Sylvester Stallone recently announced that he and his wife Jennifer Flavin had decided to permanently move from California to Palm Beach, Florida. As he addressed his three daughters in a scene on the reality show “The Family Stallone,” the iconic actor said: “After long, hard consideration, your mother and I have decided, time to move on and leave the state of California permanently, and we’re going to go to Florida.”

The likely reasons involve three main factors: a change of scenery, a less crime-infested environment and a lowering of their state tax burden. Whatever the real motivations, what was of most interest to me was that Casey DeSantis — the first lady of Florida — used the clip from Stallone in an intriguing social media post.

DeSantis posted to her over 500K followers on X: “Welcome to the Free State of Florida! In addition to respecting and protecting your God-given, constitutional right to be free, you can also buy toothpaste without having an armed guard in CVS unlock it for you.”

Now, maybe the first lady of Florida only posted that message to be neighborly and hint to the Stallones that if they ever needed a cup of sugar, they were more than welcome to knock on her door. Or maybe she did it to begin to set the stage for her own political move a couple years hence.

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