Ron Desantis 2024
Ron Desantis 2024
I don't get this woke thingie. It doesn't make any sense and sounds stupid.
But this is a nice adjective - "Disparaging of or relating to a liberal progressive orthodoxy, especially promoting inclusive policies or ideologies that welcome or embrace ethnic, racial, or sexual minorities."
This one fits me! "...awake: I had to drink lots of coffee this morning to stay woke." (currently drinking a 2nd mug of coffee, moving on to 3rd soon).
But this is a nice adjective - "Disparaging of or relating to a liberal progressive orthodoxy, especially promoting inclusive policies or ideologies that welcome or embrace ethnic, racial, or sexual minorities."
This one fits me! "...awake: I had to drink lots of coffee this morning to stay woke." (currently drinking a 2nd mug of coffee, moving on to 3rd soon).
You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy.
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Ron Desantis 2024
I believe it originally came from a Lead Belly song, in which he urged listeners to stay woke.
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Ron Desantis 2024
It's just a meaningless word you can make sound like whatever the listener is primed to think it means. Like "Critical race theory," it does not matter what it actually means.
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Ron Desantis 2024
Rightwing media seized on woke because SJW doesn't work on their audience anymore.
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Ron Desantis 2024
Woke is Ewok misspelled. It's a Star Wars thing, you wouldn't understand.
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That’s… Not what it means.
Dasha Burns @DashaBurns wrote: DeSantis and Trump are battling it out in the Governor’s first week as a candidate.
A surprising split came on the “woke” issue with Trump stepping back and DeSantis leaning in.
I asked DeSantis about it today: “You’ve got to be willing to fight the woke”
WATCH:
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Ron Desantis 2024
Yeah, I'm guessing/hoping anti-"woke" isn't the key issue he thinks it is for most voters.
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It will be for Fox News viewers. They're so asleep, they never want to be woken.
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Ron Desantis 2024
I'd make the 'So fly they never land' joke, but that's a Tinkerbell joke, which is not only Disney, but the very height of LGBTQ+ friendly Disney. So.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
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I saw a DuhSantis campaign meme that said "Awake, not woke" to which my confused reponse was, "You're awake because you woke up."
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Ron Desantis 2024
Should have held him at the nose
Ron Desantis 2024
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/showtime ... mg00000016
Showtime dropped a documentary about 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis just days before it was supposed to air ― and gave no reason why, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday.
The cable channel mysteriously pulled a May 28 episode of its “Vice” newsmagazine series that was to focus on the Florida governor’s stint as a U.S. Navy lawyer in Guantanamo Bay. The news report was titled “The Gitmo Candidate & Chipping Away,” described in a now-scrubbed Showtime promo as an investigation into “allegations from former Guantanamo Bay detainees that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis witnessed acts condemned by the United Nations as torture during his past service at the controversial detention camp as a Navy JAG officer,” the outlet noted.
Showtime told HuffPost it does not comment on scheduling decisions. A “Vice” spokesperson said that current affairs shows are subject to scheduling changes and that the broadcast of the episode was “still in discussion.”
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Ron Desantis 2024
Honestly, he probably did, but in his capacity as legal whatzit for the detainees it would have been within his duties to observe the interrogations to make sure it was within their rights, as much as you get in Gitmo.
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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Using deadly force at the border? I can't see how that would possibly go wrong.
DeSantis War Room 🐊 @DeSantisWarRoom wrote: DESANTIS: “If the cartels are cutting through the border wall trying to run product into this country, they’re going to end up STONE COLD DEAD as a result of that bad decision.”
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https://twitter.com/harryjsisson/status ... 64608?s=20
Harry Sisson @harryjsisson wrote: Ron DeSantis just said he’d get rid of the Department of Education on Fox News.
I can promise you Republicans need MORE education, not less.
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Found the clip. Education Dept. isn't all he wants to jettison, what a tool.
The Recount @therecount wrote: Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: “Are you in favor of eliminating any agencies?”
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL): “We would do Education, we would do Commerce, we'd do Energy, and we would do IRS.”
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
Ron Desantis 2024
Question: Are you in favor of eliminating any agencies?Among (many) others things, the Energy Department manages the US nuclear arsenal.
DeSantis: We would do education, commerce, energy, and the IRS. If Congress won’t go that far, I’m going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology…
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Is there a "woke' way to think about the country's nuclear arsenal?
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