It's hot in Florida. Then again it's very often hot in Florida but we like it here. Many people go north for the summer which is very good because it makes parking more available. Also, driving is easier because road projects are mostly finished and we won't tear up the roads again until tourist season comes - it's a rule we have here.
As I was saying, it's 88 degrees so this calls for a rum and tonic: cruzan rum, squeeze of lime, and of course diet tonic so as to make it a diet drink - totally guilt free. Now that I think of it, I myself am totally guilt free. But there are people around here who should be feeling guilty, like our governor, Ron DeSastrous and his Republican bootlickers in the legislature. They passed a law against covid mandates. The almighty will have to help us if we have another pandemic - some of us may die but he and his anti-vaxer surgeon general don't care. He signed a 6 week abortion law in the middle of the night. They've banned textbooks containing actual facts about history and drag shows, made it more difficult to vote, made it easier for any random whackjob to carry a gun without a permit or any kind of training, provided funds to fly immigrants all around the country, and did nothing to alleviate the home insurance problems we have in Florida, thanks no doubt to large donations from insurers. They passed the largest budget in state history and, because they know their work was so divisive, unconstitutional, and a genuine shit job they included millions of dollars in the budget to defend against lawsuits they know damned well will be coming. They also banned the release of any information about the governor's travel and other expenses. So much for Florida sunshine. They took a lot of action about things that were not problems here because the governor wants to appear to be like Trump without the drama according to his people.
This wasn't going to be my theme for today. Things took a wrong turn there somewhere. Like many people, I relaxed a bit after Trump was defeated. I stopped looking to move to a foreign country. But Ron DeSastrous is scary. Some Floridians are waking up to it. The rest of the country had better wake up as well to the damage a Ron DeSastrous could do to our democracy.
My rum and tonic is gone.