We Lost the Battle for the Republican Party’s Soul Long Ago

[Shirley]

...in this week's edition of, "Republican Profiles In Courage"

The way Trump has revealed the cowardice of republicans like Pence, "Little Marco", "Lyin' Ted", "Broken Old Crow" Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham, etc., etc., while perhaps politically shrewd, is/has been not only stunning but frightening to watch.

[Shirley]

Today In: The "Small government", "Let business be business", "Don't pick winners and losers", republican party!

DeSantis administration revokes Hyatt Regency Miami alcohol license after it hosted 'A Drag Queen Christmas'

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Today In: The "Small government", "Let business be business", "Don't pick winners and losers", republican party!

DeSantis administration revokes Hyatt Regency Miami alcohol license after it hosted 'A Drag Queen Christmas'

Ron DeSantis and his state of Florida are a perfect example/representation of why 2023 America (and our country's future) is fucked.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-neo-nazi ... 02166.html

[DCHawk1]

Today In: The "Small government", "Let business be business", "Don't pick winners and losers", republican party!

DeSantis administration revokes Hyatt Regency Miami alcohol license after it hosted 'A Drag Queen Christmas'

LOL

[zsn]

Today In: The "Small government", "Let business be business", "Don't pick winners and losers", republican party!

DeSantis administration revokes Hyatt Regency Miami alcohol license after it hosted 'A Drag Queen Christmas'

Friendly PSA: Remember, this is not culture war.

[MICHHAWK]

florida in the wintertime. if you need to escape the cold. why would you go anywhere else.

[Shirley]

florida in the wintertime. if you need to escape the cold. why would you go anywhere else.

Pythons, Invasive and Hungry, Are Making Their Way North in Florida

Tue, March 14, 2023 MIAMI — So much for all the efforts to slow the proliferation of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades over the last two decades, including with paid contractors, trained volunteers and an annual hunt that has drawn participants from as far as Latvia: The giant snakes have been making their way north, reaching West Palm Beach and Fort Myers and threatening ever-larger stretches of the ecosystem.

...Pythons, like invasive iguanas, have been known to emerge from the occasional South Florida toilet bowl; the review notes that while Burmese pythons have mostly been spotted in and around Everglades National Park and other swamplands, many have also been found in Naples and the western outskirts of Miami.

Once a year, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission holds a python hunt open to the public, challenging people to find and remove as many snakes as they can... Last year’s winner took home $10,000 for hunting down 28 pythons.

Dustin Crum, who has been hunting pythons for a decade, took home $1,500 for capturing the longest snake in the competition, an 11-footer. He won in the same category in 2021 after catching a 15-footer.

“We started out doing this stuff as a hobby and just couldn’t believe we could catch giant constrictors like that in the wild,” said Crum, 42, who now hunts pythons full time. The state pays hunters $50 per foot for the first 4 feet of snake and $25 for each subsequent foot, he said, as well as an hourly rate. Outside of the state-sponsored competition for the public, Crum does use guns to kill the snakes.

...Sometimes, scientists ask to get the pythons alive so that they can be tracked. Hunters like Crum deposit them in designated drop boxes during night hunts and email researchers to come get them in the morning.

...In late 2021, a team from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida found likely the largest Burmese python ever recorded in the state: a 215-pound female with 122 eggs inside her...

Detecting pythons, which like to hide in marshes and thrive in remote habitats, is so challenging that experts do not know how many exist in Florida, though they estimate that there are at least tens of thousands. More than 18,000 have been removed since 2000, including 2,500 in 2022, according to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission...

[KUTradition]

there are more species of invasive reptile in florida than there are native/endemic

[Deleted User 863]

there are more species of invasive reptile in florida than there are native/endemic

That's nuts.

[Overlander]

there are more species of invasive reptile in florida than there are native/endemic

Well, there was one big fat fucking snake that I know of invading Florida

[DCHawk1]

Today In: The "Small government", "Let business be business", "Don't pick winners and losers", republican party!

DeSantis administration revokes Hyatt Regency Miami alcohol license after it hosted 'A Drag Queen Christmas'

Friendly PSA: Remember, this is not culture war.

Friendlier PSA: zsn is dum

[Deleted User 863]

"The department said performers were "wearing sexually suggesting clothing and prosthetic female genitalia," as well as simulating masturbation.....before people younger than 16...."


I'd say pulling their liquor license seems reasonable.

[jfish26]

there are more species of invasive reptile in florida than there are native/endemic

And then there’s the actual snakes.

[japhy]

"The department said performers were "wearing sexually suggesting clothing and prosthetic female genitalia," as well as simulating masturbation.....before people younger than 16...."


I'd say pulling their liquor license seems reasonable.

Was this Kimberly Guilfoyle's bday party?

[Deleted User 863]

"The department said performers were "wearing sexually suggesting clothing and prosthetic female genitalia," as well as simulating masturbation.....before people younger than 16...."


I'd say pulling their liquor license seems reasonable.

Was this Kimberly Guilfoyle's bday party?

[twocoach]

Today In: The "Small government", "Let business be business", "Don't pick winners and losers", republican party!

DeSantis administration revokes Hyatt Regency Miami alcohol license after it hosted 'A Drag Queen Christmas'

Ron DeSantis and his state of Florida are a perfect example/representation of why 2023 America (and our country's future) is fucked.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-neo-nazi ... 02166.html

He's just where we are on the pendulum swing started by Trump. He is Trump but without as much sleazeball baggage. It will swing in a different direction at some point.

[TDub]

Today In: The "Small government", "Let business be business", "Don't pick winners and losers", republican party!

DeSantis administration revokes Hyatt Regency Miami alcohol license after it hosted 'A Drag Queen Christmas'

Ron DeSantis and his state of Florida are a perfect example/representation of why 2023 America (and our country's future) is fucked.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-neo-nazi ... 02166.html

He's just where we are on the pendulum swing started by Trump. He is Trump but without as much sleazeball baggage. It will swing in a different direction at some point.

I dunno....I think DeSantis is as bad as Trump. He's a truly a terrible terrible choice .


I am, once again, going to hate the 2 options come 2024.

[KUTradition]

^^^^

[twocoach]

Ron DeSantis and his state of Florida are a perfect example/representation of why 2023 America (and our country's future) is fucked.

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-neo-nazi ... 02166.html

He's just where we are on the pendulum swing started by Trump. He is Trump but without as much sleazeball baggage. It will swing in a different direction at some point.

I dunno....I think DeSantis is as bad as Trump. He's a truly a terrible terrible choice .


I am, once again, going to hate the 2 options come 2024.

The moral, visual and audible assault on our senses would be worse from Trump but DeSantis seems to me to be more of a threat to do actual harm to our nation as he has the sense to not be such a repulsive pig about what he is trying to do.

[KUTradition]

not sure about the moral part

but, maybe ron’s targeting is just towards different morals

(history of slavery, lgbtq rights, abortion, etc.)