At times of greatest consequence, the legacy of leadership becomes important.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis doesn’t use his official office account to release a statement on the FBI raid in Mar-a-Lago, that likely required a joint cooperative task force response from the state, as customary for fulfilment of a federal warrant upon a Florida citizen. Instead, Florida Governor DeSantis issues a tweet from his personal account noting the action was yet “another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies.” Oh well, that’s a relief, heavy sigh, as long as it’s just “another escalation”….
Quick pivot right to the whataboutism politics DC is famous for… “while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves”, and “IRS agents,” etc.
You see, this is what DC does to bang the pots and pans loudly in the UniParty kitchen. As a congressional representative, Ron DeSantis learned the chaff and countermeasures well. Actually challenge the federal government? No way. Not gonna happen.
Meanwhile, compare the response from future Arizona Governor Kari Lake:
Keep in mind, the personal account of Ron DeSantis could say anything he wants. Again, for reasons known to political followers, DeSantis chose not using the FL Gov Twitter account for his response to an FBI raid that happened in his state…. that used his joint cooperation task force to execute.
Times of consequence provide insights into strength of leadership. Or as Ron DeSantis would say “another escalation” amid a lot of escalations that have yet to reach a line where ‘escalations‘ are no longer accepted; at least not for him. Someone with political ambitions generally draws those lines in a much different place than the regular people impacted by the escalations the professional political class like to bang their pots loudly about.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” ~ Sam Adams
State Representative Anthony Sabatini from Florida district 32 seems to understand the dynamic that changed today.
It’s time for us in the Florida Legislature to call an emergency legislative session & amend our laws regarding federal agencies
Sever all ties with DOJ immediately
Any FBI agent conducting law enforcement functions outside the purview of our State should be arrested upon sight
— Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) August 9, 2022
Don’t forget Bannon. He threatened Trumps kids and leaked like a sieve when he was in the White House.
Protecting The Don from his intellectually adolescent , NYC trendoid, Democrat peer group, global warmist son in law was a big job…. and ultimately not successful
Anthony Sabatini is spot on. It’s time to declare the FBI & DOJ for what they are: A criminal enterprise working for the Democrat Crime Syndicate. They should be defunded, abolished, and their job duties assigned to another agency. In the meantime states can make these Dirty Cops miserable in all kinds of creative ways by curtailing their power. DeSantis should never have cooperated with the FBI on this raid on Trump’s home and stealing Trump’s property. He has just destroyed his career if that’s true. I would rather that he would pass laws to kick the FBI out of Florida and create another LE agency to do their job duties. A monkey could do a better job than most of these crooked FBI agents and our country would be more secure.
Where is the county sheriff? He had the constitutional power to tell y he FBI to hit the road. They simply must obey the sheriff.
I would imagine the sheriff is a Democrat, considering the county.
Desantis is nothing but swamp. He’s proven it now. Drain him as well.
Who is going to drain him? Pray tell who is he who will satisfy you to do your bidding?
Your cry for freedom has become void, without an animating passion.
Mark my words, next will be Kari Lake, or Joe Kent, or any of those others who now win favor. Yet they too shall soon be found stunted.
There’s a reason for Trump stating the SWAMP IS DEEP.
They are everywhere, it’s infiltration, not invasion.
Yeah because Trump hired them. Chris Christie recommended Wray and Trump assured Americans of his “impeccable credentials”. But let’s blame Ron DeSantis for Trump not declassifying documents that could’ve exonerated him while he was in office. Why would DeSantis issue a statement from the official account when this was an action of the federal government?
Kash Patel has stated that Trump had already declassified the documents he brought with him to Mar-a-Lago, so unless the purpose of the FBI raid was to insert some damaging classified documents into those 15 boxes that can later be pointed to as a crime by Trump……………..what was their reason for carting them off? (Insert picture of Suspicious Cat here)
We don’t know which documents the FBI were looking for. They were extremely quiet about the investigation. But during Trump’s presidency, he could have declassified documents that would have exposed FBI corruption, but he was talked out of that by “allies” he said.
you are reaching far afield
At least Kati Lake would scream kick punch spit and claw her way through the fight.
Not just sit back and allow federal agents the use of her office to harrass a private citizen the corrupt feds abhor.
Bullshit
Well that was very helpful to the discussion or has the Treehouse devolved into bullies on the playground?
I think the CTH rules on comments are now, like pretty much all standards for civility and morality honored only in their breach.
Twitter has well and truly infected the Treehouse.
As visage13 stated: BULLSHIT!
We are in the throes of war, right now it may be ‘Subtle’ but it will escalate before the year is over..
And the profanity was needed how?
SMH
Oh yeah let’s all vote for turncoat, Obama hugging Charlie, that worked out so well the first time.
Yeah, do these purists think Gov-gov Lightloafers Tax and Spend Crist or Gov-gov Nikki “I smoke dope and carry concealed” Friedchicken would be better? Jeezzzzeee.
You get it.
Hopefully the majority of the sheeple commenting on here are no where near a Fl ballot.
“Nothing but swamp” because he flubbed one response? WTF is wrong with you people?
DeSantis is already doing battle with the Corrupt Federal Government… My intuition tells me that the Communist FBI Corrupt Leaders have delivered a “Message” to POTUS Trump and Governor DeSantis, we (currently) have the power to pay havoc with two of the Strongest Leader that America has seen in Years.
But in the end, the Supreme Winners will be the American Citizenry, who will Support, Defend and Elect Donald J. Trump in 2024… Your Commentary and you Name (I love my freedom) are both Incorrect.
According to aim cats on aim for truth DeSantis is saying and doing all the right things, a lawyer, came out of nowhere like Obama and suddenly catapulted in the lime light— but is a darling of The British Pilgrims Society—they have the proof. The Pilgrims are not friends of America.
They have what proof about DeSantis being a British agent? He didn’t “come from out of nowhere”, either. He served in the Navy, attended Harvard, practiced law, ran for office first in the US House then Governor’s race beating Obama’s endorsed candidate whom he campaigned for. It’s a pretty standard résumé for a Republican presidential candidate.
BARELY beat the Obama candidate AND it took TWO TRUMP RALLIES to do so.
There, fixed it for you.
Those guys identify everyone as traitors. Including Trump. Not a balanced source of info.
perhaps we should have done that with others, namely Mike Pence
one is known by their actions
I was early on the Pence-bashing movement long before January 6, pretty much after he got Flynn fired to be exact, and y’all dog piled on me haha.
yeah that happens
Unlike DeSantis, even South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was willing to mention President Donald Trump by name!
Real life is not a book series like Harry Potter so why are some Republican politicians refusing to say Donald Trump’s name out loud?
The gang of 8 was briefed on “Russia collusion.” Currently that includes Rubio.
Hard to believe that they weren’t briefed on this “escalation.”
And while we were all looking dumbfoundly at what happened in Florida,
August 8, 2022 5:46 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it was shipping its biggest yet direct delivery of weapons to Ukraine as that country prepares for a potentially decisive counteroffensive in the south against Russia, sending $1 billion in rockets, ammunition and other material to Ukraine from Defense Department
WE are under assault.
Might be time to defund the United States Federal Government.
“Uhhhh… I don’t think you fellas are working US anymore…”
Rubio’s running in 2024.
I’m only speculating of course–that Rubio is wiser and more deceptive than DeSantis because he knows the “thoughtful” video he made condemning this raid and all future raids on political opponents will be enough to pretend he cared about the MAL abomination. But his response was far better than the Fl gov.
Niki Hailey’s ambiguous tweet is at or below DeSantis’s embarrassing “escalation” tweet if it is referring to the MAL raid. “To handle this” is an outrageous reference to the raid.
I suspect she’s hoping Biden will announce some serious allegations and pending indictments against P Trump so she will have a better chance to be POTUS in 2024.
Predictable and reality. I don’t need to be told what it is. I need to be told what you are going to do about it.
Excellent. He is my Senator. I will email him that very question along with pointing out his vote to certify enabled this to be “Predictable and reality.”
Very good. In terms of “doing,” the calls here and elsewhere from keyboard commandos for “w^r” are also unhelpful.
While I may share the sentiments that give rise to such expressions, very very few of them know anything about what they say they want. The percentage of Americans who have actually fought (in close ground combat) such a horrible thing is probably less that 1%.
I have as a 33 year retired Marine infantryman and such a prospect is more horrible that the 99% can imagine. Instead they watch fluff like Red Dawn.
We must be rational adults and push back by the myriad other ways short of Armageddon.
I wonder how many of these minutemen have been realing DOING anything in this regard like being active in holding their local officials accountable to their oaths by attending hearings and board meetings, serving as poll watchers, supporting efforts to uncover evidence of the election theft etc.?
How many times are you going to cut and paste, pilgrim?
Good post by Rand Paul
I looked at some of comments and saw npr already has article saying that 15 boxes of White House records were —“recovered “.
That article was written–February 7 2022.
Npr is way past its expiration date. It should have been defunded a long time ago.
If someone can-please archive the article. I am unable to bookmark for some reason ….
Save it on the Wayback Machine.
https://archive.org
And he still never voted to adjourn the Senate and he is word smithing too.
Rubio has even less of a chance to ever be POTUS than Nikki Haley…
It’s all about the splitter strategy as Sundance has previously explained. We’ll have a million candidates to water down the chances of us getting Trump.
The indictment they are going to inflict upon our PDJT will take care of that. (referencing the Marc Eliss tweet)
just like last time lol
The only reason people vote Lil Marco is the other is worse, check out his opposition, box checking Val Demming.
“The American people must always trust their government”…….. ?? Identifies Haley right there.
There’s no silver linings here, but I’ll bet PDJT’s focus ramped up 100x today.
Long past time to excise the cancer that is the uniparty and admin state.
There are no friends or allies to be found in a malignant bunch of cells.
Including the Kushners who better not be back in power.
I’m sure PDJT is focused, but on what now? Staying out of jail, or staying alive? If its running for president, well, all I have to say is good luck with that.
The Ruling Class is making is very clear that they will NOT allow Trump to run–let alone win- -for a third term as president. (we all know he won the last election)
It will be interesting to see how the American people react. But if its anything like the conversation I had with a fellow at the Monday evening golf league yesterday, it’ll be more of, “We’ll sweep out the bums in November.”
Yeah, right.
Hey Charlie Brown, I promise I won’t snatch the football again this time…..I promise.
“What happened today is further escalation”. 😂
A strong statement would actually be “The DOJ and FBI in their current state are a threat to our very Constitution and need to shut down”
just look at the recent Whitmer fake kidnapping plot as evidence that the FBI is corrupt to its core and not salvageable.
I have liked DeSantis, but I think it’s pretty clear he isn’t an improved Trump 2.0 like some people think. The Establishment likely prefer some others over him, but they don’t view him as a threat like Trump.
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Sorry, no one in DC views Trump as “a threat.” He folded like a 5 year old girl. He relinquished his Commander in Chief duties to “his generals” in early 2017–after he found out Pentagon ignored him. In summer 2017 you recall nearly unanimous House and Senate voted to remove all Russia decisions from Trump and reassign them to the Senate. In August 2017 he went on tv and announced he no longer thought endless Mid East wars were a bad idea, now were good, and thanked his staff for changing his mind on the subject. Only 7 wks after inauguration he bombed Syria for no reason. A week after that he bombed Afghan. with the largest bomb US had dropped since WW2. These are facts. Trump nullified his own election. He should’ve resigned. The only thing they’d let him do was become more vicious, screaming neocon than McCain.
President Trump is a “neocon”??
John Bolton was his National Security Advisor.
you are simply a FOOL
The easy thing is to cast aspersions. You’re no fool, tell us how.
They aren’t sending their best…
Weak effort, try harder.
Fake News.
dont just tell me, show me the quotes and links. your comment is OPINION not fact.
Ahhhhh….you’re one of those enjoying the s*!t show compliments of the Biden Admin. Uh huh “nullified his own election”? I get it. And this raid, so that MORE crap can be fabricated against Trump, is not vicious? Great spin on that actually…you must work for CNN. God Bless Donald J. Trump…and people with fantastic justification skills and belief in this current corrupt government… like yourself.
Leftwing trolls … can smell them a mile away.
Actually you are spot on. Trump lacked the necessary backbone to fire all the mealy-mouthed traitors around him. The swamp drowned him. Little to be done. If supporters truly felt incensed about the raid there would be hundreds of thousands of them in the streets protesting.
D I N G B A T
you forgot your sarc tag
Just saw CNN having Andrew McCabe ponificating on raid.
too.f’g.much – flagrant criminal/traitors tsk-tsking us.
You people here are worse than Paul Ryan stabbing Trump in the back with ObamaCare !
How can you people abandon Ron DeSantis when you have no friggin idea of what the details of this Illegal Raid are !
Weak kneed people like you disgust me !
Most Americanos are a bunch of sheeple, easily manipulated; throw out a “narrative,” and they will jump on it like a bunch of wolves. They don’t know that Trump and DeSantis already have a deal as running mates in 2024. A warning shot; maybe next time, it will be a REAL one. They’d tried it before.
How do you know there’s a deal? DeSantis still has to get re-elected before he announces a presidential campaign. Everyone is fighting over 2024 before the midterms have even been decided. Trump hasn’t announced his own campaign, because then the RNC will stop paying his legal bills and he’ll lose all but $5000 of his $100 million PAC.
Bye
You forgot to add “Felicia.”
p.s. Please be careful. We need you.
Sundance,
If I may ,l have a question that is surely on most of your readers minds.
Since you were able to see first hand the obstacles in front of the MAGA movement during your trip to Washington do you see any effective pushback?
Do you see any efforts from serious people fighting the good fight and most importantly are they in positions of influence that can affect positive change?
What happened to Admiral Rodgers?
Reading your posts I get the feeling you are resigned to the reality that things are what they are.
Am I mistaken? I hope so.
I desperately want the great USA to return to us.
Is that a fools errand ?
The onslaught of continuous negative news is taking its toll.
It seems that we are past correction and the swamp is flaunting their perceived invincibility.
When exposed traitors are never punished . Instead the seem to prosper .
Are they so intrenched that they have become invincible?
I could use a cold hard reality check coming from someone I trust and respect.
It would be real helpful . It would enable me to see things more clearly so I can plan for the future accordingly.
Troll.
There’s a bunch of them about today – I wonder if there is some coordination going on… I highly doubt their organic, that side never is.
(Edited) RD’s tweet is uncharacteristically weak for him and opened up the criticism.
DeSantis is experienced and articulate. He knows this is an unprecedented raid on a former President who is also the most popular and likely POTUS candidate against a Dem in 2024. He also knows about all the FBI’s, CIA’s, DOJ’s, NY A/G’s etc sustained efforts to ruin P Trump over the last 6 years without success or any evidence.
I suspect most or all Trump supporters believe this despicable FBI action required a much stronger response. A weak response can rationally be interpreted as the action of a Presidential competitor and not a like minded supportive politician.
exceptionally well said
nothing wrong with our being critical and suspicious of actions
by our politicians, especially those supposedly on our side
think of all the years (decades) we didn’t even pay attention
it is great that we are slicing and dicing the actions of politicians
don’t criticize people for expressing their disappointment
I agree. De Santis issued that statement only a few hours after the raid and he most likely did not have many details. Give him time to analyze this and discuss it with his people.
Give him time to put his finger in the wind and realize he’s punked the MAGA Voters in FL – and that without Trump he wouldn’t be Governor DeSantis.
there is a lot of disgust to go around
They will stop at nothing. Brace yourselves.
Obama and his crew managing the WH are probably laughing and thinking, “Hey Mao, Stalin, hold my beer and watch this!”
Mar-a-Lago Was Closed For The Summer When FBI Raided it!
By Dianne Marshall
August 9, 2022
https://diannemarshallreport.com/mar-a-lago-was-closed-for-the-summer-when-fbi-raided-it/
I don’t see what all the fuss is about. They had a warrant and communicated with Secret Service. They waited until after CPAC. If they wanted to end Trump’s political career, and they are by no means done yet, they could’ve given him the Roger Stone treatment. Trump being led away in handcuffs during a SWAT raid would be a pretty powerful visual in an attack ad. Instead the safe was empty and Trump hasn’t been charged with a crime. I think Biden wants to run against Trump in 2024.
Biden doesn’t think anything. He hasn’t for many decades, his iq is low and lower still now.
They can’t perp walk Trump without an indictment. They for now have no crime against him, near as I can figure.
They likely also didn’t want to show the contents of the so-called warrant so they executed when Trump wasn’t home.
This is a fishing expedition.
It’s a good thing that Trump doesn’t do email, they’d probably fabricate some stuff there if they could.
They already have all his comma and texts, the NSA Hoovers all that up.
So we can surmise they have a crime they’d like to shoehorn him into but they don’t have enough/any evidence to make it credible to even Dim voters.
Nudge, nudge, PUSH.
I think Biden wants to run against Trump in 2024.
Joe Biden doesn’t know what planet he’s on.
The Ruling Class does not fear We the People, but it DOES fear a vengeful and popular PDJT who wins a third term (we all know he won the last election). This raid was a calculated, calibrated attack on PDJT–but its by no means the last.
they will probably work up to that
Just my opinion/thought…. “I don’t see what all the fuss is about.”… The “fuss”, as you call it, is that THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE to ANY President! That fact, to me, represents the reason for “all the fuss”. It represents the FACT, AGAIN, that the fbi no longer has (if it ever did) the best interests of U.S. Citizens at heart.
I suspect the Democrats are counting on Mitch and all the other Uniparty RINO’s to remain quiet or even supportive of this sickening political raid. This attack on P Trump’s home will separate the wheat from the chaff or the corrupt RINO’s from the MAGA’s.
DeSantis showed his true colors tonight.
He’s not to be trusted.
Oh pulease, clueless
I’ll be interested to watch him scramble to catch up. It will be instructive now that he’s poked a toe out of cover.
Ron DeSantis…
He was too good
… to be real.
Sad…..
Thank DeSantis for fighting against lockdowns and vaccine mandates that Trump didn’t oppose. If Biden wins re-election, the skids are greased for WEF’s Fourth Industrial Revolution and UN’s Agenda 2030. All the infrastructure is in place.
they always are aren’t they? Except for President Trump who was even
more wonderful than we thought he was
Sundance, I must commend you on this article. You would highlight things DeSantis was doing in a positive way ,which we all would agree on. But you are the first to see that black is not always black and white is not always white. Thank you sir for providing this great site and your expertise.
The ball is in DeSantis’ court ………… and he muffed it ……
MAGA he isn’t…… an outed coup plotter he is.
Answers the questions about his inaction in some of the basic MAGA priorities.
He is in the minority in Florida ……
He should self-deport to California, pronto.
President Trump has a knack for exposing the traitors within our walls.
“Let’s go Brandon and his buddy de-santis!”
That kind of talk is how you get an Andrew Gillium or Nikki Fried.
And your kind of talk is why we are stuck with Lindsey, Mitt, and Liz …. A weak kneed sister RINO is worse than a Dem….at least a Dem knows what they really are.
Well that’s a fantasy. Lindsey sometimes gives us a win, sometimes not. A Dim will never ever give a patriot a win.
I’d love a CONgress of all MAGA reps and senators and will work to make that happen but for sure we are better off without Dims being in charge.
Nonsense.
You all are taking the bait.
No.
It’s how we got.
Graham
Cornyn
McConnell
McCarthy
Murkowski
Collins
etc.
.
Once a trust is even perceived as broken- it is hard to regain that trust fully again.
Guess DeSantis is going to learn about that the hard way.
That said—
I have even more respect for Kari Lake.
Proud of her. Glad I voted for her. And I am praying she wins!
She also did an interview recently where she said that the Federal Government needs to be reminded–it is the States that have power not the Federal Government. She was stressing the powers of State vs Federal Government. It is a good interview to watch!
Betcha the kiddos like AOC went and looked up the 10th Amendment.
“Betcha the kiddos like AOC went and looked up the 10th Amendment.”
Betcha they didn’t.
They probably did….but if it was the 11th Amendment, they’d have run out of fingers thus they’d be out of luck.
🙂
It’s easy to say all the right things. It’s not so easy to do it. Before we put Lake on a pedestal, maybe we should wait and see if her actions follow her mouth.
“It’s easy to say all the RIGHT things.” Well, for a very few, it is… and Kari Lake, by her outright ‘challenge’ to the fbi, HAS “acted”, so you do not have to “wait”.
DeSantis and others are wrong in speaking about a banana republic. To do so minimizes the problem. This is not like some tin pot country in Africa or Asia but sliding more and more to becoming a country like the USSR under Stalin or China under Mao.
USSA.
Yep
I actually liked DeSantis for his Covid policies … but he kind of gives the game away here… sad but the truth is always harsh.
We dont even have to look too far ahead to 2024… the GOPe being a fake opposition party is responding as expected in
cuckservative way to Deep State’s intimidation of Trump.
2022 elections are now going to be wipe out of the Republicans as MAGA will not participate in this farce any more.. any House or Senate candidate who does not forcefully reject the Deep State’s ongoing plot against Trump is going to suffer a staggering defeat… i know of maybe 2 or 3 who have the Cojones to take on tbe Deep State.
You know, the more I think about this the easier I feel.
‘Trump knew in advance about the raid, so I’m guessing the FBI is getting something a whole lot different than what they are looking for. Just a hunch, but I think they were played. 🤷♀️
Hmm. Maybe he and DeSantis agreed to let it happen unopposed, so the Gestapo think they got what they came for. That would be an interesting twist.
One is perfect. That one is Jesus who is LORD and Christ.
Y’all want to throw away every office holder based on the perception that they have acted wrong in some manner.
Okay, consider this; there is not one who will please you. So to arms! Answer the call; to arms! Each of you, for you are of The People, to arms!
Stop casting down every office holder even while you wait for politicians to correct the mess you see.
Yes. There is a a pronounced shoot self in foot psychology in play.
Perhaps that ‘one’ that is perfect… will come and “answer the call ‘to arms’… it has been forecast, promised, ‘guaranteed in writing’ that it will happen (for over a couple of thousand years now) … is there a new timeline?
Interesting that closely associated with the raid on Mar-a- Lago, time wise, is the headline that Gov DeSantis is going to headline political rallies across the nation. Hmmmm.
hmmmmm…what?
Dan Bongino is right………..total bulls##t! Pass the bananas………we’ve now reached 3rd world status.
looking forward to the Geraldo special on the opening of the Trump safe.
Hahahahahah…remember when the empty beer bottle rolled out from the wall when they ripped open Al Capone’s basement office? That was all they found.
cute!
“You see, this is what DC does to bang the pots and pans loudly in the UniParty kitchen.”
EXACTLY. BINGO. The internecine outrage never boils over into real change. It’s just that, sometimes you gotta have someone blow his stack when the outrage becomes so bleedin obvious.
Desantis scores some Sleeping Patriot Points for expressing righteous indignation. These outbursts are intended to assuage-and-euthanize not galvanize populist energies.
When you figure that out, you realize just how hermetically sealed he Uniparty fishbowl is –and we’re the fishfood.
America, you’re in a real pickle.
“You see, this is what DC does to bang the pots and pans loudly in the UniParty kitchen.” — Sundance
Hinting at a possible congressional investigation into the sitting attorney general if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections, minority leader Kevin McCarthy added, “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.” — NYT
Sounds suitably swaggering and tough … till you realize that McCarthy is implicitly ruling out forcing ‘Garland’ to resign now, or impeaching him if he doesn’t.
Why shouldn’t a handful of concerned or vulnerable Democrats take a stand against institutional corruption, just as some Republicans did in Watergate?
RINOs just assume in advance that they’re going to lose … and so they do. Mitch McClownell’s Twitter account remains silent about the Trump raid. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was there, cleverly disguised as a local sea turtle.
Exactly Jim H. They have the cinematic swagger down to a T.
I differ with you on one crucial point: Rinos are far from being demoralized and fearful of further loss. When the Uniparty wins, the Rinos win too. After all, they are the oblique wing of the same bird.
So, let me understand, De Santis helped advance the raid?
BANG! DESANTIS PROVES HE’S NOT THE MAN FOR PRESIDENT!
When push came to shove, DeSantis is found wanting.
SO MANY UNDERCOVER TROLLS HERE SINCE YESTERDAY; DOZENS OF RAY EPPS’!
👊👊👊
So, De Santis allowed the raid? Could he have stopped it?
Good question. Doubt it.
DeSantis may or may not could have stopped it–I don’t know all the legal particulars. But he could have thrown sand in the gears.
So, did he?
It would be a horrible shame if someone mistook the towed vehicles as target drones. Just horrible.
🙂
I’ve been skeptical of DeSantis since his branch covidian lockdown days in 2020. He was politically savvy enough to do a 180 on that position, but his true belief in big gov and the rights of the collective over individual rights was exposed.
He believes in Red Flag laws. He’s pro a certain group that can’t be named. Heck he may even be one of them.
I find this very confusing because of the phrasing “raided”. What’s a raid? Now, it ought to say “executed a search warrant against” or something similar – if there was indeed a search warrant obtained by the FIBs. MSNBC, perennial spewers of propaganda and lies, actually uses “search warrant” in it’s article title. One would think that a search warrant would require collaboration with state authorities, of course, it’s early yet – I’m looking forward to more details…
Disappointingly weak tea from DeSantis. IMO he should keep his Political Ambitions limited to Florida. Don’t think he has the depth to be President.
This is yet another teaching moment for all AmericanPatriots: the politicians we elect to represent us are sometimes weak (DeSantis’ response to MAL) and sometimes strong (DeSantis’ firing of Hillsboro District Attorney Andrew Warren.) Another recent example is the agreement Sen. Joe Manchin struck with the radical left of his party whereby he sold out the interest of WV citizens for the pie-in-the-sky promise of increasing jobs for the coal industry. A greater evil I would argue since the Green New Dealers have no intention of holding up that side of the bargain.
Does this mean we abandon them because they make these human-all-too-human decisions? The answer to that question must be given by the voters this November.
But remember, the usurpations suffered by the colonists were many and long prior to 1775.
The last question which each individual must answer for himself is the question posed by Samuel Adams: are you willing to accept the chains of tyranny, or do you demand your God given right to Freedom?
Great now we get a whole thread basing DeSantis, seems personal at this point. Sad.
Agreed.
So you think we should allow anyone claiming to be MAGA to hang Trump out to dry?
I’ll just reserve judgement on my Governor. Sorry to disappoint.
Ron doesn’t roll within 15 minutes of an event. Check the clock on his prior actions and what eventually happened.
Most of you also don’t know how the *.fed.gov.co goons roam around this state all puffed up under the FDLE (Florida department of law enforcement) agreement(s) umbrella(s).
That’s why Sabatini is making the point from the legislature side. That’s where SD’s “extreme federalism” will start.
Now, carry on.
People don’t get the fact that FDLE has housed Falcon and its successors as well as a fusion center since the early 2000s. They don’t get that the agency was severely POLITICIZED under Ricky “Medicare Scammer” Scott. They don’t get a whole lot about the situation of statewide LEA in FLA.
Most regrettable. I feared the RINOs and their seduction of DeSantis would get to him.
I humbly suggest that the entire GOP Congressional delegation – Senate and House – boycott all federal proceedings and demand the immediate resignations of Garland and Wray.
Perhaps a response from official Governor Twitter site is forthcoming…
In Florida we have embraced marijuana, raised taxes (internet enforced) , left our borders open, expanded gambling and suppressed constitution rights to carry, but dang DeSantis sounds good on FOX news.
Thank you.
So, you are voting for Charlie “I like taxes” Lightloafers Crist and letting him have a do-over as a Demonrat or for the Communist Pot-smoking gun-toting Nikki Friedchicken?
Ron DeSantis responded more strongly to The View asking for an interview than to the FBI raiding MAL.
And this is where the lines are drawn. We’re at the point where voices must be heard and they will be heard. DeSantis regrettably stuttered.
Now we have to find a Fort Sumter to make it plain that the people in DC no longer are our sitting Government.
Easy…..once it goes kinetic, the gloves will really come off and all those ROEs so scrupulously adhered to in our never-ending-wars overseas will disappear quicker than virginity in a cat house. The feds have platoons of murderers wearing badges who are itching to murder Americans.
That cuts two ways.
DeSantis just made a huge blunder. His “just another escalation” comment was a slip of the mask. Sabatini has the right idea. … the only rational move for the “home of the brave.”
Disappointed in Desantis. I expected more; as in tossing the feds out of his state completely.
I will be having another meeting with my sheriff in the very near future, and everyone here should too. I have ordered a large number of booklets from Sheriff Mack’s CSPOA “The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope” and we will (again) discuss the Federal government’s overreach and how dangerous it has become.
In my last meeting with him I told him I believe the Federal government has become an enemy of the citizens of this country and I expect him to uphold his oath to the Constitution.
There are over 3,000 counties in this country. We all need to work at the county and state level to remove the Federal government.
One trillion up votes!!! Far too many people fail to see this!
You know you are probably correct; sheriffs may be one of America’s last hopes.
I recall during the covid lockdown, we would drive 45 minutes west to a restaurant
that refused to close. They remained open because the sheriff refused
to shut them down.
The big news is Sundance announcing on his Twitter that if you support Ron DeSantis, you had better unfollow him. Would love to see the Sabatini response from every local elected official. Vote 2A.
one can support him for governor, but not for President/VP
I doubt he is a rino in the truest sense, meaning a democrat in
republican clothing. However, he apparently is a “finger in
the wind” kind of guy
Sorry, I should have said support him for president over Trump.
Aside from the flaccid and very disappointing reaction by Governor DeSantis, is the much larger issue of how the Republicans will react, but more importantly, how most American will react.
But let’s step back just a bit because this raid–shocking though it is–should not be that big of a surprise. An election was stolen and then an unprecedented effort was made to censor and cover it up with wall-to-wall propaganda.
We have a senile idiot who has been installed in PDJT’s place who is managed by a staff of crypto-Marxists. We have a rogue government that is unaccountable and utterly out of control. We have an economy that is intentionally being crashed for God only knows what reason; our Southern border is non-existent and unprotected…….the list goes on and on.
Sundance has filled these pages with detailed analysis of all the atrocities being committed against the American people. No need to recreate the wheel.
So now, people think we’re going to vote Republican this November and sweep the rascals out? Really? DC is just gonna say, “Well darnit, we lost. We’ll lick’em next time.” Do we really think that is the way power mad tyrants will respond?
To those who say this raid was the act of scared and desperate people, I say you’re wrong. This raid was the act of confident, arrogant, power-mad despots intoxicated on their growing invincibility.
We haven’t seen anything yet.
If we think it’s about to get real, just wait till the food runs out.