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‘It’s Complicated’: Dems Snark At DeSantis For ‘Taking Credit’ As Maskless Florida Booms

‘It’s Complicated’: Dems Snark At DeSantis For ‘Taking Credit’ As Maskless Florida Booms

As Democrat lockdown governors Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo struggle like drowning mice to lead their states out of ‘science’-based pandemic restrictions while embroiled in political scandals, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) – who notably did not lock down his state – is looking so good that even CNN hit pieces can’t help but give him credit for a booming economy and low COVID numbers – even if they only go so far as to call it a happy accident.

In a Wednesday article titled "A year into the pandemic, Florida is booming and Republican Gov. DeSantis is taking credit," CNN‘s Jeff Zeleny writes:

As many parts of the country embark on an uneasy march toward normalcy, Florida is not only back in business — it’s been in business for the better part of the past year. DeSantis’ gamble to take a laissez faire approach appears to be paying off — at least politically, at least for now, as other governors capturing attention in the opening phase of the pandemic now face steeper challenges.
 
Despite far fewer rules and restrictions, Florida lands nearly in the middle of all states on a variety of coronavirus metrics. The state has had about 3% more Covid-19 cases per capita than the US overall, but about 8% fewer deaths per capita.

"If you look at what’s happening in South Florida right now, I mean this place is booming. It would not be booming if it was shut down," DeSantis said last month as tourist season began to heat up. "Los Angeles isn’t booming. New York City’s not booming. It’s booming here because you can live like a human being." 

California, meanwhile, refuses to disclose the COVID-19 data they used to determine when lockdown orders are implemented or rescinded, while at least two judges and the Supreme Court have invalidated lockdown orders due to a lack of science, or challenged pro-lockdown rulings by lower courts, and several sheriffs of large counties have openly rebelled against Newsom’s edicts.

Newsom even issued a racial "equity requirement" that must be met before counties can move down a tier in lockdown restrictions.

DeSantis, on the other hand, has the wind at his back – as Florida enjoys an unemployment rate of just 4.8% compared to 6.8% in Texas, 8.8% in New York and 9% in California. Meanwhile, Florida has recorded around 9,200 COVID cases per 100,000 people and 150 deaths per 100,000 people, while nationwide there are an average of 8,969 cases and 163 deaths per 100,000 people.

"Those lockdowns have not worked. They’ve done great damage to our country," he said at a Tallahassee press conference. "We can never let something like this happen again. Florida took a different path. We’ve had more success as a result."

"We still have millions of kids across this country who are denied access to in-person education," he added. "We still have businesses closed in many parts of this country. We have millions and millions of lives destroyed."

CNN even took notice of the youngest governor in the nation’s political windfall.

With spring on the horizon, DeSantis suddenly appears to be in a position of strength compared to some of his fellow governors, including many of whom took far more restrictive approaches to the fight against coronavirus that caused a trickle-down effect on the economy.
 
He is not facing a potential recall like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, under investigation like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo or being second-guessed for lifting a statewide mask mandate like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
DeSantis continues to rack up points with Florida Republicans, announcing on Wednesday that Florida will "expressly exclude…Critical Race Theory."
 
Newsom, meanwhile, is going on "The View" and making misleading statements about COVID-19 stats while trying to frame recall signatories as white supremacists and QAnon followers.
 
‘Counterproductive’
 
With the left unable to poke holes in the actual data, some are now saying it’s a waste of time to compare Florida with other states.
 
"What I’d love to ask about Florida is, if we had done things differently in Florida, what would it have looked like?" asks Jason Salemi, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of South Florida College of Public Health, who says that comparing states "complicated and often counterproductive."
 
"If you use those metrics of where Florida is relative to a lot of other states, we’re looking middle of the pack. So no, it hasn’t been a disaster in that we’re leading in mortality per capita in cases per capita," he continued, adding "It’s not always about doing well relative to your peers. It’s how can we prevent as much morbidity and mortality from the virus while keeping an eye on what’s happening with our economy."
 
And what would they be saying if Florida was doing worse than California and New York?

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Biden Admin Declares War on Free Press in Desperate Bid to Contain Border Crisis

In a desperate attempt to contain the unprecedented immigration crisis unfolding on the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden’s administration has imposed dangerous restrictions on journalistic freedom, a core American value that many pundits and media experts consider to be the backbone of democracy.

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Vile-Spewing NYT Times: Did GOP Lean on Filibuster to Cripple ‘First Black President?’

In Will Democrats Nix (or Weaken) the Filibuster?” New York Times “On Politics” newsletter editor Giovanni Russonello went beyond the usual liberal media whining over the filibuster to hint that Republicans are abusing the process in the name of — you guessed it — racism.
Major investments in infrastructure and green jobs. Expansions to voting rights and reforms to the democratic process. Strong new protections for labor unions. Universal background checks on gun sales.
All of these are top priorities for Democrats in Congress, and this session the House has already passed bills on most of them. But none of those bills have much chance of becoming law, as long as Republicans control 50 seats in the Senate.
Unless Democrats roll back the filibuster.
An old procedural move, the filibuster was introduced to protect the interests of slaveholding states in the years just before the Civil War and for the next 100 years it was largely favored by Southern segregationists. In its current form, it allows a minority party to put the kibosh on bills that arrive without the support of 60 senators, and in the past dozen years, it has gone from being a rarely used tool to a core element of Senator Mitch McConnell’s strategy as the Republican minority leader.
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But the history of the filibuster is complicated — and the image that many of us have in our heads, of an impassioned objection made on the Senate floor by a principled minority, simply doesn’t line up with the present reality….
Russonello leaned hard on one-sided history to portray the filibuster, used by both parties over the decades, as a racist truncheon.
First introduced in the run-up to the Civil War by John Calhoun, a staunchly pro-slavery senator from South Carolina, the filibuster was heavily used during the Jim Crow era by segregationists who sought to prevent widely popular civil rights laws from being put in place. Nationwide polls from the 1930s through the 1950s showed that most Americans supported anti-lynching legislation, the abolition of poll taxes and other such laws — but Dixiecrat senators from the segregated South used the filibuster to stop legislation.
He let an anti-filibuster author bash both Sen. Ted Cruz and the Republican Party at large as racist.
After the civil rights movement, pushback against the filibuster led to the reforms of 1975; in the years after that, it remained the primary domain of conservative Southern senators like James Allen and Jesse Helms, who were “considered outlaws, almost pariahs among their colleagues,” [Adam] Jentleson said, calling them “absolutely the Ted Cruzes of their day.”
“If Republican leaders at the time could’ve had their way, they would’ve made these guys stop and cast them out of the party,” he said. “But it turns out that they were kind of the progenitors of where their party was headed.”
In his book, Jentleson writes that it may not be a coincidence that the G.O.P. leaned in to using the filibuster after the rise of Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president. McConnell, who declared in 2010 that his main goal was to ensure Obama was “a one-term president,” started using the 60-vote threshold to stop almost all legislation from passing.
Russonello finds racism everywhere he looks, including the 2020 Republican National Convention, even roping media victim, former Kentucky high-schooler Nicholas Sandmann into the toxic mix: “You can expect racial resentment to remain a central theme on Night 2 of the convention, where the speakers will include Nicholas Sandmann, the teenager who got in a dispute with a Native American man at a protest last year….”
That’s not really what happened on the National Mall in January 2019, when teenagers in D.C. for the March for Life were confronted by racist Black Israelites.

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SPOTTED: Liberal Hypocrite and Biden Climate Envoy John Kerry Flouts Federal Mask Mandate on American Airlines Flight


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Liberal hypocrite and Biden Climate Envoy John Kerry was spotted flouting the federal mask mandate on an American Airlines flight.

John Kerry endangered passengers (according to Fauci) and took off his face mask as he settled into his first-class seat just before takeoff on Wednesday.

Kerry was flying from Boston to DC on American Airlines, according to The Tennessee Star.

He was not eating or drinking so why wasn’t he wearing his face mask?

Why wasn’t John Kerry removed from the flight since airlines are so quick to remove toddlers for throwing tantrums over face masks.

Must be John Kerry’s liberal privilege.

Conservatives reacted to John Kerry’s liberal privilege.

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“Dr. Fauci and Birx and All of These People that Frankly Made Nothing But Mistakes” – President Trump on the Doctors Who Used COVID-19 to Destroy Freedom

President Trump last night discussed the two doctors who encouraged him to shut down the government rather than use a risk-based approach to the China coronavirus.  His comments were in an interview with Maria Bartiromo.

The Daily Caller reported on the President’s remarks:

Bartiromo began by mentioning President Joe Biden’s primetime address on Mar. 11, in which he claimed the coronavirus was “met with silence for days, and weeks, and then months.” She noted that he made no mention of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s partnership with private companies to quickly develop and distribute a vaccine. She then asked Trump how he felt about “not getting any credit” from the Biden administration.

“So when you go to the Covid issue, we did a great job. We get very little credit for it. I closed the country far earlier. Dr. Fauci and Birx and all of these people that, frankly, made nothing but mistakes, they didn’t want to do it. They didn’t want to close it to China,” Trump responded. “I closed the border to China. I closed the border to Europe, Italy, and all of these countries that were having tremendous problems long before they wanted me to do it.”

“If you look at Biden, he didn’t want to do it months afterwards, and then ultimately he admitted that he made a mistake in saying that. If I didn’t do that, we would have had hundreds of thousands of more lives gone,” Trump concluded.

Of course doctors Fauci and Birx were incompetent when it came to dealing with the China coronavirus:

HUGE UPDATE: Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx Used Imperial College Model — NOW CONFIRMED AS A COMPLETE FRAUD — To Persuade President Trump to Lock Down Entire US Economy!

President Trump is right to criticize these two failed doctors.  Millions of Americans lost their jobs, businesses, incomes, and savings due to these two who did all they could to destroy the US economy in 2020.

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DeSantis Champions High Quality Civics Literacy

In January 2020, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis announced the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative (FCDI) with The Marcus Foundation to elevate civic knowledge, civic skills, and civics disposition for middle and high school students. However, the pandemic delayed the implementation of the program. During his Wednesday press conference, DeSantis reinforced his commitment to high quality education and to the teachers who pursue excellence in his state.

Among DeSantis’ first initiatives as Governor were the elimination of Common Core from the Florida curriculum, the signing into law of “milestone civic literacy legislation,” and a significant Executive Order in 2019 to make Florida a leader in vocational and technical education by the year 2030. The results of the Florida audit of the career and technical education (CTE) programs can be found here.

In 2020 he committed to and succeeded in the passage of legislation that took the average minimum salary for teachers in Florida from the bottom half of states to the top five. In addition, The Marcus Foundation earmarked $5 million to increase Florida student’s access to speech and debate program. “Before the initiative was created, there were 11 school districts in Florida that participated in debate. In FCDI’s first year, Florida now has 59 active teams in 30 different school districts across the state.”

The Florida Department of Education states as their mission for Civic Literacy as one which “prepares students to become civically engaged and knowledgeable adults who make positive contributions to their communities. Florida students will graduate with sufficient knowledge of America’s civics, particularly the principles reflected in the United States Constitution, so as to be capable of discharging their responsibilities as American citizens.” A list of some of the resources for the program is listed below:

Resources/Civic Literacy Florida

De Santis wants to make Florida the leader in civics education with his $106 million proposal. He is requesting that the state legislature take up the proposal during the current legislative session using the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) through the CARES Act. “The curriculum prioritizes the development and support of high-quality civics education and rewards classroom teachers who take part in it,” explained DeSantis.

The Florida Education Department will create a Florida Civics Seal of Excellence, the symbol of the proposed professional development program which will provide a series of modules and credentials that will be available to Florida teachers. Those teachers who complete the modules will receive the Civics Seal of Excellence and a $3000 bonus. Civics will be ideally incorporated into multiple subject areas, not just history. The state will bring in some of the best experts in the country to support teachers in Florida classrooms.

$16.5 million will also be dedicated to additional training, professional development, and classroom support for principals and teachers seeking to elevate civics education in their schools. It would also include $6.5 million toward a career pathways program to launch pilots for public service incubators to develop partnerships between secondary schools and government institutions. Through these public service partnerships, “professional and volunteer pathways” will be created to give students experience with the role of public service, “to inspire the next generation of public servants.”

DeSantis said that coursework that features critical race theory has no place in the Florida education system. “Let me be clear: there’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory,” DeSantis said. “Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.” He added, “They’re trying to make people view each other based on race, I want to do the opposite, I want to treat people as individuals. I want to treat people based on character, but when you put this curriculum in, it ends up creating more divisions.”

DeSantis said that a solid grasp of the United States Constitution has become a “lost art.” Coursework featuring ideology sold as facts have become the norm in universities, according to DeSantis.“Having graduating kids with the foundational knowledge to understand what makes America unique understand the principles that people have fought for, is really really important and especially in a time where, you know, we have so much political bitterness,” DeSantis said.

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Doctors Forced to Provide Cross-Sex Hormones Under Equality Act Could Send Teenagers Into Premature Menopause

Dr. Michelle Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, is sounding alarm bells about the fact that, if passed, the Equality Act would punish medical doctors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who do not go along with a confused minor’s “gender identity.”

The scary part of this is that those who are prescribed cross-sex hormones following puberty-blocking drugs could end up going through a premature menopause or andropause and all the ailments that come with it.

“That is what happens when health professionals medicalize childhood gender identity by prescribing puberty blockers to halt pubertal development at its earliest, visible signs,” Dr. Cretella wrote at the Post Millennial along with Natasha Chart, executive director of Women’s Liberation Front.

“Health professionals then prevent this normal and critical developmental stage altogether by administering cross-sex hormones throughout the sexual maturation window,” they continued, adding that these teens are likely to experience “conditions of old age — a girl is sent into menopause, or a boy put into andropause — decades before their time.”

Breitbart reports that “during a Heritage Foundation webinar, Cretella observed the surge in activism in the lucrative field of transgender medicine has led to the ‘gaslighting’ of many more children and teens.”

The pediatrician explained studies show that nearly 100 percent of children who are given puberty blockers to stop normal puberty then go on to request cross-sex hormones, “which means we are sterilizing a great number of emotionally troubled youth.”

“And we already have girls, physically healthy girls, who are being referred for double mastectomies at age 13,” she asserted. “This is institutionalized child abuse. We’re taking emotionally troubled youth, psychologically abusing them by reinforcing their gender, sexual confusion, and then experimenting on them with toxic drugs and mutilating surgeries.”

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