Posted on 07/03/2023 5:21:34 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) reiterated his "anti-woke" stance in a radio interview Monday morning, claiming, "I'm the only guy running who's been very clear about that issue."
The Republican presidential candidate has been criticized by many on the Left and even some on the Right for his focus on "culture wars." But DeSantis insisted that it permeates several different areas of society. "This woke ideology impacts the economy, the military, criminal law, everything," he told South Carolina state Sen. Josh Kimbrell on The Morning Answer.
"Our freedom is under assault as woke infects more institutions," he said. "I've defeated the woke in Florida. As president, together we will defeat the woke all across this country."
"Every Republican presidential candidate, including Donald Trump, has attacked me for standing up against Disney regarding the sexualization of children," the governor said. "In Florida, we said, 'It's not appropriate to be doing this in school.' They opposed us — they were trying to jam this curriculum into our school. And traditionally, in Florida, if Disney weighed in, they would get their way. But I was willing to stand up."
"If we can't draw a line in the sand and say, you know what, the kids are off limits. When they go to school, they have a right to have a traditional, normal education without having a teacher telling a first grader that they may have been born in the wrong body. It's totally unacceptable," DeSantis said.
Earlier this year, Trump criticized DeSantis's fight with Disney, claiming that the governor was getting "destroyed" by the company.
“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear, ‘Woke, woke, woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it. They don’t know what it is," Trump said during a campaign event.
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Would it be OK if they joined the U.S. funded NATO club?
Not a chance they should be allowed in NATO. As I said, far too corrupt.
So blankets like Obama, or bombs like Trump. Which do you prefer?
Most of those were defensive weapons as I understand it.
“There is what I view as an artificial distinction between lethal and non-lethal military equipment,” Ambassador Kurt Volker said in Washington on Monday, comparing anti-tank missiles to a counter-battery radar that improves targeting to attack and kill an enemy firing mortars. “That’s non-lethal and an anti-tank missile, which sits in a box and doesn’t get used unless you have a tank coming at you, is lethal. Both are clearly defensive weapons.”
Not in its current form.
And? What form is that?
Still very deadly, and provocative. Blankets or bombs, only, choose one. I chose blankets.
I see...So corrupt Ukraine should stay out of corrupt NATO?
Defensive weapon...Now those in charge what them to have jet fighters. Big difference, no?
Yes, I said Ukraine should be kept out of NATO. Do you disagree?
And I believe we shouldn’t have ever sent them any weapons, only blankets and other non-lethal support. Do you disagree?
Ron Dedesperate. 😏
To embellish on a known composer’s piece of work, as “a tribute”, has nevdr been a sin.
So it is with these ‘political playbooks’.
I’ve often heard “from somebody’s playbook”, but seldom would one exist in print!
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