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I'm going to make this one short today. I told you so!  Just 11 days ago, we here at The Dash Files called B.S. on Miami Mayor Francis Suarez's comical campaign for President. We knew he wasn't for real - we knew he has no qualifications to run a country of 330 million people after serving as the mayor of a small fraction of the Miami metroplex. We told you he was a grifter who didn't actually plan on becoming President; all he wants is to run for President to avoid prosecution for his rampant corruption. We're not even 2 weeks in, and Francis Suarez was recently interviewed on the  The Hugh Hewitt Show, and he couldn't even say who the Uyghurs are.  And I don't mean he took a few seconds to remember. When I say be couldn't remember, I mean it - Hewitt: "Will you be talking about the Uyghurs in your campaign?" Suarez: "The what?" Hewitt: "The Uyghurs." Suarez: "What's a Uyghur?" Hewitt: "Okay, we'll co...

Two days ago, the 2024 Republican field welcomed its newest joke-candidacy, this time from Miami's Republican mayor, Francis Suarez. This man gets a lot of attention from the clamoring-for-moderates mainstream media for being anti-Trump, and even refusing to vote for Ron DeSantis in 2018. He's CNN and the New York Times' wet dream of a "sane conservative." But this guy has no chance at winning the nomination - at least people like Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, and Tim Scott would have a reasonable chance of pulling off a victory if Trump were to DIE tomorrow - but this guy wouldn't even win if his only opponent was Richard Nixon. So why is this clown running? Well...being a moderate Republican does not make you immune from corruption and fraud, and this guy proves that stipulation correct a thousand times over.  Suarez is a nepo-baby - the son of Xavier Suarez, who served as the Mayor of Miami in the '90s, but Suarez Sr. was actually REMOVED as the Mayor of Mia...

  I know you probably didn't click on this blog post to take a quiz, but I have one question for you to briefly ponder - Who said the following? "The American empire has little or no moral authority when it comes to violation of international law and the overthrow of national sovereignty, as in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia."  "For example, years ago, Gorbachev was promised that there would not be one inch added to the NATO countries, and now 14 are added. If in fact there's missiles in Poland and Romania, and no missiles in Canada and Mexico, then we have to be very honest in...recognizing that the United States has no moral status given its history, given its record of doing similar things." By only the virtue of pure quotation, if you answered "Cornel West," you're correct. And if you answered, "Vladimir Putin," you are, by virtue of translation,  also correct.  In fact, here is an excerpt from Putin's televised spee...

Ex-husband of Kimberly Guilfoyle and narcissistic mirror-hog  Gavin Newsom *really* wants to be President someday. With his only virtues being that he's still a thousand times better than electing a Republican, and that he's on the correct side of social issues such as scrapping the death penalty, protecting abortion, and legalizing weed, Newsom spends more of his time clamoring for media attention than doing his job to fix the problems of his own state.  When one political party has complete and unwavering control of a state government, one of two things can usually happen: The first is the most ideal: The party in power no longer has to worry about picking political fights on petty issues to gain that 1-2% of the vote which will swing the next election in their favor. Working with the other party on the issues of the day no longer risks giving the other side a fantastic 30-second ad in the next election cycle. Instead, the party in power comes to the realization th...

This past Tuesday, Democrats continued their surprising streak of seriously awesome  victories in this off-year election by winning the Jacksonville, Florida mayoral election in what was considered by many media outlets to be a slight upset. The city of Jacksonville - which many people are unaware... is the largest city in Florida -  had only elected a Democrat once in last 3 decades, and had supported Republican candidates in national elections for years. After Ron DeSantis' landslide victory in the 2022 midterms, alongside Marco Rubio's similar margin of re-election, this was a shot in the arm for the dismembered Florida Democratic Party. I don't blame people for the celebratory attitude, but then people took it a liitttle too far. Democrats across the country declared that "Florida is back"; "Florida is purple again." Politico wrote a new story that " Biden could have a "potential lifeline for Florida Democrats. " I have one thing to sa...

In the last few days, many liberals have begun to freak out over what appears to be a series of nasty concessions from President Biden in regards to the negotiations on the debt limit. Among Biden's promises to work with Republicans on deficit reduction and permitting reform (two very good things), he appears to be budging on work requirements for food stamps. That jarring news from the White House put liberals in the media and in Congress into a complete shitcircus of doom and dispair. The Atlantic  already has an article titled " Why Biden Caved ." Paul Krugman published an Op-Ed on the New York Times - " Opinion | How Biden Blew It on the Debt Ceiling ."  I get it. There are genuine reasons for liberals to be afraid that Biden is going to throw too many bones to the Republicans and let the MAGA caucus chop down even more of our government services. In 2011, we really did come disastrously close to the passage of the so-called "Grand Bargain" that wo...

Here at the Dash Files, predictions are...kinda our thing. If we get it right, we get to pat ourselves on the back. If we get it almost right, we also get to pat ourselves on the back. If we get it horribly, terribly, embarrassingly wrong, we can still find solace in the fact that we tried. Okay, all kidding aside. A couple weeks ago, I already said that this joke of a Republican primary was over, and Trump was gonna win the whole thing. But now I'm ready to go further: Trump will win every single primary contest against Ron DeSantis. Yes, you heard me. Every. Single. One. This election season will mark the 52nd anniversary of the first real "presidential primary," where partisan voters of all 50 states have, for better and mostly for worse, gotten to choose their party's nominee. In that time, we have seen 17 party primaries in which no candidate of that party was the incumbent President. In only one of those did a candidate who was not the incumbent President win ev...