DeSantis for the win

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tsing Tao, May 21, 2020.

  1. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao


    Ah, wait a second! Science evolves over time?? Suddenly you're embracing this concept?

    So it is ok to challenge the narrative with new information, is it? Is that like how masks didn't help for 60 years, until they did, before not helping again two years later?

    Clown of the first order. Keep digging.
     
    #5591     Jan 6, 2022
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Mainstream science evolves over time as proper information comes out from peer-reviewed studies. Sadly the fabrications you re-post from social media also evolve over time as they continually push Covid misinformation.

    Why don't we get back to your favorite Governor DeSantis -- you know the the Regeneron Ron guy pushing questionable cures, undermining vaccination, hiding Covid data, supporting the January 6th insurrectionists, achieving new case records nearly everyday, and purchasing & misplacing a million covid test kits. DeSantis is really doing his best to drive death and misery in Florida.
     
    #5592     Jan 6, 2022
  3. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    The "fabrications" you are never able to argue against, but claim they have been disputed "over and over" (and no one can find these disputes and you don't want to link or show us)? Those "fabrications"? Because Dr. Malone was considered maintream (as an example). But the moment he deviated from The Religion™ he was outcast. And what did he do? Suggest the science wasn't the same as was being pushed. There was no debate, there was no discussion of different ideas. There was censorship and ostracizing with all the NPCs like you cheering it on because it violated the Holy Book™.

    That "evolution"?

    I understand why you'd want to change the topic back to something you get your ass beat on marginally less than this. So go ahead, I don't mind.
     
    #5593     Jan 6, 2022
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    You bringing up "Dr. Malone" is laughable. His colleagues on patents have stated he is a fraud who claims to be the "inventor of mRNA" vaccines. Plus a huge pile of failed fact checks as Malone peddles his misinformation. The problem is that you view Covid misinformation pushers as proper sources for your "facts". Which is what the problem is.
     
    #5594     Jan 6, 2022
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Crisis, what crisis? Florida Republicans deny Omicron is straining hospitals
    State becomes focal point of politicized debate over whether Omicron is dangerous enough to overwhelm hospital systems
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/06/florida-republicans-omicron-hospitals

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    Yep.. Regeneron Ron and his buddies are sticking with their narrative that Omicron is not a threat to hospitals (even as 700 more Covid hospitalizations occur every day in Florida recently) and if we don't don't test then Covid does not exist. What a clown show these guys are.
     
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    #5595     Jan 6, 2022
  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Let's take a look at the timeline of TestGate...

    Wed: FL Ag Commissioner: "DeSantis stockpiling COVID tests that were soon expiring."

    DeathSantis: "Her allegations are bizarre."

    Thu: DeathSantis: "Oh, hey, we found a million unused COVID tests, can their expiration date be extended?"


    DeSantis admits to finding 1 million expired COVID-19 tests stockpiled in warehouse
    https://nbc-2.com/news/state/2022/0...d-19-tests-are-being-stockpiled-by-the-state/

    In a press conference Thursday morning, Governor DeSantis admitted state officials found 1 million unused COVID-19 tests in a warehouse. The admission came as DeSantis unveiled a plan to get 1 million COVID-19 tests to Florida’s seniors.

    Kevin Guthrie joined DeSantis at today’s press conference. Guthrie, the head of Florida’s Department of Emergency Management said, “We had between 800k and a million Abbott test kits in our warehouse that did expire.”

    Today’s revelation follows allegations by Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried that the governor was stockpiling tests which were soon expiring. On Wednesday, the Governor’s office called that allegation “bizarre.”

    The Governor said he’s asking the federal government to extend the expiration date on these newly-discovered tests.

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    ORIGINAL REPORT, January 5:

    LEE COUNTY, Fla. – Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried announced Wednesday in Lee County that she believes nearly one million COVID-19 tests have been stockpiled by the state’s executive branch of government.

    The explosive allegation comes as thousands of people wait hours in long lines to receive a COVID-19 test. Fried visited a plant farm in Alva to announce a clean water initiative and plans to randomly test for nutrients being used around Florida.

    “This is definitely something we have concrete information coming from inside the governor’s office,” Fried said. “It may not be his executive suite but certainly the different agencies he oversees but there is a stockpile of these tests either to expire Dec. 31 or soon thereafter.”

    NBC2’s Dave Elias spoke with Fried after announcement in Lee County:
    Dave Elias:
    What proof do you have to prove this?

    Nikki Fried: I believe my staff this morning sent a public records request asking for this information.

    Dave Elias: I reached out to the governor’s office. Press secretary Christina Pushaw said this is a very bizarre allegation and that they don’t have a stockpile. Your reaction?

    Nikki Fried: It’s not a bizarre allegation when I know it’s to be true. We’ve not alleged that the governor’s office has them. It’s the agencies he controls.

    Governor Ron DeSantis was in Collier County on Tuesday downplaying vaccines and testing while pushing more monoclonal treatment.

    Dave Elias: Your thoughts on the way the governor is handling this?

    Nikki Fried: His leadership on this is void.

    Dave Elias: The governor believes people are hysterically running out to get tested. Do you believe that?

    Nikki Fried: I don’t know a single person that would sit in four or five hours over hysteria.

    Dave Elias: Finally, there are a lot of people who do support the way the governor is handling this and concerned about their freedoms, who some argue are making the situation worse?

    Nikki Fried: I do say to those individuals this of course is your choice at this point. There of course is no mandate. Nor should there ever be a mandate, and I’ve said that very publicly. I do not agree with mandates or bans. I think they’re two extremes, one from the governor’s office and one from the president’s office. It needs to be in the middle.

    The governor’s press secretary did pass along the claims to the Department of Health. So far they have not responded.
     
    #5596     Jan 6, 2022
  7. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Ron DeFascist defends traitorous terrorists, whatabouts issues that no one supports vs bread & butter of GQP, peddles conspiracies while smearing cops, & defends foreign intervention in our election:



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    #5597     Jan 6, 2022
  8. ipatent

    ipatent

  9. Nine_Ender

    Nine_Ender

    #5599     Jan 6, 2022
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    On anniversary of Capitol attack, Florida’s Gov. DeSantis dishonors democracy
    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article257090007.html

    Brash Gov. Ron DeSantis has Florida hanging on his every word, because that’s what autocrats do best, command all the attention and suck the oxygen out of the room of friends and foes.

    And so, on the day the nation marked the first anniversary of the unthinkable — democracy attacked by America’s own sons and daughters — DeSantis dishonored the moment with crass words, deflection and denial.

    “A politicized Charlie Foxtrot,” the governor called during an early-morning COVID briefing Thursday in West Palm Beach, what hadn’t even taken place yet in Washington: President Joe Biden’s eloquent defense of democracy from Statuary Hall in the Capitol. Biden delivered a brilliant commemorative speech rooted in history and called on Americans to come together in truth and bipartisanship to pave “the way forward.” But no chance of a kumbaya moment in DeSantis’ Florida.

    For the uninitiated, Charlie Foxtrot — CF — is military slang for a clusterf---, a vulgar way to refer to a chaotic situation. DeSantis loves this sort of coded language that pierces the souls of political combatants carrying Confederate flags the way a sweet song stirs lovers.

    He quashed Biden’s gesture before the olive branch of national reconciliation was even extended.

    LYING DESANTIS’ WORST MOMENT

    DeSantis didn’t say a word about the domestic terrorists — not when, to our shame, more of the arrested for insurrection hail from Florida than from any other state.

    In fact, he argued that there was no insurrection at all.

    DeSantis didn’t call the Capitol invaders “patriots” like the former president did.

    But, as Biden noted, they were roused by lies told by the “defeated” president and Republicans like DeSantis, who cast doubt on a fair and thoroughly vetted presidential election. They desecrated the temple of democracy. They hunted through its halls elected leaders to murder them, defecated, destroyed property, caused the deaths of five people and wounded more than 100 law-enforcement officers.

    All, because they felt entitled to upend for the first time in 245 years of democratic rule, peaceful transfers of power envied around the world by people yearning to be free, like us.

    But as damnable as all that is, denial wasn’t DeSantis’ worst moment.

    Nor was it when he said that for the “D.C.-New York media,” the attack on the Capitol was like “Christmas.” Hammering on media holding the power accountable is nothing new.

    No, the most malignant lie was reserved for feeding his base a conspiracy theory, debunked many times, that the FBI was involved in “orchestrating” the attack on the Capitol.

    This Ivy League-educated father of three darlings (one of them, Mason, was with him), an ambitious governor many believe is doing a swell job commanding Florida toward fascism stooped low enough to lead the ranks of angry, white madmen in this country.

    And he betrayed not an ounce of shame for standing on the wrong side of history for the sake of political gain. He pushed a false narrative on purpose, knowing that confusion and suspicion keep American voters distrustful and on edge.

    Once again, DeSantis also declined to answer journalists’ questions about whether he still supports Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud.

    It’s easier to go silent when the only voter fraud found in Florida was among Republicans who voted for Trump several times over in The Villages, a frequent Trump campaign stop and also a DeSantis favorite. Four people have been arrested and charged.

    But what else is new in DeSantis World? He and his people can’t control their right-wing autocratic tendencies.

    The GOP playbook calls for discrediting mainstream media, questioning legitimate elections, gerrymandering voting districts to favor Republicans, making it harder for minorities to vote, blaming immigrants for what ails a nation prospering from their hard work and unleashing the boogeyman of communism on the population.

    Never mind that it’s DeSantis and his people arresting a respected civil rights leader in Jacksonville, Ben Frazier, who only wanted to talk to the governor about his lack of response to the latest surge in a pandemic that’s disproportionately killing his Black community. A Cuba-style moment that was, carting away in handcuffs an older man in a dapper suit, a menace to no one and holding himself with more dignity than DeSantis will ever know.

    WHAT’S FLORIDA GOING TO BE?

    To DeSantis, the commemoration of the Jan. 6 attack is only another opportunity for Democrats and the media to “smear” Trump supporters. As if Republicans didn’t provide an overabundance of those moments themselves.

    One of them, Sen. Marco Rubio, is doing his best to compete with DeSantis for national attention by outrageously spreading COVID-19 misinformation and nonsensical denials of the Capitol attack.

    That’s a false equivalency, senator.

    Two for the road they are, DeSantis and Rubio, heirs to Trumpism and still devoted sycophants of their maximum leader.

    In his speech, Biden challenged Americans to think, “What kind of nation are we going to be?”

    In Florida, the answer isn’t optimistic.

    Here, democracy will continue to be tested by the authoritarians voted into office

    The insanity and immorality of Jan. 6 isn’t over for us. Far from it, I’m afraid.
     
    #5600     Jan 7, 2022