I thought that the story behind the ship full of fertilizer and the dock warehouse that exploded was pretty well documented in that case (though I suppose, the fire could still have been triggered or exacerbated by sabotage, which might be what hy’s asking). Pretty reasonable to suspect but idk if there’s any evidence of it
just be glad it’s still (political)
god forbid men have hobbies
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My understanding is that desantis at one point cracked down too hard on migrants, either successfully kicking them out or simply scaring them off to work elsewhere, resulting in Florida farms being unable to find enough cheap labor to harvest a lot of their fruit crops that year. This isn’t stated to be in response to that but it seems like the obvious subtext
The state GOP wants to grandstand and fearmonger about immigration but they don’t want to actually get rid of the people harvesting the crops, just make their conditions as deplorable as possible. Idk if DeSantis is just dumb or a true believer or what.
if there’s a better explanation I’m all ears tho
nah that only works on cops
NYPD would have a mass havana syndrome and everyone else would be fine
“possibility”. uh huh. sure.
but as a thought experiment, if he did somehow eliminate federal income tax for that many people (and presumably financed it by some combination of printing money, shutting down major federal programs like medicaid, etc)… Would he just be god emperor for life in the minds of like 70% of americans? I guess the high would wear off pretty quick and its not a trick you can pull twice, but idk, it feels like it might win some people over. maybe enough to overcome the “but the constitution” pleas of the libs (not that it takes much he’s already almost there)
of course if he did it by making everything cost double which seems to be what he’s proposing then I feel like people wouldn’t react positively besides the usual rubes