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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said he would support the legal fund of a man who is accused of vandalizing a display by The Satanic Temple inside the Iowa Capitol on Thursday.

Michael Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for knocking over and destroying a statue erected by the temple inside the capitol, The Des Moines Register first reported.

“Satan has no place in our society and should not be recognized as a ‘religion’ by the federal government,” DeSantis said on X, formerly Twitter. “I’ll chip in to contribute to this veteran’s legal defense fund. Good prevails over evil — that’s the American spirit.”

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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 61 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

As a Florida resident I have the same comment in my head whenever this idiot racist homophobic governor says shit like this, and that is "don't you have better shit to do?" Because look at all of the problems in this state, meanwhile this idiot is so blinded by his fucking culture war and his religious servility or the lure of the power that these things bring to him.

Meanwhile he's got staffers making campaign videos with Nazi iconography while real Nazis are parading around the state threatening the many Jewish folks here, he's got an entire coastline that's collapsing to unusability because not just he but his predecessor and his entire political party believe that if you ban the term "climate change" from political dialogue the problem will just magically go away. Then you have this fucktard interfering with our already garbage and broken school system, and interfering not in ways to make it better but much much worse, and then making college worse for the actual adults who should be allowed to make their choices on if they want to explore gender or racial studies, while also not having propaganda that literally tells them "it's okay the slaves benefitted from slavery" forced on them because of a bunch of political assholes trying to reshape the world to be more accepting of checks notes fucking slavery.

Fuck Ron DeSantis, fuck Rick Scott, and fuck the Florida GOP, they are garbage people making a vulnerable overly populated state much much worse, the GOP doesn't fix things, they hoard power and wealth that's their only real purposes.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"don't you have better shit to do?"

What could possibly be more important to a politician than pandering for votes?

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Slandering women and minorities?

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

It's too close to election season to focus on that

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

That's the main problem with the GOP, they're too much "politician" and not enough "leader" or "fixer", it's all about greed and power with them rather than trying to solve problems for the people that they're supposed to be responsible.

Part of the problem is also conservatism/"libertarianism", like what's the point of being elected to government positions when you don't even believe the government should exist? They're just saboteurs undermining efforts to drag this country into the future.