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Post by mollycoddle on Apr 27, 2023 22:33:47 GMT
I'm not a fan of DeSantis or Christie, but I actually agree with Christie. DeSantis seems very short sighted with his fight against Disney and in terms of his presidential ambitions. He might be winning over Trump fans, but his extreme abortion bill will not help him in a general election. I would not trust the presidency with someone who is only interested in short term goals and doesn't seem to be playing a long game. For someone who is supposed to be Trump 2.0 without all of the baggage, DeSantis's tendency towards retaliation against political enemies is really alarming, too. Not just Disney, but he also managed to fire a prosecutor that he didn't like. There was a clip of him chastising high school students who were wearing masks. I imagine DeSantis has a temper that rivals that of Trump. There are a couple of mysteries surrounding DeSantis, too. Where did he disappear around Christmas 2021? Did he have covid? And where was he on 9/11? He's 44, so he would have been 22 at the time. 9/11 was a defining moment. He most likely remembers but doesn't want to say. He had just graduated from college and was teaching at a private high school in Georgia. It doesn't fit into his narrative of attacking schools and colleges as liberal institutions indoctrinating our children. Nor do his degrees from both Harvard and Yale but that would be harder to hide. The sheer amount of unbridled belligerence beggars belief. I agree that he does not have the type of personality needed for POTUS. He is waaay too thin-skinned. Now I am hearing Republicans talk about Kennedy and Ramaswamy.
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Post by hop2 on Apr 28, 2023 0:33:30 GMT
Ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂🤣 Chris Christie is the king of being petty. ( Bridgegate ) But he is also the king of there not being any direct evidence linking any payback to him. Pot meet Kettle, Kettle meet Pot I don’t deny Bridgegate and I'm certainly not defending his involvement, but you’ve conflated my comment with that of Christie’s. Christie is not the one saying DeSantis is petty. I am the one who said DeSantis is petty. What Christie was referring to is not pettiness, but DeSantis’ failure to foresee Disney's pushback ("...seeing around the corner"). Meaning if you do not have the requisite foresight, how can you effectively negotiate with perceived threats like China and Russia. I know you are saying Desantis is petty. He is. I’m saying being petty is rather common in the GOP especially those with presidential aspirations, among other undesirable traits. But I did infer that Christie meeting Desantis is the pot meeting the kettle, so I see I wasn’t clear. Christie only foresees enough of the consequences to prevent them from being his problem. Those around him can take the hit. That he has in common with Trump. Throw anyone else under the bus.
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Post by aj2hall on May 2, 2023 13:14:18 GMT
DeSantis may have shot himself in the foot with his book. He admits to attacking Disney. And if internal emails are revealed, those will probably show that his actions were retaliation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/02/ron-desantis-disney-lawsuit-wokeness-donald-trump-2024/All of this shows how hollow these right-wing theatrical exercises have become. When you start with the thrills you hope to inspire in the Fox News audience and build policy around that, the results tend to collapse once the lack of a real policy rationale becomes widely understood. If quotes from DeSantis’s own memoir lead to another such implosion, it would represent a spectacular and richly deserved form of political justice.
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