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Florida's Republican governor said he would seek to abolish the departments of Education, Commerce and Energy, as well as the IRS.

"If Congress will work with me on doing that, we'll be able to reduce the size and scope of government," he added. "If Congress won't go that far, I'm going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life."

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[–] jerome@kbin.social 138 points 1 year ago (7 children)

DeSantis is telling everyone that he's going to destroy the United States, and you're all just sitting there.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not gonna vote for him. He's not even a candidate yet. What should I be doing?

[–] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago

Laughing at Desantis’ ignorance or crying because republican voters are just as ignorant and eat that shit up.

Or my favorite… alternating between the two

[–] BurnTheRight@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Training and prepping. Historically, there's only been one way to stop fascist conservatism, and it's not something we are allowed to talk openly about until we're doing it.

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[–] 3425asdfqwer4@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Making sure that all of the subhuman republicans around you are as uncomfortable as humanly possible. They live among us and far too many people tolerate them.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not much can be done as of yet. The election season will really kick off in January, and short of hiring a hit squad, marching around with signs and getting screamed at/assaulted by rednecks doesn't really seem too effective. What would you propose?

[–] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Do the Florida sewer and septic sucking service workers have a union? Might be able to convince them to use their, ah “waste” from yet another school’s clogged septic tanks to, uh “fertilize” desantis’ yard.

[–] sendingmath@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

we are not just sitting here, we're posting it to kbin!

[–] Bucket_of_Truth@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's polling worse than fucking RFK jr, he stands no chance. YoUr'Re AlL JuSt SiTtInG tHeRe! We're more than a year away from the general election, which he will never make it to because there are months of primaries before where Trump will assuredly win.

[–] borkcorkedforks@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Relax, we're doing a sit in.

[–] Cinner@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love comments like this for the blatant lack of self-awareness that you're doing exactly what everyone else is.

While somehow finding a way to feel like you're better than.

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[–] st3ph3n@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago

Fuck this fascist turd.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Wow. Commerce runs the weather satellites and Energy oversee nukes. Good luck with that.

[–] herzberd@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

reminds me of reagan wanting to give DoE the axe until he figured out they have the nukes lol

[–] HotDogFingies@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

I hate that man

[–] PhoenixRising@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Rick Perry too. Then Trump made him the secretary of energy, lol.

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[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)

"If Congress won't go that far, I'm going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life."

He keep saying shit like this and just once I would like him to explain HOW. WHAT POLICY? What, Ron, will you do that will "push back against leftism"? Tell me what you plan to enact.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

HOW. WHAT POLICY? What, Ron, will you do that will "push back against leftism"?

Being mean to trans and gay people. That's the policy.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

But that's my point. I want him to say that. I want him to explain his actual policy in uncoded terms.

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

"Throw dem gays into the nuklear reactor"

Ron DeSantis probably

[–] exohuman@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget black people. He was busy scrubbing away black history in Florida.

[–] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The government having money to operate is A WOKE LIBERAL AGENDA!!!

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[–] Liontigerwings@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Irs. Married filing jointly is only available for male female couples.

Education is an easy one because we already saw what he wants to do with floridas system. Basically erase history and ban books.

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I have a guess he also wants to copy Hungary's education system, which is not only barely functioning due to a total lack of replenishment of retired teachers, but also horribly whitewash Hungarian history.

Think the "states rights" thing was bad? Get ready to the "we never did X, yet we got punished for it" method of teaching history.

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[–] hiyaaaaa23@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im too tired to give a witty comeback.

DeSantis is a fascist bitch

[–] assclapcalamity@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

same. boring af. heard about some weird business. anti books is what i heard. Sorry, i am pro books.

[–] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I’m definitely pro library. Public libraries are awesome.

Ours has a living- seed bank of heirloom veggies, 3d printers, they do community events- including a Mongolian acrobatic circus (Friday-),sewing/quilting stuff. Oh and they have a lot of books … and that’s just off the top of my head.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Ron DeSantis is a fascist.

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OMFG what a fucking bozo. So what he's proposing (among other very dumb things...literally) is an energy infrastructure like Texas. That'll go over real well.

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Texas would try to convince the average resident that 95 degrees in your house IS room temperature if they could get away with it.

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[–] 13zero@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s worse than that. The DoE’s main job is overseeing nuclear materials (not just nuclear power plants, but the entire nuclear weapon stockpile).

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[–] Simplyvelo@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do I wish for a sane republicans or not. Doesn’t matter because one doesn’t seem to exist.

[–] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Never thought I’d miss McCain. At least he paid attention to reasoned arguments and tried a few himself.

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[–] demvoter@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

This guy is flailing, lmao.

[–] gentleman@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@kuontom During Rick Perry's short-lived presidential run, he said he wanted to eliminate 3 agencies but then forgot which ones they were. This is on the same level of stupidity

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was about to comment this as well. On top of that, I believe the Dept of Energy was one of the agencies he wanted to abolish and then ... Trump appointed him Sec of Energy! Womp womp

[–] gentleman@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

@HandsHurtLoL Yes that is right. Perry was appointed to DOE, the agency he wanted to abolish. Tillerson was installed at State so that he could dismantle it, which he did. All part of the Bannon "burn it down" theory of Government

@kuontom

[–] kuontom@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's trying to out Trump Trump. You could say he's trumping Trump. All in hopes he can steal away enough wacko votes to win.

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Ron DeKlantis, not even hiding how much of a fascist fuck he is

though considering many of those agencies aid in politicians' ill-gotten wealth, that isnt going to go far

[–] assclapcalamity@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this anti-IRS position is not going away. my mom hates the IRS and feels victimized, (because she hasn't figured out her taxes)

The IRS owes my mom and most broke people a simple accounting,

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's too bad the Republicans keep voting to take away the IRS budget to allow them to pay your mom. Oh well, Republicans are essentially telling her and people that are owed money to go fuck themselves.

[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Or taking lobbying money from companies like HR Block to prevent changes to how taxes are done - ie, like a lot of the rest of the world where they send you a "does this look right?" report and you tick yes or no.

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[–] goryramsy@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He... does know what the IRS is, right? The way the federal government gets money. What, is he going to expect the treasury to print more money?

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[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But why? What's wrong with the department of energy? We'd no longer be able to subsidize energy creation, we'd literally be paying 20x more for power for no reason. And these power agencies would have no reason to operate power grids or maintain them. The bill would default back to the US, because no one could afford electricity anymore.

And what's with the threat? How does someone weaponize the IRS against wokeness? How?! Is an IRS agent going to throw an excel spreadsheet at me if I wear a rainbow? What a moron thing to say.

[–] Liontigerwings@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Eliminate tax benefits for non male/female couples. He didn’t say that, but that would be a way.

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