2y ago

DeSantis says he would eliminate four federal agencies if elected president

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Florida's Republican governor said he would seek to abolish the departments of Education, Commerce and Energy, as well as the IRS.

"If Congress will work with me on doing that, we'll be able to reduce the size and scope of government," he added. "If Congress won't go that far, I'm going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life."

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2y ago

DeSantis says he would eliminate four federal agencies [the Departments of Education, Commerce, and Energy, and the IRS] if elected president

www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/desantis-says-eliminate-four-federal-agencies-elected-president-rcna91733

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Ron DeSantis says he would eliminate four federal agencies if elected president

www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/desantis-says-eliminate-four-federal-agencies-elected-president-rcna91733

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DeSantis is telling everyone that he's going to destroy the United States, and you're all just sitting there.
- I'm not gonna vote for him. He's not even a candidate yet. What should I be doing?
  
  Laughing at Desantis’ ignorance or crying because republican voters are just as ignorant and eat that shit up.
  Or my favorite… alternating between the two
  
  Training and prepping. Historically, there's only been one way to stop fascist conservatism, and it's not something we are allowed to talk openly about until we're doing it.
  
  Making sure that all of the subhuman republicans around you are as uncomfortable as humanly possible. They live among us and far too many people tolerate them.
- Not much can be done as of yet. The election season will really kick off in January, and short of hiring a hit squad, marching around with signs and getting screamed at/assaulted by rednecks doesn't really seem too effective. What would you propose?
  
  Do the Florida sewer and septic sucking service workers have a union? Might be able to convince them to use their, ah “waste” from yet another school’s clogged septic tanks to, uh “fertilize” desantis’ yard.
- we are not just sitting here, we're posting it to kbin!
- He's polling worse than fucking RFK jr, he stands no chance. YoUr'Re AlL JuSt SiTtInG tHeRe! We're more than a year away from the general election, which he will never make it to because there are months of primaries before where Trump will assuredly win.
- Relax, we're doing a sit in.
- I love comments like this for the blatant lack of self-awareness that you're doing exactly what everyone else is.
  While somehow finding a way to feel like you're better than.
- He's polling a distant 2nd to trump believe it or not. Twice impeached, twice indicted traitorous trump is polling highest among R in their primary.
Fuck this fascist turd.
Wow. Commerce runs the weather satellites and Energy oversee nukes. Good luck with that.
- reminds me of reagan wanting to give DoE the axe until he figured out they have the nukes lol
  
  I hate that man
  
  Rick Perry too. Then Trump made him the secretary of energy, lol.
- I wonder if you asked him which departments oversee that if he wouldn't be able to answer, akin to Rick Perry forgetting what departments he would get rid of...
- Not to mention Commerce regulates international trade and enforces sanctions. Most Federal agencies do far more than most people realize.
"If Congress won't go that far, I'm going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life."
He keep saying shit like this and just once I would like him to explain HOW. WHAT POLICY? What, Ron, will you do that will "push back against leftism"? Tell me what you plan to enact.
- HOW. WHAT POLICY? What, Ron, will you do that will "push back against leftism"?
  Being mean to trans and gay people. That's the policy.
  
  But that's my point. I want him to say that. I want him to explain his actual policy in uncoded terms.
  
  Don’t forget black people. He was busy scrubbing away black history in Florida.
  
  "Throw dem gays into the nuklear reactor"
  Ron DeSantis probably
- The government having money to operate is A WOKE LIBERAL AGENDA!!!
  
  Infrastructure spending? THAT'S A REAL LIBRUL IDEA YOU HAVE THERE. THEM BRIDGES SHOULD PULL THEMSELVES UP BY THE BOOTSTRAPS AND PAY FOR THEIR OWN REPAIRS.
- Irs. Married filing jointly is only available for male female couples.
  Education is an easy one because we already saw what he wants to do with floridas system. Basically erase history and ban books.
  
  I have a guess he also wants to copy Hungary's education system, which is not only barely functioning due to a total lack of replenishment of retired teachers, but also horribly whitewash Hungarian history.
  Think the "states rights" thing was bad? Get ready to the "we never did X, yet we got punished for it" method of teaching history.
- It's a threat. He is saying if congress does not get rid of federal agencies he is going to use Executive Orders to try to force policy he knows will piss people off. I don't think the policy really matters at this point.
  
  It does though. Policy should be the only thing that matters. We need to force our politicians to talk about their actual plans, the actions they will actually take, the policies they will enforce.
Im too tired to give a witty comeback.
DeSantis is a fascist bitch
- same. boring af. heard about some weird business. anti books is what i heard. Sorry, i am pro books.
  
  I’m definitely pro library. Public libraries are awesome.
  Ours has a living- seed bank of heirloom veggies, 3d printers, they do community events- including a Mongolian acrobatic circus (Friday-),sewing/quilting stuff. Oh and they have a lot of books … and that’s just off the top of my head.
Ron DeSantis is a fascist.
OMFG what a fucking bozo. So what he's proposing (among other very dumb things...literally) is an energy infrastructure like Texas. That'll go over real well.
- Texas would try to convince the average resident that 95 degrees in your house IS room temperature if they could get away with it.
  
  "But if my room is that temperature, therefore that temperature is room temperature!"
  edit: fixed markup
- It’s worse than that. The DoE’s main job is overseeing nuclear materials (not just nuclear power plants, but the entire nuclear weapon stockpile).
Do I wish for a sane republicans or not. Doesn’t matter because one doesn’t seem to exist.
- Never thought I’d miss McCain. At least he paid attention to reasoned arguments and tried a few himself.
- Sane Republican is an oxymoron
@kuontom During Rick Perry's short-lived presidential run, he said he wanted to eliminate 3 agencies but then forgot which ones they were. This is on the same level of stupidity
- I was about to comment this as well. On top of that, I believe the Dept of Energy was one of the agencies he wanted to abolish and then ... Trump appointed him Sec of Energy! Womp womp
  
  @HandsHurtLoL Yes that is right. Perry was appointed to DOE, the agency he wanted to abolish. Tillerson was installed at State so that he could dismantle it, which he did. All part of the Bannon "burn it down" theory of Government
  @kuontom
Man's really moving to Trump's right
- He's trying to out Trump Trump. You could say he's trumping Trump. All in hopes he can steal away enough wacko votes to win.
  
  But he can't, and he won't be able to. There is only one Donald Trump and you can't easily replicate his appeal.
This guy is flailing, lmao.
Ron DeKlantis, not even hiding how much of a fascist fuck he is
though considering many of those agencies aid in politicians' ill-gotten wealth, that isnt going to go far
this anti-IRS position is not going away. my mom hates the IRS and feels victimized, (because she hasn't figured out her taxes)
The IRS owes my mom and most broke people a simple accounting,
- Or taking lobbying money from companies like HR Block to prevent changes to how taxes are done - ie, like a lot of the rest of the world where they send you a "does this look right?" report and you tick yes or no.
  
  preachin to the choir, friend
  
  No they cut back the IRS so the can't put resources into complicated audits on rich people.
He... does know what the IRS is, right? The way the federal government gets money. What, is he going to expect the treasury to print more money?
- My guess (assuming he has any sort of plan at all)? Tax farming, Roman style.
  Private tax collection companies bid for government contracts based on how much money they think they can extract from the populace. Any amount they manage to collect above that they keep as profit.
But why? What's wrong with the department of energy? We'd no longer be able to subsidize energy creation, we'd literally be paying 20x more for power for no reason. And these power agencies would have no reason to operate power grids or maintain them. The bill would default back to the US, because no one could afford electricity anymore.
And what's with the threat? How does someone weaponize the IRS against wokeness? How?! Is an IRS agent going to throw an excel spreadsheet at me if I wear a rainbow? What a moron thing to say.
- Eliminate tax benefits for non male/female couples. He didn’t say that, but that would be a way.
- The department of energy oversees the nukes.
What is he talking about? Department of Energy? They do all our nukes bro...
- then the global economy collapses
  That's what they want. They got theirs, so fuck everyone else.
That is one way to destroy the United States
- I don't understand the end game here. I understand corporations trying to get more control, but you have less money and power if you're just ruling over ashes.
He wants to make America into Gilead, waiting for him to announce he intends to create the department of Christianity.
Asked how he would replace the existing tax structure, DeSantis said he has “supported all of the single-rate proposals," referring to a flat tax.
A flat tax, a.k.a. taxing the people who can least afford it rather than the people who can most easily afford it. Cartoon villain shit.
- You say "Department of Christianity" like it's a bad thing. Guess those public schools that you're so adamant to defend utterly failed you. This country was founded BY non-catholic Christians, FOR non-catholic Christians. The rest of you have just been tolerated for the longest time; which has turned out to be the biggest mistake this country has ever committed.
  To be 100% clear, if I had the chance to jump into an alternate timeline where the United States stayed a Christian Theocratic Republic, I would. You Demonrats are the most unsufferable collection of Savages in the entire multiverse. And one day, the last of you will finally die and this country can become great again.
  
  Extremely weak ragebait attempt.
  
  This is such lazy trolling. Try harder.
Nothing says "Small government" like banning drag shows, banning books, banning certain subjects from being taught in college (CRT and black history), telling women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies, going after Disney because they opposed your anti gay bills, etc....
Before everyone starts jumping to conclusions I just want to start by saying Desantis is a toxic douche who I do not and will never support. Please hear me out though.
The worst thing about federal agencies is that the President can control them with Executive Orders. In other words, power granted to these agencies is power granted to whomever the President is.
Getting rid of them does mean that we lose many regulations in the short term but it gives the power back to Congress and the states (yeah I know some states are going to do stupid shit and Congress is going to sit around with their thumbs up their asses and take forever to enact policy to replace it).
Long term getting rid of federal agencies could actually help protect us should another tyrannical President be elected.
If you want an example of why executive power is dangerous just look at what Trump and Ajit Pai did to internet regulation after the FCC was given control of the internet in the name of net neutrality.
- Okay it could help, but the US need to not crumble or turn into a christofascist state first (impossible)
Congress would have to grant him Presidential Reorganization Authority to do what he's promising. The last president to be granted that was Reagan.
DeSantis is a facist fool with the personality of wet paper. He should never hold public office again.
I mean there is an argument to burning it all down and starting over but this ain't it lmao.
Came in to lurk, but it seems that so many subhuman leftists are here from reddit. Like, jesus christ, is there any politics forum were you demons haven't infiltrated and corrupted?
That said, Desantis is weak and cowardly. I would've voted for him if he had not proven that with those fake AI photos of Trump and Faucci. So, I guess he did me a favor there.
Lastly, get rid of the IRS. It's not even a real american agency.
- You should probably just keep lurking.
- So a right wing echo chamber is what you're looking for. Exploding Heads and Voat have got you covered for your daily feed of blind hatred, vitriol and detachment from reality. Most people do not subscribe to that way of thinking (as it's backwards, reductive and harmful to society) and thus they are "everywhere". Your average online user is not a conservative.
  
  Several falsities with this statement here.
  Starting off with the fact that the only blind hatred, vitriol, and detachment from reality that has existed in this country in the last 22 years has been solely and exclusively from the left. What worse is, for quite a while there, the so-called thought leaders of the right did nothing meaningful to stop them; and in fact consorted with leftist terrorists in congress, giving them concessions, and ignoring their duty to uphold the Constitution.
  We of the right are not backwards. We believe in family, faith, hard work, objective truth, honesty, and integrity. We believe that by placing these values first and foremost in our lives, we make our own lives and those of our families better. The left believes in themselves, faithlessness, laziness, "no truth but power", deception, and self image. They, at best, only wish for everyone and everything around them to serve them like kings. They are worthless parasites. At worst, the left actively works to destroy this country. Just look at New York, LA, Chicago, Portland, and San Franscico and see nothing but homelessness, unsolved crime, rampant drug use, and defunded police. They are run by the left and will die off in the next decade the same way that Detroit did.
  Saying something is reductive is meaningless, as that word has become nothing more than a leftist buzzword.
  As for the right being harmful to society; newsflash there is no more society in this country because of the left. Gender has been rendered as meaningless, Religion is being openly criminalized, the Constitution is completely ignored, leftist policy has destroyed what value the dollar had, etc. There is no common united society in the states anymore. No one on the right in a right leaning honestly cares what happens to a leftist anymore. Some foreign country could invade tomorrow, and the right won't lift a finger to help if that invasion happened in New York, Illinois, or California. I know I sure as hell won't care.
  The Real problem is that for 23 years, smart leftists infiltrated news organizations and slow drove people insane with fake stories. I can't explain leftist judges, because no one on the left is smart enough to understand how the law of this country works. The left is sure conniving enough to be politicians though. After all, they never do any work themselves so all they need to do is lie, extort, and blackmail whoever they need to while they just sit around.
  One day soon, this will all change though. The political pendulum is going to swing so hard back to the right that it's going to break the entire cycle. Your average person is seeing the lawlessness and insanity that has completely consumed the left. And they are pissed. The Bud Light effect is proof of that. The left is living on borrowed time, and they know it. That's why they push for censorship. That's why they called everything racist. That why they mob, riot, loot, murder, and intimidate. And I can not wait for the right to completely take over. I only wished it had happened sooner.
  Oh, and thank you for the suggestions. I'll be sure to visit.
Only four?
- Seem a very conservative number coming from him
This coming from the prince of unintended consequences.

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