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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh no! Republicans are NOT going to like That!

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I’m a Florida resident. Ron DeSantis sucks. Let me preface it. However, about 1-2x a year he does something that actually doesn’t suck.

[–] phoenixz 1 points 1 hour ago

Every broken clock is right twice a day, more than Ron the santis

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if DeSantis is actually afraid Tate could take his job

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Well he is term limited as governor, Tate is perfectly aligned with republican values (raped countless women) and he's famous.

You might be on to something!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 21 hours ago

"a broken clock is right twice a day"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago

Florida just got rid of one pedo/rapist. He doesn't want a replacement.

[–] [email protected] 254 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is Florida finally at maximum capacity for rapists and weirdos?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

The bar was raised while Tate was in Romania. He’s gonna have to step it up to fit in now. A couple of swastika neck tattoos ought to do it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You may be on to something. maybe there's a branigan's law about rapists and pedophiles in Florida. Once you hit a certain limit the state just stops accepting new ones.

Trump must be back at Mar-A-Lago rn

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trump will probably give them cabinets posts, they seem suitably qualified to join his inner circle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Likely he will get some labor rights related stuff, then will help in gutting worker's protections in the name of "Hustle culture", after that he will take the blame for the fallout and land into some another position.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Department of human trafficking control

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Department
Of
United
Collaborative
Human-trafficking
Efficiency

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Orson Welles clap.gif

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (5 children)

...Trump-hating [Ron DeSantis] has disgraced himself by stating that [Andrew Tate] and [Tristan Tate] are not welcome in Florida!"

Did I miss something? Since when do DeSantis and Trump not align on their shit values?

But also, I mean, it doesn't have to be said, but fuck all of them with a chainsaw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

That chainsaw reference put some undeletables images in my head...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (5 children)

Well, their recruitment along with the Silk Road guy is all part of Trump's plans to start massive human trafficking and drug trafficking organizations. He needs their expertise in human trafficking so he forced Romania to let them come here.

The current node for human trafficking, to help cover where people are being sent, is Guantanamo (and Panama). That's Ron's old stomping grounds. And while I think he's cool with torture of "terrorists," he's not so into mass rape of women, egg farming, genocide to grave rob America. I think he also got freaked out by the Les Miserable song at the Governor's Ball (he cowered) and all the loud loud pushback he's experiencing from people calling in constantly to complain and also the protests.

Or maybe he's just mad they took the spot he wanted.

nbcnews.com/investigations/incoming-trump-administration-plans-deport-migrants-countries-rcna182896

nbcnews.com/news/rcna189522

semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/trump-administration-container-company-to-provide-temporary-migrant-housing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-deportations-panama

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5307156/immigration-dhs-memo-trump-migrant-detention-military-bases

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Holy Christ... If true, this would be so much darker and more evil than I ever expected from these people.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They align on their values but DeSantis considers himself Trump's rival for the presidency.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's what makes his anti-Tate stance exceedingly cute, on so many levels. Not only does he lack the power or will or conviction of his words, but no-one one either side gives two shits what DeSantis has to say on this topic, or any other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

What I'm hearing is the Dems are going to nominate him for their 2028 attempt.

He won't switch parties. They'll just pick him anyways.

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weird, he’s their exact target market…???

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

I wouldve figured he'd be hiring him as his campaign manager.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (2 children)

man when you're too terrible for Florida conservatives to want you there, you know you're a terrible person

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

I mean... He seems exactly like the kind of person they would want to associate with. He must have spilled a lot of beans while in, or to get out of prison.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Sounds like cabinet material.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What a weird conflict. I don't know who I want to win. Is it possible for them both to lose somehow? Like some kind of -1 sum game?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Send tate to florida. Then get out a saw, and cut Florida away and into the Ocean. Then use ropes to connect Hawaii and Alaska to the mainland.

Now you can claim that only connected states can be states. Also, international no fly, no sail zone 300 miles around florida at any time. No one leaves.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Bugs had the right idea in 1949.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nice to know that piece of shit has a line in the sand somewhere. 'convicted rapists and human traffickers' is a horrible line to have to get to but at least it's there? Still though, fuck DeSantis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They were convicted? Last I'd heard the trial was set for... March?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Well, guess I don't stay up to date with disgusting trash. I guess I'd assumed they'd already been through court since it was overseas.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

They still haven't prosecuted Gaetz.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I have no idea who Andrew Tate is. So I looked him up on Wikipedia, and he seems like the kind of awful person who would be a darling of the MAGAsphere.

Could someone explain to me why DeSantis doesn't want him then?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Desantis has make a huge show of “stopping human traffickers” and there’s no way he can welcome them without being called out on hypocrisy. He can pass this off as a “White House thing” and try to keep his position.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Being called out on hypocrisy has never stopped a conservative before. Hell, it’s practically required.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

This is the most confusing part of the situation.

DeSatan is no voice of reason, so it's a play for personal protection or gain... somehow. What do they know about Tate that's so much worse than the average MAGA?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Desantis is clearly worried that Andrew Tate will push him out of the running for "biggest piece of shit in the United States"... These guys take that award very seriously

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

Good to see Romania is deporting criminal immigrants

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