Well put, Governor DeSantis
There’s no room in our classrooms for things like Critical Race Theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.”
The New Neo
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Until the indoctrinators posing as ‘educators’ and their unions face grave economic and legal consequence, Gov. de Santis’ words are effectively “pissing into the wind”.
I feel about DeSantis like Lincoln said about Grant when other complained about him.
“I can’t get rid of him…he fights”
Also when Grant’s distractors said he was a drunkard Lincoln asked what brand of whiskey he drank so he can send a cask to the other Union Generals.
I also feel the same way about Marjorie Taylor Greene. Ignore the media narrative about her. The Deep State is scared of her. That is why they are trying to marginalize her.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/11/nails-it-representative-marjorie-taylor-greene-discusses-the-uniparty-process-in-washington-dc-as-an-economic-system/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/15/military-as-a-tool-democrats-march-willing-military-troops-into-capitol-to-intimidate-civilian-representative/
No room at all.
Hear, hear.
The 47th President? One can only hope.
Its early days yet. We can hope that he can weather what more the Dems will throw at him.
The GOPe hates Greene and Boebert for the same reasons they hated all the Tea Party Conservative candidates: they were speaking for the people.
That’s how they got Trump.
Just Imagine — if the RNC had actually helped the Tea Party groups find and develop really good candidates, instead of boosting the Democrats instead.
Our Colorado grandchildren had a special web-class last week in the CRT vein.
It wasn’t as bad as feared, but we are making contingency plans for pulling them out and homeschooling.
I’m too old for this.
The very designation “critical race theory” should not be accepted without commas. This is an opportunistic combination of words where “theory” has a very dubious presence and probably even less value.
Some people are so incredibly…creative!
https://twitter.com/tacobelltokyo3/status/1372401384000217088
H/T Ron Coleman twitter feed.
Expect a major oppo campaign against DeSantis… He’s way too dangerous for Harris in 2024.
I’d be happy to see Trump run again, but he may not be up for it. (I couldn’t blame him.)
It’s good to have a bench.
Great. Now to the implementation.
An example to many.
This is exactly what we need. DeSantis fights, but he fights smart.
Trump was incapable of explaining or defending his anti-CRT executive order to anyone who didn’t already understand CRT. DeSantis just accomplished what Trump couldn’t with two sentences and barely more than 25 words. Brilliant.
Let’s see if DeSantis can get results now. I hope so. I also hope the failure of Democrats to pin anything on him so far means that he doesn’t have any skeletons in his closet.
I was not sure how effective Gov. DeSantis would be when he got elected. But I knew that our other choice being pumped up by the media, Andrew Gillum, was a mess and a complete media hope/hype (as was Stacy Abrams in Georgia at the same time.) But in his first months, before covid even hit, DeSantis was doing some great things including trying to work with the minority communities- focusing on education in our state. Something I’ve always felt is the slow hanging curve ball that Republicans somehow keep missing. Fix public education in every state and focus on improving the opportunities of kids in minority communities. Democrats have utterly failed in this for decades. They actually keep making it worse, letting the Teachers Unions run the thing like a treasure chest. Republicans keep ignoring it, or just tossing words at it and hoping for the best. DeSantis was actually trying to focus on it, work on it. Then covid hit and he had other things to focus on. But he has shined in this state. If you don’t love what he’s done here, you’re just a partisan who loves Party above reality. His focus and abilities would be a huge win for the nation at large. And, one other thing. He’s served in Congress. So he knows how the slime machine works.
I think we (in general) are still missing who the two sides in this struggle actually are. It isn’t really Democrats vs Republicans. It’s Progressives (which includes all Democrats and probably 70% of the Republicans) vs Constitutional Republicans (which probably includes the majority of the Tea Party and a few odd Republicans here and there). The term “Conservatives” is pretty useless. Most Conservatives are philosophical Progressives.
I think we need a new political party.
Waidmann
The knives, guns and clubs will be unleashed to destroy DeSantis and Krisiti Noem.
The left has gained much experience over the last four years and have a much better idea of which methods will work best.
Get ready for “anonymous” news reports, the appearance of “secret” video/audio recordings, accusers coming forward claiming all sorts of inappropriate behaviour, “reporters” jumping into garbage bins seeking defamatory information on the two, FBI using court “approved” phone taps to spy on the two, etc.
As before, about 50% of the American citizens / voters will believe all of it.
When it’s all said and done, DeSantis will be Hitler and Noem will be Eva Braun.
The bottom line is that about half of all voters are simply clueless; they vote based on what they are fed and they just believe what they hear. They make zero effort to actually think for themselves. If they are told so-and-so is Hitler, poof, Hitler has arisen from the dead.
If DeSantis and Noem are or will be the walking dead once the propaganda arm of the demokrat party (i.e., the media) gets done with them.
Thought this article pretty good:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/16/until-lambs-become-lions/
Increasingly, the Democrat Party is becoming the Hate America First Party. It seems to be their first impulse.
Nancy B – I read that article and agree it is really good. Also I can recommend the following too.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/the_sovereign_crime_of_industrial_scale_vote_fraud.html
Also I cannot recommend enough this podcast of the People’s Pundit. The first hour and 15 minutes are worth a listen in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfvPPFP-FDQ&ab_channel=People%27sPunditDaily
Waidmann:
I know plenty of Democrat voters who aren’t progressives. But they vote for progressives, reflexively.
Newmanian:
If I’m not mistaken, DeSantis also tightened up the voting rules in Florida prior to November 2020.
Initially, DeSantis’ win over his corrupt opponent was extremely narrow, which is very sobering.
“It isn’t really Democrats vs Republicans. It’s Progressives (which includes all Democrats and probably 70% of the Republicans) vs Constitutional Republicans (which probably includes the majority of the Tea Party and a few odd Republicans here and there).” Waidman
All democrat voters are not progressives, demonstrated by a poll in which 40% of those who self-identify as “strongly liberal “still take pride in being an American. Of course, that was a few years ago and that percentage is declining as those holding that POV shuffle off their mortal coil.
But for arguments sake, if your figures are valid then 30% of republicans are not enough voters to effect change.
4 term Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards moto …
“Never get caught win bed with a dead woman … or a live boy … it will ruin your career!”
Andrew Gillum was caught with a live boy and still almost won. How times have changed.
jack:
For what it’s worth, Gillum’s “live boy” happened after the election, I believe.
The live boy was a prostitute, equipped with crystal meth. Of course, the police regarded the sh!tfaced Gillum with the utmost charity and never busted him for possession, even though little baggies of the stuff were scattered all over the room. Membership has its privileges.
We have a maddening shirt-tail in Duval County who was in the fall of 2018 running his yap on Fakebook about what a criminal DeSantis was and how could people vote for him in lieu of this great guy who is black (yes, he was that explicit). I look up Gillum’s biography. He’s a Tallahassee pol approaching middle age whose entire adult job history has consisted of elected offices and political staff jobs. No one of sense wants such a person in public office even when they’re not taking a vacation from their family by snorting meth and buggering body-building hustlers.
I’m using “Progressive” in its historical sense. Progressives don’t believe that history is linear, they believe it is evolutionary, in the sense that man is improving over time (hence the word “Progress”). They don’t accept that people have certain “rights” granted to them by “nature and nature’s God”, as spelled out in the Declaration of Independence. They believe that our “rights” as spelled out in our Constitution are actually “permissions'” bestowed on us by the State–which, of course, the State can revoke if they wish. Hence, the constant limitations being imposed on the 1st and 2nd Amendments. They do not believe, for example, that we, the people, have a “right” to bear and keep arms. They believe that owning firearms is a “permission” that the State grants to some and denies others based on whatever the State decides.
Neo, are you sure that those Democratic voters you know aren’t actually Progressive? That they wouldn’t agree that owning a firearm is not a “right”, but a “permission”. That the right of the people to peaceably assembly isn’t actually a permission granted by the State? They might not agree on which “permissions” should be granted to the people, but they would agree that the State does have the right to grant permissions to some whom the State decides are in some way trustworthy and deny it to others?
Geoffrey+Britain, “taking pride in being an American” is irrelevant. If you hold the belief that mankind is improving, and that our government is better than those than came before, even if it isn’t perfect yet, and that we will continue to improve once we’ve eliminated racism, poverty and etc, then you are a Progressive. The rest is simply arguing about details. However, you are correct about the 30%. But, you gotta start somewhere. In the late 1960s, which I remember quite well, it was fewer than 30% that dedicated themselves to undermining the American Constitution. Yet, 60 years later, they are in the majority. Then they despised people like me, and the feeling was reciprocated. Nothing has changed. They still despise me and I still despise them. Only, now I have a name: Deplorable. Thanks, Hillary.
And we need to recognize what the debate is about. Do I have a God-given “right” to anything, or is everything a “permission” granted to me by the State? If it’s a permission, then you are a Progressive. And we vote for whomever gives is the most permission that we want.
No, we need a new political party that will stand for the Constitution and its understanding of “rights” vs “permissions”.
Waidmann
According to the Woke crowd CRT is the philosophical underpinning of the “real” history of the US. It started with Thanksgiving being hated by returning college kids for the holidays then it moved to targeting grade school kids to think Christopher Columbus was a very bad man. Now it’s spreading the Gospel of Color that America is a very, very bad country. It’s trickle down academia.