Ron DeSantis

Reminder: DeSantis is NOT a libertarian or anything close to one

@MercercountyLP Mercer County Libertarians

“Florida to issue $5,000 fines to businesses requiring proof of vaccination” (incidentally: “in terms of per capita deaths by state, Florida is the 2nd worst state—just doing slightly better than West Virginia.” [1] ) [2]

Among other things, “enthusiastically supporting a guy who worked at Guantanamo Bay without apology” really should be an “are we the baddies?” moment perfectly tuned to anyone who was an LvMI libertarian in the 2000s.

“Florida Gov signs law requiring students, faculty be asked their political beliefs”

“DeSantis is not a libertarian, a thread”

“It’s not just ‘Don’t Say Gay.” Florida also ordered Disney to alter its diversity training”

Wikipedia, “Ron DeSantis”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-blocks-floridas-stop-woke-act-pushed-gov-desantis-rcna43908

https://intpolicydigest.org/dear-desantis-and-abbott-stop-mistreating-victims-of-socialism/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-and-the-rise-of-incoherent-folk-libertarianism

Ron DeSantis Says Protecting Ukraine Is Not a Key U.S. Interest (archive)

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1635446265692532738

“While the U.S. has many vital national interests – securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party – becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them. The Biden administration’s virtual “blank check” funding of this conflict for “as long as it takes,” without any defined objectives or accountability, distracts from our country’s most pressing challenges.

Without question, peace should be the objective. The U.S. should not provide assistance that could require the deployment of American troops or enable Ukraine to engage in offensive operations beyond its borders. F-16s and long-range missiles should therefore be off the table. These moves would risk explicitly drawing the United States into the conflict and drawing us closer to a hot war between the world’s two largest nuclear powers. That risk is unacceptable.

A policy of “regime change” in Russia (no doubt popular among the DC foreign policy interventionists) would greatly increase the stakes of the conflict, making the use of nuclear weapons more likely. Such a policy would neither stop the death and destruction of the war, nor produce a pro-American, Madisonian constitutionalist in the Kremlin. History indicates that Putin’s successor, in this hypothetical, would likely be even more ruthless. The costs to achieve such a dubious outcome could become astronomical.

The Biden administration’s policies have driven Russia into a de facto alliance with China. Because China has not and will not abide by the embargo, Russia has increased its foreign revenues while China benefits from cheaper fuel. Coupled with his intentional depletion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and support for the Left’s Green New Deal, Biden has further empowered Russia’s energy-dominated economy and Putin’s war machine at Americans’ expense.

Our citizens are also entitled to know how the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being utilized in Ukraine.

We cannot prioritize intervention in an escalating foreign war over the defense of our own homeland, especially as tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year from narcotics smuggled across our open border and our weapons arsenals critical for our own security are rapidly being depleted."

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1635719668806582293

In 2015, Ron DeSantis attacked Obama for not giving enough weapons to Ukraine.

In 2018, DeSantis received $50,000 from Russian oligarch Andrei Muraviev.

In 2022, DeSantis’ top spokeswoman belatedly registered as a foreign agent.

Now, he’s siding with Russia against Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/NikkiFried/status/1635681097420877828

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/california-weed/article246311690.html

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article259394354.html