Historical Figure
Ron DeSantis
b. 1978
Governor of Florida since 2019
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Biography
Ronald Dion DeSantis is an American politician, attorney, and former naval officer serving since 2019 as the 46th governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2013 to 2018 as the U.S. representative from Florida's 6th congressional district. DeSantis was a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, withdrawing his candidacy in January 2024.
Timeline
The story of Ron DeSantis, told in moments.
Joined the U.S. Navy after graduating from Yale and Harvard Law School. Served as a legal advisor to SEAL Team One and was stationed at Guantanamo Bay in 2006. Deployed to Iraq in 2007.
Elected to Congress from Florida's 6th district. Became a founding member of the Freedom Caucus and an early ally of Donald Trump.
Won the Florida governor's race by 0.4 percent against Andrew Gillum. At 40, he was one of the youngest governors in the country.
Withdrew from the Republican presidential primary after poor showings in Iowa. He'd entered the race as Trump's main rival but couldn't overcome the frontrunner's grip on the party base.
In Their Own Words (8)
I know a lot of people that were there who were just there [...] They didn't have any designs on doing anything. [...] But to say that they were seditionists is just wrong.
Podcast interview with Russell Brand (July 21, 2023), as cited in "Ron DeSantis Tells Russell Brand That Jan. 6 'Was Not an Insurrection'", The New York Times (July 21, 2023), 2023
We're going to have all of these deep state people, you know, we are going to start slitting throats on day one.
At a campaign event in Rye, New Hampshire (August 1, 2023), as cited in "DeSantis vows to 'start slitting throats on day one'", The Hill (August 3., 2023), 2023
[On the January 6 Capitol attack in Washington D.C.] These are people that were there to attend a rally and then they were there to protest [...] Now it devolved, and it devolved into a riot. But the idea that this was a plan to somehow overthrow the government of the United States is not true, and it's something that the media had spun up just to try to basically get as much mileage out of it and use it for partisan and for political aims.
2023
It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism
Regarding the Stop WOKE Act "Ron DeSantis takes his culture war to the next level" CNN (Mon April 18, 2022) text+video, 2022
We looked at the data that we had from other parts of the world as we were getting into March, and we saw that this was a virus that had a disproportionate impact on elderly people and we're the second-oldest state in the country, so that was something that was obviously very concerning to us
"DeSantis: 'Flawed assumptions' led some states to send COVID-positive patients to nursing homes" Fox News (February 28, 2021), 2021
Artifacts (12)
was lacking the Munger ability to un-learn my own best-loved ideas
s and honesty, how to approach problems but foremost how to reduce the chance of meeting problems." Bevelin stated that previously, he "was lacking the Munger ability to un-learn my own best-loved...
to talk to one another, create new stuff, cross-fertilize ideas
for visitors of the Kavli Institute in an effort to bring together physicists to exchange ideas as Munger stated, "to talk to one another, create new stuff, cross-fertilize ideas". In March 2016,...
three, four, five of these things work together and it turns human brains into m...
sychology of Human Misjudgment, Munger mentioned Tupperware parties and open outcry auctions, where he explained "three, four, five of these things work together and it turns human brains into mush,"...
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days shy of what would have been his 100th birthday. In the statement announcing his death, Warren Buffett said, "Berkshire Hathaway could not have been built to its present status without Charlie's...
Good businesses are ethical businesses. A business model that relies on trickery...
n my own best-loved ideas". High ethical standards were integral to Munger's philosophy. One writer described his thinking as "Good businesses are ethical businesses. A business model that relies on...
How to think about businesses and investing, how to behave in life, the importan...
Author Peter Bevelin explained his key learnings from both Munger and Buffett in a 2007 interview: "How to think about businesses and investing, how to behave in life, the importance of ethics and...
people who know how to take advantage essentially of the gambling instincts of, ...
e, among other things. Munger has compared Robinhood to gambling, saying that its success is due to "people who know how to take advantage essentially of the gambling instincts of, not only American...
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urther explained why he thinks individual investments without commission is tantamount to gambling. "If you cater to those gambling chips, when people have money in their pocket for the first time,...
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