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DeSantis says he would eliminate four federal agencies if elected president (www.nbcnews.com)
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Florida's Republican governor said he would seek to abolish the departments of Education, Commerce and Energy, as well as the IRS.

"If Congress will work with me on doing that, we'll be able to reduce the size and scope of government," he added. "If Congress won't go that far, I'm going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life."

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[–] 138 points 3 years ago (17 children)

DeSantis is telling everyone that he's going to destroy the United States, and you're all just sitting there.

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  • [–] 75 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    I'm not gonna vote for him. He's not even a candidate yet. What should I be doing?

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not much can be done as of yet. The election season will really kick off in January, and short of hiring a hit squad, marching around with signs and getting screamed at/assaulted by rednecks doesn't really seem too effective. What would you propose?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Do the Florida sewer and septic sucking service workers have a union? Might be able to convince them to use their, ah “waste” from yet another school’s clogged septic tanks to, uh “fertilize” desantis’ yard.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago*

    He's polling worse than fucking RFK jr, he stands no chance. YoUr'Re AlL JuSt SiTtInG tHeRe! We're more than a year away from the general election, which he will never make it to because there are months of primaries before where Trump will assuredly win.

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    [–] 70 points 3 years ago

    Fuck this fascist turd.

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    [–] 51 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    Wow. Commerce runs the weather satellites and Energy oversee nukes. Good luck with that.

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    [–] 29 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    "If Congress won't go that far, I'm going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life."

    He keep saying shit like this and just once I would like him to explain HOW. WHAT POLICY? What, Ron, will you do that will "push back against leftism"? Tell me what you plan to enact.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    HOW. WHAT POLICY? What, Ron, will you do that will "push back against leftism"?

    Being mean to trans and gay people. That's the policy.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Irs. Married filing jointly is only available for male female couples.

    Education is an easy one because we already saw what he wants to do with floridas system. Basically erase history and ban books.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I have a guess he also wants to copy Hungary's education system, which is not only barely functioning due to a total lack of replenishment of retired teachers, but also horribly whitewash Hungarian history.

    Think the "states rights" thing was bad? Get ready to the "we never did X, yet we got punished for it" method of teaching history.

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    [–] 27 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Im too tired to give a witty comeback.

    DeSantis is a fascist bitch

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    same. boring af. heard about some weird business. anti books is what i heard. Sorry, i am pro books.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    I’m definitely pro library. Public libraries are awesome.

    Ours has a living- seed bank of heirloom veggies, 3d printers, they do community events- including a Mongolian acrobatic circus (Friday-),sewing/quilting stuff. Oh and they have a lot of books … and that’s just off the top of my head.

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    • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    Ron DeSantis is a fascist.

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    OMFG what a fucking bozo. So what he's proposing (among other very dumb things...literally) is an energy infrastructure like Texas. That'll go over real well.

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    • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Do I wish for a sane republicans or not. Doesn’t matter because one doesn’t seem to exist.

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    @kuontom During Rick Perry's short-lived presidential run, he said he wanted to eliminate 3 agencies but then forgot which ones they were. This is on the same level of stupidity

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I was about to comment this as well. On top of that, I believe the Dept of Energy was one of the agencies he wanted to abolish and then ... Trump appointed him Sec of Energy! Womp womp

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    • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    This guy is flailing, lmao.

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    [–] [S] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Man's really moving to Trump's right

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    • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Ron DeKlantis, not even hiding how much of a fascist fuck he is

    though considering many of those agencies aid in politicians' ill-gotten wealth, that isnt going to go far

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    this anti-IRS position is not going away. my mom hates the IRS and feels victimized, (because she hasn't figured out her taxes)

    The IRS owes my mom and most broke people a simple accounting,

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    It's too bad the Republicans keep voting to take away the IRS budget to allow them to pay your mom. Oh well, Republicans are essentially telling her and people that are owed money to go fuck themselves.

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    • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    He... does know what the IRS is, right? The way the federal government gets money. What, is he going to expect the treasury to print more money?

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    But why? What's wrong with the department of energy? We'd no longer be able to subsidize energy creation, we'd literally be paying 20x more for power for no reason. And these power agencies would have no reason to operate power grids or maintain them. The bill would default back to the US, because no one could afford electricity anymore.

    And what's with the threat? How does someone weaponize the IRS against wokeness? How?! Is an IRS agent going to throw an excel spreadsheet at me if I wear a rainbow? What a moron thing to say.

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