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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is having a a rough patch. Since officially entering the 2024 presidential race, DeSantis has struggled to make headway in the polls. 

Bad news about his campaign’s fundraising and staffing continues to dominate the headlines surrounding him. 

But last week, both of those strengths became potential liabilities even within his own party. The Florida State Board of Education, whose members DeSantis appointed, recently released a new set of standards for teaching African American history that included language suggesting that students learn that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

NBC News reported on Friday that the majority of the work group preparing those standards objected to that language being inserted. If they hadn't been overruled, DeSantis would have been spared the intense backlash that followed.

Importantly, the criticism has come from not just Democrats like Vice President Kamala Harris, but a growing number of prominent Black conservatives.

Rather than admit error, DeSantis’ team has gone scorched earth, leaving their boss looking less presidential and more like the kind of sensitive snowflake that the right has spent years mocking.

In a speech this month, Harris said that Florida’s education board wants to “replace history with lies” and that the state’s “extremist, so-called leaders should model what we know to be the correct and right approach if we really are invested in the well-being of our children.”

A struggling GOP candidate dreams of that sort of direct attack having lobbed their way. As NBC News’ Jonathan Allen recently reported, Harris has become the go-to punching bag for DeSantis and his allies rather than President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.

But Harris isn’t the only one with criticisms of the Florida standards.

On Wednesday, [url=unsafe:about:blank]Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., tweeted[/url] that “the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted. That obviously wasn’t the goal & I have faith that FLDOE will correct this.”

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DeSantis obviously has wet dreams about becoming a dictator .............. fine move to North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia just get the hell out of the USA!!!!!!!

Z09 » 31 Jul 2023, 5:37 pm » wrote: ↑

31 Jul 2023, 5:37 pm

Hey razoo..

Did you ever open those links?

You know..

"We'd never see snow again"

Hey dude go pack your bags and move to Russia or Communist China with Fascist DeSantis .........

razoo » 31 Jul 2023, 5:29 pm » wrote: ↑

31 Jul 2023, 5:29 pm

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign is having a a rough patch. Since officially entering the 2024 presidential race, DeSantis has struggled to make headway in the polls. 

Bad news about his campaign’s fundraising and staffing continues to dominate the headlines surrounding him. 

But last week, both of those strengths became potential liabilities even within his own party. The Florida State Board of Education, whose members DeSantis appointed, recently released a new set of standards for teaching African American history that included language suggesting that students learn that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

NBC News reported on Friday that the majority of the work group preparing those standards objected to that language being inserted. If they hadn't been overruled, DeSantis would have been spared the intense backlash that followed.

Importantly, the criticism has come from not just Democrats like Vice President Kamala Harris, but a growing number of prominent Black conservatives.

Rather than admit error, DeSantis’ team has gone scorched earth, leaving their boss looking less presidential and more like the kind of sensitive snowflake that the right has spent years mocking.

In a speech this month, Harris said that Florida’s education board wants to “replace history with lies” and that the state’s “extremist, so-called leaders should model what we know to be the correct and right approach if we really are invested in the well-being of our children.”

A struggling GOP candidate dreams of that sort of direct attack having lobbed their way. As NBC News’ Jonathan Allen recently reported, Harris has become the go-to punching bag for DeSantis and his allies rather than President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.

But Harris isn’t the only one with criticisms of the Florida standards.

On Wednesday, [url=unsafe:about:blank]Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., tweeted[/url] that “the attempt to feature the personal benefits of slavery is wrong & needs to be adjusted. That obviously wasn’t the goal & I have faith that FLDOE will correct this.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opi ... -rcna96900

DeSantis is a **** joke backed by the very money that is trying to destroy/conto us all.....
and so are you .....you feckless sheep....

Both DeSantis and Trump, ALEC and MAGA and the Fake Republican Party are still trying to over throw the USA in general. Then will begin funneling trillions of our tax dollars into their very few bank accounts, aka Privatization, instead of into:

Social Security Insurance
Medicare Insurance
Medicaid
Public Education
Maintaining Infrastructure
Maintaining the IRS
Maintaining the FBI
Maintaining Clean Drinking Water
Maintaining a Multiple Party System
Maintaining Voting Rights
and many other services.

I say voters need to come out in large numbers to save USA democracy from Fascism, Oligarchy & Autocracy in 2024 .... make no mistake about it......