Where Is Ron DeathSantis?

[Dr. Keith]

I'd rather it was a nervous breakdown. I'd like to see him show up for a presser drunk and swigging from a bottle of tequila, then fire a gun into the ceiling several times while shouting at the voices in his head. Would be a bit hard for his staff to fix.

Fix what? He is of legal drinking age and can constitutionally carry a firearm, what is there to fix. Do you hate the constitution? Go back to China you communist!!!

 

[Norman Alexander]

I hope DeSantis does NOT have COVID. His wife is likely to be highly immune-supressed being treated for cancer. So she would be particularly vulnerable. Unlike DeSantis, I would take no pleasure in innocent people being killed to prove a petty political point.

 

[Stacyhs]

I hope DeSantis does NOT have COVID. His wife is likely to be highly immune-supressed being treated for cancer. So she would be particularly vulnerable. Unlike DeSantis, I would take no pleasure in innocent people being killed to prove a petty political point.

Good point and taken. Can I hope he has Covid but she doesn't catch it from him?

 

[newyorkguy]

The irony here is, despite DeSantis' staff explaining (I don't think DeSantis ever personally explained his absence) that he was accompanying his wife to cancer treatments, both DeSantis and his wife undoubtedly have very good, very proactive doctors. I think those doctors would have seen to it that if DeSantis was infected that his wife be isolated from him because of her compromised immune system.

 

[Stacyhs]

The irony here is, despite DeSantis' staff explaining (I don't think DeSantis ever personally explained his absence) that he was accompanying his wife to cancer treatments, both DeSantis and his wife undoubtedly have very good, very proactive doctors. I think those doctors would have seen to it that if DeSantis was infected that his wife be isolated from him because of her compromised immune system.

If they knew, I agree. But the most contagious time is before symptoms appear. If he's tested weekly, DeSantis could be tested on Monday, contract Covid on Tues. and give it to his wife on Saturday or Sunday. It takes on average 5-6 days for symptoms to appear and you can spread it 2-3 days before that.

 

[newyorkguy]

DeSantis seemed to stop appearing in public around December 10th. Florida activists and media began to question where he was by around the 19th. Within a few days his staff reported the governor was accompanying his wife to her breast cancer treatments.

But the suspicion is, around December 10th DeSantis tested positive for Covid-19 and began showing symptoms. Covid-19 is a red flag issue for DeSantis. He's been accused by local officials and people in the medical and public health communities of mismanaging the crisis, of politicizing it to serve his political agenda while ignoring public health concerns. At a time cases were beginning to rise in Florida, DeSantis did not want to be identified as having become infected. Critics would say, 'Not only can't he protect state residents, he can't even protect himself.' The suspicion is, claiming he was spending all his time accompanying his wife to breast cancer treatments was just a PR dodge. Reports that Mrs. DeSantis was diagnosed with breast cancer go back to early October of last year. Why did he wait two months to start 'accompanying her?' This whole thing sounds very manipulative, red meat for DeSantis followers. I can hear someone like Dan Bongino screaming into his mike:

THE MAN TAKES TIME OFF TO CARE FOR HIS LOVELY WIFE WHO HAS C-A-N-C-E-R YOU MORONS! AND THESE LEFTY ANIMALS DEMAND TO KNOW WHERE HE IS? THEY TRY AND SMEAR A MAN BECAUSE HIS WIFE HAS CANCER? THEY ARE FILTH!!! GARBAGE WRAPPED IN SKIN!!! THE MAN'S WIFE HAS CANCER YOU IDIOTS.

 

[theprestige]

Anyone in this thread live in Florida? Have you seen any change in the quality of government in your state in the past month or so?

Outsiders finding excuses to gossip is all well and good. But what's the real skinny there at ground zero?

 

[gnome]

I'd tell you but I escaped at the beginning of October.

 

[angrysoba]

Anyone in this thread live in Florida? Have you seen any change in the quality of government in your state in the past month or so?

Outsiders finding excuses to gossip is all well and good. But what's the real skinny there at ground zero?

I wonder which answer would be best. Ron DeSantis disappeared for almost a month and in that time, the situation in the state…

A) got better
B) got worse
C) stayed exactly the same as if no one ran the place anyway.

 

[Stacyhs]

Anyone in this thread live in Florida? Have you seen any change in the quality of government in your state in the past month or so?

Outsiders finding excuses to gossip is all well and good. But what's the real skinny there at ground zero?

He was absent, not out of office, for less than a month. Nothing would have changed regarding the government. But I think you probably know that.

 

[Lurch]

He was absent, not out of office, for less than a month. Nothing would have changed regarding the government. But I think you probably know that.

Indeed! Dishonest arguers would have it that with Government it's simultaneously :
- Bureaucratic inertia makes change glacially slow.
- One person's absence can result in a system-wide, instantaneous cessation of hysteresis.

 

[gnome]

Indeed! Dishonest arguers would have it that with Government it's simultaneously :
- Bureaucratic inertia makes change glacially slow.
- One person's absence can result in a system-wide, instantaneous cessation of hysteresis.

I'll be a little bit of a wet blanket and point out that this isn't so contradictory. Deliberate change can be extremely difficult to get going, but lack of the usual minding can cause a system or status quo to break very quickly.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

I hope DeSantis does NOT have COVID. His wife is likely to be highly immune-supressed being treated for cancer. So she would be particularly vulnerable. Unlike DeSantis, I would take no pleasure in innocent people being killed to prove a petty political point.

Probably not a good thing to celebrate because DeSantis is almost certainly fully vaccinated, despite cheerleading for the residents of his state that are running head first into needless death by refusing the vax. A nasty reminder that even vaccinated people are at risk thanks to the failed policies both in Florida and across the country generally.

 

[TheGoldcountry]

Apparently, no one ever got tested for infectious diseases before Covid.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...demic-think-about-it/ar-AASzlIk?ocid=msedgntp

Notice the usual backpedaling/"explanation" done later. This does go nicely with his insistence that testing has no clinical value. In his world, if it doesn't benefit the individual directly, it's not of any benefit at all. Ignorance is bliss, and he is dead set on proving it.

 

[Fidelio]

Has this virus learned how to extract gold or platinum from sea water? Because dang, someone or something must be paying him big big bucks to be a monster.

 

[jadebox]

Has this virus learned how to extract gold or platinum from sea water? Because dang, someone or something must be paying him big big bucks to be a monster.

There's little doubt that he is profiting from people getting sick. Rather than encouraging vaccination and other preventative measures, he has been pushing Regeneron as treatment. A company run by one of his top supporters has invested heavily in Regeneron.

 

[newyorkguy]

Trouble in sunny Florida? From the New York Times, reporters Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman, via MSN News:

Gov. Ron DeSantis, a man Mr. Trump believes he put on the map, has been acting far less like an acolyte and more like a future competitor, Mr. Trump complains. With his stock rising fast in the party, the governor has conspicuously refrained from saying he would stand aside if Mr. Trump runs for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. “The magic words,” Trump has said to several associates and advisers.

That long-stewing resentment burst into public view recently in a dispute over a seemingly unrelated topic: Covid policies. After Mr. DeSantis refused to reveal his full Covid vaccination history, the former president publicly acknowledged he had received a booster. Last week, he seemed to swipe at Mr. DeSantis by blasting as “gutless” politicians who dodge the question out of fear of blowback from vaccine skeptics. Mr. DeSantis shot back on Friday, criticizing Mr. Trump’s early handling of the pandemic and saying he regretted not being more vocal in his complaints. Times via MSN

trump complains that he "helped Ron DeSantis at a level that nobody’s ever seen before,” and that now DeSantis -- of all people! -- seems to be turning on him. 'Whaddayou kiddin' me?'

 

[newyorkguy]

DeSantis recently criticized trump’s early handling of the pandemic, saying he now wishes he'd been "more vocal in his complaints." What's his number one 'complaint?'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said one of his biggest regrets in office was not speaking out "much louder" in March 2020, when former President Donald Trump advised the nation to stay home to slow the fast-spreading coronavirus. DeSantis, a close ally of Trump, said he was involved in the early days of the White House's pandemic response and had been offering advice to the President. But he was surprised when Trump made the decision that led to much of the US economy shutting down. "I never thought in February, early March, that (coronavirus) would lead to locking down the country," the Republican governor told the hosts of the conservative podcast "Ruthless" during an episode recorded Thursday. "I just didn't. I didn't think that was on the radar." CNN report from yesterday

 

[TurkeysGhost]

DeSantis recently criticized trump’s early handling of the pandemic, saying he now wishes he'd been "more vocal in his complaints." What's his number one 'complaint?'

A pretty savvy move by DeSantis to try to turn Trump's reluctance to be a full on covid denialist into a wedge issue. I'm not sure if there's really anything that can be done to co-opt Trump's base while he's still alive and in the political scene, but this seems like the best shot for DeSantis to become the top dog.

A grim sign for our future that the only viable path for these guys to be contenders is to be even more extremely right wing.

 

[plague311]

A grim sign for our future that the only viable path for these guys to be contenders is to be even more extremely right wing.

I don't mind it, at some point it's going to get to be so excessive that they'll lose a lot of the middle ground vote. Even people that lean slightly right will either sit out of the elections, do a write-in or hold their nose and vote Dem.

The right has a bit of an issue right now. They NEED Trump's base in order to win elections. That's a fact. There's no road to the Presidency on the right that doesn't include the red hats. Anyone else would get primaried for sure, but if they keep going further and further right then reasonable people aren't going to follow. This will all come back to haunt them in the end.