ANNALS OF DeSANTISTAN: Ron DeSantis says his Defense Secretary will have to ‘slit some throats’. (By A.G. Gancarski, Florida Politics, July 27, 2023

What a nasty man. 

Bully.

Bigot.

Big mouth.  

Diarrhea of words. 

Constipation of ideas.  

Channeling his "mean and base" base with mean and base words. 

Using mafia language.

Acting like a mafia boss.  

All hate and no decency.

He is a thug.

Oink. 

Pray that flatulent feculent fetid foul freakish Flori-DUH Boy Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS, our former Congressman from St. Johns County, can only enter our White House as a tourist. 

Sounds like a wannabe DONALD JOHN TRUMP, channeling the fictional Tony Soprano.  

As the late William F. Buckley, Jr. would have said, DeSANTIS is "so awful as to be considered Godawful." 

From Florida Politics:

Ron DeSantis says his Defense Secretary will have to ‘slit some throats’

By A.G. Gancarski, 

Florida Politics, July 27, 2023

'It's a lot harder to do that if these are people that you've trained with in the past.'

During an interview with Real America’s Voice, Florida’s Governor said he wanted a Defense Secretary with a sharp blade and a killer instinct who isn’t wedded to the extant hierarchy.

Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the person he picks to run the Pentagon would have to be prepared to “slit some throats” and be “very firm, very strong” in imposing their will.

“I think the idea that you take a flag (officer) or general officer who recently retired and put them as the Secretary of Defense, I think it is a mistake,” DeSantis said, advocating for “professional distance from the General Officer Corps.”

“You know, they may have to slit some throats, and it’s a lot harder to do that if these are people that you’ve trained with in the past or that, you know, so we’re going to have somebody out there, you know, be very firm, very strong, but they are going to make sure that we have the best people in the best positions and there’s not going to be necessarily prior relationships that would cloud that judgment,” DeSantis contended.

DeSantis added that it’s “just human nature that these are people that you knew; you’re just going to treat them a little bit different.”

The Governor commented during an interview with John Solomon on “Just the News.” They continued on DeSantis’ rhetorical commitment to hiring an outsider to run the Department of Defense that he’s established previously in interviews.

“We want people who are going to be hard chargers. We want people who aren’t going to deal with the political nonsense. Our military should be unique in society. It should not be a reflection of values at places like Goldman Sachs or civilian bureaucracies,” DeSantis said during a Newsmax interview with Eric Bolling earlier this month.

DeSantis has rolled out a series of policy proposals to root the so-called “woke mind virus” out of the military. He has said he would target DEI, CRT, transgender troops, and drag queens and use the “bully pulpit” to promote military service.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at AG@FloridaPolitics.com or on Twitter: @AGGancarski

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