In voting against their own interests, including maintaining Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans’ benefits, a majority of Florida voters not only decided to give the former Miami “rent boy” Marco Rubio a third term in the U.S. Senate but gave a second term carte blanche to Governor Ron DeSantis to continue his march to establish the first Latin American-style fascist state within America’s borders. However, in securing another term as governor to launch his 2024 presidential campaign, DeSantis has incurred the wrath of Florida’s most infamous landed oligarch, former President Donald Trump. But more on that later.
DeSantis cemented Republican control over the former Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County. He also beat his Democratic rival, former Governor Charlie Crist, in the former reliably Democratic Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa. DeSantis’s victory in Hillsborough rewards him for having fired, a few months ago, the twice-elected Democratic state’s attorney for the country, Andrew Warren. DeSantis’s win comes on the heels of his having established an “election police” unit within the Florida Secretary of State’s office. On Election Day, Florida’s pudgy dictator even banned U.S. Justice Department voting rights lawyers from observing the election in the three most populous southern counties of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach.
Just like a Latin American military uniformed caudillo, DeSantis continued to use a photograph of himself wearing his Navy dress white uniform bearing medals, ribbons, and a warfare badge. Some of the commendations are highly unusual for a judge advocate general—a support staffer—what Army personnel call a REMF (rear echelon motherf****r). A quick check of the scant military documents released on DeSantis’s Navy service shows that he had the collateral duty of awards officer, the person in charge of recommending individuals for medals. One can surmise that the egotistical DeSantis recommended himself for the Bronze Star, a combat medal, for his duty behind a desk in Iraq.
DeSantis’s re-election would not have been possible had it not been for the unholy trinity that now overwhelmingly votes to elect Republicans to statewide offices. They are the Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade flanked by wealthy expats from Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua and other Latin American nations; the Bible-thumpers from the Florida Panhandle; and the MAGA/QAnon retirees in central Florida communities like The Villages, Ponte Vedra Beach, and Palm Bay. DeSantis also ingratiated himself to U.S. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy by redrawing Florida’s congressional districts, eliminating three Democratic districts and handing three of the reshaped Florida seats to the Republicans. McCarthy has DeSantis to thank if he receives the House Speaker’s gavel. MSNBC anchor Tiffany Cross—after being harangued on air by Fox News host Tucker Carlson—was fired by the network a few days before the election for saying on a podcast that Florida is the “dick of the country.” She is right. Florida is not just the dick of the country, but Miami-Dade is its gonorrhea-infected glans, The Villages and surrounding area its smelly testicles, and the Panhandle of Congressman Matt Gaetz its cancer-ridden prostate.
Gaetz won a fourth term in the U.S. House, defeating Rebekah Jones, the woman who once kept track of Covid infections and deaths in the state and who was arrested at gunpoint by DeSantis’s State Police on spurious charges. DeSantis brooks no dissension in his ranks. Like countless Latin American caudillos, he only wants to be surrounded by sycophants who lick his boots, those like the quack physician Joseph Ladapo, who makes Mehmet Oz look like Dr. Michael DeBakey.
No one should expect that DeSantis will be spending much time in Tallahassee between now and the 2024 election. He will be on the hustings around the country, collecting big checks from fat cat donors. But herein may exist a silver lining in an otherwise dark cloud. DeSantis has already irritated the “Orange One,” also known as El Jefe de Mar-a-Lago. Trump is calling DeSantis “Ron Sanctimonious” and making it clear that there is only room for one Republican presidential candidate in 2024. For Trump’s cult followers, a war now exists between them and DeSantis. For DeSantis fans, the Trump MAGA crowd have become an annoyance. Based on the previous violent actions of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Groypers, Boogaloo Bois, and other far-right terrorists, violent confrontations may break out between the Trump and DeSantis factions. Like the storied mob wars of the 1920s and 30s, we may soon see open warfare in Florida and other places—with shootings, car bombings, arson attacks, and kidnappings the order of the day. As long as the Trumpers and DeSantis sides kill each other off, that will mean a net improvement for Florida and the rest of the country.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and nationally-distributed columnist. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).
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Posted on November 11, 2022 by Wayne Madsen
In voting against their own interests, including maintaining Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans’ benefits, a majority of Florida voters not only decided to give the former Miami “rent boy” Marco Rubio a third term in the U.S. Senate but gave a second term carte blanche to Governor Ron DeSantis to continue his march to establish the first Latin American-style fascist state within America’s borders. However, in securing another term as governor to launch his 2024 presidential campaign, DeSantis has incurred the wrath of Florida’s most infamous landed oligarch, former President Donald Trump. But more on that later.
DeSantis cemented Republican control over the former Democratic stronghold of Miami-Dade County. He also beat his Democratic rival, former Governor Charlie Crist, in the former reliably Democratic Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa. DeSantis’s victory in Hillsborough rewards him for having fired, a few months ago, the twice-elected Democratic state’s attorney for the country, Andrew Warren. DeSantis’s win comes on the heels of his having established an “election police” unit within the Florida Secretary of State’s office. On Election Day, Florida’s pudgy dictator even banned U.S. Justice Department voting rights lawyers from observing the election in the three most populous southern counties of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach.
Just like a Latin American military uniformed caudillo, DeSantis continued to use a photograph of himself wearing his Navy dress white uniform bearing medals, ribbons, and a warfare badge. Some of the commendations are highly unusual for a judge advocate general—a support staffer—what Army personnel call a REMF (rear echelon motherf****r). A quick check of the scant military documents released on DeSantis’s Navy service shows that he had the collateral duty of awards officer, the person in charge of recommending individuals for medals. One can surmise that the egotistical DeSantis recommended himself for the Bronze Star, a combat medal, for his duty behind a desk in Iraq.
DeSantis’s re-election would not have been possible had it not been for the unholy trinity that now overwhelmingly votes to elect Republicans to statewide offices. They are the Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade flanked by wealthy expats from Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua and other Latin American nations; the Bible-thumpers from the Florida Panhandle; and the MAGA/QAnon retirees in central Florida communities like The Villages, Ponte Vedra Beach, and Palm Bay. DeSantis also ingratiated himself to U.S. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy by redrawing Florida’s congressional districts, eliminating three Democratic districts and handing three of the reshaped Florida seats to the Republicans. McCarthy has DeSantis to thank if he receives the House Speaker’s gavel. MSNBC anchor Tiffany Cross—after being harangued on air by Fox News host Tucker Carlson—was fired by the network a few days before the election for saying on a podcast that Florida is the “dick of the country.” She is right. Florida is not just the dick of the country, but Miami-Dade is its gonorrhea-infected glans, The Villages and surrounding area its smelly testicles, and the Panhandle of Congressman Matt Gaetz its cancer-ridden prostate.
Gaetz won a fourth term in the U.S. House, defeating Rebekah Jones, the woman who once kept track of Covid infections and deaths in the state and who was arrested at gunpoint by DeSantis’s State Police on spurious charges. DeSantis brooks no dissension in his ranks. Like countless Latin American caudillos, he only wants to be surrounded by sycophants who lick his boots, those like the quack physician Joseph Ladapo, who makes Mehmet Oz look like Dr. Michael DeBakey.
No one should expect that DeSantis will be spending much time in Tallahassee between now and the 2024 election. He will be on the hustings around the country, collecting big checks from fat cat donors. But herein may exist a silver lining in an otherwise dark cloud. DeSantis has already irritated the “Orange One,” also known as El Jefe de Mar-a-Lago. Trump is calling DeSantis “Ron Sanctimonious” and making it clear that there is only room for one Republican presidential candidate in 2024. For Trump’s cult followers, a war now exists between them and DeSantis. For DeSantis fans, the Trump MAGA crowd have become an annoyance. Based on the previous violent actions of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Groypers, Boogaloo Bois, and other far-right terrorists, violent confrontations may break out between the Trump and DeSantis factions. Like the storied mob wars of the 1920s and 30s, we may soon see open warfare in Florida and other places—with shootings, car bombings, arson attacks, and kidnappings the order of the day. As long as the Trumpers and DeSantis sides kill each other off, that will mean a net improvement for Florida and the rest of the country.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and nationally-distributed columnist. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).