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Abuse is no substitute for debate but then I guess that's why you posted this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
No, I posted it because I thought the "Pudding fingers" chant was funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
""Put parties aside," Pittman said. "A bullet don't know a party.""Quote:
Originally Posted by Fitzcarraldo
But the Party -the Republican Party knows the bullets -the ones that explode inside the body that have been sanctioned for sale to the public, that fit into an AR-15 or any other weapon of human destruction. Just as Governor De Santis has not placed any limits on the ammo that can do blotto on a human, just as a 74 year-old man in Florida can marry a 14 year-old girl, it is all legal until someone does something.
Or does nothin'. If he can't be recalled, maybe he should resign as Governor to focus on what he wants most -the White House.
I don't think Florida has recall provisions, but DeSantis won a decisive victory in his last campaign. He has a lot of the white vote, and for some reason a significant number of Hispanic voters (mainly the Cubans) are drawn to fascist candidates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
His campaign is going to be inconvenienced by a hurricane for at least the rest of the week. Of course he just ignored the terrible flooding in Fort Lauderdale a few months back, so who can say?
There is a 'roomer' that he is going to drop out of the race. But the claim came from the owner of Pravda Sozial, using leeks he got from Florida'a secret police, or the Gazpacho, as the Cubists call them.
De Santis and 'freedom of speech' -and how he reacts to a 15-year old asking awkward questions- suggesting there is a price to pay for making The Governor look feeble....
Ron DeSantis Is Afraid of Questions From a 15-Year-Old (yahoo.com)
Also, click the link to Chris Christie's response to it on CNN. But remind me, wasn't Christie angling for a job in Trump's White House before Kushner blocked it?
Yes Chris Christie sure was,can't anything he says serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
There is a lot to unpack here: on the one hand the in-your-face reality about Race in the US, on the other hand, the claim by Republicans that the boundaries of Congressional Districts be 'blind' to Race, when the outcome of a new boundary is to not only reduce Black representation, but to all but guarantee the Republicans have the majority they crave.
That said, if politics was not so sectarian, both major parties would be appealing for votes to all voters. The system itself appears to create the very problems that re-districting cannot address when the boundaries are drawn by a party acting in its self-interest, rather than in the broader interests of Democracy. And while it may be true that most Black Americans vote Democrat, do Black Republicans welcome the outcome of the slice and dice tactics of De Santis, to give them the -presumably- White Representative they want or either way are going to get?
Consider this from Chief Justice Roberts-
"“When it comes to considering race in the context of districting, we have made clear that there is a difference ‘between being aware of racial considerations and being motivated by them’,” chief justice John Roberts wrote for a five-justice majority. “The former is permissible; the latter is usually not.”"
But didn't Roberts lead the campaign to dismantle the 1965 Voting Rights Act motivated by Race, indeed, is it possible for any aspect of Race in American politics not to be shaped by 'Motivations' on whichever side?
I don't think so. They should come out with the naked truth: Stop Black People Voting. Because that in the end is what they want.
DeSantis eyes revoking constitutional safeguard for Florida’s Black voters | US news | The Guardian