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Joseph A. Ladapo, DeSantis' Florida surgeon general, rightly asking questions about the taboo subject of the danger of the experimental injection:

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/CaseyDeSantis/status/1558462538857201666#m

Some great ideas, but issuing a report to DC officials seems opposite of what you'd want to do.

It's not exactly clear but I read it as: state banks report to florida when DC officials request IRS info on people.

Not sure it's true, but funny if so.

Patrick says

Not sure it's true, but funny if so.

Yep, this is like when they have somebody file a lawsuit as "Jane Doe" asserting all kinds of horrible things, they alert the media, and the candidate is smeared.

Then they withdraw it before it gets to the first hearing, damage done.

The way the media pounced on it, you know it was a setup. DeSantis is based AF and has an actual track record of legislation, redistricting (he got the legislature to be TOUGHER), anti-woke, anti-Disney, etc.

Patrick says

Not sure it's true, but funny if so.

If it's true, think "controlled opposition"..

It isn't. It's $5000 to get a few people to stay home in Florida this November so confirmed Neoliberal Charlie Crist can win, is a great investment.

https://notthebee.com/article/remember-how-gavin-newsoms-in-laws-gave-money-to-a-desantis-pac-well-they-also-moved-from-california-to-florida-during-the-pandemic

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11281455/Ron-DeSantis-tears-illegal-alien-looters-not-arrests.html

'They need to be sent back to their home country': Ron DeSantis tears into 'illegal alien' looters who should not be in the US 'at all' after they were arrested for ransacking homes devastated by Hurricane Ian
Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed three of the looters who targeted homes following Hurricane Ian were in the country illegally
'These are people that are foreigners, they're illegally in our country, but not only that, they try to loot and ransack in the aftermath of a natural disaster,' he said
In a warning to looters, Ron DeSantis said that Floridians would not be scared to evoke their Second Amendment rights if they caught someone stealing
DeSantis has taken a similarly hard line when it comes to immigration
Last month he was instrumental in sending 48 Venezuelan migrants on flights from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
The looters were arrested on September 29 - but documents reveal that they were released after posting a $35,000 bond each

Patrick says

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11281455/Ron-DeSantis-tears-illegal-alien-looters-not-arrests.html

'They need to be sent back to their home country': Ron DeSantis tears into 'illegal alien' looters who should not be in the US 'at all' after they were arrested for ransacking homes devastated by Hurricane Ian
Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed three of the looters who targeted homes following Hurricane Ian were in the country illegally
'These are people that are foreigners, they're illegally in our country, but not only that, they try to loot and ransack in the aftermath of a natural disaster,' he said
In a warning to looters, Ron DeSantis said that Floridians would not be scared to evoke their Second Amendment rights if they caught someone stealing
DeSantis has taken a similarly ha...

Looters should be shot on sight and sent to their home country.

Patrick says

Not sure it's true, but funny if so.

It's true - his wife's parents did it.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trust-linked-to-gavin-newsoms-family-donates-thousands-to-ron-desantis

RWSGFY says

Looters should be shot on sight and sent to their home country.

Why bother sending the dead bodies back

As a warning to the others.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/desantis-telling-donors-he-wont-challenge-trump-in-2024-per-report/

We have a decent national level farm system working up for MAGA.

Both Lake and DeSantis are Presidential level material after Trump. Depending on the outcome of November, we may have Zeldin and Mastriano as contenders. Sadly, Noem can't be trusted because she cucked for Transgender Surgeries at Sioux Falls Hospitals and reneged on signing a total ban on men in Women's Sports at ALL state schools.

We're working a lot of state legislators into the system now, with School Board and County Officials behind them.

May not be optimal, but Cruz might replace the Turtle. Probably not Rand, he's better as a gadfly. McCarthy should be replaced in the House.

Feeling positive for the long term.

cisTits says

Yeah. the 'generational math' as far as GOP leadership future is aligned with MAGA and populism among both the base and 'traditional' Dems like minorities and married women.

More or less.

You jiggered my brain.

The generational math is bad for Dems in many ways. They're losing 2nd and esp. 3rd Gen Hispanics starting with Texas and Florida. Whingy White Liberal Women have one or none kids... Urban Professionals are the least likely to breed... Black Men are moving Republican...

I'm starting to think instead of a Race or Class war, we'll have a Gender War. Unmarried Pompous Urban Single Females and Welfare Black Women vs. almost everybody else.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-gov-ron-desantis-wins-massive-re-election-victory-in-florida/

Gov. Ron DeSantis wins massive re-election victory in Florida
DeSantis' historic 19-point victory comes amid widespread speculation that he may launch a 2024 presidential bid.

The Establishment is desperately trying to goad him into a Presidential run. Where they know even if he wins, they can imperil him with bureaucratic, and judicial overreach.
They can't touch him in Florida. He has more authority to send the FDLE to Washington to arrest Merrick Garland for his crimes on Florida residents. By the way they conducted those unnecessary 3am home invasion arrests, for the CNN news cameras, for things that has precedentially been treated less severe than a misdemeanor.
Where as the Democrat commies and thugs in D.C. can't do squat to him, but take away funding. They want control of Florida and he's in the fucking way as our Governor.. He would be powerless for what the Establishment has in store for Florida, as the President. Andrew Gillum will have a political reresection and be the Governor in the Special election to replace him. Then that will be it for Florida.

I wouldn't vote for DeSantis, I don't vote for anyone that runs for election to flip his office for a better seat. If his intention is to run for President, then that means his next two years will be focused on that transition, and not conducting the Ron DeSantis brand of governing he did in his first term. It will make him a self pandering Asshole if he did that. He hasn't groomed any suitable successors. Miami and Broward are just starting to flip red, well Dade more so than Broward. But things are looking up. He needs to build upon that for the next four years as Governor. Focusing on his governorship. Then spend two years, after he's done here in 2026, and prepare for his 2028 Presidential run. That's the Ron DeSantis I want to vote for. Even if Trump doesn't run in 2024.

Tenpoundbass says

The Establishment is desperately trying to goad him into a Presidential run. Where they know even if he wins, they can imperil him with bureaucratic, and judicial overreach.
They can't touch him in Florida. He has more authority to send the FDLE to Washington to arrest Merrick Garland for his crimes on Florida residents. By the way they conducted those unnecessary 3am home invasion arrests, for the CNN news cameras, for things that has precedentially been treated less severe than a misdemeanor.
Where as the Democrat commies and thugs in D.C. can't do squat to him, but take away funding. They want control of Florida and he's in the fucking way as our Governor.. He would be powerless for what the Establishment has in store for Florida, as the President. Andrew Gillum will have a political reresection and be the Governor in the Special election to replace him. Then that will be it for Florida.

I wouldn't vote for DeSantis, I don't vote for anyone that runs...

DeSantis can be the biggest fish in a smaller pond, or a little fish in a big pond. Unlike Trump, he has the capability to build his network over the next several years. A 2024 run would place him in the same position Trump was in 2017 - virulent deep-state opposition and gaslighting. He has a chance to build a loyal team that will serve him - not like Trump who had to settle for RINOs and traitors.

Patrick's link says

Gov. Ron DeSantis wins massive re-election victory in Florida
DeSantis' historic 19-point victory comes amid widespread speculation that he may launch a 2024 presidential bid.

I have a brilliant Idea!

Let DeSantis continue the Florida cleanup for a couple more years and then appoint Trump to the governorship. That would free DeSantis to MAGA as the president.

Trump is better suited to be an eccentric governor than the leader of the free world, though he was the best damn leader of the free world since Ike.

stereotomy says

Trump who had to settle for RINOs and traitors.

Sadly so.

It's been a recurring lesson throughout my life that no one succeeds alone. I worked for a Wunderkind kind of guy who was getting big contracts at age 22 to build websites in Chicago for top companies there. It was much less amazing when I realized that his father was already pretty rich and well connected, and two of his first employees were similarly rich and well connected. Most of them were Jewish. I asked him the secret to his great success at a young age, and his answer was "It's who you know and who you blow." Typically crass, but not wrong. Hope he wasn't blowing anyone.

So Trump is not just Trump, but is a group of people who have been with him for a long time. Unfortunately, they were not with it or powerful enough to stop the Deep State from undermining him, or maybe were actively helping the Deep State (looking at Jared Kushner here).

And Elon is not just Elon. He was born rich (his father owned part of an emerald mine in South Africa) and he has collected rich allies along the way from starting Paypal, etc.

Everyone is looking at DeSantis, but Virginia Gov Youngkin has been traveling around making allies. Younkin may be the surprise candidate.

Sweden is Ron DeSantis’s trump card
The Florida Governor's Covid policy has been vindicated

On the 16th March 2020, Donald Trump entered the White House’s cramped press room. He stood at the podium and looked out over the assembled journalists who were sitting apart in the room, each divided by a couple of chairs.

“I’m glad to see that you’re practising social distancing, that looks very nice,” the President said. With him on the podium stood Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx and others who had advised Trump on the measures he was about to announce: “very talented people,” he called them. “We’ve made the decision to further toughen the guidelines and blunt the infection now,” Trump said.

From that moment, the U.S. government recommended school closures. Citizens were also advised to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people and to wean themselves off pre-pandemic social habits. The strategy was summarised on a sign positioned behind the President: “15 days to slow the spread”.

We now know that those 15 days turned into months, then well over a year. The fear of reopening society deprived children and young adults of in-person education all around the world, perhaps hitting the U.S. most: at its peak, the closures affected at least 55.1 million students in 124,000 public schools across the country.

We also know that the actions taken by the Trump White House were heavily influenced by the infamous report from Imperial College London.

A month and a half after his press conference, Trump doubled down on his lockdown position. In a tweet on April 30, he wrote: “Sweden is paying heavily for its decision not to lock down… The United States made the correct decision!”

In Florida, however, Governor Ron DeSantis took a deeper interest in the Swedish policy of keeping schools open and resisting sweeping lockdowns. Later in the summer, he even hosted a three-hour roundtable with two Stanford scientists, Jay Bhattacharya and Michael Levitt, as well as Swedish epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff. According to official transcripts, the word ‘Sweden’ came up 21 times.

And so Sweden and Florida effectively became control groups in the massive experiment that the world had undertaken. The openness of both raised ire in U.S. and international media. Countless stories were written about the perceived irresponsibility of keeping beaches, sports and schools open.

Trump may have later reversed his positions on the Covid measures he advocated during those months, but the damage had already been done. Fauci had been elevated to near-divine status, the media became obsessed with case counts, and it proved almost impossible to reopen schools.

The race for the Republican nomination increasingly looks like it will be a duel between Trump and DeSantis, and their different positions on Covid lockdowns will likely be scrutinised by Republican primaries voters. As we now know, lockdowns had very little effect on the spread of the virus. Sweden’s excess death numbers during the pandemic were among the lowest in Europe, and lower than 43 U.S. states.

Instead, the lockdowns created a massive education gap among children, damaged their mental health, and, through resulting stimulus packages, stoked the inflation we’re now living through. It is striking that the two main contenders for their party’s nomination took such different approaches during such a crucial period. It will surely be difficult for Trump to run away from his tainted record.

https://unherd.com/thepost/sweden-is-ron-desantiss-trump-card/

I think Trump will have a hard time to garner enough support, should he fall short I hope he will endorse whomever beat him and get out of the way.

Strange thing, a pundit pointed out that Trump actually stated he was 'Commander in Chief' in his recent speech (I didn't hear that if he did), and his filing to run for Presidency did not specify 2024, and was allegedly for the United States Republic (implication being that the bankrupt and invalid US Corporation executive was not part of the deal).

Who knows, he may have partly done it so they couldn't arrest him (Presidential candidates courtesy) amongst other things.

Trump also had his gold fringed flags with the military eagle mount. They are the flags of military courts and military tribunals:
"Under martial law, you are presumed guilty until proven innocent.

The gold-fringed flag only stands inside military courts that sit in summary court martial proceedings against civilians and such courts are governed in part by local rules, but more especially by “The Manual of Courts Martial”, U.S., 1994 Ed., at Art. 99, (c)(1)(b), pg. IV-34, PIN 030567-0000, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash. D.C. The details of the crimes that civilians can commit, that are classed as ‘Acts of War,’ cover 125 pages in the Manual of Courts Martial."
https://govbanknotes.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/get-that-gold-fringe-off-my-flag-military-flags-in-all-us-courtrooms-signifying-military-tribunals/

AmericanKulak says

I'm starting to think instead of a Race or Class war, we'll have a Gender War. Unmarried Pompous Urban Single Females and Welfare Black Women vs. almost everybody else.

Nope, not a race or class war, and not a gender war.

We're slowly headed to a Soviet style collapse - revolution.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

The race for the Republican nomination increasingly looks like it will be a duel between Trump and DeSantis

Why do so many people think DeSantis will abandon Florida halfway through his term? If he does he's just another politician.

Unless, of course, Trump is incapacitated and there is no one else to do the job.

Just added DeSantis to my phone's dictionary.

mell says

I think Trump will have a hard time to garner enough support, should he fall short I hope he will endorse whomever beat him and get out of the way.

Onvacation says

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

The race for the Republican nomination increasingly looks like it will be a duel between Trump and DeSantis

Why do so many people think DeSantis will abandon Florida halfway through his term? If he does he's just another politician.

Unless, of course, Trump is incapacitated and there is no one else to do the job.

You can dislike this very real possibility all you want, but anybody who witnessed the leftoid lamestream media and their handlers and witnessed how well the commie left played this election knows that they will ramp up the pressure on Trump and trying to paint him as a loser. I would like for Trump to run and be successful, but it's not always possible, Trump made many mistakes in the past years and with the leftoid globalist marxists and the commie media you cannot make any. It's just reality. It's possible he will muscle through it, but in the case he doesn't make it there are other who could take his place. With all the cheating going on he basically will need each and every independent, plus maybe some leftoids leaving the plantation

Trump/De Santis (unlikely to happen) or Trump/Lake would be good tickets. Besides De Santis, Youngkin could be a good contender as well. Maybe Rick Scott. Anybody else? Rand Paul would be great but civil, libertarian leaning conservatives often get eaten alive by the leftoids with their smear tactics.

richwicks says

We're slowly headed to a Soviet style collapse - revolution.

Yes, I also get the feeling that the US is going to repeat the Soviet Union's problems of 1989.

mell says

Trump/Lake

I'd vote for that.

The good thing about Trump possibly getting a second term is that he can pick a competent VP this time. Traditionally, presidents have picked incompetent VP's like Biden. I think that's to mitigate the possibility of getting replaced by one's own VP.

mell says

I would like for Trump to run and be successful,

Trump is successful! I would say that he is the best actor the political theatre has seen in my lifetime. Appalled, inspired, or amused you have to admit Trump puts on a great show.

I would vote for a Trump and Kari Lake ticket in a heartbeat.

mell says

Trump/Lake would be good tickets.

I LIKE IT! The stolen election campaign. They don't even have to say it because everyone will say it for them.

Onvacation says

I would say that he is the best actor the political theatre has seen in my lifetime.

Dave Chapelle described Trump pretty well in his SNL routine, except possibly for implying that Russia had something to do with Trump's first election. The Democrats beat that one to death in spite of an utter lack of evidence. They just hate Trump and hate Russia, so they lumped them together.