A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis failed to answer a question from a “rising ninth grader” in South Carolina about school lunches and whether he supported Barack Obama’s “Let’s Move” program.
Instead, he reaffirmed “choices” to eat junk food, before denouncing the “food pyramid.”
The student was discussing “unhealthy” lunches at her school, including “canned oranges,” “pizza that was probably frozen” and Taki’s chips “with all this red food dye,” when DeSantis asked her what she ate for lunch before eventually affirming the right to serve nutritionally barren food in schools.
“What I don’t want to do though is have the federal government come and try to force you to make choices. I think you give people the information, let them know, you know what’s in store,” DeSantis said. “But I definitely think if you look at our society now compared to like 40 years ago, you know, it’s changed in terms of the health and the well-being we’ve actually had in the last five years, a pretty steep decline in life expectancy and that may not be necessarily related to diet as much.”
DeSantis soon enough pivoted off the topic of diet altogether, saying “some of it, unfortunately, is all these drug overdoses. So it’s, and maybe some other things that I know people are looking at. So, so we do need to do better on health, but I think we would do it in a way that would empower people to make those decisions.”
From there, the Governor pivoted to denouncing federal nutritional recommendations.
“I don’t want the federal government coming down, And honestly, the federal government in the past, remember they used to do the food pyramid. They said don’t eat, don’t eat fat, eat all the carbs. No, the carbs will make you fat too. And so they were wrong about that.”
The Governor changed the subject, saying that the “CDC, NIH, FDA need to be cleaned out” because “these agencies failed during, they lied to the American people about all these different issues.
“We need a reckoning on all of that because it hurt a lot of people and for the FDA to do an emergency approval of a COVID shot for a six-month-old baby, there was no basis to approve that,” DeSantis said.
An audience member noted that the rising ninth grader’s question went unanswered. DeSantis disagreed.
“No, I did. I said what we don’t want to do is we don’t want to be forcing changes to schools and dictating. So we will promote what would be good. Obviously, we want it to be cost-effective, but it’s going to be giving school districts, it’s going to be giving individual Americans the best information so that they can make appropriate choices,” DeSantis said. “It’s not going to be dictated by Washington.”
33 comments
Dont Say FLA
July 17, 2023 at 7:12 pm
But what if them lunches have finger lickin’ good puddin’ in them?
tom palmer
July 17, 2023 at 7:40 pm
what a bizzare answer
Tom
July 18, 2023 at 2:04 pm
He could have just said that what you eat is irrelevant because you’ll probably die from being shot. It seems odd that pretty much every answer to every question is a word salad mixed in with some verbal diarrhea. The dude is either a nervous wreck or has no idea what he’s talking about but he does seem consistent in his enjoyment of bullying kids.
SteveHC
July 17, 2023 at 7:43 pm
Give this guy enough “rope” and he consistently “hangs himself”. Unbelievable, can’t provide rational responses to even a child. I’m by no means a Trump supporter, but he’s a genius compared to DeSantis.
Tom
July 18, 2023 at 2:06 pm
Well, as Casey point out, he may consistently hang himself be he’s far from being well hung.
Eileen
July 17, 2023 at 8:37 pm
It’s pretty clear he did answer the question. No, he doesn’t support the “Lets Move” program where more than half of school lunches were being thrown out because kids wouldn’t eat them. That goes back to the government ‘food pyramid’, which if you followed, you probably would be obese because it wasn’t nutritionally sound, much like Obama’s program. Children need fat and protein to grow. But food must also be palatable so it will be eaten. His other point was to not federalize the school lunch program.
Dr. Franklin Waters
July 17, 2023 at 11:12 pm
It’s more likely that he knows that his political base exists on nothing but Moon Pies & Mountain Dew and he doesn’t want to offend them.
Eileen
July 17, 2023 at 11:56 pm
I love stereotypical thinking, it’s so original.
Ned Beatty
July 18, 2023 at 7:18 am
The truth hurts, stupid cunt.
Isabella Saxon
July 18, 2023 at 1:03 pm
Eileen, please let us know where you get your “facts” about school lunches. Ned, I’m worried about you. Please remember to take your blood pressure medicine.
Robert Guilday
July 18, 2023 at 8:10 am
But so accurate. You don’t want to be labeled? Don’t be stupid.
Ned Beatty
July 18, 2023 at 7:17 am
You’re going to get obese from eating whole grains, fruits and vegetables? OK, boomer.
Dont Say FLA
July 18, 2023 at 7:31 am
Hey.. It’s a Moms For Liberty! Her special Liberty power is that of leaving poor kids to starve, especially when they are not whyte. Good for you, MFL. Bless your heart.
Iffy Answered
July 18, 2023 at 8:25 am
If Ron answered the question, why does he have you on here explaining his alleged answer for him? Especially after staff cutbacks?
Has he give up on Iowa as well as New Hampshire, and now the campaign goal is to try at wining some internet comments sections?
LOL @ The Rhonda Campaign’s Internet Commentary Path to Electoral College Victory
Miss Understood Rhonda
July 18, 2023 at 8:53 am
Eileen says Rhonda isn’t a raging hemorrhoid. Rhonda is just misunderstood.
Little Miss Understood Rhonda
Isabella Saxon
July 18, 2023 at 1:02 pm
Eileen, please let us know where you get your “facts” about school lunches.
Robert R Bruner
July 18, 2023 at 9:15 pm
You sure do not comprehend information given to you very well. You can also tell you are a racist. Get used to more Democrat control of government. Maybe pay more attention to DETAIL and you can LEARN something.
Michael K
July 17, 2023 at 9:44 pm
Huh? Say what?
As if regressive and backward states like Florida, Alabama and Mississippi would ever step up to help poor kids out with healthy food? Nah.
Filthy rich mega donors? Everything served on a silver platter!
Stop the madness
July 17, 2023 at 10:13 pm
He’s nonsensical.
Linwood Wright
July 17, 2023 at 11:09 pm
It’s bewildering that anybody could look at this guy and not see anything about a complete buffoon. How does this dipsh*t even have a single supporter?
Tjb
July 17, 2023 at 11:40 pm
“Let them eat cake” will be Ron’s new slogan. He does not care for the less fortunate folks in need.
I.N. Ayne
July 18, 2023 at 4:17 am
This entire blog has become so crushingly inane that I can only compare it to Bozo the Clown overdosed on Quaaludes.
Subject matters
July 18, 2023 at 8:21 am
I can’t argue with that, but I think it’s due to the subject matter.
Mark miller
July 18, 2023 at 6:34 am
Yes Ron clean house and line it with your special police. Sad that he has a insurance crisis in this state and he does nothing for the home owners paying the highest insurance premiums in the nation. Guess if can not answer a 9th grader question he probably doesn’t have a insurance answer either.
Roid Rhonda
July 18, 2023 at 7:29 am
When it comes to feeding hungry children, “we do need to do better on health, but I think we would do it in a way that would empower people to make those decisions” such that we need not feed hungry children because some of them might not eat it.
When it comes to bodily autonomy, we also “do need to do better on health, but I think we would do it in a way that would…” force births but withhold citizenship unless the baby has proof it belongs here in my opinion.
Deep State
July 18, 2023 at 7:45 am
Ron is on to us. They figured out we masquerade as the food pyramid to maintain both our cover and control. We have been manipulating the USA and coming for children for decades under the guise of Food Pyramid but this guy, Ron DeSantis of Florida, he is too smart for us and figured us out and exposed us, purportedly the Food Pyramid, for who we really are, the Deep State. LOL @ us for thinking we could slip one past Ron DeSantis, super genius.
Casey Says
July 18, 2023 at 7:50 am
Casey says “Ron, it’s not your fault you are a meatball. It’s the Food Pyramid’s fault. They set you up to fail. You didn’t, and you don’t, just eat far too much. It’s definitely the Food Pyramid’s fault that you’re a meatball.”
LOL @ Stupid Rhonda, believing Casey again.
People are saying Casey might be working against you, Rhonda. I think yes, and it’s blatant.
Alison
July 18, 2023 at 8:27 am
You’ve got to be the ABSOLUTE Dumbest person I’ve ever came across. PARENTS CAN’T AFFORD HEALTHY FOOD. Schools the only place these kids sometimes get healthy means of offered. How dumb can you really be??????????? #rondesantis #Notmygovenor #desantisnotqualified
Qusetions of leadership
July 18, 2023 at 11:10 am
so he doesn’t want to dictate healthy school lunches for kids, he just wants to ban books, regulate what teachers can say and punish kids for any differences they may display that hw disagrees with?
Nicole R Rowan
July 18, 2023 at 11:09 pm
Exactly 💯
Kenneth L Gallaher
July 18, 2023 at 2:01 pm
DUHSadistg has no political future.
Silly Wabbit
July 18, 2023 at 3:31 pm
He kwazy.
ddsasdfafasdfasdf
July 19, 2023 at 6:38 am
WAIT UP. We got a Governor who cares SO MUCH he doesn’t see federal school lunch issues, that’s right this dude more concerned about other issues like WHY AM I running against TRUMP when my polls are so friggin low it’s a JOKE and waste of taxpayer money having secret stupid officials guarding me. Sorry, but not sorry, FU you POS who have taken BRIBES and gotten clandestine money from BIDENS AND OBAMAS and now you play the dumb hookers? FU mother fkgrs. WE SEE YOU. YOU SOLD OUT THE amERICan PEOPLE YOU DISGUSTING POS. REDEEM YOURSELVES TO ALL YOU HARMED> OR FACE THE WRATH OF HELL. NOT THE HELL YOU CHOSE, but the hell the REAL HELL GOD has ready for ALL who sell themselves to satan and do wrong. You are finished.
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