DeSantis plunder days

 DeSantis Caught Using Taxpayer-Funded State Vehicles to Campaign

A car crash in Tennessee earlier this week revealed that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been using state government vehicles for his 2024 presidential campaign, the Sun Sentinel reported. If it hadn’t been for the crash, though, nobody would even know he was doing so. That’s thanks to DeSantis’ own state legislature, which passed a recent law that shields the governor’s travel records from the public. As a result, DeSantis is essentially free to use resources funded by Florida’s taxpayers to fuel his presidential aspirations. “It’s absurd that he’s using public resources and public infrastructure to campaign,” said state Rep. Anna Eskamani, (D-Orlando). “He’s using state resources to boost himself politically.” Eskamani acknowledged that, had it not been for the crash, no one would have known about DeSantis’ use of state vehicles. “It makes you wonder how often state vehicles and public employees are being used at out-of-state campaign events,” she said.

The Republican legislature will make a new bill to give him a pass.

Oh, they already did! https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/28/new-law-shields-desantis-campaigns-use-of-state-vehicles-to-campaign/

Fuckers. 

And his voters will happily fork over their money to fund DeFascist's political ambition instead of anything that remotely helps the state of Florida.

One has to wonder how many of his supporters still support what he is doing?

He talks big, but everything he does has been overturned, causes directly attributed negative effects of the state, and they are dying off.

The problem (one of them anyways) with the GOP is a good chunk of their base has an end goal of establishing some kind of fundamentalist theocracy. 

DeSantis rocked by Black Republican revolt over slavery comments

The bitter fight between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Byron Donalds over a line about slavery in the state’s revised African American history standards is infuriating several prominent Black conservatives.

Several told POLITICO they fear the issue will play into Democrats’ characterization of Republicans as favoring a whitewashing of American history. Most saw it as an unforced error at the time when Black Republicans feel they’ve been making significant strides within the party.

That isn't just DeSantis. It's the ENTIRE Republican Party. It's what they stand for. Look at Republican campaign rally's and see how many Confederate Flags you see people waving around or on their cars. Tim Scott knows this, I've lived in South Carolina. The Confederacy is worshiped there.

Still finding it difficult to understand why any minority would have anything to do with Republicans.

4 years of Trump and *this* is the straw that breaks the camel's back? The whole thing is just another Republican charade of scoring points by kicking the weak kid while he's down. Fucking playground politics. If De Santis wasn't tanking they'd be licking his racist jackboots like the rest of them.

Ron DeSantis' Popularity Plunges to Lowest in Poll's History 

on DeSantis' net approval rating has slumped to a new low of -24 according to an opinion survey, the worst it has been since the pollster started tracking the Florida governor in May 2022.

The Civiqs poll concluded that on July 26 some 57 percent of registered American voters had a negative view of DeSantis, versus just 33 percent with a positive impression and 10 percent who were unsure.

Because he's not likeable. He was always gonna crash and burn on a national stage. His popularity in Florida (also sinking) was manufactured with heavily stage-managed events. Once he had to interact with the public at large, his petty and weird personality was gonna come out.

Funny how it’s hard to be popular when all your ideas aren’t. When you have no proposals other than dismantling. When your goals are to break rather than build. When your theme is anti.

Ron DeSantis' popularity is a measure of the popularity of conservative policies. This is what conservatives have been telling us, that DeSantis is a real conservative who is the most effective Republican governor and their #1 superstar.

DeSantis is unpopular because conservatism is unpopular. Conservatism is unpopular with conservatives. They don't like their own shit, they just want to defeat their perceived enemies and they go to battle with ideas and policies that must be diametrically opposed to the Democrats, and they go along with those ideas and policies regardless of how agreeable they may or may not be. Conservatives have no values, so they craft a fantasy world that is in perpetual contradiction. They hate cancel culture, but they will boycott whatever at the drop of a hat. They want their own movies. They want their own news channels. They can't coexist in reality. It's all made up. Conservatism is a fake ideology.