Bianca Arlette
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽We must prevent, at all costs, the presence of an authoritarian wannabe in the White House. There are two men in Florida who currently want that position and that power. Either would be a disaster for America.
Ateriath@georgetakei and one already was.
Smerks1109@georgetakei Hope the country is paying attention. #DeBANtis would be a disaster.
Sarah Peper 🏳️⚧️🇺🇦@georgetakei I feel at this point my only hope is that they'll damage each other badly enough that neither can win.
It's a slim hope, tho
Grinning Cat 
If the leopards ALL eat each other's faces, and put themselves out of our misery... GOOD!
Kelly McCubbin@georgetakei
Absolutely agreed. DeSantis seems to be flexing his authoritarian muscles right now to see just how far he can take this.
Absolutely agreed. DeSantis seems to be flexing his authoritarian muscles right now to see just how far he can take this.
NoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️🌈@georgetakei
DeSantis is a Fascist Thug & Scott is a Corporate Thief Fascist.
Either want an authoritarian Gilead.
Be warned; stay alert!
Tan_Hana_Dharma_Mangrwa@georgetakei I have to agree with you. Too bad Christians in America are mostly brainwashed with Christian Nationalism doctrines that they forgot to love and chose to hate instead.
NeveranR@georgetakei Let’s not forget about the other idiots in FLOR-I-DUH that have their sites on the Resoulte Desk, one more dangerous than the other two, “Mr. I’ll take the fifth 75 times”, Sen. Rick Scott and Matty Gaetz who would do anything to ride the coattails of any of the three to a VP posotion.
mav 
@georgetakei if we want to prevent this, at absolute minimum, the Dems are going to need a VERY charismatic candidate and will want to start talking them up right away.
Clock's ticking and the economy isn't getting any better.
🛒 ᗰYᑕᗩᖇT 🛒I’d rather vote a Horta into office than either of those two.
Coqui Negra@georgetakei how do we do it, Mr. George?
Half the voting population seems hell bent on it and figuring out how to suppress the votes of the rest of us.
I want to fight, but how?
Half the voting population seems hell bent on it and figuring out how to suppress the votes of the rest of us.
I want to fight, but how?
Steve@georgetakei
You have to fight the Socialist moniker, the Dem Party has and show direct, immediate toughness on crime. They will take Trump over Socialism everyday....
You have to fight the Socialist moniker, the Dem Party has and show direct, immediate toughness on crime. They will take Trump over Socialism everyday....
Pensive™️@Steve690 @georgetakei
Wrong party there Steve. The authoritarian cop suck ups are in the Fascist party.
Wrong party there Steve. The authoritarian cop suck ups are in the Fascist party.
DressToKILT@Steve690 @georgetakei it's amazing how the right has made Americans more afraid of what every other modern democracy has than they are of actual genocide.
ZZ Bottom
K@georgetakei Are these the precursors to a worse outcome?
Douglas Phillips Books@georgetakei anyone interested in throwing Florida out altogether? Then if they want back in they have to pass a civics test.
@dpscifi @georgetakei we should have some empathy for the people who are living under a proto-fascist regime. The majority living there did not vote for this.
@DressToKILT @georgetakei they just reelected the guy, 3 months ago. It wasn't even close, DeSantis won 60% of the vote. They know who he is, and they like him.
@dpscifi @georgetakei pretty easy to do since he got to choose his voters. Saddam Hussain won 100%, do you think those were legitimate as well?
@DressToKILT @georgetakei there is no evidence of large scale voter fraud anywhere in the US. That's the big lie Trump has been pushing for years. It's simply not true.
@dpscifi @georgetakei there's a vast difference between the "large-scale voter fraud" narrative pushed by Trump and the gross manipulation of elections done under the color of law, like purging voter rolls and making it increasingly difficult for some people to vote.
@DressToKILT @georgetakei voter suppression in Florida is absolutely real, but I've searched for evidence that it gave DeSantis a false victory and found none. Most reports attribute the DeSantis victory to turnout (like the link below). Turnout was higher for Rs than Ds. You could say Ds were intimidated, but unless all the news reporters are biased, I'm not even seeing cases of that. To win, Ds need to do better getting young people and Hispanics to vote.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2022/11/09/republicans-dominate-florida-elections-democrat-turnout-low/
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2022/11/09/republicans-dominate-florida-elections-democrat-turnout-low/
@dpscifi @georgetakei That is... shockingly naive and takes the 2022 election in a complete vacuum. He won by 0.4% in 2018 to get into office - do you really believe that the purge of thousands upon thousands of likely Dem voters didn't sway that?
Democrats (as usual) responded to a fascist by nominating an actual Republican. His overwhelming victory in 2022 was because he was an incumbent who just had to get through two primaries.
@dpscifi @georgetakei In every election Democrats seem to reinforce their long-held belief that centrism wins. 2016: "Oh we lost! I guess our candidate wasn't centrist enough!" 2020: "We won because we ran the most centrist candidate we could find!"
Florida 2022: "We ran an actual Republican and got blown out of the water by a guy who literally ran on a campaign of genocide. GUESS WE BETTER RUN TO THE RIGHT!"
@DressToKILT @georgetakei agreed, centrists are the wrong answer. Voter registration and turnout are the right answers. In Florida, Rs are winning both.
@dpscifi @georgetakei And the more entrenched they get, the more they strip away voting rights. It's a death spiral that guarantees them a permanent majority while they claim to be paragons of democracy.
Democrats, on the other hand, couldn't wrangle the good Senator from Coal Industry to protect voting rights, and still they worship at the altar of centrism.
Literally Spider-man@georgetakei this includes the democrats
bazkie bumpercar | unfluencer@georgetakei I hope they can destroy each other and take the GOP with them
PlutoC@georgetakei The Florida Gov is performing just like a dictator - making top-down changes to liberties, education and state government conform to his designs and preferences. Elements of fascism and authoritarian have been here for decades.
Fitness Foundry (Coach Julio)@georgetakei Too bad we have an authoritarian in there now, but he and the marionette puppet masters will be history soon.
01/20/2025
01/20/2025
@georgetakei maybe a good idea to separate Florida from the US, then?
RinostarGames@georgetakei All Republicans are disasters for America. If any Republican wins any election, it is a disaster. As a traitor once said about a group of terrorists, "they hate our freedoms."
Hejhog@georgetakei 3 men actually, Bolsonaro has taken up residence in Florida, too.
Eric LawtonThe scope of the disaster would be much wider than "America".
@georgetakei Joe Biden wants the US to be a signatory to a #WHO treaty that would give the WHO control of pandemic response in the event of a pandemic in all member countries. He is trying to get this enacted without Senate approval.
#who #wha #pandemic #authoritarian #joebiden #treaty #01202025 #marionette
#who #wha #pandemic #authoritarian #joebiden #treaty #01202025 #marionette
@georgetakei we should probably nominate someone other than Joe Biden then
Wade Wainio@georgetakei Society can only be defended by appealing to our better selves, and that issomething neither of them can do. I would not want to have to choose between one or the other, either. They are both abysmal.
BTPowered@georgetakei indeed. Hello.
Port City Studios
alter ego
QuoteMe
James Burton@georgetakei the wannabe is already there...
David Lewishave been...and will make things far worse
Sam Hardly@georgetakei
Douglas Adams, of course, knows best:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2416-the-major-problem-mdash-one-of-the-major-problems-for-there-are
Douglas Adams, of course, knows best:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2416-the-major-problem-mdash-one-of-the-major-problems-for-there-are
Agora@georgetakei we need to think carefully about who runs in 2024!
OtownKim
KingOfHearts@georgetakei One is a once and future disaster
@georgetakei
Why what’s wrong with desantis? I know nothing about him?just asking sorry
Why what’s wrong with desantis? I know nothing about him?just asking sorry
@georgetakei
Umm I agree with you , however I think democrats really need to come up with some new blood ! I really liked Tulsi Gabbard, I don’t understand why she wasn’t given a chance?
Umm I agree with you , however I think democrats really need to come up with some new blood ! I really liked Tulsi Gabbard, I don’t understand why she wasn’t given a chance?
SearingTruth"History records that we are all forsaken together."
SearingTruth
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey
Charlie 🏳️⚧️@georgetakei mayhaps either would damage America beyond recognition. One of them was already President and did so much damage, and we’ve yet to pick up the pieces from that.
Iris Richardson Fine Art 🇩🇪🇺🇸📷@georgetakei In order to prevent this we need to listen to the young voters and stop ignoring them. Now more than ever they need student debt release and a world that actually supports them. Dems can't rely on the same old same old. Young voters are too smart to drink the punch and Dems need them.
bxl...and everyone else. #trumpcrimefamly and #magafascists have GOT TO GO
StrawberrySys 🍓 (they/them)@georgetakei Jesus was a rebel who came at a time when there was a perceived moral decadence in Rome. He helped save the people from these Pharisees. We need true Christians to save us from these Pharisees of the Protestants!
Faisal Hossain