A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. – Ursula K. Le Guin
DeSantis Gala
Red Hat Ladies Night Suspected drag queens read books. He arrests them all.
Bachelor Auction @ The Villages
MAGA Fund Raiser Old broads not to be denied And then shots rang out.
True story. I had a dream about this exact thing – a MAGA shindig with bunting and shit at The Villages where I am both the emcee and the featured bachelor of the evening. Lean, full head of hair, most of my teeth.
There’s a spotlight on me and I feel like a piece of meat, a Circle-K wiener slowly grilling under the lecherous stares of leathered retirees, completely clad in Jimmy Buffet meets Jerry Garcia. Weirdly effective camouflage in this dream.
I dream in color.
A big ass blue parrot lands on my shoulder, now tender from the spotlight and the stares, so I decide to get up and visit the bathroom, take a piss and get back into bed without opening my eyes or even really waking up and
Crap. Return to the dream, I am tied up in the back of a candy-apple souped-up Pepto-Bismal pink golf cart driven by three heavily-armed, identical bleached blondes who look exactly like Aileen Wournos.
So, I am thinking, well, whatever happens, it’s gonna be real exciting.
Whatever happens.
Like freakin’ every day in real waking life.
Am I right or am I right?
In other please-tell-me-you're-kidding news, UberHerr DeSantis wants a report to the State of schoolchildren's menstrual cycles.
HE IS one kinky guy.
But that was last week.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis took his media-bashing to a new level during a roundtable discussion Tuesday, as he floated the idea of legislation that could make it easier for people to sue news organizations for defamation.
“They come after me—and they do do a lot of slander—but I fight back. I have a platform to fight back … I got thick skin,” said DeSantis. “But you have some of these other folks who are just run-of-the-mill citizens, their only possible way of recourse would be to be able to bring an action [in court].”
DeSantis called on Florida legislators to “protect” Floridians without detailing any specific legislation, Politico reports. “In Florida, we want to stand up for the little guy against these massive media conglomerates,” DeSantis said.
“There needs to be an ability for people to defend themselves not through government regulation or restriction, but through being able to seek private right of action,” DeSantis added.
The Republican governor, seated at a cable-news style desk, appeared almost like a comic book villain with a screen behind him displaying the word “TRUTH” layered over a spinning globe. Others on the panel included lawyers who litigate libel cases, conservative activists, and libertarian journalists, who along with DeSantis “implied that private citizens are often the victims of inaccurate reporting,” the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Despite DeSantis’ suggestion that everyday citizens are unable to successfully sue news organizations for publishing false information, “the legal bar is lower for private citizens than public officials,” according to the Times.
Because Nobody Feels Safer Than When Ronald DeSantis Is Looking Out For Him.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/ron-desantis-defamation
Last summer, six days after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Tampa prosecutor Andrew Warren, one of the governor’s top aides drafted a public records request seeking copies of emails from Warren’s time as state attorney for the 13th Circuit.
DeSantis Communications Director Taryn Fenske sent the proposed request to a writer at a newly launched, conservative news website — who then submitted it to the State Attorney’s Office in his own name.
It was, records show, just the beginning of a collaboration between the DeSantis administration and “The Florida Standard,” which would go on to publish a story alleging that Warren may have misused taxpayer resources — a story that DeSantis staffers then promoted to others as if it were an independent piece of journalism.