There was fear on the left and hope on the right that DeSantis would be "smart Trump." Just as evil as Trump is, but with more brains to be able to pull stuff off and less likely to be distracted by petty rivalries.
Since then, DeSantis has shown that he's not as smart as people thought he was, definitely can't sway crowds like Trump can, and is absolutely willing to pursue petty rivalries even when they don't benefit him.
definitely can’t sway crowds like Trump can
I think this is the biggest issue. He doesn't have the charisma that Trump does. While I've found most of Trump's nicknames for people pretty stupid, "Meatball Ron" is on point.
I don't know what the fuck Trump has, but it's certainly not charisma. The guy can barely form a coherent thought when he's speaking, makes a fool out of himself every time he speaks, and is pretty much wrong about everything he says.
Still somehow has millions of people voting for him, so maybe it is some bizzaro reverse charisma or something.
charisma
kə-rĭz′mə
noun
- A rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm.
- Personal magnetism or charm.
Is he charming? Depends on preference I think. Does he "arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm"? Absolutely. Why? Hard to say exactly (again, personal preference) but he fits the dictionary definition of "charismatic" to a T.
Charisn'tma, is what I've taken to calling it.
If you listen to him talk for 5 seconds you can tell he sounds like a dork. Trump will call his wife ugly and he's done.
The good news is, Republicans aren't really about pursuing wokeness as much anymore. But polling also suggests they're much more in favor of Trump still, somehow, in spite of everything. So that's the other shoe dropping. They're back on their "law and order," unless the law and order is coming down on Trump, it seems. 😂
“Law and order” has always only meant “keep undesirables (minorities, leftists, workers) afraid and under constant threat of violence”. It has never meant “actually hold everyone equally accountable to the law”.
Important to note for the liberals: Yes, that includes when Clinton said it.
Light on the law... Heavy on the enforcement of Order (as they see it).
I think trying to figure out their actual top priority is a fool's errand, because they have no idea. Seriously, I don't think today's Republican rank and file has a firm enough grasp on reality and the issues of today to have the first clue what they actually believe about anything beyond "Trump good" and "Democrats bad."
It's not even "Republicans good" anymore, because being solidly conservative, but disliking Trump, is enough to get one ousted from the party as a RINO now. The only true defining characteristic of a "Republican" today is worship of Trump.
Just from my anecdotal experience with painfully stupid family members, it seems like the most important issue to them at any given moment is whatever the Facebook algorithm is pushing at the time. Whoever has that wrangled is really driving the narrative. They spend all their free time plugged in to Facebook seething over their perceived political enemies. Besides the fact that they’re stupid as shit, it’s pathetic and sad.
I upvoted you in a "well yes, but actually no" sort of way. Republicans know exactly what they want -- subjugation of everybody who's not them, using any and all means available -- but still don't feel secure enough in their power to come out say it that bluntly yet. So they come up with random shit to act as euphemistic proxies for it, which sounds like ineptitude to anybody who's still trying to give them some sort of benefit of the doubt.
If somebody can debate their political viewpoints with me, that instantly earns them some respect points. I'm just tired of some people defining their political views as just being against other views
Can the media please co-opt the term “law and order” and use it for all Trump indictment stories.
I think he got a big ego boost and has just made dumb move after dumb move since.
He tried to fight Disney. Like... How much cocaine do you need to be on to think you can win a legal battle against Disney.
Disney eats lawsuits for breakfast.
Controlling actions that cause negative externalities for consumers and citizens I could see but this is about the government punishing them for publishing speech that opposes his agenda.
On one hand full agreement, on the other hand there’s also something fundamentally wrong with state governments attempting to force mega corporations to do something in a different state without compelling reason purely by accounts of holding a large investment in their state.
Florida can ban things in Florida all they want within the confines of law and liberty (which they’ve long past left but that’s a different thing). But they were trying to force the whole of a company headquartered in California to stop being “woke” through punitive actions by nature of them holding a significant real investment in Florida that would be economically disastrous for both parties if it were sold off or abandoned.
It depends on what you mean by control. Can you state exactly what a Florida politician should have been legally allowed to do for the great crime of the CEO saying they disagree with them?
I have zero problems with regulations and taxes I have problems with a company or a person being censored for stating their opinion. If you look at everything he is doing it is all about them being broken to support him.
DeSantis vs Disney is like watching two kaiju monsters fight: both are monsters, but one is kinda fun since you've known then since childhood. But they're still monsters, so no matter who wins, it's a net good that they're fighting.
You can remove the word “seems” from your comment. Meatball Ron is an absolute buffoon. He wants to spread his terrible hatred across the US as fast as possible, if he holds office. If there’s any doubt, look at some of the recent legislation being signed in Florida
Ol puddin' fingers
Nah. His campaign is in the death throws of collapse. Robert Evans' podcast "It Could Happen Here" recently did a solid analysis on why DeSantis' campaign has flopped and lost it's initial conservative support and momentum.
Basically, DeSantis can't hold a crowd or conservative base attention like Trump and he also can't seem to get off the COVID wagon. Puddin' boy threw a ton of eggs in the masks and vaccines basket. He's also made a cardinal mistake that many presidential candidates coming from governorships make and that is focusing on his Florida "accomplishments" when speaking to a national audience that doesn't give one fuckall about Florida.
But perhaps most importantly, and very interesting too, is DeSantis' inability to hold on to the media like Trump. Trump will talk shit to and about the media, rage about fake news, and bad mouth them all day long, but then will turn around and answer their questions for an hour, remembers all their names, takes their phone calls, shows up to interviews, etc. DeSantis thought he'd take it a step further and not only shit all over the media, but also completely wall them out. A mistake that he's been trying to reverse, but it is very likely too late.
I don't think he's doing well even with the GOP, I doubt he's anyone's hope
You can look into those big dopey blue cow eyes and see what a clueless buffoon he is. Suckled from youth on a conservative teat that nourished him with a penchant for rejecting the very reality before his eyes and adopting ignorance as a world view. A fascist by any objective measure who sees a saviour when he looks in a mirror. A vacuous toad that is somehow less likeable and less intelligent than the Orange Shitgibbon himself. Bolstered by a small portion of the 70 million unthinking lackwits that celebrate incompetence, he bumbles through each day trying to assuage his feelings of inadequacy by cancelling anything that smells of progress, equality, inclusion, or fairness. To those who push back on him with data or facts that contradict his conjured reality, he harasses, sues, fires, or otherwise makes shift to inflict as much misery as he can. Unable to reason or infer cause and effect, his prosimian brain finds challenge in scooping puddin’ with three fingers, like a slow lemur that chanced upon some eggs in a nest. With no capacity to project effect from actions, he tirelessly navigates the garbage scow that is Florida’s economy onto the rocks of despair. Standing in the wreckage of his own state as essential workers and those with higher education, dignity, and the means flee, he stands and flings mud at Disney, like a petulant child who has been denied a cookie. Yet he’s not content with destroying his own state. He’s not content with being a gnat repeatedly slapped by Disney’s swooshing tail. Disney, an employer of 32,000 people in Florida. He has taken his game to a higher level by using migrants as pawns, putting women and children onto buses without means or recourse. Promising them there is a plan, and sending them off on long journeys to other states to meet whatever fate befalls them when they are dropped off bewildered on a sidewalk a thousand miles away. This is a man who portrays himself as a follower of Christ, yet incurs no dissonance in treating human beings as cattle, with which to score brownie points from his aging white claque of covidiots, imbeciles, bible thumpers, and racists. Trump was content to quietly lock women and children in cages. Desantis takes it a step further; human suffering is the advertisement. Knowledge and reason are the antithesis of the conservative mind. Those who have attained some measure of each usually conclude that an educated populace offers the best hope for solving the world’s crises. Men like Desantis know that educated people are more apt to reject conservatives’ plan to return us to a feudal Middle Ages society, therefore Desantis has declared war on education; banning books, banning classes, and whatever else empowers people. And so we will continue to watch each day what this lout brings to bear, and to what depths of depravity he can attain in his quest to foment the de-enlightenment.
Almost every sentence is a killing blow. I was very amused while reading it, kudos.
What is really sad though, is a not insignificant amount of the people who should read this can't read above a sixth grade level and would need to spend an hour with a dictionary to comprehend it.
Insert King of the Hill "if those kids could read" meme here.
Hey honey a new copy pasta just dropped
This reads a lot like a Jonathan Pie rant. 😂
I attest that I did not copy it
This is the kind of comment that makes we wish we had awards to give out, because this one deserves all the awards.
Fucking good. We need people to rein in all this culture war bullshit.
About damn time somebody stood up to those fascists and said “No!”, in clear, uncertain, simple terms they’ll understand.
Some real Fox News style headline work. Surprised the AP Board didn't SLAM DeSantis.
I absolutely despise that SLAM is an acceptable word in journalism. How the fuck did that happen?
Give it another couple years and we'll see, "murdered", "destroyed", "annihilated". Journalists need attention to make money so they use the most extreme language they can get away with. Problem is that language loses its urgency when you use it constantly and it isn't as effective at grabbing attention
Yeah. Destroyed and annihilated are already a thing now, I think.
I think you're missing the point. Do you think people that write this garbage call themselves journalists? Of course they do but that's irrelevant
I don't know, this is a pretty humiliating defeat for the guy who called it dangerous and "woke."
DeSantis Ass-Blasted by Psycho Curriculum! Extreme Edition!
God damn lemon stealing Ron!
This guy is a fucking sad joke. Vote him the fuck out of there and turn that state around so I can go and want to live there again.
AP psychology allows Florida to send Desantis back to caves.
Yes, the AP tests are standardized at the national level.
yeah, that's the main reason it looked like it was getting banned in the first place. don't say gay got extended thru 12th grade, which would mean that the gender and sexuality stuff couldn't be taught in the class, but the ap test is standardized, so they couldn't just take out the gender and sexuality stuff
HUMILIATING!!
Maybe, just maybe, Florida's children will have a chance.
I'm not that hopeful, what with the rest of the curriculum, but it's at least a small light.
I was just talking to my girl about this. Nobody says woke anymore. That was years ago, it was a fad word. They come and go, but this guy got a rage boner for the word. Just stop with this bullshit I want a break on my taxes, more money in my pocket, cheaper gas prices, or at least better infrastructure. All he can do is culture war and a failed presidential race.
Dont tell me this is reddit 2.0 with all the politics...
God it's weird how we discuss politics in a politics community. Just weird.
Especially in a place far more casually communist than reddit
Aw, is your chosen ideology screwing up the entire world and people are speaking out about it? Boo fucking hoo
I suppose so. I'm just here for the recipes
White Boy Chili
1 lb ground beef
two medium onions
one bell pepper
one 24 oz can tomato sauce
two 12 oz cans petite diced tomatoes
one 30 oz can dark (or light) red kidney beans, risned
one 15 oz can light (or dark) red kidney beans, rinsed
one 15 out can black beans, rinsed
one 15 oz can cannellini beans, rinsed
2 tbs chili powder
1 tbs black pepper
around 2 tbs salt (to taste)
add one bag frozen corn when cooking is complete
The purpose of this recipe seems to be for when you just have way too many beans taking up space in your pantry.
Don’t tell me you haven’t figured out how to block communities to curate your feed…
Though seriously, there is no algorithm here, you are responsible to yourself for what you continue to be exposed to.
The real differences are that you can look through the source code to see exactly what the algorithm does, and that each instances' administrator could (theoretically) tweak it to his own liking but is required to disclose those changes because Lemmy is licensed with AGPL 3.0.
The upshot is that there's much less moral hazard/risk of admins quietly subverting it for their own political or economic benefit.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. If you think anywhere else -- whether online or off -- other than alt-right "safe spaces" is going to be any more sympathetic to your delusions than famously enlightened-centrist r/politics was, you're gonna have a bad time.
Well, I mean...conservatism is horseshit. Yeah, I'm gonna be that blunt about it. It benefits only certain social classes and demographics in society, which is what makes it horseshit in a "democracy" that's supposed to leave nobody behind.
thanks for using Leebra!
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Is this guy really the great new hope for the GOP? He seems to be a completely clueless buffoon who lacks any sense of decency. I guess it checks out.
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