DeSantis asked by GOP officials in Florida to ban vaccine as 'biological weapon'
T he Brevard County Republican Executive voted by a supermajority this week to call upon Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to ban the sale and distribution of Covid “and all related vaccines” in the state, Florida Today reported .
The nonbinding resolution also demanded that “Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody seize all remaining doses in the state for safety testing, ‘on behalf of the preservation of the human race,’ the resolution states," the report said
The resolution is part of a trend among GOP county officials in the state, and “closely mirrors” a measure advanced in February in Lee County. Last month a similar resolution was passed in Tampa Bay Hillsborough County, bringing the total to more than half a dozen counties, the outlet reported.
Here’s some verbiage from the resolution in Brevard County, according to Florida Today:
"Strong and credible evidence has recently been revealed that Covid-19 and Covid-19 injections are biological and technological weapons," the Brevard draft resolution says, citing claims that have been disproven and disputed by respected medical groups.
"An enormous number of humans have died or been permanently disabled" by the vaccine, it says. "Government agencies, media and tech companies, and other corporations, have committed enormous fraud by claiming Covid-19 injections are safe and effective."
Florida Today did add this disclaimer
“The four-page resolution cites a mix of news and government sources, legitimate scientific papers — including a Swedish study, purported to show that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine alters human DNA, that its authors have said has been misinterpreted by vaccine critics — and fringe websites."
It continues:
“The resolution includes references to data from a 2021 Pfizer study showing more than 1,200 deaths and 42,000 ‘adverse cases’ associated with the vaccine worldwide between December 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021, but fails to include other important context."
The report notes that, "By March 1, 2021, more than 72 million doses of the vaccine had been administered and more than 48 million people vaccinated in the United States alone, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ."
“The CDC has acknowledged some complications have occurred with different versions of the shot, but says 'severe reactions' are rare and the benefits of vaccination ‘continue to outweigh any potential risks,’ according to its website," the report states.
The New York Times COVID-19 tracker reported as of today that 67 percent of Brevard County residents – and 93 percent of its seniors – have received the primary vaccination against COVID
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LMAO, talk about going over the edge. Florida where intelligence goes to die.
This is at least the sixth county in Florida to pass this load of shit. (resolution)
Yay,Yaya, verily we will deny the scientific evidence and cherry-pick our data, to lead us down the primrose path.
I understand that they are enlisting JRK Jr. as their spokesperson.
LOL, should be JFK Jr.
That is OK. I think that the JRK fits, just one letter is left out
Did they resurrect his plane, too?
wrong dead kennedy.
LOL, nope back to back errors on my part. Should be RFK Jr. All those Kennedy's look and sound alike.
I actually played with this kid back in '67 at a national recreation area 56 years ago this month. I wandered into a party at the picnic grounds to shake RFK's hand and see some TV stars up close, and then ended up running around setting off fireworks with his brothers and him.
Who says DeSantis isn't a dangerous candidate?
Bless his heart, he is goofier than a runover cat...
He hasn't signed any of this nonsense, yet. He is too busy running for prez and firing staffers.
DeSantis's fundamentalist populism has all the worst kind of MAGAs on meth waving their AK-47s and Confederate flags! How did it happen in Germany? See: Florida...
Florida will be the first to outlaw the malaria vaccine, now that local malaria transmission is occurring there.
that could take a big chunk out of the maga crowd...
Was hoping COVID would take out all of the vaccine deniers.
maybe next time, now that the anti-vax crowd has kept the conspiracy alive longer than the virus...
hopefully they get most of the thumpers to join them...
Malaria, we don't have any stinkin' malaria in Floriduh but we are drafting a resolution to ban it anyhow. /s
Ron DeSantis campaign manager at work
They need a bigger shovel.
For digging the super hole.
What the actual . . .
You couldn’t write a work of fiction with characters this stupid. No one would find them plausible.
Which enormous number? Get specific.
I’ve got one: 5.55 Billion . That’s the number of people on planet Earth who have received at least one Covid vaccine. And yet the population continues to climb.
5.55 Billion people - nearly 3/4 of the human race - have received over 13 Billion doses of vaccine. You can’t ask for a more thorough test of its safety than that.
Please stop voting for imbeciles.
But stupid people...
If we did that we would only have a few, very few politicians. In fact we have a breeding program for them and as you can see we are quite successful at it.
You must have to adjust the program... they appear to be getting dumber
An adjusters work is never done, Thomas.
How dumb do you want them?
dumb enough not to matter?
Smarter people in general, Please.
good luck with that my friend
heh
I don't understand how people this stupid haven't shown up on a Darwin Award list yet.
There are using a cover name. LOL
they're changing the name to the trump award next year...
... all awards will be posthumous.
with all the anti-CDC shit filling their heads, the next pandemic will carve off a lot bigger slice of moron pie...
Momma nature does love her revenge. A woman scorned.
I wonder how much more ice needs to melt before the frozen microbes of the black death thaw out and gets into the food chain...
less stupid people is better for the planet. [removed]
Don't think I've been vaccinated for the Bubonic plague.
The CDC should get right on that.
The ice isn't going to stop melting anytime soon.
www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/jul/16/desantis-reduces-campaign-staff
DeSantis reduces staff as campaign struggles to meet fundraising goals – report
Michael Sainato 3-4 minutes 7/16/2023
Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has reduced campaign staff as his campaign has struggled to meet fundraising goals.
Fewer than 10 staffers were laid off, according to an anonymous staffer, reported Politico. The staffers were involved in event planning and may be picked up by the pro-DeSantis super Pac Never Back Down. Two senior campaign advisers, Dave Abrams and Tucker Obenshain, left the campaign this past week to assist a pro-DeSantis nonprofit group.
Sources within the campaign reported an internal assessment that the campaign hired too many staffers too early.
“They never should have brought so many people on; the burn rate was way too high,” said one Republican source familiar with the campaign’s thought process to NBC News . “People warned the campaign manager but she wanted to hear none of it.”
More shake-ups within the campaign are expected in the coming weeks after two months on the presidential campaign, with DeSantis still lagging substantially in second place behind former president Donald Trump .
Even in DeSantis’s home state of Florida , Trump still has a 20-point lead over the governor, according to a recent Florida Atlantic University poll.
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Ron DeSantis Has a Ron DeSantis Problem
The Florida governor’s biggest issue in the 2024 Republican primary? Nobody likes him.
By Alex Shephard
Where did it all go wrong for Ron DeSantis? You could point to Donald Trump’s first indictment —or his second , for that matter—when Republican voters rallied behind the former president in droves. You could point to the Florida governor’s disastrous, glitchy campaign launch on Elon Musk’s disastrous, glitchy Twitter. You could point to DeSantis’s early struggles to gain momentum in the primary, which led to a dramatic expansion of the Republican field. In time, you might point to this week, when it became clear that the GOP donor class and, most importantly, Fox News honcho Rupert Murdoch, had soured on their onetime favored son and were beginning to look elsewhere, specifically toward Tim Scott, a sunnier alternative (who is, nonetheless, doing significantly worse than DeSantis).
But Ron DeSantis’s biggest problem is existential: It’s that he’s Ron DeSantis. Polling has consistently shown that the more voters get to know him, the less they like him . His numbers have been trending steadily downward since speculation about his campaign began to ramp up in earnest. At the start of the year, shortly after he had romped to reelection in Florida, DeSantis and Trump were neck and neck . Ever since, his numbers have steadily declined. A late-June NBC poll found that DeSantis had dropped nine points since April—and was now at only 22 percent, a staggering 29 points behind Trump. FiveThirtyEight’s aggregate poll currently has him sitting at 21 percent—28 points behind the former president.
DeSantis’s DeSantis problem doesn’t end there, however. Voters—and the national media—have noticed that he’s, well, a bit weird . Stories about DeSantis’s lack of charisma and general off-puttingness abound, reinforcing the idea that he’s cold and awkward . He has entered what can only be called the Ted Cruz zone : a self-perpetuating narrative in which tales of a candidate’s aloofness (to put it mildly) are constantly being pushed to the fore. For most of the last three years, Ron DeSantis’s story was about him being the future of the Republican Party. Now, he already looks like a loser.
To be fair to DeSantis, things aren’t quite as dire as they were for Cruz back in 2016. As Cruz unsuccessfully pushed to make himself a viable alternative to Donald Trump, he faced a steady barrage of stories that focused on the fact that no one seemed to like him. His colleagues in the Senate—on both sides of the aisle—detested him. His college roommate—TV writer Craig Mazin— tweeted about him masturbating and called him “a huge asshole.” His wife revealed that he purchased 100 cans of Campbell’s Chunky Soup after their honeymoon. He was a theater kid who did cringey reenactments of The Princess Bride. He got a gross thing stuck on his lip during a Republican presidential debate and then ate it. As he tried unsuccessfully to convince voters that he was a viable candidate, Cruz had an albatross around his neck: Ted Cruz.
DeSantis finds himself in a similar position. Ever since he fell on his face during his Twitter Spaces launch with Musk—an event that was hampered by several crashes and glitches before it eventually began with a diminished audience—the story about DeSantis is that he’s a weirdo and a loser. He has not helped things by consistently bolstering that narrative. He has been hurt by a number of Cruz-ish stories: He once ate pudding with his fingers . Hardly a natural retail politician, he treats colleagues, staffers, and voters with the same sense of coldness , forgetting (or failing to ever learn) names. “He doesn’t like talking to people, and it’s showing,” one longtime supporter told The Washington Post. Above all, he’s just a little bit off, almost inhuman: Look no further than this video of him laughing.
The good thing for DeSantis is that it’s very early in the race and there’s plenty of time to reset himself. The first Republican debate, next month, will give him a crucial opportunity to fix his flagging campaign (or another opportunity to crash it and burn). His campaign has worked to reassure donors —in part by telling them that he won’t attack Donald Trump—and is working on an early reset. His “in-house marketing team ... has created and algorithmically message-tested 14,000 ads and related variations” that will be unveiled shortly , according to The Messenger’s Marc Caputo; his ground game is ready to blitz in early voting states. DeSantis still has a ton of money he can use to try to push himself back into the center of the race.
But that’s also a problem: Resetting a narrative that you’re a loser requires a win and it’s not quite clear how DeSantis can get that, especially since voters won’t go to the polls for another six months. And given the media expectations game, anything short of a dominating debate performance is likely to be contextualized away as another missed opportunity. But has DeSantis shown anything to this point to suggest such a bacon-saving performance is in the offing?
More than anything, though, his failings only underscore just how much he’s squandered. Not so long ago, DeSantis had everything going for him. Ever since he rose to national prominence by defying public health warnings during the pandemic, the Florida governor was touted as both the future of the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s natural successor. He was supposed to be the Goldilocks candidate, one just radical enough for the barbarians and just posh enough for the guys who sign the checks. No one else so naturally fit the bill for a party that realized that the alternative to Donald Trump had to be just a little bit Trumpy. So, correcting mistakes made in 2016, the GOP’s donor class successfully cleared the field for him, giving him a (more or less) open runway and a chance at a (more or less) head-to-head race. Fox News’s Rupert Murdoch had his back . So did Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News.
It was easy to see why—at least from a distance. He was feisty and sharp-elbowed, willing to take on the political establishment. But he also was calculating and disciplined. In DeSantis, the thinking went, everyone got what they wanted, more or less. Trump supporters got a culture warrior willing to own the libs at every opportunity. Trump skeptics got someone far less likely to shoot himself in the foot with no warning—or, for that matter, to plunge the country into chaos with a tweet. He was popular in Florida. He checked the boxes that Republican voters and Republican donors seemingly wanted checked.
But in hindsight that was all the idea of Ron DeSantis. The real one is short and cold and more than a little weird. To know him, it seems, is to detest him. As the GOP primary heats up, his campaign continues to sink. He only has himself to blame.