Pic Of The Moment: Florida Sets New Record

[EarlG]

Florida/Highest one-day total of Covid cases since start of pandemic

As Florida's COVID crisis intensifies, DeSantis' response falters

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[underpants]

1. Needs a better wardrobe

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Wow, so true!

[ffr]

5. +1

[niyad]

8. Is that actually a direct quote? And, did not realize they still make seersucker suits.

[underpants]

9. Mayor Vaughan from Jaws

Not a direct but it’s the same as him ignoring the shark for “the season”

[niyad]

10. Okay, thank you. Never saw it.

[hay rick]

12. Florida politicians of a certain stripe have a seersucker suit day in Tallahassee.

[Harker]

15. I'm sure they see suckers.

Donors, they call them

[hay rick]

19. Seersuckers see suckers. The suckers are the voters.

The donors get what they want.

[Harker]

21. I meant the fifty dollar donor.

No doubt big money donors are just investing.

[Cyrano]

13. DeSantis wants to run for president in '24

I guess one of the qualifications if you're a Republican is being a world-class prick.

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. I realize that this is the most obvious reference possible, but...

...while those Floridians and tourists are having such a wonderful time, it might be worth remembering that, on April 14, 1912, a large group of people were also having a wonderful time. At least, until 23:30, when they stopped to take on ice.

[underpants]

28. and the band played on

Indeed.

[BobTheSubgenius]

32. Do you remember the song by Jamie Brockett (?), circa 1969?

It was midnight on the sea, they were playing 'Nearer My God To Thee'......fare thee well, Titanic, fare thee well

[underpants]

33. I can't say that I do.

[magicarpet]

3. Laugh in the face of Covid,... own the Libs.

[ffr]

4. Let me get this straight. Rock star governor Newsom is under a bogus recall election,

while strong man Desantis is killing his constituents, under no such recall drive and constantly lavished with headlines about how he's the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee???



We're officially in crazy town!

[CrispyQ]

20. The insanity of the right is almost unbelievable, except that we're living it. -nt

[Phoenix61]

23. We can't.

“Florida recall law does not pertain to elected state officials, such as the governor, nor elected federal officials, such as the state's congressional delegates. “

[RKP5637]

6. Welcome to Florida, a great place to vacation and die, undertakers know best, Vote DeSantis! n/t

[wnylib]

7. DeSantis is committing cold blooded murder.

In public, before the entire world. He makes it illegal for people to take precautions to protect children and other vulnerable people during a pandemic.

We need new words in the English language to describe such perverse behavior because I don't know any that fit such disgusting and deplorable actions from someone who is supposed to be a leader and protector of the people.

Republicans are deliberately killing people, even their own followers, in order to score points against their political opponents.

I feel like I have dropped into a Rod Serling story. This is too surreal to comprehend.

[hay rick]

16. He is engaged in negligent manslaughter/homicide.

[wnylib]

29. The word negligent sounds too passive to me

to describe the deliberate nature of his actions.

[Fritz Walter]

11. Can't wait for The Lincoln Project to start targeting him!

They could start with his 2018 campaign where he urged FL GQPers

"The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. That is not going to work. That's not going to be good for Florida."

A dog-whistle remark aimed directly at his opponent Andrew Gillum, a POC.

Hell, they could make a two-hour documentary just on how he has killed so many people here by circumventing CDC guidelines and avoiding just plain common sense. And it's not over yet...

[ancianita]

25. I hope TLP include a video on all his batshit donors. That quote? It's from his billionaire donors!

[Initech]

14. He didn't earn the nickname "Death Sentence" for nothing!

[sop]

18. Despite the MSM annointing DeSantis as Trump's successor, he'll never achieve the same electoral

success on a national level as his mentor. When Trump ran in 2016 he relied on a certain con man's self-aggrandizing charm; he was expert at media manipulation and a very convincing liar. Like Trump, DeSantis is a demagogue, a liar and a vicious bully, but he's also a charmless slug, with absolutely zero media savvy and little to no stage presence.

Even after disenfranchising a ton of voters, DeSantis won the governorship by a very slim margin, riding Trump's coattails into office while running against a political nobody. Floridians exposed to his thuggish governing style know who DeSantis is now. The guy's a nasty piece of work, probably the most hated Florida politician in my lifetime. A little bit of Ron DeSantis goes a very long way; the more people see and hear of him, the less likely they'll buy this "Trump's successor" bullshit.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Yay, Floriduh!

Shrinking MagaWorld, one by one!

[Phoenix61]

24. As bad as it is here, how many people caught

Covid while in Florida and took it home with them. All those cases will be counted against that state. So he’s not just killing the people in Florida he’s feeding the pandemic across the nation.

[Generic Other]

26. Your work as always is right on target

Someday, a retrospective will be in order. Maybe a covid calendar?

[stillcool]

27. last I saw his poll numbers were still good...

the last guy isn't alone in being able to kill people and still get elected. I've lost all empathy.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/florida/
https://www.usf.edu/news/2021/university-of-south-florida-researchers-statewide-public-opinion-survey-on-covid-19-biden-desantis-approval-ratings.aspx

[Bengus81]

30. Sooooo Presidential of you DeathSantis

[red dog 1]

31. K&R, thanks for posting, EarlG

#DeathDeSantis is trending on Twitter