A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis embraced a martial metaphor in explaining how important next year’s Presidential Election is, likening it to one of the signature military battles in American history
During a town hall in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the 2024 presidential candidate invoked U.S. forces landing at Normandy, France, in 1944 for D-Day: a decisive battle ahead of the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany.
The Governor stressed the need for “each generation of Americans to step up and answer the call to preserve and protect liberty.”
“Sometimes that may mean we send a merry band of brothers to the shores of Normandy to fight Nazi Germany. Sometimes that means, where we are now, that we have patriotic Americans step up through this political process and demand that our Constitution be restored,” DeSantis said.
“That’s what we need right now because how this government operates in Washington is not consistent with what the founding fathers envisioned.”
Happily for those enlisting in DeSantis’ war via the “political process,” the body count shouldn’t reach the levels incurred by Allied forces in 1944.
Allied casualties on that June 6 were estimated at 10,000 killed, wounded and missing in action, according to a fact sheet produced by the Barack Obama White House in a 2014.
“From D-Day through August 21, the Allies landed more than two million men in northern France and suffered more than 226,386 casualties: 72,911 killed/missing and 153,475 wounded. German losses included over 240,000 casualties and 200,000 captured. Between 13,000 and 20,000 French civilians died, and many more were seriously wounded,” the document notes.
23 comments
Jay Smif
July 28, 2023 at 3:01 pm
You’ve got to be kidding. Pudgy fascist Ron DeSantis is such a f’n joke.
Tjb
July 28, 2023 at 3:10 pm
Which side is DeSantis on with this offensive… the Allies or the Nazi?
Should we ask Nate Hickman?
Dr. Franklin Waters
July 28, 2023 at 3:34 pm
What a horribly offensive thing to say.
Tom
July 28, 2023 at 3:40 pm
So now he’s cheapening the sacrifice of all the people who lost their lives on that horrible day. Nothing is sacred with this clown.
PeterH
July 28, 2023 at 3:51 pm
DeSantis quote:
The Governor stressed the need for “each generation of Americans to step up and answer the call to preserve and protect liberty.”
Liberty and freedom UNLESS you’re an educator, a woman seeking birth control, or a transgender individual,
Michael K
July 28, 2023 at 3:57 pm
I’d say his campaign is more like Beavis and Butthead, with Ron in both roles.
SteveHC
July 28, 2023 at 4:28 pm
“… the 2024 presidential candidate invoked U.S. forces landing at Normandy, France…” – reference to the Nazis’ invasion of Poland and their slaughtering of the Warsaw Ghetto’s forced occupants would’ve been far more appropriate…
Joe
July 28, 2023 at 5:10 pm
Zero chance Lil Mr. Ivy League can say where that “merry band of brothers” line comes from. (Hint: it’s not an HBO miniseries)
Mark
July 28, 2023 at 9:24 pm
Shakespeare would be banned in Floriduh. “It depicts under age sexual activity-I think” howled Shannon Rodriguez, Hernando County School Board member and local leader of the Bund Deutscher Mädel. She was then handed a copy of “Howl and other Poems” by Allen Ginsberg and her head exploded.
Norman Dee
July 28, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Does Rhonda Dee not realize the ‘merry band of brothers’ that stormed Normandy in 1944 were there to kill fascist Nazis? People like Rhonda Dee and his Maggas? Oh right, Rhonda Dee went to middle school in Florida, so he probably does not have the slightest idea what Norman Dee was about despite that fancy Ivy League degree in History … of Baseball
Church Manners
July 28, 2023 at 5:36 pm
Out of touch and offensive; which church taught him this?
My Take
July 28, 2023 at 6:35 pm
We want a more-successful analogy to Valkeria.
My Take
July 28, 2023 at 6:38 pm
With Trump in central role of course.
Bill Pollard
July 28, 2023 at 7:01 pm
My dad risked his life fighting in the Battle of Leyte and he saw good boys die. What a disgraceful thing for DeSantis to say concerning all those who fought for the freedoms of so many in World War II.
My Take
July 28, 2023 at 8:36 pm
The last battle, I believe, with capital warships firing big naval guns at enemy hulls.
My Take
July 28, 2023 at 8:51 pm
DirtSSantis’s political cohorts would be more a Band of Buggers.
Mark
July 28, 2023 at 10:10 pm
Shortly into the Trumpster Fire, someone posted the Robert F. Sargent photograph of the D-Day landing with the caption “A group of American’s interrupting an alt-right rally” and boy, that still fits.
My Take
July 30, 2023 at 6:38 pm
THAT is reallý clever and pointed!!
Sonja Fitch
July 29, 2023 at 8:01 am
Omg lock him up. Desantis is NOT in touch with any reality! Boy you a sick sick man?
Andrew
July 29, 2023 at 12:29 pm
Yes, your campaign has some similarities to D-Day and one big opposite. Your State policies killed more Americans during peacetime from refusing to acknowledge science of viruses, like the number of American soldiers killed on D-Day. But instead of fighting extremists and Nazis like our troops did on D-Day, you rally them to your base! Heil DeSantis!
TJC
July 29, 2023 at 4:08 pm
Is DeSantis confusing Shakespeare’s band of brothers with Robin Hood’s merry men?
Perhaps his new state militia will adopt the nickname, merry band of brothers, and DeSantis can say, hey, you know, like at the end of the day, you know, I invented that name, you know?
Dont Say FLA
July 30, 2023 at 3:11 pm
Ron DeSantis likens 2024 presidential campaign to World War II’s D-Day, and Rhon is absolutely spot-on correct.
The Nazis ARE getting their asses handed to them by Americans.
Igary salters
July 30, 2023 at 10:59 pm
FOR THIS TINY LITTLE RACIST WHITE MAN TO ENVOKE D DAY AND SAY TO AMERICANS TO RISE UP TO PROTECT OUR LIBERTIRES IS SO DAMN CRAZY WHEN HE IS PUSHING AND BY A RUBBER STAMP GOP HOUSE AND SENATE IS TAKING AWAY RIGHT OF BLACK FLORIDIANS TAKING AWAY THE HEALTH RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA TAKING AWAY THE RIGHT OF LGBQT+ PEOPLE IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA TAKING AWAY THE THE RIGHT OF HISPANICS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA HURTING THOUSANDS OF FLORIDIANS BY FIGHTING WITH AB INBEV BY CALLING ON THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA TO BOYCOTT BUD LITE BEER CAUSING BUD LITE SALES TO PLUMMEL THEREFORE AFFECTING THE FLORIDA PENSION FUND WHICH FLORIDIANS DEPEND ON FOR RETIRAMENT YOU ARE SO DAMN CRAZY ENOUGH SAID
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