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  AP Wire, Dec. 2023: Governor DeSantis in attempt to gain points with national Republicans has declared he will allow the open hunting of LGBTQ+ citizens if elected president.  With the Supreme Court giving guns a "right to life" two months ago, pundits expect it will be allowed to stand.
context: Though DeSantis hasn’t officially announced that he’ll challenge Trump for the GOP nomination, he has captured the heart of many Republicans who want a more polished version of Trump’s gleeful denigration of minorities
  
  So the gop just wants a shinier turd >
  
  For some voters, they'll vote for anything if it's shiny enough. >
  
  And turdy enough. >
  
  They should all move to /r/poopisland. >
  
  Every time I think the Republicans have hit moral and ethical rock-bottom, they open a trap door. >
  
  Know how you can tell Trump is scared of a primary against DeSantis? Compare his reactions.
  When Nikki Haley signaled she'd run (despite promising not to run against Trump): She feels she has to do this and I wish her well.
  When DeSantis hints he'd run: I MADE HIM AND I CAN DESTROY HIM! >
  
  I've been hoping for open warfare between Trump and the 'mainstream' GOP since 2015. >
  
  Trump is mainstream GOP now. >
  
  Hence the quotation marks. >
  
  There is no bottom with them. >
  
  I don’t understand why any Republican would vote for either of these idiots. The only reason to do so is to own the libs. Beyond that, what are these guys doing to make life better and easier for the country?? >
  
  For the country? Nothing. For bigots who want to be more open about it and hurt as many people as possible? A lot. >
  
  They have a long, long way to go before they sink as low as their voters. >
  
  Consider both of them are actively ruling up their base to be worse people, I’d say they’ve both already sunk below the bulk of their voters. >
  
  Can we not start 2024 yet? We barely recovered from the midterms less than a few months ago. >
  
  Race to the bottom?  Start and Finish lines are in same place now.  They've been at the bottom for some time now. >
  
  Everything I think they have reached the bottom,  they break out the shovels. >
  
  They figure if they dig deep enough they’ll find hitler’s ashes and the rest of the nazis >
  
  Their digging has already turned up plenty of Nazis. I don’t think we need any more. >
  
  They were at the bottom… now they have to redefine what the bottom is. >
  
  That race is going on forty years now. Where ‘ya been? >
  
  they're already calling for the extermination of transgender people...