Someone asked me happened to Ron DeSantis. Well, he's charmlessly bizarre. And a bully, but the latter isn't special in the GOP primary, so pretty much what gets through is "weird dickhead."
Everyone knows someone sort of like Trump, a blowhard, a know-nothing-know-it-all, an asshole but one who can be charming and have a conversation about anything. DeSantis is that guy who gets mad and sulks if you don't wanna listen to him talk about RoboTech for another hour.
Yeah, the thing people always dismiss about Trump (because he is, unquestionably, a vile person) is that he's often comically buffoonish, and occasionally actually funny. DeSantis has absolutely no soft skills whatsoever, which is pretty remarkable for a career politician.
Trump is a horrible person but he is an entertainer; he knows how to read a crowd and react to give them what they want, he knows how to be funny. DeSantis knows how to be, I dunno, smug? Lol
You see it when DJT sees the crowd slipping. Makes me roll my eyes, but he'll pause, pick up the Bible and say what about this book, love it don't you? Or shout a non sequitor like "Build the Wall!" or "Lock her up!" and get the crowd back. Ron can't read a room.
Just when you think he’s done, he nearly ruptures a blood vessel ranting about the “wholeness” of Yellow Dancer while brutally mispronouncing “Genesis Climber MOSPAEDA.”
I’ll admit that an extra serving of Adderall once gave me the strength to torture some poor soul with Harmony Gold’s licensing fiasco for roughly half an hour.
I try to be sensitive, but Im sure Ive missed signals from people (very sorry!)
For the longest time I had only read the books and played the RPG, so it was strange decades later to watch them
That said, I dont want to make Jo's example a reality, so we'll have to discuss it on another thread
For a full summer in the late 80’s, my folks had to take me along to care for a sick relative 70+ years my senior. I watched all eighty-something episodes because there wasn’t anything else to do and I’ve been hooked ever since.
And least no one actually thought Walker had a chance.
Then again, this is coming from a guy who saw him as county executive and said "Well that loser will never win a statewide election." 😬
a lot of people paid a lot of money were absolutely on board with "walker has the secret sauce to thread the needle, break unions nationwide AND be compassionate about it"
We really owe you folks (the rest of the country) for letting Walker, Ryan, Priebus and Clarke out into the national conversation. We were not sending our best.
Walker's secret weapon was that the Koch Bros owned his ass and promoted him as such. DeSantis unforced error war with Disney- the corporation that owns his state- probably doomed him as much as his revolting personality, signaling to plutocrats that was too dumb to play ball.
The Florida Republican Party appears to be composed of supplicants & toadies that make Wisconsin Republicans look like King Kong. But we already knew that thanks to Marco Rubio
I was going to compare him to Michael Scott but then I remembered that the characters in the US version actually somewhat like him. No one likes David and they all pity him
Yeah, I guess Scott started off as a sort of American version if Brent, but by the end, they’d practically turned him into Jimmy Stewart. Good ol’ Brent was constitutionally incapable of being anything but pathetic. Man, I miss that show.
Meatball might be the best argument so far against the internet being real life, because he's basically a cyborg cobbled together out of online right wing grievance, and he's *tanking* out here.
Right, but you can see the tactical sense here. He can't run again as Trump's mini-me the, and only eye-catching red meat is right of Trump. But, so far, the internet's manias have done a good job of prefiguring what next primary's manias will be (Tea Party becomes Birther becomes Fascist). Soooo...
People who tied their entire political futures to him are probably praying for a Super Mega Sharknado Hurricane to blast Florida in the next month or two giving him a face-saving excuse to drop out before he gets housed in any of the actual primaries.
Of course, he probably wouldn't take it.
"Ron and his wife Casey, a person made out of every cell phone video of a white woman being dragged out of an Apple Store screaming 'I’ll sue!'" -- i'm dying
That's how I feel about him too. GOP has historically done its best work when they deliberately on purpose run dumb aw-shucks "he'd probably be pleasant to have a beer with" guys and let the evil worms be evil and worm-like in obscurity. Trump was an outlier in that he was an evil worm but funny
