"Quite a few players on our football team, members of the [junior ROTC], the band, the people here making this event what it is, they’re living on couches and in RVs or wherever they can find a place."
Said Naples athletic director Cassie Barone, quoted in an OutKick article reporting about the Naples High football team playing its Friday night game, at home, 10 days after Hurricane Ian brought a 10 foot storm surge nor far from the school.
Ron DeSantis showed up for the game and called it "a testament to the resiliency of our Southwest Florida communities." By the way, there doesn't seem to be much of an effort to "Katrina" Ron DeSantis.
My favorite part of the article is one of the section headings: "Football Can Lift The Community."
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GOD Bless America.. We Need it!
One can whine and complain about the rough handling life sends you, or one can play football.
I was kinda hoping their school nickname would have been the Hurricanes, but it's the Eagles.
>>By the way, there doesn't seem to be much of an effort to "Katrina" Ron DeSantis.<<
That's because there were two problems for the Democrats who, of course, were trying to hurricane slime him:
1) They had almost no raw material to work with. He did an exemplary job.
2) From the get-go he aggressively rebutted and ridiculed their feeble attempt to blame him for the effects of the 11th hour storm path shift from Tampa to Lee County.
If Florida loses DeSantis to a presidential run, it will be a shame. He and Florida are symbols of hope at a dark, maybe demonic, time for the country
DC is a cesspool. Its Democrats and their deep state pollute decency and honor.
"By the way, there doesn't seem to be much of an effort to "Katrina" Ron DeSantis."
Are you kidding? Hell yes there was an effort to "Katrina" him, but he and his staff were prepared for the expected ambushes and destroyed whatever media monkey tried to go there. Also, DeSantis appears to have done a damn good job managing the hurricane cleanup, not that those same media monkeys will give him any credit for that.
Youth sports is a little out of control nowadays ... every mom and dad thinking that little Johnny is getting a college scholarship to play D1 somewhere in a couple of years. But, a game like this is the true essence of what youth sports should be all about. Bring communities together, let the kids play (in the purest sense of the word) and compete, learn about teamwork. I'm glad they could pull this off so quickly after Ian.
They can't Katrina DeSantis in the media this close to the midterms without generating an intensely rageful voter surge among GOP voters, so they are laying low. The Dems have enough problems at the moment.
However, starting in a few months, we'll see many, many, many "on the ground" articles about how now that the cameras are gone, DeSantis is falling down on the job and looking like, yep - you guessed it - he "doesn't care about Black people", and the circus will pipe up yet again.
Eyes on the prize, people; it's 2024 they need to kneecap DeSantis for - there's no sense peaking too early.
They are trying but part of their problem in doing so is that Ian was a warm summer shower compared to Katrina.
Plus the fact that, unlike Bush, DeSantis fights back.
He's going to be a great Vice President!
Sorry to say, I think one reason the media wasn't as hard on DeSantis as they were on George W. is because they want a Trump-DeSantis showdown, and they didn't want to soften the ground prematurely. They are looking forward to these two men neutralizing each other in the lead up to 2024.
This article has all the bullet points and details on just how very prepared Gov. DeSantis was for the hurricane. I am impressed!
Amazing List
Biden shows up and what does he have to say?
"No one messes with a Biden."
Self-absorbed Mob-Boss says what?
I lived through a hurricane when I was about 14, I guess, and it flooded my house to within a couple feet of the second story and we had no hot water for two months, using the hose to wash our hair, ruined all of our furniture, but not the clothes, which were mostly stored on the second floor. I walked past a shoe store barefoot, and a National Guard guy who was patrolling for looting, went in and got me a pair of boots. LOL, I always walked around barefoot, but I took the boots. As a teenager, it was one huge adventure.
The only hurricane I've experienced was when I was 3 in Delaware: Hurricane Hazel!
Catastrophic [anthropogenic] recurring climate change. The first choice was Hers. The second choice was theirs. With proximity comes responsibility.
Biden shows up and what does he have to say?
"No one messes with a Biden."
"No one fucks with a Biden."
It seems like a weird comment to throw into a conversation. I don't see what led up to it.
Murphy: Thanks for everything. Thanks for coming down, we appreciate it.
Biden: Keep the faith.
Murphy: I’ll keep the faith.
Biden: And by the way, you were raised the same way I was.
Murphy: I was. I was.
Biden: No one fucks with a Biden.
It's such a schoolyard bully sounding statement and so random. If someone has more context for this, I'd like to know what was going on. Was the mayor under attack by Republicans (or ultra MAGA)? Or does Biden think some big dude named Ian is out to get them?
The Left shot their wad with the DeSantis shrimp boots ridicule. Predictably, that went nowhere.
They're biding their time now.
This kind of entertainment can be very valuable when the lights are out and things are in shambles.
I was on the east side of the Katrina destruction. On the north side of I-10, north of Biloxi, a megaplex theater had opened about a year before the storm. The did respectable business. But after the storm, they were on the side that had electricity, far enough away from the river to miss flooding. That theater did a land office business every night after Katrina. People with nothing else to do, only darkness at night, went to the movies like it was 1949.
Well, here is the problem- it was the President who got "Katrina'd" in 2005. The equivalent would be "Katrinaing" Biden, which, of course, the media would never do, even if Biden were found to be drowning young children through his actions.
However, the overall premise is, in fact, wrong- the media did try. First, there were constant stories about how thousands are believed to have died, and then for about 3-4 days after it hit, every headline I saw was about how "millions still without power"- stories that literally started hours after landfall. However, those stories disappeared really quickly when the numbers fell under a few hundred thousand. It has been, what, 11 days since landfall? When category 1 storm Irene hit Connecticut in 2011, I didn't get my power back until a week later, but, of course, it was a Democrat president and Democrat governor at the time.
That opening quote made me think of the migrants. What the NYC mayor might’ve said about them… or something
"The only hurricane I've experienced was when I was 3 in Delaware: Hurricane Hazel!"
I was 6. For some reason they didn't cancel school that morning. Just before lunch, when it was starting to look really bad, they closed school and sent us home. I walked home, almost 1/2 mile, in a hurricane. I though I was going to blow away.
I lived in Naples as a young man in the 1980s, and attended several football games at Naples High. (Naples still had a small-town feeling then; the Sunday paper was printed and delivered on a Saturday.)
The media isn't quite sure what they want to do with DeSantis; they want to attack him, of course, but they're afraid that destroying will just lead to four more years of Trump. (What's a good left-wing journo to do?)
DeSantis standing behind the Presidential Seal......epic.
I wonder if the staffer that thought that was a good idea got fired by mister tough guy.
merica!!
They was an effort to Katrina Desantis, but 1. He and his team did a hell of a job both preparing for and reacting to the hurricane and 2. He made them look petty every time they tried it, and even journalists can recognize when they are looking foolish on camera.
“ By the way, there doesn't seem to be much of an effort to "Katrina" Ron DeSantis.”
Seriously? They have done nothing but try but his competence and his willingness to fight back rationally is stymying their efforts. All the usual nut jobs on social media are claiming DeSantis blew it and that Floridians were so very impressed with Biden when he showed up. LOL.
The horrible thing about about Leftists controlling the narrative is that they are so divorced from reality. We are now at the point where in the Soviet Union you are forced to agree with things that are obviously false and absurd just to not be attacked. All the dried up old commies who have moved to Florida spend their time on Facebook and Twitter trying to tear DeSantis down. I wish they would move back to Yankee land. We don’t care how they did it in New York or Wisconsin, Jennifer.
“ By the way, there doesn't seem to be much of an effort to "Katrina" Ron DeSantis.”
You missed the AP running a 4 day old story about the sole bridge to Pine Island being down, a day after it was reopened?
They're trying like hell to "Katrina" him. But onlike Bush he's not a pathetic loser, and so he's not letting them get away with it
After Hurricane Andrew Florida was absolutely devastated for months. Clinton didn't even visit the state. No criticism from the MSM.
Holding the President responsible for hurricanes was invented by the MSM when Katrina happened. Bush never saw it coming.
Obama as always was credited for everything positive after Sandy and blamed for nothing. And he of course believed in his own BS.
They tried to blame hurricanes on Trump, and criticized him non-stop for crap like the corruption and incompetence in the Democrat plantation of Puerto Rico.
It only goes one way.
No way Biden gets blamed for anything. Does anybody even know who his FEMA director is?
Kudos to DiSantis for understanding this simple political fact of life, and dealing with it.
Ron DeSantis is showing us the reasons that people cross party lines to vote for the other candidate: He knows how to lead, and he has executive skills in addition to a strong personality. And he is forceful for the benefit of everybody; he is advocating for all. When the food truck gets there over the newly-repaired bridge, or when the gasoline truck shows up against expectations: That is what people will remember, and what they will cross party lines to vote for.
DeSantis isn't putting up with politics-as-usual, and it is showing, in the best possible ways.
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