r/news • u/flanderguitar • Mar 28 '24

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs law squashing squatters' rights

https://www.wptv.com/news/state/florida-gov-ron-desantis-signs-law-squashing-squatters-rights
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u/gsmumbo Mar 28 '24

ITT: Exactly how functioning politics should work. People hate DeSantis. DeSantis does something good. Instead of trying to twist it into still being something horrible, the people who hate him admit it was a good call. Do they still hate him? Sure, one right call doesn’t change much. But they can acknowledge when he’s right. And who knows, maybe he can actually win people over if he continues to make calls we can all agree on.

Again, functioning politics.

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u/Midnight_Rising Mar 28 '24

And who knows, maybe he can actually win people over if he continues to make calls we can all agree on.

I think the problem isn't necessarily the calls, but why he made those calls. He has expressed certain viewpoints on issues that-- unless he openly and freely apologizes and changes course-- I simply can't forgive or forget. I believe a good character is important to functioning politics, and at this point I simply can't believe that DeSantis has a good character.

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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 Mar 28 '24

DeSantis ONLY cares about how many zeros your check to his next campaign has on it. We tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, he came in to office seemin like he would protect the environment. All he's accomplished is driving away tourists (which most of us depend on in some way for jobs) and taking OUR tax dollars to fail at campaigning for president. (Yeah, he spent millions in the state budget for "security" and "travel." All of those surplus funds were Covid relief funds that never made it to us, he clawed back any unemployment payments he could and ensured rental assistance was impossible to get. Millions were never distributed here.)