Yikes. I've been saying thus all along. The more people in the race the more they will take up of Ron's numbers. Trump has a solid 40-45% grip on the base. The rest are splitting the numbers. Trump will have the nomination locked up by 2nd week. DeSantis choked like I knew he would.
Agree. The more people enter the GOP race, the more it benefits Trump. Name recognition plays a more important role when the primary field gets larger.
It's just funny how I've been predicting this all along. I just wish I could've gotten more people to bet. DeSantis never had a chance. Trump is going crush him or DeSantis will be smart and wait till 2028. Biden will beat trump by a landslide. If anyone wants to bet I'm wrong please do @ me and tell me any amount. Thank you She's planted by Trump to take away the never Trump vote in the base. Trump has a solid 40-45% of the vote of the base. Now everyone is fighting for the remaining 55. Nikki job is to take as much of that 55 as she can. She has no chance of winning. She's angling for a VP job and trump is testing her.
Mud wrestling match at trumps property aired live on tucker ?? Winner becomes VP? you know the base would eat that up
It disturbs me greatly. That there are those here who effusively praise the man responsible for this and much else wrong in Florida, a man who is increasingly influential beyond it’s borders, also bothers me, because they reflect the impact of DeSantis on others within and without that state. He influences Abbott here in Texas. They often seem to be in a contest to see who can “out extreme” the other. I think that you called the “book burning” I mentioned in my post, happening today in Florida because of DeSantis, “fascism” is accurate. I worry for our country and how much it has changed since I was the age of my grown children.
Black history is a mandatory part of the curriculum under DeSantis, I believe. But don't let facts get into the way of outrage.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/opinions/ron-desantis-threat-to-first-amendment-nossel/index.html Classic strategy really. Go on about how important Free speech is, especially in academia...then start moving against ideas you don't like. It's not okay to silence conservatives but full speed ahead on silencing progressives and try to dictate what can and cannot be taught when it comes to topics like black history.
It’s only censorship when it blocks things we like. It’s called “protecting the children” when we ban things we don’t like.
What is black history? MLK had a dream? George Washington Carver really liked peanuts? Rosa Parks sat on a bus? We have a tendency to water down black history.
I'm not necessarily a fan of this law, BUT People need to stop acting like this is book burning or total book banning. Anyone can buy these books if they care - they are not banned in the state. It's just that certain types of what is perceived as active "indoctrination" are getting pushback. As I said before, it's the pendulum swinging back - maybe sometimes too far. But comparing this to Nazis is way over the top.
Nazis didn't go from not being a problem to gas chambers overnight. There is no pendulum swinging back and stop being offended when the accurate label of fascist is placed on you and DeSantis.
Crazy to me how only certain books are 'indoctrination', I wonder how they determine that... I think you give them enough momentum, they'll ban these books too. I mean, at first they were talking about stopping woke ONLY for children and now all of a sudden they are already at the stage of taking away COLLEGE courses.
DeSantis wants to roll back press freedoms — with an eye toward overturning Supreme Court ruling - POLITICO DeSantis wants to roll back press freedoms — with an eye toward overturning Supreme Court ruling At the governor’s urging, Florida’s Republican-dominated Legislature is pushing to weaken state laws that have long protected journalists against defamation suits and frivolous lawsuits. The proposal is part DeSantis’ ongoing feud with media outlets like The New York Times, Miami Herald, CNN and The Washington Post — media companies he claims are biased against Republicans — as he prepares for a likely 2024 presidential bid. Beyond making it easier to sue journalists, the proposal is also being positioned to spark a larger legal battle with the goal of eventually overturning New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limits public officials’ ability to sue publishers for defamation, according to state Rep. Alex Andrade, the Florida Republican sponsoring the bill. .... “I have never seen anything remotely like this legislation,” said Seth Stern, director of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation. “I can’t say I have seen every bill ever introduced, but I’d be quite surprised if any state Legislature had seriously considered such a brazen and blatantly unconstitutional attack on speech and press freedoms.”
