It's not untrue, though. And this comes from a Florida resident who is both a firm DeSantis supporter and someone who specifically moved here in 2020 because of DeSantis' actions and policies.

DeSantis shut a lot of shit down. And a lot of people around here are still really salty about it. A lot of people lost money in transactions, because that is what happens when you halt things. People lost out because they couldn't buy things because of government, and people lost out because they couldn't sell things because of government. People on the margins who couldn't handle a period of interruption went under.

Couple things about that is: Having come from a "soft shutdown State," it was relatively brief, which is HUGE. In my home State, the bars and restaurants and fucking ski lifts opened back up in a month, while the schools (LOL, BULLET DODGE) barbers, candy shops, and theaters stayed closed by decree hard for A YEAR and soft for 2 FUCKING YEARS.

Most people are incapable of accounting for the passage of time. Once you're on the other side of a span of time in which something about that time is meaningful, they have a hard time--or literally can't--recollect it. "Water under the bridge" is pernicious and the norm. NOT ME, BOYO. I remember all that time when I wasn't literally locked in my house, but might as well have been, since everything to go to was closed. Including all public services, like libraries, and parks, and COUGH SCHOOLs. Yeah you have 4 rugrats bounce around your house and your brain for a year, and you remember that shit. And this was in a "voluntary" lockdown State, in which most shit was closed not because it was demanded, but because in some bizarre manifestation of the rampant cancer that is the administrative State gone out of control, they largely assumed they should be closed.

Anyhoo. Hilariously enough, some Floridians are still really grumpy about that 21 or 30 or whatever days of shutdown they endured. Yeah, it happened. It did happen. It was lighter than anything any other State endured, and yes I'm including South Dakota in that because I've met and talked to that beautiful bitch personally, and PR aside, fully half her State still shut down because every Mayor ignored her Governor dictates and still did what they wanted, because in SD the Governership is way weaker than it is in any other State.

So yeah, FL, the entire State, did suffer shut-downs. Is this a good thing for Trump to sling at DeSantis? Jesus Christ no. WHO BUILT THE CAMPS, TRUMP. I'm a huge Trump supporter, and I think he got schlonged big-time by basically everything regarding covid--to this day! I think he got played and is still being played. The dude is still convinced that his biggest blunder: Accepting this up-jacked flu as a State of Ehmergency, and following through with the lunatic fiction that you can "vaccinate" against a highly-mutable airborne cold virus. This shit brought him down, no doubt about it, and yet he hugs it like it's his nighty best pal teddy bear. Embarrassing.

All this, and I still endorse Donald J motherloving Trump for (still) President.

Why? Because despite his obvious fuck-ups, and the likelihood that he will continue to fuck up, I legitimately think he's the best man for the job. The job is shit, by the way. If you've learned nothing else in your life, you should have learned this: That the office of the President of the United States, if done in the best possible way for the peoples of America, is shit. It's a throne of garbage, in the center of Washington D.C., which is inarguably one of human history's most evil loci. Even driving past it gives me the heebie-jeebies.

DeSantis rules Florida, which is right. Florida is not as secure a bastion of sanity as many think, it is truly a battleground State, and that is County by County, and neighborhood by neighborhood. Seriously--people fight about it, and they sell their holdings and move to RVs or out-of-State, or park their RVs and buy a holding, over it. FL is also being flooded by immigration, both blue and red. Territory is won and lost every day. DeSantis won big because he is He, but without him, the next Governorship could easily go some blue from the Miami region.

Then where would America be? Personally, I shudder to think.

DeSantis is needed in FL, and FL is needed for America to continue to Be. D.C. is a clownshow, and what it needs is an obstructionist clown. You're not gonna rehabilitate all this nonsense by getting really good Republican candidate in D.C. D.C. will continue to be D.C., until something big happens (my personal wish being that a maverick President just up-and-says he's moving the U.S. headquarters to Elephant Butte. New Mexico, overnight).