Comrade ‘crackers‘, there were moments in the before time when many people, most believing the narrative engineering from the professional political media, thought Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be a voice for freedom and democracy. However, those thoughts dispatched quickly when the actions of the former comedic actor showed a deep red totalitarian underbelly and opposition parties were made illegal, the state took control over all media and even religion was deemed adverse to the interests of the state.
History indeed rhyming, as the ‘new Ukranian democratic norms‘ merged with the totalitarian fiats and timing around the pandemic.
Perhaps we should not have been surprised given that Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the entire European Union were quick to exploit the opportunity COVID-19 created.
Essential citizen definitions quickly promoted, digital identifiers manifested, vaccine passports rushed to assembly, bar and QR code scans for human activity created gateways for permission granted by the state. Meanwhile unregistered movement was restricted, quarantine camps set up and mandatory vaccine compliance was the law.
So, we travel 5,000 miles west from Ukraine, arrive in the sunshine state of Florida circa 2022/2023 and watch as State government takes control over private industry, new laws dictate rules upon local school boards, proposed laws now discussed to ban opposition parties, state officials inserted into newly created government agencies as monitors to regulate commercial activity, and then suddenly something within the latest development under Governor Ron DeSantis starts to rhyme with Ukraine.
FLORIDA – […] Senate Bill 1316: Information Dissemination, would require any blogger writing about government officials to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics.
Yes comrade crackers, the skin of the state is so thin to criticism that words create harm against public officials and must be regulated. Permission to criticize must now be requested and registered with the state government or face financial penalties.
[…] In the bill, Brodeur wrote that those who write “an article, a story, or a series of stories,” about “the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, a Cabinet officer, or any member of the Legislature,” and receives or will receive payment for doing so, must register with state offices within five days after the publication of an article that mentions an elected state official.
If another blog post is added to a blog, the blogger would then be required to submit monthly reports on the 10th of each month with the appropriate state office. They would not have to submit a report on months when no content is published.
For blog posts that “concern an elected member of the legislature” or “an officer of the executive branch,” monthly reports must disclose the amount of compensation received for the coverage, rounded to the nearest $10 value.
Failure to file these disclosures or register with state officials, if the bill passes, would lead to daily fines for the bloggers, with a maximum amount per report, not per writer, of $2,500. The per-day fine is $25 per report for each day it’s late.
The bill also requires that bloggers file notices of failure to file a timely report the same way that lobbyists file their disclosures and reports on assessed fines. Fines must be paid within 30 days of payment notice, unless an appeal is filed with the appropriate office. Fine payments must be deposited into the Legislative Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund if it concerns an elected member of the legislature.
[…] Explicitly, the blogger rule would not apply to newspapers or similar publications, under Brodeur’s proposed legislation. […] Should the bill pass, it would take effect immediately upon approval. (read more)
Why would I provide the context of Ukraine for an outline highlighting the totalitarian mindset that is sweeping through Florida?
The answer is a very simple and visible connective tissue, a connection born from within the schools funded by George Soros, linking both the installation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the branding, management and handling of a notoriously thin-skinned Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Hate speech laws about to be passed in Florida under FAUX conservative governor Ron Desantis.
Penalty for having the “wrong” opinion? 3rd degree felony and 5 years in jail! pic.twitter.com/Bi3ThOOwB7
— Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) March 2, 2023
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RELATED – […] Despite the seemingly cordial tone of the interview, Mr. DeSantis at one point became irritated with his interlocutor.
Mr. Charter writes that when he asked Mr. DeSantis how he would handle American relations with Ukraine, the governor referred “to Biden being ‘weak on the world stage’ and failing at deterrence.”
Mr. Charter pressed for more detail: How would a President DeSantis handle the conflict in Ukraine?
“Perhaps you should cover some other ground?” the governor replied. “I think I’ve said enough.” (link)
Well, neocons are the descendants of the Bolsheviks.
DeSinkhole and the Bullshovits.
Chef boy RD is a Ukrainian meatball?
What a maroon. When its all over he will be as unsavory and exposed as Jeb, Ryan and the rest of the RINO poster childs.
He already is exposed. That’s why he needs to pass an unconstitutional law to shield himself from further criticism and exposure.
More than most people would ever know. It must be a genetic thing.
I work high up in a Democrat machine state and a Democrat much higher up than me told me two years ago that DeSantis would the next president as if it was already planned then
His entire Governorship has been stage managed to this end.
Lefties have built a totalitarian empire by distorting evocative language to mean what they say it means, and the surprisingly powerful tactic of attributing all their cruel and evil qualities/motives to the targeted opposition. The word “hate” alone — which is the essence of who they are — has worked magic for them.
Control of the narrative is everything.
Conservative leadership has known this for several decades. Yet, to this day not only do they have zero clue how to combat this, but they have zero interest in doing so. The Progs laugh.
If “conservative leadership” is incapable of doing the job of conserving, then they simply have stopped being leadership. Whether we call them such or not is moot.
The point of conserving is to conserve, if they can’t figure out how to do that, then they aren’t conservative. Because there is always a way to conserve, otherwise we all would be dead.
Having read the text of the bill, it reminds me of one another state’s stupid legislature passed two decades ago, making it a felony for a chiropractor not licensed in that state to provide chiropractic treatment to any resident of that state, regardless of location the services were provided. The DAG’s response to me: “They can pass any d*** law they want, but I won’t be the fool who tries to enforce it in court.”
Pres. Trump was very wise to throw his hat in the ring for 2024 as early as he did. By doing so, he opened the door for plenty of time for all of this nonsense to be exposed.
Ironic, considering how DeSantis was promoting Florida as the freedom state. Can’t depend on the courts to uphold the First Amendment nowadays either.
Florida is a highly regulated state, believe it or not, it depends on the prism one views it through (insurance industry and to some degree, residential real estate…also employment.
FLORIDA – […] Senate Bill 1316: Information Dissemination, would require any blogger writing about government officials to register with the Florida Office of Legislative Services or the Commission on Ethics.
Would this have anything to do with his recent secret meetings with the establishment social media types?
How can any Republican defend this? Particularly those same social media types?
Will Never-Trumper bloggers be lining up to register like good little sheep?
DeSwampis hits it right on the head.
Wow! I think Sundance is the target…
sounds like an excellent WAY TO GAIN NATIONAL EXPOSURE>
think ABOUT IT.
sundance.?
you understand what I am getting at here?
I will personally raise 1 million dollars guaranteed for legal representation if you find a “need to fight” this stupid and obviously unconstitutional regulation.
I see an opening here.
God Bless America
A certain blogger is trying to keep a low profile as he saves the country.
I was thinking the same thing.
I had the exact same tho’ts.
Free Florida just went from a slogan to a battle cry.
I’d rather see this happening now than later. President Trump will eat Desantis’s lunch with this one. Adsurb is the only way to describe it but then again some people are totally lost on what it is to be culturally an American. Clearly, Desantis doesn’t get it.
He gets it all to well. From one destructive law to the next policy reining in the bill of rights, Marxist know exactly what they are doing.
So this would apply to Truth Social, as well? Is there no outlet for a free people to express and shape their own opinions?
Pres. Trump begins to speak about DeSantis at approx. 14 mins: https://www.dickmorris.com/trump-on-ukraine-war-id-strike-peace-deal-within-24-hours/
this is one of the scarest things I have ever seen on the CTH!
Do we need any more evidence that DeSantis is a stealth UNIPARTY member? Clearly,the UNIPARTY is playing a long game. The Fabian socialists behind it have been doing that for a long time. Woodrow Wilson did it when he ran against Teddy Roosevelt. He pretend that he was not a radical socialist, like Teddy (and like now, he had the media … NYTimes, in fact … helping him out by accusing Teddy of being a socialist. But once he was elected he did far more than Teddy ever dreamed of doing, inacting many of the changes in our government that Fabians had been calling for . It’s the same tactic that FDR employed to get elected. People elected FDR thinking he was going to cut back on Hoover’s spendthrift and be less the liberal than Hoover proved himself to be but once in office he was thrice the liberal and spent more than thrice what Hoover spent. And he, like Wilson, enacted many things that the Fabian Socialists had wanted here in America. Seems to me that now they are at it again. Hopefully this time they won’t get away with it.
By this point everyone should understand that there is not necessarily any substantive truth when anyone declares themselves to be a “republican” or a “democrat”. Anyone can profess whatever ideological leaning they want. It has no more value than if they self-identify as a “liberal”, a “conservative”, or as a tree.
The “republican” and “democrat” branches of the Republi-Crat party have been putting on a theatrical presentation for a very long time in order to con the American People into believing there is actual opposition to the defamation of the Constitution and destruction of everything that has made ‘America’ what it is.
Do not judge them by the rhetoric of their fiery speeches. Do not judge them by the throw away cultural ‘wins’ they endorse. Do not judge them by the theatrical legislative efforts and non-productive hearings/investigations they support. Certainly do not judge them by the very meaningless self-chosen identities they apply to themselves.
Judge them only by the very real ‘good fruit’ they produce in defense of the Constitution, strengthening of the United States of America, and assuring that the God given natural right of self-governance is restored to the American People.
Good post.
Wow!! WTF! This is scary asf! Will this bill actually pass? Are the people of Florida OK with this?
Nope!
Not. At. All.
One other thought….What if DeSantis vetoes this? Will it make him look like a hero? Is that possibly the game-plan behind this? …Just another angle to consider..
That was my first thought. The bill is so over the top ridiculous and illegal there has to be a motive behind it. A veto to preserve the right to free speech is a layup for a campaign ad.
Good point.
the Left never exposes itself unless there is a reason.
President Trump will have something to say about this
and if we uprise against it, they will be forced to get rid of this bill.
If that is the case and it is his honest belief then Ron-Boy should be vociferously speaking up against it now.
From what I understand, isn’t
From what I understand, isn’t Florida’s legislature majority Republican? Why would such a bill be introduced in the first place. Unless as you say RDS does veto it to make him look good. He’s lagging behind Trump in practically all of the recent polls. Being a hero by vetoing this stupid bill could give him a jump in the polls. Trump 2024! No other.
So DeSantis gets “extended powers” related to the system they set up regarding Disney.
Then they passed legislation restricting protests at the capital.
Trump supporters were forced to leave the area where DeSantis was doing a book signing.
Now this.
So glad he is getting exposed before he’s barely out of the gate.
The spirit of John Adams with his Sedition Law lives on …
Ah, the Alien and Sedition Acts.
A Subtle Way for Establishment Republicans to Sabotage Trump: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/03/a_subtle_way_for_establishment_republicans_to_sabotage_trump.html
It’s a set up so the Human Meatball can veto it and look like a hero.
It says if you could make money, I think.
What if you post to twit and make no money?
Do you have to sign up then?
I think this is aimed at PDJT and not us, but it will be interesting to see how broad a net they cast.
If twit makes money, then twit cannot post your tweet or take it down.. Since twit responsible, twit must censor tweets to not be fined.
I urge Team Trump reading here recommend this article to PDJT and the insights spread far and wide.
They couldn’t just come out and name the proposed bill The STOP SUNDANCE ACT?
It would be more honest.
Did the Governor’s Ukraine Barbie come up with this shit?
So the Harvard/Yale graduate proves to be Deep State controlled after all. His clown is pretty cute with the words I guarantee it! Money paid, now time for these deep clowns to deliver. Floridians! You down with these clowns?
Can’t happen? Try going to a DeSantis book signing with MAGA paraphenalia on. Ya get BOOTED!
Remember those MAGA cars shadowing FJ Biden’s campaign bus across the highways of America? I think that ‘chef boy RD’ needs to see MAGA patriots wherever he goes from now on. Screw him and his totalitarian edicts.
Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The oldest senior class society at the university, Skull and Bones has become a cultural institution known for its powerful alumni and various conspiracy theories. It is one of the “Big Three” societies at Yale, the other two being Scroll and Key and Wolf’s Head
Until 1971, the organization published annual membership rosters, which were kept at Yale’s library. In this list of notable Bonesmen, the number in parentheses represents the cohort year of Skull and Bones, as well as their graduation year. There are no official rosters published after 1982 and membership for later years is speculative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Skull_and_Bones_members
I would not be surprised if DeSantis is revealed to be a member of Skull and Bones.
Governor Ron DeSantis is showing his true colors and they are increasingly scary, iron-fisted and unconstitutional.
Over the past week:
– DeSantis had Trump supporters removed from his book signing event.
– A bank owned by one of DeSantis’ big donors closed Don Jr.’s bank account.
Now we have this bill forcing bloggers to register with State of FL if they write about State officials and the new hate crime laws with jail time
Looks like DeSantis intends these actions and laws to silence opposition.
That’s a slippery slope into tyranny – when mere dissent, criticism or exposing truth can be called hate – then punished with political harassment and persecution or jail.
DeSantis is increasingly doing what Stalin (and Øbama) did.
Actually the Trump supporters were not moved from the signing. It is worse. They were removed from the parking lot and not even in the event.
Thanks for adding that…I wasn’t clear enough. You are right – it was the parking lot.
However, when we prayed at the abortion clinics, we could not stand in the parking lots or on any private property – only on public property easements along the streets.
Ron DeShamdemic
WTF: these idiots masks are coming off they haven’t herd about the 1st Amendment and I’m sure FL Constitution has free speech amendment.
Isn’t a blogger protective speech. These people are thin skinned cowards.
That’s one positive – as the masks are removed the better to see the swamp dwellers.
This effort at totalitarian censorship will do exactly what democrats do.
Definitions of “blogs” will change as the Desantis crew realize they are getting hammered by public opinion.
How long will it take until the definition of a “blog” includes any post anyone makes in opposition to Desantis?
How long will it take until ANYTHING said by Trump himself gets considered a “blog”, and they go after Trump for it?
Not long, huh?
This would shut down RSBN as well.
In my own humble experience with “systems”, one is not allowed to make negative comments about a corporation that one works for. In fact, many have that in their policy and procedure manuals.
Right to work states…protecting corporations etc Fabianism as another Treeper posted.
Corporatism is fascism. Power and control, all about the benjamins ‘for thee and not me’.
I think this a step forward to silence all dissent…and most especially,
President Donald J. Trump.
A friendly reminder, a certain Mrs. has a bachelors degree in economics…from SC.
So if I’m getting this right, Florida’s government wants to discourage blogging, while allowing newspapers to operate with no restrictions?
If they didn’t buy you, they don’t want you speaking.
Only blogging that disagrees with or criticizes state government officials.
They are saying that to do so constitutes a hate crime which will now be a felony in Florida.
Separate law proposals here, one targeting bloggers, the other targeting hearts.
This is such a ridiculously outrageous and pathetically idiotic idea.
Who came up with this stinker of an idea needs to be ridiculed, targeted by every single blogger and made a fool of.
that would be the best way to make sure that sort of idiot gets the treatment they deserve for coming up with this dung heap of an idea.
btw..WHY IS florida spending tax payers money shipping illegals all over the country..I understand the point attempting to be made…but does florida have so much money it can spend small fortunes resettling illegal migrants?
that’s another beauty. maybe I don’t understand that program
here is how it works in Louisiana. Illegals arrive and the state spends the bare minimum accomodating them. Most of the money is in fact for law enforcement.
when you advertise spending gobs of money and flying criminals..what do you expect is going to happen?
they are going to FLOCK to your state. Have I got this right?
God Bless America
Resettling migrants this way gives plausible deniability to the ‘one’…..he keeps them here for the CofC…but gets them out of FL for the citizens…
A win win…
Remember this is a governor who once said Florida programs are ‘for Floridians’….well time to speak truth to fiction.
DeSantimonious did not want to pay for the campaign stunt with campaign money so he is getting the state of Florida to pay for it. I suggest this might be a crime.
Print the daily articles. The language doesn’t specify circulation, only that the website of a newspaper is exempt. This seems like the website of a newspaper to me.
Clear violation of the Constitution, in more than one way. Good luck enforcing.
Also, FJB.
Is this what a DeSantis presidency would look like? How is this any different from the Biden administration setting up a disinformation czar or the deep state censoring social media? Who gets to decide what is hate speech? Will DeSantis define what conduct defines hate speech or will it be a ever evolving process. When will bloggers be cited for hate speech for criticism of Florida government officials? You know it’s coming.
Why worry about the totalitarian left when you have actions like this from the so-called right? Where are the ACLU and the civil rights groups on these two disasters? I’m no lawyer, but how could this pass legal scrutiny? If you were on the fence on Trump in 2024, here’s your big wake up call. A DeSantis win in 2024 points toward a dystopian future.
Half Biden’s age but his skin is only half as thick.
There is no legal scrutiny when the judicial branch is just as corrupted as the rest of the government. Rubber stamps all down the line nowadays.
I’ve said since Day One that DeSantis was a $3.00 bill: fakery literally oozes out of him.
What a dangerous, spiteful little man: Florida’s Zelensky !
“…spiteful little man.”
‘Lil Ron!
Will this not expose “journalists” patrons? Is the strategy simply to start exposing who or what is funding these “journalists” who soak up the most bandwidth? I don’t agree with the one-size-fits-all approach, but the vast majority — 96% — of “media” is negatively designed against Conservative views and American Culture, by “journalists” who are paid by charlatans — foreign and domestic — to cause mischief and dissent?
I prefer DJT over RdS, but I don’t think RdS is part of that club.
Watching out.
The state should have no interest in who funds journalists. Period.
Just a few points to remember when it comes to Florida statutes.
It’s like an onion. As time goes on, each layer is peeled back, and exposes more of the truth within. DeSantis is going to implode….not only lose whatever hope he had of being the Republican candidate in 2024, but lose whatever support he had as the Florida governor. We are watching his political suicide. Amazing.
Aggiegirl will from hence forth, respectfully refrain from any comment regarding Turnpike Lane usage.
As I approach retirement, I have a bigger interest in Florida, than I did before. I am slowly crossing states off my list.
that is pretty funny
my sister and her husband live in Ca.
they are looking to move for obvious reasons
I am assisting her in researching states.
Thus far, our list of cross offs is greater
than the possibilities LOL
WTF has happened in and to the people of Florida.
If DeSantis signs this bill his national ambitions are toast.
BINGO! My tho’ts exactly! I can just see everyone asking about this on his national “book tour”.
Know thy enemy, for he most certainly will KNOW YOU!
Proverbs 30:15, 16
“There are three things that are never satisfied,
four that never say, ‘Enough!’:
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the grave, the barren womb,
land, which is never satisfied with water,
and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!’
Add to that POWER! It is never enough for those who hold it…
When people without principle secure power, then power alone is worshiped as the highest principle.
– JB Shurk
What is the status of this bill in the legislature? What does “about to be passed” mean? Is this being covered by the legislative affairs reporters in FL? Has DeSantis spoken about it in public? Why not?
voting won’t matter, da fix is in
So the bill hasn’t been passed yet?
More business for lawyers! For FL residents who actually endure endless advertisements…Morgan and Morgan will be there for you!
NO.
Is it a God-given right to hate? I suggest they want to smear God by using him to approve hatred.
If this passes, then they only need to redefine what a hate crime is.
For instance, I feel that the passage of this law be declared a hate crime so we can put the legislature in prison for 5 years.
Politics is downstream from culture.
The explosion in the percentage of Americans raised in single-parent families has produced a generation of young people frightened of so many things, including political debate.
The Co-Vid crisis would have been so different, if most children still lived in two-parent households.
Can’t put this “Jack” back in the box. It’s disappointing to see a good governor – at least in effect – reveal his true self, but it’s better to discover his true persona now rather than later. Nevertheless, it was obvious from the moment he failed to come to President Trump’s aid when the DOJ /FBI raided Mar-a-Lago. Money corrupts and DeSantis is bought and paid for. Yet, It is stunning to see how easily our elected lawmakers ignore their oaths and propose totally incompatible laws with our nation’s Constitution, Bill of Rights, and history of individual freedoms. America is like a handful of sand slipping from between our fingers. This is a sentinel moment. I have a dreadful fear that we will see it gone with the wind in our lifetimes.
I warned about this “hate” speech moniker the moment that B Hussein’s minions trotted it out. “Hate” is a subjective term that has no business in our Constitutional freedoms of speech and expression.
I don’t “hate” anybody, as good Christians are taught otherwise. But that doesn’t mean I can’t state my own opinions that happen to be contrary to the opinions of others.
This is a blatant attack on our God-given right to free speech protected under the Constitution of the United States, and Sundance is correct: The Florida Republicans who ascribe to this nonsense are the same ones who have zero desire to jettison Florida’s fraudulent computer voting terminals.
Why do these globalists “hate” Americans so much that they persist in attacking ALL of our God-given freedoms codified under our Constitution?
How can slander be allowed by faceless and nameless individuals?
There should be one standard for the media, politicians and individual citizens.
Slander is not about inconsiderate comments that hurt someone’s feelings.
Slander is about deliberate untrue statements intended to damage someone’s reputation.
If an adult is sexually molesting a young child he or she can be truthfully called a pervert.
That is true and not slander.
To accuse such a person of hate speech is slander because they hate what is evil and ugly.
Even when I did not identify as conservative, I knew hate crimes were a total sham, as in all murders are a “hate crime”.
Politicians are public figures. The slander angle is very difficult to prosecute.
If it passed, and I lived there and would be compensated for writing something GOOD about them, I wouldn’t bother.
All the more reason to always follow that money trail, from start to finish.
If your motivation is hate?
So now we want the state determining this?
This goes way over the top and shows Republicans can’t be trusted when they have absolute control.
Hi, I’m Ronnie D! Better be nice to me. #PleaseClap
This law is so stupidly crafted and easily defeated in court, that I wonder if it’s not being offered up as a “slow pitch” for DeSantis. He comes out blasting it and gets to parade crowd-pleasing rhetoric about how Florida will never block speech under his watch, etc, etc… Get’s another neo-con notch in his belt for use as sound bites later.
Yep. Seems that way to me, also.
I’m very glad his layers are being peeled back and he is being exposed so clearly. Huge TY to the journalists who are bringing the receipts.
A “New Conservatism” emerges https://dc.claremont.org/a-new-conservatism-must-emerge/
I’ve been warning others of these Laws being passed, for the sole purpose of saving the people from themselves. When the next emergency unfolds we’ll be getting the Patriot Act 2.0