TruthArchive.ai - Tweets Saved By @BrendonClint

Posted - April 8, 2023 at 1:39 PM

Saved - April 8, 2023 at 7:58 PM

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DeSantis is a rising Republican activist who has accomplished a lot in Florida. He cleaned out the entire state government, passed tax cuts, and implemented school reform. In contrast, Trump did nothing and left the swamp in place. DeSantis has supermajorities and is having the most productive legislative session in American history. He is making unprecedented changes, including ending frivolous lawsuits and outlawing puberty blockers. We want DeSantis to be president because we want this for the entire nation. It's time to end leftist madness.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

So much to like about this guy - a rising young republican activist, which is why I wish he wouldn't fall into the "DeSimps" trap. By spring of 2024, he'll have to choose to either support DeSantis or go the way of the Bulkwark folk and leave. https://t.co/AcisyxFnrF

@GavinWax - Gavin Mario Wax 🇺🇸 🗽

The DeSimps love to play hypotheticals with DeSantis serving as president in 2020 and firing Fauci etc. I have another hypothetical. If Trump had supermajorities in both legislative chambers (Like DeSantis has in Florida) he would have passed, at minimum, quadruple what…

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Here's the thing about DeSantis v Trump and getting things done: When DeSantis was first elected in 2018, he didn't have supermajorities. He had simple majorities, same as Trump had when he was elected in 2016. What's happened since?

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Do you think the GOP might have won the 2018 national midterms rather than gotten slaughtered if Trump, like DeSantis, had been a ruthlessly competent and fearless executive? Answer: yes.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

DeSantis came in in 2018 and immediately GOT SHIT DONE. Tax cuts, regulatory rollback, school reform, environmental cleanup, and most importantly, massive personnel changes throughout all levels of state government (he drained the swamp).

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Trump, in contrast, did NOTHING. Trump never once presented legislation to Congress in his first term. DeSantis became well-known nationwide for having a superb relationship with the legislature which resulted in the most productive legislative sessions in America.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

In DeSantis's first term he quite literally cleaned out the entire state government. Every Democrat he could legally remove from office, he did, and replaced them with loyalists. Trump famously did the opposite. He left the entire Swamp in place. Didn't touch any part of it.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Trump's executive branch was FROZEN with inaction during those crucial first two years where he had a GOP Congress. It was marked by infighting between Bannon and Priebus and angst over personnel decisions (much like the Trump campaign last night with its Loomer drama).

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Bannon started keeping a white board in his office where he wrote down all the promises Trump had made during the campaign that weren't being kept. That pissed Trump off and he fired him.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Trump had no idea how Washington worked (still doesn't) and no idea what to do, where to go for help, what levers to pull, and as a result, he got EATEN ALIVE. Contrast Trump's ineptitude with what you see here: https://t.co/jBRzIw8usc

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Part of the reason why Trump failed to accomplish anything as president is because he has no understanding of how anything works there. That won't be a problem with President DeSantis. https://t.co/PBqiAx9TuJ

@MarinaMedvin - Marina Medvin 🇺🇸

Competence and comprehension 10/10 #DeSantis2024 https://t.co/C10ZVxH86H

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The speaker, a former US congressman, believes that Congress needs to take action to reform the government. Currently, Congress either passes massive spending bills without reading them or relies on continuing resolutions to keep the government running. This lack of oversight allows administrative agencies like the DOJ and FBI to accumulate power without being held accountable. The speaker argues that these agencies should not be considered independent of the White House, as they report to the elected president. Congress has also failed to use its power of the purse to rein in these agencies. The speaker urges Congress to prioritize its duty to ensure constitutional accountability over concerns about government shutdowns or bad news cycles.

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Speaker 0: It's it starts with your plan of reform seems to me to dwell on the Congress first. What should Congress do different? Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean, I think So I was I was a US congressman for 3 terms, I've recovered from that experience, don't worry. But what happens is is you have a government that's on autopilot. So they will either do massive on the best spending bills, Which nobody really reads or has any idea what's in it, or they will do what's called continuing resolutions, which just keeps the government going, whatever the previous year's levels of appropriations were. The problem with that is that that they're never using that number one Constitutional power they have, the power of the purse to reign in these administrative agencies. And so you have something like DOJ and FBI, Well, if you never hold them accountable through the legislative process, either through through law or through through budget, Of course power is gonna accumulate there. You've also had kind of a trope that a lot of Republican presidents have accepted over the years The DOJ and FBI are quote, independent, of the White House. And first of all, these people have guns, they can put you in jail. Saying they're independent means they're unaccountable. No, they are executive branch agencies that report to the elected president of the United States and, an executive elected executive absolutely has to use article 2 power, to hold those agencies accountable. So I think you've had, an executive branch that's not wanted to do anything to reel them by holding them accountable and getting involved in what they're doing, and then I think you've had a congress, which is just totally given up on using the purse strings And it's almost like these agencies just have a right to operate infinitum, when you send that signal over many decades, It's just human nature, they are going to abuse their power. I mean, the founders would have predicted that in a New York minute, So I think that a lot of this is an abdication of Congress. If you're scared of a quote, government shutdown above all else Because you're worried about some bad news cycles, just understand you're putting that, I would say, very small political impulse Ahead of doing your duty to its to ensure that our apparatus is constitutionally accountable. I'd rather have the fight, to try to discipline the agencies and let the chips fall where they may, then just allow the status quo to continue in the direction that it has gone in.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Now, we should give credit where due, there was one major piece of legislation that came through in Trump's first term: Paul Ryan's tax cut. Weird though, don't you think, that Trump's only accomplishment was actual the realization of his arch nemesis's lifelong ambition.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

That's how it was for Trump in the White House, though. Everyone else got what they wanted, and he just got pushed around. He was beyond out of his depth. He was a substitute teacher getting run over by students run amuck. https://t.co/GA716fSTgk

@AndyGreensky - Andy Greensky

Tyrone and Leroy hit and intimidate a teacher so badly that he attempts to run out of the class School was never like this

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

The end result of these contrasting styles? Trump lost the 2018 midterm, then lost the 2020 reelection. DeSantis grew the legislative majority in 2020, then won reelection in 2022 by a landslide.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Now DeSantis has supermajorities and is having the most productive legislative session in American history. And that is not hyperbole, that is fact. What's happening in Florida right now, as in this week, is unprecedented in American history.

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Permitless carry, massive MASSIVE infrastructure improvement and hurricane recovery, environmental cleanup, complete and total reform of the public schools (the 3rd largest state now has total school choice and vouchers! Amazing!)...

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Wide ranging tort reform that ends frivolous lawsuits, a complete remodel of Florida housing law that makes Florida the easiest place in America to build (that law alone will have massive positive benefit to Florida for generations).

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

Puberty blockers are outlawed, pronoun BS will be outlawed in public schools, high schools will have start times that correspond with adolescent sleep schedules, woke corporations will face consequences, ESG investing is punished, the State Guard will grow, even more police hired

@BrendonClint - Clint Brendon

What's happening in Florida right now is a god damned miracle, and the reason we want DeSantis to be president is because we want THIS for the entire nation and we absolutely can have it. It's time! No more pussyfooting around! We can use the government to end Leftist madness!