Florida: Electoral prediction for Broward County.
I checked the comments and they are running about 35% in favor of Israel being re-instated. Personally I think the Florida Senate will not reinstate Israel which will be used as rallying cry for his re-election campaign next year.
And Scott Israel will be elected again.
As for the Parkland Parents, unless they toe the line of the Democrat Electoral Machine, ignore the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission official report and support Israel (Blame will go to the NRA, of course) they won’t be able to get any air time in the regular Media or will be called puppets of the Republican Party and the Gun Manufacturers. Basically their use will be pretty much over and can be safely discarded.
The Florida State Senate should vote on this
I saw this Tweet and it made me do a double-take.
Several families of Parkland victims hold a news conf. saying they don’t want state Senate to give former Sheriff Israel job back @CBSMiami pic.twitter.com/kqRpchb2yC
— Carey (@ccoddcbs4news) October 14, 2019
To explain this whole thing:
Governor Ron DeSantis removed the disgraced Sheriff Scott Israel from office for “neglect of duty” and gross incompetence for his department’s failure to properly respond to both the Parkland shooting and the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting the year before.
Scott Israel sued the governor and the Florida courts decided that DeSants had the right and justification to fire him.
Florida State Senate Democrats found a Special Master to review Scott Israel’s firing and decided that the Governor and court were wrong and he should be reinstated.
The State Senate now has the ability to vote to overturn DeSantis’ decision and make Scott Israel Broward County Sheriff again.
I absolutely believe that they should vote on this. It will come down to party lines because DeSantis ran partly on removing Scott Israel and getting to the bottom of the Parkland shooting response.
I don’t believe that the State Senate should reinstate Scott Israel. But every Democrat state senator will have to answer to why they wanted such an incompetent boob of a Sheriff, who bumble fucked two consecutive mass shooting in two consecutive years, reinstated over the wishes of the parents of the Parkland victims.
It will make the Florida State Senate election campaigns fun to watch.
Douche Nukem wants to make his propagandists a protected class
Yesterday, Miguel wrote a post about a meme video which was a modification of a fight scene from Kingsmen to feature Trump decimating his critics.
California Congressman, Democratic Presidential nominee failure, and all-around jackass, Eric “Douche Nukem” Swalwell didn’t take to kindly to the video.
For a man who joked about nuking Omaha to get gun owners who refused to comply with his mandatory gun buyback, he wasn’t tolerant of pro-Trump mass murder jokes.
The #TrumpVideo isn’t “a joke.” It isn’t “owning the libs.” It’s @POTUS expressing deep, abiding hatred for a constitutionally protected free press & any who criticize him- what you’d expect from an insecure, volatile dictator. It could radicalize unbalanced people to lash out.
— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) October 14, 2019
That potential for violence is why I introduced the Journalist Protection Act, to make a federal crime of certain physical attacks on those reporting news. We must counter @realDonaldTrump‘s crude irresponsibility & show everyone that violence is always unacceptable. #TrumpVideo
— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) October 14, 2019
It is this part that is truly disturbing.
He wants to make Journalists a protected class.
Of course, you know what that means. He gets to decide who is a journalist and what is journalism.
Remember the guy that called Chris Cuomo “Fredo” causing Cuomo to turn into a punk?
That is going to be a federal hate crime.
Remember when Antifa attacked Andy Ngo and gave him a brain bleed for reporting on their cement milkshakes?
The media decided that Ngo is a white supremacist, propagandist, agitator so attacks on him will be ignored or justified.
Of course, there has not been a single attack on a Left-leaning journalist by a Republican that I can find, but in the world of the aggrieved victims, insults are violence.
Swalwell’s bill will only serve to protect his party’s favored propagandists from “threatening” memes while allowing Antifa to beat the piss out of “alternative” and “non-traditional” news that are either neutral or on the Right because those won’t be protected class journalists.
LeBron James to be renamed by me.
I will no longer address this excuse for human being by his selected name but starting today, I shall call him with a Hispanic twist:
CaBron James.
And for those Spanish-Impaired, you may want to click here for a translation :).
Florida Gun Bills at the Legislature, a small update.
No new bills to report. I just got a notification about the bills already posted being assigned to subcommittees. I am going to wait at least till December to see if more bills are added and then do my IANAL analysis.
Unless I am mistaken, the list I offered last years of emails and phone numbers of Representatives and Senators are still valid. I will re-link again for your pleasure.
One again and from what I have seen so far, the bad bill outnumber the god bills. And please, we need about a dozen Gun Rights activists who line near Tallahassee to show up at the hearings even if it is to fill one of those little forms that say “I support this bill” or I am against this bill.” Last year it was an embarrassment to see nobody on our side (with the exception of the much hated for whatever reason Marion Hammer) at the hearings while Moms Demand had people there.
Those were four simple red t-shirts that made a bigger contribution to Gun Control than a bunch of people on “our side” somewhere in a pier fishing with AR 15s.
Get your priorities straight or get your rights curtailed. You cannot tell me that you cannot get a dozen of Gun Rights activists. There is no way in hell anybody can tell me that the space from Tallahassee to Pensacola is officially a Gun Rights Advocate Free Zone.
(Cue the “But we have to work for a living” excuse.) Get a day off if you are working, and if you are retired, get your ass in gear. I thought the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights were important to you.
I will give you the schedules and times for the meetings if enough people are willing to go and we can have two or more teams splitting the effort.