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The #fascist fool DeSantis is so interested in having his picture taken he did not notice the #snowflakes design is the word, fascist over and over again #FascistFool #desantisfascist

The GOP wants power and control and they have little use for, or love of, democracy. They want to dumb down the electorate so they are easier to manipulate. Underfunding education, or using vouchers to siphon money away from public schools, or changing the curriculum so people won't be educated enough to understand how they are being used or what is the actual historical context. DeSantis is a small man who wants all the power to always get his way and lavish rewards on his obscenely wealthy donors and the fundamentalists that support him. Fortunately for us, he has zero charisma, doesn't play well outside Florida and has no real strategy to become an effective dictator.

New op-ed sarcastically shatters Ron DeSantis' accelerating mission to 'make Florida dumb' - Alternet.org https://www.alternet.org/ron-desantis-make-florida-dumb/

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"A new op-ed is taking aim at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) describing his political initiatives as efforts to "make Florida dumb."

According to HuffPost, the piece was inspired by DeSantis' recent press conference where he announced a proposal to prohibit the teaching of an AP African American studies course due to "queer theory" and prison abolition being included in the curriculum.

The governor argued that excluding the course would save children from being subjected to "a political agenda."

"We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think, but we don't believe they should have an agenda imposed on them. When you try to use Black history to shoehorn in queer theory, you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes," DeSantis explained.

In response to DeSantis' arguments, HuffPost's Michael Arceneaux did not mince words offering a critical perspective of the Republican governor.

"DeSantis is not an especially talented politician. He has very little charm, even fewer skills as an orator, and whether his fans care to admit it or not, he is largely foreseen as a successor to Donald Trump solely because he is the only decent knockoff of the real thing readily available.'"

He added, "Still, for what he lacks as a politician, DeSantis, like Trump, is a shameless bigot willing to punish communities for headlines — and there is constant reason to worry about how much damage a politician like that can cause."

Arceneaux went on to explain how DeSantis has used bigotry to promote and advance his political platform.

"DeSantis, like many of the aspiring Republican presidential nominees before him, has turned to bigotry to gain a national following, hence him treating queer and trans people as political pawns," he wrote.

Arceneaux's op-ed comes weeks after DeSantis also faced criticism from the College Board over his decision to take aim at the African American studies course.

"There is always debate about the content of a new AP course," the board wrote on Feb. 12. "That is good and healthy; these courses matter. But the dialogue surrounding AP African American Studies has moved from healthy debate to misinformation."

While the attack on the course is DeSantis' latest ploy, Arceneaux also explained why it is particularly problematic.

"DeSantis' attack on AP Black studies is the latest stunt of a familiar con, but the problem has now spread as other Republican governors — some with their own higher political aspirations — have taken cues from the Florida governor and are now targeting Black studies," he wrote.

Arceneaux concluded with cautionary advice about what could go wrong by enabling a man like DeSantis.

"It is a dangerous power to give to someone as small-minded as Ron DeSantis," Arceneaux warned, "and if he's granted it, the strategy will likely be replicated, and we are going to become a much dumber country because of it."'

So many republican pundits and consultants have been marketing DeSantis as the GOP solution to Trump's weakness. Desperately wanting to find a solution, and actually finding one, are two very different things. DeSantis, despite all his intense fascist posing, is so not ready for primetime and probably never will be.

Ron DeSantis, potential GOP standard-bearer, sounds out of his depth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/23/desantis-fox-news-ukraine-criticism-incoherent/

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"Apparently no one told Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that if you’re going to wade into the deep waters of foreign policy, you should at least know how to dog paddle.

It turns out that the man many Republicans hope can run for president in 2024 as “Donald Trump without the baggage” is like a deer in headlights when asked, very politely, about the war in Ukraine. It’s not just that he’s unready for prime time. He can’t even handle “Fox & Friends.”

Appearing this week on that GOP-friendly morning show, DeSantis tried to take a Trumpist “America First” position about the war — questioning the level of U.S. military and economic aid President Biden and Congress have given to Ukraine while there are problems that need to be addressed here at home. He ended up sounding weak, ill-informed and incoherent.

I’m old enough to remember when it would have been out of bounds to criticize a U.S. president when he was on foreign soil — and unthinkable when the commander in chief was in a war zone. As DeSantis spoke, Biden was meeting in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, having endured a 10-hour train ride from the Polish border under threat of potential attack by Russian missiles.

But that was then, this is now. While what is left of the Republican establishment praised Biden’s bold gesture, the ascendant faux-populist wing of the party complained about Biden supposedly — all together, now — caring more about Ukraine’s borders than he cares about our own. This is worse than an apples-to-oranges comparison; more like apples-to-orangutans. But that’s where DeSantis went, claiming that “while he’s over there,” Biden has “not done anything to secure our own border here at home.”

For the record, it is not necessary to believe Biden’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border crisis has been optimal, or even adequate, to support a policy of helping Ukraine defend itself against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal and unprovoked war of conquest. DeSantis must know this. I doubt his professors at Yale University and Harvard Law School let him get away with such sloppy thinking.

But imagine, for a moment, how his words must have brightened Putin’s day. His dream would be for Trump, who treated Putin the way a fanboy stans his idol, to return to the White House in January 2025. But to hear Trump’s principal (but still unannounced) opponent for the GOP nomination taking the isolationist line? That can give Putin only more reason to stay the course — keep bombing Ukrainian hospitals, playgrounds and power stations; keep murdering children and grandmothers — for two more years.

DeSantis was announcing his weakness, not just to Putin but also to China’s Xi Jinping, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and the mullahs in Iran. And in the same interview, DeSantis also showed that he either has not been paying attention to what is happening in Ukraine or does not understand what he has been seeing.
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Perhaps the dumbest thing DeSantis said, though, was to imply that the war was basically no big deal. “The fear of Russia going into NATO countries and all that and steamrolling, you know, that has not even come close to happening,” he said. Now, why might that be? Maybe because the United States and NATO showed strength in coming to Ukraine’s aid. Maybe Russia now looks like what DeSantis called a “third-rate military power” because Western arms and intelligence helped Ukrainian forces decimate the Russian military, destroying perhaps half of its tanks.

DeSantis’s performance was bad on every level. Still, I can’t wait to hear what he has to say when someone informs him, psst, that Russia has a whole bunch of nuclear weapons."

from Arctic Friend
The Rich “secretly” plot to help Ron DeSantis become President.
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from Badd Company
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