All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[numberthirty]

And you equate Trump having an affair with a porn star and illegally paying her off with how Biden has or doesn't have a relationship with a grand child?

It's a good thing that outside of Fox News, most don't see it that way. But stand tall in your Biden hatred.

There is a world of difference between "I Hate You..." and "If You Are Going To Consistently Talk About Your Catholic Faith, You Might Need To Walk The Walk Along With Talking The Talk When It Comes To Something Like This..."

I get that the regulars here might only hold Republicans to that standard in this thread, but them's the facts from where I am standing.

[numberthirty]

And, yes...

The call not to play a part in a child's life who didn't do anything to deserve that is just as bad as cheating on your wife.

Probably worse, if I'm going to be honest.

[numberthirty]

Well...

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/articl...d-californias/

Former Google executive enters 2024 US Senate race to succeed California's Dianne Feinstein

“The California dream is dying,” Reese says in an online video launching her campaign. “Millions of families are working hard but barely getting by. It is time to work together to build a better future together.”

[Darkspellmaster]

Firstly a few things:

1. How old is this child? When was she born?

2. If she is a minor has her mother expressed and interest in talking with or getting to know the Biden Family. If not then her daughter can't meet them without consent from her parent?

3. If she is over the age of 18, and has not reached out to him, then that is her choice?

4. Due to connections to Trump it could be that her mother doesn't wish to show connections to the Biden family?

5. Has the mother expressed any interest in collecting money for her daughter from Hunter Biden? If not then has Hunter expressed interest in meeting the girl? If not is there a logical reason such as see 4 or 2?

6. Could it be for the safety and privacy of said child they are not being included as it would mean that probably more Secret service detail, which again the mother or daughter may reject due to party affiliations or other reasons.

7. Have the Biden reached out previously and been rejected? This is something we don't know.

[Mister Mets]

So tell me Thirty, which of those two was head of a party that claims to represent family values?

Democrats don't exactly prevent candidates from showing their families in ads.

But if you're making a character argument, typically the claim isn't that a voter who is on the fence should vote for your guy because he is better. Instead the argument is that your guy is so much better as a human being, that even if someone disagrees with them on major policy issues, they should vote for your guy. And this requires your guy to be held to a much higher standard.

My two cents.....maybe, just maybe, Hunter and the girl's mother have decided to keep the child out o f the lime-light for as long as possible, at least until she is old enough to decide for herself if she wants to connect with her father and her father's side of the family. They are not keeping this a secret from her, but she is still young. Or maybe the mother has decided that she wants to keep her daughter out of the public eye for now at least.

Either way, President Biden has to respect their wishes on this matter.

Being related to the President is never easy.

If the girl's mother felt this way, that would've been mentioned in the article.

It does seem the mother is not happy that the President of the United States has made no effort to meet his granddaughter.

[Vakanai]

Elsewhere on the internet I was reading someone's post about politics in the UK, and they had typed in their post a word I had never seen before. I did the usual thing and googled it, and after discovering the meaning of the word I immediately put them on my ignore list. It's disappointing learning what a bigot some people are through google, but as hateful as some words are at least it's one way to weed out the people not worth spending time on.

[Malvolio]

I don't care if Trump cheats on his wife. I do care he paid off a porn star to keep quiet about it.

Let's remember that there was quite a bit of press in the New York tabloids about Trump cheating on his first wife long before he decided to run for President. So it was already old news by the time he started campaigning.

[Vakanai]

Let's remember that there was quite a bit of press in the New York tabloids about Trump cheating on his first wife long before he decided to run for President. So it was already old news by the time he started campaigning.

Like I said, I don't care that Trump cheated on his wife. I wouldn't care if Biden cheated on his wife. I didn't care that Clinton cheated on his wife. And I wouldn't care if any of their wives had cheated on them. I cared that Clinton illegally lied under oath. I cared that Trump illegally paid off Stormy Daniels. It's the actual crime-y part that matters. The infidelity made them bad husbands, the criminality made them unfit presidents.

Meanwhile Clinton had to face the repercussion of his crime with an impeachment - Trump never did. Yes Trump was impeached, twice, but for other crimes. He honestly deserved a third for paying Stormy to keep quiet (honestly he probably deserved another dozen or so impeachments as well).

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Sen. JD Vance endorses the U.S. military’s going after drug cartels in Mexico

Despite the fact military intervention in another country is illegal as hell, in the end, it wouldn't do a goddamn thing to slow the flow of drugs into the U.S. Idiots like Vance don't understand that until you eliminate the demand, you'll NEVER eliminate the supply. That's why the so-called "War On Drugs" has been an unmitigated failure from jump.

[worstblogever]

In 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of Frank Artiles, a member of the Florida House of Representatives who first turned up in the Tea Party Wave of 2010, has a voting record featuring support for drug testing welfare recipients, unnecessary bans on Sharia Law, trying to prevent gays and lesbian couples from adopting children and find ways to deny them their legal right to be married, as well as sponsor pro-life legislation that included a measure to try and change the definition of fetal viability. At the time we gave Artiles the spotlight, he was one of the first Republicans around the country to also support transphobic bathroom legislation, wanting to fine transgendered citizens $1000 for using the “incorrect” bathroom. In our profiles of Artiles, we’ve taken great pains to be as accurate as we can in our discussion of him because he tends to threaten people who report on anything he does with libel and/or slander lawsuits, considering unflattering discussion of him or his interests “bullying”. When we factored in that, along with Artiles being investigated for assault for attacking a man in a night club a few years back, we thought we had more than enough to begin keeping tabs on him.

After six years of being a toxic influence in the Florida House of Representatives Artiles did successfully win election to the Florida State Senate in 2016 after fundraising at a rate roughly four times that of his opponent, Dwight Bullard. However, his time in the upper chamber was much shorter than perhaps anyone anticipated. One would think that after Frank Artiles had that run-in at a night club a few years back, that he might rethink where he spends time after hours in the state legislature, or to not be so combative. Well, Frank Artiles is a special brand of hostile, as in April of 2017, only four months into his first term in the Florida State Senate, went out to the Governor’s Club, a members-only bar and restaurant in Tallahassee, and called several members of the Florida Legislative Black Caucus the n-word, as well as calling one female lawmaker a “bitch”, and a male lawmaker a “p***y”. Artiles actually tried defending his use of the racial slur, claiming it was the version of the word that ends in an –a, and not –er, so he felt like he was just using slang and not insulting any of them. After days of trying to justify why casual bigotry was not a big deal, Artiles made a few half-hearted apologies before resigning in disgrace.



It was on this date in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled former Florida Congressman and current Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who was narrowly elected in 2018. Back in 2012, in his first Congressional run, DeSantis ran as a Tea Party candidate trying to get whatever momentum was left out of that toxic movement, and earned a second term by raving about Benghazi as much as possible in 2014. By 2016, DeSantis was feeling cocky enough that he thought he would be able to fill the void left by Marco Rubio who was leaving his U.S. Senate seat open, and promised he wouldn’t run, so DeSantis made a run for U.S. Senate. It wasn’t going so well, with polls showing not just that DeSantis would be crushed in the general election by any Democratic candidate, but that he would finish not just behind David Jolly, but even behind Carlos Beruff, a complete lunatic and political outsider. When Rubio reneged on his promise to run for a second term for office, it made DeSantis’ decision to instead run for re-election for his House seat look far less craven.

In 2018, DeSantis sought the office being vacated by Voldemort-cosplayer Rick Scott due to term limits. This is troubling to us here at FRED because of various alliances that DeSantis has with… well, hatemongers. The Southern Poverty Law Center noted in April of 2017 that Ron DeSantis was teaming up with fellow Congressman Bill Johnson to form the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus, and in that endeavor, acting as its chairman, enlisted the help of Daniel Pipes, an anti-Islamic “activist” who has spent three decades demonizing Muslims in the political sphere, including proposing Muslim detention camps in the United States, and claiming that Muslims orchestrated the Oklahoma City bombing and not the anti-government militia lunatics who actually did it.

That relationship with a xenophobic bigot is not an outlier, by any stretch. Only a few weeks after the 2017 election, Ron DeSantis appeared at David Horowitz’s “Restoration Weekend”, a rather polite name for an event that is perhaps better classified as an Islamophobic hate rally, which that particular weekend, featured White Nationalist speakers like Steve Bannon, actual Neo-Nazi Sebastian Gorka, and Milo Yiannopoulos, who had already been revealed to have spoken several times in favor of pedophilia, as if his racist agenda wasn’t enough of a reason to be disgusted by him. And yet, there was DeSantis on stage, speaking alongside both Milo and Bannon, without any shame whatsoever.

So, we’ve established already that Ron DeSantis is allying himself with the Alt-Right/Neo-Nazi/White Nationalist wing of the GOP, and perhaps no greater evidence of that is the pathetic way he’s been trying to defend Donald Trump from the Mueller investigation. In August of 2017, he was actually trying to campaign within Congress to place a six-month timetable on the probe into any collusion between Trump and Russia. That has continued until the present day, when he’s been a frequent guest pundit on Fox News to try and taint the findings of the investigators further, claiming that the investigation was “infected with bias” from the start.

Maybe you’d get the idea that DeSantis being proud of being arm-to-arm with those intolerant jackasses means he has some courageous streak… HA! No. Because the day after yet another tragic mass shooting in Florida, this time in Parkland, Florida, a local television reporter that wasn’t satisfied with DeSantis posting “thoughts and prayers” on Twitter put a microphone in front of Rep. DeSantis to ask him if there would be any gun control measures he might support to prevent such a tragedy from happening in the future… and he cravenly ran away claiming he “had to go down” as if there was a vote about to happen.

His voting record as a Congressman showed him vote for Disaster Relief Funding for victims of Hurricane Sandy (but you know he would want disaster relief if a hurricane hit Florida, and he voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown and then the time came to vote to re-open the federal government, DeSantis voted to keep it closed. He also supported variety of anti-choice, pro-gun legislation through the years. DeSantis also voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act scores of times, and even voted to strip the protections granted by the Americans with Disabilities Act prior to leaving office in 2018.

[worstblogever]

Since becoming Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis has still been awful, releasing a statement to honor the victims of the Pulse shooting but neglecting to make any mention of it being a hate crime against the LGBTQ community, and then, blaming that omission on his own staff (you still signed it, Ron). Around the same time, DeSantis had a major purge where seven members of his staff quit on the same day (and no one is still sure if there’s a connection). Still, DeSantis is doing what he can to take credit for disaster relief funding coming to his state for Hurricane Irma, when as a Congressman, he voted against doing so for other states. The initial approval ratings after his election mostly held steady for a few months, but the honeymoon ended fast... and nothing made it clear what an incompetent, fascist boob he is like the past eighteen months:

• April 15th, 2020: Gov. DeSantis declares WWE pro-wrestling an “essential” service to keep it open and airing during the pandemic without any pause or oversight.
• May 1st, 2020: As all public health experts are recommending social distancing guidelines and public venues remain closed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, Ron DeSantis orders all beaches to be reopened. Multiple critics compare his flippant rejection of their guidance and putting lives at risk to the Mayor of Amityville in Jaws, who refused to close the beaches for fears of angering local businesses even though a lethal threat would be present…
• June 26th, 2020: Rebekah Jones, a whistleblower who worked within Florida’s Department of Health first reports that even the enormously high numbers being reported in Florida are manipulated by the DeSantis administration to hide the death toll his ignorance has wrought.
• July 20th, 2020: Gov. DeSantis is sued by the Florida Education Association, after he tries forcing Florida’s public school teachers to go back to in-person learning during the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic. (The infection rate, which was finally coming down over the summer, immediately begins spiking again in the fall as children return to classes and become vectors.)
• October 13th, 2020: There are levels of stupid, and then there’s Ron DeSantis. He hosts Donald Trump’s first political rally since he nearly died of coronavirus, and at the event, DeSantis is filmed maskless, high-fiving Trump supporters, and then immediately wiping his nose. He is somehow being added to his own abysmal Covid-19 statistics in spite of his dumbassery.
• November 11th, 2020: Gov. DeSantis personally drafts legislation to allow Florida citizens to shoot “looters and rioters” that would apply the Stand Your Ground Defense to anyone encountering civil protesters. The bill is written specifically to also allow drivers to run over protesters who “block traffic”, encouraging right-wing terrorists to run over protesters, a crime which is escalating around the country even before his bill is proposed.
• November 26th, 2020: Epidemiologists are dumbfounded by Ron DeSantis’ decision to extend an executive order barring municipalities throughout from Florida from enacting mask mandates, even as the number of infections being reported reaches their highest levels since the pandemic has started. Some go as far as to comment that the Governor of Florida is “on a killing spree”.
• December 7th, 2020: Gov. DeSantis orders law enforcement to sent a SWAT team to do a raid on the home of former Dept. of Public Health official Rebekah Jones as retribution for her telling the public the truth about his incompetent response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and during it, the officers point weapons at her children while moving through the home.
• April 16th, 2021: As Congressman Matt Gaetz is implicated in a sex-trafficking ring that includes a minor, and thus, also a child sex trafficking ring, the media notes Gaetz’s friendship with DeSantis, where he referred to himself as the “Robin” to DeSantis’ Batman, as well as that a top campaign donor of Ron DeSantis, Jason Pirozzolo is implicated in criminal activity, as is one of his top administration staffers, Halsey Beshears.
• April 18th, 2021: A report drops that the DeSantis administration’s “Seniors First” policy on distributing the Covid-19 vaccine specifically worked to get the life-saving vaccine to his rich political donors first, in a brazen show of corruption.
• May 6th, 2021: Ron DeSantis signs SB 90, a bill aimed at targeting voting rights in Florida, and a way to help him suppress the vote to aid his own re-election chances in 2022. In a shockingly partisan move, he has the bill-signing ceremony live on Fox and Friends, beaming with pride over his anti-democratic action.
• May 30th, 2021: Almost a year after she went public with the DeSantis administration’s malfeasance on Covid-19 safety and manipulation of data to minimize the death poll to try and cover up the number of deaths, Rebekah Jones is granted Whistleblower Protections.
• June 1st, 2021: Ron DeSantis signs the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act”, a bill targeting transgender athletes in public schools and universities to ban them from playing in any sport as any gender other than the one of their birth.
• August 19th, 2021: Florida, due to DeSantis’ incompetence and stubborn insistence on not just doing nothing to stop the Covid-19 pandemic, breaks is own record for Covid-19 hospitalizations, getting just shy of 17,000 patients in hospitials with Covid-19 in a single day.
• September 23rd, 2021: Gov. DeSantis’ Covid-19 idiocy sets another record, with 1213 Floridians dying from the disease in a single day. Just his state, 1213 people.
• September 10th, 2021: Ron DeSantis comes out hard as schools reopen against enforcing mask mandates in schools, as well as vaccinations for Covid-19… meanwhile, schools are asked to enforce dress code rules and vaccinate children against over a dozen other diseases before being granted admission.
• September 13th, 2021: Gov. DeSantis threatens cities and counties in Florida with penalties if they mandate vaccines for public employees, before giving an insane press conference filled with Covid-19 misinformation.
• October 24th, 2021: DeSantis actively tries to recruit anti-vaxxer cops refusing to be vaccinated in other states to come to Florida, promising them bonuses to come and spread disease when they should be serving and protecting.
• January 6th, 2022: News breaks about how Gov. DeSantis let over a million Covid-19 testing kits expire without being used before their expiration date in Florida. He lies and says there was “no demand” for them, in spite of sold-out stocks in stores, and massive lines at testing sites.

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• January 25th, 2022: In yet another press conference where he spreads Covid-19 misinformation, Ron DeSantis continues to claim that antibody treatments of Regeneron are a great method for treating Covid-19, even though the FDA had, for months, reported that they were useless. Perhaps not coincidentally, DeSantis is personally invested in the company that makes Regeneron.
• February 1st, 2022: After Neo-Nazis go on the march in Orlando, the press ask both Gov. DeSantis and his press secretary to make a statement, and for some weird reason… Ron Desantis won’t condemn Nazis, and instead spins the question about the unsettling protest into complaints about Joe Biden and Democrats.
  Because that’s his priorities. Nazis rank higher than Democrats.
• February 8th, 2022: DeSantis criticizes podcaster Joe Rogan… because he APOLOGIZED FOR USING SLURS. Yes, he’s not critical because he said the slurs, but for saying he was sorry for it.
• March 2nd, 2022: Ron DeSantis bullies a group of teens standing behind him at a press conference at the University of South Florida into taking their masks off, jeopardizing all their health.
• March 25th, 2022: DeSantis signs Florida’s HB 1467, aimed at banning books in K-12 schools that he deems are “too woke”.
• April 19th, 2022: After signing the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Gov. DeSantis takes exception to mild criticism from Disney executives for the legislative homophobia, and threatens to take away Disney World’s tax-exempt status. He of course, was forgetting that the company would be owed billions of dollars from local municipalities if that happened.
• April 22th, 2022: DeSantis signs the “Stop WOKE Act”, a bill that would prohibit workplace training or instruction to deter harassment against people for race, sexual identity, sexual orientation, or their country of origin.
• June 8th, 2022: Gov. DeSantis’ personal propagandist, press secretary Christina Pushaw, has to retroactively register as a foreign agent, forgetting to mention that she used to work for a authoritarian dictator in the Republic of Georgia.
• June 12th, 2022: Not content to just have signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, DeSantis begins threatening to investigate any parent who takes their child to a drag show (in spite of said shows often being aimed at “all ages” in terms of content).
• June 16th, 2022: The FDA approves the Covid-19 vaccine for toddlers. Ron DeSantis refuses to preorder it, because those children are out of the womb, and therefore, ready to die by Republican standards.
• August 24th, 2022: DeSantis is widely criticized by veterans’ groups after he runs a campaign ad themed after the movie Top Gun, where he puts on aviator glasses and a helmet and pretends to be a fighter pilot. (DeSantis, while a veteran, was a JAG officer, not a pilot.)
• September 15th, 2022: Gov. DeSantis uses Florida taxpayer dollars to troll Democrats in blue states, sending Venezuelan asylum seekers from his own state to Martha’s Vineyard. This political stunt isn’t just on the taxpayer dime, it left him under federal investigation for potential human trafficking.
• October 5th, 2022: DeSantis is lampooned for his fashion choices while surveying hurricane damage, wearing giant white boots that have people comparing him to the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
• October 6th, 2022: Ron DeSantis appears on camera to be interviewed by a member of the Three Percenters militia, who specifically was a domestic terrorist who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6th.
• October 18th, 2022: DeSantis orders a Florida law enforcement task force he created to combat “voter fraud” to begin arresting citizens. The arresting officers, on body cameras, even questioned why they were there, and all charges ended up being dropped. But the point wasn’t to catch people committing voter fraud… it was to suppress people from expressing their right to vote for fear of arrest.
• November 8th, 2022: Gov. DeSantis wins re-election to a second term in office, and still has $60 million left in his campaign war chest for a prospective 2024 presidential run.
• November 17th, 2022: A federal judge blocks the “Stop WOKE Act”, and in their ruling, declares DeSantis’ bill “a positively dystopian” attack on the First Amendment.
• December 13th, 2022: Gov. DeSantis proposes investigations and possible prosecution of those who promoted the Covid-19 vaccine.
• January 19th, 2023: In case you didn’t think DeSantis wasn’t courting the vote of white nationalists, he made it a point to ban an African American History course in Florida schools.
• March 14th, 2023: Like many Republicans making excuses for Vladimir Putin and Russia, Gov. DeSantis refers to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “territorial dispute”.
• March 16th, 2023: As DeSantis’ name begins to be bantered about as a possible 2024 presidential candidate, many comment about how just flat out unlikable he is, with one notable anecdote being someone reflecting on being on a plane and watching him eat chocolate pudding out of a container with his fingers.
• March 31st, 2023: Ron DeSantis expresses his willingness to violate the United States Constitution and refuse to extradite Donald Trump to New York to face criminal indictments in New York City.
• April 13th, 2023: Gov. DeSantis signs a ban on abortion at six weeks in Florida.
• April 17th, 2023: DeSantis, seething about Disney criticizing his many anti-LGBTQ actions as governor, talks about deliberately building a prison next to Disney World to punish them.
• April 24th, 2023: Gov. DeSantis is in Japan, and is asked for comment on how far he trails Donald Trump in prospective polls for the 2024 GOP Presidential Primary and… his wide-eyed goofy reaction goes viral.
• April 27th, 2023: Speaking in Israel, DeSantis admits his ongoing legal battle with Disney are political in nature, and that he is fighting them for being critical of him. This is stupid to admit because Disney have been arguing in court that he is retaliating against them for political reasons as a means to have his lawsuit dropped.
• May 13th, 2023: After the extrajudicial killing of Jordan Neely by Daniel Penny in New York City for the crime of “harassing people on the subway”, DeSantis hails Penny as a “Good Samartian” for the vigilante murder where he choked a man to death for fifteen straight minutes.

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[hyped78]

Firefighter dies after another night of violence in France
More than 150 people were arrested overnight, down from 700 on Saturday and more than 1,300 on Friday.

https://news.sky.com/story/firefight...rance-12913786

[hyped78]

Why there won’t be a backlash against the Supreme Court this time

"California is an important state to note because voters there faced a 2020 ballot measure to consider the use of race, sex or ethnicity in government institutions (such as education). A clear majority, 57%, voted against allowing state and local entities to consider such factors in public education, employment and contracting decisions. When a state that voted for Biden by nearly 30 points is against affirmative action, it shouldn’t be surprising that the nation as a whole is.
A Pew Research Center poll released last month found that 50% of Americans disapproved of certain colleges and universities taking race and ethnicity into account in admissions decisions to increase diversity. Only 33% approved of the practice."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/02/p...ans/index.html

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• May 16th, 2023: Forgetting witch state he’s the governor of, Gov. DeSantis sends 1100 law enforcement officers from his own state to the Texas/Mexico border.
• May 17th, 2023: Ron DeSantis signs Florida’s SB 1674, an anti-trans bathroom bill into law.
• May 20th, 2023: DeSantis is in Iowa, telegraphing a potential run for president, and is caught on video wiping his nose and then immediately clapping the same hand on the back of a man he met.
• May 22nd, 2023: Gov. DeSantis signs an anti-drag and anti-LGBTQ bill that flies in the face of the First Amendment. Predictably, a judge blocked it five weeks later, and it is almost guaranteed that it will be overturned completely.
• May 24th, 2023: DeSantis lies in a live interview and claims that he has never banned a book in the state of Florida.
• May 25th, 2023: Ron DeSantis announces his 2024 presidential campaign on Twitter, causing the entire site to glitch in a way that makes every pundit on both sides of the aisle point and laugh.
• May 26th, 2023: Gov. DeSantis and Donald Trump bicker on the campaign trail about who did a worse job mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic (They both spread misinformation and botched the response and failed to prevent needless deaths).
• May 29th, 2023: While campaigning for president, DeSantis openly talks about pardoning the domestic terrorists that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021.
• June 12th, 2023: For the second time in the last few years, Neo-Nazis take to the streets openly in Florida, protesting outside of Disney World. Gov. DeSantis and his press office make no statements to criticize the white nationalist presence in spite of widespread news coverage.
• June 23rd, 2023: In the face of headlines about rampant corruption of Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas taking luxury vacations funded by billionaires who had business in front of the court, Ron DeSantis states that as president, he would pick Supreme Court nominees just like them.
• June 24th, 2023: DeSantis speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition and claims that he was in San Francisco and the city’s “woke” ideology is what led him to see people in the streets using drugs and supposedly defecating in public. Critics respond with headlines from Florida, because… well, it’s got plenty of headlines indicating it has weirder crime issues.
• June 28th, 2023: Users notice that in a campaign photo from 2015, that DeSantis is so fake that in a campaign photo he used with he and his wife walking on a beach… it’s shot on a green screen because they leave no footprints on the shore. And… it’s not like there aren’t beaches in Florida where he could have taken such a photo.
• June 29th, 2023: Ron DeSantis goes on record that if elected president, he would eliminate four different federal agencies, including the IRS and Department of Education.
• June 30th, 2023: Gov. DeSantis signs a bill to make It legal for roads in Florida to be paved with materials that include radioactive waste.

Ron DeSantis, also known as "Meatball Ron" is the clear runner-up right now in the GOP Primary, and amazing as it might seem... the more Donald Trump ends up in legal trouble, the more Republican Primary voters are digging in to support him, and not DeSantis, because it would annoy "the left" more. He's trapped in a pissing contest with the orange menace himself, where both will spend a few days trading insults, insinuating the other aren't as manly as they are, and trying to claim the other were more incompetent in combating Covid-19.

Those are the two options that the GOP consider "their best", that should terrify anyone to vote blue, whether or not it's the mummified remains of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or anyone else up for the nomination.