Is this a friendly cordial "Go Phuck yourself " Biden??
After President Joe Biden tried to deflect blame on Republican governors like Florida's GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, DeSantis fired back, telling the president pointedly to "do your job."
"Why don't you do your job?" DeSantis told reporters Wednesday, saving his heated remarks for the very end of an 18-plus minute news conference. "Why don't you get this border secure?
"And until you do that, I don't want to hear a blip about COVID from you."
DeSantis' remarks came after Biden lashed out at Republican governors in the two largest red states for their COVID-19 response amid the rise of the delta variant, saying DeSantis and Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott have "bad health policy."
"We need leadership from everyone, and if some governors aren't willing to do the right thing to beat this pandemic, then they should allow businesses and universities who want to do the right thing to be able to do it," Biden told White House reporters Tuesday.
"I say to these governors, please help. If you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way of people who are trying to do the right thing. Use your power to save lives."
DeSantis shot back that he is going to keep standing in the way of Biden and his "lockdown policies," calling Florida a "free state."
"We can either have a free society, or we can have a biomedical security state," DeSantis said. "I can tell you, Florida, we're a free state.
"People are going to be free to choose to make their own decisions about themselves, about their families, about their kids education, and about putting food on the table."
Biden is botching the border and the COVID-19 crisis, so DeSantis vowed to stand in the way of lockdowns that never worked to contain the virus.
"Joe Biden suggests that if you don't do lockdown policies, then you should 'get out of the way,' but let me tell you this: If you're coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I'm standing in your way," DeSantis said. "I'm not going to let you get away with it.
"If you're trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I'm going to stand in your way, and I'm going to stand up for the kids in Florida. If you're trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you're trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods and their small business, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way,
"And I'm standing for the people of Florida."
White House press secretary Jen Psaki denied Biden's words were political, despite them aimed at Republicans who have elected to be "free" from lockdown polices, mask mandates, and vaccine discrimination.
"That wasn't a partisan evaluation or assessment," Psaki told reporters. "That was an assessment of what isn't happening that would help protect people's lives and save people's lives.
"We are going to keep calling that out."
DeSantis did receive some criticism for his kind words for Biden during the Surfside, Florida, condo collapse earlier this summer, but the governor said he needed to respond to Biden's COVID-19 political attacks on his Florida constituents.
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