Ian is strengthening and in related news...

[Ferrets are Cool]

thousands are lining up outside DeSantis's home begging him to fly them to Martha's Vineyard.

[LoisB]

1. That was worth a belly laugh.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. THX

[recovering_democrat]

2. Waiting for the call!

I am here in the line of the hurricane, waiting to get an offer to Martha's Vineyard!

[Rebl2]

3. I so wish

that would happen.

[llmart]

4. Ha!

I was thinking today what an epic fail that was for DeSatan. The people he shipped to Martha's Vineyard are lucky he's such a dick.

He's probably hiding in a bunker somewhere.

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. Is it heading for Mar A Lardo?

[thenelm1]

7. It would just so sad if that shxxhole place got leveled. n/t

[wnylib]

10. No. On the other side of Florida.

[mgardener]

6. I wonder how Floridians will feel after Ian goes through...

And realize their governor wasted millions of dollars that could have been spent on cleaning up Florida and helping them.

[OldManTarHeel]

8. LMAO

so true I would imagine.

[wnylib]

11. Just like Obama did with NJ after Superstorm Sandy,

Biden will help Floridians, showing how to be President of ALL the people.

Not like Agent Orange acted toward Puerto Rico.

[ancianita]

12. But trusting someone who capitalizes on human suffering is exactly the dark side of this joke.

It is exactly what strongman fascist politics will do to those they want to rule by voter nullification.


We can joke but we absolutely must keep that view in mind while we laugh. Because it's when we forget the dark side that it rises up and takes over. And the cycle of violence inches forward toward ending our democracy.

It happened with all those we've called clowns -- the Koch fronts like the Tea Party, the Q Party, DeSantis Harvard School of Stealth racism; the Orbans, the Bannon Party with a female face, Georgia Mussolini Meloni.

Don't ever forget that. As we say in Chicago, politics ain't bean bag.