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I wish Florida would just break off and sink into the ocean. And I live here.

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In the ocean?

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The poor Ocean!

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climate change will do that soon enough

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What is it, like ten feet max altitude above sea level down there?

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20’ is the average. Highest point is like 300’.

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Good. I’m a right winger but don’t like DeSantis’ approach to fighting the culture war, and it doesn’t seem like he’s done enough to fight the rising cost of living in Florida either.

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Governors can’t fix the cost of living, only legislatures can and with a wider variety of tools.

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Aww, poor Ronnie looks so sad. He was gonna be president. It was gonna be so great. He’d eat pudding with his fingers at every press conference. At the state of the union, he’d add a banana. And now that’s all been lost. No charisma. No personality. No hope for becoming president. Poor little guy in his ridiculous lifts is so dejected.

Good. Fuck him. Asshole.

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Florida’s status changes depending on how many retirees move to the state in any given year. When many move, it usually goes more conservative.

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We were just talking about that. It was glamorized in media for years and many of the television addled moved there. Thus Florida Man was formed.

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At least they are gerrymandering themselves like that, concentrating their votes in Florida.

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Florida has historically been held up as a massively important state for any White House aspirant, and as a result has been on the receiving end of large candidate rallies, surrogate events and huge sums of national money fueling wall-to-wall campaign ads across the state’s 10 expensive media markets. But for the first time in recent political memory, the 2024 presidential race has left Florida as a comparative afterthought.

If you ever wondered why Florida and Texas have been turned into such conservative hellholes, this is exactly why. Both were starting to turn bluer, and the Republicans didn’t want to lose those precious electoral college votes.

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