Desantis enters Presidential race

[hislegacy]

Bravo for him.

From Twitter:

During Twitter announcement Desantis responds on the immigration crisis: If I were President I would reverse everything Biden is doing. We’ll declare a national emergency on day 1, construct a border wall, reimplement remain in Mexico, and deal with the cartels that are trafficking people and fentanyl to our country. We can’t allow these criminal organizations to continue poisoning our population.

Common sense. IMHO

 

[Fantine]

Unsurprising--operative word "emergency."
He is inventing an emergency to assume dictatorial powers. He has no patience for democracy.
Malignant narcissism alert! Beware.

 

[probinson]

He is inventing an emergency to assume dictatorial powers.

Hmm. Seems like this happened somewhere before...

 

[SimplyMe]

I wonder if DeSantis walls would fall over as fast as Trump's have? At the same time, since almost all of the border policies of Biden's are ones that are carried over from Trump, he'd reverse all of Trump's border policies?

 

[Wings like Eagles]

Bravo for him.

From Twitter:

During Twitter announcement Desantis responds on the immigration crisis: If I were President I would reverse everything Biden is doing. We’ll declare a national emergency on day 1, construct a border wall, reimplement remain in Mexico, and deal with the cartels that are trafficking people and fentanyl to our country. We can’t allow these criminal organizations to continue poisoning our population.

Common sense. IMHO

This is what needs to be done, if America has any chance of pulling ourselves out of being a third world country that Biden has put us in.

 

[Fantine]

Third world countries are often run by dictators.
They suppress rights and destroy their opposition.
They seek to control media and education and tailor them to their message.

Sounds a lot like DeSantis and Florida.

And he is telling you he plans on declaring an emergency and seizing absolute power.

He's telling you in plain English.

Believe him---and vote for an honest decent Republican in the primary. They are in it to keep their party from destroying America.

Believe DeSantis--and run in the other direction.

 

[probinson]

Third world countries are often run by dictators.
They suppress rights and destroy their opposition.
They seek to control media and education and tailor them to their message.

Sounds like the Democratic Party.

 

[disciple Clint]

seems that Biden has had more than his share of emergencies do we only complain about the emergencies that the conservatives declare?

 

[Fantine]

We are a compassionate nation, and I believe the direction Biden moving in is the best one.

By establishing ways would be asylum-seekers can initiate the process in their home countries, those cases would be adjudicated before they travel to the U.S. only to be turned back at the border.

Because there are so many areas of the border that can't be effectively walled off, due to mountainous terrain and rivers, the wall isn't the answer.

Drone patrolling could be cost effective and alert border patrol to areas where breakthroughs are taking place.

Attempts to infer that many if not most immigrants are drug pushers, members of cartels, etc. is beneath contempt. I believe that that myth was one of the earliest of Trump's 20,000 plus lies.

Most immigrants are poor desperate people who need to be treated humanely and respectfully because America is a just and compassionate nation (of course, if DeSantis is elected, all bets are off...) The immigrants I know are honest, hardworking people looking for a decent life.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Bravo for him.

From Twitter:

During Twitter announcement Desantis responds on the immigration crisis: If I were President I would reverse everything Biden is doing. We’ll declare a national emergency on day 1, construct a border wall, reimplement remain in Mexico, and deal with the cartels that are trafficking people and fentanyl to our country. We can’t allow these criminal organizations to continue poisoning our population.

Common sense. IMHO

Yes I listened to his announcement discussion on Twitter live...

While there was a lot of technical issues I did like what I heard...

.

 

[hislegacy]

Should we make a special thread? Or should we use this one?

Would you please open another thread. Thank you

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

I think Charles Dickens would be laughing if he was watching us today. Has anyone here read A Tale Of Two Cities? It is the best of times. It is the worstof times.

 

[JustOneWay]

Building a wall was, and still is a failed endeavor to keep drugs or people out of the USA, and politicians know this. However the grift and anger generated by republicans to receive donations is the real objective. Desantis has no new ideas other than how to generate donations through scare tactics.

 

[Fantine]

Speak for yourself when you say that "most of us" like most of the laws DeSantis muscled through a complicit Florida legislature.

I'm not a Floridian, but my husband and I have three siblings and their families in Florida, and only one (the military retiree) supports him. The others are horrified and appalled at most of what DeSantis has done.

 

[USincognito]

Sounds like the Democratic Party.

Fantine cited specific examples. Can you do the same for your assertion?

 

[NxNW]

Bravo for him.

From Twitter:

During Twitter announcement Desantis responds on the immigration crisis: If I were President I would reverse everything Biden is doing.

He'll stop the job creation, and increase the deficit?

We’ll declare a national emergency on day 1, construct a border wall

Trump already constructed the border wall, and Mexico paid for it, remember?

deal with the cartels that are trafficking people and fentanyl to our country. We can’t allow these criminal organizations to continue poisoning our population.

The war on drugs has been such a success!

Common sense. IMHO

Why not legalize drugs and put the cartels out of business overnight?

 

[KCfromNC]

He'll stop the job creation, and increase the deficit?

I don't think this sort of "libs bad! me smash!" kind of messaging is designed to appeal to people who have any sort of understanding of policy or economics.

 

[hislegacy]

Ron DeSantis said he would fire FBI Director Christopher Wray on day one​

Bravo #2.

 

[Yttrium]

It'll be interesting to see how Trump's base treats DeSantis. Will they look at him as a traitor once he starts seriously swinging at Trump? Or will they consider him as a reasonable alternative to Trump? My initial impression is that DeSantis won't stand a chance unless something forces Trump to drop out early.

I can't vote for DeSantis, and I can't vote for Biden unless he runs against Trump. So if it comes down to DeSantis vs Biden, I'll just abstain and focus on the other races.

 

[durangodawood]

.....I can't vote for DeSantis, and I can't vote for Biden unless he runs against Trump. So if it comes down to DeSantis vs Biden, I'll just abstain and focus on the other races.

They seem quite different on many dimensions. Why cant you find something preferable about one of them?