"Numpty" is a great word! More later. I'm in a meeting right now. Usually I don't give a shit but I called the meeting so I need to do a particularly good job of feining interest.
I’ll start with the obvious joke: DeSantis should have been forced to carry his candidacy to full term.
The DeSantis Boomlet of 2022, when loads of pundits on the right (and center) believed DeSantis could topple Trump, is a textbook example of rightwing and centrist pundits simply not being normal, and apparently not knowing anyone who *IS* normal. Anyone could have told them once the DeSantis-bot was forced to interact with us carbon-based life forms his candidacy would grind to a halt. The guy is just weird in an unsettling, uncanny valley type of way, sort of like if some screenwriter was making a “how about a fascist governor, but he’s really a robot?” pitch to the studios.
We’ll have to wait to find out, after he’s returned to his charging station, if he will upload “human social skills” software before 2028. But I doubt it. Unlike you Roy, I’m not sure what he wants to do next. Run for President again? Join a think tank? Dream of electric sheep? Who knows. But I think talking head is out of the question. That would be a sure-fire recipe for getting normies to change the channel.
Now that I think about it, maybe Three Fingers would have been a better candidate in the general election than fPOTUS -- that is, even more repellant to the voters. Bummer...
Anyway, I’m so old that I lost it for him when I saw him copying fPOTUS’ childish hand gestures. I thought: what kind of putz copies that bizarre shit unless it’s an on-the-spectrum thing?
But then came, in no particular order, Don’t say gay, Disney,the white boots and high heels and a broad range of fuckery. And, of course, his support for Covid.
Meanwhile, also weird is how trouble Republican pols have channeling Trump’s insanity while the base only wants it from the old man. Of course, the base enjoys the sadism from anyone, the insanity not so much.
Of course, with the primaries about to become irrelevant but for grifting, fake-Tubby has time for a couple of trials.
First, DeSantis will get a lavishly endowed professorship at New College in Sarasota, maybe the the Christopher Rufo Chair of Conversion Therapy, with no teaching duties, of course, and with a special appointment overseeing women’s sports, to keep the trans and dykes off the volleyball team. Then he’ll sign up with the law firm of Takeum, Shakeum and Runn, filing mass lawsuits on behalf of parents who find books scary and think modern music is all Satan and gay. Finally, he’ll raise money for a Real America Theme Park in Cedar Key, FL, to rival Disney, which will consist of multiple doublewide trailers and will be destroyed by Hurricane Elwood in 2028.
" What does it take to crap out as quickly as DeSantis did?"
I have Michelle Bachmann on line 1. Even though God told her to run for president, she crapped out as fast of Ron-boy did.
On line 2, I have Rick Perry. God also told him to run, only to let him implode in spectacular fashion.
I do not think Desantis is going to end up on TV or in a think tank or with any of the other usual wingnut welfare gigs. He's one thoroughly detestable and obnoxious human, and the more people were exposed to him, the more they came to despise him. No amount of comportment training is going to remedy that because being able to instantly alienate everyone in the room is now his superpower.
And I think he's going to be pretty busy for the next few years. He still has his term as governor to finish out, and there's that tremendous Disney lawsuit that he's going to lose. There's also all the OTHER lawsuits he got the state sucked into that he's going to lose. And there's all of his conservative cronies who are being revealed as completely amoral cretins in delightfully public ways. And I'd bet folding money that Casey decides he has no future in her life because her ambitions are waaaaay bigger than just being the wife of an ex-governor/historical footnote/contemporary punchline.
You know how you'll be reading on the internet and some pundit style wag starts talking about how bad Trump is going to beat our ass and how completely fucked we are ? There's a real good chance that whoever is writing that crap once wrote a piece about how DeSantis is some kind of fascist God and just you wait until he runs for president and we will be really fucked because he'll be unstoppable.
While we’re on the topic of desperation, 58-year-old confirmed bachelor Tim Scott got engaged over the weekend, with his campaign releasing photos of him kneeling before his soulmate on a lovely stretch of SC beach. Will send a link to their registry when I find it.
1996 was supposed to be the year Dan Quayle took his rightful place as The Gipper's true heir. Turns out God was saving the smug little shit for the one worthwhile thing he was ever to do: Help save the Republic, or at least give it a brief lease on life.
(This is the era of Things I Never Thought I'd Say.)
It was right here at REBID that I proclaimed the only pleasure I would take from the Republican primaries and the endless election coverage would be Trump's evisceration of Meatball Ron. The fucking worm didn't even make it to New Hampshire before bending the knee to Trump. The next 9 months are going to be completely joyless.
I'm taking it as tremendously good news, whatever the reason, and whatever the effect on the primary (none.) Because DeSantis, more than any other candidate, really leaned HARD into the anti-vax lies (the day before he dropped out, he was saying he'd appoint RFK Jr. to head the FDA). And if he had been successful, there would be a thousand opportunistic Republicans (but I repeat myself) who'd be thinking, "Hey, I oughta give this anti-vax shit a try, worked for DeSantis!" Now they'll all go off looking for some other gimmick to get another rung up the greasy ladder.
"Numpty" is a great word! More later. I'm in a meeting right now. Usually I don't give a shit but I called the meeting so I need to do a particularly good job of feining interest.
I’ll start with the obvious joke: DeSantis should have been forced to carry his candidacy to full term.
The DeSantis Boomlet of 2022, when loads of pundits on the right (and center) believed DeSantis could topple Trump, is a textbook example of rightwing and centrist pundits simply not being normal, and apparently not knowing anyone who *IS* normal. Anyone could have told them once the DeSantis-bot was forced to interact with us carbon-based life forms his candidacy would grind to a halt. The guy is just weird in an unsettling, uncanny valley type of way, sort of like if some screenwriter was making a “how about a fascist governor, but he’s really a robot?” pitch to the studios.
We’ll have to wait to find out, after he’s returned to his charging station, if he will upload “human social skills” software before 2028. But I doubt it. Unlike you Roy, I’m not sure what he wants to do next. Run for President again? Join a think tank? Dream of electric sheep? Who knows. But I think talking head is out of the question. That would be a sure-fire recipe for getting normies to change the channel.
I have one acronym for DeSatan and I’ll leave it at that: RIH (Rest in Hell).
Now that I think about it, maybe Three Fingers would have been a better candidate in the general election than fPOTUS -- that is, even more repellant to the voters. Bummer...
Anyway, I’m so old that I lost it for him when I saw him copying fPOTUS’ childish hand gestures. I thought: what kind of putz copies that bizarre shit unless it’s an on-the-spectrum thing?
But then came, in no particular order, Don’t say gay, Disney,the white boots and high heels and a broad range of fuckery. And, of course, his support for Covid.
Meanwhile, also weird is how trouble Republican pols have channeling Trump’s insanity while the base only wants it from the old man. Of course, the base enjoys the sadism from anyone, the insanity not so much.
Of course, with the primaries about to become irrelevant but for grifting, fake-Tubby has time for a couple of trials.
First, DeSantis will get a lavishly endowed professorship at New College in Sarasota, maybe the the Christopher Rufo Chair of Conversion Therapy, with no teaching duties, of course, and with a special appointment overseeing women’s sports, to keep the trans and dykes off the volleyball team. Then he’ll sign up with the law firm of Takeum, Shakeum and Runn, filing mass lawsuits on behalf of parents who find books scary and think modern music is all Satan and gay. Finally, he’ll raise money for a Real America Theme Park in Cedar Key, FL, to rival Disney, which will consist of multiple doublewide trailers and will be destroyed by Hurricane Elwood in 2028.
" What does it take to crap out as quickly as DeSantis did?"
I have Michelle Bachmann on line 1. Even though God told her to run for president, she crapped out as fast of Ron-boy did.
On line 2, I have Rick Perry. God also told him to run, only to let him implode in spectacular fashion.
I do not think Desantis is going to end up on TV or in a think tank or with any of the other usual wingnut welfare gigs. He's one thoroughly detestable and obnoxious human, and the more people were exposed to him, the more they came to despise him. No amount of comportment training is going to remedy that because being able to instantly alienate everyone in the room is now his superpower.
And I think he's going to be pretty busy for the next few years. He still has his term as governor to finish out, and there's that tremendous Disney lawsuit that he's going to lose. There's also all the OTHER lawsuits he got the state sucked into that he's going to lose. And there's all of his conservative cronies who are being revealed as completely amoral cretins in delightfully public ways. And I'd bet folding money that Casey decides he has no future in her life because her ambitions are waaaaay bigger than just being the wife of an ex-governor/historical footnote/contemporary punchline.
"They hate people like Walker and DeSantis. It’s frankly their most relatable quality."
I'd forgotten this quote. But it's re-runnable because it is truly true.
You know how you'll be reading on the internet and some pundit style wag starts talking about how bad Trump is going to beat our ass and how completely fucked we are ? There's a real good chance that whoever is writing that crap once wrote a piece about how DeSantis is some kind of fascist God and just you wait until he runs for president and we will be really fucked because he'll be unstoppable.
The shit was all over the place year before last
While we’re on the topic of desperation, 58-year-old confirmed bachelor Tim Scott got engaged over the weekend, with his campaign releasing photos of him kneeling before his soulmate on a lovely stretch of SC beach. Will send a link to their registry when I find it.
He might have lasted longer if he had dropped 15 pounds and gotten some clothes that fit instead of the lift boots.
1996 was supposed to be the year Dan Quayle took his rightful place as The Gipper's true heir. Turns out God was saving the smug little shit for the one worthwhile thing he was ever to do: Help save the Republic, or at least give it a brief lease on life.
(This is the era of Things I Never Thought I'd Say.)
From your mouth to God's ears. Oh wait, I'm an atheist 🤣
It was right here at REBID that I proclaimed the only pleasure I would take from the Republican primaries and the endless election coverage would be Trump's evisceration of Meatball Ron. The fucking worm didn't even make it to New Hampshire before bending the knee to Trump. The next 9 months are going to be completely joyless.
"The Republicans haven’t renominated a losing presidential candidate like Trump since Tom Dewey,"
Uh, Nixon...
And, sadly, he won.
Was sad that Bigelow cut him off, but you know the song: “you gets no bread for one meatball.”
I'm taking it as tremendously good news, whatever the reason, and whatever the effect on the primary (none.) Because DeSantis, more than any other candidate, really leaned HARD into the anti-vax lies (the day before he dropped out, he was saying he'd appoint RFK Jr. to head the FDA). And if he had been successful, there would be a thousand opportunistic Republicans (but I repeat myself) who'd be thinking, "Hey, I oughta give this anti-vax shit a try, worked for DeSantis!" Now they'll all go off looking for some other gimmick to get another rung up the greasy ladder.