Dwain Northey (Gen X)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naacp-travel-advisory-florida-says-state-hostile-to-black-americans/
Remember the good old days when there were only travel advisories and or ban for, what some would call, third word countries? Well now because of the vile vitriol of one Governor Ron DeSantis the state of Florida, a vacation destination, has received a travel advisory by the NAACP.
The wannabe future President has made the climate so venomous in Florida the anyone who is a part of any minority group does not feel safe in the state. Black, Brown, LGTBQ+, these are all groups that are under attack in the Sunshine State. The majority Republican legislature and their fearful leader has passed laws that make almost everything a jailable offence and the fact that the state has very loose gun laws and a stand your ground law makes it more dangerous than being a blonde female in central America.
Florida residents are able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The law, which goes into effect on July 1, means that anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida can carry a concealed gun in public without any training or background check. This with their ridiculous stand your ground law, ‘Florida’s “Stand-Your-Ground” law was passed in 2005. The law allows those who feel a reasonable threat of death or bodily injury to “meet force with force” rather than retreat. Similar “Castle Doctrine” laws assert that a person does not need to retreat if their home is attacked.’ Makes it really sketchy to go there.
This in top of the don’t say gay rule and the new trans ruling that just passed.
“Florida lawmakers have no shame. This discriminatory bill is extraordinarily desperate and extreme in a year full of extreme, discriminatory legislation. It is a cruel effort to stigmatize, marginalize and erase the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender youth. Let me be clear: gender-affirming care saves lives. Every mainstream American medical and mental health organization – representing millions of providers in the United States – call for age-appropriate, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people.
“These politicians have no place inserting themselves in conversations between doctors, parents, and transgender youth about gender-affirming care. And at the same time that Florida lawmakers crow about protecting parental rights they make an extra-constitutional attempt to strip parents of – you guessed it! – their parental rights. The Human Rights Campaign strongly condemns this bill and will continue to fight for LGBTQ+ youth and their families who deserve better from their elected leaders.”
This law makes it possible for anyone to just accuse someone of gender affirming care to have their child taken from them this would include someone traveling from out of state. This alone justifies a travel ban to the Magic Kingdom for families.
Oh, and I haven’t even mentioned DeSantis holy war with Disney, the largest employer in the state. I really hope the Mouse eats this ass holes lunch.
Well that’s enough bitching, thanks again for suffering though my rant.
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Photos by Michelle
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Photos by Michelle
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Shit Show 2024
Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)
Tom Harman has taken the rantings of Trump about what he is going to do when he returns to the office and made a script to tell us of what will happen as the year 2025 progresses. This will be a year of revenge and humiliation if Trump has his way.
The point of all the script is to inform us all of how the year is to progress with the leadership (?) of the bad little boy from New York. Concentration camps will be established to hold all those that did not vote for him, as well as prison for the most notable offenders. Death in the streets for minorities and anyone considered deviant. The selling of public land, destruction of national parks and all that sort of thing. It will be such a wonderful place to live.
Someone is trying to give Trump an award for peace which is so ridiculous that it is enough to make you sick. He has no idea of how to come to a peaceful solution for anything, his entire being is geared to strife. His efforts to make things worse is the only thing he is qualified for or good at. Not just suggesting but ordering the leaders of all states run by republicans to send their National Guard troops to Texas to fight the federal forces there to keep the border in a state of turmoil. It is all about having a campaign hook to favor his efforts to retake the WH.
Why anyone with a brain listens to this egotistical idiot is beyond rational. His first tour proved nothing but that he knows how to ignore the Constitution and the law and to make money from foreign countries. His track record proves he is a loser at every turn and yet there are people that consider it a duty to put him back in the WH. The best place he could possibly be put is with Jimmy Hoffa wherever that may be.
This is being written over the course of several days. Today 2/2/24 the Republicans in the Georgia House want to change the laws to protect Trump and any future dipshits that decide to overthrow the government or any other RICO type crime. The state of Georgia has been down some really bumpy roads over the course of it’s history as far as law and order are concerned. The state started as a penal colony by the Crown. After the Civil War they had Jim Crow laws that were still on the books in the 1960s. By the 1990s many of the rules had been turned on their heads and they were making life difficult for the white folks in the state, and now they are determined to let Trump off the hook. This is yet another case of someone with their head in their ass trying to get everyone else to believe that they are superior and not just stupid.
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Self Care
Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.
I always have a list of things to get done and the stuff that’s my own personal self-care never gets done.
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Random Chef
What’s your favorite thing to cook?
Don’t have a favorite, I’m a ‘ hey that sounds good’ guy I’ll try and make that.
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Photos by Michelle
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Apple
Write about your first computer.
Not the first one I own, but the first one I had to use old-school Apple green screen.
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Little Known Presidential Facts
Four U.S. Presidents never had a Vice President.
For about 37 years of its history, the U.S. has been without a second-in-command. Before the passage of the 25th Amendment in 1967, there was no procedure for filling the role if a commander in chief died in office. Instead, there just wasn’t a VP if that happened — at least not until the next presidential election. Thanks to this legislative quirk, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester Arthur (all VPs under a President who died in office) served their entire presidential terms without a Vice President.
Other Presidents have gone without VPs for at least part of their terms, whether through resignation (two) or because their veeps died in office (seven). The first VP vacancy occurred in 1812, when George Clinton, President James Madison’s running mate, died in office. Strangely, Madison’s VP pick for his second term also died in office, after serving only about 20 months. The last executive shuffle occurred during the Nixon administration in 1973–74, when Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon both resigned (Agnew about nine months before Nixon, amid tax evasion and corruption charges). Nixon nominated Gerald Ford to replace Agnew, and after Nixon himself resigned in August 1974 following the Watergate scandal, Ford became the first and only President never elected by the U.S. people. Ford left the vice presidency vacant for several months until Nelson Rockefeller finally filled the position on December 19, 1974. Since then, the U.S. has never been without a veep.
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Fear
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?
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