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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am watching a clip of DeSantis on Morning Joe....
My God, this man has zero personality. He literally is like a talking piece of cardboard.
He also says stupid things.
Murphyb849
(572 posts)gordianot
(15,240 posts)Having to manufacture outrage is not easy especially when you have to pick on your own states prime employer.
jaxexpat
(6,833 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)He also reportedly hates public events.
Bigotry may sell in Florida, but on a national stage, it takes more, even with Republicans.
EYESORE 9001
(25,941 posts)Hell evoke images of Mussolini. Which will appeal to the people hes trying to impress anyway.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)What an idiot. Woke this, woke that, be afraid of woke, I'll kill the woke, woke, woke, woke.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)He is a doofus of the highest caliber.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)Glen Youngkin used this CRT shit to barely win the VA Governorship in the states 2021 election.
It still pisses me off. The fucking people of VA could still smell the teargas, smoke and blood of Jan 6 waifting across the Potomac, and went to the polls and elected 3 fascist fucksticks to our 3 highest statewide offices.
If you think I am hyperbolic to say; "fascist fucksticks", well, you may have heard of Youngkin, but just Google our LT. Gov. Winsome Earl-Sears and our AG Jason Miyares. Straight-up fascist fuckwads.
The reason VA is the only southern state not to have enacted draconian, misogynistic anti-choice laws is because Dems were able to hold a one-seat majority in the state senate.
Retrumplicans interpreted this win as their new "welfare-queens", "French-surrender-monkeys" cudgel to hammer Dems with.
I am so fucking sick of democrats not realizing that every fucking vote, from President, to Dog-Catcher, to Chair of the local HOA, matters as if their very lives are at stake!
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)The scumbag is very good at wielding power
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)Biden needs to bring that back.
Ray Bruns
(4,098 posts)Argle bargle woke. Argle bargle drag shows. Blah blah blah woke left.
Thank you
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)Aussie105
(5,401 posts)It needs to stay some mysterious force that threatens the very existence of the USA, a threat to national security, and a threat to world order.
It eats away at the very fabric of space and time.
(But Ronnie will stop it! He said he would!)
Defining 'woke' would just make him look like the empty carboard of a human shell he really is.
'Woke' simply means that you can think for yourself, and are aware of the possible implications of your thinking and actions.
As well as that of others.
Seems dangerous to me!
Save us, Saint Ronnie!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)newdayneeded
(1,955 posts)he has to be the most unlikable candidate ive ever seen. Not just unlikable in the obvious policy sense, but in plain weirdness.
Aussie105
(5,401 posts)As it did with Trump.
Don't discount him so easily.
niyad
(113,344 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)niyad
(113,344 posts)William Seger
(10,779 posts)... who hasn't yet learned that being a mean-spirited bigot is a shitty way to spend your life.
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Rather than cardboard, which is a very good description, my perception is that of a dry, faded corn husk that once served as the wrapper for a tamale. I would have gone with husk but cardboard works quite well.
Reminds me of a protest I might have "helped" with once upon a time. There was a protest over land development in a pristine area and when it was getting fired up some interesting "chill" tactics were employed. One was to assemble a small crowd of life size cardboard people in and around the machinery so that when the crew arrived at first light, they would be a bit spooked for a few minutes, maybe the rest of the day.
Joinfortmill
(14,432 posts)rickford66
(5,524 posts)where they'd actually have less control over their lives and the crowd loved it. Do MAGAs ever think thing through ?
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)He really DOES have no personality, no oratory skills, no charisma, and a god-awful message. Why on earth did he go into politics?
Chainfire
(17,549 posts)He has proven that to us in his leadership of Florida. He has no ethics, no morals, he is hateful and Nazi blood runs through his veins.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)but even though Trump had a horrible personality and ridiculous stage presence, at least he HAD a personality and he did put on a show. In every other regard, yes DeSantis is a perfect republican leader. Too bad the right-wing package didn't come with a personality. What works on the state or local level just isn't going to sell nationwide.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)who've declared his candidacy dead at least three times now.
Might be useful to watch this dreadful person in an attempt to understand the appeal. He's advertising his vicious potential to the red-in-tooth-and-claw with some establishment smashing and persecution of target groups, and I notice he looks like he could be a strongman leader. Without the white boots, of course, or being on the same stage as tRump.
I think the MAGAs will elect whoever seems their best/only chance to smash "socialism/wokism/liberalism/Democrats," and also that they can be convinced of anything they want to believe.. So until they settle on their best chance and it isn't DeSantis, he's in this. And he obviously knows it.
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)Prairie_Seagull
(3,329 posts)for Disney world.
Freddie
(9,267 posts)And he managed to get woke into his response. What a f**ing idiot.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,963 posts)live love laugh
(13,118 posts)Emile
(22,789 posts)Whiny ass republican voters eat that shit up.
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)No amount of coaching can make this dude seem like a normal human being. And he keeps trotting out his Stepford wife in a princess dress like that somehow makes things bet.