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Maraya1969

(22,479 posts)
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:24 PM Feb 2021

Unbelievable. Desantis has ordered flags at half mast for Limbaugh!

This is everything you need to know about Desantis.


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/20/rush-limbaugh-florida-ron-desantis-flags-half-staff

Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has said flags in the state will fly at half-staff for Rush Limbaugh, the hard-right talk radio host who died this week aged 70.

Gary Farmer, Democratic minority leader in the Florida Senate, said: “Any move to lower our flag in deference to a man who helped drive the hatred and inflame the prejudices against marginalised groups, people of colour, women and anyone who did not look like him or think like him is wrong and should be rescinded.

But Limbaugh’s Guardian obituary said he “set the tone for the internet age of politics, calling women’s rights activists ‘feminazis’, referring to HIV/Aids as ‘Rock Hudson’s disease’ and claiming ‘environmentalist wackos’ were ‘a bunch of scientists organised around a political position’.

“He argued that the existence of gorillas disproved evolution, characterised both the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (2010) and the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand (2019) as ‘false flag’ operations organised by leftists, and accused the Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe of allowing the Charlottesville rioting in 2017 to worsen in order to boost his presidential ambitions.

“‘Have you ever noticed how composite sketches of criminals always look like [the black activist] Jesse Jackson?’ he asked.”

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Unbelievable. Desantis has ordered flags at half mast for Limbaugh! (Original Post) Maraya1969 Feb 2021 OP
If DeSantis had a brain, he'd be dangerous! Frustratedlady Feb 2021 #1
Did he mean Confederate flags? IggleDuer Feb 2021 #2
He's trying to be the next Trump. BlueStater Feb 2021 #3
Just a last-gasp effort to try to make the liberals cry this year Shermann Feb 2021 #4
fuck limbaugh, fuck desantis, fuck trump.... spanone Feb 2021 #5
When Is Desantis's Term Up?..... global1 Feb 2021 #6
DeSantis is a Great Wrongness. dchill Feb 2021 #7
Look at it this way. Turbineguy Feb 2021 #8
That is obscene. Lucinda Feb 2021 #9
Must be all part of that "Unity" the media says we need to reach with Retrumplicans maxrandb Feb 2021 #10

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
1. If DeSantis had a brain, he'd be dangerous!
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:27 PM
Feb 2021

How many poor decisions can one "man" make in a lifetime? Incredible!

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
3. He's trying to be the next Trump.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:34 PM
Feb 2021

Perhaps more so than anyone in the GOP right now.

I’m a resident of Florida and this makes me fucking sick.

Shermann

(7,413 posts)
4. Just a last-gasp effort to try to make the liberals cry this year
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:37 PM
Feb 2021

That's all this is.

That's all "Stop the Steal" was. Let's keep making the liberals cry in the face of a crushing defeat.

Weak sauce.

spanone

(135,831 posts)
5. fuck limbaugh, fuck desantis, fuck trump....
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:40 PM
Feb 2021

fuck them all

I would extend my flag pole and make my flag higher.

global1

(25,242 posts)
6. When Is Desantis's Term Up?.....
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:43 PM
Feb 2021

How long more does he have as Gov of FL? Are there any challengers in waiting? What are his latest poll numbers?

This guy has got to go!!!!

Turbineguy

(37,324 posts)
8. Look at it this way.
Sat Feb 20, 2021, 01:55 PM
Feb 2021

If it turns out that Limbaugh was shtupping under-aged boys, DeSantis will be supporting that too.

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