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Diane Roberts

College Football Reflects America As it Really Is: Indefensible In a Civilized World

September 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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It’s college football season in Florida and you know what that means: trash talking, martial metaphors, peculiar rituals involving animals, bizarre clothing in colors not found in nature, bad grammar, mansplaining, and racism. College football reinforces some of our least attractive stereotypes — those Black kids sure are fast! — and extreme gender roles, as well: huge dudes on the field knocking the living hell out of each other, while small (though quite athletic) women with incongruously large bows in their hair cheer them on.

Crazy and Cruel Sell Well in Florida. So Scott Is Running Again.

September 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Rick Scott issues a manifesto. (© FlaglerLive)

In response to the NAACP, the ACLU and the Human Rights Campaign warnings that travel to Florida could be hazardous to people of color, LGBTQ people, or people who just believe in decency and tolerance, Scott posted a huffy hunk of mansplaining on that X-thing that everyone still calls Twitter, warning “socialists and communists” and suchlike to stay out of Florida.

Channeling George Wallace, DeSantis Uses Education to Keep Blacks Down

September 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Despite those idiotic “Build the Wall” campaign ads, he didn’t seem to be a Trump-style racist when he took office in 2019. There was hope he’d acknowledge our sad history and move us toward a more equitable society. But he didn’t. And he isn’t. Maybe the Napoleonically ambitious DeSantis decided white nationalism was his ticket to the Republican presidential nomination. His racism is less overt than Trump’s or George Wallace’s but almost as damaging.

Ohio’s Message to Florida: There’s Still Hope for Democracy

August 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

It only looks bleak: a street in Elyria, Ohio, where at least a few voters rejected their Legislature's attempt at an end-run around democracy. (© FlaglerLive)

Terrified that an amendment giving women — not Gilead Republicans — control over their reproductive health would pass in November, Ohio’s right-wingers figured they’d change the rules in the middle of the game. But on Aug. 8, voters in this allegedly red state rejected a Republican-backed measure to make it harder for citizens to amend their constitution.

The GOP’s Death Cult Is Holding Us Hostage to Climate Ignorance

August 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

The planet is angry. The GOP is indifferent. (NOAA)

The Earth is being held hostage by the party of ignorance, “conservatives” who no longer want to conserve anything other than white privilege. They’ve become a death cult, denying what’s obvious to rational, literate people. Who cares if the seas are boiling? As long as they “own the libs.”

Such, Such Were the Joys of Plantations in DeSantis’s History of Florida

August 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 51 Comments

Florida is going to teach schoolchildren about the valuable skills that enslaved persons learned. Source: Joseph Andrews, c. 1850, via Florida State Library and Archives

Gov. DeSantis and his crack education team are all about facts. In his Florida history version of plantation life, enslaved persons were treated like family, they learned invaluable skills, like cooking, and learned to make quality footwear. When you think about it, plantations should really be called “agricultural opportunity centers.”

Why Are Florida Republicans So Scared of Higher Education?

July 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

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Florida Republicans are scared of higher education. Colleges. Universities. Known hotbeds of wokery, Marxism, and foreign languages, they should instead focus on the one thing that matters to real Americans: training future cogs in the uber-capitalist machine and sports.

The Republican Brand Returns to White Supremacy

July 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 73 Comments

A Klan rally in Tallahassee in 1977. (Robert Burke/Florida Memory)

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is another example of how the Republican brand is no longer bigger business and smaller government. It’s white supremacy. Their platform? White supremacy. Their political and social goals? White supremacy.

Ron DeSantis’ Very Gay Ad

July 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Image from the DeSantis War Room

Ron DeSantis wants you to know he’s a manly man, a manlier man than any manly man ever born, with mighty currents of 100-proof androgen surging through his sinews. He made a video about it. Diane Roberts asks: how could this steaming pile of bovine excrement (and lightning bolts shooting out of the governor’s eyes) get released by his campaign?

We’re the Mommies for Liberty, and the Future Belongs to Us

July 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Ron DeSantis speaking to mommies for liberty in Philadelphia over the weekend. (Screen capture, WPTV)

I am a Mommy. A Mommy for Liberty. I will use my personal liberty to shield my precious children (and yours) from gays. And history. And Black people. And sex.  

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