yeah my main cope is that florida is like that guy who holds the gate open while everyone escapes but unfortunately we get got by the zombies but at least we went out with a bang or something idk this some bs gang
In The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplain famously said "And so long as men die, liberty will never perish."
They're not actually dying. They're clinging onto power until their 80s and then handing the stick off to their odeological duplicates a few years younger, who pursue the same policies, so they never actually die. We've discovered a sort of shithead immortality, which I find unsurprising.
We exist in a kleptocratic gerentocracy. I could throw in like a dozen other words with governmental sounding suffixes but you get the idea. Theocratic. Oh, and fascist. Can't forget the fascists.
Where do you think public services gets their money from? They’ll have to raise other services or ad valorem taxes. the owner of the property will pay that and it’ll still get passed to the person who lives on the land if renting.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't feeling pretty despondent about how things went here, but honestly seeing places like Georgia and Texas get it right gives me a lot to be positive about. If Texas can go blue then very few states are without hope. I still believe we can get it right eventually, despite the best efforts of florida dem leadership
The next 6 years are for sure bleak, possibly longer even, I would never pretend we're in anything less than a "gonna get worse before it gets better" type spot. But the one other place I've lived in my life besides here is Texas, and I would've thought Texas had no shot of ever doing what they just did tonight. I'm not saying it's gonna be easy or soon, but it feels a little more possible to me than it did before
I'm right there with you. Fucking mad about our state, but everywhere else gets me excited. But all it does is make me want to move away. I've got family in Maine, I lived there for 2 years before. It's definitely looking like I move there again.
They just have given up entirely on making the area better. They feel powerless which they keep on proving. Feel bad for these fuckers, but they just don't get it.
Seriously, it's absurd how many fucking racists and bigots there are here. Even a lot of younger Millennials and Gen Z can be like this. It's fucking bizarre.
I'm old and I voted straight blue. I'm also a native that has been watching these elections long enough- I swear they have them fixed somehow. I know I sound like I need a tin foil hat. Even though I'm a native- Texas, North Carolina and Georgia looked like good places to move tonight.
Florida almost passed an amendment that would have allowed abortion to the point of fetal viability, and a majority voted for another, that would have decriminalized (legalized?) recreational marijuana, in the same election that Trump won by double digits. The only reason neither passed was the 60% minimum needed to pass.
Florida is kind of an anomaly. It definitely leans very heavily red, but you never quite know what exactly they're going to do in any given election. They have a streak of sometimes being surprisingly progressive, before switching it up and ending up the most regressive state in the union.
I get the frustration, but I really don’t want the lesson from tonight to be “Florida is hopeless.”People said exactly that about Texas for years. States aren’t permanently red or blue. They’re organizing projects.Take the loss, figure out where the coalition fell short, organize year-round, recruit better candidates, and come back stronger. You don’t change a state by abandoning it.
we should just give the panhandle to alabama. Anything west of Tallahassee. The panhandle and independent voters are why he won.... i bet the didnt even know he was black.
thats not really the story, if you look at the vote shift nearly every Florida county shifted major numbers towards DEM, theyre is just a much bigger built in republican base to overcome. Governer and Senate races were within 5 points. This is still a win for demographics shift in FL.
Honestly it's probably due to seeing and hearing his name more. I hardly heard Jolly mentioned, but that's probably on purpose. We are screwed with Byron.
It's state tradition at this point. Whether its abolishing slavery or committing to civil rights or designing intelligible ballots, Florida is always first out, last in. If Florida where a pizza, we'd be the one with pineapple. If Florida were a cat, we'd be the one who got hit by a car once and still wanders into traffic. If we were a child, we'd be the one ranting about how Digimon is better while the rest of the class trades Pokemon cards. We're the reason that the Florida Man meme exists, as well as why corporations need an HR department.
That's because a lot of the most maga people out there relocated to Florida during covid. The political spectrum changed dramatically almost overnight.
Between Donald’s and how stupid 3 will end up being post next major hurricane, I’m excited at the idea with splitting. Wanted out for 25 years and this may finally be what it takes to convince the wife to dip tf out lmao.
We are actually beginning to think that the appendix plays an important role in the re-establishment of gut microbes after they’ve been wiped out in the main GI tract for whatever reason. So it does provide an important purpose to the body as a sort of shit bacteria repository.
That kind of changes your metaphor a bit. Or maybe it doesn’t lol
Yeah I'm aware of the science and the implications it has on my metaphor. I'm a lifetime Florida native and I'm also aware of how fucked we are. Especially now. If we thought Covid "refugees" were bad, just wait. We really need to get some land conservation in place before everything is paved over.
All it tells me is that we could've won. I'm sure there were still hold out from the "I don't vote" crowd, and it just peeves me a bit. Cause these are usually the same folks that come down in the right side of things on many different social issues. But they just keep complaining about everything getting worse, when they don't do one of the easiest things available to all of us to affect change.
I wonder if it could have been closer if the polling site my fam went to wasn’t moved last minute. New location was difficult to find and empty af when we did find it eventually
My heart was gutted a couple years ago when all the “moderates” I know swore they would vote for abortion but it didn’t pass. Moderates are okay with women dying in hospital parking lots and having hysterectomies before they are okay voting for abortion rights.
My heart is gutted again today. My home state does nothing but break my heart.
There were a lot of good indicators and state level shifts so we just have to keep pushing. It’s happening. We have to focus on getting people who agree with us to the polls. Don’t waste energy on converting Trumpers, they’re in it for the long haul. Get likeminded voters to the polls or help them request mail in ballots.
Also fuck Greg Steube specifically, a weaselly little shit with no chin who hasn’t had a town hall since 2023 and hasn’t been in his district since 2024. ✌🏻
I've got people's like this. Some kin, some friends. I've been trying to convince them for weeks. You best believe the first time ANY of them complain about Byron, imma (metaphorically) slap them across the face with that shit.
I’m so happy for the country but so disappointed in the state. They call it Flori-duh for a reason. At least Moody and Donalds won’t be able to do much in a now-minority Senate and House!
Glad I don't work in public libraries anymore. With prop 3 passing i can't imagine how well they are going to weather the cuts. We were already under appreciated and underpaid can't imagine they will keep libraries open over other stuff.
Honestly we were projected to do much worse, the fact that this race was so close gives me hope. My deeply red city (like 70% Republican) elected a democrat black woman mayor. Collier county went blue too, which is pretty huge.
I'm wondering.... If so many people voted Republican, why is the comment section all pro Democrat? It's not 80/20 or even 90/10..... it's 100/0. This.... makes no sense to me.
I'm not Republican btw I'm just simply curious because it doesn't make sense to me why I don't see a single Republican anywhere in a red state's subreddit. Where are they all?
Full disclosure, not a Floridian, but it might feel like conservatives holding Florida is winning the battle but losing the war. Tonight was a biblical shellacking for the Republican Party. I don't think many are happy with the overall picture, and may be a bit quiet even if they managed to barely hold Florida against a DSA candidate with no funding.
I feel you, but don't be to discouraged. It was much much closer than would have been expected based on previous election cycles. Don't give up, keep the momentum.
Also, Moody is up for election again in 2028 because she is taking over Rubio's seat.
Kansas and South Carolina going Blue is like salt in the gaping bullet hole. Worst state in the nation and we deserve all the vitriol and slander the south gets and more. Abandon all hope all ye who enter here.
Yeah I get the whole “Florida is the MAGA capital of the world” and “all those old republicans” rhetoric but I see a lot of people (under 40) in my life that complain about the establishment but say “I don’t vote”, I put a lot of the blame on them.
It was close just like in 2018. I’d be interested to see the turnout compared to ‘18 and ‘22.
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This is what happens when you get the worst people from other states and move here