"A Soros Judge"

‘What Happened?!’ Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Confronts Ron DeSantis On His ‘Failure to Launch’ in Blunt Exchange (msn.com)

Maria Bartiromo of Fox "News" started her interview of Ronnie DeSantis sounding tough, challenging, and dismissive.  By the end of this interview, she seemed more content.  She seemed to like Ronnie's tough talk, and his reassurance that he had the ambition and the means to beat everyone else up.

She pointed out that a Politico poll showed 56% support for Donnie Trump, only 22% support for Ronnie, and 5% or less support for each of a few other declared candidates.  Chris Christie was not listed, for some reason no one addressed.

But Maria wanted to know what made Ronnie so confident.  Well... Ronnie did make clear his schoolboy bully style, he happened to mention that he has $150M in thus far untouched donations, he reminded Maria that he had dismantled Charlie Crist in the last gubernatorial election, and he listed his Rep/con bona fides.  He didn't use the phrase "drain the swamp" up there in DC, but that's what he meant.  Oddly, he didn't mention that Donnie did use that phrase, and, according to Ronnie, failed to do it.  So he sort of left as an unanswered question how he, the next Rep/con non-DC denizen, was going to do what the last Rep/con non-DC denizen couldn't do.

But he did give as examples his view of cleaning up messes in Florida.  It was during that discussion that he talked about having gotten rid of "a Soros judge" from Tampa.

I don't know a lot about George Soros, apart from that he's one of the Reps/cons' favorite effigies (along with Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden), but I looked him up.  He is described in Wikipedia as being "Hungarian-American," although his family first fled the Nazis by going to the UK, and having worked typical kid jobs until he figured out a better way to earn money, through investing.  He got himself an advanced degree, too.  I assume, because he's referred to as "Hungarian-American," that he lives in this country now, but I don't know where.  He's said to have a worth of $8.6B, which is far more than most people, but far less than the wealthiest.

So, for one thing, what does Ronnie think he means when he refers to a judge in Tampa as a "Soros judge?"  Soros has nothing to do with nominating or confirming judges.  Soros appears to have liberal leanings.  Is Ronnie whining that the judge in question made a ruling that would appeal to liberals?  Or is this just a dog whistle intended to provoke the mindless people who are susceptible to dog whistles?

For another thing, if Ronnie thinks Soros has any kind of influence over some judge in Tampa, and he thinks that's a bad thing, is he so enraged as to be in orbit over the gross and blatant influence pedaled to SCOTUS Justices?  He didn't mention that.

And as for his independence and swamp-cleaning, by which he seems to mean that he's not anyone's agent, from where did he get the $150M he hasn't used yet?  That wasn't a whole lot of $5 bills.  Does someone expect something for donations like that?  Has Ronnie reassured them that if he's elected, they're going to get what they paid for?  That's the swamp Donnie and Ronnie propose to drain.  If you depend on the swamp for your welfare, it's unclear how you're going to drain it, or why you'd want to.

Then, Ronnie goes on to some other rant about "censoring."  He won't have it, and he specifically refers to Hunter Biden.  Ronnie seems to think that Hunter Biden did something wrong, but that his misdeeds were covered up (that, presumably, is the censoring).  Setting aside the mindless fixation on Hunter Biden, I agree with Ronnie here.  Anyone who does something wrong should be held to account for it.  Donnie Trump almost made a career of threatening to "lock [Hillary Clinton] up" for some imagined misdeeds.  He had four years to do it, and he didn't do a thing.  I'm guessing Ronnie doesn't emulate Donnie's failure to hold the supposedly guilty to account.  But setting aside that incoherent crusade, what, exactly, is Ronnie's complaint about "censoring?"  We're talking here about Ronnie DeSantis, who bans books, and won't let teachers teach their curricula.  He proposes not to let people say "gay," and he makes fun of anyone who is concerned about an epidemic, urging/coercing them not to wear masks.  This is the kid who doesn't like "censoring?"

And then, there's this: DeSantis’ Iowa gaffe is indicative of a bigger problem (msn.com)  It seems that the population of people who think Ronnie is an inept loser with no social skills is growing.

I'm not sure where Ronnie thinks he's going with this, but no one except him thinks it looks promising.