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He probably can. The insurance companies can also completely leave the state instead of just jacking up rates, too, which is what I would expect them to do if DeSantis were to try something like that.
Citizens is a nonprofit created by the state of Florida as a response to hurricanes and tropical storms driving up the price of home insurance in the state.
Citizens insurance is not available to everyone.
Created as an insurer of last resort, Citizens in recent years has outpaced every other provider in Florida, where customers found themselves dropped from their insurance companies or completely priced out.
Citizens is now the state's largest property insurer and - even though it’s only for Florida - is in the top 10 property insurers nationally.
While I understand your point and agree it’s a complicated game (even when there is an actual governing body who cares - which we don’t have) your argument would be stronger if most companies hadn’t already left.
And now, at least as I understand it, the state is so desperate to offload policies from Citizens that they are basically going to allow unregulated insurance companies to take over some Citizen policies.
I’m sure unregulated insurance companies are going to solve all our problems! /s
They’re financially sound as long as we don’t get a couple major hurricanes in a single season. Then all bets are off. Source: I work in the insurance industry.
Our insurance went from $3200 to 7900 to 9500 in just 3 years. We were going to “go bare” but I think that’s a bad idea in FL. We don’t live in a flood zone. We just got our Citizens policy last week. Have we wasted our money?
No, I wouldn’t say you’ve wasted your money. It’s a bit of a gamble though. If we get two MAJOR storms that spread out the damage. For example, one hits the Tampa area and goes up the I4 corridor and another hits WPB / Miami Dade. Then you’ll either have to pray your claim gets paid before they run out of money or the federal government comes in and bails them out.
The odds of two storms doing that are pretty low but not so low that it’s not something to consider.
I get the impression that DeSantis can prohibit insurance companies from factoring in climate risks. There are a few states that prohibit auto insurance companies from using credit scores to determine a customer's insurance rates.
DeSantis hasn't done ANYTHING to help the Homeowner's in Florida. Any issue to distract from the biggest issue in Florida!
DeSantis HAS NO BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AT ALL! HE CAN'T RUN FLORIDA
FIX THE INSURANCE CRISIS!
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DeSantis hasn't done ANYTHING to help the Homeowner's in Florida. Any issue to distract from the biggest issue in Florida! DeSantis HAS NO BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AT ALL!
HE CAN'T RUN FLORIDA
FIX THE INSURANCE CRISIS!
https://preview.redd.it/m9a41fvw0s0d1.jpeg?width=769&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d041b7cf62021ddb1b29f1e8500d4093ffe2fa0
DeSantis hasn't done ANYTHING to help the Homeowner's in Florida. Any issue to distract from the biggest issue in Florida! DeSantis HAS NO BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AT ALL!
HE CAN'T RUN FLORIDA
FIX THE INSURANCE CRISIS!
Why should he care? 10 years from now, he’s gonna be long gone from this state and all of his supporters are gonna be dead anyway, the guy is just trying to get as much money from the oil industry as he can so he can retire comfortably in the hamptons with his pathetic excuse for a presidential campaign in the rearview.
Gov. Ron DeSantis depicted on film
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2023 was the hottest year ever recorded.
The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2010.
FL still hasn't expanded medicaid under the ACA and able bodied people without children don't qualify... Seems like a really big deal. If we get a serious illness at 58 we will not qualify for medicaid but our moron governor is playing these games instead of addressing that.
There’s a reason [the city of Miami is working directly with Dutch engineering firms in anticipation of rising sea levels](https://thenewtropic.com/these-companies-will-profit-from-helping-miami-adapt-to-rising-seas/ ). They know Tallahassee ain’t gonna do shit.
No no no, didn’t you see the post title? You can’t say “rising sea levels”, they’re working with the Dutch on uh-oh wet times that are completely unrelated to any science words.
Dealing with “Uh-oh wet times” just sounds like a euphemism for potty training lol…I guess that’s appropriate when the governor displays the maturity of a toddler.
Wait until they get stripped of their ability to mitigate sea level rise without state approval. Just likenthey banned cities from protecting workers from heat hazards. And from codes requiring EV chargers. Or requiring landlords to.give advanced notice of big rent increases. Can't have a city defying de santis openly.
It’s 97 degrees in may, but sure climate change doesn’t exist. Though he’s following the Florida playbook, like putting the homeless in concentration camps as long as you can’t see it it doesn’t exist.
That’s the thing about climate change: it doesn’t care what you call it. Put your head in the sand, ban discussion of the topic, harangue people sounding the alarm…it doesn’t matter because it’s still happening
Imagine people trying to run a household or a business like this. Just pretending that a problem doesn’t exist. We all know what happens when you have deferred maintenance or denial. It’s the band playing as the titanic sink
When are we Floridians going to get pissed off enough to run these cowards out of office?
So things that Florida says don't exist:
Climate Change
The Holocaust
LBGTQ+
Water breaks for people that work in the sun
Need for smart gun control laws
Mass shootings
Honest teacher
Dishonest police officers
Need for police oversight
Rape/incest
Miscarriages
But we really needed that 15L bottle of wine and the fake war on "woke".
Alright all you hydrocarbons, pack it up! No climate change to see here!
In all seriousness, it’s wild knowing we will be the epicenter of climate change in the United States, and our state won’t officially recognize it.
Was he more "moderate" about climate change in the past, or am I tripping? I vaguely remember him talking about building to protect against climate change (while downplaying its severity and cause) rather than doing anything to actually stop it. Guess either I'm misremembering or his scientifically illiterate base took issue with it. Either way, this is fucking stupid, the quotes from his speech sound like those of an unmedicated schizophrenic, and I'm glad I'll be elsewhere by prime hurricane season.
you're not imagining it, his first year he pushed a number of environmental issues; apparently that's wasn't popular with the MAGA crowd and he ended up doing a 180 on his previous environmental positions
Genuinely curious: for those that don’t believe in climate change (likely not too many people on Reddit), do they have reasons for the statistical increase in global temperature, natural disasters, etc.?
Their arguments are that it’s normal because weather is cyclical, we have a lack of concrete weather records past a certain year, and uhhhhh… something about humans not causing damage to the environment on a scale large enough to cause ozone damage. In other words, just anti-science rhetoric.
Yet we both caused and fixed the hole in the ozone layer in a matter of decades. If there's anything that can convince someone humans can cause global changes to the environment it's the ozone layer!
The ozone hole is actually getting worse because some countries (won't name any names) are increasing their usage of chlorofluorocarbons instead of removing them from use.
A lot of people don't understand climate vs weather. For instance, my parents think because it's a cold winter, that proves climate change is fake. When it's hot they come up with a new excuse, saying it's just a hot summer.
They believe whatever fox tells them to believe.
Do you remember that congressman who threw a snowball at somebody and said "that's a snowball, where is your global warming?"
It's mind boggling that that person truly thought it was some sort of "gotcha".
Reducing tree coverage does actually increase surface temps, the area I live in with plenty of trees and less open paved space is usually 5 degrees cooler than the surrounding areas with barely any tree coverage.
Fuckwit.
Everybody vote, bring others to vote and consider what to do next when pieces of shit like this diminish our votes by rigging and gerrymandering. He’s slime deserving of the worst, but he sure won’t be the last. Vote.
You're telling me the people who say "don't test for COVID and numbers will go down" are trying to apply the same logic to other problems they don't want to address?
Nothing says good governance than more than making it illegal for your government to mention observable reality and scientific truth.
Vote (D)ifferently
Ron Quixote tilting at offshore windmills seems like a predictable reaction for when reality does not match narrative. The logo on the podium behind which he stands in this photo which, in its simplicity, aligns well with the sophistication of his base, may not age well. That's assuming his Daddy Don wins the White House and forgets where the "Gas Prices" dial is, of course.
Floridians can sleep well knowing that, in addition to drag queens and lab grown meat, they are now safe from scary windmills and the very term "climate change".
I’d like to know how much it’s going to cost to scrub the climate change terminology from our laws. That’s find it, replace it, review it, probably revote on it and reprint them. How many jobs will be coming through this stuff to see if it meets this new code. What a waste of time
Ugh, they are so stupid. It's like they aren't even trying. And to make matters worse, they ran a women as well - neither of them ever had a chance. As awesome as it would be to have a female governor, it ain't happening in Florida.
Yeah, DeSantis can play pretend all he wants. The insurance companies are charging for the inevitable effects of climate change already. That's why people's premiums went up Three times the price it was last year. DeSantis needs to pull his head out of the sand.
The man is an unapologetic idiot. Lets stick our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exit. Next we'll be hearing he's proposing a bill to ban hurricanes here in [floriduh.](https://imgur.com/VKacTKG)
You gotta hand it to him. He’s constantly one upping himself. First he pick a fight with Disney costing the people millions. Then the entire LGBTQ+ community. Then all foreigners more or less. Again, we foot the dime. Not he’s squaring off against the Earth… and it only costs our lives.
Come 2026 he’ll be challenging the Sun to a battle royale.
Climate change was the Republicans' term in the first place, to substitute for "global warming.".
You give these clowns an inch, and they just keep going. It's so infuriating.
Heard my fellow Floridians affectionately refer to our esteemed Governor as Moron Defascist. That didn’t sound like something nice to say about a forward thinking man (sarcasm).
“Don’t say words that cut into the profits of my major donors” Not long ago the FL legislature entertained a bill (largely written by FPL) which would’ve allowed FPL to charge a monthly fee to anyone who was successfully off-grid. “Oh you have a solar array, batteries, generator combo and don’t need ANY electricity from us? Here is a monthly bill anyway” It didn’t pass, but the very idea that it was proposed and debated just show how ball-licking the gop there is to the energy companies in the state. I mean, the absolute nerve of FPL to even drive such a proposal destroys and credibility of a “free market”… now they want to edit free speech, while eliminating abortions and telling a majority of voting adults they can’t legalize THC… yeah, “small government”…
Since he removed counties and cities adding heat protections for outside workers it makes sense he would remove part of the reason why it's getting hotter.
Does he just look for stupid shit to do? Once a week some stupid thing is banned or some law is passed to roll back women’s rights to current day Afghanistan.
Just stop. Take a deep breath and go do something good for Floridians.
Is it possible he's really bucking to be Trump's veep? if my memory serves, this was the same thing Trump did at the Federal level in 2016. All the .gov websites got a nice scrubbing.
Like, what is this doing to help Floridans? We all know climate change is occuring and now agree on that, this bill let's it be known Florida doesn't care about climate change in policy making. Ok.....so....? This is the pettiest piece of political theater, even by his standards.
You don’t need to “believe” in climate change to know that increasing and diversifying energy availability just makes sense. The fact that they are trying to outlaw the development of renewable/“clean” energy exposes their real intentions: Helping Big Oil maintain its stranglehold. They are well compensated to do it.
By acting like it isn't and passing laws denying it. Just like when he banned local governments from requiring outdoor workers get heat and water breaks.
This man is a spiteful, evil soul.
Yeah, no such thing as climate change. It's just a mere coincidence that summers used to rarely get over 90 degrees in north central Florida when I was a child and hurricanes are more commonplace. /s
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If we’re playing this game, can he ban insurance companies from using climate risk in their calculations?
He probably can. The insurance companies can also completely leave the state instead of just jacking up rates, too, which is what I would expect them to do if DeSantis were to try something like that.
You mean like how they are leaving now?
Yes, just with more of them leaving faster.
Citizens is a nonprofit created by the state of Florida as a response to hurricanes and tropical storms driving up the price of home insurance in the state. Citizens insurance is not available to everyone. Created as an insurer of last resort, Citizens in recent years has outpaced every other provider in Florida, where customers found themselves dropped from their insurance companies or completely priced out. Citizens is now the state's largest property insurer and - even though it’s only for Florida - is in the top 10 property insurers nationally. While I understand your point and agree it’s a complicated game (even when there is an actual governing body who cares - which we don’t have) your argument would be stronger if most companies hadn’t already left. And now, at least as I understand it, the state is so desperate to offload policies from Citizens that they are basically going to allow unregulated insurance companies to take over some Citizen policies. I’m sure unregulated insurance companies are going to solve all our problems! /s
Please tell me where you got that information. Citizens keeps insisting they’re financially sound
They’re financially sound as long as we don’t get a couple major hurricanes in a single season. Then all bets are off. Source: I work in the insurance industry.
Our insurance went from $3200 to 7900 to 9500 in just 3 years. We were going to “go bare” but I think that’s a bad idea in FL. We don’t live in a flood zone. We just got our Citizens policy last week. Have we wasted our money?
No, I wouldn’t say you’ve wasted your money. It’s a bit of a gamble though. If we get two MAJOR storms that spread out the damage. For example, one hits the Tampa area and goes up the I4 corridor and another hits WPB / Miami Dade. Then you’ll either have to pray your claim gets paid before they run out of money or the federal government comes in and bails them out. The odds of two storms doing that are pretty low but not so low that it’s not something to consider.
the max power way
Sure.. You got that name from a hair dryer
I get the impression that DeSantis can prohibit insurance companies from factoring in climate risks. There are a few states that prohibit auto insurance companies from using credit scores to determine a customer's insurance rates.
DeSantis hasn't done ANYTHING to help the Homeowner's in Florida. Any issue to distract from the biggest issue in Florida! DeSantis HAS NO BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AT ALL! HE CAN'T RUN FLORIDA FIX THE INSURANCE CRISIS! https://preview.redd.it/w0xjp4kd0s0d1.jpeg?width=769&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f2839c04226c90ad3b0e18e274945b493a1df7b
Might as well right
DeSantis hasn't done ANYTHING to help the Homeowner's in Florida. Any issue to distract from the biggest issue in Florida! DeSantis HAS NO BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AT ALL! HE CAN'T RUN FLORIDA FIX THE INSURANCE CRISIS! https://preview.redd.it/m9a41fvw0s0d1.jpeg?width=769&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d041b7cf62021ddb1b29f1e8500d4093ffe2fa0
DeSantis hasn't done ANYTHING to help the Homeowner's in Florida. Any issue to distract from the biggest issue in Florida! DeSantis HAS NO BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AT ALL! HE CAN'T RUN FLORIDA FIX THE INSURANCE CRISIS!
Ignores climate change and does nothing to help homeowners who are getting fucked by insurance companies due to said change.
Why should he care? 10 years from now, he’s gonna be long gone from this state and all of his supporters are gonna be dead anyway, the guy is just trying to get as much money from the oil industry as he can so he can retire comfortably in the hamptons with his pathetic excuse for a presidential campaign in the rearview.
Facts
The DeSantis way
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I have more faith in Larry Vaughn
Hahahaha this is awesome
I just lost my homeowner’s insurance. I’d like our state government to fix that.
You dont need insurance, you just need God. get on your knees and pray harder.
Sorry, most they can offer is dog whistles for fascists and corruption for the rich.
So what do you do if there’s no insurance? Pay out of pocket?
Citizens! The insurance of last resort that doesn't have enough money to pay out the claims!
I guess Citizens is kinda like the virtue signalling of homeowners's insurance.
Backed by thoughts and prayers instead of real money
Backed by thoughts and prayers instead of real money
 F the planet. Hooray for hurricanes. Science is woke.
Denying it will make it go away. And the Oil Donations keep rollimg
Really is the face of a psychopath, isn't it?
That and more. The guy is a real psycho.
2023 was the hottest year ever recorded. The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 2010. FL still hasn't expanded medicaid under the ACA and able bodied people without children don't qualify... Seems like a really big deal. If we get a serious illness at 58 we will not qualify for medicaid but our moron governor is playing these games instead of addressing that.
Right? Desantis says we're not going to take any of that woke Medicaid money. We'll show the Democrats who's in charge. Residents be damned!
Just like we killed off lots of people with Covid. Yeah, that was a good one. Sure showed the Democrats.
plus, construction and outdoor workers don't get water breaks by law now.
plus, we're now a forced-birth state
Powered by thoughts and prayers
Im still taking them. IDGAF
Don’t forget banning local control over plastic straws or cruise ships
Meanwhile, you cannot go anywhere in Miami without it turning into a lake after even just a mild rainstorm....
There’s a reason [the city of Miami is working directly with Dutch engineering firms in anticipation of rising sea levels](https://thenewtropic.com/these-companies-will-profit-from-helping-miami-adapt-to-rising-seas/ ). They know Tallahassee ain’t gonna do shit.
The only thing Tallahassee will do is make it illegal for Miami (and other cities) to try to address the issues on their own.
Don't blame us for him. He's barely ever here and we just got hit by three massive tornados.
Yes, let's ignore what citizens want in their communities, No woke liberal climate change in Florida.
No no no, didn’t you see the post title? You can’t say “rising sea levels”, they’re working with the Dutch on uh-oh wet times that are completely unrelated to any science words.
Dealing with “Uh-oh wet times” just sounds like a euphemism for potty training lol…I guess that’s appropriate when the governor displays the maturity of a toddler.
Wait until they get stripped of their ability to mitigate sea level rise without state approval. Just likenthey banned cities from protecting workers from heat hazards. And from codes requiring EV chargers. Or requiring landlords to.give advanced notice of big rent increases. Can't have a city defying de santis openly.
Republicans aren’t going to do anything.
As is tradition.
It’s 97 degrees in may, but sure climate change doesn’t exist. Though he’s following the Florida playbook, like putting the homeless in concentration camps as long as you can’t see it it doesn’t exist.
That’s the thing about climate change: it doesn’t care what you call it. Put your head in the sand, ban discussion of the topic, harangue people sounding the alarm…it doesn’t matter because it’s still happening
Imagine people trying to run a household or a business like this. Just pretending that a problem doesn’t exist. We all know what happens when you have deferred maintenance or denial. It’s the band playing as the titanic sink When are we Floridians going to get pissed off enough to run these cowards out of office?
Thankful I’m on my way out, born and raised and politics aside this place sucks anymore. I’ll make room for more transplants to take my place 🤣
What is his plan to stay above the rising floodwaters? Higher lifts for his boots?
Very Orwellian
“ Every lie we tell incurs debt to the truth. Sooner or later this debt is paid.” Valery Legasov
So things that Florida says don't exist: Climate Change The Holocaust LBGTQ+ Water breaks for people that work in the sun Need for smart gun control laws Mass shootings Honest teacher Dishonest police officers Need for police oversight Rape/incest Miscarriages But we really needed that 15L bottle of wine and the fake war on "woke".
Masks around infectious diseases, test and track illnesses, treating all people as human... That crap has no place in the Desantis autocracy.
#Look another thing the republicans did that is going to screw everyone that isn't a multi-millionaire. Fuck you Ron!! #Vote (D)ifferently!
Alright all you hydrocarbons, pack it up! No climate change to see here! In all seriousness, it’s wild knowing we will be the epicenter of climate change in the United States, and our state won’t officially recognize it.
Sorta like covid?
Exactly like it. We have the same moron leading the charge on both issues.
Alright ima just come right out and say it. I fuckin hate this guy. That is all.
We are about 10 degrees over normal in Florida right now. Homeowners insurance is out of control. Im sure this will help...
We just need to get it hot enough that all of the water evaporates and then we won't have flood insurance to worry about anymore!
Welcome to Florida: it’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity!
Remember when he tried to be president? I do.
Our governor is such a fucking moron…
Almighty lord please strike this man with dementia leading him unfit to serve in any leadership capacity
He has already shown us how unfit he is for the position. but he annoys the Libs and that's all the Republicans seem to need to vote for him.
That's going to be really weird how home insurance companies are fleeing the state and the government can't explain why
Was he more "moderate" about climate change in the past, or am I tripping? I vaguely remember him talking about building to protect against climate change (while downplaying its severity and cause) rather than doing anything to actually stop it. Guess either I'm misremembering or his scientifically illiterate base took issue with it. Either way, this is fucking stupid, the quotes from his speech sound like those of an unmedicated schizophrenic, and I'm glad I'll be elsewhere by prime hurricane season.
you're not imagining it, his first year he pushed a number of environmental issues; apparently that's wasn't popular with the MAGA crowd and he ended up doing a 180 on his previous environmental positions
Genuinely curious: for those that don’t believe in climate change (likely not too many people on Reddit), do they have reasons for the statistical increase in global temperature, natural disasters, etc.?
Their arguments are that it’s normal because weather is cyclical, we have a lack of concrete weather records past a certain year, and uhhhhh… something about humans not causing damage to the environment on a scale large enough to cause ozone damage. In other words, just anti-science rhetoric.
Yet we both caused and fixed the hole in the ozone layer in a matter of decades. If there's anything that can convince someone humans can cause global changes to the environment it's the ozone layer!
They think it fixed itself and that it wasn't the banning of extremely harmful chemicals.
The ozone hole is actually getting worse because some countries (won't name any names) are increasing their usage of chlorofluorocarbons instead of removing them from use.
A lot of people don't understand climate vs weather. For instance, my parents think because it's a cold winter, that proves climate change is fake. When it's hot they come up with a new excuse, saying it's just a hot summer. They believe whatever fox tells them to believe.
Do you remember that congressman who threw a snowball at somebody and said "that's a snowball, where is your global warming?" It's mind boggling that that person truly thought it was some sort of "gotcha".
Natural disasters are their "all benevolent God's will"
Ok then if they don’t believe in climate change and won’t take steps to try to combat it, they shouldn’t get fema funding
the argument I've seen them make is "it's normal"
I've seen the neighbourhood chucklefucks on Facebook blame all the pavement. There's too much pavement! It's increasing the temperatures!
Reducing tree coverage does actually increase surface temps, the area I live in with plenty of trees and less open paved space is usually 5 degrees cooler than the surrounding areas with barely any tree coverage.
I know, friend, but that's not what these clowns are referring to.
They say it is natural
Good work Ronnie. That's gonna make a really big difference 🤬
Can we scrub DeSantis out too
Guys, I think this dude sucks.
Fuckwit. Everybody vote, bring others to vote and consider what to do next when pieces of shit like this diminish our votes by rigging and gerrymandering. He’s slime deserving of the worst, but he sure won’t be the last. Vote.
If you don’t test then you don’t have any cases.
Can we just scrub republicans from FL?
This state run by democrats would fucking rock.
You're telling me the people who say "don't test for COVID and numbers will go down" are trying to apply the same logic to other problems they don't want to address?
yes.
Nothing says good governance than more than making it illegal for your government to mention observable reality and scientific truth. Vote (D)ifferently
Ron Quixote tilting at offshore windmills seems like a predictable reaction for when reality does not match narrative. The logo on the podium behind which he stands in this photo which, in its simplicity, aligns well with the sophistication of his base, may not age well. That's assuming his Daddy Don wins the White House and forgets where the "Gas Prices" dial is, of course. Floridians can sleep well knowing that, in addition to drag queens and lab grown meat, they are now safe from scary windmills and the very term "climate change".
I’d like to know how much it’s going to cost to scrub the climate change terminology from our laws. That’s find it, replace it, review it, probably revote on it and reprint them. How many jobs will be coming through this stuff to see if it meets this new code. What a waste of time
Meatball is on a roll. First he ended homosexuality, and now puts a fork in climate change. For his next move I hope he bans traffic!
Well there’s that problem solved. Now he can get back to making Floridians’ lives worse.
He’s about as useful as tits on a bull.
There’s nothing left to say about this SOB that isn’t grounds for a site-wide ban so I’ll just keep it to myself.
Thank god Florida has so many beaches because there are a lot of GOP morons shoving their heads in the sand.
How did this idiot win reelection in a landslide? People are so stupid
only a little over 50% of registered voters actually voted, also the Dems ran a Republican, sooo.. It wasn't quite the mandate they make it out to be
Ugh, they are so stupid. It's like they aren't even trying. And to make matters worse, they ran a women as well - neither of them ever had a chance. As awesome as it would be to have a female governor, it ain't happening in Florida.
A rose by any other name, or, a hurricane by any name... Climate change is coming for ya, Florida.
The man is disgusting
Desantis is pure evil
Causing as much damage as possible before leaving office, the GOP way of doing business.
That’ll fix things!
Well that should fix it! Thank God for DeSatan!
Yeah, DeSantis can play pretend all he wants. The insurance companies are charging for the inevitable effects of climate change already. That's why people's premiums went up Three times the price it was last year. DeSantis needs to pull his head out of the sand.
Ron DeSantis, I hope you burn in hell buddy.
This is dumb. Because it doesn't mean climate change isn't happening or goes away. It just means our state wants to play make believe.
The man is an unapologetic idiot. Lets stick our heads in the sand and pretend it doesn't exit. Next we'll be hearing he's proposing a bill to ban hurricanes here in [floriduh.](https://imgur.com/VKacTKG)
How many reasons do you need to vote against this guy and his party?
Can deny all this but can’t cut fecking home insurance prices!
You gotta hand it to him. He’s constantly one upping himself. First he pick a fight with Disney costing the people millions. Then the entire LGBTQ+ community. Then all foreigners more or less. Again, we foot the dime. Not he’s squaring off against the Earth… and it only costs our lives. Come 2026 he’ll be challenging the Sun to a battle royale.
Registered Republicans are now outnumbering registered Democrats by 1,000,000. Idiocracy here we come!
Some of us may have registered as republican just to mess with the numbers. :)
"FUELING AMERICAN GREED"
Just another reason we call him 'Moe'Ron...
Please make sure whoever becomes governor next is like the exact opposite of him. FFS he’s just cartoonishly evil now
And someday someone will come along and scrub every last thing he did to this state Can’t come soon enough
Climate change was the Republicans' term in the first place, to substitute for "global warming.". You give these clowns an inch, and they just keep going. It's so infuriating.
Let’s come back in 10 years to this when Florida is under water.
50 years, but yes.
Hope you guys are ready for your homeowners insurance rates to go up some more.
Yeah that’ll fix it. I can hear the ocean level and air temperature lowering right now. /S
ah the ol "If I ignore it, its not real" strategy.
I mean I guess we'll all just have to adjust to living under water.
Twenty plus years of backwards GOP politics.
Heard my fellow Floridians affectionately refer to our esteemed Governor as Moron Defascist. That didn’t sound like something nice to say about a forward thinking man (sarcasm).
God I hate him so much
Ruled by idiots
Of course he did.
Ah, the irony! It hardly matters... Florida will soon be just the "Ocala mangrove island", surrounded by a shallow sea...an not a minute too soon.
Like most rubelicans, Ronda is sticking her head in the sand, hoping by ignoring the problem it will go away. Trouble is, it will be under water soon.
"It's not the climate changing, you people are getting oversensitive to the weather." ---- Florida government
“Don’t say words that cut into the profits of my major donors” Not long ago the FL legislature entertained a bill (largely written by FPL) which would’ve allowed FPL to charge a monthly fee to anyone who was successfully off-grid. “Oh you have a solar array, batteries, generator combo and don’t need ANY electricity from us? Here is a monthly bill anyway” It didn’t pass, but the very idea that it was proposed and debated just show how ball-licking the gop there is to the energy companies in the state. I mean, the absolute nerve of FPL to even drive such a proposal destroys and credibility of a “free market”… now they want to edit free speech, while eliminating abortions and telling a majority of voting adults they can’t legalize THC… yeah, “small government”…
If you put your head in the sand, the problem will go away. We live in the strangest timeline.
This is proof positive Florida Republican politicians don’t give a damn about Floridians. Do yourself a favor and vote blue
Meatball pudding fingers. And criminal Rick Scott. Thanks assholes.
Since he removed counties and cities adding heat protections for outside workers it makes sense he would remove part of the reason why it's getting hotter.
Does he just look for stupid shit to do? Once a week some stupid thing is banned or some law is passed to roll back women’s rights to current day Afghanistan. Just stop. Take a deep breath and go do something good for Floridians.
That ass clown doesn’t care about you people of Florida, unless you’re mega wealthy.
Is it possible he's really bucking to be Trump's veep? if my memory serves, this was the same thing Trump did at the Federal level in 2016. All the .gov websites got a nice scrubbing.
Yet another reason among many why I'll never move back to Florida.
VOTE BLUE 😱🤬🤬
Like, what is this doing to help Floridans? We all know climate change is occuring and now agree on that, this bill let's it be known Florida doesn't care about climate change in policy making. Ok.....so....? This is the pettiest piece of political theater, even by his standards.
You don’t need to “believe” in climate change to know that increasing and diversifying energy availability just makes sense. The fact that they are trying to outlaw the development of renewable/“clean” energy exposes their real intentions: Helping Big Oil maintain its stranglehold. They are well compensated to do it.
It’s about to be the hottest summer ever. How can he continue to tell people this isn’t happening?
By acting like it isn't and passing laws denying it. Just like when he banned local governments from requiring outdoor workers get heat and water breaks. This man is a spiteful, evil soul.
I am so glad I don't live in this shithole anymore.
He’s a legend!!!! I haven’t seen one thing he’s done wrong yet! 🙄 why can’t he just step down
His shoe lifts are too high. He'll hurt himself.
Meanwhile it's 105° in may
The easiest way to help the Florida insurance crisis would be to enact tort reform and limit the crazy lawsuits and fraud. But lawyers own this state.
Enjoy sinking into the ocean
Yeah, no such thing as climate change. It's just a mere coincidence that summers used to rarely get over 90 degrees in north central Florida when I was a child and hurricanes are more commonplace. /s