Is this guy really the great new hope for the GOP? He seems to be a completely clueless buffoon who lacks any sense of decency. I guess it checks out.
There was fear on the left and hope on the right that DeSantis would be “smart Trump.” Just as evil as Trump is, but with more brains to be able to pull stuff off and less likely to be distracted by petty rivalries.
Since then, DeSantis has shown that he’s not as smart as people thought he was, definitely can’t sway crowds like Trump can, and is absolutely willing to pursue petty rivalries even when they don’t benefit him.
definitely can’t sway crowds like Trump can
I think this is the biggest issue. He doesn’t have the charisma that Trump does. While I’ve found most of Trump’s nicknames for people pretty stupid, “Meatball Ron” is on point.
I don’t know what the fuck Trump has, but it’s certainly not charisma. The guy can barely form a coherent thought when he’s speaking, makes a fool out of himself every time he speaks, and is pretty much wrong about everything he says.
Still somehow has millions of people voting for him, so maybe it is some bizzaro reverse charisma or something.
charisma
kə-rĭz′mə
noun
- A rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm.
- Personal magnetism or charm.
Is he charming? Depends on preference I think. Does he “arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm”? Absolutely. Why? Hard to say exactly (again, personal preference) but he fits the dictionary definition of “charismatic” to a T.
It’s charisma. Just because it doesn’t appeal to you doesn’t mean it’s not charisma.
I would say that it’s a form of charisma. One that works on his MAGA faithful but that doesn’t work on the rest of us. (If anything, it’s like anti-charisma to us.)
Charisn’tma, is what I’ve taken to calling it.
He’s smart, just not in the way a populist politician needs to be. What he is, though, is a fucking ghoul. His service has some pretty fucked up shit regarding torture regimes at gitmo.
If you listen to him talk for 5 seconds you can tell he sounds like a dork. Trump will call his wife ugly and he’s done.
The good news is, Republicans aren’t really about pursuing wokeness as much anymore. But polling also suggests they’re much more in favor of Trump still, somehow, in spite of everything. So that’s the other shoe dropping. They’re back on their “law and order,” unless the law and order is coming down on Trump, it seems. 😂
“Law and order” has always only meant “keep undesirables (minorities, leftists, workers) afraid and under constant threat of violence”. It has never meant “actually hold everyone equally accountable to the law”.
Important to note for the liberals: Yes, that includes when Clinton said it.
And when Biden wrote the 1994 Crime Bill.
(Sure, fine, Biden’s more respectful of civil rights now as President. But that doesn’t change what he did in the past.)
Light on the law… Heavy on the enforcement of Order (as they see it).
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I think trying to figure out their actual top priority is a fool’s errand, because they have no idea. Seriously, I don’t think today’s Republican rank and file has a firm enough grasp on reality and the issues of today to have the first clue what they actually believe about anything beyond “Trump good” and “Democrats bad.”
It’s not even “Republicans good” anymore, because being solidly conservative, but disliking Trump, is enough to get one ousted from the party as a RINO now. The only true defining characteristic of a “Republican” today is worship of Trump.
Just from my anecdotal experience with painfully stupid family members, it seems like the most important issue to them at any given moment is whatever the Facebook algorithm is pushing at the time. Whoever has that wrangled is really driving the narrative. They spend all their free time plugged in to Facebook seething over their perceived political enemies. Besides the fact that they’re stupid as shit, it’s pathetic and sad.
If somebody can debate their political viewpoints with me, that instantly earns them some respect points. I’m just tired of some people defining their political views as just being against other views
Yep. When I encounter the rare Republican who can actually fully articulate a stance on an actual political issue, it’s always a pleasant shock.
I’ve attempted to discuss my political views to people, but it seems more often than not that as soon as I identify myself as conservative, I get shut down. This is despite the fact that more often than not, I vote democrat, support abortion, support legalized weed, want LGBT rights, a complete reorganization of the legal system, and an actual working social safety net. But I believe the federal government is too big, states should decide more for themselves and businesses and corporations are NOT people.
I upvoted you in a “well yes, but actually no” sort of way. Republicans know exactly what they want – subjugation of everybody who’s not them, using any and all means available – but still don’t feel secure enough in their power to come out say it that bluntly yet. So they come up with random shit to act as euphemistic proxies for it, which sounds like ineptitude to anybody who’s still trying to give them some sort of benefit of the doubt.
Fair. Although I’d say that applies more to the mid-tier and up Republicans. The rank-and-file Fox News watchers don’t know what they believe unless Fox told them five seconds ago.
Nah, even the rank-and-file know they want to subjugate everybody outside their tribe. They may not necessarily understand how the things the leadership pushes accomplish that – and more to the point, they might not even realize they’re actually often not in the tribe the leaders are pushing it for – but they don’t need to because they have blind faith instead. Deference to authority is what being a conservative is.
Can the media please co-opt the term “law and order” and use it for all Trump indictment stories.
The media is not going to undermine the billionaire class by helping to dilute its dogwhistles. The media is on the side of the billionaire class.
He seems to be a completely clueless buffoon who lacks any sense of decency
That’s basically their platform now.
I think he got a big ego boost and has just made dumb move after dumb move since.
He tried to fight Disney. Like… How much cocaine do you need to be on to think you can win a legal battle against Disney.
Disney eats lawsuits for breakfast.
I hate both Disney and I hate DeSantis. And I hate frivolous lawsuits and useless fights for political points, but…
There is something inherently wrong with governments not being able to control megacorporations.
Controlling actions that cause negative externalities for consumers and citizens I could see but this is about the government punishing them for publishing speech that opposes his agenda.
Fair point.
On one hand full agreement, on the other hand there’s also something fundamentally wrong with state governments attempting to force mega corporations to do something in a different state without compelling reason purely by accounts of holding a large investment in their state.
Florida can ban things in Florida all they want within the confines of law and liberty (which they’ve long past left but that’s a different thing). But they were trying to force the whole of a company headquartered in California to stop being “woke” through punitive actions by nature of them holding a significant real investment in Florida that would be economically disastrous for both parties if it were sold off or abandoned.
It depends on what you mean by control. Can you state exactly what a Florida politician should have been legally allowed to do for the great crime of the CEO saying they disagree with them?
I have zero problems with regulations and taxes I have problems with a company or a person being censored for stating their opinion. If you look at everything he is doing it is all about them being broken to support him.
DeSantis vs Disney is like watching two kaiju monsters fight: both are monsters, but one is kinda fun since you’ve known then since childhood. But they’re still monsters, so no matter who wins, it’s a net good that they’re fighting.
You can remove the word “seems” from your comment. Meatball Ron is an absolute buffoon. He wants to spread his terrible hatred across the US as fast as possible, if he holds office. If there’s any doubt, look at some of the recent legislation being signed in Florida
Ol puddin’ fingers
I don’t think he’s doing well even with the GOP, I doubt he’s anyone’s hope
You can look into those big dopey blue cow eyes and see what a clueless buffoon he is. Suckled from youth on a conservative teat that nourished him with a penchant for rejecting the very reality before his eyes and adopting ignorance as a world view. A fascist by any objective measure who sees a saviour when he looks in a mirror. A vacuous toad that is somehow less likeable and less intelligent than the Orange Shitgibbon himself. Bolstered by a small portion of the 70 million unthinking lackwits that celebrate incompetence, he bumbles through each day trying to assuage his feelings of inadequacy by cancelling anything that smells of progress, equality, inclusion, or fairness. To those who push back on him with data or facts that contradict his conjured reality, he harasses, sues, fires, or otherwise makes shift to inflict as much misery as he can. Unable to reason or infer cause and effect, his prosimian brain finds challenge in scooping puddin’ with three fingers, like a slow lemur that chanced upon some eggs in a nest. With no capacity to project effect from actions, he tirelessly navigates the garbage scow that is Florida’s economy onto the rocks of despair. Standing in the wreckage of his own state as essential workers and those with higher education, dignity, and the means flee, he stands and flings mud at Disney, like a petulant child who has been denied a cookie. Yet he’s not content with destroying his own state. He’s not content with being a gnat repeatedly slapped by Disney’s swooshing tail. Disney, an employer of 32,000 people in Florida. He has taken his game to a higher level by using migrants as pawns, putting women and children onto buses without means or recourse. Promising them there is a plan, and sending them off on long journeys to other states to meet whatever fate befalls them when they are dropped off bewildered on a sidewalk a thousand miles away. This is a man who portrays himself as a follower of Christ, yet incurs no dissonance in treating human beings as cattle, with which to score brownie points from his aging white claque of covidiots, imbeciles, bible thumpers, and racists. Trump was content to quietly lock women and children in cages. Desantis takes it a step further; human suffering is the advertisement. Knowledge and reason are the antithesis of the conservative mind. Those who have attained some measure of each usually conclude that an educated populace offers the best hope for solving the world’s crises. Men like Desantis know that educated people are more apt to reject conservatives’ plan to return us to a feudal Middle Ages society, therefore Desantis has declared war on education; banning books, banning classes, and whatever else empowers people. And so we will continue to watch each day what this lout brings to bear, and to what depths of depravity he can attain in his quest to foment the de-enlightenment.
I read this in Fox Mulder’s voice and it works nicely
Great call.
“Scully, this is a classic case of demon fetal harvest.”
Hey honey a new copy pasta just dropped
Almost every sentence is a killing blow. I was very amused while reading it, kudos.
What is really sad though, is a not insignificant amount of the people who should read this can’t read above a sixth grade level and would need to spend an hour with a dictionary to comprehend it.
Insert King of the Hill “if those kids could read” meme here.
This reads a lot like a Jonathan Pie rant. 😂
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I attest that I did not copy it
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Great job, still a better love story than Twilight.
That was such a pleasure to read
I hope Gavin newsom repeats this word for word in their debate in November
Does Lemmy have a “best of” community yet? This could be the founding comment.
This is the kind of comment that makes we wish we had awards to give out, because this one deserves all the awards.
Fucking good. We need people to rein in all this culture war bullshit.
Remember the AP Test people were delighted to gut their black history test to make Florida happy.
They’re not heroes by any stretch.
Some real Fox News style headline work. Surprised the AP Board didn’t SLAM DeSantis.
I absolutely despise that SLAM is an acceptable word in journalism. How the fuck did that happen?
Give it another couple years and we’ll see, “murdered”, “destroyed”, “annihilated”. Journalists need attention to make money so they use the most extreme language they can get away with. Problem is that language loses its urgency when you use it constantly and it isn’t as effective at grabbing attention
I think emojis will be the next big thing in journalism.
Yeah. Destroyed and annihilated are already a thing now, I think.
Fox News is not journalism…
I think you’re missing the point. Do you think people that write this garbage call themselves journalists? Of course they do but that’s irrelevant
The people who wrote that work for Fox.
Actual journalists don’t write garbage like that.
yeah they actually do. https://textio.com/blog/the-rise-of-slam-journalism/17517342693
Well that’s depressing.
I’m sure it’s less common with places like Reuters and AP.
Depressing nevertheless.
Yeah, it is. Also have you noticed how many typos and ads make it into news articles these days? It’s bonkers. I even see headlines from huge outlets with typos.
I don’t know, this is a pretty humiliating defeat for the guy who called it dangerous and “woke.”
DeSantis Ass-Blasted by Psycho Curriculum! Extreme Edition!
God damn lemon stealing Ron!
Or the alternative of DESTROYED, DISMANTLED, or TORE APART
You read it, they disagreed and said why they did, pretty much
I refuse to read that trash
Good. Fuck DeSantis, that fucking piece of shit.
About damn time somebody stood up to those fascists and said “No!”, in clear, uncertain, simple terms they’ll understand.
Now if only someone could stand up to him and say “you’re not going to be president” maybe he’ll stop trying to ruin what’s left of Florida
Republicans are already doing that to him
Or destroy his cerebellum with a cluster of small metal balls.
This one was real simple. Have fun DeSantis explaining to parents why their kids aren’t getting college credits. We’ll get by
All they really understand is violence.
This guy is a fucking sad joke. Vote him the fuck out of there and turn that state around so I can go and want to live there again.
“We’re upset that the College Board dared hurt our students. We tried to hurt them first!”
It’s almost like he gets defeated alot.
Likely in the primary, too.
AP psychology allows Florida to send Desantis back to caves.
Just a question out of curiosity. Is there some kind of standardized test used in AP classes?
Because I can just see a situation where they say they’re going to allow topics on sexuality, but the teachers just magically don’t have enough time in the year to cover everything, so some chapters just have to be skipped. For efficiency reasons, of course.
Yes, the AP tests are standardized at the national level.
At the end of the school year, yes, there is a standardized nationwide AP test for every AP class.
yeah, that’s the main reason it looked like it was getting banned in the first place. don’t say gay got extended thru 12th grade, which would mean that the gender and sexuality stuff couldn’t be taught in the class, but the ap test is standardized, so they couldn’t just take out the gender and sexuality stuff
I think Florida teachers are generally pro-education so would want to teach the real class.
HUMILIATING!!
Maybe, just maybe, Florida’s children will have a chance.
I’m not that hopeful, what with the rest of the curriculum, but it’s at least a small light.
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