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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 265 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Is Florida finally at maximum capacity for rapists and weirdos?

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago

The bar was raised while Tate was in Romania. He’s gonna have to step it up to fit in now. A couple of swastika neck tattoos ought to do it.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You may be on to something. maybe there's a branigan's law about rapists and pedophiles in Florida. Once you hit a certain limit the state just stops accepting new ones.

Trump must be back at Mar-A-Lago rn

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[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I hear Washington DC is taking applications

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

its called virtue/performative signalling, he will probably quietly allow them into the state when all the news blows over.

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[–] Hafty@lemmy.world 111 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I’m a Florida resident. Ron DeSantis sucks. Let me preface it. However, about 1-2x a year he does something that actually doesn’t suck.

[–] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 42 points 4 days ago

"a broken clock is right twice a day"

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if DeSantis is actually afraid Tate could take his job

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago

Well he is term limited as governor, Tate is perfectly aligned with republican values (raped countless women) and he's famous.

You might be on to something!

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

I'd say a rapist could never be a leader.... oh.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Every broken clock is right twice a day, more than Ron the santis

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 4 days ago

Florida just got rid of one pedo/rapist. He doesn't want a replacement.

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 146 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Weird, he’s their exact target market…???

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

I wouldve figured he'd be hiring him as his campaign manager.

[–] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Trump will probably give them cabinets posts, they seem suitably qualified to join his inner circle.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Department of human trafficking control

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Department
Of
United
Collaborative
Human-trafficking
Efficiency

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 95 points 5 days ago (7 children)

What a weird conflict. I don't know who I want to win. Is it possible for them both to lose somehow? Like some kind of -1 sum game?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Send tate to florida. Then get out a saw, and cut Florida away and into the Ocean. Then use ropes to connect Hawaii and Alaska to the mainland.

Now you can claim that only connected states can be states. Also, international no fly, no sail zone 300 miles around florida at any time. No one leaves.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 32 points 4 days ago

Bugs had the right idea in 1949.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The only way in or out is via gay party boat ferry.

[–] Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago

With rescued immigrants onboard

[–] nick@midwest.social 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just wait 20 years. It’ll be underwater.

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days ago (5 children)

...Trump-hating [Ron DeSantis] has disgraced himself by stating that [Andrew Tate] and [Tristan Tate] are not welcome in Florida!"

Did I miss something? Since when do DeSantis and Trump not align on their shit values?

But also, I mean, it doesn't have to be said, but fuck all of them with a chainsaw.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They align on their values but DeSantis considers himself Trump's rival for the presidency.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 days ago (5 children)

That's what makes his anti-Tate stance exceedingly cute, on so many levels. Not only does he lack the power or will or conviction of his words, but no-one one either side gives two shits what DeSantis has to say on this topic, or any other.

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Well, their recruitment along with the Silk Road guy is all part of Trump's plans to start massive human trafficking and drug trafficking organizations. He needs their expertise in human trafficking so he forced Romania to let them come here.

The current node for human trafficking, to help cover where people are being sent, is Guantanamo (and Panama). That's Ron's old stomping grounds. And while I think he's cool with torture of "terrorists," he's not so into mass rape of women, egg farming, genocide to grave rob America. I think he also got freaked out by the Les Miserable song at the Governor's Ball (he cowered) and all the loud loud pushback he's experiencing from people calling in constantly to complain and also the protests.

Or maybe he's just mad they took the spot he wanted.

nbcnews.com/investigations/incoming-trump-administration-plans-deport-migrants-countries-rcna182896

nbcnews.com/news/rcna189522

semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/trump-administration-container-company-to-provide-temporary-migrant-housing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-deportations-panama

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5307156/immigration-dhs-memo-trump-migrant-detention-military-bases

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[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 65 points 4 days ago (2 children)

man when you're too terrible for Florida conservatives to want you there, you know you're a terrible person

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago

Sounds like cabinet material.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

I mean... He seems exactly like the kind of person they would want to associate with. He must have spilled a lot of beans while in, or to get out of prison.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago

ron desantis is the guy who sues disney for some fucking reason

andrew tate is the guy who sold an online university centered around being a rapist.

scratch that, andrew tate is a rapist.

let's ask the gov't of romania

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I have no idea who Andrew Tate is. So I looked him up on Wikipedia, and he seems like the kind of awful person who would be a darling of the MAGAsphere.

Could someone explain to me why DeSantis doesn't want him then?

[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee 26 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Desantis has make a huge show of “stopping human traffickers” and there’s no way he can welcome them without being called out on hypocrisy. He can pass this off as a “White House thing” and try to keep his position.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Being called out on hypocrisy has never stopped a conservative before. Hell, it’s practically required.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Hypocrisy, no. He views Tate as a threat against him and his position of power somehow.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

........ignorance truely is bliss. I wish I never heard of andrew tate. Oh man, the amount of appauling, cringe inducing things you get to hear from him for the first time???

You know how when you meet someone who's never seen your favorite movie that you've watched 800+ times, and you're jealous they get to see it for the first time?

Yeah, I feel the opposite of that today for you. Like I'm genuinely worried about your mental health if everyone starts sending you videos and quotes of his all at once. I imagine that may cause a mental breakdown.

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago

Desantis is clearly worried that Andrew Tate will push him out of the running for "biggest piece of shit in the United States"... These guys take that award very seriously

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 36 points 5 days ago

Good to see Romania is deporting criminal immigrants

[–] Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, a broken clock is right twice a day

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 days ago

Florida's clock keeps blinking 14:88 for some reason...

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Nice to know that piece of shit has a line in the sand somewhere. 'convicted rapists and human traffickers' is a horrible line to have to get to but at least it's there? Still though, fuck DeSantis.

[–] castlebravo404@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 4 days ago

They still haven't prosecuted Gaetz.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Oh no! Republicans are NOT going to like That!

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

You gotta be real fucked up for Florida to reject you

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

I think they are at capacity for rapists with Trump and Gaetz already there.

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