Utopia Talk / Politics / Meatball Ron threatening the Bahamas

murder Member	Sat Nov 25 14:47:48 For absolutely no reason other than to act like a tough guy. ================================ 'If someone in the Bahamas was launching missiles into Fort Lauderdale, we would not accept that for a minute.' Ron DeSantis redoubled his strong opposition to what are very hypothetical attacks from a friendly nation to a South Florida city. Remarkably, the second time around comes after the U.S. Embassy in Nassau issued a statement of regret for the previous time DeSantis made the threat. Yet again, DeSantis compared Israel’s onslaught on Hamas to what would happen if he, as Governor of the state of Florida, had to respond to “missiles” from the Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale in a 9/11 parallel metaphor. “Can you imagine just after our 9/11, if three weeks later, people were demanding that we had a cease-fire against al-Qaida and the Taliban? We would never have done that. And I think to myself as Governor of Florida, if we had, if someone in the Bahamas was launching missiles into Fort Lauderdale, we would not accept that for a minute,” DeSantis vowed. “We would go in and we would flatten them in no time certain.” “And yet Israel is supposed to just live there with this … with this existential threat,” he said Sunday during a campaign swing through Charles City before moving onto the more imminent threat Israel faces from Hamas. During an event Saturday in Muscadine last weekend, DeSantis floated the bizarre metaphor likening terror attacks on Israelis to the distant hypothetical threat of “rockets” originating from the Bahamian Islands. “What are you supposed to do? I mean, I used to say even when they would just fire the normal rockets because they’ve been firing these rockets for years and years. And I thought to myself, like, if the Bahamas were firing rockets into Fort Lauderdale, like, we would not accept that for, like, one minute. I mean, we would just level it. We would never be willing to live like that as Americans,” DeSantis said. A day after Florida Politics first publicized the statement, the U.S. government responded via the Bahamian press. “The Bahamas and the United States enjoy an enduring and unique partnership. (Charge d’Affairs Usha Pitts) regrets if DeSantis’ comments suggested anything other than a close alliance between our two democratic nations,” the U.S. Embassy said in a statement to The Nassau Guardian. http://flo...-ron-desantis-flatten-bahamas/
murder Member	Sat Nov 25 14:50:00 Mind you his tough guy act doesn't involve threatening China or Russia or Iran or Hamas or even Cuba which is a far more credible threat. Nope, he's taking on the weakest fucking opponent he can find.
Forwyn Member	Sun Nov 26 07:55:49 murder is mad about geography lol
Rugian Member	Sun Nov 26 08:05:11 "Threatening" is a very inaccurate word here.
Rugian Member	Sun Nov 26 08:06:15 If murder ever assaulted me I would hit him back. Did I just threaten murder? No, it's called a hypothetical.
murder Member	Sun Nov 26 10:32:12 Why the fuck are you bringing up murder assaulting you? Is the Bahamas any kind of a threat to anyone? No, they are not. He just doesn't have the balls to run his mouth at anyone that could conceivably hurt him.
Sam Adams Member	Sun Nov 26 20:41:30 Its obviously a geographic reference and equally obviously he should have used mexico or cuba.
murder Member	Tue Nov 28 08:27:26 Meatball clearly sees the affiliation between Hamas and the Ba-Hamas. ;o)
murder Member	Tue Nov 28 08:30:10 Also the geography shouldn't matter since he's running for President of the US, not President of Florida or President of Ft Lauderdale.
murder Member	Tue Nov 28 11:38:14 Now Meatball is crying because Koch endorsed Nikki Haley. Poor Meatball. :o(
murder Member	Sun Dec 17 10:35:05 Meatball loses another supporter. ================================ Republican strategist Jeff Roe quits pro-DeSantis super PAC amid turmoil https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/16/republican-strategist-jeff-roe-quits-pro-desantis-super-pac-amid-turmoil-00132164 ================================= Poor Meatball! :o)
kargen Member	Sun Dec 17 12:07:07 I think it is an apt comparison. Much like Israel could obliterate all of Gaza in a matter of hours if they wanted the US could wipe out the Bahamas if they decided to launch a few missiles our way. I'm thinking DeSantis is wrong though in part of his statement. The current administration wouldn't retaliate by leveling the Bahamas. They would sign an executive order saying the Bahamas should stop shooting missiles at Florida. Maybe not even that since Florida didn't vote for Joe.
murder Member	Sun Dec 17 17:10:45 I wish the Bahamas would liberate Florida. :o\
murder Member	Mon Jan 01 10:03:59 Ron DeSantis now says it would take ’12 hours’ to ‘flatten’ the Ba-Hamas http://flo...s/650673-ron-desantis-bahamas/ This has to be the weirdest flex of all time. The Ba-Hamas, Iceland, Costa Rica ... DeSantis isn't afraid to stand up to any of them.
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