DeSantis Calls on Conservative Moms at National Summit to Fight 'Leftist' Agenda

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

TAMPA — Claiming that Florida schools are undergoing “leftist indoctrination,” a “leftist agenda,” and “sexualization of children,” Gov. Ron DeSantis called on hundreds of members of “Moms For Liberty,” gathered in Tampa Friday, to fight.

“You’ve got to stand up and you’ve got to fight,” DeSantis said in a keynote speech to the conservative, nearly all-white audience, estimated at 500, in a Tampa hotel. “You’re going to take fire. They’re going to shoot arrows at you.”

The governor, running for reelection, won repeated cheers and standing ovations from the members, wearing badges identifying them as being from states as distant as Hawaii and New York.

“They cannot wait to vote for him for president,” said Moms For Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice, introducing DeSantis at the Friday morning keynote. The audience stood, cheered, and waved “DeSantis” signs and “Mamas For DeSantis” signs — the latter referring to a group recently founded by First Lady Casey DeSantis.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-calls-conservative-moms-national-133000794.html

Go fuck yourself DeSantis.

[Blaukraut]

1. To think that this guy is the likely GOP frontrunner in '24

is horrifying.

[walkingman]

2. Reminds me of the 1950's but even worse now.

[onecaliberal]

3. They're chasing people away from the church in droves.

[jmbar2]

4. The Moms - another well-funded fascist astroturf group

In the Tampa Bay Times earlier this month, Maurice Cunningham, author of "Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization," argued that M4L had grown "at a pace that only a corporation's monetary resources could manage" and noted that many of its leaders had backgrounds in marketing, communications and political strategy.

James Lindsay, an anti-CRT activist and podcaster with a track record of making bizarre accusations, drove that point home in a lengthy lecture about how "social emotional learning" is being used as a subtle form of "brainwashing" to transform children into "change agents" and social justice protesters, and ultimately, to usher in a "new world, with new values" as desired by globalist elites. Warning parents that there was a longstanding communist plot to estrange children from their parents by making "your kid a little sexual weirdo," Lindsay argued that, "Under social emotional learning," parents of public school students "are sending your children to a thought reform program" akin to those in Mao Zedong's China during the Cultural Revolution.

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/19/moms-for-liberty-joyful-warriors-in-the-fight-to-demolish-public-school/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=220719

[maxsolomon]

5. I have zero understanding of what our "Leftist Agenda" is.

Whatever it is, there's certainly no danger of it being enacted anytime soon.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Republicans need women voters.

What better way to bring women to the polls than to tell them their children are in danger?

[keithbvadu2]

7. As DeSantis thinks silently... 'as long as you women know your place.'

As DeSantis thinks silently... 'as long as you women know your place.'