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Insantity in FL continues as DeSantis continues to hire incompetent judges.
So not smart enough for an abortion but capable of being a parent. Make it make sense. >

-“Addressing her ‘overall intelligence’ … the court found her intelligence to be less than average—
And then denied her an abortion. There’s no making sense of that. It’s just the BS he came up with on the spot to support his political agenda. I wish congress would have ratified women’s rights while they still had the chance before partisan hack judges like this could impose their will >

Most important to note that DeSantis, a leading candidate for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, decided to reward this asshole. DeSantis is a nightmare who should not be allowed anywhere near the White House. >

Yet because he is a little smarter at showing his true intentions than Trump he is probably gonna end up their front runner or somehow the unholy couple of being trumps running mate or Trump be his. But idk if either of their egos will allow for that >

Still holding out hope they rip the gop apart in their ego fueled shit throwing contest that will be the primaries. >

Doubtful. The republican base falls in line when it's election time. 
After trumps embarassing NFT scam it's looking very likely that DeSantis is the 2024 GOP national candidate >

I'm hoping Trunp loses the nomination and gets butt hurt enough to run as an independent. >

I've heard that theory floated around a lot but Republicans don't need Trump anymore. He's pushing 80 years old, flooded with legal issues, and has trouble finding people still willing to work with him. And fox News doesn't need him either. They are basically the Ron DeSantis network now
Republicans don't need Trump when they have DeSantis, the new and improved model who is younger, more calculated, and most of his tweets are press releases of what he's actually doing. Even if it's dumb it's what he promised his base. 
If Trump ran independent, desantis would bury him by "needling" him about vaccines, which were extremely unpopular with trumps base, yet Trump always brags about operation warp speed. However, I don't think Trump will run independent, it'd be a lot more work than running as a republican, plus fox News no longer has his back the way they once did >

Republicans need something besides DeSantis. He is about as toxic as Trump is. No moderate is going to vote for him and his social agenda is literally disgusting.
People don't understand just how corrupt Florida is and just how much of that DeSantis inherited and expanded upon. >

Floridians know; there's a reason that DeSantis both denied the will of the voters to allow felons to vote, AND gerrymandered our districts HARDER THAN THE GOP DID.
Don't believe all the bots on reddit; Florida is not wholely in love with DeSantis. >

If she got good grades I bet the judge would still say no and say her good grades indicate she would make a great mother >

No no, her good grades would mean that she should have known better. Being a mother is for punishment for having sex >

The precisest bingo of the day >

“Smith also went on to question the teenager’s “emotional development and stability, and ability to accept responsibility”.“
The judge agrees, birth is punishment, screw what happens to the kid or the mother she “needs to learn responsibility”
Stop playing games with peoples lives >

I had the pleasure of voting this asshole out of his last position on the county court only for him to get a promotion to an appellate court. Just great. >

A disturbing amount of politicians failed upward. Granted that list includes the greatest President in US history, but still. >

Serious question even if the answer may not be, but who? >

Ironically I thought he might be talking about Theodore Roosevelt. They tried kneecapping him by making him VP and his president was assassinated. I personally consider him one of the most OP presidents of all time. >

You'd be OP too if you got shot and gave a fucking speech afterward. That man could have fought a bear and won. >

Who says he didn’t? >


Who says he didn’t?

I do. I say that. Teddy Roosevelt did not fight a fucking bear and win. It was two bears. >

Oh oh oh!! I stand corrected. It was the third bear that was rumored. >

He became the 3rd bear. Ever heard of a Teddy Bear? >


“Addressing her ‘overall intelligence’ … the court found her intelligence to be less than average because ‘[w]hile she claimed that her grades were ‘Bs’ during her testimony, her GPA is currently 2.0. Clearly, a ‘B’ average would not equate to a 2.0 GPA,’” he said in his ruling.
Smith also went on to question the teenager’s “emotional development and stability, and ability to accept responsibility”.
“This court has long recognized that the trial court’s findings … may support a determination that the minor did not prove that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy,” he wrote.

So, she is a 17 year old C student, with questionable stability and emotional development, and the court said she wasn't sufficiently mature enough to make a decision on abortion. However, the judge thinks none of these things are necessary to having a child and raising it. 
FFS get me off this timeline. >

i wonder if she was a B student before the pregnancy and COURT APPEAL? >

A horrible home life can really wreck your gpa no matter how smart or gifted you are. >

Florida sounds like a great place to have a learning disability. >

Florida sounds like they’re going to be swimming in orphans in no time >

All the easier for these Republicans to procure sex and traffic them. >

Matt Gaetz enters the chat >

So he’s a piece of shit? >

Shit is useful for something. >

Fertilizer! They both can be fertilizer 😈 >

I wouldn't eat anything grown with DeSantis >

So much for small government. Now they want to be involved with grades for abortion. >

"You worked very hard this year little Suzie and brought your Math and English up to a B, unfortunately, you still have a D in Spanish so your going to have to have Matt Gaetz's baby and I know you were really excited for middle school too..." >

Judges in FLA are elected.  The voters threw Jared Smith out and elected someone else.  The news here is that DeSantis appointed Smith to the newly established sixth district court of appeal to get around the expressed wishes of the voters.  He's a petty little man >

He's Evil incarnate. >

Ron needs to just leave the country and never ever come back. >

We will never get that lucky. Trump and his pack of brats is still here. >

People keep saying, don't worry when the general public really gets to know him they aren't going to like him. I don't agree at all, I think they love how downright evil he can be. There is a large part of the right that just wants to hurt people. >

As an 80s kid there is so much I thought we would be beyond. The naivete of youth and the audacity of hope. DeSantis is actually a year younger than I am. I've noticed that the late gen xers went in two directions either complete rejection of their parents religion, or complete embracing. No middle ground. 
DeSantis seems like the kind of guy that would wear a Rage Against the Machine shirt, not caring or understanding that he's the fucking problem. >

It’s like when that dummy Paul Ryan said Rage was his favorite band. >

Not unexpected for this breathing sack of shit >

You know what helps you study harder to get better grades? Being a teen mother.
Professors hate this one trick… >

Because if you’re not responsible enough to even get good grades, you’re clearly ready for a kid. >

Let me guess, she got an F in “caring for a bag of flour”. >


Smith also went on to question the teenager’s “emotional development and stability, and ability to accept responsibility”.

She was mature enough to recognize she wasn’t ready for the complexities of motherhood. >

denied abortion to girl over W H A T ? >

Let’s not gloss over that this judge was voted out in the election, but DeSantis decide to appoint him to a higher court anyway. DeSantis is a menace and if he gets into the White House it will be a very bad time for America. >

The American school system is very effective at laundering privileged into merit >

I'm stealing that line. Beautiful and succinct. >

Sounds like every Bible thumper's wet dream >

How can anybody be okay with this guy as a leader? He just seems anti-decency. >

That'll teach her do to better, force her to mother a child AND go to school.  Nothing says quality education like being sleeping deprived while raising and caring for an infant and on up in ages. >

Oh you're of below average intelligence? We need you to breed. Your kids will make the perfect Republicans! >

DeSantis=Trump=Toxic asf >

Worse; he actually knows what he’s doing >

God I hate this talking point.
Trump does know what he's doing.  He's a scumbag.  He's narcissistic. He's probably a psychopathy. But he is not delusional. And his behavior is successful.
Judging it from the biased perspective of already dealing with his bullshit gives a slanted view.  Sure, he's no longer in the white house.  Sure, he's up for a potential trial.  But from an absolute standpoint?  The fucker arranged for a military coup, sold state secrets to foreign actors, took endless bribes, defrauded the American people en masses, and on and on, and he's still not in jail!  If you personally did one tenth of the illegal shit that Trump has done, how long do you think it would be before you got locked up?
Trump knows exactly what the fuck he is doing. >


Trump knows exactly what the fuck he is doing.

If that was the case then he could have easily remained as the president for a 2nd time by simply doing nothing and let the experts control the Covid crisis, but no... he had to go and fuck that up as well and shoot himself in the foot at the very same time.

And his behavior is successful.

So very successful that he became the only twice impeached president and was a single term president that couldn't win a 2nd term despite have the golden opportunity to do so but he fucked everything up... Yeah that's so incredible successful
The only thing he's good at is grifting and dragging out court cases via appeal after appeal till the other side cannot afford to continue or gives up in disgust at the time waster >


So very successful that he became the only twice impeached president and was a single term president that couldn't win a 2nd term despite have the golden opportunity to do so but he fucked everything up... Yeah that's so incredible successful

You're suffering from that biased perspective again.  You're arguing that Trump has failed because he didn't get a second presidential term. In reality, the fact that a person best known for reality television, repeated failures of his businesses, and a history of not paying his bills was able to become president and grift hundreds of millions of dollars is pretty strong evidence of his competency.  
Or, put another way... you're assuming that 'success' is being the president.  For Trump, success is making a ton of money and staying out of jail. (If you look at the last six years with the assumption that Trump ran with the goal of collecting donations but not actually winning, everything makes a lot more sense.) >

You’re making the mistake of assuming that cunning equals intelligence. By any objective standard, Trump is stupid. Period. His particular brand of narcissism severely impacts his ability to learn, so he is unlikely to get any smarter, and since he lacks empathy, his manipulation skills are underdeveloped, at best.
Narcissists tend to figure out a few things that work relatively early on and use those tactics repeatedly throughout their life. They don’t really understand why those tricks work (again, lack of empathy), but they know that when they hit that shiny red button, they get what they want. When it doesn’t work, all they know how to do is hit it again, but harder. Which is why Trump has gotten louder and more strident, and his cabinet appointees’ tenures have gotten shorter, as the population has gotten more sick of his shit. Throwing tantrums always worked before, so he’s throwing the biggest tantrumof his life now.
It wasn’t intelligence that shielded him before; it was wealth. Our society so venerates wealth that Trump has been playing on Godmode his entire life and still lost. He bankrupted a casino. His inherited wealth is gone, and he’s reduced to begging for scraps from poor people and hostile powers. His method of avoiding lawsuits cor years was to throw lawyers at the problem (and then not pay them). Hilariously, lawyers have gotten smart enough to demand payment up front just as Trump is too broke to pay them, so even that Shiny Red Button doesn’t work anymore.
It’s not underestimating him to call him stupid; if anything, it’s the only accurate way to predict his next moves. He’s a liar, a cheat, a fraud, supremely self-absorbed, vindictive, volatile, small-minded and utterly amoral, but he’s not smart. If anything, being stupid makes him more dangerous, not less. >

The teen asked for the court to waive the parental consent required to get an abortion and the judge denied her request because he cited that he felt her intelligence was "below average".
So basically he said that she was too dumb to get an abortion...not too dumb to be a mother, but too dumb to get an abortion.
We are truly living in the worst timeline. >

You know what really doesn’t help your grades? Having to take care of a baby you didn’t want. >

I just don't see the logic. She's too dumb to have an abortion?? What does that even mean? And if she's too unintelligent for an abortion then how can she even raise another human? >

I think DeSantis is one of the biggest fascist assholes in an elected office right now in this country. 
And I am generally worried if he wins the GOP primary in 2024 a lot of voters will fail to recognize that.
But the fact he is making moves like this is wierdly comforting? Like Florida sucks and is going to keep sucking for while. Sorry to people living there. 
But at least these politics generally look bad on the national stage and will hopefully bite him in the ass and block his dipshit polices from escaping that state. >

It's so bad. I need to get out of here. >

I love how the logic of this judge is "well, she's got a 2.0 GPA so she's not mature enough to decide to get an abortion, but she is mature enough to raise the kid" >

"Sorry, honey, you have to become a mom at 14 because you got a B- in math."
-The State of Florida- >

Mike Lindell is fixin' to make DeSantis' life hell!  And I love it! >

He is? I’m interested >

Such awfulness you just shake your fucking head. >

Not at all an honorable ending, but this apparently is how the United States of America chooses to to die. The world watches. >

“Your grades aren’t up to my standard, I think what would help you with that is for you to also have to care for a child.” 
What is wrong with this person? >

If you're smart you can have an abortion, if you're dumb you can't. Somebody saw "Idiocracy" and they want it to come true. >

The court was asked to rule whether she was of sufficient maturity to waive a parental authorization requiment for minors. 
The law was phrased in an akward way so the judge used her grades and finances to address her maturity. His decision does not make him look less like a jerk than OPs title. 
However, an appeal court (the level he got promoted to) overruled him, allowing the abortion. >

The US morality police using forced parenthood as punishment once again >

Im convinced that the GOP wants babies so they can traffic them. >

DeStantis showing what he thinks thinks of people's choices and freedom overall. >

Why the fuck would a judge be deciding this
What the actual fuck >

“She’s dumb and immature, let’s make her have an unwanted child. Then we can blame her again when she’s unable to take care of the child, the  blame the child when it grows up and has its own difficulties.” >

Love these Moral Police, can’t wait to look like a Christian version of Iran! >

God damn it Floriduhh, please untuck yourselves >

How is that person still a judge???
Wtf is wrong with some people? >

Cruelty is - and has always been - the point for the GOP. >

Every election matters, even down to the local school board. Not just presidential ones. >

Can we just remove Florida? Start over? >

America’s on a speed run to Gilead >

Waiting for the “A’s get abortions and B’s get babies” act to be passed in Florida during the 2023 legislature >

Republicans continue to prove Karma isn't real, and if God is real he's an evil God. >

Wait so they purposely force the dumber kids to suffer through a kid? As if life isn’t hard enough on morons already… >

Too stupid and immature for an abortion, but definitely mature and intelligent enough to handle having a child at 17. That’s some 7-D chess logic right there. >

Man, back in my day if you got good grades  all you got was a pizza party >

Oh Floriduh, you keep us entertained.... >

DeSantis just looks evil. Like, when I look at him, I dunno, I just get a bad feeling in my gut. >

Hey, back in my day, if you got good grades all you got was a pizza party. No big deal." >

DeSantis appointing loyalists before he runs for president. >

"cruelty is the point" ~ GOP >

When I heard DeSantis presided over Guantanamo Bay, it all made sense to me.
I was just like, oooooh. DeSantis is a sadist. Now I get it. That fills in a lot of blanks actually. >

All my homies fucking hate Right Wingers >

Home schooled judge who doesn't know how evolution works >

It's fascinating to note that 60 or so years ago that same reasoning to the same group of people would have justified forced sterilization.
Seems like if they can't get their way in one direction they'll go all the way in the other. It's just punishment. >

Both of these asshats can get fucked.  Like seriously… >

That's right folks, GPA is now important for medical care. Hope y'all got good grades or enjoy dying of treatable diseases! >

DeSatan is about the scariest thing to come out of the rightwing Republicans. God help the nation if he becomes President and the Republicans take both Houses. >

This dude's whole purpose in government is to just be an insufferable dick.
And people cheer him on for it. >

Makes sense.  Stupid parents typically have stupid kids.  So more GOP voters. >

I keep looking at things like this and wonder when the rest of the country is just going to crack. 
This kind of things can't go on, and yet it does. >

Yea, a teen failing school would totally get better grades after having a kid. They can study during the notably frequent breaks you get while caring for an infant...(/s obvs)