2024

Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection. But not me.

Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days. After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request.

Secretary Mayorkas: “I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time.”

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/374142

Excellent interview.

DeSantis signed legislation protecting parental rights in Florida in March 2022 which led to a feud with Disney over the entertainment conglomerate’s opposition to the legislation.

Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump have criticized DeSantis over the feud with Disney.

DeSantis barred banks from considering “social credit” when making loan decisions and prohibited discrimination on the basis of political, social or religious ideology.

DeSantis signed legislation on May 2 that prohibited state agencies and local governments from considering environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors when issuing bonds.

I thought DeSantis spoke about the political persecution of Trump well, but he is wrong if he thinks we are willing to forget about 2020.

My biggest concern about DeSantis is he did not get rid of voting machines in Florida.

Rip Political Agendas Out of Our Military

• Eliminate "Diverse-aucrats" (Diversity Bureaucrats)
• End Woke Operating Policies
• Ban Woke Indoctrination
• Focus Veteran Benefits on Supporting Veterans, Not a Social Agenda

Restore Military Standards

• Recognize Differences Between Men and Women. Eliminate Racial Preferences in the Military. One Standard of Readiness.
• Reinstate Un-Vaccinated Servicemen
• Prioritizing Lethality, Readiness, and Capabilities, Not Ideology and Climate Change
• Stop the Weaponization of Tools Intended to Root Out Legitimate Threats to Good Order and Discipline

Break the Swamp & Promote Accountability

• Enforce Article 88 (Contempt Toward Officials) of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice which courts have found applies to retired generals and admirals.
• Cease issuing security clearances to retired Department of Defense senior leadership that go on network and cable news shows and who, as paid analysts, monetize and politicize their access to so-called "inside information."
• Institute a cooling off period for Pentagon top officials both before and after their tenure from serving as military contractor board members and lobbyists.
• Issue an executive order to fire immediately any high-ranking military or intelligence official who knowingly lies under oath to a federal official or Congress.
• Fire immediately any joint chiefs officer who contacts an enemy counterpart without the knowledge of the president and overrides the authority of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
• Within 6 months, the performance of all personnel in 4-star command and staff billets will be reviewed. Anyone determined to have promoted policies to the detriment of readiness and warfighting will be asked to resign or otherwise be removed from those positions.

Turn the Tide Against Biden's Military Recruitment Crisis

• Restore National Pride in Our Military
• Expand Recruitment Programming

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/260149

It's very likely Smith will use the "classified docs" prosecution as leverage to seek pretrial detention for Trump when the special counsel indicts Trump for several J6-related offenses, which could include seditious conspiracy.

A small oligopoly of political fundraisers is already making an ungodly amount of $$ on this election. It’s disgusting. I’m breaking up that cartel. Today we’re launching the Vivek Kitchen Cabinet: starting today, anyone can fundraise for the Vivek 2024 campaign & make a 10% commission. If someone else is getting rich on this, it might as well be you. Let’s go.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/255827

Fire the employees not showing up and sell the buildings.

At least 6 of 24 Washington area headquarters are 90% empty, including several that manage federal office space and employees such as the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management.

Houston, we have a problem

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/200584

Gabbard left the Democratic Party last October, saying the party had become an “elitist cabal of warmongers”:

“This election will decide whether your generation inherits a fascist country or a free country—whether you will have the rule of tyrants or the rule of law,” Trump told those gathered, adding “whether Marxist radicals burn our civilization to the ground, which they’re looking to do, or young patriots like you propel America to glorious new heights like never before.”

Former Vice President Mike Pence was quizzed by Tucker Carlson on Friday as to whether or not he was concerned about the decline across American cities, including skyrocketing suicide rates and major economic decline. In response, he began, “That’s not my concern,” before going on to state he was running for President of the United States because he believes in addressing both domestic issues but also in continuing a costly proxy war against Russia, via Ukraine.

Republicans, like Ramaswamy, who really want to take on the culture war, should tackle major food industries exploiting corporate welfare to prop up artificial industries that leave Americans sick in the process. Ultra-processed food might be cheaper on the surface in the short-term but is paid for by years in life expectancy in the long-term. Not to mention the billions in health care costs related to obesity and related chronic illness.

Ron DeSantis’ 2024 campaign is cutting staff as it burns through cash and struggles to gain on Donald Trump less than two months after he announced his White House bid.

The presidential hopeful was forced to lose about 10 staff as money is drying up and his campaign is faltering on the back of poor public appearances and an apparently muddled strategy.

The Florida governor is now plotting a major reset, starting with an unusual mainstream media blitz, to reassure backers alarmed by his performance since his botched live presidential launch on Twitter in May.

The DeSantis campaign posted an impressive $20 million haul in second-quarter fundraising, surpassing the $17.7 million raised by Donald Trump.

Figures show the 44-year-old governor saw a surge in fundraising after declaring his presidential bid on May 24, followed by a sharp drop as he struggled to gain momentum.

The uptick was mostly driven by deep-pocketed donors, more than two-thirds of whom have now reached their donation limit. Just 15 per cent of the cash came from small-dollar donors.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/199018

The underlying cause of DeSantis’s staunch opposition is rooted in his belief that the Federal Reserve will exploit CBDCs to advocate an anti-cash, anti-crypto policy. The Florida Governor predicts a future where CBDCs usurp all other forms of legal tender, effectively granting the Fed the power to restrict purchases they deem unfavorable, such as fuel and ammunition.

The controversial issue of CBDCs has taken center stage as the 2024 electoral race intensifies. Many, especially within libertarian sections of the Republican Party, are apprehensive that such currencies might encroach upon the sacrosanct privacy rights of American citizens. There’s a growing chorus arguing that CBDCs could bestow governments with an unprecedented level of control over individual expenditure.

Here is a chance for DeSantis to walk the walk.

He has talked about firing federal employees who do the wrong thing if elected President. Show us how it is done at University of Florida.

I've discovered through these bombshell documents that they, in fact, had more than 1,000 separate DEI programs embedded in every facet of the university's programs and administration.'

Advocates of DEI schemes say they tackle longstanding racist and sexist discrimination in schools and workplaces, but critics say they end up stoking divisions between groups and marginalizing white men.

DeSantis, a Republican, late last year told Florida's public universities to disclose all government funds spent toward programs, classes and other initiatives related to DEI and the teaching of critical race theory.

In its official reply, the Gainesville-based University of Florida, which has roughly 8,000 academics and 60,000 students, said it runs some 30 to 40 DEI schemes at a cost of more than $5 million per year.

“They want to get rid of cash. They want no cryptocurrency. They want [CBDCs] to be the sole form of legal tender. It will allow them to prohibit 'undesirable purchases' like fuel and ammunition,” DeSantis contended, adding that "...they have said this publicly at like Davos and these other places

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/197795

The states and the one U.S. city that accept ballots after Election Day are Alaska, California, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.

The states with the latest deadlines for accepting ballots after Election Day are Illinois and Utah, which are both 14 days.

"In the Biden economy, one third of Gen Z and millennials have no savings accounts and no savings whatsoever," Trump said during the Turning Point USA Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida. "They have nothing. Homeownership has been pushed out of reach for millions with the rate of 30-year mortgages up 177%."

Trump vowed during his speech to tackle inflation if elected again in 2024.

"I will restore energy independence and bring down interest rates so that young people can once again afford to buy a house and a car," he later added. "The basic American dream."

The former president encouraged the crowd, made up of mostly young people, to stand with him in the fight to save America.

Ramaswamy founded Roivant Sciences, and was CEO of the biotech research company from 2014 until 2021. He continued as its board chairman until February of this year before he stepped down. He is not involved in the lawsuit.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/197717

Last year, DeSantis signed a bill into law creating a division in the Department of State that will investigate election crimes and voter fraud in Florida.

The law also increased penalties for ballot collection, also known as ballot harvesting. Ballot harvesting is when people collect and turn in individual voters’ completed election ballots. Under the new law, ballot harvesting is a third degree penalty.

The law also requires the voter rolls be updated with accurate information every year.