DeSatan is thankfully term-limited in Florida, yet his vile legacy will live on. The harm he's done to the educational system, both on the elhi level and high ed is untold. Public school libraries and public libraries are feeling the weight of his fascist tendencies. Questioning whether dictionaries belong in the schools because they define certain words that might offend?
And then there's his war with The Mouse. Disney employs 80,000 Floridians, brings in probably billions in revenue from visitors, pays billions in taxes to the state and DeSatan has chosen to go to war with Disney because they are protecting their employees from his retrograde policies?
To be exposed to DeSatan is to truly loathe him. Like Ted Cruz is the most hated person in the Senate...once they got to know him, they really hated him. Same with DeSatan.
2028: Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz both run to try and prove once and for all that someone whose personality begs for a punch in the face can still become president.
New Mexico Courts Show “Cowboys for Trump (C4T) leader and organizer of January 6, 2021 Rebellion the door, too.
New Mexico True Justice on September 6, 2022
“Couy Griffin removed from Otero County Commission, barred from holding any future office.
“A Santa Fe state district court judge ordered on Tuesday that Couy Griffin be removed from office and disqualified from holding any other public office in the future because of his role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“In his ruling, First Judicial District Court Judge Francis Mathew wrote that Griffin ‘shall be removed from his position as an Otero County Commissioner effective immediately.’
“Judge Mathew also wrote that Griffin is ‘constitutionally disqualified’ from holding any office in the future.
“The decision is in response to a civil suit filed by a group of citizens against Griffin that argued the leader of Cowboys for Trump violated the U.S. Constitution by taking part in the effort last year to stop Congress from certifying the presidential election.
“Griffin, representing himself, argued during a bench trial last month that he could not be removed from office because Otero County voters elected him to office and further rejected a petition to remove him from office.
“But Mathew wrote that Griffin himself tried to overturn the people’s will on January 6, 2021.”
New Mexico’s Supreme Court rejected Griffin’s appeal and affirmed the District Court’s decision. Griffin was removed from his office and banned from running again.
Griffin failed to file an appeal to SCOTUS within mandated time lines.
If states insist on capital punishment, there should be consistency across all states as to method such that it is in effect lethal but not cruel. Good luck with that, folks.
Kind of insane that when SCOTUS considered inert gas asphyxiation on Glossip's behalf, they ruled there wasn't enough evidence it was better than Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol—but almost certainly won't have a problem with Alabama using it based on no evidence in the intervening years, based on the same case.
I'll have something up on Tuesday about it, partly from the book *I'm* writing on lethal injection.
To continue with your Schrödinger's "cat" example, there is a saying in the financial world, "a dead-cat bounce", which refers to a slight reversal of a negative trend, only shortly thereafter to continue its downward slope. Second-place finish in Iowa caucuses gave DeSantis his dead-cat bounce, but polling in NH revealed the trend is inexorably down and out, and so it is, and so is he.
Somebody please help me understand why the tried-and-true physical methods such as the firing squad are no longer under consideration. The chemically-based methods we have tried, from the gas chamber to lethal injection, fail in a number of ways. They are often painful, can take a long time and lot of trouble to implement, and in a mind-boggling number of cases verified by many credible witnesses, don't even work. And watching the correctional system try to implement them over a months and years seems like an exquisite, prolonged form of psychological torture.
By contrast, the physical methods (with the possible exception of the garotte) work instantly, with no pain at all. A few 19th century scientists tried mightily to detect even a few seconds of consciousness in severed heads, and failed even that. And these methods can spare the executioner of guilt he might feel. There's the custom of giving one member of the firing squad a blank cartridge so each member can believe his shot was not fatal. In Thailand, the rifle is aimed and fixed in place, then a cloth blind is lowered so the one who pulls the trigger doesn't even see the victim.
Just don't get it. It seems so much more painful than it has to be for the convict, and traumatizing for all of us.
Heard it said that DeSantis will run again in 4 more years when he would not be up against trump.one cruel person after another.seems that’s about all the gop has.
Heard an interview with Smith on NPR. I admit I have mixed feelings about the death penalty. I realize he did murder someone but to face your death twice with so much uncertainty about the process. Heard his spiritual advisor has to sign a form knowing the risks he faces being in the same room. I
DeSatan is thankfully term-limited in Florida, yet his vile legacy will live on. The harm he's done to the educational system, both on the elhi level and high ed is untold. Public school libraries and public libraries are feeling the weight of his fascist tendencies. Questioning whether dictionaries belong in the schools because they define certain words that might offend?
And then there's his war with The Mouse. Disney employs 80,000 Floridians, brings in probably billions in revenue from visitors, pays billions in taxes to the state and DeSatan has chosen to go to war with Disney because they are protecting their employees from his retrograde policies?
To be exposed to DeSatan is to truly loathe him. Like Ted Cruz is the most hated person in the Senate...once they got to know him, they really hated him. Same with DeSatan.
2028: Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz both run to try and prove once and for all that someone whose personality begs for a punch in the face can still become president.
DeSantis has lost, but the damage done to Iowa (in the form of DeSantis policies our governor copied) will go on for years.
https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/01/21/ron-desantis-helped-change-iowa-for-the-worse/
DeSantis fail is very good news.
Alabama should have their license to commit murder
revoked as cruel and reprehensible.
New Mexico Courts Show “Cowboys for Trump (C4T) leader and organizer of January 6, 2021 Rebellion the door, too.
New Mexico True Justice on September 6, 2022
“Couy Griffin removed from Otero County Commission, barred from holding any future office.
“A Santa Fe state district court judge ordered on Tuesday that Couy Griffin be removed from office and disqualified from holding any other public office in the future because of his role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“In his ruling, First Judicial District Court Judge Francis Mathew wrote that Griffin ‘shall be removed from his position as an Otero County Commissioner effective immediately.’
“Judge Mathew also wrote that Griffin is ‘constitutionally disqualified’ from holding any office in the future.
“The decision is in response to a civil suit filed by a group of citizens against Griffin that argued the leader of Cowboys for Trump violated the U.S. Constitution by taking part in the effort last year to stop Congress from certifying the presidential election.
“Griffin, representing himself, argued during a bench trial last month that he could not be removed from office because Otero County voters elected him to office and further rejected a petition to remove him from office.
“But Mathew wrote that Griffin himself tried to overturn the people’s will on January 6, 2021.”
New Mexico’s Supreme Court rejected Griffin’s appeal and affirmed the District Court’s decision. Griffin was removed from his office and banned from running again.
Griffin failed to file an appeal to SCOTUS within mandated time lines.
The death penalty needs to be abolished completely.
If states insist on capital punishment, there should be consistency across all states as to method such that it is in effect lethal but not cruel. Good luck with that, folks.
Kind of insane that when SCOTUS considered inert gas asphyxiation on Glossip's behalf, they ruled there wasn't enough evidence it was better than Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol—but almost certainly won't have a problem with Alabama using it based on no evidence in the intervening years, based on the same case.
I'll have something up on Tuesday about it, partly from the book *I'm* writing on lethal injection.
Ron DeSantis didn't fail enough.
Chris,
Ron DeSantis failed. Agreed that is good for the nation and bad for Floridians.
To continue with your Schrödinger's "cat" example, there is a saying in the financial world, "a dead-cat bounce", which refers to a slight reversal of a negative trend, only shortly thereafter to continue its downward slope. Second-place finish in Iowa caucuses gave DeSantis his dead-cat bounce, but polling in NH revealed the trend is inexorably down and out, and so it is, and so is he.
As a lawyer I would be interested in your comments on the Disney DeSantis decision in the Florida District Court.
Somebody please help me understand why the tried-and-true physical methods such as the firing squad are no longer under consideration. The chemically-based methods we have tried, from the gas chamber to lethal injection, fail in a number of ways. They are often painful, can take a long time and lot of trouble to implement, and in a mind-boggling number of cases verified by many credible witnesses, don't even work. And watching the correctional system try to implement them over a months and years seems like an exquisite, prolonged form of psychological torture.
By contrast, the physical methods (with the possible exception of the garotte) work instantly, with no pain at all. A few 19th century scientists tried mightily to detect even a few seconds of consciousness in severed heads, and failed even that. And these methods can spare the executioner of guilt he might feel. There's the custom of giving one member of the firing squad a blank cartridge so each member can believe his shot was not fatal. In Thailand, the rifle is aimed and fixed in place, then a cloth blind is lowered so the one who pulls the trigger doesn't even see the victim.
Just don't get it. It seems so much more painful than it has to be for the convict, and traumatizing for all of us.
Some states, South Carolina, for one, have reinstated the firing squad. It’s all barbaric.
True. But that form of barbarism is honest.
People want to think we’re not barbaric by doing this, that it’s instead essentially a medical procedure and not a state-sanctioned murder.
Heard it said that DeSantis will run again in 4 more years when he would not be up against trump.one cruel person after another.seems that’s about all the gop has.
Heard an interview with Smith on NPR. I admit I have mixed feelings about the death penalty. I realize he did murder someone but to face your death twice with so much uncertainty about the process. Heard his spiritual advisor has to sign a form knowing the risks he faces being in the same room. I
I think the state gets one chance. If they mess up, too bad.