dogshit, yes, and he should rightly be called on it and primaried out, but we can criticize the shit he's actually done wrong instead of making shit up about him ~not doing anything good~

#thinking about the keystone pipeline shutdown and how fully 2/3 of the people he appointed to legislative systems were women and poc #thinking about student debt forgiveness and rejoining the paris climate accord and unfucking some of the extreme gerrymandering #and improving COVID protections (that were roundly thrown out by corporate america which is its own concern yes but like. he's not a king) #'biden didn't fix' blah blah blah he's not a fucking dictator he can't actually do whatever he wants. the only thing the GOP lets slide #is the aforementioned dogshit foreign policy bc fuck knows every last republican loves bombing the middle east and supporting israel #(remember that the evangelical xtian death cult requires israel for the apocalypse!! that is a very real fucking thing these ppl strive for #(and evangelicals support the GOP for this very fucking reason. you cannot forget this. we are all fighting for all our goddamn lives rn) #stirring up trouble #i hate biden i hate his foreign policy i hate how ok he is with fascism i hate most of his pre-presidential voting record BUT #i will not let that hate blind me to the reality that he is Objectively Miles Ahead Of Any Fucking Republican Alternative #i still want his ass primaried out of the presidential race so hard he physically blacks out upon seeing the polling results tho #and fuck. at least the dem side seems to have a lot of good progressive downballot candidates this time around already.

[clairethekiwi]

Put women in charge of the USA !!!! Or a young person !!!!!

#stop making old men presidential candidates they know $hit about stuff #oh! and Republicans suck !!!!! #stop treating me like I'm a pariah or war criminal over my identity !!!!! #y'all don't even punish actual war criminals so it isn't fair !!!!! #oh! and stop genocide ! #and stop treating poor people or immigrants like parasites #anti usa

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Any hope that the Republican Party has that it will reclaim Arizona's 11 Electoral College votes in the 2024 presidential election will likely hinge on the party's appeal to the growing number of independents in the state.

However, as the New York Times' Trip Gabriel reports, if Donald Trump is the GOP's presidential nominee the odds of a win in the state worsen because of his unpopularity in the once reliably conservative state.

As the report notes, President Joe Biden, if he is the Democratic nominee, might also struggle to win all the votes belonging to the independents who show up at the polls in 2024.

According to one former Republican turned independent, it will be either Biden or a third-party candidate who will receive her vote even if the former president isn't the GOP nominee.

“The entire Republican Party went so far to the right,” lamented Sheri Schreckengost, 61, before adding, “Donald Trump changed all that for me. The way things are now, there’s no way I’d vote for a Republican.”

Richard Mocny, a retiree who left the GOP because of Trump, added, "I think we have bigger problems than just Trump being re-elected. Polarization in this country is just fierce. I believe in looking at some of the new third parties popping up.”

The Times report notes, "Arizona’s independent voters, a sampling of whom were interviewed after having participated in an earlier New York Times/Siena College poll, are sure to be just as essential to Mr. Biden next year as they were in 2020. His 10,500-vote margin in Arizona, less than one percentage point, was his narrowest of any state. The Electoral College map of states likely to be the most contested in 2024 has narrowed to a smaller handful than usual: Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin."

Independent Margot Copeland, stated keeping Trump out of the Oval Office was paramount.

"I’ll get to the polls and get everybody out to the polls too,” the retiree said before warning, “It’s very important that Trump does not get back in.”

#us politics #news #raw story #2024 elections #2024 presidential race #conservatives #republicans #donald trump #biden administration #president joe biden #2023 #arizona #independent voters #third party candidates #gop #New York Times #Trip Gabriel #polls

[tomorrowusa]

The organizers of next Republican presidential debate have chosen Rumble as its exclusive livestreamer – it's essentially a far right equivalent of YouTube.

A key broadcasting partner for the next Republican presidential debate permits and even promotes political extremism, false conspiracy theories and misogyny on its site, according to observers of media and extremism and a Guardian review of content on the online video platform Rumble. The Guardian’s survey of Rumble revealed dozens of accounts posting content including Holocaust denial, pro-Nazi and pro-Hitler advocacy, white nationalism, and content from banned creators such as the white nationalist Nick Fuentes. The RNC announced last week that Rumble will be the exclusive livestreamer for the Miami event, which will be attended by the Republican presidential candidates apart from Donald Trump. The Republican Jewish Coalition is co-sponsoring the debate, while NBC will be televising it. Whereas YouTube has acted – albeit inconsistently – to ban creators involved in extremism, hate speech or violence away from their YouTube channels, Rumble has rarely done so, despite terms of service that ostensibly ban “any message which is abusive, inciting violence, harassing, harmful, hateful, antisemitic, racist or threatening”. “If you’re coming to Rumble, you’re coming there for stuff that has been banned from other platforms,” said Megan Squire, the deputy director for data analytics and open-source intelligence (Osint) at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

So Republicans apparently don't mind being associated with the likes of Andrew Tate, Laura Loomer, Alex Jones, and Nick Fuentes (Trump's Nazi dinner companion).

You can tell a lot about people by the company they keep. The GOP candidates will feel at home with all the anti-vaxxers, conspiracy freaks, misogynists, racists, and assorted hate mongers which Rumble is famous for hosting.

#republicans #the far right #rumble #hitler-friendly livestreamer #miami republican debate #republican national committee #hate speech #conspiracy theories #livestreaming the gop debate #gop presidential candidates #election 2024

[deadpresidents]

If Hillary had won in 2016, who do you think would’ve been her Republican opponent in 2020?

We would be living in such a different political world if Trump hadn't won in 2016 that I have no idea who would have replaced him as the Republican standard-bearer if he had lost that election. If Hillary had won in 2016, I'd like to think it would have just ended the MAGA experiment right there and smothered Trumpism in its racist little crib. I'm sure some of the candidates who lost the 2016 GOP nomination to Trump like Cruz or Rubio would have taken another shot. Paul Ryan probably would have remained in Congress if Trump hadn't taken over the Republican Party and if he continued as Speaker of the House he could have been a potential candidate.

You know, before Trump took control of the GOP and built the party around his cult of personality, I thought that the Republicans had a potential superstar national candidate in Brian Sandoval, who was Governor of Nevada for two terms (2011-2019). Sandoval would have been a really difficult candidate for Democrats in a general election -- a moderate Republican who supported abortion access and the Affordable Care Act, and also happened to be Hispanic so he didn't look like a regular Republican politician. Sandoval was respected enough that Senator Harry Reid tried to get President Obama to appoint him to the Supreme Court when Justice Scalia died (Harry Reid also might have been trying to get Sandoval on the Court to make sure that the Governor, a popular Nevada Republican, wasn't a potential threat to run for the Senate). If the Republican Party hadn't become what it has become, Sandoval was the type of candidate who could have been a game changer on the national level.

#What if? #History #Presidential Politics #2016 Election #2020 Election #Hillary Clinton #Donald Trump #President Trump #Republican Party #GOP #Republican Presidential Candidates #Brian Sandoval #Paul Ryan #Politics

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

I love that every year I see fewer and fewer people in my social circle celebrating the 4th of July, people are FED UP with the US

#this year especially #why would I celebrate the country I had the misfortune to be born in #literally just DAYS after the supreme court said 'fuck you' to millions of people with student loans #and rolled back queer rights based on a literally MADE UP CASE #meanwhile one of the main candidates for the Republican presidential nomination is running on an openly homophobic platform #and the government still requires me to file taxes with them despite living and working in another country #to punish me for deigning to leave the 'greatest country on earth'

[runalongprincevaliant]

What do you think about Cornel West as a presidential candidate?

#palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #us politics #presidential candidate #democrats #republicans #third party candidate #genocide #war criminals #presidential election #2024 presidential election #al jazeera #podcast #news

[sbrown82]

"white woman dipped in turmeric" lmfao lets just say the truth. she IS white.

NiKKKi is a Karen if I ever saw one:

#politics #nikki haley #bye nimrata #republicans #non blacks #indian #white woman #presidential candidate

[no-nightingalez]

Florida man runs for president after taking away the rights of all trans people in his state

#who tf even likes desantis #even my conservative mom dislikes him #yk you’re bad when republicans think you’ve gone too far #trans #transgender #presidential candidate #fuck desantis #ron desantis #florida man

[lesbiangummybearmafia]

This needs to said, Ron DeSantis is worse then Trump. Now I personally hate Trump with every fiber of my being, I hate everything he stands for, which I believe is mostly lies. However if we take look at what Ron DeSantis has been doing in Florida as governor from the Don't say gay bill, to Stop the Woke act, bill banning transgender minors receiving gender affirming care, bill to ban gender studies, now there moving to expand teaching ban on sexual orientation and gender identity k-12.

That is just the tip of the ice berg. If he's doing this on a state level imagine the horror that could be unleashed on the whole country if he does decide to run for President! If he does I know personally I'll do everything in my power to make sure he loses! Because we can not have Authoritarian mad man in the most powerful position in the world. Our Civil Rights are already being diminished in States all over our country even as I write this we do not need it to happen on the federal level. May it be Women's rights, lgbtqia+ rights, people of color rights their once again trying to silence our voices. Bit by bit the Republican law makes all over the US are gerrymanagering state maps as to basically cheat, by making it harder for everyone to vote, especially people of color, disabled people, working people. I don't want to them basically cheat they can get Ron DeSantis in a position where he can do so much damage to the whole if our country.

Because America belongs to all of us not just a select group of Evangelical Right Wing Republican Christians. Who the misconception that the whole of the country should be like them. That is not what America is about, that is not our values, it will never be our values. If they feel that's what America should be about they obviously misunderstood want the Constitution and Declaration of Independence said.

The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

That not just for one group of people who are under the misconception their right and everyone else is wrong. That's exactly what Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida. Deciding his prejudice, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic ideals are correct than making laws, educational changes based on that. He's dangerous, he doesn't care who he hurts by these laws and changes because he has a very us and them mentality. That only allows him to see people different to him as the other, he lacks empathy, kindness, simple basic human understanding this not what we need nor want in a President. I'm sorry but we, all of us in the US need to be paying attention. What happens over the next few year could decide the path America goes down. It's still not to late to turn from what our government is becoming but we have to fight against it.

#us politics #us government #ron desantis #presidential candidate #can't have this happen #stop the fascist authoritarian republican party #republicans #don't want a homophobic president #just no