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Baitball Blogger

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Sat Jun 25, 2022, 11:55 AM Jun 2022

Tiffany bringing up a good question on MSNBC. Why is Andrew Gillum being [View all]

charged with conspiracy and fraud for accepting Hamilton tickets and taking a Circle line boat ride, when others go free? It was about $5000 that he did not disclose and they threw the book at him.

So, why have all the other white politicians in Florida given a pass? Christ, not only white. The first thing that happens here if you have any kind of promise, is that they try to win you over with all kinds of perks. Including borrowed BMWs. And then they have you, you dopes.

Florida's local political circles generally start with meet and greets where promises are made and perks are offered. And that's how they like their politicians. Compromised and blackmailable. So, when a promising young black man comes around, it's easy to take him out. To get Gillum, it required FBI people disguising themselves as developers. They're the ones who went on the New York trip.

Do you have any idea how easy this kind of thing is in Florida? De Santis was given an easy pass with a $50,000 donation that he just returned. No harm done. Was Gillum given the same opportunity to pay back the perk he received? Of course not.

Florida is graft. Florida is greed. The FBI should find a way to check on De Santis before he does something really dangerous to this country if he becomes president. But it will require the right kind of FBI agents, because I'm convinced they're too infiltrated to be objective.

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