“Ron DeSantis is an imitator of the most rancid politicians in the country,” Steve Schmidt intones in his 14-minute takedown of the Florida governor’s feckless and futile bid for the Oval Office. “He’s another governor dreaming of standing in the schoolhouse door.” Ouch. The comparisons being made here evoke the worst in our history. And DeSantis has it coming, make no mistake.
Schmidt goes on to call DeSantis a bully, which is spot on. DeSantis goes after marginalized people and plays the victimization card.
What is particularly comical is the depiction of Casey as Ron’s “secret weapon” and Ron as “a latter day Jim Crow segregationist in the 21st century, lost in time, looking for battles and fights which no one is much interested in.”
That’s the unintended comedy of the DeSantis campaign. He’s serious as a heart attack about “woke” and other quixotic concepts, while real people are worried about jobs, homelessness, poverty, medical care, abortion, infrastructure and issues that actually affect their lives.
Ron and Casey DeSantis are demonizing gay people as “the Other,” which is Fascism 101. There are no hoards of gays “coming for our children” except in Casey’s imagination, as is pointed out here. And Casey, according to Schmidt, “is as vicious as they come.” Wow. And she was going to bring back Camelot and be the next Jackie Kennedy, white gloves and everything.
“Ron DeSantis is a book banner. He is a cheap demagogue in a dangerous era.”
“What they stand for is not hope. What he hopes for is to slice and dice his way to president of the United States.”
“What he and his wife are selling, no one wants.”
“You cannot love your country and hate half of the people in it.”
This is true enough. But that’s MAGA. It’s a belief that an angry, aggrieved minority can rule. And they did for four years.
Let’s see where the DeSantis campaign is even one week from now. A week can be an eternity in politics. Especially when the money starts going south.
Dying via implosion like those people in that submersible did is too easy a fate for DeSantis. At most, a person might experience a few seconds (if that) of hearing the hull of whatever they’re in collapse but the crushing weight of the water would kill them before they could feel any physical pain. Much too good for DeSantis and his enabling wife. No, some people deserver to suffer and suffer horribly and while at least part of the time conscious enough to feel the pain and the fear of dying. I think of my P.O.S grandfather who lived such an evil, despicable life. His final couple of days he was strapped naked to a fairly steeply inclined bed with tubes running out of every orifice and several more in his abdomen draining puss and blood. He had long believed he was headed straight for hell for his many sins and was terrified of dying. So there was that, and the fact that no amount of drugs could dull all the pain (if they’d given enough to knock him out before his final loss of consciousness from the pain it would have killed him right then and there) he suffered a LOT. And it was still too good for that sonafabitch!
There are people who deserve a death that makes that pleasant by comparison. I see any number of GOPers including DeSantis for which this is the case.
my father died alone in hospice. I paid my respects while he was going down the drain. my sisters never showed up. I have his box of ashes in my garage. it could have been better.
Time for Disney to power down their rogue animatronic doll.
No loss, the ‘act like a human’ programming was faulty on this one.
Some people say he’s a real person, not a faulty robot. All the video evidence says otherwise.
Evidence including (but not limited to) the recent “Bad Lip Reading” video of him.