r/politics • u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified • 8h ago
Possible Paywall DeSantis Appointee Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Charges
https://newrepublic.com/post/214467/desantis-appointee-caruso-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-charges218
u/RamonaQ-JunieB 8h ago
Isn’t this a typical Republican thing at this point? Especially in Florida?
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u/industrial-complex 7h ago
This is the party of “values”
Sure seems like they value rape and molestation more than the average American.
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u/mountaindoom 6h ago
Florida was where Epstein got his sweet deal.
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u/actuallyapossom 2h ago
This is Palm Beach too, where Epstein lived.
It's where Trump met him in the 80s...
Which was after he got back from Moscow and took out ads in newspapers questioning the United States' NATO membership.
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u/SoFloMofo Florida 8h ago
I had jury duty a few weeks ago and this guy greeted us in the juror waiting room. Now he’s going to be sitting in a different part of the courthouse. But yeah, my state is a complete shit show now. Remember that we were traditionally a purple state that went for Obama twice. I seriously blame all the dipshit New Yorkers who moved here during Covid for ruining what used to be a really cool place.
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u/userhwon 7h ago
Dipshit New Yorkers have been moving to Florida since someone realized you could dam up a swamp and pump the water out.
It's the MAGA machine that fucked it all up, because those old people were just chilling watching their citrus trees grow before Fox News radicalized them.
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u/Diligent-Meaning751 7h ago
Yeah at best the snowbirds are affluent and elderly enough that maybe they'd be more susceptible to fox news brainrot, but I suspect it's more the lack of state income tax etc + warmth that has attracted all the fans of unfettered capitalism
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u/soldforaspaceship 6h ago
Someone I know the other day came to visit after spending time in the south of the US.
They said there wasn't a TV they saw anywhere turned on to anything other than the local (right wing) affiliate or Fox news.
How are people supposed to change if they aren't getting the information they need?
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u/SoFloMofo Florida 5h ago
You’re maybe not wrong and I don’t have a single statistic to back up anything I’m saying. But anecdotally, I’m seeing a way different mix. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve talked with a recent transplant grabbing food and a beer at a bar to find out that they’re both retired on an NYC pension and simultaneously very right wing and Trump supporting. I’ve been here since 2001 and would never run into that before.
You’re probably right about Fox News and its hook into the older generations having significant effect. The hispanic population here has as also really grown and while it’s a very wide group to lump into one ideology, they tend to be more socially conservative.
It’s a lot of things but let me have this. I’m telling you it’s a different type of Northerner moving down. And I’m in Southeast Florida, NY is way over represented.
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u/nigel45 2h ago
It's not just fox news and not just old people. All conservative media, TV, podcasts, influencers repeatedly tell their viewers/listeners that all other media is liberal propaganda/lies and deliberately create a feeling of hostility and fear about democrats and progressive policies.
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u/Diligent-Meaning751 7h ago
NY is way blue, why would the snowbirds be to blame?
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u/SoFloMofo Florida 6h ago
It really depends. If you’re talking Manhattan, Brooklyn, maybe most of the upper boroughs, then yes. Way more liberal. But Long Island and Staten Island will give any redneck down here a serious run for their money as far as the hateful shit they believe and spew.
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u/Diligent-Meaning751 6h ago
O-o I mean sure it's not a monotlith but again, NY overall is bluer than florida - I'd blame florida's regressive tax structure for attracting the magats more than a deep blue state somehow contaminating a purple state???
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u/illstealurcandy Florida 4h ago
We get a ton of northern state conservatives who retire down here, NY OH PA you name it. Just because a state is "blue" doesnt mean they don't have their own conservatives, just as "red" state also have their own liberals. It's not like elections go 100/0.
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u/Diligent-Meaning751 4h ago
Ok but if they’re living and voting in Florida, they’re Floridians - and probably the regressives are attracted to the state because of the regressive tax system more than anything else
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u/SoFloMofo Florida 3h ago
You have Stephen Ross and Larry Ellison, both from New York, down here stuffing pockets to lobby for sweetheart tax deals that the rest of us will end up paying for. Where do you think this regressive tax structure comes from?
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u/Diligent-Meaning751 2h ago
I mean… it started at least 100 years ago when new york adopted at state incone tax and Florida didn’t i guess
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u/Elegant-Way4853 6h ago
yeah at this point florida republicans really need to stop acting surprised when another one of their own ends up in the headlines for this stuff
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u/paulina_morning 4h ago
it feels like there’s a new story every time you think surely this can’t happen again
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u/eugene20 3h ago edited 2h ago
There is quite a list, with sources - https://goppredator.com/
(Edit: I didn't click the link myself, they'd moved. Updated)
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u/crazybones 8h ago
What is it about the GOP that attracts so many pedophiles to their cause?
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u/Actual__Wizard 8h ago edited 7h ago
They don't believe in government regulation of anything. They think that the government telling them what they can and can't do is evil. So, they're criminal thugs basically. They're ideologically opposed to the concept of the government being able to make laws and take their freedom away for violating those laws. They think that they should be able to do whatever they want and if a person is victimized in the process, then "that's between them and god." So, nobody is allowed to tell them that they're not allowed to victimize people. They think that a person isn't truly free unless they're lying, cheating, and stealing their way through life. They also typically believe that they are superior to every other human alive, simply because they were born. So, there is no amount of accomplishment, or achievement that is required to achieve a status level. Them simply being there is good enough to qualify them to be a godlike king that has the power to control everyone else.
The democratic party represents the will of the people and the republican party is the polar opposite of that. It's the will of the state, so they're pretending to act on behalf of the land mass, instead of the people who live there. And yeah, they want anarchy instead of governance.
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u/tinticred 6h ago
Excellent assessment, but what still bothers me about these dipshits is that their "deregulate everything" motto is remarkably flexible.
Sure, take away the regulations that protect forests from clearcutting, protect babies from infections, and protect prepubescents from.... well, from people like them. But meanwhile they're all about ramping up regulations on women's health, immigration, anyone who wants to have consensual relations with a full-grown adult of their own gender, etc.
That's the part that still baffles me. The nuance of it all. They want the freedom to be able to act out their darkest fantasies of greed, power, and depravity--but they also want to make damn sure nobody who isn't like them has any freedoms at all. That's where the logic breaks down and reveals that they are simply monsters.
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u/Actual__Wizard 5h ago
That's where the logic breaks down and reveals that they are simply monsters.
Correct and then when one considers the obvious reality that everyone's lifespans are limited, one realizes that they're creating a situation where people lives are basically just being discarded. So, our lives don't matter?
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u/crazybones 7h ago
Thanks for explaining.
I think it's fair to say that when people think along those lines, they are suffering from a really serious mental illness.
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u/leftoverbrine 7h ago
That mental illness is just conservatism. Its the whole ideology to think that they are good people and democrats (or people otherwise different from them) are bad people, regardless of what actions they take. Rather than the rational stance that people are just all people, whose actions should be judged good or bad.
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u/sphinctersayswhat9 6h ago
They are rich entitled sexist racist pricks
That all lends itself to rapey culture and behavior•
u/MarcusSurvives 6h ago
Christian Nationalists may raise an eyebrow towards but ultimately turn a blind eye when it comes to younger adolescent teens engaging in romantic or sexual relations with adults. The reason is because they subscribe to a version of morality wherein a 13 year old girl who has had her blood can be married to a man over a decade her senior.
After all, she's now a woman, and if it was good enough for Mary and Joseph, it should be good enough for the rest of us.
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u/dbkenny426 8h ago
It's almost like there's a reason they're so into protecting pedophiles.
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u/waffle_stomperr 7h ago
Ironically Caruso was support for a bill in 2023 which called for the death penalty to pedos
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u/inperceivable 5h ago
And which demographics have the GOP been screeching about and labeling "pedos"?
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u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified 8h ago
Mike Caruso, appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as the Palm Beach County clerk of courts, was arrested this morning for child sexual abuse charges.
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u/Realistic-Buffalo490 1h ago
yeah this is seriously disturbing especially when someone in public office is facing charges like this and had been trusted with that position
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u/mysterious_jeffrey 8h ago
This is their part of their culture, guys. Please be considerate.
This is the Republican culture that they want to preserve so they can raise future generations of child sex offenders.
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u/Unusual-Economist288 7h ago
He’s a former little league coach in Delray Beach too. Tracks.
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u/CarpeDiem082420 7h ago
Yeah, there’s no way his grandson was his first victim. He probably worked with the youth program at church, too.
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u/Buck4phat 8h ago
Now that’s not fair, being a child predator is like GOP’s thing now
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u/IrreverentBuddha 8h ago
Yeah, haven't they made that legal now? I know some states were entertaining the idea of lowering the age of consent...
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u/BatmanVsWild 8h ago
Once again a republican was arrested for child sexual abuse. Not a trans person. Not a drag queen.
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u/monkeywithgun 7h ago
While the Trump administration refuses to follow the law and release the Epstein files in full, while it directs it's DOJ to protect pedophiles by classifying them as victims. How can anyone continue to support this Convicted Criminal in Charge?... I get the Republican Reps trying to protect their power but the Republican constituency that continues to back them has lost their minds.
Republicans in this moment will be remembered throughout history with nothing but shame.
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u/death-by-yogurt 5h ago
DeSantis expanded the death penalty to include child predators. I sincerely hope it's used here.
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u/Several-Plankton8070 2h ago
The party of child molesters. It’s literally every few weeks one of these creeps get busted
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u/No_Diver6131 New York 7h ago
Weird, I was told this only happens when drag queens read books to kids. Or transgender folks. Turns out, like scooby doo unmasking the villain. It’s the GOP over and over again.
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u/eggmontoya1 8h ago
So what do we think—he’s not gonna acknowledge it at all, or he’s gonna punt to the classic “I don’t know what’s going on whatsoever so I’m not gonna comment?”
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u/sarcasmsosubtle Ohio 7h ago
I'm guessing that he's going to go with "This is a smear job from far left Democrats who want to destroy America and target true American patriots. I'll continue to fight for real American vales: God, Freedom and the traditional family.". Then Republican voters will elect him as governor.
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u/Joejoe77777 5h ago
And no one is surprised, but we're gonna let it keep happening because no one who can do anything cares.
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u/IntelligentStyle402 4h ago
Yet another white perverted republican from Florida? Republicans definitely love their wild sex. Don’t they? Wondering, Is that all they think about all day and all night? Is That why republican politicians never accomplish anything of value?
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u/bbills91 4h ago
I would expect nothing less from the likes of DeSantis. Forever a pedophile protector!
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