# Ron DeSantis - The Pit Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 25, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601 "2023-05-25T23:20:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/181 "2023-08-16T02:53:16Z")
I’m sure you know what I’m talking about, but just in case: **[Kyle Reese](https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/Kyle_Reese)**: The Terminator’s an infiltration unit, part man, part machine. Underneath, it’s a hyperalloy combat chassis — micro processor-controlled, fully armored. Very tough. But outside, it’s living human tissue — flesh, skin, hair, blood, grown for the cyborgs… _[The Terminator](https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/The_Terminator_(film))_ Granted though, DeSantis could be a third rate Temu knockoff bought on the cheap made with sub-standard parts. I mean, we know if you turn off the safe mode on Terminators they can show convincing emotion emulation and he (DeSantis) isn’t there yet. Heck, there are ‘Dating Emulator’ Apps out there that outperform DeSantis. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/182 "2023-08-16T03:18:33Z")
Heck, Arnold-as-Terminator outdoes Ron. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/183 "2023-08-16T03:22:22Z")
Heck, Arnold as a non-english speaking Austrian citizen (in his earlier bits) does a more convincing job of being a _caring American_ than Ron, but as stated in many threads, it’s a damn low bar. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/184 "2023-08-16T05:36:23Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > And that his campaign is really bad at making him look like a human being. They’d have better luck just having a life-sized butter carving of Ron being towed around with a loudspeaker and a bin of sweetcorn. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/185 "2023-08-16T07:02:08Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > Granted though, DeSantis could be a third rate Temu knockoff bought on the cheap made with sub-standard parts. You can tell because of the low quality voice emulator. It gets stuck in “snarky Paul Lynde” mode, and even that is glitchy. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/186 "2023-08-20T00:56:12Z")
DeFuhrer’s latest policy proposal; summarily execute people without trial if they’ve got fentanyl on them. > ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/187 "2023-08-20T01:26:08Z")
President Duterte in the Philippines found that having the police slaughter drug dealers and drug possessors was initially very popular. When the police decided to start slaughtering anyone they felt like while claiming drugs were present, the gloss came off the policy just a bit. But plenty of people love the idea of armed government goons busting heads and killing people. In the blithe assumption that they won’t be one of them. DeFuhrer certainly thinks he can find a lot of such people here in the USA and I think he’s probably right. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/188 "2023-08-20T05:07:29Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > summarily execute people without trial if they’ve got fentanyl on them. Actually, execute people crossing the border if they’re wearing backpacks . . . can’t be too cautious about them drug mules. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/189 "2023-08-20T07:15:52Z")
Drugs can be swallowed or shoved up the rectum, so just shoot anyone crossing the border who looks foreign. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2023, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/190 "2023-08-20T07:58:46Z")
Or constipated. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/191 "2023-08-22T13:58:14Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Actually, execute people crossing the border if they’re wearing backpacks . . . can’t be too cautious about them drug mules. And the surge in border guards being killed will help out the struggling funeral industry! Win-win! ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/192 "2023-08-23T09:23:59Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > DeFuhrer’s latest policy proposal; summarily execute people without trial if they’ve got fentanyl on them. I’ve always wanted the United States of America to hae a president just like the Philippines’ [Rodrigo Duterte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte), such a model of all that is good and decent. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/193 "2023-08-23T13:24:01Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > The mass cancellations were to comply with a 2021 election law that added new restrictions to mail-in voting. The legislation — which was celebrated by Gov. Ron DeSantis and slammed by voting rights advocates as discriminatory — cut the duration of mail-in ballot requests in half from four years to two. It also required that existing requests for mail ballots be canceled at the end of 2022, forcing election workers to cancel millions of requests and start their lists of vote-by-mail voters from scratch. We were notified via postcard today (by the county) that we would have to re-register for a mail-in vote, which I have done online. The new registration will only apply through December 2024. Also: fuck DeSantis. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/194 "2023-08-23T17:01:47Z")
DeSantis channels Spiro Agnew by calling Trump supporters “listless vessels”, and then tries to pretend he was only referring to certain politicians. > **[Ron DeSantis under fire for 'listless vessels' remark, and more campaign...](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ron-desantis-fire-listless-vessels-remark-campaign-trail/story?id=102427099)** > > A DeSantis spokesperson stated he was referring to Trump and his congressional supporters, not everyday voters. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/195 "2023-08-23T18:07:42Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > and then tries to pretend he was only referring to certain politicians. Even if that was what he really meant, let’s luxuriate in the schadenfreude of Ronny being on the receiving end of the GOP hatred engine. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/196 "2023-08-23T18:46:09Z")
“Listless vessels”? As inanimate objects, I wouldn’t expect vessels to be enthusiastic. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/197 "2023-08-23T19:32:00Z")
Being as Florida is a big boating state, maybe he meant “listing vessels”, as in “leaning over”? Especially to the right. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/198 "2023-08-23T19:50:22Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > DeSantis channels Spiro Agnew by calling Trump supporters “listless vessels”, and then tries to pretend he was only referring to certain politicians. At least he didn’t call them “deplorable”. /sarcasm ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/199 "2023-08-23T22:12:35Z")
DeFuhrer now wants to take away Disney worker’s employee discounts, because giving minimum-wage workers half off their lunch “deprives the state of tax revenue”. > **[DeSantis Wants to Get Rid of Disney Employee Discounts, as Inane War Continues](https://newrepublic.com/post/175116/ron-desantis-remove-disney-employee-discounts)** > > DeSantis is so petty he’s coming after Disney employees’ discounts and free passes. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/200 "2023-08-23T23:09:14Z")
This seems to be a pretty astute analysis of the many reasons Trump voters are unimpressed with DeSantis. I’m sure the debates won’t change this that much. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/opinion/trump-desantis-republican-party.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/opinion/trump-desantis-republican-party.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601.md?page=11)