Tag: DeSantis

Climate Change

Idalia: DeSantis may not want to “politicize” Climate Change, but Climate Change is determined to Politicize DeSantis

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on being asked about human-caused climate change, said he did not want to “politicize the weather.” Of course, it is not the weather that is at issue but climate, which is long-term and repeated weather patterns. DeSantis ducked the question because Koch Industries and ExxonMobil etc. are big donors to Republican candidates and he did not want to alienate them. DeSantis says that hurricanes are not more frequent now than in the twentieth century. But frequency is not the issue. Intensity is the issue. DeSantis turned down $350 million from the Biden administration for the green energy transition, of which governors like Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer are making use to create jobs and slash carbon pollution.

With the beginning of the hurricane season, the climate is announcing that it is perfectly happy to politicize DeSantis.

Source: Idalia: DeSantis may not want to “politicize” Climate Change, but Climate Change is determined to Politicize DeSantis

Israel

Yes, Mr. DeSantis, there is a Palestinian People that has exercised Power in Historical Palestine

Republicans chasing money go to Israel

What does it mean to say that there “has never been a Palestinian state” in the Holy Land? This is one of the allegations Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made on his trip to Israel, where he fell all over himself taking far right wing colonialist stances. DeSantis actually did a history degree at Yale University and his professors must spit up a little bit when they hear him talking like that. Or just hear him talking.

Source: Yes, Mr. DeSantis, there is a Palestinian People that has exercised Power in Historical Palestine

Republicans

Days After School Shooting, Ron DeSantis Signs Permitless Gun Law | HuffPost Latest News

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a law allowing Floridians to carry a gun without a permit, a measure that aims to appeal to gun-loving GOP primary voters even as Democrats warned it would increase violent crime.

 

Source: Days After School Shooting, Ron DeSantis Signs Permitless Gun Law | HuffPost Latest News

Fascism

One step away from total fascism (part 2) – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Q: What is more threatening to a democracy than a fascist? A: A stupid one. The Republicans have an abundance of them. My piece of a couple of weeks ago; One step away from total fascism singled out a few of them. I did not except that in the short number of days since …

 

From the article:

“Ron DeSantis Wants to Make It a Felony to Have an Undocumented Person in Your Home or Car.

A new Florida bill criminalizes not just undocumented Floridians but anyone who associates with them.”

I wonder if he’ll also get some bounty hunters after them. It seems to be the done thing.

Friends in America tell me that DeSantis is worse than Trump. It’s hard to imagine, but I trust their word.

I hope they never find out how bad he can really be.

 

Source: One step away from total fascism (part 2) – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz: The Shame of Harvard Law School | The Smirking Chimp

Harvard Law

What else do DeSantis and Cruz have in common? Both graduated from Harvard Law School (DeSantis, class of 2005; Cruz, class of 1995).

So, the two likeliest Republican candidates for president as Trump fades, who have both attacked the legal foundations of American democracy, are the products of the most prestigious law school in the nation.

Source: Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz: The Shame of Harvard Law School | The Smirking Chimp

America's Shame

Scholars, Lawmakers Outraged Over DeSantis’ Rejection of AP African-American Curriculum

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Redacting history and historical facts. The Germans teach and are reminded from the cradle to the grave of their part prior to and during WW2. All of Germany pays attention to its history good or bad. They as a consequence now have a more tolerant and united nation as a result compared to DeSantis’s, Trump’s and the GOP’s America.

“Florida is doing its best to shut down discussions about race, slavery, anything having to do with a challenge to the idea that racism is still a real factor in American life today,” said one author and former professor.

Source: Scholars, Lawmakers Outraged Over DeSantis’ Rejection of AP African-American Curriculum

American Politics

How ‘authoritarian’ Ron DeSantis has made Florida a ‘laboratory of fascist politics’: scholar – Alternet.org

Harvard Educated Fascist

DeSantis doesn’t pretend to be moderate; being a far-right culture warrior is his brand. Journalist/author and scholar Henry A. Giroux analyzes DeSantis’ appeal in a scathing article published by Truthout on December 16, and he doesn’t sugarcoat anything. DeSantis, Giroux warns, is “fueling the emergence of fascist politics in the United States.”

Source: How ‘authoritarian’ Ron DeSantis has made Florida a ‘laboratory of fascist politics’: scholar – Alternet.org

Informed Comment

A Conversation* With Governor DeSantis on His Trafficking-Immigrants-to-Martha’s Vineyard Strategy | The Smirking Chimp

*based on what he has said

I’m told you have presidential ambitions, Governor. If so, you might start acting like a statesman rather than doing stunts that make you a cynical clown.

Source: A Conversation* With Governor DeSantis on His Trafficking-Immigrants-to-Martha’s Vineyard Strategy | The Smirking Chimp

Informed Comment

Top 6 things wrong with DeSantis’s Stunt of Flying Asylum-Seekers to Martha’s Vineyard

Trumping Trump by applying Rendition Tactics on Asylum-Seekers DeSantis’s Action isn’t a “Stunt” it’s the Federal Offence of Kidnapping across state lines

Stunts like Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’s program of rounding up and flying to Martha’s Vineyard Venezuelan and Colombian asylum-seekers, who are in the country legally awaiting the adjudication of their asylum status, have definite downsides. DeSantis helped run an explicitly racist Facebook page before he was governor of Florida, and continues to be the KKK in a business suit. DeSantis, who wants to be president in 2025, is a publicity hog seeking to make a national name for himself. He thought Florida is the perfect terrain for the politics of racial fear, since the state

Source: Top 6 things wrong with DeSantis’s Stunt of Flying Asylum-Seekers to Martha’s Vineyard

Fascism

Ron DeSantis’s Voting Crackdown Is Grotesque
Fascist

Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s new election cops are locking up the state’s citizens for trying to exercise their most basic political right, the right to vote — all to impress the Extremely Online right.

Ron DeSantis’s Voting Crackdown Is Grotesque