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spryfusion wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:34 am

(Vox) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is widely expected to run for president in 2024, is escalating his campaign to discredit the Covid-19 vaccines, the drug companies that produced them, and the public health officials and government leaders who urged Americans to get them.

Florida under DeSantis has been home base for anti-vaccine, anti-mask, and anti-lockdown policies in the past three years. His administration sought to block cities and universities from imposing mask and vaccine mandates; his surgeon general drew widespread criticism this fall for urging young men not to get vaccinated. This week, DeSantis hosted a 90-minute panel discussion filled with experts questioning the efficacy of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines and touting their potential dangers for some people, while alleging a vague conspiracy exists to hide that information from the public.

Now he is taking this crusade to the next level, asking the Florida Supreme Court to impanel a statewide grand jury charged with investigating any wrongdoing related to the promotion and distribution of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

Some conservatives expect DeSantis to make his Covid policies and his public vaccine skepticism a centerpiece of his presidential campaign. It’s an issue where he could draw a real contrast with former President Donald Trump, whose administration oversaw the vaccines’ development and distribution and who empowered public health officials, like the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony Fauci, who became villains for many Republicans over the course of the pandemic.

weatheriscool wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 10:47 pm BREAKING: Mike Pence has filed to run for President in 2024.

Donald Trump has attacked a New York Magazine reporter as a “wack job” after she revealed that a member of his own 2024 campaign believes “the magic is gone” for the former president.

Throughout the Christmas period, the one-term president has gone on a series of un-festive rants on his Truth Social platform, fuming about everything from the January 6 House committee report to the US’s southern border and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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The article painted a picture of Mr Trump – who is facing calls to be criminally charged over the Capitol riot – living in near seclusion at Mar-a-Lago and describing his 2024 campaign as a “sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection”.

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The advisor, who was not named but works on Mr Trump’s current campaign, described Mr Trump’s appeal as “gone” and admitted that “you can’t get it back”.

caltrek wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:17 pm I just saw a bumper sticker that read something like "Elon Musk for President in 2024." At this point I doubt that he will actually run, but he does seem to want to influence the outcome through overt endorsements as well as through his control of Twitter.

weatheriscool wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 6:50 pm

caltrek wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:17 pm I just saw a bumper sticker that read something like "Elon Musk for President in 2024." At this point I doubt that he will actually run, but he does seem to want to influence the outcome through overt endorsements as well as through his control of Twitter.

This is so stupid.. He needs to get back to space and electric cars and pull his head away from this crap. So sad