GOP governors get away with it because the MAGAts are all for it, UNLESS and UNTIL they perceive it to be hurting themselves.
Back in the Dec 22, 2018 - Jan. 25, 2019 government shutdown, local news channels across the country interviewed locals who were impacted. Without fail, everytime a MAGAt was interviewed, they all said the same th…
GOP governors get away with it because the MAGAts are all for it, UNLESS and UNTIL they perceive it to be hurting themselves.
Back in the Dec 22, 2018 - Jan. 25, 2019 government shutdown, local news channels across the country interviewed locals who were impacted. Without fail, everytime a MAGAt was interviewed, they all said the same thing - we LOVE trump, we SUPPORT trump, but this is hurting US and OUR families....
As long as they perceive it to be hurting immigrants, communities of color, the disadvantaged and especially the LIBS, they are fine with it.
In terms of DeSantis - he knows what he's doing - nothing takes effect until final decisions late into 2023 - well after the 2022 elections, well before any economic impact on jobs or county financial obligations, when they can quietly let the whole thing drop and hope Disney and others learned a lesson....
Polls in Texas show Beto O'Rourke in a statistical tie with Abbot. If he could succeed in turning Texas blue, it blunts a whole helluva lot of electoral harm the GOP has been churning out. I live here and I donate, but it's one race others might want to give at a least a few dollars to.....
MoosesMom seems exactly right that the state of Florida will drop the Disney district dissolution after the election. Charlie makes a parenthetical comment about a Bloomberg Tax piece. That piece makes pretty clear that bondholders should be able to block dissolution of the district until there is full payment for what I gather is about $1 billion in outstanding debt. I would think the only way that debt gets paid near-term would be for the State of Florida to provide some way to pay it off, perhaps with state money. But legislators seem to have "overlooked" this in the recent legislative action, and my guess is that this will be a key reason for Florida to "let the whole thing drop" before it ever takes effect.
Republican legislators were full of commentary about how this wasn't going to cost local taxpayers anything because the money would still be coming from Disney, so its okay.
I don't know the intricacies of the Florida law in this cases, but all the analysis I have seen says that those legislators were so full of shit their eyes should have been solid brown.
That seems to be one thing that separates Republican voters from Democratic ones. Unless and until something affects them personally, Republican voters don't care. But Democrats care if something affects people other than them.
And yes, you rightly go even further; they don't care until things hurt them, but they are delighted when things hurt people they hate. And they hate a lot of people.
Just look at the Cheneys. Anti-gay until Dick's daughter came out. Look at covid. It took a serious brush with it for a lot of Republicans to even acknowledge the whole thing wasn't just made up. When masking was encouraged to help prevent the spread of covid, and mitigate its impacts on others, Republicans bristled, because "I don't wanna wear no face diaper."
As long as the "right people" are getting hurt it is all good... in fact, it is kind of the point. As long as it looks like that's what you are doing, things are just fine.
They're content in their miserable lives, in a way, as long as they think their representatives are making someone else more miserable. It's why they'll never leave the GOP over their insane trickle-down tax cuts, that do little to nothing for the economy, but reliably exacerbate wealth inequality; as long as they think someone else is getting screwed by their Republican overlords more than they are, they'll keep voting for the GOP.
I completely agree, and have a few more examples. Over 20 years ago I read about some Nevada Republican ranchers who suddenly became environmentalists, when their own wells were poisoned by uranium mining activities. Nancy Reagan switched her opinion on fetal stem cell research from against to favorable once her beloved Ronnie got Alzheimer’s Disease, and stem cell research seemed to hold the most promise for a cure. Republicans are rooted in self interest. Period. Democrats have more interest in the common good, especially those citizens who are hurting. It’s a matter of empathy versus no empathy. Christians? Not so much.
GOP governors get away with it because the MAGAts are all for it, UNLESS and UNTIL they perceive it to be hurting themselves.
Back in the Dec 22, 2018 - Jan. 25, 2019 government shutdown, local news channels across the country interviewed locals who were impacted. Without fail, everytime a MAGAt was interviewed, they all said the same thing - we LOVE trump, we SUPPORT trump, but this is hurting US and OUR families....
As long as they perceive it to be hurting immigrants, communities of color, the disadvantaged and especially the LIBS, they are fine with it.
In terms of DeSantis - he knows what he's doing - nothing takes effect until final decisions late into 2023 - well after the 2022 elections, well before any economic impact on jobs or county financial obligations, when they can quietly let the whole thing drop and hope Disney and others learned a lesson....
Polls in Texas show Beto O'Rourke in a statistical tie with Abbot. If he could succeed in turning Texas blue, it blunts a whole helluva lot of electoral harm the GOP has been churning out. I live here and I donate, but it's one race others might want to give at a least a few dollars to.....
MoosesMom seems exactly right that the state of Florida will drop the Disney district dissolution after the election. Charlie makes a parenthetical comment about a Bloomberg Tax piece. That piece makes pretty clear that bondholders should be able to block dissolution of the district until there is full payment for what I gather is about $1 billion in outstanding debt. I would think the only way that debt gets paid near-term would be for the State of Florida to provide some way to pay it off, perhaps with state money. But legislators seem to have "overlooked" this in the recent legislative action, and my guess is that this will be a key reason for Florida to "let the whole thing drop" before it ever takes effect.
Republican legislators were full of commentary about how this wasn't going to cost local taxpayers anything because the money would still be coming from Disney, so its okay.
I don't know the intricacies of the Florida law in this cases, but all the analysis I have seen says that those legislators were so full of shit their eyes should have been solid brown.
That seems to be one thing that separates Republican voters from Democratic ones. Unless and until something affects them personally, Republican voters don't care. But Democrats care if something affects people other than them.
And yes, you rightly go even further; they don't care until things hurt them, but they are delighted when things hurt people they hate. And they hate a lot of people.
Just look at the Cheneys. Anti-gay until Dick's daughter came out. Look at covid. It took a serious brush with it for a lot of Republicans to even acknowledge the whole thing wasn't just made up. When masking was encouraged to help prevent the spread of covid, and mitigate its impacts on others, Republicans bristled, because "I don't wanna wear no face diaper."
As long as the "right people" are getting hurt it is all good... in fact, it is kind of the point. As long as it looks like that's what you are doing, things are just fine.
They're content in their miserable lives, in a way, as long as they think their representatives are making someone else more miserable. It's why they'll never leave the GOP over their insane trickle-down tax cuts, that do little to nothing for the economy, but reliably exacerbate wealth inequality; as long as they think someone else is getting screwed by their Republican overlords more than they are, they'll keep voting for the GOP.
I completely agree, and have a few more examples. Over 20 years ago I read about some Nevada Republican ranchers who suddenly became environmentalists, when their own wells were poisoned by uranium mining activities. Nancy Reagan switched her opinion on fetal stem cell research from against to favorable once her beloved Ronnie got Alzheimer’s Disease, and stem cell research seemed to hold the most promise for a cure. Republicans are rooted in self interest. Period. Democrats have more interest in the common good, especially those citizens who are hurting. It’s a matter of empathy versus no empathy. Christians? Not so much.