Why is this a shock? Ron DeSantis never condemned actual Nazis waving real Nazi flags alongside DeSantis flags at the gates of Disney.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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And DeSantis attacked reporters who asked him if he denounced them. Denouncing Nazis should be the softest of softball questions that politicians need to answer right alongside "do you think American democracy is good" and "are puppies and kittens cute."
When asked the question, any politician should be able to easily reply with "I find Nazis abhorrent and they don't represent what America stands for." Even if the politician is lying and actually loves Nazis, they should be able to lie about this easily.
But DeSantis can't even lie about liking Nazis and instead attacks anyone who asks him his opinion on Nazis.
Why would he condemn his campaign financiers?
"Indulge," as if it's a treat.
"Sure, we all would love to indulge in the forbidden fruit of antisemitism, but hold on now, you can't go and accuse someone of it unless they partake of that rarest of delicacies. I haven't myself seen Musk quiver with that unique ecstasy we all only dream of, discussing openly and publicly the global Jewish replacement conspiracy, so can't comment at the moment. And by raising that very question, taunting me with taboo but irresistible temptations like this, you continue to show why the liberal media is the enemy of us good, decent people."
Freudian slip.
Remember, the nazis who protested outside of Disney, in addition to carrying swastika flags, were carrying DeSantis flags.
nazis know he's on their side.
Now we know Elon is a donater.
That’s a bingo!
"I've never seen him indulge in any of that"
Probably because his head is up his ass.
Ron DeSantis the nazi?
Ron DeNatsis
I was about to say sorry for the dumb wordplay, but I think it works pretty well actually!
Indulge?
We indulge in things we like, not in things we think are bad. DeSantis probably just cued us all to know he thinks of antisemitism as more of a guilty pleasure than a vice.
That was my reaction too. Very telling verbiage there.
Tacit support.
Coward.
“My campaign doesn’t need more issues than it already has right now.”
He won't condem it because he believes it too.
I've been waiting to see the conservative answer to this, and now we have it. Denial and feigning ignorance.
It’s the way of the coward.
Worst Monk subclass ever
yeah but that's just because he's a putz
It's easier for him to say that when he's never looked once at where the comment is. This is how in denial he is.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Ron DeSantis on Sunday refused to condemn a post that Elon Musk made on X endorsing an antisemitic tweet that alluded to a white supremacist conspiracy theory.
Tapper then read the post aloud, in which a user said he was “deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest s--- now about western Jewish populations” realizing that “minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much.”
The White House has condemned Musk’s post, saying it’s an “abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate” that “runs against our core values as Americans.”
And I encourage, in fact, I urge advertisers like IBM, which has done so, to withdraw from X and to send a message to Elon Musk that hate has no place on this powerful megaphone,” he added.
“And as you know, the surge of antisemitic, anti-Muslim, white supremacist, anti-Black sentiment on social media has been an incubator, in fact, an accelerant to more than just speech — action that constitutes hate crimes.”
Asked to respond to the ongoing backlash over Musk’s post, including Blumenthal’s remarks, Twitter’s press email automatically replied: “Busy now, please check back later.”
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