 So there was a Ron DeSantis book event in Leesburg, Florida and some folks showed up who support Donald Trump I don't know if they planned to heckle Ron DeSantis, but either way they were rocking Trump gear and they were not allowed in the events Let's go ahead and let's listen to this exchange here That's pretty telling They told me To tell anyone who's wearing Trump gear that they have to go This is from DeSantis's team, right? Presumably Free speech there's nothing that warms my heart more than when fascist republicans Clash with one another I love that DeSantis is doing this because DeSantis is indeed an authoritarian So he's not going to change the ways in which he interacts with people just because it's donald trump He's gonna be as authoritarian But it could be that they had this rule because maybe they got wind That Trump supporters were gonna show up and heckle him. I'm not necessarily sure either way It's still pretty embarrassing and a very bad look, but I love how Trump supporters are now saying what those of us on the left have been saying for a very long time now So as the guardian reports here Ron DeSantis called a tyrant as trump supporters barred from book signing Oh, I'm gonna love to see it. Don't you folks? Far right activist laura lumar denounces florida governor who is expected to challenge x president for republican nomination When you have these insane dipshits Going up against each other and then it gets this ugly where trump supporters are banned from DeSantis events That's when you know this primary even though it's not technically Started yet or hasn't technically started between trump and de santis like it's gonna get really really nasty and i'm i'm here for it So ron de santis is a tyrant the far right activist laura lumar said After she and other trump supporters were barred from a book signing staged by the florida governor Now you know how everyone else feels now you understand what we've been saying. Yes, the mother f***er is a tyrant But they only can recognize bad things about republicans if it affects them personally They told me to say anybody wearing trump has to go right now a uniformed officer Said in a video posted online by lumar. Oh, okay. So lumar actually posted it. Let's see that real quick Let's see what her commentary is must watch. I'm oh, so oh this was lumars people. Okay. This interesting I'm at the leesburg florida mall outside of books a million for my pro trump rally With villagers for trump and ron de santis and his staff ordered the police to make anyone wearing a trump shirt or anyone with any trump gear Leave the santis is anti-free speech yeah You're late to the party on this one But I think that they probably got wind that laura lumar was gonna heckle them And that's why they did this so perhaps it's not as cut and dry as the video makes it seem It seems like they knew that they were going to be heckled and rather than having trump supporters disrupt the event Then they just Banned them. So it's interesting and I love that it's uh culminating in in this where now trump supporters Are decrying santis's anti-free speech behavior. Yeah, no s*** welcome to the f***ing party dipshits The santis people are in there telling me to come out to tell you guys Not to be here while he's here the officer said lumar said governor desantis He always talks about how he's in favor of free speech So do we have a first amendment right to be here to rally in support of president trump? Right you do said the officer but not now lumar asked desantis's people told you that we have to leave the officer said Yes, later lumar told the daily beast police showed up and they told us that we were going to be cited and arrested for trespassing If we didn't leave because desantis didn't want us out inside It shows that he's a tyrant I god to see laura lumar and a bunch of trump supporters get arrested at a desantis event that would honestly be One of the most beautiful things that I think a human being can ever experience like probably even more Profoundly life-changing than seeing your child born for the first time not that I have experienced there But like I would love to see that but I mean there's still time the g.o.p. Primary Hasn't really even officially begun yet. So we may see that cross my fingers here Later lumar told the daily beast and she's talking to liberal outlets too about this I fucking love this desantis has not declared a run for presidential nomination in 2024 But it remains the only close challenger to trump in polling pursuing hardline culture war policies Including banning books in schools and restricting the teaching of lgbtq plus issues in elementary schools He has carved out a formidable national profile um, okay, so this is just going to get into The general dynamics of the g.o.p. Primary, but um, yeah, they're right He is a tyrant trump's a tyrant too, but I think that desantis is absolutely much more effective at the way he's able to Get people to support his fascistic policies With trump there's like this visceral response by normies because he's just so in your face about how Ugly his ideas and beliefs are but with desantis He kind of cloaks it a little bit better. So normies aren't as put off by him, but Yeah, I hope they do find out or learn that he is a huge fucking tyrant And it's not just that he's a tyrant because you know, he's not letting these dumb-ass trump supporters heckle him He's a tyrant because of the things that they're doing in the state of florida So you have this here. This is a courtesy of uh, mike right from florida politics So there's a bill that would ban the democratic party Just that's it. No opposition parties allowed anymore Like this is quite literally what you see from authoritarian countries where they don't let opposition parties exist and that's not to say that there isn't suppression of political parties in the united states because Yeah, that is indeed the case duverger's law We have a two-party system and third parties do get suppressed But like what we're talking about here is the republican party banning their main opposition This is completely different. Like this is actually textbook authoritarianism This is what happens with actual dictatorships or if they don't ban political parties They kind of just defame them so that way they can exist Albeit in a powerless state and basically act as a rubber stamp for whoever the dictator is depending on the country but uh senator blaze in gov in goglia Is sponsoring the ultimate cancel act which would eliminate all political parties that once used slavery as part of its platform While democratic party isn't mentioned in the bill in in goglia I don't know why that name is like breaking my brain, but I just cannot pronounce it in goglia said that's his target He's he's just admitting it. See this is a this is about them banning racist political parties and in the united states there actually is no ban On political parties who preach hate as is the case in germany, although you have a lot of figures They're trying to change that But um, that's I guess the rationale here. See we're against racism here. Us florida republicans We're against racism. So we're trying to ban the democratic party on the ground that we are protecting people of color I love how he's just at least admitting it though, right? For years now leftist activists have been trying to cancel people in companies for things they have said or done in the past This includes the removal of statutes Statues and memorials and the renaming of buildings. He said using this standard It would be hypocritical not to cancel a democratic party for the same reason So what i'm curious is about um, whether or not this has Any support in the legislature? I mean It could never get passed, but there's so many batshit insane bills Uh that republican politicians in florida introduce that you can't not See the effect that the santus has had on this party there. Like they're letting their freak flags fly um I wouldn't be surprised if they like started coming up with rituals that Legalized cannibalism or some shit like that. Like this party is sick. They're freaks and This is the desantis effect. So I mean to see the desantification of the National republican party. It's horrifying because as insane as they already are Um, I think that the santus would be much much worse. So What I want to see happen. I think the best outcome for the republican primary Is if the santus beats down all trump Even if I think that the santus is more dangerous than trump I want him to beat trump in this gop primary because we all know Trump will never accept that trump will run as a third party candidate or an independent And he will absolutely tank desantis because he will split the votes and play spoiler. So, um, I would love to see desantis beat down all trump. So i'm rooting for him in that limited sense But for opportunistic reasons obviously, but I love that trump supporters are getting a taste Of just how authoritarian desantis is. Yeah, you know, it's it's fine when he's banning lgbtq plus books and trying to do Um, don't ask don't tell albeit for teachers try to erase queer people out of public life But when he does it to us That's when uh, we have a problem and he's a real tyrant Yeah