# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/21 "2023-05-26T18:04:39Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Just give me total war between DeKaren and Trump and I’ll be happily munching popcorn in a comfy balcony seat. Yep. I actually feel considerably better about an election in which Trump and DeSantis attack each other than one in which either of them is running unopposed. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/22 "2023-05-26T18:16:27Z")
> [@slicedalone](#): > > > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > > both from the same state > > Nah, all Ron has to do is declare a vacation home, maybe on Martha’s Vineyard, his primary residence, and he’s good. Can he be governor of Florida as a declared resident of Massachusetts, or will that require another law? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/23 "2023-05-26T18:21:49Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Can he be governor of Florida as a declared resident of Massachusetts, or will that require another law? Republicans pass laws to enforce on others. They don’t follow the laws themselves… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/24 "2023-05-26T18:26:24Z")
Typically, yes, but they did pass a new law (or amend an old law) to allow him to retain his seat while running for president. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/25 "2023-05-26T18:29:06Z")
Fuck that fucking fuck. He’s the reason I will never spend a penny of my tourist dollars in that shithole of a state. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/26 "2023-05-26T19:12:57Z")
Ron DeKlantis. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/27 "2023-05-26T19:14:04Z")
If I recall correctly, Cheney used his Wyoming residence as his primary address during those years. But I could be wrong about that. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/28 "2023-05-26T20:19:56Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Which of Desantis’ laws and which of Castro’s laws are you thinking of? > **[Cuba: Fidel Castro’s Record of Repression](https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/26/cuba-fidel-castros-record-repression)** > > During his nearly five decades of rule in Cuba, Fidel Castro built a repressive system that punished virtually all forms of dissent, a dark legacy that lives on even after his death. As other countries in the region turned away from... This was very easily googled. This level of intentional DeSantis / Castro ignorance will earn you three out of five “Flipped Birds” on the “Sealion Scale”. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/29 "2023-05-26T21:52:26Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > If I recall correctly, Cheney used his Wyoming residence as his primary address during those years. But I could be wrong about that. Yeah, but it wasn’t. Letter of the law not the spirit. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/30 "2023-05-26T22:45:50Z")
> I seem to remember a time when southern Republican governors at least pretended not to be corrupt as hell. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/31 "2023-05-26T22:59:28Z")
This whole “don’t say gay” and trans obsessions have me half-wondering when he’s going to announce that from this moment forward, they will be known as Ronda DeSantis. (Lest anyone holler “sexism”, I’ve wondered the same thing in reverse about Kari Lake re-identifying as Carey Lake.) ---
**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:** [May 26, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/32 "2023-05-26T23:13:08Z")
> **[DeSantis’s $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/22/ron-desantis-police-relocation-violent-records)** > > Governor’s incentive scheme recruits officers with history of excessive violence or who have been arrested since signing up A few thousand officers, nothing to see here. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/33 "2023-05-26T23:52:50Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > This whole “don’t say gay” and trans obsessions have me half-wondering when he’s going to announce that from this moment forward, they will be known as Ronda DeSantis. His name is already pronounced Rhonda Santis. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/34 "2023-05-27T00:09:34Z")
You have to let Randy Rainbow know about that. You’re the one who came up with it, and it is good, so it’s your civic duty to make it known where it will count. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/35 "2023-05-27T02:01:40Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > [DeSantis’s $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida | Florida | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/22/ron-desantis-police-relocation-violent-records) > > A few thousand officers, nothing to see here. I find myself wanting to work in a reference to Hedley LaMarr here. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/36 "2023-05-27T04:30:40Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Fuck that fucking fuck. Fuck Him! Fuckin’ A, Fuckin’ Right! Fuck Me! Mother-Fuck! What the Fucking Fuck??? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2023, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/37 "2023-05-27T10:32:36Z")
This has been linked somewhere around here, maybe in this very thread, but there’s a drag queen in Florida who goes by [Rhonda Santis](https://twitter.com/rhonda_santis?s=21&t=cxOF0Ffj0iX4osCcMPzvag). ---
**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:** [May 27, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/38 "2023-05-27T12:29:17Z")
Has Trump said anything like: _the wife is the brains in that family_ referring to Casey DeSantis? If he hasn’t yet, we all know he will. ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/39 "2023-05-28T11:38:41Z")
Ronald DeSantis is an anagram of ‘sordid anal nest’, if anyone’s interested. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/40 "2023-05-28T14:36:08Z")
She’s got the brains? Dunno, she married Ron. Dan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601.md?page=3)