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.

  • New Rules(?)

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Getting close to the end of Felon47s first 100 days and as much as he and his MAGA minions there is some evidence that the rule of law still stands.

    The round up and unprecedented deportation of what Donny claims are millions of ‘illegals’ hasn’t yet happened but the backlash from those that have been very publicly disappeared is causing undue pain. It is nice to see that we the people still believe in due process.

  • Catholic Church has a job opening.

    Francis’ death prompts a period of mourning, after which all cardinals under the age of 80 will convene to pick the next leader of the Catholic Church. It typically takes between two and three weeks for a new pope to be chosen.

    His death has triggered a mourning period which involves centuries-old rites. It has also set into motion the process for electing a new pontiff. A conclave can be expected to be held between 15 and 20 days after Francis’s death.

    The conclave begins with a celebration of mass, after which deliberations and voting begins. Votes are taken each day, morning and afternoon, until a candidate wins a two-thirds majority. There is a day’s break for prayer and reflection after every seven ballots.

    This is how a group of MEN choose a new Pope and thusly proclaim he was chosen by God.

  • Resurrection of a demigod

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Easter itself is a conglomeration of many stories and many traditions. The story of Jesus and his resurrection are uncannily similar to the Greek story of Hercules who wasn’t demigod son of Zeus, who was persecuted and burned himself on a funeral fire essentially crucifying himself so that he could sit on Olympus beside his father.

    The traditions that we celebrate for Easter now with Easter, eggs, bunnies, chocolates, and various such sundry other things, bright colors, etc. are all aspects of the pagan fertility festivals that the church adopted. Easter being a spring festival the new spring of life is not in contradiction with the resurrection, it actually fits Their narrative perfectly.

    I do not discount anyone’s belief or anyone’s faith but just know that this is not a new story. It is a story that has been invented many times throughout our history.

  • Peanuts Truth

  • Still in the First 100days

    Trump/Musk formula

  • Good Friday ??

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Today Christians remember a Jewish Carpenter that was hung from a Roman cross at the request of his faith for teaching that love was greater than money and power.

    I always questioned how this was a good day for that Carpenter… we are told from his faithful that he did this selfless act for us, and from what I can derive from those scriptures is that he wasn’t specific about who he was performing this for.

    Many people today that profess themselves as followers for the carpenter that died on a Roman torture devise seem to have willfully ignored the lessons he taught. They do not ‘welcome the stranger’ as he commanded his followers. His distain for the money changers appear to be the same people they worship.

    So how was the sacrifice the Peace & Love Carpenter made 2000 years ago a good day?

  • First it was the Immigrants

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    I feel like we’re living in 1938 Germany when Adolph decided that they were certain people within Deutschland that he felt were undesirable. Donald has actually asked El Salvador to build more prisons for homegrown people of interest that he would like to deport and get rid of. These would be US citizens that for one reason or another have spoken out against dear leader, and he wishes them to be disappeared.

    Even me being a pessimist politically did not see this coming.

  • Word of the Day

  • Diversity and Disappearing People

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    This whole diversity equity and inclusion argument is getting really old now not only are we not caring for people that are different than we are. We are disappearing people because of their opinions.

    I was informed by a Trump supporter that DEI is only because we’re giving things to people who don’t deserve them that we already have equity in this country and no one is treated differently. I do not know what country they live in because I know that if a Muslim or a black family just showed up at their house, they would not let them in

    Now they are claiming that a 9-0 ruling in the Supreme Court stating that they can not disappear people and summarily deport them was instead saying that they have every right to do exactly that and now that a floating I idea of doing to same to citizens.

    One more page in the Felon47 constitutional crisis playbook .

  • Facts vs Donny facts

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Just like 2017 we are now in a world of alternative realities, what really happened and what the blowhard narcissist tells us.

    We could talk all day about the ‘assassination’ attempt where his ear magically regenerated leaving no trace. But that’s a nursery rhyme for another day.

    He came into office, screaming about how bad the trade with Mexico and Canada are and how poorly the trade agreement was written. Neglecting to mention that the US MCA was his trade agreement that was written in 2018 because he thought that NAFTA that was signed by Bill Clinton was a terrible trade deal. But now his deal is the worst deal that had ever been negotiated by any president in history. I guess he forgot that he’s the one that negotiated it in the first place.

    Now he’s crying about Iran’s nuclear program and how that they’re very close to having nuclear weapons capability. He neglected to tell us or we forget that under Barack Obama. We had a nuclear arms deal with Iran that they would not enrich uranium in order to create weapons but again because the black guy did it Trump hated that deal and destroyed that agreement with Iran allowing them to put their nuclear program back in full swing. Now it’s a problem because Donald created the problem seven years ago.

    What problem did he create in the past? It will come up again that he will ignore or blame on someone else. Only time will tell.