A right-wing extremist who once cheered the prospect of executing gay people just won a seat in the Florida Legislature.
Republican Marshall Rawson won 68.15 percent of the vote in Florida House District 10, easily beating Democrat Merrillee Malwitz Jipson in deep red North Florida. His victory was widely expected in the heavily Republican district. But in August, Rawson won the GOP primary for the open seat in a surprise victory over Chase Brannan, the son of retiring Florida Rep. Chuck Brannan.
Some of his extremist rhetoric had been reported in local outlets like Clay News & Views, which in January spotlighted a 2023 post on Twitter, now X, in which Rawson shared a report on Uganda charging men with “aggravated homosexuality.” Responding to the prospect of the men facing the death penalty, Rawson wrote, “This is how you would run the pervs and miscreants out of Florida.”
Florida Politics reported on Rawson’s lengthy involvement with the League of the South, which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center since 2000. He also criticized the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and posted that “taking old dead communist heroes of the past and dressing them up as Christian Conservatives isn’t conservatism, it’s defeatism.”
Seems there’s a new George Wallace in the south.
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Florida voters elect neo-nazi who marched in Charlottesville.
FTFY
Florida is where all this ratfucking got its reboot 26 years ago and put us on such a terrible path. Yeah I’m still pissed.
On the plus side, they keep sinking into the ocean.
The worst part about that whole fiasco wasn’t even the hanging chads, it was the fact that since Fox News called the election before recounts, the courts decided it would rock the boat too much to reverse course after realizing Gore actually won. Still boggles the mind to this day.
It was so fun when the assholes starting going on about “Sore Loserman” in the aftermath of not counting the ballots.
Also, stuff like the Brooks Brothers riot, JFC.
As someone who was a small child at the time.
Holy fuck. Holy fucking fuck that’s fucked up.
The rot that took root in Florida is much older than 26.
Slavery. Civil war —> KKK.
Goes back before the civil war to our idiotic founding fathers who didn’t understand what freedom and liberty were because of their own bigotry and desire to own humans
I think it depends on the founder.
Agreed to certain extents but even the best were blinded by the standards of their time, which is fair enough… but ultimately, IMO, they effectively all founded the country on the foundational ideals of: “We got already got ours, let’s pull up the ladder”
ultimately, IMO, they effectively all founded the country on the foundational ideals of: “We got already got ours, let’s pull up the ladder”
Nope! It was taxation without representation. The ladder stuff did come in quickly, but the founding was based on the colonies not being able to get be heard om their grievances that arose because of Britain trying to economically recover from the French and Indian war.
The ladder thing came in from a combination of factors like the French Revolution combined with the fear as related to slavery.
- Voting Rights Tied to Property Ownership
- Figures like John Adams explicitly argued that men without property lacked the “independency” needed to vote responsibly, claiming they would be easily manipulated or would vote to redistribute wealth.
- Institutional Barriers to Direct Democracy
- Electoral College: Placed a buffer between the popular vote and the presidency.
- Unelected Senate: Senators were originally chosen by state legislatures rather than citizens (until the 17th Amendment in 1913).
- Life-Appointed Judiciary: Ensured elite legal interpretation remained insulated from public pressure.
- Preserving Slavery and the Native Land Ladder
- The Three-Fifths Compromise: Boosted the political power of Southern slave-holding states without granting any rights to enslaved people.
- Fugitive Slave Clause: Protected human property rights across state lines.
- Land Speculation: Key figures like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were active land speculators who used state power and military force to dispossess Native American nations, securing prime real estate for wealthy investors.
- Economic Policies Favoring Capital Creditors
- Under Alexander Hamilton’s financial system, the Federal government assumed state revolutionary war debts and established the First Bank of the United States.
- The Debt Buyout: Poor revolutionary soldiers who had been paid in government IOUs often sold them for pennies on the dollar to wealthy speculators out of desperation. Hamilton’s plan paid out those bonds at full face value to the speculators, cementing a wealthy financial class tied directly to the federal government.
- Suppressing Populist Rebellions: When small farmers protested taxes that favored coastal merchants (such as during Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion), the federal government deployed military force to enforce compliance.
- Naturalization and Citizenship Laws
- The Naturalization Act of 1790 set the baseline for who could climb the legal and civic ladder in the new nation.
- Explicit Exclusion: It restricted citizenship by naturalization strictly to “free white person[s]… of good character,” excluding enslaved Africans, free Black people, Native Americans, and later Asian immigrants from accessing land ownership and legal protections.
Miami and Palm Beach are a hive of billionaires and MAGA.
It can definitely sink into the gulf for all I care
I’m not even remotely surprised
This is out in Sheriff Grady Judd-land, where there’s nothing but human trash, meth, and livestock, with wealthy elites basically controlling the county.
Grady Judd should be seriously investigated for criminal abuses and corruption, the county jail there is spoken about like a true house of horrors.
I’m glad GTA 6 is releasing soon. I have years of pent up rage that I need to take out on the people of Florida. Yes psychopath first playthrough
My kids keep on talking about how our house might be in GTA 6, like great…
I would hope you pirate it cos rockstar is a massively shitty company
No sorry. That’s not fair to the workers who made it even if they work for rockstar.
i thought a lot of them were laid off already when they tried to start a union. you’re only supporting the management and their actions to make their shareholders money
Ah so you’re just a typical tool
Yep ya got me. 🫵🤣🖕
I know I did
Even better i preordered it and spent extra on the ultimate edition. I know that burns your ass. Oh I’m also off launch day thru the week after thanksgiving.
You may have some things even more wrong with you than just being a tool if you let someone on the internet control your behavior that much. It’s your money and conscious, not mine so it leaves me feeling nothing but apathy. I’ll just go on about my day like I normally do while you can sit and seethe or whatever.
I saw something maybe a year ago that was about how Florida has some of the best education stats in the USA.
…
Yeah…
K-12 is pretty middle of the road, their higher education usually ranks pretty high I assume because many people want to go away for university, and for a long time Florida was known to be a nice place with beaches, warm weather, and vacation spots.
So sites like this will still rank them high, but really I think it’s about cost and graduation percentages rather than quality. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/higher-education
Nah. We did - this may get long but is relevant. I went to school here when we were 49th in the US and the US close to the bottom worldwide. Literally had no teacher for half of 6th grade, had one book for 5th, kids getting high in elementary, fighting a every day, no art, science once a week. I really only got educated in college. When I had kids I homeschooled them because I remembered how bad it was. But then I found schools to fit the first 3 using the school choice and WOW, it was so good. Those 3 were so prepared for college, 2 got good scholarships at private schools and one got through state school in 3 years, all with amazing grades. The schools in my county were very good.
But it’s getting so bad again, my last kid unfortunately missed the good schools wave. They are at community college and crawling back, and yes it’s the fault of the continued conservative government wrecking education with their back to basics bullshit. When they were just about diversity in education and different paths for different kids it was great, now they don’t want kids to learn anything outside of their doctrine and while it’s not quite as abysmal as when I went to school, it’s very bad again.
If we are ranked well we are just skating on earlier success, it’s getting worse.
We really need to finish Sherman’s work.
Global warming can’t drown that place fast enough.
That would just push all those idiots into other states
Depends how strong their climate change denialism is. If they’re willing to let themselves die of measles perhaps they’ll just stay there and drown.
To be fair, there was a fuck ton of shenanigans going on down there. They moved locations with no official way to find it, they gerrymandered and they dropped a lot from registrations.
North Florida is the South.
South Florida is farther south than The South.
We are kind of two different states.
