Disturbing trend among prominent Republicans in Florida, and it goes straight to the top. If you pay attention you've known this dirty secret for a while, but ironically enough, none other than Donald J. Trump has shined new light on it.
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What's happening in Manatee County is on its way to all school boards across Florida, and wide swaths of the country. We talked with @JuddLegum about the slow march of book censorship and Ron DeSantis' larger project - starting on the school board level. https://t.co/bHEQcdTbPj
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez aka Mayor Ponzi Postalita was on a podcast with Scam Bankrun Fraud, giving lavish praise to FTX and saying the company embodied the ethos of Miami. He was inadvertently correct. Watch our conversation with @BillyCorben on shameless Miami grifters👇
.@wawltshow is now on TikTok. Follow us bc we have like almost nobody following us right now and want to be able to go live and yell at people. https://t.co/fRsdCRy6Vk
Had a blast talking w the incomparable, irascible @BillyCorben about the Web 3.0 Griftopia Mayor Francis Suarez has created in Miami. Come for the convo, stay for our inaugural edition of Guess The Grifter, the hot new quiz game sweeping South Florida! https://t.co/kT3FNZIWAb
We spoke with @TooMuchMe of WLRN about Florida’s horrific election results and about his podcast series Detention By Design, exploring the dark history of the US’s use of prisons to detain tens of thousands of immigrants.
https://t.co/Mv7Vaw0Msz
We spoke with the amazing @ida_v_e about right-wing attacks against LGBTQ communities, rent stabilization in Orange County, and how conservatives in Florida are using state power and intimidation to impose their extremist social-conservative agenda:
https://t.co/Cv1irUMeJl
"DQ, I want to hear the latest @wawltshow episode where you talk w/ @alissajean about how FPL ran a sham media outlet and Frank Artiles ran a sham Senate candidate, but I have an iPhone!😭"
Well buckle up buttercup, bc we are now on Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/PiOF5q6pXZ
In this case file, we talk with @alissajean about how Florida Power & Light has affected political outcomes via media and elections to further their own interests at the expense of their customers. It goes deeper and gets dirtier than you can imagine.
https://t.co/i2qlML2sPK
Education Episode, Part II:
New @wawltshow featuring @BisforBerkshire talking with me about what makes Florida's efforts to weaken public schools uniquely dangerous. https://t.co/DzbfTZHYdN
Past month I've been working with @tomaskenn & @tostonesoprano to produce a new podcast. Welcome to Why Are We Like This?, a true-crime podcast where Florida is one big active crime scene: https://t.co/RZGdf7H7qC
So far I don't see a plan. Just a lot of "haters" and press releases lol. Put up your money. Buy some land. Get permits. Build a stadium. You're worth billions. I know you can do it, we have faith in you.
First of all, I’m not one of your private jet pilots pal — it’s not up to me to do your homework for you. Second, your lack of a substantive response tells us all we need to know. (No, PPPs don’t work for anyone except the private party, structures be damned.)
Last week I read a @HeraldOpEd so bad it required a response. So I wrote one. It's my first Substack. Not sure it'll do well bc I don't intend to write much about cancel culture or the "radical left", but the @ManoloAguilera_ post needed to be addressed. https://t.co/VsijdiSbC7
Maybe Bernie would've been hamstrung by the same awful Congress & SCOTUS as Biden, or maybe he'd have found effective ways to stave off the rot our country has succumbed to. But in that moment @Annette_Taddeo chose to dogpile. Poor judgment, lack of vision. She won't get my vote.