Yes, this is Florida. Yes, this is Ron DeSantis. Yes, this is today’s Republican Party. Yes, this is government favoring a corporation over people.
Is it possible to look into the judge’s finances, perks, etc.? The judge acted unjustly. Is it possible that he benefited, directly or indirectly? Most judges don’t prefer injustice, so why did this judge?
Can anyone find a lawyer in Sumter County who will take the case to restore back pay?
Oh, and Ryan’s reporting clearly suggests that the write-in candidates perjured themselves. Will they be prosecuted?
Thanks for this continuing story. I look forward to learning the next chapter.
I agree with the kudos, but I have a thing about this metaphor, because I think language matters. Goliath was one of the indigenous who was defending his homeland. David was one of the invaders. My society taught me to root for David when I was a kid. Many decades later, seems our society still is holding on to that version.
Gaslighting, it turns out, has been around for a very long time. This particular one has helped propel a particularly vicious narrative at the expense of indigenous people, not only in Palestine, but in the many other places the West has colonized. I'd like to see that metaphor retired.
Thanks Ryan for sharing what kind of corruption in government, under which we live now days, with big greedy developers & billionaires, who buy off ethics from those who win elections. It’s pretty pathetic and has to change or collapse. It is one big sucking sound!
Hello Ryan, I am very much looking forward to the article on Ecuador. I'm an Ecuadorian immigrant who has seen with horror the spiraling down in in the past few years. Thank you for your integral reporting and for shining light on the south American political crisis.
A very useful view of how local politics can work. Looking forward to the next chapter in this wretched situation. Oren Miller is clearly a wonderful person.
Good news, sort of. I remember reading that series when it was published. Glad the guy is out of jail, even if justice is only partial. In these days, perhaps that's the best there is?
Great example of why local politics matters and how easily (and unexpectedly) it can be intertwined with the web of corruption to the top. It's also very disappointing to see how this corruption pollutes our system of justice. The fight for right shouldn't be such a steep uphill battle as what Mr. Miller has gone through.
On his very first day in office in Jan 2021 Biden issued an Executive Order for all government agencies to be committed to “Equity” aka Equal Outcomes. In effect, this was a war on meritocracy which democrats consider racist since it has a “disparate impact” on blacks. This RCP article below is about the severe damage this is doing even to our medical schools and equity is something Kamala is also deeply committed to yet half the people in this society love Kamala and are anxious to vote for her. No society can survive this level of stupidity and flat out insanity. In what sense does America even still exist as a country?
“Editor’s Note: America is at war. This is not a traditional war, fought on a battlefield against an external enemy. It is a civilizational conflict against an internal enemy: the group quota regime, a revolutionary threat that seeks to reorganize American society around the principle of outcome equality — what the regime’s partisans call “equity.”
“This cold civil war may go unnoticed by many day-to-day, but its stakes are often as high as life and death. Here, Roger B. Cohen, a celebrated oncologist and professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, explains how the group quota regime has taken hold of the American medical education system and asks urgent questions about the consequences for medicine, for the sick, and for the country.”
Mr Woodward, if you're unfamiliar with "Seva," do yourself a favor. Ignore anything he or she says. I've been there with "Seva." Banging your head against the wall is less painful.
As if there's nothing that could make being a Floridian (Miami area, for me) more embarrassing or frankly sickening.
My post has to do with the fact that the society I live in is being destroyed by open borders, dumbed down schools, the demonization of “Whiteness!” and the war on meritocracy which is being replaced by Equity aka Equal Outcomes and these are just a few of the many ways the democrats have ruined America yet many of my “fellow Americans” are very much in favor of all this. My post has to do with the fact that the city I live in, Chicago, is being destroyed by city-wide black wilding, crime and carjacking plus an endless flood of illegals being supported by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. My post has to do with the fact that the society I live in is rotting and collapsing and the world knows it. Does any of this concern you? Obviously not. In what sense is America still a country? In what sense are we “fellow Americans”?
Tulsi Gabbard: This is an ‘act of political retaliation.’ (5 min)
remember warren buffet: "there's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." TAX FRAUD costs societies billions each year. the upper classes cause lots of financial damage while we are supposed to believe that "illegal aliens" cost taxpayers "hundreds of millions of dollars". the US war machinery costs plenty of money, too. the US-initiated "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" - declared by white-skinned people - have cost millions of black and brown-skinned people's lives and create endless amounts of violence and hells on earth - making people want to leave their home countries hoping to find a decent future for their kids elsewhere. so, instead of fighting too many wars abroad, constantly, US law and/or decision makers should look inward and work on becoming a peaceful democracy where everybody gets their fair share ... but we all know warmongers mantra, don't we: "peace does not pay!"
[BTW: my EU country agreed to accept state of the art hypersonic US missiles on its territory as of 2026 - very much against my will and very much to my dismay!]
... allow me to add: i just found out that the US pentagon has a PR apparatus that employs more than 20,000 people. quite a number of them engaged in heavily discrediting the very few truly democracy-, peace- and truth-oriented media in my EU country. the apparatus has an annual budget of 4.7 billion USD.
thank you for responding. here are a few remarks of mine
- re. malone: in my EU country, the translations of his works are published by a publishing house that is considered to belong to the right-wing spectrum ... that might not be justified for each and everything malone has to say.
- re. the new world order (1): nobel laureate muhammad yunus from bangladesh, who was just appointed interim head of his country, explained it in simple terms: 'imagine a mushroom with its cap [i.e. the super rich] growing bigger and bigger, while its stem [i.e. the super poor] grows ever thinner.'
(by the time the mushroom collapses, the uber-rich are on their way to mars ;-)
- re. the new world order (2): zarathustra, iranian priest and philosopher, advocated three guiding principles. a) think well. b) speak well. c) act well.
- re. youtube: i avoid it as best i can, given that it belongs to google whose sloppy tax ethics and very close collaboration with the pentagon i strongly disagree with and try not to support.
- remember ex-CIA director william casey?
"we'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the american public believes is false." annoyingly unbelievable, isn't it?
If you are really wanting to do something about your society "being destroyed," then the first place to start is with getting rid of the warmongering fixation of the government, e.g., the syphoning off (misuse) of public finances to boost the pocketbooks of the weapons manufacturers, while also leaving their massive wealth inequalities untaxed.
If you want meritocracy, then lifting the huge, developmental penalties that lack of adequate resources creates in people's lives, would eliminate much of the imbalance, thereby making attempts, such as DEI, or quotas, affirmative action and the like, entirely unnecessary.
There's plenty of resources, but there's no will to do so. I hope you will pressure your (so-called) representatives to reallocate resources to meet the needs of the American people instead of using them to kill millions of people around the world, while making Americans less safe at home and pretty much wherever they might go.
Dr Robert Malone is a scientist who was involved with the development of the mRNA Covid vaccine but once he started questioning the claims being made that it was “safe and effective” he was labeled “conservative” and blacklisted. Excellent video of him below. I highly recommend listening to at least the 21 min point to 28 minutes where he talks about how highly educated people like doctors are the most susceptible to propaganda from above since they’re basically trained to accept authority and follow the herd without questioning the authority.
I’ve been accused of being a troll for posting things here but I’m not saying listen to and believe me. I’m saying be curious enough to listen to people like Robert Malone (scientist), Bret Weinstein (biologist) and Glenn Greenwald (journalist). What has been seen cannot be unseen. Once a faithful democrat begins to see what people like these 3 are saying he will never again believe the bs lies tossed out by the Democratic Party and their bs propaganda machine aka the msm.
Retirees are fair game for the truly despicable, just like everyone else, except for the despicables screwing them. But what a great couple, and Oren Miller in particular seems to be a "diamond". Here's hoping for a great outcome on 20 August. As I'm in the UK, I'd seen DeSantis's name without knowing much if anything about him. Now that I've got a flavour despicable suits him just fine. Perhaps utterly despicable.
“Many people believe that America is simply too big and too powerful to collapse but many people also believed that about the Soviet Union. No one in 1985 would have believed that the USSR, the mighty "Evil Empire,” would be a disintegrating mess in just a few years. I told that to someone last year who said "But the Soviet Union was a collection of separate countries.” What we have here though is a collection of separate realities which is a much deadlier situation. Could it be that the reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally.
“Black Reparations Inspiring a Multicolored Pandora’s Box of Intersectional Demands.”
Mr. Miller should get his back pay and consider a malicious prosecution case, perhaps harassment against the newspaper. Even though what they were reporting may have technically been "true" at the time, not sure the First Amendment protects reporting that clearly was biased and not in good faith. He certainly has damages. This poor family. No good deed goes unpunished.
Yes, this is Florida. Yes, this is Ron DeSantis. Yes, this is today’s Republican Party. Yes, this is government favoring a corporation over people.
Is it possible to look into the judge’s finances, perks, etc.? The judge acted unjustly. Is it possible that he benefited, directly or indirectly? Most judges don’t prefer injustice, so why did this judge?
Can anyone find a lawyer in Sumter County who will take the case to restore back pay?
Oh, and Ryan’s reporting clearly suggests that the write-in candidates perjured themselves. Will they be prosecuted?
Thanks for this continuing story. I look forward to learning the next chapter.
Great job, Ryan! David slayed Goliath because you shed light on this corruption. Made my day!
I agree with the kudos, but I have a thing about this metaphor, because I think language matters. Goliath was one of the indigenous who was defending his homeland. David was one of the invaders. My society taught me to root for David when I was a kid. Many decades later, seems our society still is holding on to that version.
Gaslighting, it turns out, has been around for a very long time. This particular one has helped propel a particularly vicious narrative at the expense of indigenous people, not only in Palestine, but in the many other places the West has colonized. I'd like to see that metaphor retired.
Thanks Ryan for sharing what kind of corruption in government, under which we live now days, with big greedy developers & billionaires, who buy off ethics from those who win elections. It’s pretty pathetic and has to change or collapse. It is one big sucking sound!
Hello Ryan, I am very much looking forward to the article on Ecuador. I'm an Ecuadorian immigrant who has seen with horror the spiraling down in in the past few years. Thank you for your integral reporting and for shining light on the south American political crisis.
Sue
A very useful view of how local politics can work. Looking forward to the next chapter in this wretched situation. Oren Miller is clearly a wonderful person.
Good news, sort of. I remember reading that series when it was published. Glad the guy is out of jail, even if justice is only partial. In these days, perhaps that's the best there is?
Great example of why local politics matters and how easily (and unexpectedly) it can be intertwined with the web of corruption to the top. It's also very disappointing to see how this corruption pollutes our system of justice. The fight for right shouldn't be such a steep uphill battle as what Mr. Miller has gone through.
On his very first day in office in Jan 2021 Biden issued an Executive Order for all government agencies to be committed to “Equity” aka Equal Outcomes. In effect, this was a war on meritocracy which democrats consider racist since it has a “disparate impact” on blacks. This RCP article below is about the severe damage this is doing even to our medical schools and equity is something Kamala is also deeply committed to yet half the people in this society love Kamala and are anxious to vote for her. No society can survive this level of stupidity and flat out insanity. In what sense does America even still exist as a country?
“Editor’s Note: America is at war. This is not a traditional war, fought on a battlefield against an external enemy. It is a civilizational conflict against an internal enemy: the group quota regime, a revolutionary threat that seeks to reorganize American society around the principle of outcome equality — what the regime’s partisans call “equity.”
“This cold civil war may go unnoticed by many day-to-day, but its stakes are often as high as life and death. Here, Roger B. Cohen, a celebrated oncologist and professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, explains how the group quota regime has taken hold of the American medical education system and asks urgent questions about the consequences for medicine, for the sick, and for the country.”
“The End of Merit in Med Schools Will Be Deadly.”
Real Clear Politics. Roger Cohen. Apr 2, 2024
https://tomklingenstein.com/the-end-of-merit-in-med-schools-will-be-deadly/
And what, exactly, has your post to do with Ryan Grim's article?
Mr Woodward, if you're unfamiliar with "Seva," do yourself a favor. Ignore anything he or she says. I've been there with "Seva." Banging your head against the wall is less painful.
As if there's nothing that could make being a Floridian (Miami area, for me) more embarrassing or frankly sickening.
Thanks, Fred, I kinda picked up on that. Still, sometimes it's fun trolling the trolls. Cheers.
My post has to do with the fact that the society I live in is being destroyed by open borders, dumbed down schools, the demonization of “Whiteness!” and the war on meritocracy which is being replaced by Equity aka Equal Outcomes and these are just a few of the many ways the democrats have ruined America yet many of my “fellow Americans” are very much in favor of all this. My post has to do with the fact that the city I live in, Chicago, is being destroyed by city-wide black wilding, crime and carjacking plus an endless flood of illegals being supported by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. My post has to do with the fact that the society I live in is rotting and collapsing and the world knows it. Does any of this concern you? Obviously not. In what sense is America still a country? In what sense are we “fellow Americans”?
Tulsi Gabbard: This is an ‘act of political retaliation.’ (5 min)
Fox News. Aug 10, 2024
https://youtu.be/09eVb2eomKo?si=WekIFjuU0Gw7GZVm
So, thanks for answering the question. Your post has nothing whatsoever to do with Mr Grim's article. Appreciate the clarification.
@seva
remember warren buffet: "there's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." TAX FRAUD costs societies billions each year. the upper classes cause lots of financial damage while we are supposed to believe that "illegal aliens" cost taxpayers "hundreds of millions of dollars". the US war machinery costs plenty of money, too. the US-initiated "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" - declared by white-skinned people - have cost millions of black and brown-skinned people's lives and create endless amounts of violence and hells on earth - making people want to leave their home countries hoping to find a decent future for their kids elsewhere. so, instead of fighting too many wars abroad, constantly, US law and/or decision makers should look inward and work on becoming a peaceful democracy where everybody gets their fair share ... but we all know warmongers mantra, don't we: "peace does not pay!"
[BTW: my EU country agreed to accept state of the art hypersonic US missiles on its territory as of 2026 - very much against my will and very much to my dismay!]
... allow me to add: i just found out that the US pentagon has a PR apparatus that employs more than 20,000 people. quite a number of them engaged in heavily discrediting the very few truly democracy-, peace- and truth-oriented media in my EU country. the apparatus has an annual budget of 4.7 billion USD.
Robert Malone talks about this in his superb video.
PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order. (1:14)
Dr Robert Malone. Aug 1, 2024
https://youtu.be/q-cV5WUuyB4?si=8jBJuoJYoFcMYGJP
@seva:
thank you for responding. here are a few remarks of mine
- re. malone: in my EU country, the translations of his works are published by a publishing house that is considered to belong to the right-wing spectrum ... that might not be justified for each and everything malone has to say.
- re. the new world order (1): nobel laureate muhammad yunus from bangladesh, who was just appointed interim head of his country, explained it in simple terms: 'imagine a mushroom with its cap [i.e. the super rich] growing bigger and bigger, while its stem [i.e. the super poor] grows ever thinner.'
(by the time the mushroom collapses, the uber-rich are on their way to mars ;-)
- re. the new world order (2): zarathustra, iranian priest and philosopher, advocated three guiding principles. a) think well. b) speak well. c) act well.
- re. youtube: i avoid it as best i can, given that it belongs to google whose sloppy tax ethics and very close collaboration with the pentagon i strongly disagree with and try not to support.
- remember ex-CIA director william casey?
"we'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the american public believes is false." annoyingly unbelievable, isn't it?
Hi Seva, We've crossed paths before.
If you are really wanting to do something about your society "being destroyed," then the first place to start is with getting rid of the warmongering fixation of the government, e.g., the syphoning off (misuse) of public finances to boost the pocketbooks of the weapons manufacturers, while also leaving their massive wealth inequalities untaxed.
If you want meritocracy, then lifting the huge, developmental penalties that lack of adequate resources creates in people's lives, would eliminate much of the imbalance, thereby making attempts, such as DEI, or quotas, affirmative action and the like, entirely unnecessary.
There's plenty of resources, but there's no will to do so. I hope you will pressure your (so-called) representatives to reallocate resources to meet the needs of the American people instead of using them to kill millions of people around the world, while making Americans less safe at home and pretty much wherever they might go.
So what about the state law that made the tax increase on the developers void? Assuming Miller gets to the commission, what's his plan?
Passing an impact fee on the developer
Dr Robert Malone is a scientist who was involved with the development of the mRNA Covid vaccine but once he started questioning the claims being made that it was “safe and effective” he was labeled “conservative” and blacklisted. Excellent video of him below. I highly recommend listening to at least the 21 min point to 28 minutes where he talks about how highly educated people like doctors are the most susceptible to propaganda from above since they’re basically trained to accept authority and follow the herd without questioning the authority.
I’ve been accused of being a troll for posting things here but I’m not saying listen to and believe me. I’m saying be curious enough to listen to people like Robert Malone (scientist), Bret Weinstein (biologist) and Glenn Greenwald (journalist). What has been seen cannot be unseen. Once a faithful democrat begins to see what people like these 3 are saying he will never again believe the bs lies tossed out by the Democratic Party and their bs propaganda machine aka the msm.
PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order. (1:14)
Dr Robert Malone. Aug 1, 2024
https://youtu.be/q-cV5WUuyB4?si=8jBJuoJYoFcMYGJP
After reading this crap it's hard to accept that what we have is any king of 'participatory' democratic Republic.
Retirees are fair game for the truly despicable, just like everyone else, except for the despicables screwing them. But what a great couple, and Oren Miller in particular seems to be a "diamond". Here's hoping for a great outcome on 20 August. As I'm in the UK, I'd seen DeSantis's name without knowing much if anything about him. Now that I've got a flavour despicable suits him just fine. Perhaps utterly despicable.
“Many people believe that America is simply too big and too powerful to collapse but many people also believed that about the Soviet Union. No one in 1985 would have believed that the USSR, the mighty "Evil Empire,” would be a disintegrating mess in just a few years. I told that to someone last year who said "But the Soviet Union was a collection of separate countries.” What we have here though is a collection of separate realities which is a much deadlier situation. Could it be that the reason why America is so rapidly unraveling externally is because it no longer exists as a country internally.
“Black Reparations Inspiring a Multicolored Pandora’s Box of Intersectional Demands.”
Real Clear Investigations. Feb 2, 2023
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/02/02/black_reparations_inspiring_a_multicolored_pandoras_box_of_intersectional_demands_879083.html
So we are way past August 20 now...
What happened here?
Love hearing aoout a win!
Mr. Miller should get his back pay and consider a malicious prosecution case, perhaps harassment against the newspaper. Even though what they were reporting may have technically been "true" at the time, not sure the First Amendment protects reporting that clearly was biased and not in good faith. He certainly has damages. This poor family. No good deed goes unpunished.