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PolitiFact tweaks the meanings of words in order to slap Ron DeSantis with another ‘False’ ruling​

Just so you know how serious and careful and thorough PolitiFact is with their fact-checks, this particular one cites the sad case of Amanda Gorman’s poem being moved to a different spot in a school library.

Here’s the final ruling:

DeSantis said, “There’s not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.”
His argument hinges on county school districts, and not the state, deciding which books to remove or restrict. But school districts are making book decisions to comply with state law.
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A press release from DeSantis said in March that 23 districts had removed 175 titles, which contradicts his argument that not a single book was banned.
We rate this statement False.

Not even Partly False. Or Mostly False. Just straight-up False.

 

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Ron DeSantis Shouts Down Protester: ‘We’re Not Gonna Let You Impose an Agenda on Our Kids’​

Indeed, DeSantis’s administration essentially put the issue of pornography in schools on full display in March, addressing what has been dubbed the “book ban hoax.” His administration displayed some of the sexually explicit material found in schools during a press conference, and some of it was so explicit that some members of the media reportedly cut their feeds during the presentation. One book, Flamer by Mike Curato, features a section “where a group of boys masturbate together and are pressured to ejaculate into a bottle.” That book was found in Broward, Collier, Hillsborough, Marion, Seminole, and Volusia County schools.

The presentation highlighted several other instances of sexually explicit material as well.

As Breitbart News detailed:

The presentation also featured the graphic book Let’s Talk About It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships,and Being a Human, which some have already considered to be pornographic in nature. The book was removed from Broward County schools, as Breitbart News detailed. Regardless, this book offers graphic depictions of how to masturbate “while also including an entire section for anal sex,” as the narrator detailed. It also contains sections on how to “sext” and considers virginity something that “just doesn’t work anymore in today’s world.” This book contains several graphic depictions of male and female genitalia, which the presentation also showed.
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“‘Home Body’ says masturbation is meditation and speaks about how the writer wants someone to look me in the eyes when you’re down there eating for your life,” the narrator noted as the presentation also highlighted Gender Queer which was found in Orange, St. Lucie, and Hillsborough county schools.
It is a “graphic novel depicting masturbation and encouraging trans surgery by equating the scars from top surgery — the cutting off a female’s breasts — with a tattoo,” the narrator added as the presentation ultimately asked, “If you can’t discuss these books in a school board meeting, how are they appropriate for children?”

 

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'Why so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter?' Ron DeSantis tears into DOJ as his 2024 rival is hit with seven federal charges - but stops short of saying he would pardon him​

• DeSantis defended Trump against the 'weaponized' Department of Justice
• Asked why federal prosecutors weren't pursuing Hillary Clinton or Hunter Biden
• READ MORE: A timeline of the classified documents probe that led to indictment

 

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A Twitter account called DeSantis War Room shared a video showing several images of Trump and Fauci, three of which depicted Trump hugging and kissing Fauci on the face with the caption “REAL LIFE TRUMP,” suggesting a close relationship.

“Donald Trump became a household name by FIRING countless people *on television.* But when it came to Fauci …,” the DeSantis War Room account said in the tweet.

However, the three images showing Trump hugging and kissing Fauci were later identified as fake and AI-generated by AFP Fact Check.

“These images contain many signs indicating that they were AI-generated,” Matthew Stamm, an associate professor at Drexel University who specializes in detecting falsified images and videos, told AFP.

DeSantis Campaign Uses AI Deepfakes in Attack Ad Against Trump, Prompting Backlash

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and his 2024 presidential campaign have come under criticism for using fake images generated with artificial intelligence (AI) depicting former President Donald T...

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Do Any Republicans Really Think DeSantis Won’t Get Impeached Or Framed By The FBI?​

After these last seven years, how can anyone not expect that any Republican who questions the unelected, Congress-defying security state won’t get the Trump treatment? If they can and will do it to Trump, they can and will do it to Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Robert Kennedy Jr., and anyone else who threatens their power. (Clueless candidates like Mike Pence and Nikki Haley don’t.)

Remember, even ineffective, regime-pleasing nice guys Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were cast as a dog torturer and grandma murderer. But standard media smear operations pale in comparison to media functioning as a security state propaganda tool to frame dissidents for treason.





Any Republicans who think the security state wouldn’t frame others the same way it has Trump are in denial about the evidence repeatedly stampeded across their eyeballs for seven years. This means if D.C. Republicans want any president but Trump, their only ticket to that outcome is fighting back good and hard against his relentless persecution.

If the law is not equally applied to all, it turns into a weapon for injustice. If the powerful can break constitutional norms about legal equality for one man, they can — and will — break constitutional norms about legal equality for anyone else they want.

 

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Space Force Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt last week, during a Pentagon Pride Month ceremony, blasted “anti-LGBTQ+” legislation as “dangerous” for service members. She and other speakers were referring to laws such as one DeSantis signed in Florida to prevent teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation with children in kindergarten through third grade, as well as laws banning kids from attending drag queen shows.

Burt said:

Transformational cultural change requires leadership from the top and we do not have time to wait. Since January of this year, more than 400 anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been introduced at the state level. That number is rising and demonstrates a trend that could be dangerous for service members, their families, and the readiness of the force as a whole.

She then said she discriminated against airmen for assignments due to those laws.

When I look at potential candidates, say for Squadron command, I strive to match the right person to the right job. I consider their job performance and relevant experience first. However, I also look at their personal circumstances. And their family is also an important factor. If a good match for a job does not feel safe being themselves and performing at their highest potential at a given location or if their family could be denied critical health care due to the laws in that state. I am compelled to consider a different candidate and perhaps less qualified.

DeSantis Campaign Slams Space Force General Discriminating Against Floridian Troops Due to Laws Banning Trans Surgeries on Kids

The Ron DeSantis campaign slammed a Space Force lieutenant general who admitted that she discriminated against qualified service members for military assignments if she believed they or their family would not be "safe" being stationed in a state with "anti-LGBTQ" laws, such as in Florida.

www.breitbart.com

 

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Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) might be Patient Zero for a new condition: DeSantis Derangement Syndrome. Newsom is in many ways the Bizarro DeSantis — governing a state with an enviable climate and incredible natural beauty. And just as DeSantis is fighting many of his state’s political wars from the right side of the aisle, Newsom hits from the opposite side.

While Newsom has aimed his arrows at other red states — with billboards hyping the “freedom” of California as well as the state’s abortion tourism industry — he particularly loves to go after DeSantis and Florida. He even bought ad time on television in the Sunshine State encouraging Floridians to move West to experience life the Newsom way.

At a press conference after signing a bill into law, DeSantis took on Newsom directly and brutally. He began by detailing the plight of the Tarnished Golden State. He pointed out that Newsom has “huge problems in his state. I mean, like, huge problems in his state. We all know that. I mean, you see it in San Francisco, you see it in L.A. You see it in the people fleeing.”

DeSantis went on to remind his audience that California’s slow bleed-out hasn’t always been the case.

“California, from its inception, gained population every single year until [Newsom] became governor,” he said. “California was probably the height of opportunity for middle-class Americans for many, many decades. In this country… people were drawn to there, and yet he’s the first governor that’s overseen a massive exodus out of California.”

Ron DeSantis Calls Gavin Newsom Out

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) might be Patient Zero for a new condition: DeSantis Derangement Syndrome. Newsom is in many ways the Bizarro DeSantis — governing a state with an enviable climate and incr...

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Earlier this week, Real Clear Politics ran a story headlined, “EXCLUSIVE: The DeSantis Plan To Wage War on ‘Weaponized’ DOJ.”
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The article reported Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been working for months on plans to tear down and rebuild both the Department of Justice and the FBI, consulting with experts and members of Congress to develop a “Day One” strategy for de-weaponizing the justice system.

Apparently Governor DeSantis has recognized the importance of the Sisyphean job of presenting a coherent, believable plan for how the criminal syndicate inside the U.S government can be brought to heel, if not completely surgically exised. The Governor is consulting with experts, such as Steven Bradbury of the Heritage Foundation and Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, among others.

According to Real Clear Politics, the Governor has privately told his advisors he plans to hire and fire large numbers of federal personnel, reorganize entire agencies, and execute a “disciplined” and “relentless” strategy to restore the Justice Department to a mission more in line with what the “Founding Fathers envisioned.”

The article said that DeSantis has assembled a “brain trust of academics, members of Congress, and former administration officials” to design step-by-step blueprints for tearing the dysfunctional DOJ and FBI down and then building them back up again properly.

☕️ STEAM ☙ Friday, June 16, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Tucker's 4th Twitter episode; gender bender bends back; even more atrocious higher education shenanigans; another conspiracy theory proved; Hersh Proxy War analysis, Joe's water train; and more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

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Earlier this week, Real Clear Politics ran a story headlined, “EXCLUSIVE: The DeSantis Plan To Wage War on ‘Weaponized’ DOJ.”
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The article reported Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been working for months on plans to tear down and rebuild both the Department of Justice and the FBI, consulting with experts and members of Congress to develop a “Day One” strategy for de-weaponizing the justice system.

Apparently Governor DeSantis has recognized the importance of the Sisyphean job of presenting a coherent, believable plan for how the criminal syndicate inside the U.S government can be brought to heel, if not completely surgically exised. The Governor is consulting with experts, such as Steven Bradbury of the Heritage Foundation and Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, among others.

According to Real Clear Politics, the Governor has privately told his advisors he plans to hire and fire large numbers of federal personnel, reorganize entire agencies, and execute a “disciplined” and “relentless” strategy to restore the Justice Department to a mission more in line with what the “Founding Fathers envisioned.”

The article said that DeSantis has assembled a “brain trust of academics, members of Congress, and former administration officials” to design step-by-step blueprints for tearing the dysfunctional DOJ and FBI down and then building them back up again properly.

☕️ STEAM ☙ Friday, June 16, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Tucker's 4th Twitter episode; gender bender bends back; even more atrocious higher education shenanigans; another conspiracy theory proved; Hersh Proxy War analysis, Joe's water train; and more.

www.coffeeandcovid.com

Ron DeHitler I say.

 

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Ron DeSantis Takes On the Accreditation Monopoly​

Under the current system, the allocation of federal funds to colleges for various purposes is not dictated by Congress, but is conditioned upon the college being accredited. The accreditors are not government bodies whose personnel can be hired or fired by the elected government; they are private organizations. Yet, unlike, say, the New York Stock Exchange — whose rules can carry the force of federal law only when approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the FTC has similar schemes for private self-regulatory bodies), federal law prohibits the federal government from setting the accreditation standards. Moreover, the colleges are not free to choose who will accredit them, in the way that a business can hire a bond-rating agency when issuing debt or pick the stock market where it will list its shares. Despite a 2020 rule change under Betsy DeVos aimed at breaking up the regional monopoly of particular accreditors, the Biden administration has been fighting Florida’s plan to switch accreditors for its state universities. In the complaint, filed on behalf of the State of Florida in its capacity as operator of state universities, Florida challenges the DOE’s resistance to the switch under the Administrative Procedures Act.

The complaint goes further: It seeks to declare the entire scheme of accreditor power unconstitutional on the grounds that (1) it delegates lawmaking power to private organizations, (2) it violates the Spending Clause by allowing private regulators to decide who gets federal funds, (3) it violates the Tenth Amendment by unduly coercing the states, and (4) it violates the Appointments Clause because the heads of the accrediting agencies exercise significant de facto federal regulatory power but are neither appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, nor removable by the president.

This structure has attracted significant legal as well as policy criticism. George Leef has covered this debate extensively here at NRO, as the accreditors have increasingly used their leverage to push left-wing ideology on the colleges and professional schools. To the extent that accreditation is intended to provide some sort of government check on fly-by-night for-profit colleges, it makes no sense whatsoever to require it of state universities that are already created and supervised by state governments.

 

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"I think there's kind of a place for everybody in a baseball team if you're willing to work hard if you're willing to practice… I kind of thought it was always a very democratic game, a very meritocratic game," the Florida governor said.

Calling basketball players "incredible athletes," DeSantis said he views them as freaks of nature. However, in baseball, the governor explained how players may not necessarily be the best athletes but possess the skills that allow them to compete at the highest level.

However, in Democrat's eyes, DeSantis focused on the NBA's predominantly all-Black players.

USA Today columnist Mike Freeman decried the governor's remarks, accusing him of pushing pushing "racist tropes" and calling him "one of the most prominent anti-Black politicians alive."

"DeSantis was essentially talking about two leagues, and how the mostly Black one, the NBA, is full of freaky athletes with fast-twitch muscles and apparently not as democratic or meritocratic or whatever-cratic as baseball players," Freeman claimed." Then, according to DeSantis, there's baseball, or the MLB, the mostly white sport, full of OK athletes, but gosh darn, do they work hard and form democracies and meritocratic-ocracies-republics? They're not freaks at all. They're real Americans."

A reporter for The Root, Candace McDuffie, echoed Freeman's "racist trope" comment, claiming DeSantis is encouraging white supremacy in the U.S.

"DeSantis decided to obviously disparage the mostly Black league by relying on a disgustingly racist trope; it has been around for centuries and reduces the value of Black people to their bodies," McDuffie said. "However, the GOP has relished being the party of white supremacy, so the Florida governor's latest remarks check out."

Liberals Meltdown Over DeSantis's NBA So-Called 'Racist' Comment: 'He's Pushing White Supremacy'

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Basketball as a game was never designed to be for 7 foot people.

 

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It's possible that Donald Trump has this race won right now, and the governor is just too dense to see that there's no way things can possibly change in a race against a volatile guy with multiple indictments (frame jobs, BTW) here and coming over the next half a year. But Ron DeSantis is a Roman – Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, to be precise – and he's fighting his fight, not the fight the braying bots demand he fight.

That's where his Fabian Strategy comes in – and full credit to my pal, the great Michael Walsh, for identifying Proconsul Ronulus as harkening back to the old SPQR paradigm. Who was Fabius? He was the guy who refused to lose. That's how the Romans won – they just refused to get a clue and quit. Of course, DeSantis is not in the straits Rome found herself in after they got impatient and stopped listening to Fabius. He's locked in second place behind Trump but ahead of the clown car of wannabes, neverwillbes, and fat people who divide up what's left. He's poised to strike, and his plan requires not that he win right now but simply that he does not lose.

Now, let me take a page from history, which predates 1619, and set the stage. Hannibal hated the Romans from the First Punic War, and in the Second, he crossed the Alps to get at them on their home turf. The Romans thought they would thrash this African barbarian – they were aggressive dudes. They marched north and got promptly crushed at Trebia, then at Lake Trasimene, and then just brutally at Cannae. The common thread was that Rome saw its enemy and went right at him for a decisive fight. This was exactly what Hannibal wanted. He wanted fights on his terms, got them, and after three butt-kickings (read more in Walsh's great book 'Last Stands"), the cream of the Roman elite was in heaps, their legions were annihilated, and the road to Rome lay open.

All seemed lost. Then the Romans turned to Fabius, who refused to fight on Hannibal's terms. As the fecund Romans generated new armies, Fabius denied Hannibal the battle he wanted. He shadowed the Carthaginians, picked at them, but refused to close with them. This drove the bloodthirsty Romans nuts, and when they failed to keep to the Fabian strategy they got crushed again.

Ron DeSantis refuses to close with Trump for now, and that's smart. Sure, he picks at him, just enough to keep him in a tizzy of angry Truths and to enrage the bot armies, but this is not the time for a direct fight with the Orange Man. DeSantis sees that the people who like Trump – and most DeSantis supporters like Trump too – cannot be brow-beaten into supporting a different candidate. They must come to their conclusion on their own – they must decide that while Trump is the victim of the most outrageous government/media conspiracy in American history, he is also the GOP candidate most likely to lose in the general simply because about 53% of Americans irrationally and unreasonably hate him – and worse, those are concentrated in must-win states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. The GOP voters, sick of an establishment telling them what to do, are not about to let anyone tell them anything. So, DeSantis is counting on them coming to the right conclusion on their own. They need time to do that. Time is DeSantis's friend and Trump's enemy. Trump needs to wrap this up before his justifiably furious supporters start running general election scenarios through their heads and figuring out that nominating Trump is re-electing Grandpa Badfinger.

Hence the Fabian strategy.

Stay alive, build up your forces, and wait for the right time to fight. DeSantis need not be the guy who takes on Trump head-to-head. Chris Christie has decided to do that, so let the former Jersey governor waddle into the Octagon and do battle. DeSantis will be building an army of doorknockers in Iowa while Trump – who is allegedly spending money he should be spending on infrastructure on his legal bills – fulminates at his nemesis du jour.

DeSantis Refuses to Lose

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The DeSantis team dropped an extraordinarily powerful ad

By Andrea Widburg

My drumbeat for months now has been that, if the leftist takeover of America is to be stopped before our nation is irreparably damaged, the energy will come from parents. Someone on Team DeSantis understands that and put together one of the best campaign ads I’ve ever seen.

Americans will put up with a lot. Thanks to decades of indoctrination about climate change, they’ve been fairly meek as their standard of living, the highest ever attained in world history, is under perpetual attack. Although they hate the open border, they feel there’s not much they can do about it. They’re divided on Ukraine, but even those who dislike America’s weapons and wealth going there passively grumble. Indeed, for most of the indignities visited on American values, wealth, and traditions since 2008, ordinary Americans put their heads down and, grumbling or not, get on with it.

As part of this adaptability, generosity of spirit, and passivity, Americans have become increasingly receptive to gay rights. In my lifetime, we’ve gone from homosexuality being criminalized to its being celebrated. We were all libertarians who felt that, in a free country, people should be free to love whomever they wish and build the families they desire. When the Supreme Court, in 2015, issued its constitutionally unmoored decision supporting same-sex marriage, conservatives grumbled, but everyone got with the program.

 

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Casey DeSantis will never be president/first lady.

 

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The DeSantis team dropped an extraordinarily powerful ad

By Andrea Widburg

My drumbeat for months now has been that, if the leftist takeover of America is to be stopped before our nation is irreparably damaged, the energy will come from parents. Someone on Team DeSantis understands that and put together one of the best campaign ads I’ve ever seen.

Americans will put up with a lot. Thanks to decades of indoctrination about climate change, they’ve been fairly meek as their standard of living, the highest ever attained in world history, is under perpetual attack. Although they hate the open border, they feel there’s not much they can do about it. They’re divided on Ukraine, but even those who dislike America’s weapons and wealth going there passively grumble. Indeed, for most of the indignities visited on American values, wealth, and traditions since 2008, ordinary Americans put their heads down and, grumbling or not, get on with it.

As part of this adaptability, generosity of spirit, and passivity, Americans have become increasingly receptive to gay rights. In my lifetime, we’ve gone from homosexuality being criminalized to its being celebrated. We were all libertarians who felt that, in a free country, people should be free to love whomever they wish and build the families they desire. When the Supreme Court, in 2015, issued its constitutionally unmoored decision supporting same-sex marriage, conservatives grumbled, but everyone got with the program.

I feel there is much we can do about the open border. In fact Trump did it. First thing we do about open borders is get rid of Democrats in power in this country. I am receptive to LGBTQ living like the rest of us who don't brag on our sexual proclivities. To LGBTQ ---do your thing and STFU about it. I am not accepting at all of calling same sex weddings a Marriage. I am not with that program.

 

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Ron DeSantis' presidential bid is giving life to a struggling Florida Democratic Party​

The Florida governor's inability to close the gap in the polls against Donald Trump has breathed new life into a party that has been stuck in the political wilderness.


The event’s keynote speaker was actor Bradley Whitford, a Democratic activist and actor best known for his role in the early-2000s TV show "The West Wing." Whitford spent much of his remarks hyping up a Florida Democratic Party in need of momentum and trashing DeSantis.

“Ron DeSantis is a f----- coward,” he said, a remark that received a standing ovation. “He is a f----- coward. He is afraid of history. He is afraid of people different than him. He is afraid of Donald Trump.”

"That’s right, Top Gov is a bit of a bottom,” Whitford added. <--- [ Nice Homophobic Slur ]

It was one of the best-received lines of the night, making fun of a DeSantis political ad called “Top Gov” that portrayed him as a fighter pilot in the vein of Tom Cruise in the movie "Top Gun."

"Little Ronnie D can play dress up and do all the homoerotic Top Gun ads he wants, but no Florida is not free,” he said.

He also reveled in DeSantis, who was in Miami Saturday night speaking at a private event held by the county’s Republican Party, getting beaten badly in polling against Trump.

“The more people get to know Ronnie D…the less they seem to like him,” he said.




Do the Florida Democratic party has de-evolved into school yard you're gay insults ...

 

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Why all the DeSantis panic?​

First, let us recall what Bartiromo does at the top of the segment — we’re 44 days away from the first debate. We’re six months away from the first ballot being cast, too. The rush to declare this race over or even in crisis smells very much like a media narrative.

The fundraising numbers make this very clear. DeSantis raised $20 million in the half of the second quarter in which he was officially a candidate, a record for a non-incumbent presidential contender. His Never Back Down super-PAC officially raised $150 million in Q2 separately; $83 million was a transfer from DeSantis’ gubernatorial campaign, but $67 million got raised independently in Q2. The Trump campaign raised $35 million in Q2 too, a very good result, but pro-rata about the same pace as DeSantis.

Having been around for both the McCain and Clinton mid-campaign collapses, I can say with some emphasis that this is not at all equivalent or even analogous to either situation. McCain ran out of money for a while and ran out of media interest, and cleverly engaged with conservatives bloggers (myself included) to regain relevance in 2007. Clinton’s campaign got rocked by rumors and later testimony of personal scandal, which Bill and Hillary overcame by confronting the issue in the friendly media environment.