# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/81 "2023-07-19T20:50:23Z")
Backatcha! ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/82 "2023-07-20T02:24:19Z")
The new history texts approved for Florida’s State Indoctrination Facilities will teach children that slavemasters provided their property with on-the-job training and teaches both sides of the KKK. > **[Florida approves Black history standards decried as ‘step backward’](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/19/florida-black-history-standards/)** > > The updated standards include noting that enslaved people developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.” ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/83 "2023-07-20T03:16:45Z")
Something from May. Gotta keep the travel records secret. Folks might think he’s out of Florida a bit too much. Same with meetings with the big donors. He needs protection from all the WOKE WOKE WOKE (like cooties or something) out there. > **[Gov. DeSantis signs bill that keeps his travel records secret](https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/gov-desantis-signs-bill-that-keeps-his-travel-records-secret/)** > > Republicans said the measure was needed to protect the governor ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/84 "2023-07-20T07:31:20Z")
Does anybody want to guess who’s going to get blamed by these scum for this? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/85 "2023-07-20T09:11:27Z")
\< raises hand \> People from other states who have absolutely nothing to do with Florida? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/86 "2023-07-20T11:23:08Z")
I was thinking more of people from certain states to the south and southwest of Florida ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/87 "2023-07-20T14:14:40Z")
Just dropped in to post about that if no one else had yet, and I’m still too gobsmacked to formulate a sufficiently furious reaction. I used to think this was a good, decent country overall, even with all the hard truths about its dark side, but these days that belief has eroded almost entirely, as I see how many people embrace so much vicious bigotry and cruelty, even glory in it. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/88 "2023-07-20T14:19:32Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I used to think this was a good, decent country overall, even with all the hard truths about its dark side, but these days that belief has eroded almost entirely, as I see how many people embrace so much vicious bigotry and cruelty, even glory in it. As long as stupid shit like that is controversial, this is still overall a good country in my opinion. It just has a lot of bad people in it. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/89 "2023-07-20T14:23:44Z")
But is it controversial, really, outside of blue enclaves? When damn near half the country would happily re-elect Trump? When crap like this gets codified by state authorities with the power to force it on everyone within their remit? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/90 "2023-07-20T14:25:30Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > But is it controversial, really, outside of blue enclaves? It’s only **not** controversial in red conclaves. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/91 "2023-07-20T14:27:45Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Does anybody want to guess who’s going to get blamed by these scum for this? Rachel Carson? ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/92 "2023-07-20T15:32:03Z")
😆 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/93 "2023-07-20T20:36:30Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > It’s only **not** controversial in red conclaves. Those conclaves aren’t exactly tiny ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/94 "2023-07-20T20:42:50Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Those conclaves aren’t exactly tiny Like Hemorrhoids, they just seem big. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/95 "2023-07-20T20:58:44Z")
They’re inflamed, they’re itching to cause trouble, and they’re most full of shit or shit-adjacent. Yep. Hemmorhoids pretty well describes them. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/96 "2023-07-20T21:22:20Z")
The problem is that these things are controversial. In a sane world, there wouldn’t be any controversy; everyone would just agree on basic truths like “slavery is bad”. And if one person was somehow deranged enough to say that slavery was good, everyone else would tell them that they were deranged. “Controversies” are things that have two sides. Some things really shouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/97 "2023-07-23T14:10:06Z")
Meatball could go for the senior vote by getting an impersonator to coach him on a Paul Lynde voice. He’s about 90% there already. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2023, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/98 "2023-07-24T08:54:55Z")
Well, evidently he’s no longer concerned about the military vote. Check out [this insanity](https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-scramble-reach-voters-florida-115807446.html): > Florida Democrats say they’re spending and organizing to chase down people who vote by mail after election officials across the state canceled all standing mail ballot requests this year. > > 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. So, besides the other people screwed over by this stupidity, military members and dependents stationed outside of the state–to include those overseas and those at sea–are now effectively disenfranchised. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/99 "2023-07-24T21:37:12Z")
The smaller the total number of votes, the smaller the amount of fakery required to change the outcome to the “correct” one. All bog standard Fascism. My own standing mail-in ballot request was among those cancelled by Ron DeFurher’s minions. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ron-desantis-the-pit-edition/984601/100 "2023-07-24T22:39:27Z")
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