Posted on 08/10/2021 6:00:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
They have been called many things: amoebas, spineless cowards, weaklings, and other names not suitable for print in a family newspaper.
The modern characterization for many politicians who refuse to take a stand, especially in the midst of the growing and rapid threat of American socialism, is the word "weenie."
People fear being called names for expressing personal convictions (assuming they have any) and so they either say nothing or they go along to get along.
Not Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who increasingly resembles the type of leader the country needs as the Biden administration appears to try and transform us into a nation the polar opposite of what the Founders intended and the Constitution prescribes.
Following President Biden's criticism of Texas and Florida for refusing to bow to Washington dictates, shifting CDC vaccination and mask "guidelines" and the Delta variant - and by implication their governors - DeSantis fired back.
Responding to Biden's statement that if DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott won't help fight the pandemic, they should "get out of the way," DeSantis responded at a news conference. I will quote him at length because it is important for the context and to sense the power behind his words.
"I think the question is, we can either have a free society, or we can have a biomedical security state ... Joe Biden suggests if you don't do lockdown policies, then you should 'get out of the way' ... If you're coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I'm standing in your way..."
He was just getting started: "If you're trying to deny kids a proper education, I'm gonna stand in your way. ... If you're going to restrict, impose mandates, if you're trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods ... and lock people down ... I'm standing in your way."
DeSantis then delivered this rejoinder to Biden: "Why don't you do your job? Why don't you get this border secure? Until you do that, I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you."
If that isn't enough to get your liberty blood boiling, then consider these quotes from three historical figures -- and a more recent one -- who understood that freedom is not the natural state of humanity, otherwise more of the world would be free. Liberty must constantly be renewed.
Benjamin Franklin: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Abraham Lincoln: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
He was just getting started: "If you're trying to deny kids a proper education, I'm gonna stand in your way. ... If you're going to restrict, impose mandates, if you're trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods ... and lock people down ... I'm standing in your way."
DeSantis then delivered this rejoinder to Biden: "Why don't you do your job? Why don't you get this border secure? Until you do that, I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you."
If that isn't enough to get your liberty blood boiling, then consider these quotes from three historical figures -- and a more recent one -- who understood that freedom is not the natural state of humanity, otherwise more of the world would be free. Liberty must constantly be renewed.
Benjamin Franklin: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Abraham Lincoln: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
DeSantis is really letting them have it! In record numbers.
He is leading, and he will continue leading.
Apparently delta was first detected in the US in March 2021.
Nobody wears a mask up here in my area. And I made reservations at an Italian restaurant for my 30th wedding anniversary and they said there were no restrictions. I’m still alive after a year and a half of this bullchit. No vaccine either. I also have preexisting conditions. My liberty is WAY more important than fear.
Cal Thomas is a notorious anti-Trumper, and defines RINO. If he’s pushing DeSantis, we should be wary.
That is your opinion, to which you are entitled to.
How? The test they stick a cotton swab in your nose can’t tell the difference between the common cold, the flu, or CoVID, so how can they tell the different “strains” of CoVID?
<>Liberty must constantly be renewed.<>
The Framers would agree. Article V.
BTTT!
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