Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naacp-travel-advisory-florida-says-state-hostile-to-black-americans/

Remember the good old days when there were only travel advisories and or ban for, what some would call, third word countries? Well now because of the vile vitriol of one Governor Ron DeSantis the state of Florida, a vacation destination, has received a travel advisory by the NAACP.

The wannabe future President has made the climate so venomous in Florida the anyone who is a part of any minority group does not feel safe in the state. Black, Brown, LGTBQ+, these are all groups that are under attack in the Sunshine State. The majority Republican legislature and their fearful leader has passed laws that make almost everything a jailable offence and the fact that the state has very loose gun laws and a stand your ground law makes it more dangerous than being a blonde female in central America.

Florida residents are able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The law, which goes into effect on July 1, means that anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida can carry a concealed gun in public without any training or background check. This with their ridiculous stand your ground law, ‘Florida’s “Stand-Your-Ground” law was passed in 2005. The law allows those who feel a reasonable threat of death or bodily injury to “meet force with force” rather than retreat. Similar “Castle Doctrine” laws assert that a person does not need to retreat if their home is attacked.’ Makes it really sketchy to go there.

This in top of the don’t say gay rule and the new trans ruling that just passed.

“Florida lawmakers have no shame. This discriminatory bill is extraordinarily desperate and extreme in a year full of extreme, discriminatory legislation. It is a cruel effort to stigmatize, marginalize and erase the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender youth. Let me be clear: gender-affirming care saves lives. Every mainstream American medical and mental health organization – representing millions of providers in the United States – call for age-appropriate, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people.

“These politicians have no place inserting themselves in conversations between doctors, parents, and transgender youth about gender-affirming care. And at the same time that Florida lawmakers crow about protecting parental rights they make an extra-constitutional attempt to strip parents of – you guessed it! – their parental rights. The Human Rights Campaign strongly condemns this bill and will continue to fight for LGBTQ+ youth and their families who deserve better from their elected leaders.”

This law makes it possible for anyone to just accuse someone of gender affirming care to have their child taken from them this would include someone traveling from out of state. This alone justifies a travel ban to the Magic Kingdom for families.

Oh, and I haven’t even mentioned DeSantis holy war with Disney, the largest employer in the state. I really hope the Mouse eats this ass holes lunch.

Well that’s enough bitching, thanks again for suffering though my rant.

  • Photos by Michelle

  • Not what the founders envisioned

    Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

    The nation seems to be at the mercy of at least 6 members of the Supreme Court that can not make decisions of any worth. We would get better results from a monkey that learned how to smoke cigars through its ass. Over the years we have heard the what does if mean comments reference improprieties and we have heard people interview for a position on the court that stood proudly there under oath and lied like hell.
    We need to clean the house and get rid of the fools wherever they are in the system. All the talk of Presidential Immunity and how if it is not all encompassing then the President is nothing more than a figurehead with no power. Crimes are crimes and not all of the governments of the world view them in the same way.
    If it were not for immunity and a desire not to kill thousands more soldiers Truman would probably not use the atomic bomb. If it was not for immunity and the view other nations gave credit for it, Trump could have been arrested and tried in the world court for kidnapping when he ordered the children be taken from their parents on the border. He was in Europe and it would have been possible for that to happen.
    Those things were not viewed favorably by everyone, but they were done with supposed good intentions for the national good. Overthrowing the election was an effort for personal gain and had nothing to do with the good of the nation, it was also paid for with campaign funds so it was a personal effort with the aid of some very misinformed people. Some of those that showed up may not have known that they were in fact breaking laws, but there was no excuse for the acts. Others knew what they were about and did it anyway and all are being treated as if they were aware and some of the poor little dears feel so violated because of it. Had no problem beating a policeman but now that they are having to pay the piper it just isn’t fair.
    To the members of the highest court in the land, you are there and you were put there because your reputation gave you an edge over others that would have liked to be on that court. Your names will be in the history books of the future and what will they say? Will you be known as the Justices that stopped a mad man in his tracks to become a dictator or will you be known as traitors to your nation for the sake of that dictator? Your legacy will give your future family members a reason to separate themselves from you from shame or glory in your light because of pride. Your decision but if you give in to Trump and he does not win your fates are sealed because those of us that believe that Justice Matters will most likely require your tenure to end and perhaps your freedom to be taken away, your choice, choose carefully.

  • Since I was 18

    Do you vote in political elections?

    Voting isn’t just your right, it’s a responsibility as a citizen, I may not agree with your position but I believe in your right to have it.

    I don’t agree with the antiquated electoral college system which obscures the will of the people but if you don’t vote there is not chance that we collectively can change it.

    Completely agree with the sentiment that if you refuse to vote then you have no grounds to complain about what happens.

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  • In the end only listed Achievements not Duties

    Thomas Jefferson Wrote His Own Epitaph and Didn’t Mention Being President

    Before his death, Thomas Jefferson outlined a few specific instructions for his burial; for instance, he wanted the obelisk to be made of coarse stone. Always the writer, Jefferson also crafted his own epitaph highlighting the achievements for which he hoped to be remembered, and, as he put it, “not a word more.” It reads: “Here was buried / Thomas Jefferson / Author of the Declaration of American Independence / of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom / & Father of the University of Virginia.” 

    Strangely, nowhere on this epitaph does Jefferson state that he was President of an entire nation; he also fails to mention that he served as governor of Virginia, secretary of state, and Vice President. It’s possible that Jefferson was more proud of his intellectual contributions than the moments he held power. In 1883, Jefferson’s descendants donated the original gravestone to the University of Missouri — a campus designed in a similar fashion to Jefferson’s University of Virginia and the first university in the region acquired by the Louisiana Purchase. Today, a new gravestone marks the founding father’s final resting place, but the epitaph remains the same — still omitting Jefferson’s time as the nation’s chief executive.

  • Gougeflation/Greedflation

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    It’s Not Just Inflation — It’s Price Gouging

    Corporations across industries, from housing to groceries and used cars, are juicing their profit margins even as the cost of doing business goes down. And they’re not hiding the ball.

    For example, the Coca-Cola Company increased the price of its products by 11 percent over the course of 2022. The company’s chief executive said at the time that Coca-Cola had “earned the right” to hike prices for consumers. Coca-Cola’s rival, PepsiCo Inc., also significantly increased prices.

    Please stop blaming the current administration for the prices. Biden and the current White House cannot control gas prices anymore than any other administration did. It’s all a matter of supply and demand and corporate greed and the supply is actually through the moon right now, but corporate greed is keeping the price is high.

    President Biden is taking on corporate price gouging by banning hidden junk fees and calling on corporations to pass the savings from their reduced costs onto consumers. This is something the administration can do. Kroger raising grocery prices, Exxon increasing gas prices are things that are under corporate control and unfair to consumers but because we don’t live under an Authoritarian government can’t be regulated by the federal government. Maybe they should be but that isn’t the system we have.

  • Debt

    What gives you direction in life?

    Unfortunately, here in America, the main thing that gives us direction is the fact that we like to live indoors and the debts never end.

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  • Bumper Sticker

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Saw a bumper sticker this morning. (100% Not Liberal)

    My first thought was bold claim, I wanted to pull the person over and ask them, so you’re against

    Free Speach

    The concept of Innocent till proven Guilty.

    Having the right for legal counsel

    Property Ownership

    The list could go on and on… these are all liberal positions.

    I am with JFK.

  • It recently changed…

    Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

    This was one I have lived by…

    But this appears to be more appropriate.

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  • Tuesday Thought

  • Meh

    What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

    With the over commercialization of all of our holidays,  I am at the really don’t care about holidays at all this point in my life. It’s just another day. 

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