08-29-2021, 04:57 PM
(08-29-2021, 12:17 PM)GMDino Wrote: Boy you're sensitive about him.
Further proof that an education doesn't alone make one smart.
Nor does one serving their country make them right.
Two good things but not proof of infallibility.
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar...and a skin hound who lied to the American people and should have stepped down from the office.
You can be smart and make dumb decisions. You can be a soldier and be a bad person.
Here let me put in a way you'll understand: I prefer people who don't let the people they are responsible for die because of their bad decisions and then blame someone else.
Sorry, when I hear someone call someone with that background an idiot, or claim he's not media savy my eyes start to roll.
I can see disagreeing with someone politically. And being intelligent don't always mean being agreeable, or a good person; I get that. But to call the man stupid seems a bit much.
I just think some of you couldn't be more transparent. I just wish you were honest. This guy is a Republican, which you hate, and he's also one of the faces of the party. Therefore you'll gladly take the opportunity to rail on him. That's really what this is. This isn't actually about getting to the bottom of the surge, or properly assigning blame and exploring solutions; this is about hyper-focusing on one person because of partisan politics.
Back in the winter, when they ranked something like 25 in cases, and 30 death rate, you focused on him. Not any of the other states that were worse. A few weeks ago when I brought up that the numbers in Louisiana were worse in every single category you disappeared and didn't say a word or start bemoaning their Govenor. You and a few others chose to sit that conversation out. (I wonder why?)
Right now there's a slew of states like afformentioned Louisana, or Mississipi, or Georgia that are neck and neck that are getting zero discussion, and their leaders don't have blood on their hands in the same way as Florida. Why is that?
I'd love for you to point to specific policies there that you feel have contributed to what we've seen these last 45 or so days. Are they that different than any number of other states? You can't use mask mandates because those don't exist in the majority of states. You can't use vaccination rates because Florida is average. You can't use school masking because they're either not back yet, or they just started and wouldn't affect the deaths seen since mid July. So what is it exactly? What specifically hasn't Desantis done to put himself on an island in your mind?
Also, there's a few obvious things contributing to the surge in Florida that not at all has anything to do with Desantis. You could pick your favoritie Governor, your favorite politician, or your favorite health official and they'd still rank high right now. I honestly wonder if you guys know what these are. I think you have to.
