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The DeSantis gambit

And Disney has woke controversy coming up with it's live action remake of "The Little Mermaid" where the lead..Ariel.. and the villian..Ursula... are both African American. You know the right will go crazy with that.
Which puts me in one hell of a spot since I truly despise Racsim but also despise all of these live action remakes of classic animated films. None of them have been good. Mediocre at best. Totally soulless, with none of the charm of the original.
I have to come up with aline like "I have no problem with Ariel and Ursula being Black...but a huge problem with them being live humans".
 
dudalb said:
And Disney has woke controversy coming up with it's live action remake of "The Little Mermaid" where the lead..Ariel.. and the villian..Ursula... are both African American. You know the right will go crazy with that.Which puts me in one hell of a spot since I truly despise Racsim but also despise all of these live action remakes of classic animated films. None of them have been good. Mediocre at best. Totally soulless, with none of the charm of the original.
I have to come up with aline like "I have no problem with Ariel and Ursula being Black...but a huge problem with them being live humans".
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They'll only go crazy with Ariel being black. The villain, Ursula? Not so much.
 
De Santis shows he's got someone behind him with some smarts - this is an excellent piece of work.

Understated, direct attacks on Trump that will play well with voters, I'm picking. I don't believe De Santis has the brains to think all that up on his own.

$4 odds on him being the next president looks like a lock to me.
 
The Atheist said:
De Santis shows he's got someone behind him with some smarts - this is an excellent piece of work.

Understated, direct attacks on Trump that will play well with voters, I'm picking. I don't believe De Santis has the brains to think all that up on his own.

$4 odds on him being the next president looks like a lock to me.
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Have not seen the most recent GOP polls, have you?
 
I hope he does become the candidate. Technically it would free Biden from running again, but since Kamala is useless, I think Biden will run nevertheless.

BUT, it will be much less exciting an election. Almost nothing will change in congress, but Republicans may lose a few seats. No guarantee of the house. The Kevin McCarthy do nothing house will be an obvious failure.

The DeSantis presidency will not be very effective. But he will guarantee no changes in supreme court. Chipping away at minority rights, human rights.
 
I think one problem is that too many on the left have given up the fight and prefer to wallow in self pity then actually giet up and do som
 
dudalb said:
I think one problem is that too many on the left have given up the fight and prefer to wallow in self pity then actually giet up and do som
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Oh I hope not.

There are days when I wish the left was as formidable and radical as Fox News claims they are.
 
Venom said:
Oh I hope not.

There are days when I wish the left was as formidable and radical as Fox News claims they are.
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I think you see that here..a number of people who spedn all their time on the most negative possivle scenarious, while giving little hope for avoding them.
On times I think it is just teen age angst extended into middle age.
 
dudalb said:
I think you see that here..a number of people who spedn all their time on the most negative possivle scenarious, while giving little hope for avoding them.
On times I think it is just teen age angst extended into middle age.
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Still preferable for the few tooled-up democrat supporters who have wet dreams of civil war.
 
Tero said:
I hope he does become the candidate. Technically it would free Biden from running again, but since Kamala is useless, I think Biden will run nevertheless.
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Has Harris actually messed anything up? Or are we just going by gossip to the media when we say this? I'm not even a huge fan of hers based on her actual policies.

BUT, it will be much less exciting an election. Almost nothing will change in congress, but Republicans may lose a few seats. No guarantee of the house. The Kevin McCarthy do nothing house will be an obvious failure.
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That is probably going to to be the best thing going for the Democrats. "Look at this clown show"

The DeSantis presidency will not be very effective. But he will guarantee no changes in supreme court. Chipping away at minority rights, human rights.
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Alito retires and some 30-year-old staff attorney from the Federalist Society gets appointed.
 
Somehow, I'm not surprised:

Ex-Florida lawmaker behind the 'Don't Say Gay' law pleads guilty to COVID relief fraud
Joseph Harding entered a guilty plea on Tuesday in federal court in the Northern District of Florida to one count of wire fraud, one count of money laundering and one count of making false statements, according to court records.

Harding faces up to 35 years in prison, including a maximum of 20 years on the wire fraud charge. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 25 at the federal courthouse in Gainesville.

The former Republican lawmaker shot to notoriety last year as one of the sponsors of a controversial Florida law that outlawed the discussion of sexuality and gender in public school classrooms from kindergarten through grade 3.
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The Atheist said:
De Santis shows he's got someone behind him with some smarts - this is an excellent piece of work.

Understated, direct attacks on Trump that will play well with voters, I'm picking. I don't believe De Santis has the brains to think all that up on his own.
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Yeah, he's a big dummy, going to Yale for his undergraduate work and Harvard Law School (who?) for his JD.
 
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Yeah, but he doesn't think all that much about his ivy league degrees.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' father told The New Yorker last year that his son getting into Yale University for college was "still the thing I'm most proud of."

But DeSantis is far less fawning about his Ivy League education in his forthcoming book, "The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival," writing that he thought it might prevent him from getting elected to Congress in 2012. The teachings at Yale, he said, held "hostility to the Almighty and disparagement of America."

"I viewed having earned degrees from Yale and Harvard Law School to be political scarlet letters as far as a GOP primary went," DeSantis wrote in the book. "The voters valued education and probably assumed that I was a smart guy, but those 'elite' universities had become so synonymous with leftist ideology and a ruling class mentality that most grassroots conservatives were understandably skeptical of those institutions."
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Or that's what he want's his dunderheaded constituency to believe.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Oh, he hated those places...

But he went there for years, all the same. ;)
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To be fair, lot of people who went to Harvard Law hated it because it is the most demanding,gureling Law School in the US but it it also the best and every graduate of Harvard Law will have a job offer.
But that is totaly different then what De Santis si talking about.
 
Brainster said:
Yeah, he's a big dummy, going to Yale for his undergraduate work and Harvard Law School (who?) for his JD.
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IQ smart doesn't always equate to being smart. Plenty of 'smart' people can still be idiots; narcissism and a lust for money and power can make fools of even the 'intelligent' among us.
 
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