Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

[BengalYankee]

(04-06-2023, 04:33 PM)Dill Wrote: The question I asked you to answer was--if T.G. still supports all those liberal policies you listed, then why is she endorsing Republicans who oppose them?  Do you, or does anyone you know, endorse the people whose policies are opposite yours? You can't really answer what, and so you offer two wonderful red herrings.

I choose to follow them because they speak more to the root of division in this country, namely the disinformation and lack of information in the RW media bubble and the inability of so many of our RW friends to compare apples with apples, which follows from years of false equivalence. 

First, "weaponization" is not simply sending the DOJ after regime enemies, as Barr did with the Durham investigation, among other things. 

In a regime party, it is also about protecting the leader from investigations, as Barr did when put out a letter implying Mueller had cleared Trump of obstruction charges when in fact he had not. AND when he shut down the NY investigation of Trump's finances and campaign violations. 

It is also about the party leader using the powers of office to protect and keep his power. That's what Trump was doing when he tried to get Zelensky to open an investigation on Biden, to hurt the guy who would eventually knock him out of office. Hunter Biden may not be Trump's "enemy," but his father was the greatest threat to Trump power, so investigating the son was another attempt to also bring the father under investigation (Millions from China!). Trump was protecting himself when he fired people from independent offices, like AG and head of the FBI, when they did not go after people he ordered them to go after, or would not quash an investigation into Trump himself. Nothing behind the scenes here--Trump constantly said the quiet part out loud. 

It is also about using the powers of office negate the judicial independence, as when Trump pardoned Flynn, Manafort and Stone, and Jared Kushner's father, along with Joe Arpaio. Leaning on individual secretaries of state to "find votes" is also an abuse of power. 

It is also about packing departments of government with people who will place the leader's will above law, as Trump did with the Post Office, DOJ and Department of Defense. The so-called DEEP STATE* opposed him to some degree as, for example, a number of people at the DOJ were set to resign if Trump replaced Jeffery Rosen with someone who would agree to investigate Hunter Biden, as Trump demanded, even though the required evidence was not there. Never mind that the DOJ is supposed to operate independently from presidential directives. 

Using the RNC to get 7 swing states to produce a false slate of electors is also weaponizing government, and Pence would have been doing that as well, had he used his office to illegally recognize the false electors. Fortunately, enough people--especially Republicans in government--kept to rule of law.

One of the big questions about the current dysfunction in government concerns how it is that after attempting to blatantly, often publicly, weaponize government, right down to the coup attempt, millions of MAGA base can sincerely believe that "weaponization" is a threat posed by Biden--the guy who keeps his hands off the DOJ and does not publicly demand that political opponents be locked up. This dysfunction is not possible without news sources that constantly misinform and obfuscate, as Fox does now with Trump's indictment. 

No previous president EVER weaponized government so openly, consistently, and successfully as Trump, not even Jackson and Johnson.

*Deep State=officials whose first duty was to the Constitution, not to the Dear Leader.

I am not going to fall in the trap and speak highly of Trump. Nor am I going to speak lowly of him.
If you don't think the media, academia and celebrities were against him you are blind and we need not no longer communicate.

My issue is your cowardice in finding issues where Tulsi did a 180 degree turn.
You talk about who Tulsi endorsed while she was an Independent.

You sneakily fail to talk about Liz Cheny who is a Republican, but endorsed Democrats during the mid-term.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/liz-cheney-just-endorsed-another-democrat/

I guess you or one of your hypocrite friends will spin this as usual. 

P.S. Here are the Democrats the Cheny the "Republican" endorsed.

Let the spin begin...

Liz Cheney endorsed the following candidates during the 2022 elections:

• Tim Ryan (D) for U.S. Senate in Ohio
• Abigail Spanberger (D) for U.S. House in Virginia's 7th congressional district
• Elissa Slotkin (D) for U.S. House in Michigan's 8th congressional district
• Chrissy Houlahan (D) for U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district
• Conor Lamb (D) for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania
• Josh Shapiro (D) for Governor of Pennsylvania