Florida Man (Reagan Wept, Revisited, Two.)

When day comes we ask ourselves, ‘where can we find light in this never-ending shade,’ the loss we carry, a sea we must wade? We’ve braved the belly of the beast. We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what just is isn’t always just-ice. And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it, somehow we do it. Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken but simply unfinished. We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one. And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect. We are striving to forge a union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and conditions of man. And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know, to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside. ~Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb.

I saw this earlier today.

First thought was "Oh my God, what is that thing?"

But ya know, it's not just his odd taste in hats or his lack of understanding of how to human properly that gets my back up about DeSantis. It's not just his stupid personal war with Disney over...basically a moderate statement of opposition, effectively demanded by their customer base and employees.

It's the priggish entitlement of this motherfucker, that I'm sick of all the way up to my eyeteeth. It's the Paul Ryan-esque expectation that the sheer wonkery of announcing on Twitter with Elon will somehow do it for him.

As opposed to, ya know, realizing a lot of people aren't on Twitter.

It's the whole idea of these motherfuckers thinking, because they are rich white men with an affected "Conservatism" that they think elevates them above the common MAGA mob idiots, that it's simply their turn. 

It's that the entire bit scans to me as being fake as fuck. Trump might be a fucking scumbag...but at least you know he's a fucking scumbag and he doesn't hide it. He scans as being a fucking scumbag. The motherfucker is, at least, authentically evil.

Shit, Trump is way more Florida Man than DeSantis, maybe he should just run for governor?

One gets the feeling that Meatball's political persona on any given day is exactly what his wife tells him it is. Which makes me wonder, if she wants to be so political, why doesn't she just run for office her own damned self? I guess some people would just rather manipulate than legislate.

But for all that, it's Ron, not Casey, who gives off the Hillary Clinton vibe. Rick Wilson wrote about this today and given DeSatan's strained efforts at even the basics of how to campaign politically...I think I agree with him.

But at least Hillary, for all her faults as a candidate, seemed to me like she was a real *Policy nerd* and what I saw of her program backed that up.

To this old Security Forces troop, DeSantis just comes off as the shit-talking Staff Officer. The guy who's all Mr. Big Balls talking shit in the chow hall or from behind his desk, but goddamn if he ain't nowhere to be found when it's morning PT or range time.

DeSantis strikes me as a shitty little paperwork bully, the kind of politico who's fine with signing bills into law in the dead of night surrounded by a few supporters, but he'd break down crying if he was confronted by an actual Black or LGBT person about his goddamned bullshit.

It's like We, The People aren't fit for him to have to lay eyes on.

That might work in Florida...but it won't work anywhere else. We're not all Florida Man doing dumb reality show shit while letting Republicans run our state into the ground. They'd rather get drunk and screw than be, ya know, citizens.

Meatball doesn't know what he's doing, and more to the point he simply doesn't care.

And this is America, bro. You can't be like that here.

And conservatism in general but the Republican Party in particular seem like they're both full of people who regard us, the citizens, as an inconvenience at best...and as a Thing, to be eliminated or entirely disempowered at worst.

They want to play their bullshit fuck fuck games or pursue weird ideological and religious agendas and throw the unwashed masses nothing but petty bigotries in return, and not have to answer to nobody.

And they're going to KEEP doing it, because MAGA and this "Own The Libs" bullshit have shown them that anything is permissible, to a certain percentage of our population.

So, rather than continue to function as citizens within a democratic nation, they're plotting everything from civil war to the destruction of America and democracy itself to try and make MAGA become their own country.

Literally anything other than "We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident..."

So I'm going to ask again...if, knowing that they have a far higher hill to climb, there are Russians fighting against Putin's tyranny now...why do we have Americans who want to live under a tyranny?

And why do so many of us simply tolerate this horseshit??

It's not just that the Republican Party is dominated by Florida Man. It let itself get that way, on purpose and with malice aforethought.

Reagan Wept.

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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan