The Candidacy of Ron DeSantis
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Remember when that one reporter didn’t know who Clarkson was and asked him
If he’d been to any Jazz games? He was like, “yeah a lot!”
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I dunno. I think the era of fatasses smoking in the dugout has ended. I remember the big guy from Boston, Big Poppy not exactly being malone. He was more THT’s frame after eating a dozen donuts. But I don’t think baseball players are the sloppy athletes they were years ago. The game is too popular internationally and there’s too much money to be made to remain out of shape. At least, I think. I’m not a huge MLB guy.
But it’s hard not to see the racial undertones he was trying for. It was a knock a wink to the “very fine people” he’s hoping to steal from Trump. @LogGrad98 nailed it
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There have been a lot of fat baseball players. Pitchers can be fat. First baseman as well. Cecil fielder, big papi are a few. There was a yankees pitcher too recently. I dont watch baseball at all but those are a few that come to mind.
Anywho, i just dont think that this is a huge deal. Its like the tan suit with obama or something in my opinion.
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*gasp* you brought up suitgate! How dare you
It was almost as big of a scandal as when Obama ordered the wrong type of mustard.
View: https://youtu.be/W-WnoZbjdh4
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I can’t understand why his polling has tanked since people finally got to know him a little bit. Is this supposed to sell to full grown adults?
View: https://twitter.com/alexthomp/status/1671881855866671105?s=46&t=QT7YFlZ_IlHq81PpZAhKgw
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Miggs
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Do you know where Hernando county is? Because if you knew, you wouldn’t have posted this. This is a few left wing teachers teaching in a very red district. You’re trying to continuously create and feed everyone a narrative which is not true. You can’t even point to any banning of educational books or removal of black history in public schools. It’s just false.
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There will be 50 people leave and there will be thousands of more people moving in. Because it’s a fast growing RURAL county. It’s about 1 hr from Tampa, with no traffic. Farm land everywhere. We have about 800 customers up in this area now because of the constant growth. It will probably grow 5% in the last 2 years. It’s a very red county.
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Here is a story, just last year, from the Midwest that shows teachers are quitting because of left wing policies.
Midwest teachers leaving the classroom over student behavior, left-wing politics
While the national teachers’ unions cite Republicans’ and parents’ “politicization” of the classroom as the reason for educators wanting to leave the field, Tony Kinnett with the Chalkboard Review discovered this is not what’s driving Midwestern educators out of their classrooms. Kinnett asked...www.americanexperiment.org
Why don’t you bring up this? Maybe it’s where people live and they don’t like the state/local politics. It’s like hearing the right wing people in California bitch all the time about their state government.
1) That’s a heck of a reliable source.
2) That’s an even better survey…lmao
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False. Statistically speaking, Ron DeSantis presides over the state with the highest rated education system in the nation. You rely entirely on anecdotes and opinion pieces to support a false narrative you want to be true.
I have watched you slander Florida for having the worst education system.
Then when presented with evidence that Florida has the overall #1 rated education system, I see you to pivot to claiming that Florida has the worst system of higher education. Then you are presented with rankings showing Florida having the overall #1 rated system of higher education.
Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. ...and you are completely impervious to any information from neutral sources that runs counter to the false narrative you want to be true. If you know some teachers in Florida who are having a rough go or are deeply concerned then I'm sorry to hear that but it doesn't change the fact that statistically Florida, the state governed by Ron DeSantis, has the #1 rated education system in the nation. I'm sure you can find an opinion piece that use anecdotes to tell you what you want to hear, but that too doesn't change the fact that statistically Florida, the state governed by Ron DeSantis, has the #1 rated education system in the nation. I can tell that you really, really don't want that fact to be reality but it is real. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system in the nation.
I honestly wonder if you are even capable of absorbing this fact that has been presented to you over and over and over as you continue to claim the opposite.
Highest rated education system in the country????? Lmfao. What dumbass source are you using?
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Frankly, I don’t give a damn about your stats. I’m pissed at what DeSantis is doing per higher education at public institutions of learning in Florida. Now. At THIS time. And I posted several articles that expressed the deep concerns many have regarding those changes. Yes, I was an instructor for a spell. At an institution of higher learning. History. I viewed higher education as a goal all unto itself. That LEARNING was a most worthy goal unto itself. That KNOWLEDGE was a noble thing, a higher goal. I brought that very idealism into every classroom I entered. Into every class I taught. DeSantis is about control. DeSantis is about the destruction of “woke” in the classroom. I care about what’s going on now, regarding academic freedom, and attacks on same, in Florida, and elsewhere censorship and control want to restrict academic freedom.False. Statistically speaking, Ron DeSantis presides over the state with the highest rated education system in the nation. You rely entirely on anecdotes and opinion pieces to support a false narrative you want to be true.
I have watched you slander Florida for having the worst education system.
Then when presented with evidence that Florida has the overall #1 rated education system, I see you to pivot to claiming that Florida has the worst system of higher education. Then you are presented with rankings showing Florida having the overall #1 rated system of higher education.
Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system. ...and you are completely impervious to any information from neutral sources that runs counter to the false narrative you want to be true. If you know some teachers in Florida who are having a rough go or are deeply concerned then I'm sorry to hear that but it doesn't change the fact that statistically Florida, the state governed by Ron DeSantis, has the #1 rated education system in the nation. I'm sure you can find an opinion piece that use anecdotes to tell you what you want to hear, but that too doesn't change the fact that statistically Florida, the state governed by Ron DeSantis, has the #1 rated education system in the nation. I can tell that you really, really don't want that fact to be reality but it is real. Statistically Florida has the #1 rated education system in the nation.
I honestly wonder if you are even capable of absorbing this fact that has been presented to you over and over and over as you continue to claim the opposite.
Note the sections on higher education….
Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke” in Florida schools, explained
From book bans to a hostile campus takeover, here’s a rundown of DeSantis’s conservative plan for Florida education.
www.vox.com
What the DeSantis agenda means for higher education in Florida
Florida law now bans public colleges from offering general ed classes that “distort significant events” or “teach identity politics." What happens when the government tells colleges what they can and can’t teach?
www.wbur.org
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This is the core of the disconnect between the way you and I view things. I do not believe knowledge that promotes bigotry is a noble thing. There used to be a JF poster named DutchJazzer who used to constantly post statistics and incidents. Was DutchJazzer noble for doing that? It was knowledge. I don't think it was a noble thing because DutchJazzer was a racist using selected history and his particular lens on current events to push his racist views.
I do not subscribe to your view that all knowledge is a noble thing. I see some as quite ignoble. That isn't to say I want to see most ignoble stuff banned but there is a difference between letting you purchase Mein Kampf if you want to, and forcing me to purchase Mein Kampf. That is what the spending of tax dollars is. These books you claim are banned aren't actually banned and you know it. What you are upset over is DeSantis not forcing the people of Florida through taxation to purchase books that promote hate. As you pointed out, it isn't the effectiveness of learning that has you upset.
It isn't knowledge and educating the people. It is the lack of hate-promoting material being purchased by the Florida taxpayers that you take issue with. Why? What benefit is it to broader society if there is more hate? Why should taxpayers subsidize and foster it?