I’m Afraid of Ron DeSantis.

now we've got to talk about Ron DeSantis

not only what Donald Trump has to say

about Ron DeSantis but some of the

latest ads going back and forth

regarding Ron DeSantis uh we're gonna

make it very clear that uh there's a lot

of drama going on and I'll tell you

there's one group that is absolutely

loving the drama that's going on and

it's Democrats Democrats are loving that

Republicans who seem to be tearing each

other apart for the Republican

nomination that is one thing that

Democrats tend to have is that they tend

to unite around a single candidate and

everybody else gets shot out I don't

personally think that's the best for the

country in fact when I ran for governor

in California the Democrats made it

extremely clear there could only be one

Democratic candidate that anybody else

was solely a distraction which I

actually think is disgusting because it

limits the choice amongst people in a

particular election when a party

essentially coalesces around one

candidate before

a nominee is chosen America loses or if

State loses and this is how you continue

to get hard-line politicians who stay in

office is when essentially the uh Union

of politicians if you will coalesce

around one candidate before you ask

actually have a nominee chosen by the

electorate well then what you're getting

is not the candidate that the electorate

wants the people want you're getting the

candidate that essentially the existing

leaders want either the wealthy people

ones who control the media or the

existing politicians so I think that's

problematic so while the Democrats are

doing that well uh for their own sake I

think it's bad for Americans what's bad

for Republicans though is all the

infighting but it's actually better for

Americans because the more infighting

you get the more people are actually

forced to look at the actual issues and

see where candidates truly stand apart

and that's what we're going to do here

is we're going to take a little bit of a

zoom in on Ron DeSantis we're going to

do a little bit of comparing to Donald

Trump and so let's look at what's going

on between these two obviously these

even though DeSantis hasn't actually

declared that he's running for president

yet let's compare the two in certain

areas and see where does santis is going

with his campaign I'd like to start by

saying I personally believe that Ron

DeSantis has somebody in his cabinet or

is is office or whatever who's basically

saying that Ron DeSantis has to become

more and more dare I say and use the

word extreme maybe some would just say

loud and proud and others would say

extreme on a daily basis to continue to

stay relevant in the media that's

specifically because I align a rise of

Donald Trump with a that is through

indictment or otherwise with more and

more measures coming out from Donald or

Ron DeSantis that seem to be more edgy

if you will now they're regularly deemed

to be common and and core Republican

beliefs but even within those you're

starting to get some divisiveness let's

break down some of these for example a

political group aligned with Ron

DeSantis known as Never back down that's

the name of the group they just launched

a bunch of attack ads on Donald Trump

and in one of them they call Donald

Trump a gun grabber and this was a

little bit of a weird title to call

someone a gun Grabber but really what

they're trying to suggest is that Donald

Trump doesn't support your gun rights so

let's look at the ads and actually break

down what's really happening in this uh

gun Grabber ad and let's understand a

little bit what Ron DeSantis is doing so

first here's the gun Grabber ad let's

take a listen into this one and break

down what where these quotes are

actually coming from

Trump promised NRA members he'd have

their back

under attack Trump abandoned us and

stood with liberal Democrats you guys

half of you are so afraid of the NRA we

have to fight him every once in a while

that's okay some of you people are

petrified of the NRA you can't be

petrified

they have great power over you people

they have less power over me I don't

need it I don't what do I need that is

why I have called for red flag laws the

poor might take the Firearms first and

then go to court I like taking keep in

mind here they're purposefully showing

Trump with Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer

Michael Bloomberg and otherwise uh

trying to distance Trump from gun rights

now we'll compare this to what Donald

Trump has said recently at the NRA uh

also uh keep in mind that here Donald

Trump is is being quoted all of this

obviously these are clips of Donald

Trump but here Donald Trump is saying

hey I prefer taking guns first and then

going through due process later let's

let's actually rewind just about four

seconds there so you can hear that part

and then uh oops there we go uh then

we'll uh then we'll keep going with this

piece here and then we'll respond to

what's actually going on Firearms first

and then go to court I like taking the

guns early take the guns first go

through due processor he and I

introduced another assault weapons bill

know Diane you have some very good ideas

Diane if you could add what you have

also and I think you can into the bill

yeah shower you're ready see like what I

hate about political ads is they are so

out of context right and what's

frustrating about them is well you

actually have here is somebody doing

their job in my opinion like you're

supposed to try to bring both sides

together so just take those out of

context from when you're actually

operating as a president no matter what

side you're on and you're trying to take

that Unity out of context and and

suggest oh Trump isn't Hardline enough

what you're really trying to do is

you're trying to set up Ron desantis's

Mr Hardline and that's exactly what he's

doing with some of his recent policies

and we're going to go through some of

those in just a moment let's keep

listening this for me Joe can you do

that Pat can you add if you help

well no I'll help

help but what Amy and what Diane have

can we add them in we're talking about

rules and regulations for purchasing

talking about changing an age from 18 to

21 I mean I say that it should all be a

21. you do a strong background checks

we're getting rid of the bump stocks

Trump cut and run like a coward Trump

the gun Grabber doesn't deserve a second

chance

all right so there's a trump the gun

Grabber so so what is really being

attempted or what's really happening

here so a lot of these clips are

actually from

2019. after we've had some mass

shootings in the summer of 2019 which

obviously since then we've also had

other mass shootings Trump was actually

a proponent of gun curbs these were real

discussions now they were edited and

caught in such a way to make it seem

like this is how Donald Trump stands

today but that's not true uh Donald

Trump today actually is a big fan of

ensuring gun rights for Americans and

he's made that clear at recent events

and press conferences and the National

Rifle Association but what's interesting

is in 2019 Donald Trump made these

claims that there was going to be a

bipartisan gun control measure and what

happened was from the summer to about

November of 2019 right before the

election the Republican Party quietly

moved to drop any reconciliation or any

bipartisanship on gun control and any

kind of gun control measures in Congress

were lost this is why we regularly have

this frustration when there's a mass

shooting and people are like ah you know

do something other than thoughts and

prayers Congress this is what happens

Congress a shooting happens Congress

gets together with the president we're

going to do this this this this this

then all of a sudden you know three four

months go by and then you have the

president look and go hmm oh yeah I got

the 2020 election coming up let's uh

let's take that and table it for later

and basically nothing ended up happening

so while Donald Trump was able to do the

popular thing then in 2019 which was

talk about gun control nothing actually

ended up coming about them now just two

days ago Donald Trump did say that mass

shootings were not a gun problem instead

Donald Trump called them a mental health

problem with societal problem a cultural

problem and a spiritual problem to some

extent he's not wrong the problem with

calling gun control or gun issues a

mental health problem is that the

solution is going to take a very long

time I actually ran a campaign for

governor in California under the idea

that we need to heavily invest in mental

health and that is we need no six-month

weights for homeless people to get

mental health care but we need an annual

instead of physicals annual mental

health checkups well maybe in addition

to physicals right we don't want to say

one or the other there we need mental

health education in schools if we have

PE why don't we have Emmy right big fan

of this but it would take decades for

that mental health to actually start

flowing through and solving some of

those societal problems and really the

depression that you're seeing amongst uh

basically Killers right Mass Shooters

these are these are depressive

individuals who have some form of a

problem they could seem otherwise normal

but then all of a sudden snap and

unfortunately uh mental health education

and and Care is going to take a long

time to solve in America and it's likely

that nothing's going to happen for quite

a while so in the meantime you've got

Donald Trump suggesting no we're not

going to touch your guns but then what

is Ron desantis's approach well Rhonda

Santos just signed into law on April 3rd

basically constitutional carry in

Florida now it basically you pretty much

already had constitutional carry in

Florida in practice not really but you

had to apply for a gun permit concealed

carry license which you could get as

easily as you could get a fishing

license in Florida it really wasn't hard

but essentially now you have

constitutional carry where anyone can

legally carry a gun without a permit if

they're legally eligible for carrying

that firearm now this is where people

are somewhat split see Ron DeSantis says

you should have no training and no

background check requirements for

concealed carry and starting July 1st

that's exactly what you're going to get

in Florida a lot of people including

Republicans are saying this is a little

too extreme that there should be

training and background track

requirements for concealed carry now

some argue that is an infringement to

the Second Amendment which says the

Second Amendment shall not be infringed

but when we actually look at Supreme

Court case law about shall not be

infringed we've already broken down that

shall not be infringed has limitations

you have the right to bear arms subject

to limitations you can't walk around

with a bazooka or drive a tank down

streets because there are limitations on

the types of arms you can carry where

you can carry them and what you can do

and so some extend those Supreme Court

limitations and say hey well look if

you're a felon you shouldn't have a gun

and and just like in Florida if you're a

felon and you're not legally able to

carry a gun you're right to the second

amendment has actually been infringed so

there is a gray area there the Second

Amendment isn't black and white the way

it has been interpreted by the Supreme

Court today now people say well it

should be and other people say no it

shouldn't be that's fine that's where

the debate is now what I've seen a lot

of people say who lean towards the

middle and this is where I see a lot of

Democrats and Republicans agree actually

is hey why don't we if people can't

afford training or mental health

evaluations or whatever why doesn't the

government subsidize that sort of

training and if you can afford it then

submit to training and basically show

that you get trained you know once a

month or once every six months or once a

year kind of like you renew your license

if you're a financial advisor or a

lender or a realtor anybody's eligible

to get a license as long as you're not a

fraud you know you haven't been

convicted of felony fraud or whatever

you're eligible to get a license get

your license right so that's sort of

what I'm finding more in the middle the

more in the middle argument seems to be

that there should be some form of

training and through that training there

can be mental health evaluations and for

those who can't afford it there should

be some kind of subsidies others say hey

I shouldn't have to submit to anything

but then again this is where where we

just go through the political Spectrum

the point is Ron DeSantis has chosen

constitutional carry as the direction

and that is more on the further right of

the spectrum and this is where folks are

saying yeah Ron DeSantis is potentially

purposely trying to go more extreme with

each of his latest policies because he's

trying to get national attention he's

trying to get national attention to help

boost his campaign announcement which

eventually will come however because of

this hard lining Ron DeSantis is also

potentially starting to lose some donors

for example according to the financial

times a top Republican donor who is

actually the founder of the um The

Brokerage interactive brokerage has

decided that he and his friends or his

associates whatever are going to pull

back from further funding of Ron

DeSantis and instead they're going to

quote hold their powder dry because they

feel that Ron DeSantis has gone a little

bit too extreme in some of his latest

policies some of his other policies

include the passing of a ban of

abortions after six weeks of pregnancy

now obviously they're on one hand are a

lot of individuals who say life begins

at conception others say life begins at

the heartbeat of a child problem is the

heartbeat of a child usually starts as

early as five weeks generally by about

the sixth week after conception and this

is why Ron DeSantis signed a bill into

law just on Thursday that bans abortion

abortions after six weeks of pregnancy

now this law is still going to be

contingent on how the Florida Supreme

Court evaluates challenges to the

current 15-week ban on abortions but uh

this six-week ban on abortions depending

on how that Supreme Court challenge goes

removes Florida's essential Safe Haven

status of people wanting abortions

people used to go to Florida for

abortions that might change now with

this new six-week rule the problem with

six weeks say some on the left actually

many on the left is that first of all it

removes a woman's right to choose we

know that pro life versus pro-choice

that's the obvious one but a more in the

middle approach here is that individuals

on the left say hold on a second what if

a woman doesn't know they're pregnant

yet the statistics show that one in five

women discover they're pregnant after

seven weeks have passed that means 20

percent of women discover they're

pregnant after they would be able to

abort if they were in a situation to or

or or needed to Studies have also shown

that women who are a single and end up

pregnant whether it's on accident or

however Gonda breaks contraceptives

don't work whatever

single women who end up having a child

in their youth or as a single person

when they were denied the right to

abortion 20 to 30 years later were found

to have lower Financial standards or in

other words lower net worth in the

future and lower credit scores in the

future so there are arguments that are

made that suggest hey a woman who is

denied the right to choose early in her

pregnancy ends up substantially worse

off in their own livelihoods or career

if they're denied an abortion and if

abortions aren't eligible for

individuals past six weeks but people

don't discover that they're pregnant

until past six weeks then you

potentially run into the freedom of

choice question that is does somebody

have the right to have potentially their

future affected by a pregnancy now of

course if they didn't even know they

were pregnant now of course others say

well fine they don't have sex or be

better about your contraceptives right

so you're really in a blurry area here

but the statistics are really clear the

twenty percent of women don't know

they're pregnant until after seven weeks

and here's where it gets worse younger

women really get screwed here women

under 20 years old so between 15 and 19

listen to this

two-thirds of them discover that they're

pregnant after six weeks and only one

third discover they're pregnant before

six weeks that's a problem because now

it potentially disproportionately

affects younger women's ability to

choose where it actually even more

disproportionately affects their future

now some argue hey this is why we need

more sex education in schools but then

again sexual education in schools is

even more divisive right now because of

what's happening around the trans

Community uh and potential the the

potential argument that well any kind of

sex education is potentially grooming

children into the options that they may

have to choose from once they're 18 or

older well in some states now are even

authorizing potential gender affirming

treatments for children under 18 without

their parents knowledge so as usual

politics is a giant poop show and nobody

he's ever going to be able to get the

right answer on any of this but the

point is once again if there's the

middle and there's the left Ron DeSantis

is leaning more towards the right here

as a way to elevate his National

candidacy right leaning more towards the

right on guns and leading more towards

the right on traditional conservative

values such as essentially Banning

abortions at uh in past six weeks so

that's the second now there's a third

thing the Ron DeSantis has now

challenged the Florida Supreme Court to

allow the death penalty and

substantially more cases to hold people

accountable for their crimes now many

more people seem to agree with this

because of frustration that came out of

the Parkland shooting where the jury

ended up deciding that the perpetrator

Mr Cruz ended up getting a life sentence

instead of being put to death this is

something that is angered lot of

Americans and has led Ron DeSantis to

call for the reimposition essentially of

more death penalty a result for crimes

including raping a child

that is state legislators will soon

allow the death penalty to be eligible

for those convicted of raping a child

this is despite the United States

Supreme Court in 2008 finding that it

would be cruel and unusual to Institute

the death penalty for rape cases

then we get to Disney with Ron DeSantis

of course we know at this point that

Disney outplayed Ron DeSantis which Ron

DeSantis is very upset about but rather

than and this is what frustrates a lot

of people what it well I shouldn't say a

lot of people this frustrates some

people when it comes to Ron DeSantis

rather than clarifying Ron desantis's

stance on economics education

immigration jobs or Ukraine Ron DeSantis

is potentially going to double down on

his fight with Disney

Disney outplayed Ron DeSantis Disney

said hey we shouldn't pass the don't say

gay bill which basically bans references

and discussions around gay before the

third grade which quite frankly I've got

children in first and first grade and

about to go into kindergarten and we

don't need to have those discussions at

those ages so I agree personally that

there's definitely an age where certain

discussions shouldn't occur but there is

an age where we have to start talking to

children like basically mature children

and take you know put our pants on and

actually teach them how to live in the

society that we're in today but anyway

Disney took the stance that hey we

should not have it don't say gay Bill we

should instead honor the lgbtq community

which was very anti the don't say gay

Bill Disney is now potentially some are

saying trying to rub in the face of Ron

DeSantis their victory over Rhonda

santis because Ron DeSantis replace the

board of Reedy Creek that controls the

Orlando District in which Disney

operates however Disney basically

stripped that board of all its powers

publicly just days before that board was

going to get its powers for the next up

to 30 years and so now DeSantis is

frustrating Bob Iger this is a new well

recurring CEO remember Bob Iger left

then we got Bob J Pack Bob Jacob pack

left Bob igar came back now Bob Iger

says hey I'm open to talking to DeSantis

in the meantime we're going to have our

first lgbtq celebration at Disney and

we're gonna have you know basically a

Rainbow Magic Kingdom which is fantastic

I'm all for cheering people and adults

choices I'm a big fan of that I have

nothing against that but what's

interesting is while Bob Iger is

introducing these celebrations and

suggesting he's open to talking to Ron

DeSantis there's argument there are

arguments being made and reports being

made that Ron DeSantis today and over

the next few days and weeks is going to

send in investigators and building

permit enthusiasts or building permanent

inspectors and others to investigate

Disney to basically try to tighten the

bolts on Disney even more and continue

this war against Disney and again this

is leading a lot of people to wonder hey

we thought Ron DeSantis was potentially

going to be a moderate Republican

candidate when the reality is what we're

getting is we're getting a candidate

who's

super far on the right when it comes to

guns further on the right when it comes

to abortions although not all the way

right because otherwise you'd be at no

abortions at all which we've seen some

states do uh you have uh this this uh um

death penalty case which is more

conservative and then you have this

argument or however is also agreed upon

with many people on the left and then

you have sort of this reactivation of

this Disney dispute so a lot of people

are scratching their heads going man the

santis like we know you're gonna run for

president but potentially you're

starting to alienate more people and

instead of talking about real National

issues you're picking fights maybe where

you shouldn't be picking fights

especially continuing these fights with

Disney now In fairness to people who say

no no Ron DeSantis is doing the right

thing I want to cover that as well most

Americans don't want corporations

involved in well our social issues the

fact of the matter is only about

one-third of Americans actually want

corporations discussing or having an

opinion or say in social issues that is

two-thirds of Americans say get the hell

out of social issues when it comes to

corporations so most people are not a

big fan or most Americans at least are

not a big fan of Corporations getting

involved in social issues so you have a

lot of people on both sides here for

when it comes to Ron DeSantis now look I

tried to cover Ron DeSantis here as

clearly as possible now I'm going to

give you my opinion and I always try to

separate what I'm presenting from my

opinions so I'm going to give my

opinions here I think that Rhonda

initially I've held this belief that Ron

DeSantis could potentially be a good

option for republicans and I want to see

him on the debate stage I want to see

him have the opportunity to make his

case as to why he should be a leading

candidate potentially for president of

the United States I have to say I'm

frustrated by the continued chase after

Disney when we have substantially larger

issues to worry about I'm a much bigger

fan of focusing on education which I

will give Rhonda Santa's credit for

Rhonda Santa says signed a bill into law

forcing Financial education in high

schools as a condition of graduation

that's something that I ran on for

governor in California three years ago

or two years ago so I'm a big fan of

that and so I'm grateful for that but I

want to see more of that more on the

economy education jobs Ukraine China the

dollar oil the Middle East more of that

and less of the petty back and forth

with Disney now some of the items such

as uh gun rights I I think I've kind of

already included some of my opinions on

that I personally am a big fan of some

kind of training requirements that's

what I ran for government governor on in

California that hey everybody should be

able to legally own and carry a firearm

there should be some kind of regular

training programs for those folks kind

of just like when you have a regular you

know once a year checkup that you're

still okay to be a licensed lender or

licensed financial advisor or whatever

you have a license for and if you can't

afford it there should be subsidies for

that right and in those instances there

could be opportunities to evaluate

somebody's mental state as well because

you have trainers who are then able to

to essentially check in with people

along with of course investing in mental

education mental health education so I'm

a big fan of the Second Amendment

just like I'm a big fan of people

becoming White Collar professionals or

CPAs or licensed financial advisors like

you should be able to do that big fan of

that California I think is absolutely

ludicrous in that California will

suggest oh yeah we'll let you carry a

gun everywhere except libraries schools

post offices stores parties public

events other people's in other words you

could have a gun but you can't have a

gun it's like California is broken okay

I'm not here to defend California's

super broken but when it comes to my

opinion of DeSantis I'm a big fan of

encouraging hey if he could be more of

that moderate Republican even though

he's not going to get at the extreme

headlines I think more Americans are

likely to associate with DeSantis then

be fed up with DeSantis and I think this

walk away from the founder of

interactive brokers as a donor along

with his community as donors of Ron

DeSantis is really the result result of

some of the extreme pushing that Ron

DeSantis has been up to some of it going

potentially a little too far and away

from the real issues facing our nation

whether it's the debt the dollar the

Middle East or otherwise we'll see but

some of the ads that we're seeing we

always have to break apart look at and

say look the ads are ridiculous I think

I don't think you could really compare

to santis and Donald Trump on guns and

say they're really that terribly

different some people argue that well

DeSantis gave us the right to bear arms

yes but DeSantis is also a governor with

control of the state legislature Donald

Trump was not right he always had to

deal with this bipartisanship uh with

the exception of the first two years of

his administration but even within that

you still had a narrow majority of

Republicans and it's a lot harder to

have some kind of blanket reform like

that on the national level compared to

the state level so it'll be fascinating

to see what happens but these are some

of my thoughts on DeSantis and hopefully

catches you up to speed on some the

latest of what's going on with the

scientists hopefully going forward we

get a little bit more refined

discussions on uh National issues rather

than this kind of nonsense back and

forth uh between Donald Trump and

DeSantis and the Republicans I mean here

for example as Donald Trump on Truth

social nobody has been stronger for the

Second Amendment than president Donald J

Trump and yet Ron Des Sanctus took an

advertisement this weekend saying of all

things uh I was in agreement with crazy

Nancy and Chuck Schumer not and then of

course Donald Trump defends this which

we've of course already broken down that

a lot of this was from 2019 so we'll pay

attention to it uh but I I am worried

that if Ron DeSantis just for the sake

of having other candidate options you

know I I I don't to me it doesn't really

matter who runs uh I just want the best

option for America but I think the more

Ron DeSantis potentially goes in One

Direction the further extreme the more

he's going to lose that really critical

independent voter and that independent

voter might actually end up finding

Donald Trump dare I say more neutral

than DeSantis now that's crazy to think

about but it's actually kind of what

happened in California as well when

Larry Elder ran for governor in

California as a a right or Conservative

candidate Democrats painted Larry Elder

as to the right of trump in other words

more extreme than Trump and that was a

really easy way to even get independence

to vote against Larry Elder so in other

words the more extreme you go on the

right in my opinion the more likely

you're just signing up for a Democrat

again now maybe that's not a bad thing I

don't know that ultimately is up to

America to decide I'm not convinced that

another four years of Joe Biden is the

best option for America I wish the

Democrats would put forward some other

reasonable Alternatives but the odds are

now that Joe Biden has announced is

going to run and he's going to start

campaigning again for his re-election

it's very unlikely that any other

Democrat is going to come out and

actually run to compete against Joe

Biden because that's just the way the

Democratic party is they stand behind

one candidate and that's it so it's

going to end up being Biden verse

Trump DeSantis Nikki Haley and

potentially some other announcements

we'll see what ends up happening like

you've got Vivek uh you know our

billionaire friend so we'll see what

ends up happening but uh that's my take

hopefully that was a relatively uh

neutral take these are obviously very

divisive topics to be talking about

abortion guns don't say gay uh lgbtq

rights trans rights these are very

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