Saving click: this is about migrant workers who might get arrested under new FL immigration law.
This is going to absolutely devastate Florida. They need as many people as possible to do work, simply not enough workers live in Florida to rebuild it after a massive weather event. Anything that prevent workers from entering Florida means anyone working in Florida can charge more.
This may actually sink Desantas as a presidential candidate. There are more storms on the way. a slightly damaged house can become unlivable if subsequent events.
This may actually sink Desantas as a presidential candidate.
Nah, they’ll just spin the blame on “greedy migrants”, and you know people will buy that
Don’t you know the migrants are causing the hurricanes in the first place.
Republican preachers in the 1980’s explained clearly so that we all understand that hurricanes only hit gay people.
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Florida also has a number of restrictive rules about other trades/services not accepting out of state certifications. Traditionally this has been to protect Florida trades, but has become a monopoly where service is degrading while costing more.
Even then there was a lot of ‘off book’ work done by people who could do the job. Basically smaller jobs there would be easily knocked out, and less profitable have to wait for an official company to acknowledge them or just get someone. Small damages can become big problems if not fixed before the next storm.
This is going to absolutely devastate Florida.
Good. This is what they wanted, as reflected by their votes.
They need as many people as possible to do work
No they don’t. The only thing they need is to be economically and politically quarantined. Florida has become an openly fascist state is a threat to the well-being of the US and the rest of its people. They need to understand the consequences of their choices.
This may actually sink Desantas as a presidential candidate.
Nope. DeSantis was never a viable opponent to Trump, and the numbers have reflected that from day one.
I’ll take the stance this is actually a positive, since rebuilding after a hurricane in florida is a bad idea to begin with. It’s just gonna keep happening and keep intensifying in severity. The more people who relocate out the less people there’ll be at risk.
And the less Electoral College votes that shithole has too. Let the Everglades reclaim it all.
I thought part of the problem is that they don’t change electoral votes anymore.
That’s why city votes is sometimes worth 1/4 of a dead mining town vote.
You’re thinking of the # of representatives not growing with the population like it’s supposed to. But even then, they ARE reapportioned based on the census. The census also reapportions electoral votes. AND if there’s enough population shift there’s also the redrawing of district lines.
So basically, yes FL losing / drastically shifting population could impact all sorts of things every 10 years.
Florida’s MAGA magnetism is a net positive for the rest of the country. They’re effectively gerrymandering themselves by packing into one voting area. Even if they gain EC votes, other areas of the country will be relatively more Blue and as Florida policies Brownback their quality of life, it’ll only help the Dems win votes.
Good. You keep electing fascists, you deserve to suffer for your choice.
There is strong gerrymandering going on there. That form of vitoing ensures the most extreme rise to the top since the other views never have enough votes to tip an election.
Sure, but DeSantis won a statewide election, unaffected by gerrymandering. So even though FL’s congress has more extreme people because of that, they’re not the only ones who enacted this law. They didn’t have to elect a fascist as a state, but they did.
Saying that, I do feel bad for the Floridians who didn’t vote for him and get fucked over because of this. But anyone who voted for DeSantis deserves whatever they get from his cruel actions.
Governor races are just as susceptible to gerrymandering as any other race.
I can see Florida becoming the new Detroit over the next few storm seasons because of this.
Once the rot takes hold it’s a ton of work to reverse.
It won’t go that far unless people stop wanting to live in Florida. Since they are still building condos at the 500k+ level as fast as possible, I doubt they see significant decline.
