Yesterday Ron DeSantis delivered his state of the state address down here in Florida,
and most people kind of looked at it as the kickoff for his presidential campaign. And
it's not just because of what he said in the speech, it's because of everywhere he's been
before returning to the state and of course then promptly leaving to give the address
because today, the day after he gave that speech. Do you know where Ron DeSantis is?
Do you know where he was headed? Iowa, there is only one reason on the planet for a politician
to go to Iowa as always. No offense to Iowa, but people only go there if they're trying
to run for president. So Ron DeSantis in Iowa, dude's definitely running for president. Couple
days before his address, he was in California talking about how he's taken on the liberals
in Florida days before that he was, he was in New York, he was traveling all over the
country giving speeches, which is basically the kickoff again for his presidential campaign.
But there's a common theme, and this is why we know he is running for president. His common
theme is that we need to make America Florida out. He wants to inflict the same pain on
the rest of the country that he has inflicted upon us down here in Florida. Now we have
the obvious, right, the banning of critical race theory, which now by the way, uh, our
little local state house of representatives guy, he's introduced legislation to ban critical
race theory and diversity, uh, uh, courses in college, completely voluntary courses for
people paying to go there. And now our guy from here is trying to ban it in college.
DeSantis wants that on the national level. Housing prices in the state of Florida have
risen faster than anywhere else in the country. People are being priced out of their homes.
We have massive corporations like BlackRock that are swooping into parts of Florida, spending
hundreds of millions of dollars to buy entire communities.
They're buying every house. They're buying 50 to a hundred homes in subdivisions. They
own the cities now and Ron DeSantis has allowed them to do that. We have had uh, uh, some
of the highest energy price increases here in the state of Florida thanks to legislation
that Ron DeSantis has signed put forth by other Republicans. And of course because he's
allowed power companies to consolidate power creating super monopolies that we're helpless
to stop cuz there's nothing we can do. And also they've kind of penalized you for doing
rooftop solar, so we're screwed on that as well. Um, there's also education, not
Just the banning of c R t. We've got thousands and thousands of teachers that we need and
we don't have people willing to fill those positions, which of course is why he is had
to say, Hey, if you're served in the military, you can immediately become a teacher. You
don't need any training at all. And we still don't have enough teachers. There is still
a shortage here in Florida. We are 48th in the country in teacher pay, which means there's
only other two states out there that pay their teachers less than what the state of Florida
does. Our test scores are abysmal. We rank among last in the country in test scores.
We are last in the country in information retained from fourth grade to eighth grade.
So we're making our kids dumber thanks to 30 years of Republican rule here in the state
of Florida.
We also have a poverty rate that is nearly two points higher than the national average.
So we're doing worse than the country as a whole in terms of poverty. Do I need to go
on or do you understand how dangerous it is to make America Florida? Not to mention of
course, the attack on the L G B T Q community. Not to mention of course, the fact that just
this week, a six week abortion ban was introduced in our state legislature. The list is frigging
endless. I could continue but I don't have to because this is what Ron DeSantis wants
to do to the entire country. He wants to bring his culture war stupidness to the White House
and if he gets in there, he will try and then the rest of the country will descend into
the same kind of hell hellhole that we are currently living in here in the state of.