Conservatism News and Discussions

[wjfox]

Their greed is INSATIABLE.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... s-30127537

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Ron DeSantis Is a Case Study in the Threat of Fascism in the US
https://truthout.org/articles/ron-desan ... in-the-us/

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pursued white supremacist policies with deep roots in the Jim Crow era.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ascendant in U.S. politics, with new polling indicating that Donald Trump would now lose to DeSantis if Republican voters were given a choice today about who to vote for in a presidential primary for 2024. But what mainstream media are too often failing to recognize is how DeSantis’s political actions — from his shameful treatment of migrants to his use of election police to terrorize voters — are fueling the emergence of fascist politics in the United States.

Too often issues are dealt with in the mainstream press in an utterly isolated fashion, removed from both a historical context and a number of related issues. For instance, many of the policies enacted by GOP legislators, such as the banning of books, resonate with policies that were used in Nazi Germany and other totalitarian countries in the 1930s and 1970s.

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Lauren Boebert Accused of 'Seducing' Married Man With 'Money and Gifts' Leading to Restraining Order

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert is accused of "seducing" a married man with "money and gifts," leading to animosity between the women in addition to restraining order drama.

"She made it all about her. She became enmeshed in our lives," Colorado housewife Jennifer Martinez said in an explosive new interview, shedding light on the private feud that transpired after the two met while working together.

RadarOnline.com has learned that Martinez's estranged husband, Matt Archambault, first crossed paths with Boebert in 2013 when he took a job as the chef at her restaurant, Shooters Grill, in Rifle, Colorado.

She said they hit it off immediately, and Boebert was allegedly quick to shower him with gifts. "Not long after, she called me up and said, 'Do you mind if I buy him this $700 golf club for his birthday? I can say it's from you.'"

"And I was like, 'No, it's okay we've already gotten him a birthday gift,'" Martinez told Daily Mail, noting the fact she had to call should've been a hint that it was "not appropriate."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... c044&ei=29

Right wing christen values destroy two more families.

[firestar464]

This is more like interpersonal drama with little relation to the ills of conservatism

[wjfox]

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Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals As 2024 Priority
https://newrepublic.com/post/173668/rep ... 4-priority

States across the country are moving to provide universal free school meals to all our children. Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to stop them from doing just that.

The Republican Study Committee (of which some three quarters of House Republicans are members of) on Wednesday released its desired 2024 budget, in which the party boldly declares its priority to eliminate the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) from the School Lunch Program. Why? Because “CEP allows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.”

The horror.

Of note is that the CEP is not even something every school participates in; it is a meal service program reserved for qualifying schools and districts in low-income areas. The program enables schools that predominantly serve children from low-income backgrounds to offer all students free breakfast and lunch, instead of means testing them and having to manage collecting applications on an individual basis. As with many universal-oriented programs, it both is more practically efficient, and as a bonus, lifts all boats. This is what Republicans are looking to eliminate.

It’s the kind of provision that many would want every school to participate in. Why not guarantee all our children are well-fed as they learn to think and learn about our world, and their place in it, after all?

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DeSantis axes funding for Central Florida flood prevention, Black history fest

Gov. Ron DeSantis axed funding on Thursday for Central Florida projects to stop flooding during the next hurricane, strengthen government cybersecurity defenses, celebrate Black history and tackle gun violence.

The governor’s nearly $511 million veto list included about $15.3 million in projects for Orange, Osceola, Lake and Seminole counties.

DeSantis defended his veto list as showing fiscal restraint in a $116.5 billion budget that makes “historic investments in education, public safety, infrastructure, and the environment.”

Democrats, though, blasted DeSantis’ veto decisions.

“Unfortunately, many good projects that would have relieved Florida’s taxpayers with everything from flood water mitigation to neighborhood resource centers were vetoed because the governor is disconnected from the needs of average Floridians,” said state Rep. Rita Harris, D-Orlando.

Republican state Sen. Joe Gruters also slammed DeSantis, saying in a statement that the governor “took it out on Sarasota County” because Gruters endorsed former President Trump in the 2024 GOP primary.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/06 ... tory-fest/

[firestar464]

DeSantis be sounding oddly progressive ngl

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DeSantis sues Biden administration over university accrediting system
Source: AP

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the state has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Education over accreditation agencies, which control federal aid for students.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale federal court, challenges a federal law that requires colleges and universities to submit to private accreditors to qualify for federal funding. It targets the U.S. Department of Education, Secretary Miguel Cardona and other federal officials.

The lawsuit comes as DeSantis, who is seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, imposes his conservative agenda on the state’s education system. Earlier this year, he appointed trustees to the board of New College of Florida, a tiny Sarasota school of about 1,000 students that was best known for its progressive thought and creative course offerings. The new board intends to turn the school into a classical liberal arts school modeled after conservative favorite Hillsdale College in Michigan.

Speaking about the accreditation lawsuit on Thursday, DeSantis said he refuses “to bow to unaccountable accreditors who think they should run Florida’s public universities.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/desantis-law ... 282e969162

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Millhiser: The Supreme Court's lawless, completely partisan student loans decision, explained
https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/6/30/23 ... hn-roberts

Let’s not beat around the bush. The Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Nebraska, the one canceling President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program, is complete and utter nonsense. It rewrites a federal law which explicitly authorizes the loan forgiveness program, and it relies on a fake legal doctrine known as “major questions” which has no basis in any law or any provision of the Constitution.

If you were counting on loan forgiveness — and Biden’s loan forgiveness program would have forgiven $10,000 worth of loans for most student borrowers, and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients — you will not receive it because of a decision the Court handed down on Friday, in a 6-3 vote entirely along party lines.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the Court’s majority of Republican-appointees. Justice Elena Kagan dissented on behalf of the Court’s Democratic appointees.

There are legitimate policy debates to be had over the Biden plan’s efficacy, fairness, and necessity. But one thing that should have been straightforward was its legality.

A 2003 federal law known as the Heroes Act gives the secretary of the Department of Education sweeping authority to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs ... as the Secretary deems necessary in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency.”

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'We want dictator Trump': America First activist publicly calls for 'Trumpian Reich'

Tyler Russell, a Canadian nationalist leader of the America First movement, has called for Donald Trump to be installed as "dictator" in a "Trumpian Reich."

In a clip obtained by Right Wing Watch, Russell told the audience of his daily broadcast about his vision for a Trump government.

"All of these DeSantis, you know, libertarian populist people that are like, we need to actually have political substance," he complained. "No, I don't give a f--k about that, okay? I don't care about your political substance."

"I want a Trump Reich," he continued. "And I want Trump's face to be, you know, projected onto every single tallest skyscraper in every city around America, okay?"

Russell insisted that his followers did not want "freedom."

"We want a total Trumpian Reich, okay?" he said. "That's what we want. We want a total Trumpian Reich. We want dictator Trump."

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[firestar464]

He's literally Canadian lmao- why is he in America First

[Powers]

He's literally Canadian lmao- why is he in America First

Self explanatory imho...

[Time_Traveller]

He basically wants Trump to be Hitler of the 21st century.

[Powers]

He basically wants Trump to be Hitler of the 21st century.

He WANTS to be the new Hitler.