No One Is More Dangerous For The White House Than Ron DeSantis — Including Trump

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  1. signalmankenneth

    signalmankenneth Well-Known Member

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    Well Duh? DeSantis has went full dictator in Florida, can you imagine what he would do to this country if he was president?!![​IMG] DeSantis like Trump is very thin-skinned too and on a national stage the press/media would eat him alive too?!!

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (above) "appears more focused in his one-man crusade to bring the country back to burning witches."

    Imagine Donald Trump, but with brains and savvy.

    OK ... most people have those.

    Imagine Trump, but with a stalwart dedication toward legislation that moves the country in a direction that should terrify most reasonable human beings.

    Enter Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

    To me, Trump has always been, at his core, an avowed iconoclast and solipsistic opportunist who probably decided on a lark that he’d run for the U.S. presidency and managed to sweep his competitors on an anti-establishment platform.

    Like a man who catches a fully grown alligator, he never quite seemed to know what to do with the presidency when he got it.

    Trump had the hubris and gall of a man who had no intention of adhering to the conventions of the White House, and he had (and still has) the benefit of unwavering support from a bunch of mouth-breathers frustrated with eight years of a Black man in the office. These people were aimless, looking for someone to follow off the edge of the flat earth.

    Trump was their man.

    I believe addiction to the power of the presidency is the only reason Trump is giving the presidency another go — he has no real interest in legislative movement that doesn’t line his pockets. DeSantis, however, is a different brand of threat.

    He managed to become a beast of a governor, anchored by a Republican Florida Legislature that, as the recently closed legislative session has shown us, bends to his whims like some do to Darth Vader using the Force.

    DeSantis has not formally launched a campaign to run for president in 2024, but there’s precisely zero likelihood that he won’t: He’s already made recent stops in early primary states Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in recent months, and a super PAC supporting him is on a hiring spree in several states.

    Though you’ll find no shortage of “Make America Great Again” hats in Florida, the state is so enamored with DeSantis that the legislature passed a bill allowing him to remain governor while running for president — which, to me, seems like taking the bar exam while in medical school.

    Legislatively, Trump gave the impression that he was throwing darts at a board while blindfolded to see what might shake out. But DeSantis appears more focused in his one-man crusade to bring the country back to burning witches.

    Florida was already a hole of little faith before DeSantis got to it (just Google “Florida Man”), but for the past four years he’s used the state as a petri dish to advance his ultra-conservative agenda, providing frightening insight into what the country could look like if he makes it to the Oval Office.

    In April, he signed a law criminalizing abortion after six weeks, making Florida — once a haven for people seeking abortions from nearby red states — among the most restrictive state for abortions in the country. Considering the U.S. Supreme Court’s unconscionable overturning of Roe v. Wade knowing the danger faced by women who can’t legally obtain abortions, it’s downright frightening to have multiple areas of government concerned about what women do with their bodies.

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    Is this a current event or an opinion?
     
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    Was wondering when the left would move on from trump and paint the next republican candidate as the evil boogeyman.
     
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    I think they are a different type of dangerous, trump is more about rhetoric and profiteering than ron is. He does have some good ideas occasionally but they are typically surface level with zero nuance. His cult of personality that has captured so many people to turn him into almost a deity is troubling however. His ignorance and incompetence thankfully limits the damage he can do.

    ron on the other hand is showing himself to be quite the little fascist wannabe. Using the weight of government to attack private businesses, organizations and sports teams, banning abortion, pushing laws to make government less transparent. Not to mention him wanting his own private military. He is less concerned with personal gain while being focused on hurting his perceived enemies — he is way more competent but less personable.

    I think between the two of them they will hand the presidency back to Biden — who I wish was replaced with a young progressive.
     
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    Welcome to Politics 1:1. It seems like in this forum all the republican discovered today political attack their opponent.

    Have you never seen republican attack their political opponent?
     
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    Hehe. Leftists calling people who follow Desantis worshiping, while forgetting children were singing songs about Obama, and leftist artists painted him like a literal god. Projection at its finest.
     
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    Sad part is , by the time Trump is done with Ron the meatball, Ron wouldn’t have any thing left for Biden/ Democrats to attack. Poor Ron will never survive Trump’s kitchen sink attack.
     
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    you mean like this


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    DeSantis who wants to take Florida/America back to the 1950's, with attacks on abortions, education, voting rights, books, and the LGBTQ+ community, that's called retrogressing?!!

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    Anyone the Leftists try to make everyone fear is exactly who we need.
     
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    No one is saying that Trump, isn't still evil.
     
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    Oh no! Dangerous? Shall I run in circles with my arms flailing?

    I need 87,000 IRS agents to make me feel safe!
     
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    Your citing of the hypocrisy, is fair. It, however, does not mean that this is merely "projection," and that Trump has no cult of personality. I mean, seriously? I don't think anything was said about "DeSantis worshipping," unless it was about how compliant has been the Florida legislature, to DeSantis's whims, which is a point of fact.
     
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    Out with the old Hitler, in with the new Hitler.
     
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    Any adult can withstand Trump's nonsense.
     
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    The left hates large corporations until they are attacked by someone on the right. Then the evil large corporation becomes the poor, abused, victim that needs the help from the big strong lefty daddy to protect them and give them money.
     
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    Thoughts and prayers for ya...
     
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    That's what the vapid flip-floppers do. They will take every opportunity even if it means reversing what they previously said, if it benefits them.
    They don't even care about the Corportation. Lol
     
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    All of the crap that both parties nominate are dangerous for the country

    Trump, Biden, Kamala, DeSantis - all garbage, all dangerous,

    but millions on both sides refuse to accept that
     
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    How many posts have you made about him LMFAO :)

    Irony
     
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    We don’t think large corporations should be able to use massive loopholes to pay little taxes, or exploit their workers, or be able to pollute without repercussions, they should be able to own politicians and write laws that benefit themselves and hurt competition while overcharging consumers.

    We also think they should be protected by the same constitutional rights that everyone else has and that includes freedom of speech. Had the government been used to attack MyPillow or Hobby Lobby for expressing their beliefs I hope the left would have pushed back against it like they are doing with Disney and Florida businesses and teams being attacked.

    The irony in your post is amusing though looking at how the right screams free speech while also cheering the government attacking over that speech.
     
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    Florida man bad.... Very, very bad.
     
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    Could you offer examples of the Left's hating corporations, writ large, to support your fictional depiction of the hypocritical, crazily "liberal" Left-- or do you want to keep it a private, fantasy image?
     
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    FatBack man, here, speakum much truth.
     
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    Trumps problem is he is all hung up on that "We the People" thing. He heard all that crap in high school and well, here we are. One overweight square peg, refusing to believe out career politicians are really just misunderstood adherents to the Constitution.

    He really believes the "administrative state" - AKA Swamp, alphabet agencies - are not governments in and of themselves.
    We are not guaranteed to have an honest government and we have no guarantee our house of cards will not fall down. In fact we can only hope our government doesn't go around the dark side and take us with it. And if they do, there is no guarantee we can fix it.
     
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