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The DeSantis gambit

Let's see how things are going as Rhonda Santis continues his efforts to remake New College of Florida into a bastion of conservativism.

New College pushes upperclassmen to dorms with mold issues amid influx of student-athletes

New College of Florida is shifting returning students into housing in buildings with mold problems identified by an outside consultant to make way for student-athletes and other incoming freshmen who are part of a conservative transformation of the school launched by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Weeks before the start of the fall semester, the college emailed returning students Tuesday to tell them their housing assignments had been changed at the last minute to accommodate an influx of student-athletes and freshmen. The new cohort would live in the apartment-style Dort and Goldstein buildings — which have historically housed upperclassmen — while returning students would be moved to other, shared-space dorms, such as the older I. M. Pei designed buildings.

Pei dorms, however, were considered virtually uninhabitable due to mold as of early this summer. Although New College housed students in the Pei dorms last semester, a May report commissioned by the school and obtained by the Herald-Tribune concluded that the Pei dorms "should not be occupied in their current condition" due to a systematic mold issue that would require a fiscal investment to repair.
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Yeah, well, if the liberal upperclassmen don't like it, they can just leave! Well, it's not quite that simple:

Students had until July 14 to cancel their housing agreements with no penalty, a deadline only three days after the email was sent.
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DeSantis has got the first thousand yards of his spike covered buoys down the centre of the Rio Grand to stop people swimming across
 
Andy_Ross said:
DeSantis has got the first thousand yards of his spike covered buoys down the centre of the Rio Grand to stop people swimming across
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In times of drought* there are many parts of the rver that are roughly knee deep in the Texas section. I just can't even imagine how anyone might get around, through, or over such a barrier /s. Wrong governor though as someone else pointed out.

*these days, that's most of the time
 
lobosrul5 said:
In times of drought* there are many parts of the rver that are roughly knee deep in the Texas section. I just can't even imagine how anyone might get around, through, or over such a barrier /s. Wrong governor though as someone else pointed out.

*these days, that's most of the time
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It looks like that would require climbing over them, which could be a problem with the spikes. They aren't small buoys.

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Buoys respond to modest charges of dynamite by sinking. Increase the charge and they respond by flying into pieces.

I'm still working up a business plan, but you get the idea.
 
sackett said:
Buoys respond to modest charges of dynamite by sinking. Increase the charge and they respond by flying into pieces.

I'm still working up a business plan, but you get the idea.
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They aren't keen on having their ropes cut.
 
Armitage72 said:
It looks like that would require climbing over them, which could be a problem with the spikes. They aren't small buoys.

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...not seeing any spikes on those things in the pic. Are they just meant to act as some sort of "unclimable" barrier by rolling over when you get to them?

Also, I'm seeing all of them being repurposed by Mexicans within a week, and disappearing to local swimming pools, etc.
 
A new law passed in FL details the standards for teaching Black History in schools.

Among the lines that have drawn criticism, the new Black history standards include a note that slaves "developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."

The note, marked "Clarification 1," appears in a section directing middle-school Black history courses to "examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation)."
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I'm sure they were taught these skills in order to benefit themselves and not their masters. :rolleyes:


The Florida Education Association, the statewide teachers' union, said in a public statement that the guidelines are a "disservice to Florida's students and a big step backward."

"These new standards require middle school students to be taught that the experience of slavery was beneficial to African Americans because it helped them acquire skills," the union claims.

Mandated under the 2022 Stop WOKE Act, the new standards were drafted alongside an African American History Task Force set up under a 1994 Florida law requiring lessons on Black history in Florida public schools.
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The Stop WOKE Act, rebranded as the Individual Freedom Act before passage, was signed in April 2022 by Gov. DeSantis, who claimed it would prevent leftist ideologies and race-shaming from infiltrating public school classrooms.
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The Stop WOKE Act included several controversial clauses that made national headlines, including one section that restricted teachers from suggesting that a person's "status as either privileged or oppressed" is determined by "race, color, national origin, or sex."

In November 2022, a federal judge blocked enforcement of that provision, along with other Stop WOKE Act teaching restrictions, in colleges and universities. The decision is on appeal in the 11th Circuit.
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bruto said:
Most slaves were also allowed to breathe, and that's almost entirely for their benefit! Balance, we need balance!
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I wonder how much money enslaved people earned and kept for themselves from their training in agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, and transportation?
 
bruto said:
Most slaves were also allowed to breathe, and that's almost entirely for their benefit! Balance, we need balance!
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Next up, Florida legislature will mandate that Florida schools emphasis the wonderful employment opportunites deportation to the Concentration Camps opened up for Europaen Jews.
This law shows that the current GOP in Florida main goal is to bring back White Supremacy.
 
Now the piece of **** is looking to sue Bud Light's parent company.

DeSantis calls for state investment manager to consider action against Bud Light’s parent company

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is urging the state’s pension fund manager to consider legal action against Bud Light’s parent company amid conservative backlash to the beermaker’s recent marketing efforts, the latest attempt by the Republican presidential candidate to inject himself and the state he runs into the country’s culture wars.

In a Thursday letter obtained by CNN, DeSantis suggests AB InBev “breached legal duties owed to its shareholders” when it decided to associate with “radical social ideologies.” Sales of Bud Light have plummeted in the months since it entered into a minor partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney that precipitated a boycott from conservatives.

“All options are on the table,” DeSantis wrote, as the state reviews the impact of AB InBev’s recent financial downturn, though it’s unclear what legal recourse the state might have to challenge a multinational corporation’s business decisions.
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None, that's how much recourse they have.

“We must prudently manage the funds of Florida’s hardworking law enforcement officers, teachers, firefighters, and first responders in a manner that focuses on growing returns, not subsidizing an ideological agenda through woke virtue signaling,” DeSantis wrote in the letter to Lamar Taylor, the interim director of the State Board of Administration, the state agency that manages Florida’s retirement funds for public workers. DeSantis oversees the board as a trustee along with the state’s attorney general and chief financial officer, both also Republicans.
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He doesn't give a single ******* **** about any of these people! If you don't like the way the company does business, then just don't invest the state's ******* pension fund money in them, *******!
 
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shemp said:
Now the piece of **** is looking to sue Bud Light's parent company.

DeSantis calls for state investment manager to consider action against Bud Light’s parent company



None, that's how much recourse they have.



He doesn't give a single ******* **** about any of these people! If you don't like the way the company does business, then just don't invest the state's ******* pension fund money in them, *******!
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Ahem...isn't it DeSantis and the GOP who are ranting and raving about the weaponization of government against political opponents? :confused:
 
shemp said:
Now the piece of **** is looking to sue Bud Light's parent company.

DeSantis calls for state investment manager to consider action against Bud Light’s parent company



None, that's how much recourse they have.



He doesn't give a single ******* **** about any of these people! If you don't like the way the company does business, then just don't invest the state's ******* pension fund money in them, *******!
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What the actual ****?? InBev isn't even a US based company. It's possible the shareholders could sue them in... Belgium. If Belgian law allows it. But it's the GoP, they love lawsuits without actual standing.
 
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