Fogbow

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:53 pm**

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 1:31 pm How is Rhonda not running up against the First Amendment with his anti-press bills? I know, he’s not Congress but does it apply to him at all?

It should, but in his bill to make it easier to win a defamation case against reporters, part of the purpose of the bill is to create a SCOTUS challenge to the "actual malice" standard public figures must currently meet because of the court's ruling in Sullivan v. NYT. So they're expecting - and very much want - a court challenge so they can rewrite the standard for defamation cases by public figures across the whole country.

The other one, I dunno how they plan to justify that, except maybe to say that they're not requiring bloggers to get permission to write, nor are they fining bloggers if they write something the government doesn't like, they're just requiring them to register. No purpose for the registration is given.

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:56 pm**

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:53 pm The other one, I dunno how they plan to justify that, except maybe to say that they're not requiring bloggers to get permission to write, nor are they fining bloggers if they write something the government doesn't like, they're just requiring them to register. No purpose for the registration is given.

So the jack booted thugs know which doors to kick in?

It isn't like DeSantis doesn't have a history of doing that.

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2023 5:03 pm**

Trying to set up a false equivalence between registering guns and speech. 2nd amendment and 1st amendment

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2023 5:08 pm**

keith wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 5:03 pm Trying to set up a false equivalence between registering guns and speech. 2nd amendment and 1st amendment

I don't remember reading "well regulated" in the 1st Amendment.

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2023 6:58 pm**

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:56 am THIS is why I usually skip this thread, fucking fascists. Savannah is looking better and better.

Dude, if I lived in Florida, Somalia would start looking better.

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2023 7:03 pm**

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:56 pm
Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:53 pm The other one, I dunno how they plan to justify that, except maybe to say that they're not requiring bloggers to get permission to write, nor are they fining bloggers if they write something the government doesn't like, they're just requiring them to register. No purpose for the registration is given.
So the jack booted thugs know which doors to kick in?

It isn't like DeSantis doesn't have a history of doing that.

If it was guns and not bloggers, they'd be going phucking crazy.

Posted: **Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:43 pm**

he's forming his own State militia. True, other States have their own State Militias. but remember, this is Fascist Florida
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/inves ... -military/

Posted: **Fri Mar 10, 2023 7:58 am**

Flatpoint High wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:43 pm he's forming his own State militia. True, other States have their own State Militias. but remember, this is Fascist Florida
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/inves ... -military/

Indeed he is -

The Baffler: The Sunshine Imperium

The militarism of Ron DeSantis

Posted: **Fri Mar 10, 2023 8:31 am**

To protect us from what? Drag queens?

Posted: **Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:01 am**

Off Topic

much ado wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 10:13 pm If you don't know about Balloonfest '86 in Cleveland, Ohio, you should look at this video. There are several other videos on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUWozvJ-Ic0

I remember ballonfest.

I wasn't part of the org. I was involved with Ribfest (also downtown charitable event). They (the elders) wanted me to run for President of the org. That's all cool, until one of the elders got a little too personal. So there ended my involvement with charitable causes in c-town.

But I was not injured by any of those fallen balloons.

Posted: **Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:11 am**

Posted: **Fri Mar 10, 2023 11:57 am**

im glad to see the governor of florida is hard at work for floridians by traveling to iowa to promote his program using florida taxpayer money to transport people in texas to massachussetts

Posted: **Fri Mar 10, 2023 12:27 pm**

What a crock of BS. No, the residents of Martha's Vineyard did not call the Army to have these DeSantis drop-offs "deported" (Army cannot do that). They were provided shelter and food and safe haven by locals.

Posted: **Fri Mar 10, 2023 5:24 pm**

Meanwhile, in the Florida Legislature...

Posted: **Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:50 pm**

Posted: **Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:09 pm**

Posted: **Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:16 pm**

Oh, sure. I do poke fun at friends IN PRIVATE. Sure, that is a sign of like/love and I get it back on the return side. But I don't do that in mixed-company/public. LOL

Posted: **Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:17 pm**

Apparently, DeSantis has now said he does not support the blogger registration bill. I posted this to my blogs last night:

I just learned that during a recent press conference Ron DeSantis commented on the Florida Blogger Registration Bill. According to Business Insider, he said:

“That’s not anything that I’ve ever supported. I don’t support it, I’ve been very clear about what we are doing,” DeSantis said of the bill during a press conference on Tuesday.

The bill has received a lot of press — especially in the blogging community, understandably — and has been widely criticized. One perhaps surprising opponent of the bill is former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich:

Screenshot of a tweet from Newt Gingrich saying: The idea that bloggers criticizing a politician should register with the government is insane. it is an embarrassment that it is a Republican state legislator in Florida who introduced a bill to that effect. He should withdraw it immediately.

Neither DeSantis nor a spokesman gave any indication if his lack of support would result in a veto if the bill passes the legislature.

“As usual, the governor will consider the merits of a bill in final form if and when it passes the legislature,” the spokesman told Insider on Friday

Posted: **Sat Mar 11, 2023 11:58 pm**

This is pretty funny, they took Ronny's "podium" away. MAGAts like Alex are going to be typically nasty all the way down the stretch.

Posted: **Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:14 am**

LOL

BRING THE PODIUM (lectern) BACK!

Posted: **Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:24 am**

right? IDK what Stern's Twitter is, I always got his account confused with a birfer's who was using his name... but somebody please tweet him, he will laugh as our resident podium vs. lectern expert

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:17 am**

Rhonda sightins <== vernacular, not misspelled

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:19 pm**

This is seriously the weirdest thing I've seen today.

The ball speed doesn't even match the throws.

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:10 pm**

There is actually a Twitter account --

OrlyLicious @Orly_licious Mar 12
Replying to @mitchellvii and @alexbruesewitz
It's funny nobody onstage knows it's a lectern, not a podium, that was removed. You stand ON a podium. You stand BEHIND a lectern.

I'm a Lectern @NotPodium
Replying to @Orly_licious @mitchellvii and @alexbruesewitz

Posted: **Mon Mar 13, 2023 6:42 pm**

Dr. Ken wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 1:19 pm This is seriously the weirdest thing I've seen today.

The ball speed doesn't even match the throws.

Softball interview.