(02-03-2021, 06:37 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(02-03-2021, 06:32 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: The state of Florida has billions invested in the same big tech companies he's unconstitutionally threatening.

Let's see him put his money where his mouth is and divest.

So what you're saying is... because they agree with your crappy POV it's a-okay?

We need the same laws that the UK has when it comes to this kind of stuff... when your company elevates itself to a public utility (which social media has become) it must use the laws of the land...

So the 1st amendment would actually matter to "private" companies.

I didn't say that at all. 
Don't attempt to put words in my mouth. 


As things stand, it's unconstitutional for the government to tell a private company how to manage this element of doing business. That may change for internet companies at some point, but this isn't how it will happen. 

My actual point was that while Desantis is blowing a bunch of smoke that will probably never amount to anything here - he's very likely not got the balls to back it up by divesting the literal billions of dollars FL has invested in FB and Twitter for its pension fund.

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(02-03-2021, 06:50 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: So how many executive orders has dear leader signed now?  If I am not mistaken it's over 40.

Let's recap some of those.

- Cancel the Keystone Pipeline  Make us dependent on getting crude oil from countries that don't like us.  Doing this not only empowers those countries, it also puts thousands of our citizens out of a job.  This is all in the name of global warming climate change.  Meanwhile rather than transferring oil from Canada to the refineries will cost a lot more by using trucks and rail to transfer the oil which is much more dangerous to the environment and costly.

- Stop drilling on federal lands  Put even more people out of work and hurting some of the very states that voted blue.  Again it weakens us and makes us dependent on other countries that don't like us.

Those two alone kill jobs and drive the cost up not only at the gas pump of every day Americans, but also the cost of manufacturing and heating oil.

Let's not stop there though.

- Open the boarders up and grant amnesty  So now we have a huge influx of illegal aliens coming into the country.  The words of those not here yet said themselves that President Biden offered it to them.  So now we get to foot the bill for their well-being and healthcare not to mention the "undesirables" that are surely mixed in with them.  So that makes us all less safer.

- Open travel up from countries hostile to us  People have short memories.  Those that support this measure might regret it if/when another 9/11 type attack happens again.

This guy is nothing more that a puppet of the far left.  I don't even think that he knows what he is signing and what the consequences are.

The federal lands drilling EO only prevents new leases to drill on fed lands. It doesn't stop any current or previously arranged/applied for operations.

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