When Gov. Ron DeSantis was running for president, he leaned heavily on culture war issues such as his “Don't Say Gay,” The law bans classroom lessons on gender identity and sexual orientation. This included banning any and all books in schools that were deemed pornographic.
A couple weeks ago I dared to suggest that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was being something less than fully honest about deaths by COVID in his state.
Not a single new case! Not one!
There's nothing suspicious about this AT ALL!
Two articles popped up on my news feed:
Ron Desantis Signs a Bill That Mandates Cities Keep Using Fossil Fuels
Despite the crowing of its governor and state PR machinem the predictions and projectinos of anti-maskers and of lockdown devotees, Florida is neither the ideal covid-19 response model, nor the worst, at least based on two specific metrics. It is, as they say, smack dab in the middle.
Article by Derek Thompson in the Atlantic: The Curious Case of Florida’s Pandemic Response. A good, quick read.
How to explain why Trump hasn't collapsed even with one of the worst Democratic nominees as an opponent. 9,488,789 coronavirus infections and 236,571 deaths and counting, plus the huge economic hits would have easily taken down any other President. Then there's the seemingly erratic pattern to the election polls. Let's first check out the latter using broad categorizations for regions for comparative purposes.
or at least while that portion of the masses which HAS homes rests in their homes, there are at least a few people in Florida paying attention -- and they've formed the Underwater Homeowners Association, a group dedicated to showing the neighbors that they are minimally paying attention
Hmmm. Safe? Better look around. Gotta be careful these days.
Yep. Things are lookin' good.
The Florida Democrats are the party of neoliberal centrists who are supposed to appoint corrupt, uninspiring, corporatist, ex-Republicans that go on to lose to real Republicans.
That's their job. They are good at it.
But someone forgot to tell the voters this time.
