The Florida GOP is just comically fascist.
A bill proposed this week by a Republican state senator in Florida would require bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), his Cabinet officers and members of the Florida legislature to register with the state. Bloggers who receive compensation for a given online post about an elected state officer would have to register with…
@Popehat Among the reasons this is stupid is plain, simple government waste.
If only there were, I don’t know, some kind of system for searching for posts mentioning an individual or group of individuals. Some kind of engine one could use to run searches like that automatically.
N’ah, too hard, let’s put a burden on the public, like typical Democrats… uh, Republicans apparently.
They don't give a crap about government waste when they do it. They will absolutely ignore all their so-called principles if it gets them more power. #GOPbetrayedAmerica
SCOTUS will find a way to make the Dem state's laws illegal while letting DeSantis force everyone in America to call him "your majesty" under threat of being hanged.
@Popehat
I link this to earlier testing-the-waters/gaslighting behavior really utilized to full capacity by Trump. It goes like this:
Trump says or does something vile and despicable.
if (Not a Big Pushback) then
"Of course I'm serious"
else
"It was a joke. Don't get hysterical"
MAGA Republican traitors will continue to say and do extreme things and they're gauging how much support they can actually get. Because if Jan6 taught us anything, it's that to our -- and probably even their -- surprise, there is an illiberal, fascist movement on the right, provided cover and supported by Fox propaganda, and comprising a broad swath of sitting members of the senate and house who are willing to use their positions to legitimize lies and conspiracy theories in a broad effort to overthrow a lawful, democratic election.
We talk about the brave few who held the line and defended democracy, but what about the many who tried, and are still trying, to support a coup.
It's the legislative version of a Gish Gallop; they're trying to pass so much stuff that it isn't economical or possible to challenge everything effectively.
@shayneoneill @Whako @Popehat Is it though, they are not stopping them from saying anything, they just have to register if they get payment for saying it.
However Russian much, I really think the USA have an issue with Russian influence.
Registration schemes are neither new, nor have they *ever* been considered acceptable under the first ammendment. The first ammendments really clear and unambigous in that regard.
And its pretty savage what is counted. If you want to write a pamphlet or blog about how great Al Quaida is, your free to do it, as long as you dont go including instructions , or the reasonably limited list of things courts do excempt from the first ammendment (ie violations of national secrets, contact addresses for spooky terror camps etc) your free to get pretty damn seditious [see pretty much all the cases around the communist party and the various ham fisted attempts govts made during the cold war to ban them], and theres not a damn thing the govt can do to stop you.
And writing mean things about the govenor? Yeah "registration" schemes are not gonna fly.
@CardboardRobot @Popehat
It was never comical.
The cartoon villainy was always to keep us from taking them seriously. Remember that TV show buffoon w the silly hair and 3rd grade vocabulary?
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