It's Meatball Time
Peels Orange.
Posted on 05/19/2023 1:04:53 PM PDT by FreeReign
It’s a Tuesday morning in Tallahassee, and a wood-paneled hearing room at the Florida legislature is packed. The state senate’s fiscal-policy committee is considering a bill to prohibit most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and dozens of citizens have lined up to testify: anguished young students in colorful hair and “abortion is health care” T-shirts; little old ladies wearing cardigans and crosses. For hours they speak in emotional terms as the senators listen.
Yet an air of inevitability hangs over the proceedings. Governor Ron DeSantis supports this bill, and therefore it is destined to pass. In Tallahassee these days, what the governor wants, the governor gets. It is DeSantis who welcomed this fight, DeSantis who calls the shots, and DeSantis who will reap the credit—or blame—for his latest move in a frenzy of right-wing policymaking.
Turkey Presidential Election Will Go To Runoff His dominance is hard to overstate. From school-board meetings to the Walt Disney Corp., the shelves of elementary-school libraries to local mask ordinances, everything bears his stamp. Having shepherded his state through the COVID-19 pandemic, bucking the political and medical establishments to follow his own read of the data, DeSantis has manipulated levers of power to enact a sweeping agenda. The week I landed in Tallahassee, he signed an expansive school-voucher law and a measure investing more than $700 million in affordable housing. The legislature was hearing his proposed ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, a bill to expand gun rights that would allow concealed carrying of firearms without a permit, another that would dramatically curtail union rights, and a bid to prohibit socially conscious investing.
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It's Meatball Time
Peels Orange.
Marjorie Taylor Greene smiles when Alex Jones referred to Ron DeSantis as “meatball.” pic.twitter.com/vK2ElfLvR5— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 18, 2023
Calling an Italian a 'meatball' is no different from using the N word against a black person.
DeSantis is Italian American; all of his great-grandparents were born in Southern Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_DeSantis
Anyhow, DeSantis may be trailing in the polls (for now) but at least I haven't had to abandon every conservative principle I've ever held to support him.
The scariest part of the article was this: "1,200 net new residents arrive every day."
I really wanted to retire in Florida where I maintain official residency and have lived throughout most of my military career but the boom of new arrivals has sent what was once dirt-cheap housing through the roof.
People have really latched on to the "Free State of Florida" tagline and packed their bags. I hope some of DeSantis' brilliant executive leadership and conservative advancement will trickle down to other governors so maybe we could have some other "Free States" as well.
Was it:
That is an incomplete list but please tell us what is not conservative about any of those things?
Obama was at least savvy enough to fire every Military General and DOJ employee who was conservative, and install his own trojan horse empire for the future of communism, but Trump didn't even realize how to accomplish this for conservatism.
I won't vote for Trump again, and I've changed from Republican to Independent because of him.
Go Ron!
You are better off voting for Perot.
The constant Trump junk mail ended when I switched to I .
You misspelled your screen name.
I don’t see them as the same. I think Ron is called Meatball because he’s Italian and because of the shape of his body.It’s not a term of endearment but I don’t see it as a nasty hurtful word. I’m just glad he isn’t a liberal. Most Italian people involved in politics are democrats. That irritates me.
It is so wild watching FReepers who have been around a while take the side of Time and Disney and The Hill. You people traded your credibility to join the cult of a liberal NYC billionaire. Absolutely wild. I’d pray for another FR purge to get rid of all of you, but it’s kinda interesting to watch in real time.
Re: 5 - President Trump is weak on the Second Amendment.
I was on FR before many of today's Freepers were even old enough to vote.
...and, yes, I voted for W.
Back when FR was conservative.
Now conservatives are divided, and that's why we've been losing, and will continue to lose until Trump is out of politics.
If you're okay with using food to belittle someone for their ethnicity, then it's acceptable to call me 'taco' because my father was 1/2 Mexican? (His Father was a legal immigrant, BTW).
Should we call an Asian a 'rice ball', or an Indian a 'curry ball'?
This is how Trump taught you to debate, like a playground bully with no class who uses racial slurs to belittle his opponents.
It's sick.
It’s an ethnic slur that provides support to the Democrats’ claim that Trump supporters are bigots. It’s not helping Trump with independent voters and moderates that he will need to win the general election.
Look at how Trump lost the disabled voters
And we’re supposed to believe he lost in 2020.
It’s almost as if PA hardworking people in the energy industry got stupid. Mean tweets my ass. Liberal Dems say the mist vile things and supposedly win? BS
Election fraud doesn't matter when the defrauded candidate acts like an @55HOLE.
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