Thursday, January 21, 2021

GUY PROPOSING A DONALD TRUMP HIGHWAY CHECKS ALL THE BOXES: GUN NUT, COVID DENIALIST, QANON FAN

And so it begins. This is from a Florida state legislator:



That would be this Anthony Sabatini:



Sabatini is known in Florida for filing a lot of lawsuits against pandemic public health measures, as the Florida Phoenix noted in September:
Sabatini has sustained at least seven losses in court and a judicial warning from 2nd Circuit Judge David Frank that he risks being sanctioned for filing “frivolous lawsuits” against local mask mandates. Amid the string of losses, Sabatini announced with a flourish Friday that Gov. Ron DeSantis by executive order had just suspended fines and penalties issued to enforce mask orders.

“ATTENTION FLORIDA BUSINESSES: YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THE PETTY DEMANDS OF POWER HUNGRY LOCAL GOVERNMENT TYRANTS—IGNORE THEM COMPLETELY,” Sabatini wrote in all caps on his “VoteSabatini” Facebook page.

Actually, DeSantis’ suspension of fines and penalties applies to “individuals” and does not mention businesses, as stated in Executive Order 20-244, but Sabatini didn’t cite the order in his post. Several local governments interpreted the order to mean they may continue to require businesses to make employees and customers wear masks.
Sabatini is now fighting mandatory vaccination (even though no one's actually proposing it). As the right-wing site Major League Liberty USA ever-so-subtly puts it:
... he is now focusing on the next potential violation of the citizenry during this pandemic; the state forced vaccination. With many “experts” and globalist anti-freedom forces pushing the idea of mandatory vaccinations and tracking, including the Chinese President who so horribly failed his nation and entire world with his bungled handling of the initial outbreak, Sabatini seeks to make it the law of the land in Florida that the government cannot legally force Coronavirus vaccinations....
“The government should never have the ability to restrain a person and force them to take a vaccine—it should always remain an individual choice. This is is the most dangerous from of Big Government. The more we can remove government from our personal healthcare decisions, the better.”
And, naturally, Sabatini gave a shout-out to QAnon a few months ago, although the tweet is now deleted.



The Washington Post's Antonia Noori Farzan notes that efforts to rename things after Trump haven't gotten very far:
In 2019, one Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma tried to rename a stretch of old U.S. Route 66 after Trump but was shut down by members of his own party. Some worried that doing so would discourage tourists, while others objected to changing the name of one of the country’s most iconic roads. An attempt to place Trump’s name on a more obscure highway in the Oklahoma Panhandle last year was also unsuccessful.

South Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature, too, rejected a bill to name a highway interchange after Trump in 2020. Some conservative lawmakers expressed reluctance about naming roads after living people, while another noted that there was a competing proposal to name the interchange after former president Barack Obama and dismissed both bills as “a big political game.”
But as soon as the Biden administration has the slightest stumble, you'll hear calls for honoring Trump this way. You'll also start seeing a Trump version of this:



It seems unimaginable now, but it'll happen.

Posted by Steve M. at 7:58 AM

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