World Affairs Brief, December 9, 2022 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World. Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
Ron DeSantis, on the other hand, isn’t a particularly rousing speaker, but he is isn’t afraid to take on the media’s distortions with strength. He is very competent, but he appeared to make his first major compromise this week as he gave approval to the legislative effort to give Disney back their special tax privileges. He appears mollified by Disney’s ruse to reinstall Bob Iger as CEO in order to defuse the public’s rejection of Disney’s pro-LGBT agenda—which continues unabated.
Florida state representative Anthony Sabatini is leading the members opposing giving back more power to Disney, as Big League Politics reports.
The reinstatement of CEO Bob Iger over Disney is allowing the company to exploit Florida taxpayers once more, and DeSantis is apparently happy to go along with this… DeSantis has reversed his stance on Disney, quietly capitulating and working behind the scenes to give them back their tax breaks as the woke megacorp exploits and sexualizes children.
Florida is making a “compromise deal” with Disney to give Disney what it wants.
Democrats, of course, are happy that DeSantis and Republicans in the Florida state legislature are capitulating to Disney, claiming that these corporate special privileges are necessary for economic growth.
“I don’t think [DeSantis] understood how badly this could go for the state of Florida and the counties and the cities,” he said, who twisted reality to call the measure a “tax increase.” “These compromises can be done with the least amount of impact,” Democrat state senator Linda Stewart said, noting how they are going to placate DeSantis in order to make sure Disney gets their handouts back. “We can’t let the governor look like he lost.”
The Left knows how to give limited support to conservative politicians when they compromise.
Despite the reality of the situation, DeSantis is claiming that the capitulation is actually a win.
That’s how unprincipled politicians on the right operate, and DeSantis is looking more like one
—Like Trump who always tried to paint his compromises as a “win.” He concludes with what I fear most about conservative politicians vying for higher political office:
DeSantis’ bark is much worse than his bite. Expect more capitulations as he readies for a likely presidential run in 2024, as DeSantis needs to satiate the globalist donor class that is set to fuel his grand ambitions.
MORE BACKGROUND ON RON DESANTIS
I mentioned in a previous brief that Ron DeSantis and his wife have both expressed early ambitions for Ron to gain the presidency. In today’s divided nation where conservatives are a decided minority, which means a candidate is always going to have to appeal to the problem majority in order to get elected. No true conservative running on an anti-abortion, anti government welfare, anti-foreign aid, and anti-foreign intervention is going to get elected.
That won’t keep DeSantis from trying. More and more conservatives are getting tired of Trump and the negative press that surrounds him, and looking for a new horse to bet on. And so the Florida governor is beginning to play the anti-elitist card, in order to pander to independents and blue collar workers even though he comes from a fairly elite background himself (Yale and Harvard).
Plus there’s bit of taint in his background as we examine is role in the Navy at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. He was there when men died of torture and even though he was the “human rights officer” at the time, he didn’t blow the whistle. MintPress News has the story here. It’s a leftist news site, but sometimes only the Left will tell the truth that conservatives don’t want to hear, about negative things our military does.
Mansoor Adayfi says that while Ron DeSantis was at Guantanamo, three detainees were tortured to death. Their deaths were covered up and classified as suicides. During the US military’s notorious onslaught in Fallujah, Iraq, Ron DeSantis also helped to cover up human rights violations as a Navy JAG officer and “human rights officer.”
Mansoor goes into detail telling about how DeSantis introduced himself to the prisoners as a human rights officer who was there to ensure they were not mistreated. He told them that if they had any concerns they were to come to him to resolve them. Of course, waterboarding and other forms of torture were routinely used at the prison.
At the time, all the prisoners were on a hunger strike due to the awful prison conditions and torture going on. To end the strike, the prison began force-feeding the prisoners tied to a chair which was excruciating—choking and painful. He described how DeSantis was there the entire time just looking on, and not intervening or saying a thing.
This kind of collusion with evil and secret actions by the Deep State military can always be used against a person running for president as a conservative, and it will, even if in secret. The next article deals with DeSantis’ campaign strategy to bash the elite—a common theme for populist candidates. The Hill.com reports:
In speeches, remarks at news conferences and even in an op-ed he penned in The Wall Street Journal last year, his message has been the same: “Don’t trust the elites.” “We rejected the elites and we were right,” the governor said to a crowd attending the National Conservatism Conference in September, referring to how he bucked the system and railed against everyone from public health experts to government officials during the COVID-19 pandemic.
But remember, DeSantis went along with it all at first until conservatives began to rail against the lockdowns. Only then did he jump on board. That’s how a populist works.