A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis continues to define issues as a presidential candidate, suggesting in Tega Cay, South Carolina, that enthusiasm for the military is undermined by “woke” concepts.
“Now we’re in a situation where a lot of these veterans are coming up to me saying, ‘I don’t know that I want my kids or grandkids joining today’s military.’ Why? Because they’re taking their eye off the mission. They’re focusing on things like social experimentation, ideology, woke agenda, pronouns, drag queens, all these in our own military. Are you kidding me?”
The Governor is rolling out what he calls a “substantial” military agenda tomorrow in South Carolina that he says will cause “morale to go up” and “recruiting to rebound.” But while the formalized agenda is new, the drag queen denouncements are a staple of the DeSantis stump speech.
The Governor has previously addressed drag queens in the military, including during speeches in another pivotal state.
“In the Navy, they’re doing things like gender pronouns and drag queens for recruiting, talking about things like global warming and really being detached from the core mission of what our services are supposed to be doing. And that has caused warriors to leave the service. It’s caused recruiting to plummet,” DeSantis said in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, back in May.
Addressing the Moms for Liberty convention in June, he led off his remarks with more harsh words for drag queens.
“I see events like they had in New York City, where they’re chanting, some drag queen, ‘We are coming for your kids,’” DeSantis said. “Let me tell you something. You start messing with our kids, we’ve got problems.”
He also has attacked former President Donald Trump, pushing a viral Twitter video since deleted that Trump was too committed to LGBTQ+ rights.
“I think identifying Donald Trump as really being a pioneer in injecting gender ideology into the mainstream, where he was having men compete against women in his beauty pageants, I think that’s totally fair game,” DeSantis said on an episode of Tomi Lahren is Fearless on Outkick.
20 comments
Dont Say FLA
July 17, 2023 at 7:17 pm
Are you kidding me? What is this sad little guy’s inner trauma?
SteveHC
July 17, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Let’s face it, it appears that we all are probably watching this guy rapidly fade into self-inflicted political oblivion. Hard to imagine him running a food truck of his own let alone being Commander In Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. He just doesn’t seem to realize he’s in some really bizarre bubble completely sealed off from the real, external world of reality.
My Take
July 17, 2023 at 8:05 pm
What a compete loon.
What demons are next?
PeterH
July 17, 2023 at 9:22 pm
Something happened to Ron DeSantis and a drag queen. Nothing else can explain his fascination.
My Take
July 18, 2023 at 2:00 am
Would we laugh or gag were we somehow to learn the detaiĺs of Rhonda’s traumatic encounter with a drag queen?
Tom
July 18, 2023 at 7:51 am
Dark night, couple of beers, getting his trump on (grab them by the ….) and he found something he didn’t expect is my bet. There has to be something there – he can’t possibly be that obsessed with such a small percentage of the population for no good reason. It will come out eventually.
My Take
July 18, 2023 at 10:27 am
That actually happened to a friend of a friend in high school. It made me kind of suspect the same for troubled Ron.
Michael K
July 17, 2023 at 9:37 pm
What a weenie. Little D is too afraid to go after the real problem: Donald Trump – so he uses drag queens as a proxy to shield and hide his cowardice (and self-loathing).
If the Republican Party had an actual platform, Little D might actually stand for something. But he is nothing more than a MAGA wannabe dictator, and anti-woke is all he has to rile up the radical far right MAGAts who are driven by bigotry and hate. Didn’t work for George Wallace, it won’t work for Mr. Casey DeSantis.
Tropical
July 17, 2023 at 10:41 pm
Thank goodness this little sawed-off trumpy-twerp tipped his hat early so we could plainly see he has mental problems and will never be our President.
Unfortunately, his laws and his scattered creeps will be in power for quite a while after this bully term-limits out, (unless he changes that law, too).
My Take
July 17, 2023 at 11:05 pm
“term-limits out, (unless he changes that law, too).”
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Gad! I never thought of that.
Dont Say FLA
July 18, 2023 at 8:39 am
I suspect nobody’s going to extend term limits for the DeSanti after suffering Raging Rhonda’s Wrath when Rhonda spends the next two years blaming all of Florida (themself and Casey excluded, of course) for the embarrassingly bad loss.
Dr. Franklin Waters
July 17, 2023 at 11:07 pm
You’d think he would have learned by now that this is a losing issue and literally nobody outside of the far fringe right gives a sh*t about drag queens and “wokeness”.
His campaign is DOA, and his approval rating in Florida is at all time low.
Maybe he should concern himself with the insurance crisis and cost of living?
My Take
July 17, 2023 at 11:55 pm
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the chute to fascism blueprint draftìng.
Makes Rhonda look moderate.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-presidential-plans-second-term-power-election-2024-rcna94628
My Take
July 18, 2023 at 12:45 am
warriors to leave the service.
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Marines and Army maybe.
The Air Force and Navy possibĺy better can use computer gamers now.
Tank crews and drone forces in even the Army and Marines may mainly fight in front of a screen.
Earl Pitts American
July 18, 2023 at 7:12 am
Good mornting America,
Sigh….I, Earl Pitts American see that I need to have one of those “come to Earl meetings” with “The Ronald”. He was suposed to pivot the entire woke stuff away from “The Voters” and sling it in “The Donald’s” face about 30 days ago. Sigh….we discussed this in our “Put The Ronald In The White House Master Plan”.
The plan was for all the woke stuff to be woven into real things Trump did while in office, again about 30 days ago, and begin polishing up Desantis’ image as “Friend Of All Voters” regardless of Race, Color, Creed, National Origian, or Sexual Preference. Sigh…we are 30 days behind in turning all the woke stuff into a Trump disadvantage and a Desantis advantage.
Sigh….oh well this is not my, Earl Pitts “Supream Political Advisor” American’s, first political rodeo.
Dont worry America, I, Earl Pitts American, will turn my client “The Ronald” around and get this campaign back on track for “The Ronald’s glorious accention to “The White House”.
Full Disclosuer:
Dont worry America, I Earl Pitts American, was on vacation, enjoying one heck of a drunken bender on a cruise ship with my dance team entorage “The Earletts” durring the past 30 days and I take personall responsability for this epic fail. But watch what happens next America.
A regular man and a regular political advisor could never come back from such an epic fail. Thats why The Ronald hired me, Earl Pitts American, to guide his path to The White House.
Watch me America I’m back from vacay and ready to kick some bu++s.
Earl Pitts American
Simon Wisenstein
July 18, 2023 at 8:29 am
Thank goodness you are back Earl. I am with research at one of the major news networks and we have noticed the Desantis campaign was floundering like a ship adrift in a storm. Hey big guy we knew something was very wrong.
But nobody is begrudging you your important vacation time. Myself I often contimplate what a vaycay would be with the Earletts. I’ve seen them before and they all look like some wholesome fine All American Ladies. Your a lucky man Earl. Again welcome back we will watch for the corrisponding rise in the polling for Desantis.
Thanks Earl,
Simon
woken up fresh
July 18, 2023 at 8:35 am
Alas, I figured it out! Rona DeSatan is a drag king!!! He just pretends to be a great leader by dressing the part. Well, Rona, you had better start wearing adult diapers too like your former idol Don Tramp, and learn to soil yourself while on the World stage. Scat Rona!
Dora Dotter
July 18, 2023 at 8:58 am
Don’t Ask Rhonda. Don’t Tell Rhonda.
PiecedOff
July 18, 2023 at 9:42 am
More and more his posturing and over-protestation lead me to believe that Ron DeCeive-us is a world-class closet case.
He went out and got himself aTV-ready “beard” in former news anchor Casey.
Methinks thou dost protest too loudly
Candi
July 20, 2023 at 12:15 pm
The military itself has already begun to respond to this guy with total distain. He’s a moron and he’s out of touch with the majority of America- he thinks there’s a lot more Florida-like Q-anon good ol’ boy loving folks out there than there are. What an insult to our active duty troops of various sexualities and genders. They are going to annihilate this guy once he gets to a debate stage and his competitors start getting him to fumble all over himself. He’s in an echo chamber right now with his crazy wife beside him, tearing up over his support during her cancer experience and blabbing on about “caring” for the children (aka, not caring at all about the most vulnerable ones, and controlling the freedoms of other parents).
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