Ron DeSantis declares war on the Bahamas. Ron DeSantis now says it would take ’12 hours’ to ‘flatten’ the Bahamas https://floridapolitics.com/archives/650673-ron-desantis-bahamas/ BTW - The Bahamas are already flat.
DeSantis wants $19 Million more to drive his fabricated political narrative against Disney -- on top of the millions he has spent in legal bills already. Maybe the GOP legislature needs to get some balls and tell him "No". DeSantis Wants $19 Million of Taxpayer Money To Fight Disney Lawsuits https://insidethemagic.net/2024/01/...-taxpayer-money-to-fight-disney-lawsuits-nk1/
Of course, DeSantis' demented surgeon general appointee, Joseph Ladapo, is still pushing absurd claims about Covid vaccines which have already been debunked in great detail. Hint: mRNA vaccines do not change a person's DNA. Citing Misinformation, Florida Health Official Calls for Halt to Covid Vaccines Federal health officials and other experts have repeatedly sought to counter erroneous comments about the vaccines by Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/health/covid-vaccines-florida.html Florida’s surgeon general on Wednesday called for a halt to the use of Covid vaccines, citing widely debunked concerns that contaminants in the vaccine can permanently integrate into human DNA. “These vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings,” Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general and highest-ranking health official, said in a statement released by the Florida Department of Health. Federal health officials and other experts have repeatedly sought to counter Dr. Ladapo’s erroneous comments about the vaccines, noting that careful review of the scientific evidence has found no basis for his declarations. The Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that it had not identified any “safety concerns related to the sequence of, or amount of, residual DNA.” The Covid vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna use so-called messenger RNA, or mRNA, a type of genetic material, to direct the body to make immune molecules against the coronavirus. Dr. Ladapo’s latest statement amplifies Florida’s escalating anti-vaccine stance. He was appointed surgeon general in 2021 by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, and has since increasingly aligned himself with anti-vaccine claims that the shots cause serious harm. In March 2022, Dr. Ladapo released guidance advising against healthy children receiving the vaccines, despite studies showing that the vaccines are safe and effective at all ages. That fall, he recommended that young men between the ages of 18 and 39 avoid mRNA vaccines because of a high risk of cardiac death, reaching that conclusion by altering the findings of a state-led study. Last year, Dr. Ladapo attributed life-threatening conditions reported from Florida and elsewhere to the Covid vaccines, prompting the F.D.A. to publish a rebuttal. And in September, Florida advised all residents under the age of 65 to skip the vaccines. Dr. Ladapo’s latest contention is “very irresponsible,” said John Wherry, a vaccine expert and director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania. “He has, however, demonstrated a tenuous grasp of science and medicine in general over the course of the pandemic so this is not surprising,” Dr. Wherry said. Neither Mr. DeSantis’s presidential campaign nor his governor’s office immediately responded to requests for comment. The Florida Department of Health did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the rationale for Dr. Ladapo’s assessmentor its potential effect on vaccine uptake in the state. Dr. Ladapo’s intensifying rhetoric has prompted federal agencies to directly address his claims. In a letter to Dr. Ladapo published in December, the F.D.A. detailed the many reasons his claims are implausible. The vaccines have saved millions of lives, the agency said in a statement on Wednesday. It chastised Dr. Ladapo for fueling misinformation that contributes to low vaccine uptake and continued death and serious illness from Covid. Covid is once again resurgent across the United States, and fewer than one in five American adults has received the latest shots. Even among those 75 and older, who are at highest risk from Covid, only about one in three have received the most recent version of the vaccine. Florida’s vaccination rates are among the lowest in the country. “The F.D.A. stands firmly behind the safety, effectiveness and manufacturing quality of the approved and authorized Covid-19 vaccines, and respectfully disagrees with the Florida Surgeon General’s opinion,” the agency said. In his declaration on Wednesday, Dr. Ladapo contended that contaminants in the vaccines might integrate into human DNA, theoretically causing chromosomes to become unstable and healthy cells to become cancerous. Experts in virology and immunology said those ideas were nonsensical. “You will see a mighty lot of ‘mights’ in there,” said John Moore, a virologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. “There’s no evidence that any of this chain of ‘mights’ actually happens or even could happen.” DNA vaccines have many orders of magnitude more DNA than is present as an mRNA vaccine contaminant, and yet have never been associated with cancer, Dr. Moore noted. “Every member of my immediate family has had mRNA vaccine doses,” he added. “I am absolutely certain none of them is at risk of contracting cancer as a result.” For Dr. Ladapo’s claim to be true, humans would need to have an enzyme that can incorporate foreign DNA into their genomes. “We don’t have one,” said Dr. Eric Rubin, a member of the F.D.A.’s vaccine advisory committee and the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. “There is no mechanism and no credible evidence,” Dr. Rubin said.
Little fascist Ronnie keeps losing lawsuits -- wasting millions in Florida taxpayer dollars to drive his political narratives. Crushing DeSantis Court Loss Great News for Disney https://insidethemagic.net/2024/01/...n-disney-takes-huge-step-forward-lawsuit-nk1/
About time this is starting to fliter in the news to the DeCuntis followers... had so many frustrating conversations with Florida family and Texas business associates about why Ronnie overstepped and then gave courts the receipts on it by saying it was to get back at Disney..... Ronnie trying to emulate trump so not surprised he is mentally challenged.
In Florida, DeSantis mainly did the "Die" part -- with Covid death rates both raw and per capita far exceeding any other state since vaccinations were widely available. DeSantis to New Hampshire voters: I’ll bring ‘Live Free or Die’ motto to White House https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...re-voters-live-free-or-die-motto-white-house/
Maybe Lil' Ron should not have f@cked with the Mouse. Ron DeSantis launched his White House run by bashing Disney—but his ‘foolish fatal error’ has given CEO Bob Iger the last laugh https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ron-desantis-launched-white-house-131955438.html Ron DeSantis ended his campaign for the White House on Sunday, and it may very well be his well-publicized feud with Disney that fatally wounded him in the crucial run-up to Iowa. The Florida governor first rose to nationwide prominence with his state's push to limit discussion of sex education and gender identity in schools. But it was his clumsy attempt to strip Disneyworld of its special status under state law as punishment for Disney employees speaking out against the bill that cost him vital donor support in the latter half of last year. “DeSantis made a fatal error. His whole anti-Disney, anti-corporate stance is so foolish,” said Kathy Wylde, CEO of a trade organization that represents Wall Street executives, in comments to Politico. “He’s totally alienated the business community.” Even as Bob Iger branded DeSantis “anti-business”—a difficult stance to take when vying for support among free-market Republicans—the Disney CEO still attempted to build a face-saving off-ramp for the governor, only to be rejected. The two sides are now fully enmeshed in lawsuits and counter-lawsuits. Disney, which owns everything from Disneyworld and Marvel Studios to free-to-air TV network ABC, couldn’t be reached by Fortune for comment. Disillusioned by his bitter feud against Disney that failed to chip support away from Donald Trump, wealthy Republican party contributors deserted DeSantis for Nikki Haley, robbing the governor of his favored status as Trump’s chief challenger. In a watershed moment that ensconced her as the rising star, Haley crowed at December’s fourth Republican debate that opponents like DeSantis were “just jealous” she was now in donors’ good graces. By that point, the Florida governor already had to defend his repeated attacks against Iger and Disney on Fox News, the conservative cable news channel. “I have consistently proven that I will do what I think is right, regardless of what donors say,” said DeSantis, citing as proof his eagerness to attack his state’s single largest employer. No path to the nomination DeSantis dropped out of the Republican presidential nominee race after placing a distant second in Iowa having invested all his resources on a stronger finish in the Hawkeye State. Trump instead swept almost all 99 counties with his only loss by a literal one vote in Johnson County. The road ahead looked unhospitable as well. DeSantis trailed Haley by a large margin in New Hampshire and had little hope of beating her in her home state of South Carolina, the next two state contests. Once briefly the presumed frontrunner following his crushing gubernatorial victory in November 2022, DeSantis chose to wait long after Trump and Haley entered the race to finally declare his intention to run for the nation’s highest office. When he finally confirmed in May his campaign during a live Twitter Space hosted by Elon Musk, interest was so great the site kept crashing under the weight of traffic. But after launching to such promise, his campaign all but fizzled out by year’s end. Alongside Haley, the only ones likely smiling now are Disney and Iger.
DeSantis wants to send his Brownshirts to other states. Revived by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida State Guard could get go-ahead outside state https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/...state-guard-could-get-go-ahead-outside-state/