Photoshopped? Or Does This Dude Have Mental Problems?

I’ve seen some terrible actors in the GOP, notably Mike Pence. He used to arrange his features in what he thought were verisimilitudes  of respect, admiration, awe, even, when looking at Donald Trump. What he achieved was people looking at the footage afterwards and concluding, “There’s Mike Pence trying to act again.”

This was a stray photo found on Twitter, so I honestly don’t know if it was photoshopped. The only caption was, “And he’s laughing at his own joke.” The photo looks to be from Friday in Florida, when he was badmouthing Kamala Harris, after she flew down to challenge the new Black history regulations set up by the Department of Education.

That was not a lighthearted event, by any means.

This is a viral image of DeSantis and it looks like what you see above.

The wisecracks about DeSantis being an automaton, something cobbled together by Disney, or maybe by the fictional Delos Corporation, who created the Westworld robots, started posting right after this photo.

Politics, like everything else, takes a certain skills set. You need to be competent enough to do the job properly and you need to be charming enough, have a certain common touch, in order to get the job in the first place.

Looking at what Ron DeSantis has done to Florida, he doesn’t have either going for him. MSNBC:

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to call Florida the “citadel of freedom” and the place “where woke goes to die.” The reality is a policy agenda defined largely by pettiness, cruelty and a disturbing disregard for basic democratic norms. If states are the so-called laboratory of American democracy, then Florida is the meth lab of American democracy.

Last year, after Disney exercised its constitutionally guaranteed right to free expression and publicly criticized the GOP’s legislative assault on LGBTQ Floridians, DeSantis, and the Florida Legislature, struck back by revoking the company’s self-governing status. Now the Legislature has granted DeSantis the power to appoint a five-person board to oversee the theme park in an effort that he said would “force Disney to stop ‘trying to inject woke ideology’ on children.” It’s hard to come up with a clearer example of a political leader using the instruments of state power to punish a company for expressing opinions he doesn’t like — and using that power to influence their business decisions.

In recent weeks, DeSantis has widened his war on the First Amendment. He’s spoken of his desire to weaken libel laws, which would make it easier to sue media organizations for defamation. This direct assault on the freedom of the press was picked up by at least one Florida legislator, who introduced legislation last week that would require bloggers who write about the state government and its leaders to register with the state.

When not violating bedrock constitutional principles, DeSantis and his Republican cronies are force-feeding Florida’s students their take on American history. While DeSantis claims that he’s trying to stop “woke indoctrination” in the Sunshine State, he is seeking to warp their minds with his own form of indoctrination.

There are many more articles than this one. And just yesterday, DeSantis had to pull a campaign video that depicted the Nazi symbol sonnenrad, or “black sun” symbol, overlaid with his face. This is a few weeks after he decided not to pull another campaign video, depicting his image wedged amongst those of macho male images, like oiled body builders.

The man is not presidential material. He’s not even gubernatorial material. Get hip, Florida and I don’t mean woke, I mean wake the hell up and protect your own interests hip, and get somebody better. This guy is a loser and will only drag you down. Just look at your latest canceled check paying for your rent or homeowner’s insurance bill to know the truth.