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What do we think of the Desantis WH2024 camaign slogan? – politicalbetting.com
What do we think of the Desantis WH2024 camaign slogan? – politicalbetting.com
The third favourite for the 2024 White House Race and the second favorite for the Republican nomination is the current controversial governor of Florida Ron Desantis. He’s been making the headlines right across the US over the past year or so with his aggressive anti-woke agenda which amongst other things seeks to interfere with the way various subjects are taught in educational institutions.
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FPT Lyon is an interesting example. Very pleasant city, feels quite large and Parisian, good location near the Alps, Rhone Valley and Beaujolais, nice restaurants, but frankly it's not Paris but nor is it a pretty little market town or hilltop village. I'd rather be in either Cluny (or the delightfully pronounced Oingt), or Paris itself.
The problem with his new slogan is Florida is not the US now. Indeed Florida has steadily become more rightwing and conservative than the US overall. For example Trump won Florida by 3.5% in 2020 despite losing the US overall to Biden by 4.5%.
It is the likes of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Arizona the GOP need to win back to beat Biden. Florida is already firmly in their column and DeSantis was re elected Governor comfortably of the state in 2022 despite more mixed results for the GOP in the midterms overall
Companies that don't care if you use cash or card, cash probably isn't dodgy there, but any firm that is trying to egg people or give discounts if doing cash rather than card . . . it isn't because of card processing fees which have been as low as cashing processing fees for years now.
If someone wants to be paid cash in hand, the first question you should ask is why - and the answer is more likely than not dodgy.
President Assad also makes a reapparance at the summit, suggesting his fellow Arab leaders have now accepted he has effectively finally won the Syrian civil war
Interestingly, you DON’T get this attitude in Marseilles. There you get a much more aggressive *Fuck Paris* and “we are different” vibe - almost like you are in a different country
Lyon is much more classically French bourgeois than Marseilles
He seems to have every bad attribute of Trump, but magnified by being a true believer fanatic and not just a self-centred arse.
I worry for America if either Trump or Desantis get near the Oval Office. When Desantis started to make waves, it seemed positive that there was someone who could replace Trump in the GOP, but he's even worse than Donald - and that says something!
That's nothing to do with fraud but everything to do with the business turning customers away and potentially breaking numerous equality laws (as I suspect that will be where the card only transaction discussions end up)
Recently two Russian planes and two helicopters were taken down within minutes of each other inside Russia. Quite likely that was Patriot.
Russia within the last few days launched a large barrage of missiles (including multiple hypersonics) at the Kyiv Patriot system. The Patriot took out all the incoming missiles. Some debris from this hit part of the Patriot. It was so minor that the Ukrainians patched it up with duct tape.
In March, Disney called Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida “anti-business” for his attempt to tighten oversight of the company’s theme park resort near Orlando. Last month, when Disney sued the governor and his allies for what it called “a targeted campaign of government retaliation,” the company made clear that $17 billion in planned investment in Walt Disney World was on the line.
“Does the state want us to invest more, employ more people and pay more taxes, or not?” Robert Iger, Disney’s CEO, said on an earnings-related conference call with analysts last week.
On Thursday, Iger and Josh D’Amaro, Disney’s theme park and consumer products chair, showed they were not bluffing, pulling the plug on an office complex that was scheduled for construction in Orlando at a cost of roughly $1 billion. It would have brought more than 2,000 Disney jobs to the region, with $120,000 as the average salary, according to an estimate from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
The project, known as Lake Nona Town Center, was supposed to cost $864 million, but recent price estimates have been closer to $1.3 billion. Disney had planned to relocate as many as 2,000 employees from Southern California, including most of a department known as Imagineering, which works with Disney’s movie studios to develop theme park attractions.
Most of the affected employees complained bitterly about having to move — some quit — but Disney held firm, partly because of a Florida tax credit that would have allowed the company to recoup as much as $570 million over 20 years for building and occupying the complex.
When he announced the project in 2021, D’Amaro cited “Florida’s business-friendly climate” as justification. . . .
Florida officials have repeatedly pointed to the Lake Nona development as an example of economic vibrancy in Orlando, which suffered mightily during the pandemic. Noting that hotel chains and retailers were moving into the Lake Nona area in anticipation of Disney’s arrival, The Orlando Business Journal in January called the complex “a major economic driver for the region.”
In a statement, Jerry L. Demings, the mayor of Orange County, which includes Orlando, said it was “unfortunate” that Disney canceled its plans. “However, these are the consequences when there isn’t an inclusive and collaborative work environment between the state of Florida and the business community,” Demings said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California thanked Disney. “That’s 2,000+ jobs that will be welcomed back with open arms to the Golden State,” Newsom said on Twitter.
A small businesswoman my mother knows doesn't ban card transactions but does hide the machine to perform them unless customers specifically ask to pay by card. She prefers cash because the processing fees are lower. [cash in hand dodges VAT]
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MAKE AMERICA FLORID
“She pointed out, and I think it’s true, that some of the woke has been exported from the United States.
“I commend her and her efforts to make sure that this is not corrupting British society.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/30/ron-desantis-backs-kemi-badenochs-war-on-woke
The entertainment giant’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit from a new oversight board uses the state’s own legislation against it.
Disney urged a Florida judge on Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit filed by a state-backed oversight board seeking to invalidate an agreement that gave the company control of the special district where its theme park is located.
Pointing to a new state law that voids any previous contracts approved by the theme park and the former Reedy Creek Development District, now renamed the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, Disney maintains that the “court accordingly cannot provide meaningful relief to either party.”
“A ruling in CFTOD’s favor would be pointless, and a ruling in Disney’s favor would be meaningless,” the motion to dismiss states. “Under the Florida Constitution, trial courts have no power to issue opinions that are at best advisory and lack any real-world effect on the parties’ rights.”
Earlier this month, the Florida Legislature passed a land use regulation bill that included an amendment that specifically targets an agreement made between Disney and the outgoing board that ceded control of most operations in the 25,000-acre district to the theme park, effectively neutering the new oversight board appointed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. . . .
Disney contends SB 1604 makes the oversight board’s lawsuit against the agreement moot. . . .
The row between DeSantis and the corporate giant began with Disney’s opposition to the state’s Parental Rights in Education law, known more commonly as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which bans the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity topics from kindergarten through third grade.
Disney heavily criticized the bill, which was signed into law by DeSantis in March 2022, and vowed to end any political contributions to state lawmakers.
DeSantis immediately responded, attacking Disney as a “woke corporation” and directing the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature to remove Disney’s self-governing status that was in place for more than 50 years.
In February, DeSantis and the Florida Legislature renamed the district as the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and the governor handpicked a new board of supervisors. . . .
In what has become a familiar pattern, Disney seems to have anticipated the state’s every move. Its federal lawsuit specifically mentioned SB 1604 and now the company’s attorneys are using its language against the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District.
“Dismissal is required here,” Disney’s motion states. “This is an action by a state board raising questions about the validity of contracts that are already void and unenforceable by unequivocal legislative fiat. There is no order this court can issue that will affect that result.”
https://www.courthousenews.com/disney-asks-judge-to-toss-lawsuit-from-desantis-appointed-board/
Or is this just a glitch in my head?
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1659491627382054914
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
I would be really grateful if @guardian @ObserverUK & @TEDTalks made a comment on this ruling. Any comment.
It has huge ramifications for UK journalism. And some basic solidarity from the organisations who published the work would go a long way.
Thank you.
There's no legitimate reason for a firm to "hide the card machine", there are plenty of illegitimate reasons to do so.
If you want to use cash, be my guest. But it should be upto each firm to decide if they want to be cash only, card only, or accept both. I will not frequent any dodgy businesses that are cash only in this day and age - but if you want to, its a free market.
I don't actually believe in abolishing it – that was a shocking misquote by this site's Mr Perma-Angry (Pagan2).
I just think it's pointless, slow and a massive faff.
I never use it for anything at all, and if a shop insists on it I assume they are on the dodge and don't visit them again. Why people persist in it is beyond me – it is, as far as I can ascertain, an utter waste of time and resources.
(I recall on this site when some royal-botherer was frapping on about the new King Charles 50p coin – he asked whether I'd see it. I said no I hadn't, but then I hadn't see any 50p coin of any design or era for about ten years...)
You seem to have got fraud and tax evasion / avoidance confused.
Governor Dukakis did of course get the Democratic nomination in 1988, even if he lost the general election in the end to VP George HW Bush
Yes there are quite poor parts of Cornwall - generally inland and in old mining towns and villages - or in scruffy estates around Penzance or Bodmin
But on the whole the quality of life is pretty high. The sea is never far away. Local transport is actually quite good (lots of branch railways)
It’s also tremendously beautiful in parts. It ain’t the slag heaps of old Poland or post industrial Romania
I posted a link about fraud on here last week.
By "most" do you mean by number of transactions, or by value? A bit like mean or median when it comes to averages.
Electronic fraud possibly has more higher value transactions, but by number of transactions and counting cash in hand tax evasion as fraud I'd guess cash fraud is by far much more common.
And its evasion not avoidance, avoidance is legal and cash in hand evasion absolutely is not.
Ron himself didn’t come up with it, it has to be a team effort, and suggests the team around him are rubbish.
Why I would suggest de Santis is a poor political bet, I would be surprised if he didn’t have some issues in his wardrobe. The sort of issues that would bounce off Donald, but torpedo Ron sink him in no time.
Make the Tory election slogan ‘Make Britain Yorkshire’
Con gain Bootle and all the Glasgow seats.
We have friends who live on the Lizard (thanks to the location of RNAS Culdrose). When you hit October most of the pubs and other businesses shut / massively reduce hours until Easter as the population drops 60+%.
Pops up regularly; pointless; tedious; nobody has anything new to say; and nobody budges an inch from their entrenched positions.
It's as rubbish as his campaign.
I predict he'll be the Jeb Bush of this cycle: overhyped and over-funded - and over before it really starts.
Florida Democrats think the unthinkable: We’re in play
The Jacksonville win was just one election. But the party hopes it represents something more.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/18/florida-democrats-jacksonville-donna-deegan-00097554
You do that, I’ll sell “Up in Orbit, Ronnie Corbett” in all the states, and we’ll see who makes the most.
Indeed until 1994 he was expected to be the Bush brother to run for President in 2000, not Dubya. However Dubya unexpectedly beat incumbent Democrat governor Ann Richards in Texas while Jeb narrowly lost to Democrat governor Lawton Chiles in Florida.
His real chance of the Presidency was 2000 therefore, not 2016 when he did actually run and got steamrollered by Trump
https://thehill.com/latino/4009496-texas-florida-laws-have-latinos-rethinking-where-they-live/
There's also a dizzying array of national minorities , the scale of which would probably surprise a lot of people - German, Greek, Hungarian, still even one or two Jewish people, I think, too, etc,
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4011414-anti-trump-republicans-increasingly-desperate-to-shake-up-race/
Republican senators who don’t want Donald Trump to be the GOP’s nominee for president in 2024 are feeling a growing sense of urgency to shake up the race as recent polls show Trump dominating the primary field and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) losing momentum.
Many Republican senators viewed DeSantis as the best candidate to supplant Trump atop the ticket after the 2022 midterm election in which DeSantis won a resounding reelection victory; GOP candidates won every statewide race in Florida.
But after DeSantis committed what some GOP strategists viewed as a few high-profile political gaffes and lost ground to Trump in the polls, Republican senators are stepping back and reevaluating the presidential primary field — as are some big Republican donors.
“It’s way early. It’s way early, and I’m not going to let the media define who our frontrunners are,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said.
Asked if Republicans are looking for an alternative to Trump or DeSantis, who has embraced Trump’s populism to the extent some critics call him “Trump-lite,” Murkowski said, “I certainly am.”
“If that is the face of the Republican Party, if that’s the contest, Republicans are doomed,” she said. ..
He's gone to Japan with a hole in his sock
There again, the Republican party seems to have gone fully batshit, so who knows. Maybe it works? Lord knows I'm not the target audience.
They have a life of their own
Falmouth especially - now it has the university
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4353525
May the force be worth you and long live the Emperor...
In the end, the engineers kept on making it more capable - so it ended up with a marginal capability vs short range ballistic missiles.
The later versions of the missiles added more range and faster max velocity. PAC-3 is heavily specialised for ABM - to the point that PAC-2 is generally used for anti-aircraft work. They can be incorporated in the same battery.
*There is the tale of a Congressional tour of an early Aegis equipped warship. The captain pointed out that they were tracking satellites in low earth orbit. A few days later a stern directive went put to install a software mod to stop this - it was evidence of an ABM capability. These days Aegis has both the missiles and radar to hit ABMs....
Doesn't stop the electorate picking idiots, but at least they don't get to complain they weren't warned.
What is the bloody point of it?
A picture of a big cargo ship, the hold is full of snails.
Who wants to come in with me?
S Korea is going to build their own version:
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2023/05/205_350942.html
Oddly, DeSantis's pitch would be better if he was from Texas, a state that feel more keyed in to the American psyche than Florida.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/18/rishi-sunak-red-socks-japan/
For the first time in 14 years the number of billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List has fallen, by six to 171.
This is a policy failure.
https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1659476596590358528?s=20
BTW My son says there's a meme that starts 'Florida man...' - and this seems to be true:
https://nypost.com/article/crazy-florida-man-headlines-that-made-the-meme/
Our Southern California is Catalonia and the Cote D'Azur. And our Hawaii is the Canaries.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/05/18/keir-starmer-labour-eu-trade-brexit-election/
Unless Telegraph is making it up.
What cost Labour the May 2024 General Election, was hubris from doing okay at 2023 locals and double digit polling leads so they felt it was in the bag.
Labour of all parties should have appreciated, never count your chickens until they have hatched.
I haven't even set eyes on most denominations for several years – for the simple reason that neither me nor virtually anyone else down here ever seems to use them!
A cache of 140 photos of the Warsaw ghetto in September 1941. Taken by a Wehrmacht sergeant
https://delet.jhi.pl/en/users-collections/doc-list/182
Harrowing does not really cover it
https://twitter.com/Beyond_Topline/status/1659552071190736900
It's not the slogan I would have picked.
In fact, when you got down to it, about the only thing they had in common was some beaches.
I don't think the campaign lasted very long for some reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash
SF 32% and 29 councillors
DUP 23% and 16 councillors
Alliance 12% and 8 councillors
UUP 11.5% and 3 councillors
SDLP 8% and 2 councillors
TUV 2.6% and 0 councillors
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2023/northern-ireland/results
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida all but declared his presidential candidacy Thursday afternoon, telling donors and supporters on a call that only three “credible” candidates were in the race and that only he would be able to win both the Republican primary and the general election.
“You have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing,” DeSantis told donors on the call, organized by the super PAC supporting him, Never Back Down. “Biden, Trump and me. And I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president — Biden and me, based on all the data in the swing states, which is not great for the former president and probably insurmountable because people aren’t going to change their view of him.”
The call . . . came as the governor is expected to officially enter the presidential race next week, according to three people familiar with his intentions. . . .
DeSantis quoted a voter he had talked with at an event in Iowa as saying, “You know, Trump was somebody, we liked his policies but we didn’t like his values. And with you, we like your policies but also know that you share our values.” . . .
He also boasted of his successful visit to Des Moines, Iowa, over the weekend after Trump canceled his own rally in the area, citing a tornado watch.
DeSantis talked with pride about the Florida legislative session and the state’s budget . . . .
He did not take questions and was the only person who spoke on the call. . . .
DeSantis suggested that Trump had leaned too heavily on executive action instead of helping push measures through Congress, and pointed to his own work during legislative sessions in Florida as a contrast. . . .
At another point, DeSantis was blunt, saying, “I think the voters want to move on from Biden,” adding, “They just want a vehicle they can get behind” but “there’s just too many voters that don’t view Trump as that vehicle.” . . .
Trump is running roughly 30 percentage points ahead of DeSantis in national polling averages, but the Florida governor would be the strongest Republican challenger to join the field so far. DeSantis told the people on the call that he did not put much stock in those polls, saying that he had started as an underdog in past races and that the polls before his reelection in 2022 showed a much smaller margin of victory than he ended up with.
He is likely to start with more money in an outside group than any Republican primary candidate in history. He has more than $80 million expected to be transferred from his state account to his super PAC, which has also raised more than $30 million, in addition to having tens of millions more in donor commitments, according to people familiar with the fundraising.
It is possible that DeSantis could pivot his plans at the last minute, and it is still unclear where or when he might hold a formal rally announcing his candidacy.