Things Are Falling Apart For Ron DeSantis As Mainstream Media Calls Out His Hypocrisy

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/08/10/things-are-falling-apart-for-ron-desantis-as-mainstream-media-calls-out-his-hypocrisy.html


Posted on Tue, Aug 10th, 2021 by Jason Easley
Things Are Falling Apart For Ron DeSantis As Mainstream Media Calls Out His Hypocrisy
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is being called out as a small government hypocrite for his authoritarian anti-mask COVID policies.


Video of Willie Geist on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:

Sarah Reese Jones
@PoliticusSarah
Even #MorningJoe is calling DeSantis is small government hypocrite, "Desantis using this top-down pressure of the governor's office to dictate what school boards can do, flies in the face of the argument that he doesn't want the federal government telling him what to do." https://t.co/P3nsEOHi2J
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7:46 AM · Aug 10, 2021

Geist said, “And the idea that Mr. Small Government Desantis is using this top-down pressure of the governor’s office to dictate what school boards can do, flies in the face of the argument that he doesn’t want the federal government telling him what to do these are local issues. But on a human level with no politics involved, a career educator is trying to protect her kids from getting covid, and she’s being threatened now in an official letter she has to answer by 5:00 today with having her funding taken away from the state.”

Republicans Aren’t Really In Favor Of Small Government.

When a Republican says they favor small government, what they mean is a small government for things that they oppose. Masks in schools go from being a personal choice to government mask bans because Ron DeSantis is trying to build a 2024 presidential platform atop the bodies of COVID victims. Small government is Republican code for let me do whatever I want. It has nothing to do with the use of governmental power or decision-making.

Ron DeSantis is following the Trump playbook and running himself and his 2024 presidential hopes straight into the ground.

[lark]

1. Meanwhile, in real time people are dying because of his love of rw power.

Almost one in every 3 tests here are positive and the hospitals are filled, very little capacity. They are now refusing non-critical surgeries. Baptist CEO put out a press release last week saying if you have a heart attack, stroke, or head trauma come there immediately. Anything else, go to Urgent Care or Primary Care.

What about chemo, what about the woman who discovers a large lump in her breast or a man who has lumps in his armpits? These are also people potentially being killed by Death Sentences RW self-profiting lunacy, besides the obvious Covid deaths.

[olegramps]

16. Hopefully he miscalculated. The D-variant beginning to infect children.

This could prove to be catastrophic if it is allowed to start a mass infection of those under 12 years. This could be the impetus to force inoculation when children returning in mass to school become infected. It could also result in many parents refusing to send their kids to school. The situation could very well result in DeSantis' downfall. Of course the majority of Republican ignoramuses will continue to support him, just as they have with Trump. I have loss any respect or tolerance for Republicans and now longer want to associate with them for any reason. I consider them to be just as dangerous as the most dangerous outlaws with the same contempt for the welfare of people as my view drug dealers who kill people. They are just as revolting and disgusting as vermin.

[mrsadm]

37. I fully support DeSantis' downfall!

[ShazzieB]

42. Lord, yes!

And PLEASE may that downfall come FAST! Like immediately, if not sooner!

Of course, it's already taken too long, as I'm sure every doctor and every nurse in every hospital in Florda could attest, but the sooner, the better!

[joetheman]

2. DeSantis needs to made the Poster Boy for the GOP in all upcoming elections. nt

[SCantiGOP]

17. We're going to need a bigger poster

Need room for Abbott of TX, McMaster of SC, Noem of SD, etc etc

[Peacetrain]

3. God I hope so..

[bucolic_frolic]

4. If it's political calculus, DeathSantis should reveal his cards

Running on policies that kill children would seem a hard sell to most Americans

[Effete Snob]

7. Look at the article

The headline might just as well be "DeSantis Disliked By MSNBC Talking Heads". It's virtually an endorsement for his prospective candidacy.

He's out there "owning the libs".

[Effete Snob]

5. "Ron DeSantis is following the Trump playbook"

If so, the "Trump playbook" combined with GOP voter suppression efforts in several states adds up to an electoral win.

But the headline "Things Are Falling Apart" is reminiscent of so many "wheels have come off the bus" stories from 2016.

It is unfortunate that so many media pieces like this convey a sense of triumphalism, almost as if someone wanted to convey the impression that we do not need to work to develop, promote and elect candidates, but merely need to await the self-destruction of our opponents.

Nothing is "falling apart" for DeathSentence. He is every bit as much Florida's governor as we was last week and will be next week, and is wildly popular among those who will be allowed to vote in the next election.

This headline merely adorns a Tweeted video clip from an MSNBC program. For many, the message "tongues are being wagged at DeSantis on MSNBC" is a practical endorsement of his candidacy.

This is the kind of free advertising he needs.

[Elessar Zappa]

8. I'm not sure that DeSantis has the charisma to win.

Trump has a dumb charisma that some people inexplicably find charming. It remains to be seen if DeSantis can pull off a nationwide win. I’m certainly not writing it off but I like Biden’s chances (as of now).

[Effete Snob]

23. I'm certainly not declaring him a winner

But, I've been shocked by "who can win" since 1980.

[durablend]

9. He'll just complain

"The left is out to get me!" and his COVID flock will eat it up

[Elessar Zappa]

18. He needs more than the death cult

in order to have a chance in 2024 and he’s done nothing to win the more moderate part of the electorate over.

[FLSurfer]

21. I couldn't agree more with your post.

"Nothing is "falling apart" for DeathSentence. He is every bit as much Florida's governor as we was last week and will be next week, and is wildly popular among those who will be allowed to vote in the next election."

There is still and has been for years, a net migration into Florida of +1000 people per day.
I can tell you from the ground here, not many of them appear to be liberals.
Had a guy tell me last weekend how happy he is to have moved into the "Last Free State"
Florida is F-ed for at least a generation after this Trump/Desantis mess.

[RobertDevereaux]

10. Impeach and remove...

https://www.change.org/p/florida-s-speaker-of-the-house-impeach-governor-ron-desantis-for-neglecting-his-duty-to-protect-floridians-from-covid

[moreland01]

11. Reminds me

of another young, upwardly mobile, republican presidential hopeful from Florida going down in flames . . . Marco Rubio.

[BlueIdaho]

12. Not soon enough.

As long as he considers killing children a political “win” he won’t change.

[Tommymac]

13. I thought that his threats to remove funding are just BLUSTER - Fla law prevents this from happening

Just like his idol TFG, EMPTY Bullying Threats to try and scare people into doing his bidding.

Haven't WE as a People Learned ANYTHING??????

Don't answer that.

[NCjack]

14. Waiting for Florida newspapers to call for his resignation. Waiting ...

[monkeyman1]

40. resignation hell ,time to impeach the sob !!!

[Mr. Evil]

15. Republiqan voters just love shit like this.

All you have to do as a republiqan candidate is pretend to be a tough guy. A big blabbering cowboy or quote a fictional movie character over and over is all that is required. That's all they care about. Phony, lying tough guys.

Fucking pathetic and now proving to be quite dangerous.

[Traildogbob]

19. Hey DeSatan

If you are gonna kill babies for GQP power, can we purchase their blood, filled with fear and adrenaline from knowing they are being killed by you, for our cocktails. The cash can help your campaign, And we get our secret political power to rule the world with socialism.

[Escurumbele]

20. "Republicans Aren't Really In Favor Of Small Government." Of course not, they are hypocrites who

understand the gullibility of their base, so they made this list of "things to say", "things to do" but do not mean, like "family values", "morals", "their talk about religion and god", it is all a lie but their base eats it up.

The "Death Panels" thing when Obama was trying to get the ACA done, that is nothing but projection, they are the murderers and they prove it every day.

[seta1950]

22. We are s o lucky

To have Dr. Fauci advising the President, yet these people attack him relentlessly.

[Mr. Sparkle]

24. politico staffers must be panicking

since it was them lauding him the last few months.

[Jon King]

25. Desantis thought Florida's Covid response would get him the Presidency.

He was so cocky thinking Florida's early numbers and no restrictions would make him the man in 2024. Trumpy, but not quite as polarizing.

But the Delta variant said not so fast. Too bad so many have to suffer to prove he was always an idiot.

[SledDriver]

26. You can't tell ME what to do! Only I can tell YOU what to do!

[NoMoreRepugs]

27. Hearing some mumbling in Florida that the current numbers for Covid aren't entirely accurate.

littleRon has his hands in those files I would imagine to try and salvage his momo.

[ananda]

28. The numbers are wrong at least by a factor of 3.

Just multiply any numbers you see by 3.

[NoMoreRepugs]

30. For the number of seniors here, me included, I NEVER thought they could be accurate. Factor in his

office seizing control of the dissemination of the numbers I KNEW the fix was in.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Per What I Saw Here A While Ago...

...the senior population of Florida is highly vaccinated.
IIRC, it was well over 90%.
That might explain the disconnect between what we're seeing & what you, otherwise reasonably, expected.

[NoMoreRepugs]

34. Agree- but that's NOW - I'm talking early on when seniors elsewhere in the USA were dying

at a rapid clip and there was NO vaccine. DeathSentence took control of the nursing home and assisted living stats as I recall.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Got Ya!

I misunderstood.

[Takket]

29. Rethugs standing for small government is a crock of shit

And I don’t know how it keeps getting perpetuated.

Rethugs spend more money, drive up debt faster, and what to tell everyone what to do with their lives including literally who people are allowed to love and what a woman is allowed to do with her womb.

Desantis is no different.

[Cha]

31. A Vile Monster is in the Bullpen.. anyone

who follows trump's Loser playbook is a GD Idiot

[lpbk2713]

32. DeSantis is a failure as a leader.

This is the point his critics should home in on.

It seems like everything he does is wrong.

[mcar]

36. About damn time

[Skittles]

38. he's putting his perceived career above even the health of children in his state

DeSantis is sickening beyond belief.....a monster.

[DBoon]

39. It won't be the Covid deaths that end his career

It will be his inability to control the local governments, schools boards and private businesses that flout his Covid dictates.

To the GOP mind, death is not a concern, but weakness is unforgivable. DeSantis can't control the Miami-Dade school district, major cruise lines, etc. This makes him weak and ineffective.

[GulfCoast66]

41. Mainly private business. Disney just announced all salaried cast must be vaccination.

Are in negotiations with the unions to make it company wide.

I’m not aware he has attacked them. Because politicians in Florida don’t fuck with Disney. Not if they are smart, so I expect the Governor to attack them soon. 70K employees mandated to get the vaccine.

Once the vaccine is FDA fully approved it will become common. Businesses saw their revenue crash. They want this to end.

[Effete Snob]

44. I'm kind of surprised that companies have to "negotiate with the unions" on this

Maybe I'm nuts, but I would assume the unions would be demanding it as part of safe workplace requirements.

Give them paid time off or a small bonus to get it, and Bob's your uncle.

[TlalocW]

43. It's so weird

Here is a guy - TFG - who has basically screwed over or destroyed anyone who ever worked with or for him - either the incompetence rubbed off onto other people's reputations, or the first time they did something remotely "disloyal," he threw them under the bus. His way of doing things ultimately lead to his own defeat, and other people who tried to follow his example fared just as badly. What makes republicans still say, "Yeah, I'm going to be the next TFG/kiss up to him?"

TlalocW