So what’s new in DuhSantistan?

They are welcome to come here to Florida. The yankee boomers can go ruin another state in their twilight years.

 

You mean the Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Florida has an opinion on Florida's bigoted government trying to restrict evidence-based care for transgender minors? Shocking! A self-aware person might think on what that means, rather than believing that disqualifies him as a serious researcher.

But yes, he and the other members of the University of Florida who earned their jobs on merit are the "quacks," not the anti-vax surgeon general DeSantis hired who hangs out with the "demon sperm" doctor. You people are beyond parody.

 

Oh wow, that is a really impressive title. So is the President of the United States of America, but we all know he is running on about 2 brain cells. The whole government of Florida are now bigots? Nice to know. Evidence based? Please. Personally I don't care if liberals screw their kids up but they should have to pay for it. Which we know is the reason behind everything you people do.

Speaking of you people, I bet you still drive around by yourself while wearing a mask.

 

love it. Props to them. How will DeS take his pound of flesh for this sort of disobedience?

 

worse than being hired, he was forced up UF as a nonteaching professor with a salary supplement of over $300k from UF to go along with his surgeon general salary. No responsibilities, just tenure and a paycheck

 

DeSantis latest attack on higher education:

Fla. Governor Asked All Public Universities for Spending Data on Diversity and Critical Race Theory

The article requires membership, so here's the gist:

“As the Executive Office of the Governor prepares policy and budget proposals ahead of the 2023 Legislative Session, it is important that we have a full understanding of the operational expenses of state institutions,” the memo begins. Written by Chris Spencer, DeSantis’s director of policy and budget, and addressed to Rodrigues and Manny Diaz Jr., the state’s education commissioner, the memo adds that “state law requires dutiful attention to curriculum content at our higher-education systems.”

Neither the memo nor Rodrigues’s email specify precisely what the information will be used for. A spokesperson for the system didn’t answer questions about the system’s plans and goals for the gathered data, nor how institutions should identify how much funding for specific programs comes from the state, versus the federal government, donations, tuition, or other sources.

In previous speeches and public stances, DeSantis has made clear his opposition to critical race theory. “We must ensure that our institutions of higher learning are focused on academic excellence and the pursuit of truth, not the imposition of trendy ideology,” DeSantis said in a speech on Tuesday. In a handful of other states, Republican lawmakers have taken aim at diversity efforts and teaching about institutional racism in college classrooms, including requesting information about curricula and introducing a bill that would ban public colleges from funding diversity offices.

 

Pretty clear what the plan is here, and it's going to get them sued again.

 

17 million and counting. Great use of state money

 

I always find it interesting that the biggest critics of "wet foot, dry foot" are the same people that want the most lenient of immigration policy.

They talk about work visas, how the wall is a symbol of bigotry, they point to the Statue of Liberty, but the second you bring up "wet foot, dry foot" and the Cuban people, the solution is to level the playing field by taking AWAY that privilege from the Cuban people rather than granting that privilege to anyone else.

Frankly, it exposes the intentions behind loose immigration policy. Often-times, it's not altruistic, or even economics, it's a political numbers game where Democrats are trying to increase their numbers by bringing in as many more Democratic voters as they can.

 

You've got it backwards, dude. I have zero interest in taking away anybody's ability to flee from repression. I feel confident the same is true of the others. What people are pointing out is the hypocrisy of not extending that grace to other groups. We should be as welcoming of Haitians, Venezuelans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorans, Mexicans, etc. as we are of Cubans.

This is about grace and mercy, not political gain or loss.

 

Not true at all. It's about fair play and equal opportunity. Ironic that u would introduce politics tho.

 

So you're now arguing that the University of Florida, one of the top universities in this country, hired a stupid person to be its Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology? Talking shit about the University of Florida is a bold move on a Gators forum.

DeSantis and his political appointees generally are.

Yep, evidence based. Unsurprisingly, that's why the Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at one of the top universities in the country is "shilling" for it.

Except for the fact that DeSantis and his cronies are currently barring the people who are willing to pay for it from being able to access that evidence-based care, which is what Dr. Haller was speaking out against.
Florida bans gender-affirming care for trans youth

I've only worn a mask a handful of times in the past year. Those times were either as required at a doctor's office or when others around me were wearing masks so I reciprocated out of respect for their preferences. In other words, you'd lose your bet. What do I win? Any other bets you want to make?

 

You don't speak for everybody.

If you're for all of that loose immigration and you're consistent about it, cool. I wasn't calling you out in particular.

 

If it's all fun and advocating for loose immigration policy until we talk about the Cubans, it sure doesn't look like it.

Don't worry, I won't call you a bigot like the majority of Too Hot would if the shoe was on the other foot because I believe that would be a vile thing to do.

 

Worry about your posts?? I just posted facts and you imply that I'm a bigot?? Seriously?

Save the passive aggressive BS. Grow up, you're embarrassing yourself....again.

 

I never called you a bigot, I said that's what Too Hot would call me if I said the same thing about any other common Hispanic immigration demographic.

 

Nice spin, but your comment comes across as passive aggressive and I think you know it.

"Lawyer" summed it up pretty well. Reread my posts. There is nothing close to being bigoted in them. In fact it's just the opposite.

I simply think this country's immigration policy should treat all nationalities with similar consideration, which hasn't been the case. The Cubans fleeing Castro in the 60s certainly deserved refuge. However, JMO, today's Cuban immigrants arent significantly different from any other nationality living with a repressive regime and failed economy.

Your quick defense of the wet foot/dry foot policy implies to me that you think the Cuban immigrants deserve more consideration than the Haitians. If so, I suggest a quick read on the history of the violent politics that the Haitian people have endured, from the Tonton Macoutes to the 2021 assassination of their President.

Im not necessarily endorsing a loose immigration policy, just an equally fair one.

 

This is total made-up BS. No one here is saying this.

 

I was not endorsing wet foot/dry foot, I was pointing out how lenient immigration advocates who tend to be Democrat ironically are critical of wet foot dry foot to the point that they want to revoke that privilege from Cubans rather than extend it to everyone else.

I'm pretty consistent. Do I think Cubans during the Revolution had valid asylum claims? Yes. Do I think as time has passed, newer cases have become less viable asylum claims? Yes. Do I think there is valid criticism regarding "wet foot, dry foot?" Absolutely.

But I think it's kind of odd when that criticism comes from the same people that characterize any policy attempt to secure the border as bigoted, and it really is enlightening regarding the motives of the agenda.

 

Two threads in a row you call me out for "nobody saying X."

Second time in a row, you're wrong: