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Monday, January 09, 2023

DeSantis Goes to War

On election night, I was half-watching Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s victory remarks when something quite extraordinary and encouraging caught my attention. DeSantis evoked Churchill’s “fighting on the beaches” speech, in which Churchill stirred the resolve and patriotism of the British people in anticipation of the invasion of their homeland by the Nazis. DeSantis, of course, was not warning against Nazism: he was warning against wokeism, which he was implicitly equating with Nazism. I had never heard a national political figure treat wokeism with such (deserved) gravity. 

Before rephrasing Churchill, DeSantis said:

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  1. President DeSantis, 2028!

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    1. Umm, what about 2024???????????????

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  2. Worships Bush, owned by Bigelow...no thanks.
    Ed

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    1. Proof please....

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    2. Proof was when he says he is all for constitutional carry, then bans guns at his fundraising dinner.
      Proof is when Trump's home is raided in his state and he is silent for days, then pops back into the spotlight with a new team and a new direction.
      Proof is when he has bush at his innaguration as the guest of honor.

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    3. Only thing is, DeSantis doesn't plan all the details at his functions. He has staff to do that. I doubt he even knows what the details are other than when to come in, when to give his speech and when to answer any concerns.

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  3. Anyone posting negative comments from outside the state of Florida about DeSantis is just jealous....I can see that since most of the rest of the governors in this country, especially democrats, really fucking suck....

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