DeSantis: “Fauci can pound sand”…and bury more Floridians

Florida governor and likely ’24 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis offers ‘Fauci Can Pound Sand’ sandals on his gubernatorial campaign website. He also offers ‘Don’t Fauci My Florida’ beer koozies. A DeSantis campaign email had the subject line ‘Fauci For Prison’.

That anti Fauci rhetoric may have spiked the Governor’s 19 point re-election victory, but it may also have needlessly deep-sixed gullible DeSantis true believers cheering on his anti Fauci vendetta.

Florida accounted for 7.5% of US covid deaths with 6.5% of the population. Illinois covid deaths of 3.6 % underperformed its 3.9% of US population. Florida has 69.5% more folks than Illinois but its covid deaths topped Illinois’ by 106.4%.

Maybe when Fauci retires, DeSantis can request his help burying all those needless Florida deaths from his No 1 campaign meme for ’24, demonizing all things Fauci and medical science.

Zelensky ‘hints’ to US: $112 billion in weapons not enough….send more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the US weapons recipient who keeps on receiving. Ahead of his Wednesday address to Congress he said “We have artillery, yes. Thank you. We have it. Is it enough? Honestly, not really. We’re grateful for their (US) support, but it ($112 billion) is not enough. It is a hint — it is not enough.”

Wow. That’s some chutzpa. Not a hint Mr. President. More like a demand.

Zelensky spent most of his first 3 years in office fanning the flames of civil war in the Donbas and lobbying to join NATO. In doing so he broke his promise to make peace with the breakaway Russian speaking peoples in the Donbas provinces Donetsk and Lugansk. The ultranationalists with the real power in Ukraine quickly disabused him of that notion. Join with us in our destruction of those fake Ukrainians wanting to speak Russian, or you’ll join them in La La Land.

Zelensky got the message and dumped the Minsk II Accords which would have given the Donbas its autonomy within the framework of Ukrainian sovereignty. He not only joined their cause, he went begging to Uncle Sam for hundreds of millions in weaponry and US training to use those weapons on the hapless Donbas Ukrainians. The US was only too happy to oblige since it would assist its relentless effort to keep Russia out of the European political economy so the US could sell Europe super high price energy.

By caving to the Ukraine ultranationalists and Uncle Sam, Zelensky kept his puppet power. Alas, he overplayed his hand, and now finds his country being destroyed by provoking the illegal Russian invasion. During 10 months of war Zelensky not only demanded endless weapons, he demanded the US intervene directly, oblivious that may ignite nuclear war. He even planted a false flag, demanding NATO intervention when an errant Ukraine missile killed 2 in NATO member Poland. He damn well knew it wasn’t a Russian strike.

Time for puppet master America to sidle puppet Zelensky to the negotiating table to cut the best deal possible: independence and security for Ukraine, independence and freedom for the Donbas, and no NATO to allow NATO troops and nukes up to Russia’s border with Ukraine.