CPAC in shambles as Nikki Haley still confused
The David Pakman Show - February 27, 2023
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Ron DeSantis completely deranged Fox News interview
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was interviewed on Fox News over the weekend by host Mark Levin. Of course, DeSantis hasn’t said whether he’s going to run for president in 2024, but all signs point to his running, and this interview was certainly indicative of that. The Florida governor spent much of the interview talking about the culture war, which is his favorite issue and the thing he’s dedicated his political career to fighting. DeSantis delivered the following platitudes: “yes, you do have to fight the woke in the halls of government and in legislative chambers. And we have supermajorities as Republicans in Florida, so we will win all those fights. But you also have to be willing to defend your folks against this agenda being shoved down their throat.” There are so many actual policy matters that Florida could do much better on, from education to health care to crime, but hearing from Governor DeSantis, “the woke” and the progressive left are really the only things to be concerned with.
OH NO: Trump pushed for censorship of JIMMY KIMMEL
Another example has surfaced of the Trump White House demanding private citizens and companies be censored, despite countless claims by the right about how Joe Biden and the Democrats are supposedly bad on the issue of free speech. It’s come to light that the Trump administration tried pressuring ABC and its parent company Disney to censor Jimmy Kimmel. In early 2018, Trump directed two of his staff members to call up a top Disney executive to take action against the late-night talk show host. This revelation comes after reports of a 2019 tweet by Chrissy Tegan criticizing Trump was requested by the White House to get taken down because the then-president didn’t like it. For all the talk the right does about supposed censorship by left-wingers and claims that progressives are triggered snowflakes, it’s actually Trump who was most clearly exhibiting these very behaviors.
From over the weekend:
Vivek Ramaswamy announces anti-woke presidential run, absolutely no one cares
Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur, author, and political activist, announced on Tucker Carlson’s show last week that he is going to run for president in the Republican primary. Ramaswamy prides himself as an anti-woke businessman and he founded an asset management firm last year that according to the website, “seeks to restore the voices of everyday citizens.” During his appearance on Tucker Carlson, Vivek said, “we are in the middle of this national identity crisis, Tucker, where we have celebrated our diversity and our differences for so long. We forgot all of the ways we're really just the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago and that's why I'm proud to say tonight that I am running for United States president.” Not even Tucker could manage to get excited about this announcement, and it’s hard to imagine the contingent of Republican voters who would be eager to vote for this guy.
From over the weekend:
Marjorie Taylor Greene knows white people even lazier than black people
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said something completely racist while trying to make a claim about how supposedly not racist she is. Greene put out a video on social media and said, “I know a ton of white people that are as lazy and sorry and probably worse than black people I know.” In the same video, the congresswoman made an argument for leaving up Confederate statues. She said, “we don’t want our statues taken down in our country. I don’t think you remove or erase history. So I do agree those statues shouldn’t be taken down. They’re part of our history. We should learn from our history, we don’t erase it. But that doesn’t make me a racist because I say leave the statues up there. If I were black people today and I walked by one of those statues, I would be so proud because I would say look how far I have come in this country.” This would be like saying Germany should have statues of Adolph Hitler to show how far they have come as a country in the past eighty years. Greene wasn’t doing herself any favors in this social media video and only served to make herself look racist and unserious.
More on the show:
-- This week's CPAC is in shambles as Fox News is completely ignoring it, while former Vice President Mike Pence has declined an invitation to speak
-- Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard equates Joe Biden to Nazis and Hitler
-- Fox News host Howard Schultz admits that he is not allowed to talk about the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News
-- Republicans actually seem to think that Donald Trump will sign and abide by a loyalty pledge in the upcoming 2024 Republican primary
-- 2024 Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley continues to struggle to explain anything, explaining her foreign policy ideas as "I did a book"
-- Dilbert creator Scott Adams melts down in a racist rant, is dropped by many newspapers, and Elon Musk defends him
-- Republican Senator Mitt Romney blasts radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for her recent "national divorce" comments
-- David issues an apology for a mistake he made based on a voicemail he received correcting a recent statement
-- On the Bonus Show: Democrats now prefer Biden as nominee, Idaho bill would criminalize mRNA vaccines, Pentagon warns poppyseed bagels a threat to national security, much more...
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