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Calls on DeSantis to endorse Trump. Matt my man, it’s not a coronation. He’s not POTUS.
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It’s clear that Trump told his sycophants to all sing the same tune in Waco.
He’s scurrrred……
https://instapundit.com/
JAMES TARANTO: Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Affable Culture Warrior.
In April 2020, businesses in Georgia were shuttered by government decree as in most of the rest of the country. Mr. Kemp was hearing from desperate entrepreneurs: “ ‘Look man, we’re losing everything we’ve got. We can’t keep doing this.’ And I really felt like there was a lot of people fixin’ to revolt against the government.”
The Trump administration “had that damn graph or matrix or whatever that you had to fit into to be able to do certain things,” Mr. Kemp recalls. “Your cases had to be going down and whatever. Well, we felt like we met the matrix, and so I decided to move forward and open up.” He alerted Vice President Mike Pence, who headed the White House’s coronavirus task force, before publicly announcing his intentions on April 20.
That afternoon Mr. Trump called Mr. Kemp, “and he was furious.” Mr. Kemp recounts the conversation as follows:
“Look, the national media’s all over me about letting you do this,” Mr. Trump said. “And they’re saying you don’t meet whatever.”
Mr. Kemp replied: “Well, Mr. President, we sent your team everything, and they knew what we were doing. You’ve been saying the whole pandemic you trust the governors because we’re closest to the people. Just tell them you may not like what I’m doing, but you’re trusting me because I’m the governor of Georgia and leave it at that. I’ll take the heat.”
“Well, see what you can do,” the president said. “Hair salons aren’t essential and bowling alleys, tattoo parlors aren’t essential.”
“With all due respect, those are our people,” Mr. Kemp said. “They’re the people that elected us. They’re the people that are wondering who’s fighting for them. We’re fixin’ to lose them over this, because they’re about to lose everything. They are not going to sit in their basement and lose everything they got over a virus.”
Mr. Trump publicly attacked Mr. Kemp: “He went on the news at 5 o’clock and just absolutely trashed me. . . . Then the local media’s all over me—it was brutal.” The president was still holding daily press briefings on Covid. “After running over me with the bus on Monday, he backed over me on Tuesday,” Mr. Kemp says. “I could either back down and look weak and lose all respect with the legislators and get hammered in the media, or I could just say, ‘You know what? Screw it, we’re holding the line. We’re going to do what’s right.’ ” He chose the latter course. “Then on Wednesday, him and [Anthony] Fauci did it again, but at that point it didn’t really matter. The damage had already been done there, for me anyway.”
The damage healed quickly once businesses began reopening on Friday, April 24. Mr. Kemp quotes a state lawmaker who said in a phone call: “I went and got my hair cut, and the lady that cuts my hair wanted me to tell you—and she started crying when she told me this story—she said, ‘You tell the governor I appreciate him reopening, to allow me to make a choice, because . . . if I’d have stayed closed, I had a 95% chance of losing everything I’ve ever worked for. But if I open, I only had a 5% chance of getting Covid. And so I decided to open, and the governor gave me that choice.’ ”
At that point, Florida was still shut down. Mr. DeSantis issued his first reopening order on April 29, nine days after Mr. Kemp’s. On April 28, the Florida governor had visited the White House, where, as CNN reported, “he made sure to compliment the President and his handling of the crisis, praise Trump returned in spades.”
Three years later, here’s the thanks Mr. DeSantis gets: This Wednesday Mr. Trump issued a statement excoriating “Ron DeSanctimonious” as “a big Lockdown Governor on the China Virus.” As Mr. Trump now tells the tale, “other Republican Governors did MUCH BETTER than Ron and, because I allowed them this ‘freedom,’ never closed their States. Remember, I left that decision up to the Governors!”
Exit quote: “Like Mr. DeSantis, Mr. Kemp, 59, was elected narrowly in 2018 and re-elected handily in 2022.”
In the general RDS was trailing Gillum by 7 percent in late Oct. 2018. RDS was leading in early voting. Eight percent of FL voters were still undecided at that point.
RDS won.
You don't think democrats will use this ultra MAGA material?
Trump is surrounding himself with the same type of cultists we mocked Obama for having.
If that is an attack Ronnie better toughen up fast
And the democrats will use those videos because they are running against Ultra MAGA regardless of who the nominee is
Students at a Virginia college are petitioning to remove their governor as commencement speaker for their upcoming graduation, reports indicate.
According to the Daily Caller, following the announcement from George Mason University on Wednesday that Gov. Glenn Youngkin would be appearing as the keynote speaker, swift hostility spread among the student body. The announcement praised Youngkin for his passing of a budget that allotted $33.4 million in new financial aid for George Mason University students while also including a comment from the college's president, Gregory Washington, who went on to praise the diversity among the student body.
"We look forward to welcoming Gov. Youngkin to speak to our graduating students, who we expect will comprise the largest and most diverse class of graduates ever," Washington said. "Gov. Youngkin's drive for lifelong learning and his entrepreneurial mindset is what we cultivate in all of our graduates."
"Selecting a speaker," she writes, "that has passed anti-trans legislation, promoted the abolishment of racial equity curricula, and restricted the availability of literature in public schools is an intentional target towards historically marginalized communities comprising Mason. It is harmful and disrespectful to the many students who continuously shape GMU's community to bring in an individual who has also neglected the needs of Virginians."
As of Sunday evening, the petition has amassed roughly 5,500 signatures.
"As a Patriot and prospective alumna of George Mason University," she continues, "I and my peers do not want the memories of our graduation day to be tainted by an individual who has harmed and continues to harm the people he serves."
Fuck off
Way to cut off your nose to spite your face, dickface. Orange man bad but feelers can be saved through the Biden Crime Family.
JFC.
The level of hatred for DeSantis will not be the same for one reason. He will speak to the undecided in a way that Trump is unable to.
Trump is not equipped to change. At least DeSantis will have a chance to attract some suburban housewives and those who will never vote for Trump. 2024 will be a game of inches.