Category COVID-19
To win Florida in 2022 Democrats must stay on message- Authoritarianism/corruption and COVID are the ONLY issues that matter.
Florida Democrats face an uphill fight in 2022 to win statewide elections. Every single year, Florida becomes more Republican due to demographic shifts. While throughout the 2015-2018 period many Democrats tried to claim the state was becoming more Democratic due to the influx of Latinos, in fact as the state has gotten less white it […]
Lincoln Project anti-DeSantis ad
The Lincoln Project, made up of prominent ex-GOPers have turned attention from former President Donald Trump to Governor Ron DeSantis. It’s about time in my eyes that focused shifted from a wannabe authoritarian in Trump to a real one in DeSantis. The Lincoln Project has been accused by many of grifting but personally, if someone […]
Tourism tumbling as DeSantis COVID gamble blows up spectacularly
Governor Ron DeSantis’ dogmatic approach to COVID-19 has led Florida to the brink. As the state reaches an untenable position in terms of hospitalizations, procurement of resources and other matters due to the pandemic, the Governor continues to act as if the one true victim of COVID-19 is him – having seen his gaudy approval […]
Governor DeSantis unprecedented attack on the Associated Press opens a dangerous new front for increasingly unhinged Florida Governor
In just over a quarter century around Florida government and politics, I have never seen anything like Governor DeSantis Monday letter to the Associated Press (full letter is at the bottom of this article). So unprecedented and so childishly immature, yet irrationally dangerous it defies anything that came before it. The letter furthers my view […]
The rebellion against Governor DeSantis is growing and other COVID-19 news
Governor Ron DeSantis and Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran’s gambit that they could intimidate and bully local officials across the state into backing off masks in school has failed miserably. Leon County Superintendent of Schools Rocky Hanna had been the first official in the state to back down under pressure in the form of intimidating […]
“The Drag Effect”: Dragging and Discourse in the Digital Age
Editors note: Earlier this week, The Florida Squeeze ran a post on DeSantis and Regeneron. We linked to several tweets about potential donations impacting DeSantis advocacy of the treatment , but the story was more focused on the angle that The Governor was mimicking Mike Lindell’s cheap TV pitches. However, we did mention the potential […]
The great masking debate just one small element of Florida’s emerging failed-state evolution
Friday was yet another crazy day in Florida’s failing war against COVID and descent into a failed state where the Governor acts as an authoritarian yet allows anarchy to reign in localities all in the name of “freedom.” Here’s what happened in case you missed it. The Florida Board of Education gave Alachua and Broward […]
Did the State Board of Education’s Kangaroo Court embolden other school districts to defy DeSantis mask order?
Tuesday’s performative art-driven Kangaroo Court Board of Education emergency meeting resolved to crush any rebellion against Governor DeSantis’ July Executive Order banning mask mandates in schools. The meeting as we discussed previously on this site was a three-hour demonstration of bullying, misogyny and autocracy. Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran whose hard-edged autocratic style made him […]
The Florida Board of Education’s three hours of misogyny and demagoguery should awaken the masses to the creeping autocracy we live in (but it probably won’t)
Tuesday afternoon, The Florida Board of Education met in an “emergency meeting” called by Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran. The subject discussed: The temerity of two local school districts (Alachua and Broward) to listen to the parents, children, teachers and staff they represent and impose a mask mandate. Corcoran has taken center stage in the […]
Why is the Governor acting as a cheap pitchman for an antibody treatment (that may not be effective against the Delta variant)?
Governor DeSantis has not spoken once in the last several days publicly (to our knowledge, of course many of Governor’s events aren’t announced to the media so who knows about private get-together’s for right-wing activists) about vaccines and he has continued his war on masking, using preemption and extra-constitutional means to stop local governments, School […]
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