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‘Free to do as you are told’: Florida Republicans advance wave of draconian bills
The Guardian ^ | Jan 31, 2022 | Richard Luscombe

Posted on 01/31/2022 3:35:46 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

It has been a long and painful month in the Florida legislature for opponents of the state’s Trumpist governor Ron DeSantis and his loyal band of rightwing Republicans. A slew of bills has advanced attacking everything from diversity rights, abortion protections and free speech in schools, in addition to a proposal that would legally shield white people from feeling “discomfort” over the state’s racist past.....

The issues that Republicans see as a priority for Florida are red meat to DeSantis’s conservative base. They include the 15-week abortion ban bill, which received a chaotic hearing on Thursday, and moves to give parents more say over classroom curriculum and control of school libraries. In Polk county this week, education officials went from school to school pulling 16 books flagged by a conservative parents’ group as inappropriate, including Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 bestseller The Kite Runner.

They include bills to strengthen the governor’s fierce anti-immigrant stance .....

And two healthcare bills have been introduced in the Republican-dominated Florida legislature that opponents say further vilifies and isolates the LBGTQ community. One, touted as the vulnerable child protection act, would criminalize professionals who provide gender-affirming medical care to minors; the other would allow any medical professional the right to refuse treatment or procedures including gender affirming surgery or abortions on moral grounds.....

The proposal that has caused perhaps the most outrage is the parental rights in education bill, the so-called Don’t Say Gay bill that would prohibit elementary schools from discussing sexuality and gender identity other than in an unspecified “age or developmentally appropriate” settings, and would allow parents to sue.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: agitprop; choice; desantis; dezinformatsiya; fl; florida; gayness; leftmedia; parentsrights; prolife
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Looks to me like the bills echo conservative issues.

Of course, some should not even be issues such as letting children have gender surgery, or teaching them gayness.

1 posted on 01/31/2022 3:35:46 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

Quite a wonderful Agenda that DeSantis and the Pubs are passing. Love it. DeSantis is the man!!!


2 posted on 01/31/2022 3:41:43 AM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor))
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Go Ron !!!

Don and Ron 2024


3 posted on 01/31/2022 3:43:09 AM PST by Baldwin77 (Democrats CANNOT win without violence and/or cheating)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Trumpist governor Ron DeSantis and his loyal band of rightwing Republicans”

Right off the top. Why doesn’t the author just write “I am a biased jerk”

Biden occupation: Day 376


4 posted on 01/31/2022 3:47:38 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“Right off the top. Why doesn’t the author just write “I am a biased jerk””

I thought he essentially did that with the title.


5 posted on 01/31/2022 3:49:49 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The bills must be right over the target.


6 posted on 01/31/2022 3:57:00 AM PST by jmaroneps37
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Correction: “the Governor’s fierce anti-immigrant stance” should read “the Governor’s fierce anti-illegal-immigrant stance”.


7 posted on 01/31/2022 4:01:08 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This POS Richard Luscombe thinks he’s safe in his Bolshevik cocoon. He isn’t.

He has no idea what is headed his way. By this day next year, the world as he knows it will be over, finished, caput.

And then begins the trial, judgement and verdict of his ilk.


8 posted on 01/31/2022 4:03:18 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: flaglady47

That evil desantis and his evil minions destroying their dream, how dare you! ha ha ha ha ha ha


9 posted on 01/31/2022 4:07:53 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Ron DeSantis and his loyal band of rightwing Republicans

I hope that sinks in compared to Donald Trump and his loyal band of DC Republicans. I would hate to see a rerun of Trump 1.

10 posted on 01/31/2022 4:10:59 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The GUARDIAN??? Spit.


11 posted on 01/31/2022 4:12:19 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“the other would allow any medical professional the right to refuse treatment or procedures including gender affirming surgery or abortions on moral grounds.....”

The left wants to force doctors to mutilate children and kill babies - that is the left’s idea of freedom and choice.


12 posted on 01/31/2022 4:21:47 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Ge0ffrey
“the Governor’s fierce anti-illegal-immigrant alien stance”.
13 posted on 01/31/2022 4:35:33 AM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
moves to give parents more say over classroom curriculum and control of school libraries.

What kind of anti-democratic nonsense is this - letting parents have a say over what their kids are taught. What about the rights of fasco-marxists.

14 posted on 01/31/2022 4:44:39 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: where's_the_Outrage?; GrandJediMasterYoda

The author did that when he published in the Guardian, which has been pursuing a worker’s paradise here on earth for it’s entire existence.


15 posted on 01/31/2022 4:46:57 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Baldwin77

desantis for florida governor 2022...

then president 2028...


16 posted on 01/31/2022 4:56:21 AM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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Parents rights over their children's school curriculum? That used to be called the pta. And then america got woke and added and "S".

Reagan was right when addressing the press about a student riot protest at UCLA. " "All of it began the first time some of you who know better…let young people think that they had the right to choose the laws they would obey as long as they were doing it in the name of social protest," he said.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/05/see-how-ronald-reagan-shut-down-violent-uc-berkeley-protesters-in-1969-when-he-was-calif-governor#toggle-gdpr

17 posted on 01/31/2022 5:01:26 AM PST by Ikeon (40 years ago the military had blanket partys, now it's pillow fights)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Overwhelming number of minority Americans favor enforcing firm immigration laws. That is not an anti-immigrant stance. These people have got to stop trying to divide Americans.


18 posted on 01/31/2022 5:06:23 AM PST by Old Coach1
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“...diversity rights, abortion protections and free speech...”

to leftists, terms are always opposite of their true meaning.


19 posted on 01/31/2022 5:09:46 AM PST by SheepWhisperer (My enemy saw me on my knees, head bowed and thought they had won until I rose up and said Amen!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Anything the Guardian attacks must be good!!!@


20 posted on 01/31/2022 5:13:51 AM PST by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATISTS)
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