Ron DeSantis - The Pit Edition

[ParallelLines]

I’m sure you know what I’m talking about, but just in case:

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

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.

[Love_Rhombus]

Heck, Arnold-as-Terminator outdoes Ron.

[ParallelLines]

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.

[smithsb]

@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.

[Atamasama]

@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.

[Smapti]

DeFuhrer’s latest policy proposal; summarily execute people without trial if they’ve got fentanyl on them.

Aaron Rupar

[LSLGuy]

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.

[crowmanyclouds]

@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.

[Atamasama]

Drugs can be swallowed or shoved up the rectum, so just shoot anyone crossing the border who looks foreign.

[Alessan]

Or constipated.

[Horatius]

@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!

[Monty]

@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, such a model of all that is good and decent.

[Gyrate]

@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.

[Jackmannii]

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...

[Horatius]

@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.

[Toxgoddess]

“Listless vessels”? As inanimate objects, I wouldn’t expect vessels to be enthusiastic.

[LSLGuy]

Being as Florida is a big boating state, maybe he meant “listing vessels”, as in “leaning over”? Especially to the right.

[Pleonast]

@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

[Smapti]

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

[Dr_Paprika]

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