# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 13
**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:** [October 19, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/241 "2023-10-19T13:40:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Note that FL governors are elected to 4-year terms, but offset by 2 years from the US presidential terms. DeSantis won in 2018 and 2022, and will ineligible to run in 2026 when his second consecutive term ends. For now… I wouldn’t be surprised if the law is changed by then to allow him to run again into perpetuity. Don’t forget this gem: > **[‘Impossible to hold him accountable’: DeSantis signs laws to ease 2024 run](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/15/ron-desantis-florida-laws-presidential-run)** > > Measures would let him campaign while serving as Florida governor and shield travel records from public How he can get a whole state to do anything he wants boggles the mind. He shouldn’t even be able to win a PTA election, he’s so awful at everything he does. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/242 "2023-10-19T13:47:01Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Switching from facts to opinions: > IOW DeSantis’s opponent in 2022 was a sham candidate who did not fool any of the D voters Further opinion: from the outside it looks like the FloriDems got badly demoralized at the statehouse level by what happened with Gillum, therefore the Crist debacle, and kind of refocused on reclaiming a US Senate seat — but by pretty much conceding the state offices they wrecked those chances too. > [@Atamasama](#): > > How he can get a whole state to do anything he wants boggles the mind. The Dems yielding the battlefield resulted in a surge of mediocre nut-wing legislators and other officials who have nothing but Ron’s coattails to ride on so they’ll follow him over the cliff, plus emboldening the ones that were already there. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/243 "2023-10-19T14:00:33Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Solar lighting? ADA accessibility? pickleball? Sounds like woke socialism to me. Please tell me that they at least check the immigration status of any children using to the playgrounds and genitalia of anyone using the restrooms. Also, shouldn’t a Dee Santis park include plenty of neck muscle exercise machines, and old jet fighters that you can pose next to and pretend that you were top gun? ---
**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:** [October 19, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/244 "2023-10-19T14:01:44Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > > [@Atamasama](#): > > > > How he can get a whole state to do anything he wants boggles the mind. > > The Dems yielding the battlefield resulted in a surge of mediocre nut-wing legislators and other officials who have nothing but Ron’s coattails to ride on so they’ll follow him over the cliff, plus emboldening the ones that were already there. This plus ALEC. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/245 "2023-10-19T16:36:56Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Isn’t he limited to two consecutive terms, or did they change that? Well, considering how supine and spineless the legislature has been until now, I had considered legislation giving him an additional term to be his for asking. I also had expected him to NOT run for 2024, being young and smart enough to not run against Trump and support him in exchange for a likely endorsement in 2028 (probably along with a pardon offer in exchange). So, my crystal ball was crappy. I just thought that playing the “young heir” with Trump’s lackluster support would be enough to get FL to give him another term leaving him in a place of power to run in 2028 as I said. I -think- his “success” as a culture warrior prompted him to run for 2024 with everyone (including Fox) telling him he was sooo much more popular, skilled, and well, perfect than Trump. Which discounts Trump’s freakish but undeniable charisma with deplorables, and his own lack of such, coming off instead as a poorly emulated and articulated automaton. If he was making a credible performance in the primaries, instead of failing even THERE to evoke an interest, I’d still think it extremely likely to get the legislature to offer him another term, but now, I’m starting to wonder, thus my earlier post. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/246 "2023-10-19T17:16:11Z")
DeSantis is term limited by the Florida constitution. If my quick Googling is correct, an amendment requires approval by at least 60 percent of the vote. If true, Ronnie is probably fucked, but fear not Florida. Welcome your next governor, Casey DeSantis. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/247 "2023-10-19T17:25:12Z")
“Don’t cry for me, Floriduh-uh…” ---
**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:** [October 19, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/248 "2023-10-19T19:58:21Z")
Why do I think these fuckers would claim some sort of emergency for a “temporary” exception? Or use DeSantis’ newly employed Voter Police with paramilitary training to “oversee” such an election and gee-whiz, find he has the votes after all? Remember, we’re in the Pit, so I don’t have to be rational with my fears and arguments! The fact that such fears and arguments as far from unfounded is, of course, terrifying. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/249 "2023-11-04T00:49:20Z")
What? No, Ron! Eww! Gross. > ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/250 "2023-11-04T01:40:39Z")
In the meantime, there is some speculation that he, like the Dumpster, wears elevator shoes. > **[Ron DeSantis Swears He Doesn’t Wear Lifts—Experts Say He’s Most Definitely...](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/ron-desantis-boots-lifts-heels)** > > “\[DeSantis\] is wearing lifts; there’s no doubt.” ---
**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:** [November 4, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/251 "2023-11-04T01:47:20Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Please tell me that they at least check the immigration status of any children using to the playgrounds and genitalia of anyone using the restrooms. Well, with “two dog parks, two playgrounds, two shaded pickleball courts”, I’m sure we can expect at least _a little_ segregation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601.md?page=12)