Today's Tiedrich rant: fascism is alive and well in Florida

[FakeNoose]

Link: https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/fascism-is-alive-and-well-in-florida

imagine that you’re chilling at home after a hard day at work. out of the clear blue, there’s a knock at the front door.

it’s not just any knock. it’s one of those knocks — a little too loud, a little too insistent. your pulse quickens as you cross the room — and sure enough, when you open the door, standing before you is an officer of the law.

he holds up a copy of your driver’s license. is this you? he waves a document in your face. did you sign this? what the fuck is going on? is this Nazi Germany?
no, it’s Fascist Florida.

Isaac Menasche remembers being at the Cape Coral farmer’s market last year when someone asked him if he’d sign a petition to get Florida’s abortion amendment on the ballot.

He said yes — and he told a law enforcement officer as much when one showed up at the door of his Lee County home earlier this week.

Menasche said he was surprised when the plainclothes officer twice asked if it was really Menasche who had signed the petition. The officer said he was looking into potential petition fraud.

Though the officer was professional and courteous, Menasche, who has had little interaction with police in his life, said the encounter left him shaken.

.... welcome to life in Ron DeSantis’s Fascist Florida. Florida Republicans, you see, have a bit of a problem: abortion is on the ballot this November.

- more at link -

There's a lot to munch on here. Tiedrich talks about fascism in Florida, Texas, Arlington Nat'l Cemetery and more.

Please read the rest on Tiedrich's blog, "Everyone is entitled to my own opinion."

[Ferryboat]

1. Tiedrich has a way of making a point and getting a laugh at the same time.

Humor goes alooong ways making it all bearable.

[surfered]

2. And in Texas, where the Attorney General searched the home of an 80+ year old Latino woman

..who happened to be a voter activist. The state police would not let her change out of her bathrobe while the search was under way. They seized her phone and computer.

Obvious voter intimidation.