— ??????????*THEE* Bougier Than Thou?????????? (@ScottyBurberry) July 21, 2023
This guy seems to have been created in a lab to draw the disdain / mockery of partisans on *every* facet of the ideological spectrum. We’re not gonna miss him when he’s gone (because the GOP Death Cultists will immediately puke up someone-thing even more revolting), but by garsh Ron DeSaster will down in history… as a sad-trombone exemplar of a very particular time in American history…
A relaunch on Threads hosted by Zuckerberg, perhaps https://t.co/vuEjjoc7UQ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 21, 2023
Ron DeSantis: When you're worried Donald Trump isn't homophobic enough, think slavery was good for the negroes, or think RFK Jr has some neat ideas
— Lord Businessman (@BusinessmanLego) July 22, 2023
there isn’t gonna be a day one for you, dawg, “day one” is going to be the first day of dark brandon’s second term and he’s gonna try to keep your state from becoming a coral reef even if you won’t. https://t.co/3JtuH0ooEO
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) July 19, 2023
The proof is in the pudding….problem is, its gonna take more than three fingers https://t.co/ScEGn0ewiZ
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) July 20, 2023
if the only thing you're selling is "can beat Trump" and you are clearly getting rinsed by Trump, you're in a bad way https://t.co/gXKQS11o31
— post malone ergo propter malone (@PropterMalone) July 21, 2023
i have said this before but the thing to understand about desantis is he is not cynically pretending to be a freak, he’s a genuine freak. https://t.co/22a7rc3w4x
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 21, 2023
he is going to lean into the niche grievances of brain poisoned online reactionaries because he himself is a brain poisoned online reactionary and he has surrounded himself with the same https://t.co/3p0vnJPp61
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 21, 2023
Desantis is bragging that he is now drawing 30-40 people to his campaign events. pic.twitter.com/XEVfYALAMm
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 16, 2023
Ron DeSantis learning that the opposite of woke is sleep https://t.co/PJHaZImluT
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 16, 2023
Dead Bounce Ron now cutting staff as he runs short of money. Perhaps he can ask Trump for a loan https://t.co/EWtNGGMPnQ via @politico
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 16, 2023
My DeSantis prediction is that something happens in Iowa or somewhere else where he modestly over performs a poll or something like that, we get 2-3 months of “why did we discount him?!” and crowing from his supporters, before predictably losing like everyone thinks he will.
— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) July 18, 2023
The worst people in the media all being barely concealed simps for Ron DeSantis just makes it more satisfying that he's polling 30 points behind and is gonna end up meekly endorsing Trump just like Ted Cruz did https://t.co/W8ofl8740t
— Environmental Services Weedle (@PartyWurmple) July 17, 2023
DeSantis isn’t so much trying to close the polling gap with Trump as he’s trying to lose respectably enough that he doesn’t get laughed out of the room in four years when he says he wants to run in 2028. The lonesome tale of DBR Ron.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 20, 2023
Ingraham’s advice for DeSantis: Don't be afraid to show your personality and ask the people what's on their minds. I promise you, it will not be Disney or Bud Light. pic.twitter.com/fjBGUpTaNi
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 21, 2023
Alison Rose
“it’s gonna take more than three fingers” sounds way dirtier than I want anything on a DeSantis post to sound
Yutsano
Can I just say I’m tired of hearing about this asshole and his plastic spouse?
EDIT: I MADE 2ND!
EDIT 2: FYWP
Mike in NC
Love how every cartoonist can’t resist putting him in those white go-go boots.
Suzanne
Oh God, this schmuck again.
grumbles
Puddin’ really is a dumber, less introspective Dick Nixon. Dude just really seems to think shoving his dick in the blender harder will do the trick.
MagdaInBlack
@Alison Rose: Yik
Eta: then I took a second look at the cage match cartoon, and more yik.
Nukular Biskits
Good evening, y’all.
Drunk tweeting and drunk posting.
It was f’ing hot today.
Yutsano
@grumbles: Suddenly I both want and do not want to know if DeSantis has a dog. Because that would have to be the saddest doggo and my heart couldn’t take that.
laura
Man, I miss lurking on the twitters- Ragnorak Lobster was amongst the daily go to’s. Thanks a lot Appartheid Clyde.
dmsilev
A reboot, huh. Has anyone tried updating his drivers? Unplugging and plugging him back in? A complete wipe and reinstall of his operating system? OK, that last one might actually have a chance of working.
Parfigliano
WTF is wrong with FL that they keep electing this dipshit?
dmsilev
@Yutsano: Ted Cruz has a dog. Remember, the one he left at home on his Excellent Cancun Adventure?
As bad as deSantis is, I’m not yet ready to say that he’s worse than Ted Cruz.
dmsilev
@MagdaInBlack: That cartoon is going to give me nightmares.
Yarrow
@laura: You can lurk on the Twitter by going to Nitter.net, putting in the Twitter handle, click on their account when it comes up and then click Tweets & Replies to see the new tweets (just Tweets doesn’t seem to work).
Alison Rose
@Yutsano: If he does have a dog, it would be purely for PR purposes.
[in Kyle Prue voice]: Look. A dog.
MinuteMan
Cage fight between Muskrat and DinSane-tis: two “men” enter the cage and none come out!
Ron is the Titan presidential campaigns: an implosion in his future.
Redshift
That “Never Back Down” Twitter account is very odd. I was going to say that it sounds like guys who put “alpha male” in their Twitter bio (i know it’s from the title of one of his ghostwritten books.)
The account description says it’s “supporting Ron DeSantis,” it connects to neverbackdown.org. That site looks like a campaign website ( donate, sign up, about the candidate) but his actual campaign site is something different.
Some kind of grift? The donation link seems to donate to his actual campaign, but it’s at least harvesting contact info.
It’s just weird.
West of the Rockies
I hope DeSantis sees that top fat puppet picture and actually sees it’s a great likeness in every way possible: sad, sloppy, and ridiculous. I hope it hurts.
Yarrow
That Cabbage Patch Ron sure has it all – white go go boots, vest, pudding cup, pudding fingers, nazi arm band. The boots even say “Fuck Drumpf.”
dmsilev
@Redshift: Isn’t that some PAC that’s basically a money-laundering operation for his campaign?
scav
Reboot? C’mon. Just the same white boots with even higher lifts this time.
See also InBev after Disney.
eclare
When even Ingraham is right about something…sheesh.
Jay
@laura:
try Nitter.net
At times it’s buggy.
Go to search.
Click users.
Enter the User Name, hit return.
Click on tweets and replies.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alison Rose:
“His name is Boots. He’s a Chocolate
PuddingLab.”MisterDancer
Do we really need to talk about the toxic combination of voter suppression, propagandic media, social pressures, and dark money driving person-to-person engagement that enables not only DeSantis, but the entire FL GOP?
I’m told there’s a historically moribund FL Democratic leadership issue, but I submit that’s not the sole reason for the situation in FL.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
Oh, nice catch! I noticed all the other iconography in that cartoon, but missed that.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, …
Cheers,
Scott.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne: bien joué
Another Scott
He should be rebranded as Ron Van Winkle – Warrior Against Wakefulness.
Dean Baker at CEPR.net:
I’m sure Ron Van Winkle would be willing to let it slide and find another victim with a suitable donation and endorsement. Just like his
mentormortal enemy TIFG would do.Grr…,
Scott.
sab
We are adapting the new cat (a black panther) into the household. The transition is so easy that I am afraid we have kidnapped someone’s pet. Except he seemed so starved every morning when we fed him. Pitbull liked him and they looked out the window together, then he slapped her with his paws when she barked in his ear. She does that and I hate it too.
Other cats are jealous. He doesn’t seem turfy so they will work it out.
Dobby is distraught, but he worked it out with the late lamented StarScream. He will work it out with this reasonable cat. Dobby is my best boy.
Husband is slightly jealous the cat likes me better. He has cat charisma and I don’t. Dogs like me. I accept that cats have feelings. Husband says he/she/it is just a cat. No not really. Cats don’t have our feelings but they have their feelings and we need to acknowledge that.
rikyrah
@sab:
Good luck with the new addition to the family
rikyrah
The crazy thing on TikTok is that sharks may have found and gotten into illegal drugs stashed in the waters off the coast of FL.
Doped up sharks😲😲😲
sab
@rikyrah: Tuesday we go to the vet. If he has a chip we have to give him up. If not he is ours. I hate cats running loose in a neighborhood beside a thousand acre public park full of coyotes. Cats are tiny. It is not safe out there for them.
ETA Also too they wreak havoc at our bird feeder. Murder and mayhem.
eclare
@sab:
Yay! New kitty! When you take the kitty to the vet, be sure to ask to scan the kitty for a chip. That will help to let you know if the kitty was someone else’s.
Just saw your comment. Does not sound safe in your neighborhood at all.
eclare
@rikyrah:
Yeah this “Cocaine Bear” thing has taken on a life of its own.
sab
@eclare: Of course we will. Hope he isn’t, but he is so friendly. Of course so was StarScream, and nobody missed him and he was amazing.
Slightly fed semi-ferals (wild cat fed by people) are very tameable lovely cats.
Keith P.
Holy shit, Ron’s middle name is “Dion”. How did Trump not latch onto *that*??!?
Kent
And we have a technical term for those who sleepwalk through life:
ZOMBIES
eclare
@sab:
I tried to bring in a feral here that was very friendly, so much so that I wondered if the kitty’s prior owners had moved and not taken him. But once I got the kitty inside, the kitty destroyed several things trying to get out and literally climbed up window shades. After that I would always feed the kitty, but then the kitty stopped coming around.
Glad that your new kitty is fitting in so well! Keep us posted!
sab
Husband had been waking up three or four times a night to pee, then couldn’t get back to sleep. He thought he maybe needed a CPAC machine. Instead he tried out those nasal strips.
Quite miraculous for him. Sleeping like a baby all through the night for the first time in fifteen years.
He has a lot of other health issues, but just smooth breathing through the night has been a Godsend.
sab
@eclare: Your story v my story makes me worry that we have kidnapped a pet. Badly attended pet but a pet.
eclare
@sab:
Or that the prior owners moved and conveniently forgot their kitty. That happens a lot. My money would be on that.
Great news about your husband and the nasal strips! A good friend has a CPAP and those can be tough to get used to.
Steve in the ATL
@Kent: we’ve been awaiting your Chile travel tips!
sab
@eclare: Our guy just bleats politely twice a day. ” I am here and lonely. Have you forgotten me?” Alone in the basement or upstairs.
ETA We will never forget him.
sab
@eclare: Dobby was so pissed off about the new cat. New cat was upstairs asleep, so I grabbed Dobby and dumped him on my bed. He is asleep in a usual spot and new cat is asleep elsewhere. So easy if you try to get along.
eclare
@sab:
Awww…Dobby will come around. They may not ever be besties, but they will coexist.
sab
Right now Ponyo the pitbull is madly nursing on a quilt on the bed. She does that a lot. Stresses out then sucks on something nearby until she calms down.
I was a childhood thumbsucker. I outgrew it. Ponyo hasn’t yet. I can totally relate
ETA She might be stressed because I am awake and on the internet. Dogs know stuff.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah:
That’s just totally tells Baby Shark to GFY!
🎶Doped up sharks🎶
mrmoshpotato
@sab:
Someone’s up to no good on the Net. 😁
eclare
@sab:
Dogs are very attuned to their humans.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@rikyrah:
*snort*
(Of laughter! Really!!)
sab
Made cookies today. Toll house from the package was a huge recipe. Stuffed my cookie jar. Then made peanut butter cookies from 1938 Joy of Cooking. Husband loves these. All the other peanut butter cookies claimed these were so complicated. Joy receipe was so simple and worked so well.
Now we have too many peanut cookies. But these the dog can and will eat. Also husband, but he is supposed to be on a diet.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Ha ha ha
Laura must have stock in Disney and in Budweiser’s parent company.
Jay
@sab:
Ponyo chews up the giant Milkbones and saves them as kibble, right?
We didn’t give our dogs Milkbones.
We gave them dehydrated liver, dried duck breasts, salmon skins, sweet potato and whitefish biscuits.
There was nothing left to hoard.
T, at work has Moose. He’s a Rottie cross who is huge. I got her liver treats for Moose when he comes by, (he’s not supposed to come by, on his own, but now he knows she has liver treats, he always comes by, 3 times a day, on his own). She has learned to get the liver treat out before he arrives, because as soon as he arrives, he starts to drool. Between having Moose show up, unlocking the drawer, getting the treat out,…………….well, you need a mop.
So, smaller treats, better treats. Milkbones are sadly, Pringles for dogs.
NotMax
The headline pretty much says it all.
School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution.
eclare
@NotMax:
Wow. Nope, no burying the lede there.
mrmoshpotato
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Haha! Well done!
prostratedragon
@sab: That was sleep apnea all right. Not every case requires the machine though, so if the strips work, more power.
Ruckus
@Parfigliano:
It’s FL. It gets hot, it gets humid, it has a dipshit for a gov.
What more could one ask for?
prostratedragon
[Shakes fist at mrmoshpotato]
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@sab: My SO has a slight case of asthma and uses a humidifier when the air is dry.
JWR
@Another Scott:
Sweet baby Jeebus what a stupid thing to say. I guess chasing profits in an ever changing market is too “woke” now.
On another note, a pretty good No Labels cartoon over at Politico.
JWR
@NotMax:
Interesting way to not inject one’s self into “national politics”. Christ what an asshole!
Matt McIrvin
@JWR: It’s an amazing application of the heckler’s veto: DeSantis is basically saying it’s a civil violation for a company to do anything that angers him to a degree that he can demagogue away their profits.
Central Planning
We took a walk around the neighborhood blast night and saw our first “DeSantis 2024” flag. At least it was under the US flag.
I’m just glad these assholes self-identify with shit like that so I can avoid them.
Baud
So transitioning is suddenly ok. Huh?
satby
@sab: yes they are, and so grateful to the people who make them safe and give them a home. I hope you can keep him!
Baud
@JWR:
At least they’ll stay away from the anti-LGBT stuff.
JWR
@Baud:
Matt McIrvin
@Central Planning: I saw my first DeSantis 2024 flag in 2021. In Newburyport, Massachusetts. In design it was basically the Trump flag with “DeSantis” substituted in.
Matt McIrvin
@JWR: And that’s the same heckler’s veto as DeSantis’s, really. What’s “divisive” “national politics”? What’s the apolitical neutral position that you’d better stick to? Whatever I decide it is.
Matt McIrvin
@sab: I tried using those for a while, but they didn’t help as much as a CPAP did. The CPAP also eliminated my snoring.
I’m glad the strips are working for him, though. Some people have terrible trouble getting used to sleeping with a CPAP mask and can’t get it to work because they unconsciously take it off during the night.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
I bet the response will be a legalese version of “he helped trash our profits, and now he’s complaining about it. If you kill your parents, you don’t get to plead for mercy because you’re an orphan. Same difference.”
Baud
Oooh. Betty Bowers, via reddit
https://i.redd.it/well-now-v0-v4oefhy7emdb1.png?s=58ab0334af28c4e7b986740359f4d4bf5b6f2b18
mrmoshpotato
@prostratedragon:
For what specifically?
mrmoshpotato
@JWR: Nice! Well done to that cartoonist.
eclare
@Baud:
Wow.
The Thin Black Duke
@eclare: Thing is, once she was shot, the other bloodthirsty assholes behind her stopped. Stopping domestic terrorism isn’t hard once you stop giving these assholes hall passes to be assholes.
Central Planning
@Matt McIrvin: Now that I think about it – I thought the flag was a Trump 2024 flag because it did look like that.
There was another house in the neighborhood that was adorned in tasteless Trump trash. That disappeared quickly when he lost and thankfully not replaced with anything.
eclare
@The Thin Black Duke:
So true.
mrmoshpotato
@The Thin Black Duke:
And before she was shot, some assholes started yelling “He has a gun!” like it was shocking that US Capitol security would be armed!
Idiots (and assholes, and traitors, and shitstains.)
mrmoshpotato
@Central Planning: It wasn’t tasteful Trump trash?
Princess
@sab: Sounds to
mr like maybe someone dumped him. And yes, cats have feelings!
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: And, hey, if they lose the suit that’s another hit to their profits, so that’s another violation, right? He could sue them for losing the suit and keep it going forever!
NotMax
Closed caption cockamameitude. Just now:
Dialogue: “Those stairs lead to the dressing rooms.”
CC: “Those stairs lead to the blessing rules.”
:)
Ken
@eclare: I’m only willing to give Ingraham partial credit, because when she says “it will not be Disney or Bud Light,” I’m pretty sure she wants him to talk about the Barbie movie. (Assuming that’s still the plainte du jour over at Fox.)
BTW, that first image, does anyone know — did someone order a custom Cabbage Patch doll, or is that an AI-generated image?
eclare
@Ken:
Good point. Barbie, Joe’s Skechers, possibilities are endless.
JWR
@mrmoshpotato: Re: the cartoon: Yep, Clay Bennett is one of the good guys.
Ken
@eclare: I’m also not ruling out the idea that her “advice” is an attempt to send another torpedo into the sinking ship of the DeSantis campaign. I mean, she leads off with “show your personality” — how much more blatant could she be?
NotMax
@Ken
The horror, the horror….
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: But… the Barbie movie is popular! Haters can’t even do a “go woke go broke” on it.
Of course, in any sane world the people claiming that “wokeness” will kill your profits would be shut up by any number of counterexamples–I mean, the “Spider-Verse” sequel would have fit any definition they care to put forth, packed them in and is still making money… but they like to flexibly redefine it so that anything that does well turns out not to be woke.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I’m still thinking about “Barbie.” She goes to the Real World partly because she dreams of death and Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) says that’s a sign the membrane between Barbie World and The Real World has been damaged. I’m still stopped by the idea of death as an inevitable sign of the real world.
Also, cellulite, but we knew that.
I’d also be interested in hearing how more men react to this movie. My son seemed fine with it, but men are treated as disruptive forces in both Barbie World and the Real World. I don’t blame guys if that makes them uneasy. It made me uneasy. I know too many men who are better than that.
satby
@Betty Cracker: I straight up kidnapped the cat the renters in the house across from me “owned”. They threw it out once it wasn’t a cute kitten any more (at about 9 months old) and never even left food or water out for it. He got adopted to a lovely family in June.
Took in a “free to good home” cat at the market yesterday, an orange tabby the family said is a female. She was decently cared for, never put outside, but they’re also renters who hid the cat from the landlord for 5 (!) years before being busted for it. Not spayed, no immunization, but they were clearly devastated to give her up. So I took her before anyone else would. And she’s petrified at being away from her home. Poor thing.
Ok, where did Betty’s comment go???
Ken
@Matt McIrvin: In one of the threads on Thursday or thereabouts, someone noted that the right-wing noise machine has been attacking a lot of movies and products. If the target then bombs, they cry victory; otherwise the attack gets memory-holed. With that — and the movie’s opening-weekend profits — in mind, we may have heard the last of the Barbie attacks.
TxTiger
@scav: You’d think his campaign staff would know better than to call any kind of strategy adjustment a “reboot.”
Of course, the alternative is a “retool” so maybe they went with the least bad option.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: The case of the “Star Wars” sequels was interesting–they hated “The Last Jedi” with a passion, and the movie angered some long-term Star Wars fans for other reasons, but it did make a huge amount of money. So what they claimed was that the next release, “Solo: A Star Wars Story”, bombed because “The Last Jedi” was woke and that had turned people off Star Wars. Once your claims can become unmoored from time and space, anything can be confirmation.
Dorothy A. Winsor
IMHO, Ron DeSantis’s moment has passed. Unless Trump dies, DeSantis will not be the nominee this year. Nor will he be in 2028. By that time, he’s old news and some other horrible person has come along. He’s this cycle’s Ted Cruz.
Ken
I’m a bad data point, because I haven’t seen it, don’t plan to do so, and really don’t have an opinion about its plot or any underlying “message” people choose to read into it.
(“And thus he was caught completely unaware by the worldwide ‘Pink Rebellion’, and executed along with 99% of the male population.”)
Matt McIrvin
@Dorothy A. Winsor: But he’s going to keep wrecking things in Florida as authoritarian red meat for the meatheads. I guess he’ll be term-limited out as governor unless he can get them to change the state constitution.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That plot sounds The Good Place-ish, which if you haven’t seen, is a very good show.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Ken: I just saw a tweet in which a woman said gee, she couldn’t imagine what it would feel like to have your whole gender painted as ignorant, vapid, and useless. I kind of laughed, but I was also grateful that person articulated it so well.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
He will have loser stink on him in 2028.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@eclare: I haven’t seen The Good Place. I’m not sure plot is Barbie’s strong point. I’d say its underlying theme is gender politics. No wonder conservatives are dismayed.
Matt McIrvin
…Whenever anyone talks about how education shouldn’t be divisive, what it reminds me of is high school and the language school authorities used to use on us whenever they really wanted to violate Tinker v. Des Moines. “We should be saying things that bring us together, not tear us apart!”
Central Planning
@mrmoshpotato: That is unpossible.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Interesting. Maybe I will go see it, I haven’t seen a movie in a theater since the before times.
satby
@eclare: It’s a great show! And I always though that The Good Place and Lucifer both took on the story of striving to be a better human at an interesting time, from different directions. I loved both shows.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@eclare: The movie doesn’t come to a satisfactory resting point at the end. At least, I don’t think so. But maybe that’s the point. Or maybe I’ve overthinking and the whole thing is just for fun, which is ok too.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So a lot of his supporterse own car dealerships
Matt McIrvin
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: I guess “our own domestic energy” is not electric?? Or is he literally saying he needs cars to be less efficient for jobs? He could say he’s requiring gas mileage to be a maximum of 19 MPG!
Matt McIrvin
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It’s Greta Gerwig, right? I’d think she’s trying to get people to overthink, if only subtextually while they have their fun.
The Thin Black Duke
@Matt McIrvin: Think of Barbie as a SciFi movie.
NotMax
@The Thin Black Duke
Barbnado!
:)
Citizen Alan
@Matt McIrvin: The base to which you is trying to appeal is still furious. It’s furious that they can’t have less efficient white bulbs. That waste energy and money. During the obama administration, Fox news literally encouraged people to leave all the lights on when they left the house and deliberately waste energy as a way of owning the libs.
evodevo
@The Thin Black Duke: Yep…amazing how “courageous” MAGAts are under fire lol. Instead of pushing on through the breach, they all quickly exited back down the stairwell. Jan6 would have been over after 15 minutes if there had been over-the-top security, like they deployed for all the civil rights demonstrations……
Paul in KY
@Keith P.: Oh, he will….