www.cnn.com/2023/06/25/politics/ron-desantis-agenda-president-court-fights/index.html
Ron DeSantis is campaigning on his record. Judges keep saying it's unconstitutional
He doesn't care about facts , just all the mean stuff he does to groups conservatives don't like.. it's theatre. But theatre with real world consequences
As a non-American interested in American politics, to me the entire electoral system in America looks a lot more like a football game than critical debate about policy and national planning. There are a lot of flags, shouting, slogan t-shirts and hats, and even those foam hands
You're not wrong. A lot of people, particularly Republican voters, treat it like team sports. Gotta cheer for the team, love the team, represent the team, even when the team is doing poorly. They identify as a member of the team, so they have to vote Republican because voting any other way would be voting against their own identity. And so we get plenty of Republicans who are dirt poor and have zero access to public services, but still vote R despite the known fact that Republicans hate the poor and do everything in their power to keep the poor down and make more and more cuts to public services in the name of securing the fortunes of the wealthy donors. It's fucking ridiculous and embarrassing.
That’s a term that has been getting used more and more, the “sportsification” of politics. These people literally do not give a shit about policy. They care about winning and rubbing the other side’s face in it.
By the time sportspeople are able to call press conferences at a whim they tend to have amassed a fortune and lost touch with the common people
It's worse than a football game, it's like a popularity contest with the 2 worst possible selections. Crap sandwich or crap sandwich with a fantasy ketchup. And you have to pick or else everyone gets a crap sandwich with extra helping of herpes
Groups conservatives don’t like? You typo?
"Groups (that) conservatives don't like." The 'that' is optional.
Haven't you heard? The only real part of the constitution is the second amendment! All the rest is just liberal pansy inside baseball!
If you didn’t say “cannot be infringed” it doesn’t count!
Quite so.
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Trump has already said we should get rid of the constitution and that was fine with the GOP.
Specifically, he wanted to "terminate" it so he could be president. Which would mean taking the Oath of Office amd swearing to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution to the best of my ability". It's absolutely wild that they can consider him a patriot after that.
Scary thought
Benjamin Franklin was woke. Boycott electricity!
Unless a conservative needs to hide behind ____ then it’s an inalienable right!
Desantis takes his wins between signing his signature and a judge striking it down.
That's just it. He's not a good politician, he's an opportunist, like a televangelist.
It's not like he's uneducated in the law, it's that being a lawyer does not necessarily make one smart in other businesses, like governing or running for president.
When his bottom falls out, will he go away or not? Because as Florida sobers up to the problems he's caused over the next decade... They'll keep glamping on to these charlatans.
Ohh his also probably going to be one of Jesus disciples if he were there.
What about morality? Where does that sit with lawyers and televangelists these days?
His laws get struck down weekly now and I haven't seen a single thread covering that news on the fascist sub
Hot tip: it’s also fascist
Also, a real jerk!
Friggin jerk face…
Yeah, a friggin jerk face
He’s campaigning on trying to be the biggest asshole but lacks imagination.
He’s trying to be an asshole but really he’s just a douche.
His "record" only appeals to about 30% of Republican's the other 70% want trump. He's a nothingness. 30% of 40% of the country... A dying ideology that can't even beat out a geriatric lardass felon
Thank whatever he didn’t wait, but had he just stayed in Florida for another 4 years and ran when Fat Donnie is either dead or in some kind of prison in 2028, he likely would’ve cake-walked into the nomination. But he couldn’t wait to be the Fuhrer from Florida. Lucky for us he’s a political moron.
He's term limited, once he loses POTUS, he'll have 2 years to run for senate.
Dollars to fuckin donuts they repeal the term limits
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that just mean that he has to take a break for a term and then can run again?
I'm too lazy to double check, but I seem to recall that being a thing with Florida.
Yeah that’s my understanding too. He’d have to sit out a cycle then can get re-elected to burn the rest of Florida to the ground.
Nah, that'd be consecutive. For instance, Obama is term locked for the rest of his life.
I looked it up because you made me question myself.
He's eligible for another two terms as governor after one term out of office.
Gotcha, must be a FL thing, sucks for yall. I guess it's some other states too.
I'm not in Florida (thankfully). But it's 23 states that have a 2 on 1 off term restriction.
From Wikipedia:
The governors of the following states and territories are limited to two consecutive terms, but are eligible to run again after four years out of office: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
That's a much bigger list than I recall. I'm not a fan, tbh. Rewards corruption, imo.
Being a felon doesn't always make someone a bad person. It's why they are a felon and the motivations behind it that tip the scale.
DeSantis is the most dangerous person in America. Do not underestimate how far he will go and how many he will hurt to win. He used to live near me. I know many who know him and no one likes him. His wife is worse.
how is his wife worse?
For starters, she married him.
I know him too. He was not bright, from what I recall, which surprised me given his credentials. Granted, this was before he was a politician so we really didn’t know how evil he was at the time.
Not fit to take the oath of office
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11mo
It will look exactly the same. All his shitty rhetoric is just a dog whistle for other cretins to join together like always. Even if none of the policies make it through the words spread regardless.
Underwater
Thanks to climate change, probably just the Atlantic ocean.
The next Detroit on a state scale probably
his record where he's a fascist that wants no data about the number dead due to his policies and wants all people receiving private medical treatment as a trans person reported to him?
yeah real small govt.
very conservative.
for a ducking torture lawyer who should be in prison.
Wow, torture lawyer. I've never thought about it, but that really is a special niche legal practice. Who else practiced that I wonder.
OMG. I googled torture lawyers and found a firm that specializes in it
People are saying Ron “puddin’ fingers” DeSantis is a pedophile that liked to hang out with Jeffrey Epstein.
I don’t know if it’s true, but people are saying it.
The best puddin fingers.
DeSantis is a fucking chode.
Omg, Ron DeSantis came running out the gate and hit the wall. He doesn’t have a prayer in the primaries leave alone the general.
If I was an artist I'd turn that into an editorial cartoon @
Ha! It was the visual I had in my head when I read the article LOL! Lil' Puddin' Fingers making a run out the gate and then SPLATT! A wall! His wife running after him, peeling him off the wall.
It's ironic because his record is also full of unconstitutional acts
That's the point of the article. He's campaigning on a record of things that were blocked by courts for being unconstitutional.
It's a tongue-in-cheek reference to the badly written headline which can and does read that DeSantis campaign itself is unconstitutional.
Yeah, I keep thinking, "What record?", Like what has he actually done that has been good for his state that shows a positive benefit that the country could get on board with. But there is nothing. One could say he either is also intentionally passing laws he knows can't pass as an educated lawyer, or he is that incompetent as a lawyer he thinks they will. Either way, still not a good record to run on. Its amazing, and he is the best 2nd runner up they have?! What does that say about the Republican party.
The Republicans are running on a discriminatory platform that is directly unconstitutional. They are openly passing unconstitutional laws and vowing to continue. All the Republicans running for president are doing this. We start this year and vote out as many right wingers and republicans as we can in all local and state elections.
He's not campaigning on whether it's constitutional. He's campaigning on the things he'd like to do if he had more power.
Huh. I would have thought that controlling what people read, how they entertain themselves as adults, what theme parks they vacation at, when you have babies, and chosing whom federal laws apply to when extradition comes up would have just been full of constitutionality. And Freedom, of course.
As a resident of Florida, I clearly see that DeSantis has done NOTHING for Floridians and nearly everything that he has done has been "leading" by following whichever way the crazy wing of the GOP winds are blowing (example: COVID vaccines, he was all for big vaccine rollouts until he saw that his base was ignorant and afraid of them; so he flip flopped to be anti-vax). He hasn't cared yet about whether his actions are legal or Constitutional and even if they get overturned; his supporters typically don't even know about the losses. They are mostly superficial followers of politics and so they see that DeSantis claims he did something and they believe it and believe that it worked.
Sad but true
There is no more quiet part for Ronnie.
DuhSantis is a dictator wannabe. The problem with Adolf DuhSantis is he doesn't have the mental capability to be anything except a thug. Distrustful, dishonest and an enemy of the people of the U.S.
He doesn't even seem to have a personality to like. It baffles me how he got elected in the first place, unless it was just because of the (R) next to his name, then it makes sense.
The libs will be owned, constitution or not!
Why can’t conservative politicians find suits that fit ?
It’s difficult to tailor a suit to fit giant pieces of shit. Their shape is constantly changing depending on the humidity. And, being from humid Florida, Desantis is a sloppy messy piece of shit with no real shape.
Since when has DeSantis done something constitutional?
His Primary opponents should be hammering him on his failure record once he went anti-woke but I guess they can't without appearing woke themselves.
I can't find his record on iTunes, is he really any good??
The record sucks, dont worry about finding it. I sold mine at a yard sale for a nickle.
Rhoda Sandtits is Florida’s biggest boob. Guy is a train wreck.
He's saying that he'll actually fight to destroy leftism. He's pointing to his policies as evidence. I believe he will try to. Unless he starts imprisoning and executing thought criminals, he won't be able to destroy leftism.
Until a Court of Appeal speaks, or the Supreme Court, we do not know the legality of these laws.
His record of being an asshole that is.
Judges? We don’t need justice stinking judges! No law is gonna tell DeSantis what to do
He is breaking the laws. But to maintain order, justice will never intervene.
honestly, why is he even running in 24?
Desperation I think. Polls show him constantly slipping and Trump just isn’t having a heart attack of his own volition so I think DeSantis feels it’s now or never. He also wants to run with the governor of Florida in his back pocket. Florida law says governors need to take a break after two consecutive terms in office.
And even if they change that rule I think the odds of him winning re-election for the governorship in the future are shrinking.
So he’s rolling the dice now.
That could be the point. He wins, republicans get both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court and this shit could quickly gain constitutional status
Edit: I can’t spell
Psst, the record Rs care about is what you're willing to sign into law. By just showing you'll do the fascist, they know that if they vote for you, and you get in higher power, you'll at least try to do it at a national level. This is where the two party system fractures. Eventually time moves forward. The more conservative party has to decide whether to move forward as well or to take in more of the backwards folk. But once you start going back, it's like a hill; you can't stop rolling down.
What's surprising about Republicans being OK with unconstitutional laws and actions? Just look at their record over the past decade.
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