DeSantis screws Floridians to appeal to a-hole MAGA base

There's really no better way to make a state suck good and hard than when an arch-conservative Republican governor decides to play for higher office. No longer interested in reelection, the would-be future president no longer needs to feign interest in whether state residents struggle or prosper or live or die, so long as none of it happens to a degree that might attract national press. That governor can spend every moment of every day thinking up new ways to be a performative asshole to attract national Republican primary voters who absolutely will not vote for you unless they think you're the biggest asshole who ever assholed.

With Gov. Ron DeSantis at least going through the rough motions of a presidential run, this is going to cost Floridians some serious cash. National outlets are beginning to notice what the Capitalist reported a few weeks ago: The DeSantis line-item veto of a pair of federal block grants last month means Florida no longer qualifies for federal programs that would have provided a whopping $377 million in energy money for the state.