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Quote from: Herman on October 07, 2024, 09:18:29 PMCategory five hurricane Milton is heading for Florida.Mmmm, and apparently its near the limit of intensity for what the Earth's atmosphere is capable of producing in that region.
Quote from: Lokmar on October 07, 2024, 09:50:55 PMJust talked to my daughter in Florida. They're battening down the hatches in Orlando and expecting winds around 90MPH.I hope she is spared the worst of it. Biggz too.
Quote from: Herman on October 07, 2024, 09:18:29 PMCategory five hurricane Milton is heading for Florida.
Quote from: JOE on August 09, 2024, 12:32:10 PMTrans people should get their own legal gender.Suggest words like "sterile", "mutilated", "broken" and "Alticus".
Quote from: Lokmar on August 09, 2024, 11:18:45 AMFuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!When they try to stand in the way of what Florida is doing, they are.
Quote from: JOE on August 09, 2024, 12:32:10 PMTrans people should get their own legal gender.See Sweetie, libertarians and conservatives are the mainstream.
Florida is right to bar biological males from biological females sports, prisons & washrooms. They're stealing their identity.
I actually agree with you folks on the Right in that regard...Lokmeer.
Quote from: Lokmar on August 09, 2024, 11:18:45 AMFuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!
Quote from: Lokmar on August 09, 2024, 11:18:45 AMFuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!If they think banks have a right to force their woke politics on all Americans, it is un-American.
Quote from: DKG on August 09, 2024, 07:13:04 AMRon DeSantis signs anti-woke law to stop banks from freezing Floridians' bank accounts based on their politics.
"We reject a global elite trying to force their ideology on us by capturing major institutions," DeSantis, who has led an aggressive campaign against so-called "woke" ideology in the Sunshine State, said when signing HB 989 into law.
"We are not going to allow big banks to discriminate based on someone's political or religious beliefs."
But while DeSantis claims he's fighting discrimination, the U.S. Treasury has labeled the Florida law — and other similar laws under consideration in mostly conservative states like Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota — as a potential threat to national security.
DeSantis' goal with HB 989 was to "strengthen Florida's protections for consumers ... from being forced to adopt ideologies or reflect a preferred political behavior."
Per an Associated Press report, DeSantis said the law will protect the access that conservative groups and the firearms industry have to the financial sector — and stop them from having their accounts frozen or closed.
The law makes it illegal for banks to "deny or cancel, suspend, or terminate its services to a person, or to otherwise discriminate against a person in making available such services" on the basis of several factors, including (but not limited to):
The person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations
Any factor if it is not a quantitative, impartial, and risk-based standard, including any such factor related to the person's business sector.
The person's engagement in the lawful manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, or use of firearms or ammunition
The person's engagement in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacture of fossil fuel-based energy, timber, mining, or agriculture
It also allows Floridians to appeal "unwarranted account cancellations and restrictions" through a coordinated complaint and investigatory process within the state's Office of Financial Regulation.
The Treasury has openly criticized the new Florida law and any other state laws that bar financial institutions from carrying out necessary risk assessments.
In a July letter to lawmakers, obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson reiterated the importance of banks being able to probe customers in order to prevent money laundering and counter terrorist financing.
A person's politics is not risk assessment. It's part of the nefarious cancel culture.
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