Yes it’s possible. There would need to be an implementing bill in Nov/Dec and I will be supporting doing that.
Even though we’ve quadrupled the state’s rainy day fund (and have constitutionally maxed it out) the Legislature last year put a measure on the ballot that would have required an extra $8 billion to be held in reserve, which IMO is not necessary nor desirable.
I would much rather use that to provide grants to locals if it means Floridians get property taxes reduced.
🇮🇳🇺🇸 Indian businessman Chandrakant Patel faces 15 years in prison for bribing four Louisiana police chiefs.
The police chiefs falsified 650 armed robbery reports, allowing 300 Indian immigrants to obtain U-visas as fake crime victims.
Four involved officers face up to 5 years.
There are only 236 of them left on Earth. Every single one has a name.
The kākāpō is the world's heaviest parrot - a mossy green, owl-faced bird the size of a small dog that cannot fly, may live to 90 years, and only breeds every 2 to 4 years when New Zealand's rimu trees produce enough fruit to trigger the urge.
Rats. Cats. Stoats. Humans clearing forests. The kākāpō never evolved to outrun any of them.
By 1995, 51 birds remained. Scientists, rangers, and Ngāi Tahu - the Māori people who have always known this bird as taonga, a treasure—evacuated every last one to predator-free islands.
Each bird got a transmitter. Each nest watched around the clock.
This past February 14th, the first kākāpō chick in four years hatched. They named her Tīwhiri. By spring, 59 chicks had been born.
236 birds. Every name known. Every nest watched.
Who's counting down the days until the rimu trees fruit again? 🦜
#DemsUnited #Nature
AMERICANs you are WARNED ‼️ Your ignorance and failures will cause your children and grandchildren to fight physically for their very lives or be slaughtered alive like the muslims’ goats. They are irrational and barbaric. 🤬
15 years ago I bought a burned-out 26 unit building for $90,000. Fire had gutted the interior. Three feet of water in the lower levels. No bank would touch it.
I paid out of pocket to demo it, then negotiated a loan that covered about half of what I needed. The banks said tiny apartments couldn’t rent above $500. We bet on $1,000.
I sold almost everything I owned to finish it, including my truck. Rode my bike to the job site.
Appraised for about 2.5 million when we finished.
BREAKING: Nithya Raman just defeated Spencer Pratt after giving a concession speech on election night and then getting the largest number in almost every mail-in ballot dump.
They just cheated in an election right in front of our eyes.
BREAKING UPDATE: Michigan DoorDash driver who publicly admitted refusing to deliver an order to a customer displaying an Israeli flag has had their account deactivated for violating DoorDash’s community guidelines.
The interesting part in this @wjxt4 post trying to criticize @RonDeSantis is that it's already focusing on "what's at stake" rather than whether homeowners want relief.
Which is what I've been warning about.
The voter-education fight is:
What does it actually do?
This is why for the grassroots the voter education battle has to focus on:
Protecting homesteads
Ending perpetual taxation of primary residences
Save Our Homes protections
Keeping more of your own money
Fighting the Government fee shell games
From a communications perspective, this commissioner holding up a number is actually a gift.
Government keeps showing us what it might lose.
Homeowners should ask what they've been losing every year.
Hey Chicago Bears Fans,
Your blood is about to boil reading this:
I just did some research. The state of Illinois has spent over $2.5 BILLION on free benefits for illegals last year.
At the same time Illinois Governor @JBPritzker was telling the Bears there’s “no money” for tax relief on a new stadium.
Let that sink in.
For $2.5 billion the state of Illinois could have PAID for a new stadium for the Chicago Bears.
Instead, they spent it paying for lavish benefits for aliens, while running a $3 billion deficit and losing a franchise they've had for over 100 years.
This is what Democrat priorities look like. They hate you and will destroy your state for power.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS STORY?
Six people arrested in Greenville County for an alleged child sex ring. Three of them former law enforcement and fire officials.
Victims spoke up in January. The crimes they described go all the way back to 1998 through 2003. Deputies executed search warrants on May 19th and brought them in.
Matthew Joseph Fay, former Greenville Fire training officer. Waylon Rogers, ex-Greenville PD. Allen Foltz, ex-Mauldin PD. Along with Paula Foltz, Edward Storer, and Jeannine Storer. All friends or acquaintances.
Multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct with minors, solicitation, conspiracy, incest, and more.
These were the ones wearing the badges and uniforms. The very people parents counted on to keep kids safe.
Decades later the truth is finally coming out. But how many more cases like this are still hidden behind the blue line?
This one hit different. Share it if you believe victims deserve real justice.
Canadian DJ and producer Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) paid $30,000 in veterinary costs after 27 cats and kittens were rescued from a Milton home and taken to a local shelter.
His donation covered critical medical care, including emergency surgery for a cat suffering from a life-threatening infection.
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” - Romans 5:3-4
Last week a story went viral that says a difficult life isn’t worth living. I want to offer a different perspective:
The Hard Road Is The Point.
There’s a growing lie baked into modern culture that life is supposed to be smooth. Convenient. Perfect. That if things are difficult, something’s gone wrong. That suffering is a malfunction, not a feature.
So people spend their lives optimizing for comfort. Avoiding friction and inconvenience. Looking for the shortcut, the hack, the easier path.
And they miss the whole point.
The beauty of a life well-lived isn’t found despite the struggle - it’s forged inside it. Character doesn’t grow in comfort. It grows under pressure, strain, stress and adversity. Gratitude doesn’t come from ease. It comes from having walked through something hard and making it to the other side.
The ancient understanding - the one we’ve traded for comfort - is that suffering carries meaning. That the valley isn’t a detour. It is the journey.
Truth is, when you strip away the hard parts, you don’t get a better life. You get a shallow one.
Because the rough road isn’t a sign you’re doing it wrong.
It might be the surest sign you’re doing it right.
My son Iron Will has Down syndrome. He spent his earliest months in a walker just to build the strength to stand. Every step was a fight. Every inchstone and milestone was hard won. And watching him work, really work, for things that come effortlessly to other kids didn’t break my heart. It expanded it. Because what I saw wasn’t limitation. I saw determination unencumbered by societal expectations. I saw joy that doesn’t depend on easy. I saw a little boy who gets up every single time, grins, and goes again on his own terms, at his own pace.
My brave little son didn’t teach me about suffering. He taught me what it looks like to pursue life fully - without fear, without shortcuts, and without ever being told what he can’t do.
When we decide a life will be too hard before it begins - based on the inherent limitations of our mortal understanding - we end a story before it ever has the chance to be written.
We will never tell Iron Will, or any of our children, that the hard road isn’t worth it.
Because the greatest stories ever told involve suffering that produces endurance that produces character that produces hope.
And hope changes everything.
#TeamIronWill #DownSyndromeAdvocacy #IronWill #SayYesToPossibility
🚨 ENDORSEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
Since the day I resigned off of the James Fishback Campaign, I have had a repetitive question asked by a multitude of people, "If not James Fishback, who do you support?"
For a while my answer was simply, "Nobody. I don't think there is a qualified candidate."
This was well prior to my meeting with Lieutenant Governor, Jay Collins.
Recently, I was given the opportunity to meet Jay, and I was surprised with just how much we agreed on. He was extremely kind and understanding as to my situation. He and I talked personally on the side for a few minutes. And I was very keenly aware of how well he was listening, rather than speaking.
Jay has proven himself to be a wise and effective leader. He is a grown man, unlike every other candidate, with the characteristic attitude of a proud Green Beret. Something he and one of my grandfather's have in common.
Jay is a voice of reason and truth in a place where the opposite is so often sought by so many. And is already running this state very effectively along side our current Governor, Ron DeSantis.
I know that the people of Florida will have an extremley effective and patriotic leader in Jay Collins when he is our Governor. And it is for these reasons, among a few others, that I endorse Jay Collins to be my next Governor and yours. And ask that you follow suit.
DISCLAIMER (for the obnoxious groyper incels): I make this endorsement entirely of my own volition, having not been paid or asked to do so by anyone. I am not currently an employee or volunteer of any campaign. I make this endorsement freely as a private citizen. I have not at any point worked for Jay Collins. I did not know even know who he was until I was already on James' campaign.