Why yes, I am quoting the Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles, because one can juxtapose the genius absurdity of that film with the evil absurdity of the Ron DeSantis regime in Florida.
Case in point, the Florida legislature passed and Desantis' signed a law that forbids localities from hosting, "Certain programming and activities designed or implemented with reference to ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity."
This law Delray Beach to cancel its St. Patrick's Day parade, because Irish is an ethnicity, and hence the parade is "Woke" under Florida law.
A Florida mayor is working to salvage his city’s St Patrick’s Day parade after it was canceled to comply with a new Republican law banning municipalities from hosting events deemed to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
The state’s hard right governor Ron DeSantis signed the law in April that takes effect on 1 January, prompting the city of Delray Beach, near Fort Lauderdale, to announce it was scrapping next year’s popular Irish celebration that regularly attracts tens of thousands of visitors, and also its Pride event.
Restrictions imposed by the new state law, the city said in a statement, “include certain programming and activities designed or implemented with reference to ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity”.
Delray officials determined they were “legally prohibited from organizing, funding, or promoting these events in 2027”.
The decision to axe the St Patrick’s and Pride events angered residents and local business owners who faced missing out on what are traditionally among their most lucrative weekends of the year.
The Florida Republican Party is a bunch of, "Rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, sh%$-kickers and Methodists."
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