Posted on 01/12/2022 3:49:02 PM PST by conservative98
Ok. Ya. Lotta posting for someone pointing at others for their ego.
Could it be likely that DeSantis was just following Trump’s guidance, of requesting a “national shutdown” due to Covid? Certainly seems possible.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/government/trump-calls-shutdown-until-april-30
Mar 29, 2020 — President Donald Trump is extending the voluntary national shutdown for a month...
I'm not familiar with the process, but who joins the military right out of law school and gets commissioned as an officer? Wouldn't this indicate that he was an ROTC or Officer Candidate School graduate who had a military commitment as part of his education?
None of this will keep me from voting for DeSantis, but I sure won't have much enthusiasm for him. He'd be 100 times better than Romney and 1,000 times better than McCain. I predict he'd be comparable to George W. Bush as president, but with a full set of chromosomes. I'm inclined to think that DeSantis wouldn't even be better than many of the 2016 Republican contenders who lost to Trump in the GOP primaries.
My son, b. 2001, is named after Pat Tillman who put love of country before fame of wealth. In the end we bungled Afghanistan. Does that mean we should trash the late Mr Tillman as well?
If Pat Tillman survived Afghanistan and ran for President in 2024, his service in Afghanistan would mean absolutely nothing to me.
Now Now. Don’t let too many facts abound.
2. Trump may be a lot of things, but a globalist sure wouldn't be one of them.
President Trump got on people for not answering directly when asked.
Never worked a real job in his life? When is the last time you were deployed to Fallujah Iraq during the war as the JAG for the USMC? He had an excellent reputation with the line troops there.
Hell, have you ever been a Marine??
The 6 weeks I spent in Quantico at the USMC Platoon Leaders Course was a long summer…
I think you’re an idiot for posting this same crap on every DeSantis thread while you have your facts absolutely effed up.
Here is his military history:
DeSantis received his Reserve Naval officer’s commission and assignment to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) in 2004 at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Dallas, Texas, while still a student at Harvard Law School. He completed Naval Justice School in 2005. Later that year, he received orders to the JAG Trial Service Office Command South East at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, as a prosecutor. He was promoted from lieutenant, junior grade to lieutenant in 2006. He worked for the commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), working directly with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Joint Detention Facility.[17][18][19]
In 2007, DeSantis reported to the Naval Special Warfare Command Group in Coronado, California, where he was assigned to SEAL Team One and deployed to Iraq[20] with the troop surge as the Legal Advisor to the SEAL Commander, Special Operations Task Force-West in Fallujah.[17][18][19]
DeSantis returned to the U.S. in April 2008, at which time he was reassigned to the Naval Region Southeast Legal Service. The U.S. Department of Justice appointed him to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney[20] at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida. DeSantis was assigned as a trial defense counsel until his honorable discharge from active duty in February 2010. He concurrently accepted a reserve commission as a lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the US Navy Reserve.[21] He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal.[17][18][19]
Florida Governor, at Long Last, Orders Residents to Stay Home to Avoid Coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/coronavirus-florida-de-santis-trump.html
Gov. Ron DeSantis said the decision corresponded with the “national pause” effectively recommended by the White House.
MIAMI — Florida’s coronavirus cases kept ballooning, especially in the dense neighborhoods of Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Hospitals in Fort Myers and Naples begged for donations of masks and other protective equipment. Young people started to die.
And still, Gov. Ron DeSantis resisted. The man entrusted with keeping many of the country’s grandparents safe did not want to dictate that all Floridians had to stay at home.
What it took for Mr. DeSantis to change his mind on Wednesday and finally issue a statewide order were a phone call with President Trump...
I worked Trumps campaign in 2016. While too many Republicans were on their fainting couches, I was banging on doors.
That said, My dream ticket isn’t Trump for President. Given his temperament, I would greatly prefer to see him as the next Speaker of the House.
You think military service is living on taxpayer money? Have you ever been in the service (I already know your answer to that)?
The 10 years of infantry I served was far from living in the taxpayer’s dime (while I paid taxes out of my pay as well).
I voted for Trump in 2016 because I knew he'd be the first President in 25 years who didn't get the U.S. involved in another stupid, endless war. I have no such confidence in Ron DeSantis on that count whatsoever.
When I watched Trump's campaign appearances in 2016 where he flew around in a jet with the name "TRUMP" on the side of it, I never had to ask myself who paid for the thing. If and when Ron DeSantis runs for President, "Who paid for that jet?" will be the first question on my mind.
Isn't it?
Those of us who have actually served in combat zones are the LAST people who start wars. Sorry civilian, you’re clueless about the military.
In 2004, military service was still considered by the vast majority of Americans to be honorable, as was service in the Iraq war. Bush did get re-elected.
It isn’t that military service has compelling value in presidential candidates to you, but rather, it is honorable work. He didn’t get out of Harvard Law and immediately go into politics. He served his country honorably, whether or not our leaders abused his honorable service.
For all her flaws, Kristi Noem will go down as the one U.S. governor who didn't shut a damn thing down in her state during the COVID debacle.
It’s called “service” for a million reasons that are obviously beyond you.
You don’t get rich by any means.
You don’t own yourself anymore, or your time, where you are, or what you do.
You pay taxes on your earnings - your pay is not a “gift from the people”.
And you might get the opportunity to lose your life defending ingrates like you.
Spit.
Well said and needed to be said. Thank you.
1. In 2004, Bush came within 200,000+ votes of losing to one of the worst presidential candidates in my lifetime.
2. And by the time he left office, that retarded baboon was less popular than a child molester. His own brother couldn't scrub the stench of that wretched family name off him even eight years later.
3. Most relevant of all (from my personal perspective) was that I abandoned Bush and the entire GOP as soon as that moron ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003. I honestly don't give a sh!t about what "the vast majority of Americans" thought at the time.
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