2y ago

DeSantis vows to help man charged with beheading Iowa Capitol’s Satanic Temple statue

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said he would support the legal fund of a man who is accused of vandalizing a display by The Satanic Temple inside the Iowa Capitol on Thursday.

Michael Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for knocking over and destroying a statue erected by the temple inside the capitol, The Des Moines Register first reported.

“Satan has no place in our society and should not be recognized as a ‘religion’ by the federal government,” DeSantis said on X, formerly Twitter. “I’ll chip in to contribute to this veteran’s legal defense fund. Good prevails over evil — that’s the American spirit.”

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2y ago

DeSantis vows to help man charged with beheading Iowa Capitol’s Satanic Temple statue

thehill.com /homenews/state-watch/4362025-iowa-capitol-satanic-temple-statue-vandalism-desantis/

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Ron is falling for the trap. This ends with all religious symbols being removed.
- Actually, I think this likely ends with Michael Cassidy paying TST for vandalizing their statue. Which means ol' Ronnie is effectively making a donation to TST.
  
  They should send him a thank you letter with the Tenets and sign him up for their mailing list
- Who knows with this Supreme Court..
  
  The Supreme Court would have to rule Christianity is the only legal religion which violates established law.
- Not in Iowa. I live here. They will absolutely remove the Satanic symbol and proclaim that it is because of religious freedom.
  ...it will make sense to them.
  
  The courts will not take the same view though. And that's the point.
- No, it doesn’t. It ends with only Christian shit remaining.
- Good
- Not to mock, but to test the separation of church and state and whether all religions really are allowed to participate.
  
  And they have expertly proven their point. It's always "my freedom", not "your freedom".
  
  Also to mock.
- Exactly this. While the religion is real, and their morals are pretty tight, they are also encouraged to use this sort of drama to drive separation of church and state.
  
  I don't think they're encouraging drama. This story would be a nothing-burger if the Christians hadn't lost their damn minds about it.
  
  There is no real religion, they do not believe in Satan, they literally state so, and mostly use it to push back against christian intrusions into government and schools
Good prevails over evil — that’s the American spirit.
Which is why the Satanists should prevail Ron.
As a Florida resident I have the same comment in my head whenever this idiot racist homophobic governor says shit like this, and that is "don't you have better shit to do?" Because look at all of the problems in this state, meanwhile this idiot is so blinded by his fucking culture war and his religious servility or the lure of the power that these things bring to him.
Meanwhile he's got staffers making campaign videos with Nazi iconography while real Nazis are parading around the state threatening the many Jewish folks here, he's got an entire coastline that's collapsing to unusability because not just he but his predecessor and his entire political party believe that if you ban the term "climate change" from political dialogue the problem will just magically go away. Then you have this fucktard interfering with our already garbage and broken school system, and interfering not in ways to make it better but much much worse, and then making college worse for the actual adults who should be allowed to make their choices on if they want to explore gender or racial studies, while also not having propaganda that literally tells them "it's okay the slaves benefitted from slavery" forced on them because of a bunch of political assholes trying to reshape the world to be more accepting of checks notes fucking slavery.
Fuck Ron DeSantis, fuck Rick Scott, and fuck the Florida GOP, they are garbage people making a vulnerable overly populated state much much worse, the GOP doesn't fix things, they hoard power and wealth that's their only real purposes.
- "don't you have better shit to do?"
  What could possibly be more important to a politician than pandering for votes?
  
  Slandering women and minorities?
  
  That's the main problem with the GOP, they're too much "politician" and not enough "leader" or "fixer", it's all about greed and power with them rather than trying to solve problems for the people that they're supposed to be responsible.
  Part of the problem is also conservatism/"libertarianism", like what's the point of being elected to government positions when you don't even believe the government should exist? They're just saboteurs undermining efforts to drag this country into the future.
This is the same guy who had the Nazi campaign video posted on his campaign website? Just checking
- Link for the lazy?
  
  Apparently It was a staffer who was since fired, or at least that's who took the fall for it.
  Can't find the video for you but here's the still frame in question:
Anyone else remember a thing called separation of church and state?
- And when has that been a thing?
  Mmm down votes for making a joke so fun.
  
  In France - every second of every day for about a century (?) or so… until very recently when Macron did something. Just seems a pity that US politicians are too stupid / ignorant to understand their own history - even if it’s an incredibly short span of time; relatively speaking
  
  Since 1791.
It's nothing more than this shit stain trying to save his flailing and ultimately horrendously unsuccessful campaign.
If Christ was real he’d be so fucking embarrassed by this the violent idiotic assholes that pretend to follow him.
Classic legal defense in a country that constitutionally cannot favor one religion over another, "it was illegal but we favor your religion to prevail over this other one so it's fine."
Goooood Gooood let the lack of religious freedom flow through your public support Ron. let your ignorance be your guide
- Not that it matters, but I can't tell if you're saying "good good," "good god," or "god god"
  
  I was emulating palpatine's "good, good."
  
  I read it in Emperor Palpatine’s voice
DeSantis promising other peoples' money for causes that money was not donated for isn't on anyone's bingo cards at this point, because it's practically a given.
Let's not forget that DeSantis used Florida taxpayer money, which was ringfenced for dealing with migrants in Florida, to pay his friend's chartered airline business to ship migrants from Texas to Massachusetts - an act that had no benefit to Florida whatsoever, but certainly benefited his friend's chartered airline (which DeSantis uses frequently on the State taxpayer's dime without disclosing his expenditure.
Criminals gonna crim.
- The rivers of ruin run deep. We are reaching cartoon levels of corruption and it is only getting worse. The tree of liberty is no longer rotting, it is petrified and put on display, nothing more than a political prop.
lol get fukt
If the government doesn't recognize Satan as a religious figure I've got bad news about Jebus...
Law and. . .Order?
- sad DUN DUN
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ron DeSantis (R) said he would support the legal fund of a man who is accused of vandalizing a display by The Satanic Temple inside the Iowa Capitol on Thursday.
Michael Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief for knocking over and destroying a statue erected by the temple inside the capitol, The Des Moines Register first reported.
It consisted of a figure of the demon Baphomet with a bejeweled goat head alongside prayer candles.
“We don’t want to yield some kind of power to the government to begin picking and choosing between religious groups,” Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves said in a CNN interview Thursday.
Cassidy’s legal defense fund raised more than $20,000 in just its first few hours, Newsweek reported, including $10,000 from conservative activist group Turning Point USA.
Cassidy previously ran for a Mississippi congressional seat in 2022, losing to Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.)
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Doesn't Satan need you back in hell, DeSantis? Please return promptly so you can answer your true Master in person.
- Don't sully her name like that. Satan would want nothing to do with an evil like DeSantis.
"Your honor, Simpsons did it!"
"Simpsons did it?"
"Yes, your honor."
"I hereby find the defendant not guilty."

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