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DeSantis Back in Sick MAGA Mode: Claims the Media Wanted Hurricane to Hit Tampa Because It’d Be Worse for Florida

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Well, that’s over.

For a few days, a day or two prior to the hurricane and a day or two afterward, DeSantis took the politics out of his repertoire and actually appeared competent (as he was) and worried about the people of his state without a political bent. Yes, well, that is now over. Gov. DeSantis actually thinks that the media has a hive mind, and it hates Florida so much that it wanted Ian to hit Tampa because it would cause greater damage to Florida. The people in Naples don’t appreciate the sentiment, obviously.

Here is DeSantis from Florida Politics:

Gov. Ron DeSantis, during an exclusive interview with the right-of-center Florida’s Voice website, was asked if there would be any “accountability in the media” for reporting that the storm had been forecast to strike the Tampa Bay area. “Quite frankly, you have national regime media that wanted to see Tampa, because they thought that would be worse for Florida. That’s how these people think,” DeSantis said, in an interview publicized Tuesday.

As members of the media, fck you, Ron. We wished it would smash into the Gulf of Mexico and hang out until wind shear took it down to near nothing. Yes, the media likes big stories. The media isn’t an inhumane monster, though. Real people get really hurt, and we don’t care who they voted for! Nor do we care about whether Florida gets hurt, Texas, MS, or Alabama. DeSantis’s statement actually shows less humanity than “the media” has covered.

“They don’t care about the people of this state. They don’t care about the people of this community. They want to use storms and destruction from storms as a way to advance their agenda. And they don’t care what destruction’s in their wake. They don’t care about the lives here. If they can use it to pursue their political agenda, they will do it,” DeSantis asserted, without elucidating what agenda could be served by a storm striking a major population center.

The only person advancing an agenda in this situation is Ron DeSantis. This is back to normal for Ron. No one expected his non-partisan manner to last, but maybe a little longer than this? Nope.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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