Nevertheless, that is what the legislature has enacted.
And it's not for him to put himself above that and
say that he is not going to enforce the laws.
We don't elect people in one part of the state to have
veto power over what the entire state decides on these important issues.
The constitution of Florida has vested the veto power in the governor,
not an state Attorneys.
And so when you flagrantly violate your oath of office,
when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty.
You have neglected your duty and
you are displaying a lack of competence to be able to reform those duties.
And so today we are suspending state Attorney Andrew Warren
effective immediately.
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>> The announcement that happened just earlier today,
they're gonna talk about state law, state constitution.
Whatever this is, Rhonda Santis, once again saying,
who gives a damn about the law or the constitution or hypocrisy or whatever.
There's this guy, Andrew Warren, the 13th Circuit State Attorney who has said
that in some cases, he's not going to go along with the absolutely insane policies.
And directives of Rhonda Santis when it comes to denying, for
instance, trans people the medical care that they seek.
De Santis says efforts to strip away abortion rights and those sorts of things.
He's not gonna go along with that.
And that is literally the only reason that this is happening.
The fact that there was cheers there at the end tells you all that you
need to know.
This is not like an unfortunate action that a state executive needs
to take to make sure that the law is followed?
This is a celebratory thing he is delivering for his audience.
A war against the supposed woke people.
He called him wokeness this and he's just doing it because
he sees the path to the White House being paved on the bodies
of trans people of gay people over CRT and all of that.
Screw people who wanna get abortions who had those rights their entire lives,
Jordan's this is just.
I don't even know what terms like I've never seen anything like this before.
This is sort of a sacrifice being given to that insane radical base of his.
>> Yeah. Absolutely and this is the same guy who
just a few weeks ago wouldn't condemn actual open Nazis marching in Florida.
With homemade signs with Swastikas on them made out of the state of Florida.
He wouldn't condemn them.
But he's really outraged over people getting an abortion or
people receiving gender affirming care.
And it shows this is the Republican playbook that's spreading nationwide.
It's it's not, hey, we're worried about the size of the government anymore.
We're worried about national security, X Y and Z.
The issues that you had seen popular in the Republican Party and
now it's how can we demonized.
And ostracized are perceived other, how can we humiliate our opponents.
How can we dehumanize people that we've deemed to be unworthy of
participating in society or full humans?
And that is disgusting but it goes beyond this.
This isn't where it ends.
And that's what people really need to realize.
It's not just going to be rhetoric.
People are going to continue to accept that to let that bubble up within them and
that always leads to violence against these marginalized groups.
And we need to be diligent and fighting back against this and
stopping people like DeSantis.
And not treating it just like,
this is just a difference of opinion on trans rights.
We can't both sides.
This kind of stuff as corporate media likes to do.
This isn't an equal worthy other idea too.
These people are human and deserve the same rights and
protections as everyone else.
It's not a counterpoint is disgusting.
It's dehumanizing and it's vile and
we need to completely eradicate it from our society.
>> Yeah.
And just briefly, let's also acknowledge that this supposed stance,
if it's not specifically about this Attorney or this issue.
It is not up to these state Attorneys to decide whether they enforce
the law or not.
That is what they are cloaking themselves with their pretending that is
unacceptable?
Do you do you really think that's a consistent standard that they would apply
to all issues?
I mean, how many times have they raved about sheriffs and stuff like that?
That won't enforce vaccine mandates or social distancing those sorts of things.
Gun control mandates that they love people who won't give out marriage licenses
despite, same sex marriage being legalized in individual states.
This is not a standard.
This is not a principle.
They're doing it in this one particular case because they believe it's to their
benefit for all the reasons that Jordan's so perfectly put there.
And if you ever wonder why some of us sometimes are so enraged.
It is because this is what we're up against.
These people are pure evil.
They're willing to ruin people's lives and
people's lives cuz it might help them a little bit politically in the future.
Cuz he wants to run and he really use a little bit of a boost in the primaries or
whatever.
So some people are denied the health care that they need.
If people's previous rights to abortions are stripped away, they do not care.
It is an utterly inhuman, dehumanizing movement that we're up against.
And that is why we're enraged, not just about those Republicans.
And you should be, which is why some people who might identify
as on the left when they give a complete and utter decade long pass to the right.
It enrages me because these people are actively targeting some of the most
vulnerable communities in America.
But that's not going far enough when you have the Democrats being unwilling to use,
what power they have to counter these people.
To not campaign in a way that gives us the least chance possible of these people
staying in power or regaining power in the house or the senate or the White House.
Then you should be just as enraged by them because
it is one thing to have this evil group continually targeting the trans community,
the gay community, white people.
Black people, whatever you want but they also have so
many people giving them an assist when it comes to the Democrats.
And so we do need to focus on all of them.
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