To all the people saying "this is PROOF they won't have elections!": This is proof they haven't changed a hair in the past forty years.
They had California solidly in the GOP column in the '80s and early '90s. Then they did Prop 187, flipping off their Latino voters. California has been blue since.
The modern GOP lives and dies by the Southern Strategy: whipping up bigotry as a way to cut rich people's taxes. They count on anti-Black bigotry to keep Latinos in their corner. But when they show that they ultimately still lump Latinos in with Black people, they lose big.
...right before two special elections, at least one of which is closer than anyone thought it would be a few weeks ago, is proof of how deeply & self-defeatingly racist they are and have been since the 1966 midterms.
They piss off the Cubans, it's 1994 California all over again, but in Florida.
It's absolutely insane that the majority of them are totally convinced that the Dems are communists just because they want to help the poor, the middle class, and the most vulnerable in our society.
it's been 2 months and they have already pissed off the CONSERVATIVE JUDGES FROM REGAN TO BUSH. Their plan was "we win this election and we win forever". They have no plan to actually change anything, they're stupid and arrogant and have no long term thoughts
They don't care. Again vast majority been are second and third generation Americans. They applaud this. In the end, Cubans are born again Christians. They are Republicans first and that is all.
Cops and ICE kidnapping ordinary people off the streets, because they are too evil and incompetent to do any investigating to find actual threats, and following rules of due process. 🤬🤬🤬
Where are all those shitty Cuban Republican voters who have been undermining our Florida elections for decades upon decades. May they all get what’s coming.
This administration doesn't intend to allow anyone to vote ever again, except in fully scripting "fake" elections the outcome of which is pre-ordained.
Take it from a Miami Cuban: that’s never going to happen. Maybe - and no guarantee - that Trump putting on a Fidel shirt or signing an EO to name some random day Fidel Castro Celebration Day - and hard MAYBE - that will never happen.
Stories like this have me pushing my mom to go back to her maiden name. She's British and my dad was Dominican. She's already encountering prejudice down south and I tell her... wait until they try to deport you to El Salvador or Venezuela. You were born in Britain.
When people at the hospital ask her what her immigration status is (despite being a citizen for over 75 years), I told her "just tell them, 'shut the fuck up' when they ask you those questions." Seriously. Don't entertain that shit. Just put them in their place and stop it right away.
Notice that they pick these people up and then fly them thousands of miles away. Can you imagine what these people must think being on a plane for that long not knowing why they were detained and where they are going. Scary as all hell.
This is how you know that the administration intends for there never to be another election. In any sane world, this would cost the Republicans Florida. They are counting on never having to face a true election ever again.
Not downplaying their ambitions but I don’t think that’s the only conclusion bc we don’t live “in a sane world.” We have absolutely 0 evidence this will cost the Republicans Florida, or any meaningful number of Hispanic votes.
Few too many people are realizing this. Even some of the Democratic thought leaders are saying "xxx days until the midterms". They are ASSUMING there will be midterms. They assume there will ever be another fair election.
"Family demands answers." The answer is that they voted for people who hate them. I'm sorry they didn't take Trump's word for it. But maybe now they'll wake up.
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They had California solidly in the GOP column in the '80s and early '90s. Then they did Prop 187, flipping off their Latino voters. California has been blue since.
To do this in Florida...
They piss off the Cubans, it's 1994 California all over again, but in Florida.
That's why Prop 187 hit California Latinos so hard: it treated them all the same shitty way, light skinned and dark skinned.
If light skinned, higher social class Cubans get hauled off, hoo boy.
Is this true?
But call Cubans a very unsympathetic bunch to me.
Where are all those shitty Cuban Republican voters who have been undermining our Florida elections for decades upon decades. May they all get what’s coming.
Hopefully this hurts them or their families or they feel like garbage.
They are as bad as MAGA on destroying our country since the 1980s.
I’m not here to make friends anymore. Everyone is getting called out.
Or their friends who giggled and voted for the thug?
Is there a hotline?
This is fukedup.
So their names, addresses, places of employment, etc. are already in the system.
They are basically using the fact that these people were doing the "right thing" against them.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3llmbqkgghc2a
This administration doesn't intend to allow anyone to vote ever again, except in fully scripting "fake" elections the outcome of which is pre-ordained.
and in case I wasn’t clear
#FuckYourFeelings
Demand some answers from Rubio, see where it gets you.