Originally published at: Dems Rip DeSantis For ‘Raiding Hurricane Response Resources’ At ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Top Florida Democrats issued blistering responses on Wednesday following a TPM report that detailed how Sunshine State Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted “disaster preparedness” resources in the rush to build the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), who toured the site earlier this month and subsequently decried the conditions there, sentd a…
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Ron DeSantis is gambling with Floridians’ lives. Diverting critical emergency communications equipment during hurricane season is not just irresponsible—it’s dangerous
But it’s exactly what DeSantis needs if he thinks his dream of inheriting the MAGAts will succeed. He is hoping to hypnotize them, but he does not have Trump’s supposed charisma.
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Can we please stop calling it a “detention center”?
It’s a concentration camp.
If you accept Wikipedia, a concentration camp is defined as " prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment."
Sound about right, doesn’t it?
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DeathSantis is a dick. Donnie is a dick. It all starts with a “d.”
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Sounds exactly right. Substitute ‘Executive Order’ for ‘Decree’.
The concentration camp system arose in the following months due to the desire to suppress tens of thousands of Nazi opponents in Germany. The Reichstag fire in February 1933 was the pretext for mass arrests. The Reichstag Fire Decree eliminated the right to personal freedom enshrined in the Weimar Constitution and provided a legal basis for detention without trial.
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GOP never get kicked out of office because of their expensive, wasteful stunts. Remember when Abbot hit those libtard-owned trucking companies, and DEI bastions like Walmart with his stop and search at the TX border that cost businesses thousands and thousands of dollars? He’s still wheelin’ and dealin’.
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Dems Rip DeSantis For ‘Raiding Hurricane Response Resources’
Top Florida Democrats issued blistering responses
This is something I have been conflicted on for a long time. This is just one example and is not exclusive to here. In fact, it is everywhere. When I read the news, there is this immediate need to identify who is complaining. In this era, it is usually the Dems or Democrats or Liberal voices.
If the reality were different and the Republicans were not absolutely cowed into being one voice, the above might read…
DeSantis ripped for ‘Raiding Hurricane Response Resources’
or
Top Florida lawmakers issued blistering responses
Immediately identifying the party, makes partisanship a front and center part of the story. It doesn’t even make the more Pavlovian of readers work a little harder before snapping into the our team versus their team mode. Considering an issue like this involves a moral and ethical slant, I am suggesting to hold off on those identifiers until the full body of the article begins to be read. Grab that tiny slice of time before it is viewed as a tug of war between parties. Make them think about the actual topic.
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Amen to this!
Logical order and framing: Don’t have to read George Lakoff to know it not only matters but a news outlet can actively mislead its readers when ignoring it.
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ISWYDT.
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@ sandi
The concentration camp system arose in the following months due to the desire to suppress tens of thousands of Nazi opponents in Germany. The Reichstag fire in February 1933 was the pretext for mass arrests. The Reichstag Fire Decree eliminated the right to personal freedom enshrined in the Weimar Constitution and provided a legal basis for detention without trial.*
I think the term “Alligator Auschwitz” is probably more appropriate than “Alligator Alcatraz.”.
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On top of everything else, Alligator Auschwitz is the most dangerously unprepared place in Florida.
This means that when a hurricane sweeps across the Everglades, even more emergency resources will have to be diverted to mitigate the danger there.
And then they’ll have to rebuild the concentration camp from the ground up.
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It’s already a mess.
Two weeks after it opened, a temporary migrant detention center in the Everglades is facing expensive logistical challenges: portable toilets routinely back up, sewage needs to be collected and trucked out, and swarms of mosquitoes attack detainees and staff alike.
Without permanent structures, electricity or running water, drinking and bathing water has to be brought in several times a day but is still in short supply, and rainwater leaks into the tents that protect detainees’ chain-link cells, according to interviews with three former guards and phone interviews with detainees.
Archived link to WaPo story:
Inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ detainees report relentless mosquitoes, …
archived 17 Jul 2025 16:55:11 UTC
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i thnk even TPM should be aware that hurricanes do not identify the political party of whatever house it blows apart…i realize the writers probably do not live here..maybe it would be helpful for them to consult someone who does.
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nah…they will just let it sit there… figuring the detainees are gone…there are houses here still waiitng for repairs from last summers storms.