DeSantis passes Trump in latest round of polls...

Elon Musk paid $44 billion to make sure we can get this kind of comedy

 

Then he wasted $44 billion as hysterical partisans perform for free.

 

I'm hoping for this, and think there is a real good chance of it... if DS comes out on top of the primaries.

The only thing that might stop DT from going 3rd party is the 100% guarantee that HE will lose massively if he does. Not sure his ego could take that and claims of fraud won't help him when we only pulls 25% of the vote.

 

Not a deflection. I was responding to your post about me calling him God Boy. He earned it with that ad. And one thing DeSantis did that Trump didn't do is use immigrants as pawns for his Martha's Vineyard political stunt. That alone should disqualify him, but the MAGA crowd that DeSantis is trying to commandeer loved it. No decent Christian would do something like that. No decent person would do something like that either.

 

You don’t have to be a Trump supporter to acknowledge that Trump Derangement Syndrome won out.

In 2016 he wrecked the hopes of Pantsuit Nation and so all creatures great and small and all forces under heaven were arrayed to destroy him.

 

So there can only be one Desantis discussion thread? Hmmm.... he must be special as I recall there being lots of Hillary threads, Bush threads, Trump threads, etc.

But my point in the reply is that you "laughed off" the negatives against DS and then claimed we just don't like him because he is anti-progressive agenda.

 

That's the best bill they can get through with the Republicans obstructing anything more.

A few points here:
1. Let's be clear, you're calling anti-discrimination laws "authoritarian." That would include the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
2. There is a strong argument that forcing an artist to create something is compelled speech and violates the First Amendment if it does not survive strict scrutiny. The challenge is drawing the line on what is art and whether an anti-discrimination law survives strict scrutiny.

Along those lines, I'm on the fence with the baker, but I'd be inclined to call what he's doing art and apply strict scrutiny. Anti-discrimination laws (real ones, at least) advance a compelling interest. So the question would then come down to narrow tailoring.

Closing schools in the face of an unprecedented pandemic is something both Republicans and Democrats alike did. It is also something basically every major democracy on Earth did. So no, it's not authoritarianism.

I believe in the right to bodily autonomy (which also protects abortion rights, FYI), so those employees would be able to challenge that dictate and require that it pass strict scrutiny. But to be clear, if you're talking about the OSHA rule, it required a vaccine OR routine testing.

I cast these issues aside because they either deal with a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic (hopefully) or anti-discrimination laws. They aren't malicious decisions intended solely to advance the person's political career, unlike DeSantis's routine constitutional violations.

Let's be clear what I dislike. I don't care if you call me out. I dislike that you are gleefully supporting a bigoted, wannabe authoritarian like DeSantis.

I'd love to see proof of that actually happening, and I'm not talking about right-wing supposition.

What?

 

I suspect that criminal convictions are going to exclude DT from being eligible. I just don't know if they will be handed down before the priamries or not but I think the trials should be completed by then. Winning a case before a political body like the senate is much different than winning one in a court of law, assuming that his fav judge Cannon is not the presiding judge. The volume of evidence on the classified documents, Georgia interference, and on the Jan 6 attempted coup is overwhelming.

 

Same question about the web designer. Is it art if three couples all ask for the exact same website? Only difference is the pictures they use? One difference, and I don't know the details of the case, is she an independent contractor? Or does she work for a firm considered public accommodation?

I also think motivation is important. You think closing of schools during a global pandemic was done for personal, authoritarianism reasons? Or forcing public accommodation shops to treat customers equally isn't advancing the cause of equality and freedom? I do.

So let's go back to DeSantis, and his personal vendetta against Disney. Give me a good reason why any politician would remove Disney's tax advantage status and I'll listen. I've yet to hear one other than owning the libs, which is not a good reason.

 

I don’t get why the Dems so fear Trump that they want to bar him from ever running again. Aren’t 2020 and the midterms sufficient evidence that he should be their preferred opponent ?

Lends itself to the conclusion that they hate him with an eternal hatred and therefore are determined to extinguish him from history.

 

Let's be very clear about the facts of that case. The woman has never been asked to design a wedding site for a gay couple. She's never designed a site for any married couple. And Colorado hasn't punished her in any way.

She's suing because she wants to post on her website that she does not serve gay couples. What stops her from doing that? An anti-discrimination law. The same type of anti-discrimination law that stops businesses in the South from posting signs saying "No blacks allowed." How authoritarian of the government!

And let's be even more clear, the 10th Circuit held that the anti-discrimination law at issue only survived because it satisfies strict scrutiny. In other words, it recognized that there was compelled speech in her case.

 

The Dems would probably be fine with Trump as the Republican candidate in 2024 although they did underestimate him in 2016 and are concerned that 2024 could be be a repeat of 2024 albeit a very unlikely repeat. What they also fear is that he would try to pull the same stunt that he did after he lost the election in 2020 and that they as well as a small number of Republicans believe that he should pay the price for his attempted and fortunately failed coup d'état on January 6, 2021 as well as his various other crimes.

 

They fear another low-IQ riot which dispersed a couple of hours after cops arrived ?

 

I didn’t realize you were a one-issue voter. Must have missed that.

 

This was a rigged RINOs-only poll. Let’s wait for the poll of real republicans to come out.