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snowybirdie

(6,393 posts)
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:36 AM Oct 8

In Florida, a new demand

According to this morning's Naples Daily News:

Bill would make Florida colleges, universities name streets after Charlie Kirk
If they don't, the legislation proposes holding back state funds that go to the institutions

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allegorical oracle

(5,815 posts)
7. Apparently, a whole mess of people never actually listened to what he was
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:18 AM
Oct 8

saying -- or read what he wrote. He was a flaming hatemonger disguised as a holy man. The Bible warned of false prophets.

Biophilic

(6,161 posts)
5. Geeze Florida, have we nothing better to do?
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:02 AM
Oct 8

Seems like we must be paying our state legislators to do nothing.

Tommy Carcetti

(44,287 posts)
9. I predict a major public backlash against the whole Charlie Kirk canonization effort.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 10:23 AM
Oct 8

People don't like being told who to idolize, and the effort from when Kirk's body wasn't even cold to shove him down everyone's throats will not sit well with a lot of people, especially the younger set who aren't Campus Republicans.

He was a fringe element until his death.

RT Atlanta

(2,656 posts)
12. Let's also do this....
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 03:40 PM
Oct 8

while they are being non-serious idiots:

Introduce a bill to create a state law to decline any/all Federal supplements for residential property insurance anywhere in the state.

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