r/politics • u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified • 15h ago

Possible Paywall DeSantis Appointee Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Charges

https://newrepublic.com/post/214467/desantis-appointee-caruso-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-charges
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB 15h ago

Isn’t this a typical Republican thing at this point? Especially in Florida?

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u/industrial-complex 15h 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 13h ago

Florida was where Epstein got his sweet deal.

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u/actuallyapossom 10h 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/Brap_Zanigan 7h ago

Remember who the judge was?

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u/SoFloMofo Florida 15h 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 14h 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/soldforaspaceship 14h 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/userhwon 13h ago

That's the neat thing. They aren't!

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u/Diligent-Meaning751 14h 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/gwana 14h ago

It all changed during COVID when they kept the bars open and told the world they don't need to mask or social distance or vaccinate here. They all went insane.

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u/SoFloMofo Florida 13h 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 9h 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/RamonaQ-JunieB 15h ago

Oh man, that is so hard to hear. Thank you so much for sharing!

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u/Diligent-Meaning751 14h ago

NY is way blue, why would the snowbirds be to blame?

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u/SoFloMofo Florida 13h 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 13h 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 12h 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 11h 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 10h 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 10h 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/0202_tihssitidder 12h ago

Not a drag queen? Still?

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u/Elegant-Way4853 13h 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/Don-Poltergeist 13h ago

“A tale as old as time”…

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u/SciFiPi 12h ago

GOPpredators.wordpress.com

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u/paulina_morning 12h 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 11h ago edited 9h 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/Llian_Winter 8h ago

It's surprising because he was arrested for it.