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Special Sessions are Florida’s New Normal & Masking Coconuts - Top 3 Takeaways – April 14th, 2022
- The new normal? No, I’m not referencing the pandemic. I loathe that term and thought as much as you do. Yes, the World Economic Forum and related globalists, interested in using the pandemic to usher in the Great Reset, have had their desire to push a new normal on us. One in which we cede the life and liberty we once had for their one world government autocracy. What I’m talking about are special sessions in Florida. Increasingly, there’s nothing all that special about calling special sessions in our state. In Florida’s 177-year history we’ve had 119 “special sessions” which have varied by name based upon era. Anyway, that means historically Florida’s called a special session every year and a half of average making them not exactly unusual and not particularly special – save the specificity of the issues the sessions. But even as frequently as special sessions have been called, the pace has significantly increased in recent years. With next week’s special session about to commence, regarding Florida’s next congressional map (which State Senator and Democrat candidate for Governor Annette Taddeo is now calling for a boycott of), and the prospect for another to tackle property insurance reform behind it...
- Special sessions are increasingly becoming the new normal in Florida. Between 2014 and 2021, a total of eight years, Florida held eight special sessions. The streak clearly isn’t broken and if anything, we’ll add to the pace this year. Special sessions being called in Florida are becoming as regular as the regular sessions. The question that comes to mind is whether Florida might be better served by rethinking the length of its 60-day legislative session. The lengths of state legislative sessions run the gambit from four states – Montana, Nevada, North Dakota and Texas that only convene every other year – to nine states which are full-time legislators which means they meet all throughout the year. In general, I’m a less is more kind of guy, which is to say I’d rather see legislators meet every other year than year-round. But since Florida meets annually, is 60 days enough? It hasn’t proven to be in recent years as we’re averaging at least one special session per year. And if special sessions are more effective because of the focus on singular issues, maybe that should be the approach by leadership in the legislature to begin with.
- Mask the coconuts. I know what you’re thinking. Even for me this one’s odd. But hang with me because I’m simply using a new example to illustrate the absurdity that is CDC policy. A couple of months ago polling revealed most Americans no longer trust the CDC. As sad as that reality may be, it was earned. During the course of the pandemic, we’ve witnessed the unelected body of scientists in Atlanta morph into dictatorial bureaucracy, at first using “the science” to achieve desired outcomes in society, to abandoning “the science” altogether to keep their BS policy dictates alive. Yesterday’s move by the CDC to keep the mask mandate in place on public transportation is but the latest example. Despite studies showing air filtration systems on airplanes are safest of any in society, and masks having proven to be about as effective at stopping COVID’S variants as the vaccines...you must continue to wear them to travel. And your children too... Or else. This is why we should mask the coconuts. Why? More people have died from coconuts and tree branches falling since the onset of the pandemic than children through the age of 18 due to COVID-19. I’m not kidding. For good measure I’ve used CDC data for both. So yeah, the CDC should order masks for coconuts because they’re more deadly for our kids than the virus. Oh, and remember, according to the CDC – via Jen Psaki of the drinking game...if your child refuses to wear a mask on an airplane you could be prosecuted. But if you have COVID-19 and hug and kiss Joe Biden, that’s not “close contact”. So yeah, mask the coconuts, it’s no less effective than the latest policy and logic from the CDC.