Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

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Tuesday Night Open Thread: Ron DeSaster Is Not A Happy Man

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Morton’s neuroma — no wonder the man can’t smile like a human!


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Already attempting to erase the evidence…

As we first reported what would happen, Governor Ron DeSantis’s go-to and propped-up blog, The Florida Standard, has finally closed its doors.

Our sources told us that on or around December 13 the blog will close down after it recently fired entire staff.

The sources, who spoke to us on the condition of anonymity, said that the Governor’s office propped up the website and was giving it direction through several members of DeSantis’s presidential campaign and official office.

We called it.

As if it never existed, The Standard was completely scrubbed from the internet his past weekend…

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  1. 1.

    RaflW

    In that first photo, did Mrs. Ron DeSaster also put in a rider that anyone standing near her beloved husband has to wear super-flat shoes? Because that guy definitely is.

    I mean, like my Hoka trail shoes are pretty common now, and are a good inch thicker than the soles of that guys, uhh, desert boots?

  2. 2.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    I bust a gut when I first saw that DeSantis. Literal clown shoes! lol

    Also, I love when people say, “who cares”. You cared enough to reply.

  3. 3.

    HinTN

    Words fail! How much agony must be endured to support the combined weight of personal ego and spousal submission ambition?

  4. 4.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @RaflW:

    Do you like your Hoka’s? I’ve been needing new work shoes. My Sketchers Work didn’t really hold up all that well after about 6-7 months of regular wear

  5. 5.

    The Moar You Know

    Morton’s Neuroma, as I can tell you from sad experience, is from shoes (or in my case, socks) that are too tight/narrow for the foot.

    What ol’ Ron has going on there looks more like a wide-open invite for some stress fractures.

    And is utterly pathetic, but we already all knew that.

  6. 6.

    MazeDancer

    When I saw the turned up toes pic, yesterday, I was flabbergasted.

    You don’t stuff the toes?  Why not just scream “Lifts! I’m wearing lifts!”. Padding at the toes would even make wearing the lifts more comfortable.

  7. 7.

    Raoul Paste

    I’m half expecting those shoes to start curling up, like those of the Wicked Witch of the East.
    Now if somebody will  just drop a house on him.

  10. 10.

    Harrison Wesley

    Lifts in his shoes, pudding on his hands – cuts quite a different figure than your usual ambitious POTUS candidate.

  13. 13.

    MattF

    So, despite all the whispered campaign leaks to the contrary, Casey DeSantis is not Ron’s secret weapon. It’s the clown shoes.

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    Oh my gravy. Stick all the forks in him. That man will never be more than the dictator of Florida.

  16. 16.

    Alison Rose

    @MattF: Now you got me thinking. Maybe she’s the one encouraging the shoes, hoping it’ll tank his chances on the national stage, and then once he terms out as governor he’ll slink off to a think tank and she’ll run for president instead and she’ll win because everyone would be afraid to upset someone who would do that to their own eyebrows.

  17. 17.

    M31

    lookin’ like a fool with lifts in his shoes

    (and is a fascist piece of shit with the charisma of wet lint)

    (100% guarantee he endorses Trump in the vain hope Trump makes him the VP)

    (That’s now Casey’s last chance, wonder when she’ll start ‘suggesting’ it)

    (she’s also a fascist piece of shit)

  18. 18.

    brendancalling

    Are those supposed to be cowboy boots? Because, for real, those would look like elf shoes if they were red. Or something a court jester would wear.

    I still contend that Ron is Casey’s sub, and he has more than a passing acquaintance with the taste of ball-gag. The man has a humiliation fetish.

  19. 19.

    brendancalling

    Reading previous comments, I see we’re all seeing the same thing—jester shoes. And a hey-nonny-nonny-Ronnie hey Ronnie-nonny no.

  26. 26.

    HumboldtBlue

    @RaflW: ​ 

    and the most shocking thing is that the minute he opened his mouth to speak, decent people everywhere knew instantly he was a shit human and an even shittier candidate.

    That shit works in Florida where the game is rigged, but the moment he stepped out of that comfort zone with all his dumbass awkwardness, oozing creepiness and smelling of old cheese, decent people were rightfully repelled.

    The media, on the other hand, saw the “Governor of Florida” and ran with it. I don’t think we’ve seen a more poorly run campaign from a notable political figure on the national stage.

  28. 28.

    RSA

    @RaflW:  In that first photo, did Mrs. Ron DeSaster also put in a rider that anyone standing near her beloved husband has to wear super-flat shoes?

    I’m guessing that there’s also a requirement to use forced perspective, such that Ron is visually larger than everyone else nearby.

    I’m a fan of Hoka trail shoes! Good cushion, wide toe box, and (from a non-trail-running perspective) they go better with street clothes than regular running shoes do.

  29. 29.

    Harrison Wesley

    I could deal with his peculiarities if he were a decent governor, but he isn’t.  He’s fucking terrible: destroyed education (his first higher-ed target, New College,has lost 40% of its faculty), screwed up the economy (not only picking a fight with Disney – the state’s largest employer – but killing the convention business and drawing the wrath of the big real estate companies for messing up their ability to get foreign loans), driving migrants out of the state (just great for the agriculture and construction sectors), etc., etc.  And I’m not even one of his targets; I’m an old white guy.

  31. 31.

    Bill Arnold

    @Alison Rose:
    The image in that tweet is now marked as “Potentially sensitive content”.
    (How does that work? Did somebody report it and automation obeyed?)

  33. 33.

    RaflW

    @RSA: FTR I am purely a trail walker :). I’ve really liked my New Balance trail shoes, but of course they change them all the time, even with the same ‘model number’ so I’m branching out.

  34. 34.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    DeSatan’s profile is there for everyone to see in the picture. We must protect sensitive young eyea.

  36. 36.

    BeautifulPlumage

    @Bill Arnold: gives me that warning, too. I don’t have a login and am running a basic chrome browser. The warning system is, uh, inconsistent at best.

  40. 40.

    scav

    Maybe his fanbase simply loves what his heels do to his manly manly shapely calves?

     

    Eta. Could be a fetish all round.

  42. 42.

    wjca

    Tuesday Night Open Thread: Ron DeSaster Is Not A Happy Man

    Truly a headline to put a smile on every face.  😁🤣👍

  44. 44.

    Eduardo

    @HumboldtBlue: Florida is what it is, yes, but also there is a big problem with the nationalization of the news. Like before you would buy the Miami Herald or any other local newspaper and read a lot about the state and the local government.  Not anymore.

    He is very impopular now in FL because 1) he cranked up his malice thinking it would help him nationally and 2) a lot of people in the state got to see him more via the national press.

  46. 46.

    RevRick

    @RaflW: This is just exhibit #1567 in how pathetic GOP men become in trying to measure up to their screwed up standards about masculinity. It screams that the wearer is so anxious about being man enough that he will literally torture himself. But you only have to wander into the MAGA swamp on X to know that this anxiety is rampant among them.
    The bullying, the name-calling, the tough guy poses (often featuring displays of their arms collections), tells me they all need a binky, since they clearly live in abject fear of being less than.
    It would be merely sad if it didn’t play such a dysfunctional role in our politics.

  55. 55.

    geg6

    @Harrison Wesley:

    Anecdotally, I work at a small campus of a large nationally known university (about 600 students).  We’ve always had kids from our neighboring states, CA (for some reason I don’t quite understand) and DC, in addition to locals or PA residents.  And there has always been a smattering of kids from other states and countries.  So, occasionally we’d get a kid from FL or TX or TN or AK.  But the last 4-5 years, there has been a quite large uptick in the number of students we are getting from FL and TX.  As of this semester, 85% of the students living in campus housing (212 capacity) are from out of state, the vast majority of whom are from three states, only one of which we traditionally had success in recruitment: CA, TX and FL.  Makes me wonder if the brain drain we hear so much about is not just loss of faculty, medical professionals, educators and scientists but of anyone aspiring to those careers.  Also, most of the students from FL and TX are female, LGBTQA, people of color or all of those.  Just a trend I’ve noticed in my part of the world.

  59. 59.

    Brachiator

    I am seeing the terrible news that actor Andre Braugher has died at the age of 61.

    I absolutely loved his performance as Detective Frank Pembleton on “Homicide: Life on Street.” My sister and I would have weekly conversations just about the latest episode, and about how great the cast was, both the cops and robbers.

    I think that Sherlock Holmes, Frank Pembleton, Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison and spymaster George Smiley are my favorite sleuths, because of their furious intelligence and depth of character.

  62. 62.

    Jackie

    I’m watching a bit of Puddin’ Boots Town Hall on CNN and I burst out laughing at his standing up profile: he has the exact same profile as TIFG: looking like he’s doing a skier’s high jump. Chest leaning forward due to shoe lifts. While waiting for the next question, his arms are straight down by his side’s amplifying the ski jump profile.

  65. 65.

    Harrison Wesley

    @geg6: You’re not wrong in what you’re seeing.  Not just faculty and admin, but a lot of the young people – especially those who belong to a group that the governor has targeted – have no desire to get an education at Hillsdale South.

  66. 66.

    Jackie

    @eclare: He’s not human.

    I begrudgingly have to say he actually did fairly well tonight. No major gaffs that I saw – I watched sporadically, but other than weird posture, seemed comfortable in Iowa.

    Tomorrow night is Vivek’s turn. Black FEMALE Is hosting. It won’t take seconds before he talks over her and be condescending.

  69. 69.

    Ruckus

    @HinTN:

    I assume that you mean all the rest of the humans on the planet…..

    Because he really should be disgusting to any human. Unless………

  70. 70.

    Ruckus

    @RaflW:

    I wear Merrell Moab waterproof 3 shoes because they fit my odd feet well and also wear well. And those feet have been a problem for me for over 60 yrs. But the Merrell shoes work better than anything else I’ve tried. It was worse when I worked in professional sports and had to wear a tux to award banquets and could not find dress shoes that fit/worked reasonably. Oh well it’s now just walking, my tux is long gone and feet are just one more issue…..

  71. 71.

    Rebel's Dad

    Why not just wear cowboy boots? He’s trying to turn Florida into Mad Max: Lone Star Highway anyways.

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