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What Is The Hope Florida Scandal and What Does It Say About Florida Governor Ron DeSantis: A History Of Treachery

When it comes to corruption in the State of Florida, there is no criminal more guilty than Governor Ron DeSantis, and his wife Casey DeSantis, who stole $10 Million from the poorest of Floridians.

The Hope Florida scandal that has enveloped the DeSantis’ throughout the last year has reached a new fevered pitch as CBS News Miami has leaked the entire grand jury presentment against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife, First Lady Casey DeSantis.

The leaks reveal damning evidence that the grand jury found evidence of severe, and even potentially criminal conduct by the First Family as it pertains to the Centene settlement, in which their appointed officials illegally steered $10 Million into Casey DeSantis’ Hope Florida charity.

Now the DeSantis’ are trying to cover up the information by suing those attempting to expose this information before the midterm elections.

We will examine the depth of the DeSantis’ treachery as it pertains to their theft of $10 Million later within the article, but first, let’s look at DeSantis’ own statements on the matter.

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They Bought a Warehouse to Shelter the Homeless—Then Paid Security to Keep Them Out

Sacramento County’s $64.7 million project raises questions about pandemic spending, years of delay and the decisions that left people waiting.

In California’s capital county, taxpayers financed a troubling contradiction: Sacramento County purchased a warehouse to shelter homeless people, then paid private security while homeless people were kept outside.

I visited and photographed the Watt Avenue property in April 2023. What I witnessed was private security keeping homeless people out of the property the county had purchased to shelter them.

The county’s federal spending records identify Patrol Solutions providing security at the North Highlands Safe Stay site during 2023 and 2024. The county did not announce its groundbreaking until January 23, 2025, more than two years after purchasing the property. [1,2]

The county’s publicized acquisition and construction figure is now $64.7 million. Its website still describes active construction and anticipates residents moving in during late 2026. [3,4]

How did an emergency response become a project that took years to deliver shelter?

“We had to spend it or lose it.”

I questioned former Sacramento County Supervisor Sue Frost about the purchase. Frost had worked in real estate. I asked her why the county would buy a warehouse for human occupancy when, in my assessment, its ingress and egress would never be approved by the fire department for that use.

Ingress means the way into a building. Egress means the way out, including the escape routes people need during a fire or other emergency. A warehouse’s suitability for storage does not establish its suitability for sleeping accommodations.

Frost’s response was: “We had to spend it or lose it.”

That was the explanation I received for a decision involving millions of taxpayer dollars.

A spending deadline does not establish that a property is suitable, reasonably priced or capable of providing help when people need it. The county’s inspection and feasibility records should show what officials knew before committing public money.

A premium purchase, followed by a different plan

The property at 4837 Watt Avenue in North Highlands, an unincorporated Sacramento County community, sold for $12.45 million in September 2021. About fourteen months later, the county purchased it for $22.8 million. An independent appraisal reportedly valued it at $16.9 million. [5]

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The Transcendent Tech Economy: Abundance and Mass Poverty Will Arrive Together

Token Abundance Will Bring Abundance to Some, and Abject Poverty to Many Others

I believe the future will deliver staggering AI-driven abundance and mass poverty at the same time, not universal wealth. This is not a prediction I make lightly; it is a conclusion I have reached after tracking AI compute economics, memory supply chains, and the brutal realities of automation. We are not heading toward a Star Trek utopia where everyone shares in the spoils. We are heading toward what I call a “slumdog Star Wars” future: advanced “Godboxes” (a term Zach Vorhies introduced to me during a recent interview) and instant intelligence coexisting with slums, shantytowns and destitution.

The dividing line will not be access to information, because information is becoming free. The dividing line will be ownership of AI compute and tokens. If you own the hardware that generates intelligence, you capture the wealth. If you merely rent access from someone else’s cloud, you remain a subject. I have said repeatedly that personal liberty is good and decentralization is critical, and nothing proves that faster than the coming AI economy. I believe the assumption that AI automatically makes everyone richer is dangerously wrong, and it is the single most costly mistake interested observers can make right now.

Token Abundance Is Coming Faster Than Most People Realize

Token abundance is rapidly arriving because AI architecture is shifting from sequential autoregressive generation to diffusion and parallel chunk generation (this is a very big deal). Older models generated text word-by-word in a linear chain, which is computationally expensive and slow. Diffusion models refine noise into whole blocks of code or content at once, not word-by-word, which radically changes the economics of inference.

TypeSafe AI’s new decision model is reportedly 200 times faster than ChatGPT on certain narrow decision tasks, offering free output tokens, proving that parallel processing can make AI blazing fast and cheap [1]. This is not a minor optimization; it is a fundamental change in how machines think and how tokens are produced.

Inference engines now offload mixture-of-experts models and N-gram lookup tables into system RAM or SSDs, reducing the need for ultra-expensive GPU RAM. This means the bottleneck is shifting away from exotic hardware and toward commodity memory, which is precisely why the GDDR7 shortage I documented is so devastating for consumers [2]. When AI-driven supply chains prioritize data centers over personal computing, the average person gets squeezed out of the hardware market entirely. Zach Voorhees calls the endpoint a “Godbox”: a portable device that knows almost everything and solves problems almost instantly.

That AI-powered future is real, in other words, but it will not be evenly distributed.

This will create massive compute and token abundance, but abundance alone does not equal broad prosperity. As Chris Martenson has written, factions in society already receive entirely different information diets, and AI will amplify that fragmentation rather than heal it [3]. Abundance of tokens in the hands of a few owners means abundance of wealth for those owners. For everyone else, it means they can ask a machine questions for free while their labor becomes increasingly worthless due to automation. Thus, I believe the technology is real; the egalitarian fantasy about it is not.

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A $120 Can of Spam Busts Open Seattle’s Food Stamp Fraud

Look in the mirror: You’re looking at an attractive, smart, hardworking taxpayer. 

And here’s where hundreds of millions of your food stamp tax dollars are going: straight into the hands of addicts, the pockets of pimps, and the funds of charlatans. 

It wasn’t bad enough that California hospice owners were driving Ferraris bought with stolen tax money, and that FireAID donations were given to nonprofits that had nothing to do with actual, you know, fire aid. Now we discover that food stamp fraud is taking place in the open on the streets of America, and nobody’s doing anything about it, apparently.

Independent reporter Nick Shirley, with a group of other indy reporters, revealed the open-air federal food stamp fraud taking place on the streets of Seattle. 

Shirley, San Francisco-based street reporter Darren Stallcup, Seattle’s Jonathan Choe, and other intrepid indy reporters followed the money. 

Choe tells Shirley that EBT cards litter homeless encampments, where they receive so many of them that they begin to throw them away. Many of those “homeless” drug zombies use their food stamp cards to buy drugs. 

Choe and Shirley found EBT cards and sought to follow the lucrative scam from beginning to end. Shirley lays out how simple this is in a new video displaying how one abandoned EBT card can buy drugs, sex, and a $120 can of Spam.

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San Jose tells food pantry it must shut down

A popular San Jose neighborhood food pantry is at risk of closing again after being hit with more zoning violations.

Lighthouse Food Rescue & Distribution was cited by San Jose on Sept. 25 for hosting its food distribution on the sidewalk and for not following zoning rules, as a food distribution center is no longer permitted in that neighborhood. If the organization does not comply within 10 days by removing the distribution and canopies from the sidewalk, it will start incurring daily fines of up to $20,000 a day, according to the citation, which also says the food pantry must cease operations within 60 days.

“I’m up against the wall,” Pastor Ralph Olmos, president and CEO of the food pantry, told San José Spotlight. “It’s almost like (the city is) telling me to stop. But my conviction says, ‘How can I leave the people?’”

Residents and advocates have said the food pantry is a lifeline for the community, serving families, older adults, homeless people and those with disabilities. The organization feeds more than 1,000 people a day, five days a week from noon to 5 p.m. It offers a variety of foods that are not available at other pantries — including milk, meat and eggs.

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Feds Storm Skid Row with a 100-Vehicle Convoy to Take Down Drug Network Operating in Tents and Storefronts

Federal agents and Los Angeles police raided Skid Row before dawn Thursday, serving dozens of warrants in a takedown of dealers supplying fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and PCP to the blocks of homeless encampments that plague downtown Los Angeles.

Authorities called the raid Operation Skid Row, and targeted more than two dozen suspected street dealers and suppliers after a three-month investigation.

The FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the LAPD used phone taps, undercover officers, and drones to build the cases.

By morning, agents had arrested 28 people.

A convoy of roughly 100 law enforcement vehicles cordoned off blocks and parks around Fifth and Crocker streets, trapping dealers who had been working the sidewalks.

Investigators said the dealers were not standing on corners in the open. Some sold from a Mercedes. Some posed as homeless men living in tents that were in fact drug dens. Others used storefronts or posed as social workers and homeless-services providers.

Drugs were also stashed in single-room-occupancy units and low-income housing.

Agents seized narcotics, guns, and luxury cars.

Officials said homeless people were not the target. The warrants were for dealers, and multiple gang members are among those facing charges.

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California has the nation’s second-highest rate of housing-driven poverty, new study finds

California’s housing crisis is a major contributor to poverty across the state, new research shows.

High housing costs account for 30% of all poverty in California and 36% of childhood poverty, according to an analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts.

That gives California the nation’s second-highest rate of housing-driven poverty, behind Hawaii, where housing costs account for 34% of overall poverty and 42% of childhood poverty.

Americans spend a significant share of their income on housing.

Half of all renters spend at least 30% of their income on rent, according to a 2025 Harvard study.

California’s median gross rent stands at $2,104, per to a July report from Investopedia, making it the third-most expensive state in the country.

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OH GREAT: Los Angeles is Now Reporting an Outbreak of TYPHUS

The city of Los Angeles is now reporting an outbreak of the disease Typhus. It is connected to fleas on rats which are flourishing in the city’s numerous homeless encampments.

California has the highest tax rate in the country. Why? What do people get for paying such high taxes? They get preventable diseases because their leaders are worthless.

There’s really no excuse for this at all.

NBC News in Los Angeles reports:

Flea-borne typhus rising in LA County with latest case reported in Wilshire Center

Typhus, a flea-borne bacterial disease, is on the rise in Los Angeles County, with the latest localized case reported in the Wilshire Center neighborhood, public health officials said Tuesday.

The disease is spread to humans by infected fleas that commonly live on rats, opossums, stray cats and other animals. Common symptoms include headaches, chills, muscle aches and rash.

The Wilshire Center case is the second localized typhus outbreak this year, according to the LA County Department of Public Health.

There were at least seven symptomatic cases linked to the outbreak, health officials said. Six of the seven patients had to be hospitalized at one point. All have recovered, the department said.

So far this year, 109 flea-borne typhus cases have been reported in Los Angeles County.

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Euthanasia bills will be used to mass murder the mentally ill and the poor as part of the Great Reset’s global depopulation plan

The approved mass slaughter of the disabled, the poor, the frail, the old, the unemployed and the unwanted is, with quiet certainty and to the eternal shame of politicians, becoming global. It is part of the Great Reset and it is an essential part of the depopulation programme.

They call it doctor-assisted suicide, and it’s already available in a number of countries (notably and with most seemingly uncensored enthusiasm in Canada and Holland) – but the concept of death by doctor is spreading fast, and like everything else bad that is happening, it is global. Opposing this sinister, contemptible and malevolent new movement is one of the most difficult challenges we face in the years ahead.

Voluntary euthanasia, aka assisted dying, aka “death by doctor,” really began in earnest in Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg at the start of the 21st century. (Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942, but only in a vague sort of way in that helping someone kill themselves is legal if the person helping does not have selfish motives.)

After Belgium and Holland allowed death by doctor, there was a hiatus of several years and then came a sudden and seemingly inexplicable explosion in the number of countries succumbing to pressure and introducing similar schemes of their own. (The explosion was inexplicable only to those who do not realise that “death by doctor” is an essential part of the Great Reset.)

Euthanasia was legalised in Canada in 2016. In Spain in 2021, Austria in 2022, in Portugal in 2023, in Colombia in 2022, in Cuba in 2023, in Ecuador in 2024, in Australia in 2025, in New Zealand in 2021, in Jersey in 2026, in Uruguay in 2025, in France in 2026 and in recent years in 13 states in the USA. Legislation is being drafted in Germany and Italy.

In Britain, the pro-euthanasia supporters have for years been pushing hard for new legislation in Britain – for legislation which would undoubtedly legalise the mass murder of the weak and the innocent.

The supporters of “doctor-assisted dying” bills have repeatedly tried to push their lethal legislation through the British Parliamentary System. And each time wise, humane heads have ensured that they have failed. (Curiously, although the most recent two attempts received massive help from the Labour Government, the Labour leaders, knowing that patients prefer their doctors to try to keep them alive rather than to kill them, never had the courage to promote the death-by-doctor bills as official government Bills but preferred the proposed legislation to be presented by backbenchers and then given quiet support in an unsuccessful attempt to ensure it was passed.)

The latest “legalised euthanasia bill,” surely one of the most badly conceived, misleading and dangerous pieces of legislation ever introduced into the British Parliament, was, in September 2026, yet again rejected.

The one certainty is that a small number of people pushing this deadly legislation (more than a few of them professionals, employed to promote “assisted dying”) will be back for yet another attempt at pushing through legislation which will, I believe, eventually result in the disabled, the mentally ill and the poor being killed as part of the global depopulation plan which is part of the Great Reset.

This is already happening around the world. And when similar legislation suddenly appears all around the world, and a clear pattern has emerged, I find myself being suspicious about the motives of those promoting the Great Reset.

When politicians or the public reject “death by doctor” legislation, they are told to vote again. And again. And again. And again. Normally once would be enough. Politicians don’t usually bring back legislation which has been rejected once, let alone five times.

Five times in recent years there have been attempts to introduce “death by doctor” laws into the UK. And five times the attempts have failed.

But the promoters of “death by doctor” bills will try again, despite the fact that the idea of allowing doctors to kill patients is unpopular both with doctors and with patients. No one wants this damned legislation except a few insane fanatics working towards the Great Reset and global depopulation.

“Death by doctor” bills are, like those monsters which used to scare children in the 1960s, never allowed to crawl away into a corner and die quietly. “Death by doctor” bills will always be back because euthanasia (or whatever the politicians choose to call it) is part of the Great Reset.

Every time one of these bills gets rejected, there is another vote, and another vote – in the same way that voters who choose the “wrong” answer at the ballot box are, these days, asked to try again until they get it right (particularly if the vote affects the European Union in any way).

The supporters of this dangerous legislation, which will allow doctors to kill patients who have been convinced that death is their only answer, will say that they will only offer euthanasia to a small number of patients who are in terrible pain and who are desperate to die.

And some naïve and ignorant campaigners may think that’s what will happen.

But in every country where doctor-assisted suicide has been made legal, the rules about who can be killed have been quickly changed – with the parameters being extended and the original restrictions brushed aside.

What starts out as an apparently well-meant service for the few quickly becomes nothing less than the mass murder of people who are regarded by the conspirators and their slaves as a useless drain on society.

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HHS Awards $42.3 Million To Push ‘Treatment First’ Model For Homelessness & Addiction

A federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $42.3 million in new supplemental cash Friday to states and territories with the goal of speeding up the implementation of the Treatment First model for homelessness tied to addiction.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funding supports the initiative falling under President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” and the relevant Best Practices Toolkit that followed. That order from July 2025 directed agencies to put treatment and recovery ahead of the old approaches.

“President Trump has directed us to break the cycle of homelessness and addiction by putting treatment, recovery, and self-sufficiency first,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement. “These investments will help states move people from crisis into treatment and from treatment into lasting recovery, stable housing, and work. We are funding results that help people reclaim their health and independence.”

About $17.3 million of the funds went to Community Mental Health Services Block Grant recipients. Officials say it builds systems, partnerships, workforce capacity, policies, and the technical pieces needed to make Treatment First a success. The funds will go toward technical assistance, training, policy work, and coordination across systems.

Roughly $25 million went to Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grant recipients to expand options for safe, licensed, certified, or chartered sober and recovery housing, as well as the requisite technical assistance to ensure that more recovery residences open and quality standards tighten.

“Treatment First means building a system that does not leave people cycling between homelessness, emergency rooms, and the criminal justice system,” SAMHSA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Christopher D. Carroll said. “These investments will help states strengthen the infrastructure – partnerships, data, workforce, and recovery supports – needed to connect people with serious mental illness and addiction to effective treatment and support them on a path toward lasting recovery, stable housing, employment, and self-sufficiency.”

In June, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a $4.04 billion Continuum of Care notice. It walked away from the Housing First model, which provided permanent housing with no strings attached. Chronic homelessness climbed 81 percent from 2013 to 2025, despite the number of taxpayer-funded beds increasing 151 percent, HUD figures show.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner called Housing First a failure that “warehoused the vulnerable without results.” Housing alone will not fix a crisis driven by addiction and mental illness, he said.

Kennedy earlier this year announced more than $700 million for related work, of which nearly $100 million went to the STREETS program for homeless people dealing with addiction or serious mental illness. In February, he introduced the $100 million STREETS effort itself, built around continuous contact from the street through recovery, jobs and self-sufficiency.

A federal appeals court this week allowed HUD to forge ahead with funding shifts after lower-court challenges. The department has earmarked $1.3 billion for transitional housing and supportive services.

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