MSNBC host Joy Reid and her guests on Friday tore into Florida and its governor, Ron DeSantis, calling it an 'authoritarian state modeled after Hungary' and claiming that DeSantis is the 'next Grand Wizard of the GOP.'
MSNBC host Joy Reid and her guests on Friday tore into Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, calling him an "authoritarian leader" and claiming he's "being groomed to be the next Grand Wizard of the GOP."
Addressing
her guests, Democratic strategist Fernand Amandi and MSNBC contributor
Dean Obeidallah, Reid opened the segment by sharing her fears that
DeSantis is "creating essentially a Republican superstate where it
doesn’t matter how you vote, where it’s completely controlled by
Republicans."
"Is there any way to stop this?" she asked before letting her guests speak.
Amandi, a frequent MSNBC guest,
ran with her doomsday assessment of the DeSantis situation: "Joy, you
asked the most important question, because for 246 years in this
country, the answer to that question — is there any way to stop this? –
would have been, ‘Well, yes! You can stop it at the ballot box this
November.’"
Though he admitted he doesn’t believe voting can work anymore in
Florida, he added, "I’m not so sure that, even if the will of voters'
call to end this madness that’s happening in Florida, it would come to pass. Because Florida, I don’t think, is a democracy anymore."
"I
think Florida is truly an authoritarian state modeled after Hungary,
Orban," Amandi declared, naming the European country’s leader, Viktor
Orban.
The strategist pointed to the fact that Hungary hosted a
CPAC event this year, which Orban spoke at, and asserted that "in Ron
DeSantis, they are trying to establish that type of authoritarian leader
who will eventually run for President of the United States."
"Absolutely,"
Reid responded, and then turned the mic over to Obeidallah to comment
on how the GOP is using Florida as a model for their plans of running
the whole country.
Adding to the drama of the conversation, Obeidallah stated, "We’re
going to be seeing refugees from Florida seeking freedom coming to New
York. And you’re welcome here, we’d like to have you here in our state."
"Look,
they’re making a DeSantistan," Obeidallah quipped, adding, "It’s going
to be the worst Disney ride ever where he runs it. He has been banning
books, banning Black history, banning saying the word gay, banning
hormone therapy for transgender teens. Which is just cruelty."
"Studies have shown that teens who are transgender, who get hormone
therapy, are 40% less likely to commit suicide or a suicide attempt. He
knows that. He doesn’t care. It’s cruelty," he claimed. "It’s the idea –
like Trump – the idea, let’s prey on those who are vulnerable instead
of helping them."
Obeidallah then accused the GOP base of not
being pro-life, "The base – which talks about being pro-life – doesn’t
care about the sanctity of life. They don’t care about children. They
don’t care about people in need."
The MSNBC contributor concluded his rant with a swipe equating
DeSantis and Republicans with the KKK, stating, "I’m worried. I look at
Florida. I look at Ron DeSantis being groomed to be the next Grand
Wizard of the GOP on a national level. We should all be alarmed by what,
[he's] trying to do in Florida, nationally. Very alarming."
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Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon discuss President Donald Trump's comments about race after the 2019 Oscars. Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2019 The left loves to hate on Trump, calling him a racist and what not. I know Trump can be juvenile sometimes – certainly – but the racist and hateful name-calling is just what it is, garbage.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez scrambled Sunday to explain why neighbors at her listed Bronx address never saw her there — and ended up claiming she recently relocatedto a larger place nearby. The day after The Post reported that residents said they had never seen her around — and she ducked questions about it after an appearance — her spokesman said the Democratic freshman congresswoman now lives with her boyfriend in a two-bedroom apartment “a block and a half away.’’ The pair relocated there earlier this month, he said. “She lives in the same neighborhood she’s lived in for years,” said the spokesman, Corbin Trent. “She is not living in the exact same condo.’’ The recent move still didn’t explain why residents at her previous digs — a one-bedroom Bronx condo owned by her mom — insisted they had never seen her there. U.S. reps and senators are required to have a residence in their home districts. Trent claimed that Ocasio-Cortez, 29, was at her new home Sunday afternoon, al
