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  Anyone who think Ron DeSantis care about anything but Ron DeSantis is a fool
context: Florida is one of them. Childless adults in the Sunshine State can’t get Medicaid unless they fall into a special eligibility category, like having a disability. And even adults with kids have a hard time getting onto the program because the standard income guidelines are so low ― about 30% of the poverty line, which last year worked out to less than $7,000 for a family of three. That’s not enough to cover rent, food and other essentials, let alone buy a health insurance policy.
  
  I knew it was bad but not that bad. Holy fuck. >
  
  Florida is one of 11 states that refuse to expand Medicaid for the working poor (Obamacare).  Yup - all of those people vote against their own self interest.  Fucking morons >
  
  Florida is becoming a Mecca for the right. They think it's the way America should be. >
  
  
  Florida is becoming a Me a for the right.
  
  And yet, we continue to FUND DeSantis’ agenda by vacationing in Florida.  
  Remove a chunk of tourist dollars from their economy, and you hold DeSantis’ feet to the fire.  Nothing else will work. >
  
  florida is in full on fascism.  going on vacation there would be like going to germany in 1935. >
  
  Keep everyone angry, ignorant, poor, and desperate. Sounds like everything is going according to plan. >
  
  That will never work. Keep them happy with bread and circuses. Bread and circuses is a general term, it doesn't mean literal bread or circuses. It means anything that keeps the people happy.
  A lot of times politicians keep the people happy by giving them a racial minority to feel superior to. You can see that in other recently posted stories like Florida book burning / Fahrenheit 451 (targeted books have the subject of diversity and inclusion), or the proposed rule that public universities in FL have to teach a certain Western history class / cannot teach minority history. >
  
  DeSantis wants Floridians to stay “asleep” even if it means forever. >
  
  This is doublespeak, right? Like, being awake is better than being asleep, yet being woke is supposedly a bad thing. >
  
  Florida man loses heath care after voting for DeSantis. >
  
  Rubelican plan is working.  Helping their voters die. >
  
  b..but i was told Florida man is immortal! he certainly acts like he do be. who deceived this regional hero!?!?! >
  
  One of the reasons I moved away from Florida after a decade. Health care was stupidly hard to get as a poor person. They've made it really hard on low income people there. >
  
  It's not 'hard' it is that it doesn't exist.
  Florida is one of 11 states that STILL refuse to expand Medicaid for the working poor.  But good thing those people vote for Republicans to 'own the libs'.
  Never met a bigger group of idiots who vote against their own self interest >
  
  I never voted for Republicans when I lived there. Unfortunately, the bigger issue I saw in Florida was many low income people were so preoccupied with the difficulty of life that they simply do not vote. Those voter ID laws partly seem to cultivate a culture of not voting amongst the poor. A lot of the people who are old and retired which makes up a huge chunk of their population are the ones voting for these assholes. I mean I imagine there are some poor people voting against their interest there as in every state but frankly the ones I met simply didn't vote at all. >
  
  
  Those voter ID laws partly seem to cultivate a culture of not voting amongst the poor
  
  It has zero to do with voter ID laws.  There are a dozen different forms of ID.  Yet to meet a single person who doesn't have some form of ID that would work at the voting booth.  You also have 2 weeks to vote, including two weekends.   
  
  A lot of the people who are old and retired which makes up a huge chunk of their population are the ones voting for these assholes.
  
  They make up a 'large chunk' because they are way way over-represented because the under 40 crowd can't be bothered to find a voting booth 
  Actual Demographics of Registered Florida Voters  
  
  Under 30 -18.3% of the registered voters - 11% voted in 2022
  30-40 were a whopping 13% of the electorate - about 5pts off
  45-64  32% of the registered voters, but 37% of the vote. 
  64 and up - 23 % of the registered voters but 32% of the vote.  
  
  Guess which group Crist needed.
  
  I mean I imagine there are some poor people voting against their interest there as in every state but frankly the ones I met simply didn't vote at all.
  
  The poor, white, vote overwhelmingly for DeSantis and for all Republicans.  It is why we have an entire State House of Republicans.  Crist didn't just lose - he got trounced in almost every demographic.  It was brutal >
  
  It's not just voter laws my guy, it's access to voting. you notice how elections aren't a holiday, and they always seem to fall during business hours? A lot easier for the 45+ crowd to get time off of work when they are retired or have enough clout to tell the boss they'll be in a little late. Oh, and these people also tend to have more time to get an ID, or for that matter are less likely to have less stable living situations and can easily prove residency. I myself have been disenfranchised in Ohio because my current living situation and P.O. Box vs. Physical address woes and proving residency. >
  
  There is also a lack of education about voting. As a poll worker I often have to tell young voters differences between registering to vote vs change of address. To be fair in my state it is confusing (perhaps deliberately) because the change of address mentions voting but doe not actually update voter registration. Things like voting locations are confusing (ours requires a specific polling place, unless you are dropping a  mail ballot). Forms of ID are also confusing. Seniors can use expired IDs while those under a certain age cannot. Small things but it trips people up. >
  
  All by design I reckon >
  
  Yes lots of states have that - but Florida has been the butt of jokes too many times.  The one thing we have actually made easier and more available is voting.  If you see someone in line in Florida on voting day realize they had 2 weeks to vote prior to that day.  
  Voldemort (aka former Gov. Scott now Senator) tried to roll that back and got egg on his face when Florida fucked up an election again.  They put it back to the 10-14 day standard with requirement of 2 weekends.  
  Florida other items to make it more difficult have also been shut down by the courts (voting on college campuses etc).  
  If you vote early there is not 'polling location' to confuse you.  You are eligible to vote anywhere in your county.   Here in our county (and lots of neighboring counties) the public libraries are turned into polling locations for early voting.  It takes 5 minutes >
  
  As long as he gets to deny healthcare to transgender kids, he doesn't give a shit what happens with anyone else's. >
  
  Isn't that part of the point of culture wars? To distract people from the realization that they're being taken for a ride? >
  
  Losing health care to own the libs. >
  
  When the state Surgeon General doesn't believe in medicine, you know what to expect >
  
  Precisely why DeSantis appointed him (Ladapo.) DeSantis needs compliant lackeys who aren’t too smart so he can dictate health policy himself, tell teachers what to teach, etc. >
  
  A reminder that Florida is the state that sent Rep. Alan Grayson to the US Congress. 
  
  If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. That's right. The Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick. >
  
  Which is so stupid and shortsighted. If they die they can’t keep spending money to buy things, because they’ll be dead. >
  
  That’s why they made abortion illegal. >
  
  Not unexpected in a State governed with scientific ignorance, and religious bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and racism. >
  
  And their Homeowners Insurance.... >
  
  The point is to cause pain to everyone who is not a rich, white, Christian male. The more pain, the better. That's who his base is, that's what the people of Florida want, at least the majority of them. The infliction of pain against people who are not like them.
  The culture and morals of the whole state will have to change to correct course.  I don't see it happening within my lifetime. >
  
  And housing insurance >
  
  Don't expect anything good to come from DeSantis and the GOP.
  DeSantis is worthless as is the GOP led FL legislature. They passed a massive voter suppression law, gifted massive tax giveaways to corporations, authorized the mowing down of protestors, stopped trans kids from participating in school sports, put a ban on schools teaching “critical race theory” (history that might hurt white kids' feelings), don't say gay, teachers without degrees and something about being woke.
  This year is shaping up to be an even more vicious session, with the legislature in the process of enacting a further abortion bans and doubling down on its attack on teachers.
  They play to some people's prejudices because they know 👇
  "You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic."
  Robert A. Heinlein >
  
  How else is he going to pay for the tax cuts that virtually all went to very wealthy people?!
  Sheesh... 
  ^^/s
  ... 
  Meanwhile. >
  
  For those that call DeSantis more competent than Trump: the man has shown little inclination to use his smarts for anything but grabbing power and punishing his perceived enemies. If anything, he has proven even less interested than Trump to actually govern in a meaningful way and more dangerous and corrupt >
  
  That’s by design. >
  
  
  There’s no way to be sure how an issue will play out in the next election ― or whether it will even matter at all. But it’s not hard to imagine the contrast on health care working to the Democrats’ advantage. The Affordable Care Act is relatively popular these days, and Medicaid expansion tends to poll well even among Republican voters. 
  
  I really hope it makes a difference during the next electoral cycle >
  
  One wonders how this helps him in 2024, but if 2016 and 2020 were any indication, some voters literally do not care if something hurts them as long as it hurts their perceived enemies. >
  
  As long as the gays, blacks, liberals, Jews, Muslims, and immigrants are suffering more than they are…that is what counts. >
  
  THIS
  Can't upvote this enough.  
  Wish the press would cover this as hard as the culture wars.
  Add in how our school test scores cratered and it is impossible to home insurance they might start actually giving a picture of how 'great' DeSantis governs. >
  
  Watch my left hand while I rob you with my right! >
  
  That’s the point. get his ignorant supports all worked up on culture war issues so they can gut education,healthcare, any sort of social benefits under the radar and under the guise of fighting wokeness >
  
  Do floridians care tho? Because it appears they don’t. They keep voting for dumbasses, and keep getting shit on. Must be something in the water down there that makes shit taste good. >
  
  Culture wars are always a smoke screen for something even worse! >
  
  They’ll figure it out sooner or later.  You get what you vote for!  Good Luck Florida! >
  
  Culture wars are all Republicans have. >
  
  Floridians want this they vote for that guy and will vote for him again and again if they are not dead before next election >
  
  Yes they love living under a dictatorship >
  
  Well, they get what they vote for. >
  
  they'll just blame Biden and vote republican anyways, Its how its done >
  
  DeSantis is a fucking chode. >
  
  Leave Florida. You’ve been warned. >
  
  DeSantis and Florida = let them die stupid. >
  
  This is what Florida wants and at this point its hard to feel sorry for it. >
  
  Thanks, but we are a population of 22 Million people and the best candidate the Democrats could offer was a guy who use to be the Republican governor, flipped independent, the flipped Democrat and already lost the Senate race to Rubio in 2010 (like to thank the fucking moron Democrat Meek who refused to drop out of that race...)
  The Democrats run shitty campaigns here.  Every other word out of there mouth should have been insurance.  By the time they actually do run TV ads, DeSantis has been doing them for a year.  And , oh yah, they can't be fucking bothered to put them in Spanish 
  The entire Democrat party in Florida should be fired. >
  
  Yes along with the entire Republican Party of Florida.  Fire both parties and start over. >
  
  And that's before any LGBTQ issues hit the fan... >
  
  Woke means alive. Ronnie wants you dead. >
  
  You know what Florida, go ahead and sink into the ocean. Your whole swampy ass state. I hope the last thought you have as you dip into the sea is “that woman better have a vagina if she’s in there taking a piss”…. >
  
  It's not just health care....  Property tax is rampant, home insurance is thought the roof almost triple from 3 years ago if you can even get a policy, auto insurance almost doubled, rent for a 1 bedroom is 2k for any major city, if you can find a place not falling apart or rat infested.  
  I wish Southern Blue Florida could separate from middle and northern GOPRed Florida. >
  
  That’s exactly the plan.
  Cause distractions and rob the poor we’ll getting rich. 
  He is doing exactly what he wants and no one will fucking stop him. >
  
  I really don't get Ron's strategy. He's already revered by the R. He's lurching into white nationalism but why? It's certainly not a move that will gain supporters either in the state or nationally. And the book banning stuff is showing horrifying images of empty classroom bookshelves; to whom does that appeal to? >
  
  And their home insurance