Can someone explain how DeSantis ever wins?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

Same here. The fact that the MSM tries to demonize him and criticize him, but in the end..... his positions and his policies are winning ones tells you everything you need to know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

Same here. The fact that the MSM tries to demonize him and criticize him, but in the end..... his positions and his policies are winning ones tells you everything you need to know.

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Just read an article last week saying that FL is the state growing the fastest both in absolute and relative terms.

Not sure if the state will be able to house half the country, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

Same here. The fact that the MSM tries to demonize him and criticize him, but in the end..... his positions and his policies are winning ones tells you everything you need to know.

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Just read an article last week saying that FL is the state growing the fastest both in absolute and relative terms.

Not sure if the state will be able to house half the country, though.

The article:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/22/florida-population-growth-census-00075199

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

He did.

He implemented very similar policies to most EU countries.

The real mystery is how the blue states got it so wrong. Aren't they supposed to be more educated or something?

Then why does Florida have one of the highest excess death rates in the country in the last 2 years? You call that a success???

Those charts seem to show DC and MA have the highest excess death rates in the country in the last 2 years?

In any case, regarding Fl, deaths per capita are around middle of the table, which is quite a feat given it has the oldest population around. Much older than DC and MA for example.

NP. You are reading the chart incorrectly. Further RIGHT = more vaccinations, further UP = more deaths.

Florida is still middle of the pack. It’s not an outlier at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

Are you looking at any of his policies outside of culture war and COVID stuff? The Florida property insurance market is collapsing on his watch and the only thing he pleaded was that the insurance companies wait to withdraw from the market until after the 2022 election. He did not opt into the Medicaid expansion and as a result, there is a huge problem with uninsured seeking medical care in Florida. He has no solutions for increased intensity of climate change on Florida's coasts. If you look at his "landslide" win, I think it's a bit misleading since there has been a massive influx of Republicans from the Northeast and Midwest (many looking to escape sensible COVID policies during and after the pandemic and found a state that didn't require mask mandates). That and combined with natural migration of retirees from places with good jobs but higher taxes and costs of living to places with better climates and lower taxes. I wouldn't read too much into his win since Florida is a bit of an outlier because of this.

This is what loses my vote.
More than anything else. He is all bluster and bullying.
No ideas.

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Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

He did.

He implemented very similar policies to most EU countries.

The real mystery is how the blue states got it so wrong. Aren't they supposed to be more educated or something?

Then why does Florida have one of the highest excess death rates in the country in the last 2 years? You call that a success???

Those charts seem to show DC and MA have the highest excess death rates in the country in the last 2 years?

In any case, regarding Fl, deaths per capita are around middle of the table, which is quite a feat given it has the oldest population around. Much older than DC and MA for example.

NP. You are reading the chart incorrectly. Further RIGHT = more vaccinations, further UP = more deaths.

Florida is still middle of the pack. It’s not an outlier at all.

AND it has a much older population than say CA or NY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All he has to do is win the R primary and then be not-Biden if things go south on his watch.

“if” things go south?!?!

What does the sky look like in your world? Are the clouds paisley? Is the sky plaid?

[Anonymous]

My Trump loving father doesn't like him and thinks he should step aside for Trump. He's actually pretty p*ssed at Fox and the RW media for promoting DeSantis so much. I'm sure he would vote for him if he won the nomination, but he's voting Trump in the primary.

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Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

He did.

He implemented very similar policies to most EU countries.

The real mystery is how the blue states got it so wrong. Aren't they supposed to be more educated or something?

Florida benefited from the rest of the country not traveling there for tourism, cruises, etc. during the pandemic and all the old people on Medicare listening to their doctors and isolating and then getting the vaccines. Florida wasn’t really more open than most other places. He just talked shit but schools and businesses and most people took precautions because they aren’t all morons.

Exactly. They took precautions, so they could safely OPEN. Which they were able to do thanks to DeSantis, who fought the Dem-fuelled nonsense going on in so many blue states.

I guess Dem Governors think that schools and businesses and most people ARE morons.

You are delusional. Democrats as a group didn’t close anything. Local governments and schools and businesses made their own decisions everywhere based on their communities and employees and customers interests. Desantis took the side of obnoxious idiots against local officials. He butted in where he had no authority, as always.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

Same here. The fact that the MSM tries to demonize him and criticize him, but in the end..... his positions and his policies are winning ones tells you everything you need to know.

+2

Just read an article last week saying that FL is the state growing the fastest both in absolute and relative terms.

Not sure if the state will be able to house half the country, though.

The article:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/22/florida-population-growth-census-00075199

Boomers accelerated their retirements. Florida gained a little more population. Who could have seen that coming? Desantis must be a miracle worker. /s

[Anonymous]

Would Trump endorse DeSantis and walk away quietly if he lost?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would Trump endorse DeSantis and walk away quietly if he lost?

Not without promises of money and pardons.

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Anonymous wrote:I really started paying attention to DeSantis when he basically got everything right during the pandemic.

Ever since then, I haven't seen him do anything I disagree with. If he gets the nomination, I'm 100% going to vote for him.

He did.

He implemented very similar policies to most EU countries.

The real mystery is how the blue states got it so wrong. Aren't they supposed to be more educated or something?

Florida benefited from the rest of the country not traveling there for tourism, cruises, etc. during the pandemic and all the old people on Medicare listening to their doctors and isolating and then getting the vaccines. Florida wasn’t really more open than most other places. He just talked shit but schools and businesses and most people took precautions because they aren’t all morons.

Exactly. They took precautions, so they could safely OPEN. Which they were able to do thanks to DeSantis, who fought the Dem-fuelled nonsense going on in so many blue states.

I guess Dem Governors think that schools and businesses and most people ARE morons.

You are delusional. Democrats as a group didn’t close anything. Local governments and schools and businesses made their own decisions everywhere based on their communities and employees and customers interests. Desantis took the side of obnoxious idiots against local officials. He butted in where he had no authority, as always.

And, those were democratically controlled governments.
And, as governor..... DeSantis did what his residents wanted. No mandates. And, he had every authority to do that.

[Anonymous]

He’s disloyal,
He’s very disloyal.
Ron DeSanctimonious,
So sanctimonious.

He closed Florida,
Completely closed it,
With the so-called Covid,
And it was a disgrace.

So we’ll have to see,
We’ll have to see what happens.

[Anonymous]

WTF is wrong with DeSantis? He's exempting gas stoves from sales tax but NOT electric stoves?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ron-desantis-likely-presidential-candidate-pushes-ban-on-florida-sales-tax-for-gas-appliances-11675287926

So electric stoves are "woke liberal bullshit" now or something? LOTS of people have electric stoves. Many of us don't have gas hookups, many of us live in apartments where there are only outlets for electric stoves.

This is complete idiocy on his part. He is absolutely deranged with these games he's playing.