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Summary

DeSantis' policies and actions as Florida Governor are criticized in the article, including his political tactics, stance on guns, and controversial education bill.

Abstract

The article titled "DeLusional, DeGrading, and DeFensive: A Thrill Ride in DeSantisLand" is a critique of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' political tactics, stance on guns, and controversial education bill. The article begins with a description of DeSantis' political career and his "Never Back Down" Political Action Committee, which targets "angry white voters." It then goes on to critique DeSantis' handling of various issues as governor, including his attack on Disney over their opposition to his education bill. The article also criticizes DeSantis for his stance on guns and his support for a "new gun law" that allows any US citizen age 21 or older who passes a background check to carry a concealed weapon without a permit. The article concludes with a critique of DeSantis' education bill, which it describes as a "hateful" law that bans the discussion of gay and trans issues in lower grades and high school.

Opinions

  • The article strongly criticizes DeSantis' political tactics and policies as Florida Governor
  • The article suggests that DeSantis targets "angry white voters" with his political messages
  • The article suggests that DeSantis' handling of various issues as governor has been controversial and divisive
  • The article strongly criticizes DeSantis

DeLusional. DeGrading. DeFensive.

A thrill ride in DeSantisLand

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Guns. Crime. Costliest car insurance and housing. Housing insurance a mess. Worst health care for low income families-that’s the ticket to DeSantisWorld.

The divisive, race-baiting, gay bashing governor’s success claims are as phony as cheap Florida swampland scams.

Florida’s a “dump” said none other than Florida resident Donald Trump. There’s nothing good about Trump. But with the Florida governor clearly bottom feeding….can they both lose?

DeSantis’s “Never Back Down”© Political Action Committee hits the target audience: Angry White Voters.

So let’s review DeSantis’ stewardship of Florida:

You’ve been warned: Prepare for a rude awakening when you peek inside the DeSantis Tragic Kingdom.

In DeSantisworld society’s problems are “wedge” issues- Immigration, LGBTQ attacks and erasing Black History.

It’s no accident the Northern Mockingbird is the Official State Bird. So in what passes for Florida logic, plans are afoot to honor the flamingo instead.

Few states decide to honor a lawn decoration. But this is DeSantisWorld..

In Desantisworld instead of spinning teacups, head spinning dollar signs hang amid palms, drawing shivering Northerners.

Florida’s boss offers a terror tour of career tunnels, high car insurance bills, hurricane waterslide challenges and villains firing in street showdowns.

Here’s your DeSantisWorld itinerary…..

The U.S. News and World Report ranks Florida near last among 50 states in career success. DeSantis plunged upward mobility in the Alligator State to 46th out of 50 states.

Only Louisiana, Alaska, Mississippi and West Virginia are worse, but he won’t stop until Florida is a career dead end.

DeSantis steered Sunshine State drivers into a roadside ditch. Florida boasts the highest auto insurance premiums in the nation, according to NBC News.

A national report ranks DeSantisWorld 50th out of 50 states in disparity of health care by income, according to the Commonwealth Fund Scorecard on State Healthcare Performance.

It’s shameful that as its elderly population increases, Florida’s health system is in sick bay. Don’t fall ill in all that sunshine.

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Let’s consider Florida’s cultural offerings beside a giant theme park in Orlando.

I’m waiting.

Florida tops every state in culture. If wet t-shirt contests, drag racing and senior early bird specials count.

DeSantis appeals to “good ole boys” -and gals. No Critical Race Theory or African American History A. P. studies in schools.

DeSantisWorld’s “Don’t Say Gay” hateful school law bans discussion of gay and trans issues from lower grades through high school.

It rejects words on the Statue of Liberty. Ignoring that the US welcomed all races, ethnicities and religious beliefs. There’s no “master race,” national religion or ethnicity. The Constitution and Bill of Rights guarantee it.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

“Step right up here and throw rocks at Miss Liberty in DeSantisWorld,” says the sign next to a helpful pile of stones.

Here’s the rule in DeSantisworld:

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Move along now. Head through the Gate of Hate. Florida offers more than a shady guy in a sunny place.

Florida is an ominous 17th in crime and corrections according to US News and World Report.

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Wisevoter.com ranked Florida the 5th worst state in mass shootings in 2022. Only Illinois, Texas, California and Pennsylvania exceeded its 31. Florida ranked an ominous #3 in school shootings with 113 last year.

“In some cases, individuals who are struggling with mental illness are unable to access adequate resources for treatment and end up using violent means,” said the review.

DeSantisWorld’s solution? more people packing heat!

He’s touting a shiny new gun law, effective July 1, 2023. Just in time for July 4. Set off firecrackers!

It allows any US citizen at least age 21 who passed a background check to be secretly armed. Better duck inside. Them ain’t firecrackers in DeSantisWorld.

Welcome to Tombstone South. Double up on window bars with bullet proof glass.

DeSantisWorld gets a failing grade in History. He told a North Carolina audience he’d restore the Confederate named Fort Bragg — thankfully renamed Fort Liberty.

Slaveholder Braxton Bragg, one of the worst Confederate generals- bungling campaigns- hated by his troops. Confederate President Jefferson Davis relieved him of command.

DeSantis is a carnival barker with Yale and Harvard Law pedigrees. Forget MAGA, think MANIA- Make America Nasty Idiotic A- -hats.

DeSantis is winning a campaign to incite narrow minded bigots. A rally outside Walt Disney World showed protesters hoisting Nazi swastikas alongside a DeSantis banners.

A DeSantis aide accused Hitler lovers of being Democratic Party plants, She was forced to backtrack after her comments caused a firestorm.

The only thing missing in DeSantisWorld was a swastika. Now he’s checked that box.

But DeSantisWorld isn’t drawing voters from Donald Trump, the party favorite.

If he believed hateful attacks on gays, trans, Blacks and migrants would gain traction, they don’t make headway vs. Trump.

Recent South Carolina polls show Trump far ahead in a GOP voter poll. Trump 43%– DeSantis 18%. A new poll by St. Anselm in New Hampshire shows Trump besting DeSantis 47–19%

So even as Trump faces a charges over alleged misuse of US confidential records, the former President is driving that Florida overhead monorail.

Trump even called on DeSantis to get home and fix the defunct Florida home insurance market.

And guess who just entered the Presidential race from Florida?

Republican Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, saying he would unify people, not pull them apart. He entered the race last week in a veiled reference to DeSantis’s divisive rants.

Suarez, a handsome, genial leader, targets the growing US Hispanic population which trends toward GOP in some polls.

Here’s a scare from the DeSantisWorld haunted house:

Florida ranks as the least affordable state for housing in the entire United States, according to CBS News.

Secure your wallet and install bars on those costly windows.

DeSantis is working hard to transform the entire United States to its lowest common denominator. He’s a tough guy, don’t forget his snide “Never back down” slogan.

So……he picked a fight he can only lose, and has already cost Florida thousands of jobs and millions in tax money.

This stroke of idiocy requires a warning, it’s so incredibly asinine: Watch out Donald and Daisy!

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DeSantis crows about his bonehead campaign against a worldwide entertainment company that draws vacationers to a swamp Disney transformed into a tourist mecca.

The Governor’s anti-Disney antics just prompted Disney to drop a $1 billion expansion in Florida.

Who knew DeSantis was an environmentalist? He could transform Walt Disney World back into a swamp.

DeSantis mounted a ham-handed crusade against the worldwide Disney entertainment empire over Disney’s support for gay and trans rights.

He’s the sheriff of KnowNothingham, turning Disney into Robin Hood.

Disney annually pays over $1 billion in taxes, employs teams of lobbyists, advertises worldwide and has a strong customer base.

A battle over DeSantis’ takeover of a Disney-appointed board governing WDW splits conservative business-friendly voters, elevating Trump by default in GOP polls.

Disney’s First Amendment free speech rights to protect its 75,000 employees is seen likely favored by courts over DeSantis’s anti-gay campaign. So exactly what, in fact, does Florida offer the United States?

If elected, DeSantis threatens to nationalize the Florida success story — if success is acres of people living in trailer parks.

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He brags of how quickly he rebuilt a causeway to Sanibel, a wealthy island enclave, after Hurricane Ian devastated Southwest Florida Sept. 30, 2022.

But ten months on, blue tarps are rampant on Southwest Florida roofs. Insurers and contractors are in pitched battles. Lawsuits flood courts like waves crashed Fort Myers Beach.

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The Florida home insurance market is in free fall, according to Bankrate, leaving homeowners the choice of borrowing to rebuild or moving somewhere more stable.

Which brings us to mobile homes…

Florida leads the nation with 828,000 mobile homes, most of them uninsured for losses from natural causes.

So trailer parks and rampant hurricanes…. what could possibly go wrong?

In what of very few categories is DeSantisland first in the nation?

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Winner winner, chicken dinner! Hurricanes.

From 1851 to 2018 Florida got whacked from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic more than 120 times — near double the rate of Texas.

As DeSantis faces a losing a Disney court battle, he visited bemused foreign leaders for some lacking foreign policy cred, but it blew up like a DeSantisLand balloon

Terming Russia’s murderous invasion of Ukraine a “territorial dispute” Putin’s Florida bro tried to walk back that disaster, but it will haunt him forever.

His “who is this guy?” whirlwind tour was less than star-studded, as in Great Britain, where DeSantis met with a minor official.

And now, he’s managed to get DeSantisLand a cautionary warning by African American travelers.

His removal of historical references to slavery, segregation, lynching of African Americans and racial discrimination in public schools drew warnings by Black organizations to African Americans concerned about treatment there.

Any way you spell it, Ron DeSantis is… De Fraud.

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