A Great line from the Miami Herald...

[mitch96]

The newspaper said the Florida governor has
"all the charisma of burned toast."

No truer words... I'm curious though, he is termed out of being the gov, Scott and the other guy arn't going anywhere, Forget the VP slot...what's he gonna do?
Greeter at walmart?
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[Sneederbunk]

1. I was thinking wheat paste.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Thank you, Florida, for taking the DeSantis bullet so the rest of us can learn from your mistake.

Your sacrifice is appreciated.

[Submariner]

3. This time next year

I think the ex-Governor will be starring as Ronnie Gump in Discovery Channels new reality show, "The World's Deadliest Shrimp", where we will join Ron on his weekly Gulf shrimp fishing adventures with three white alcoholic "Florida Men" as they crew his shrimp trawler the "Fuckin' Haley".

Be like Daryl, Daryl, and his other brother Daryl, all feeding Ron's bitter daily decline into drugs as he snorts a line of Oxy-Fentanyl before hauling the shrimps trawls.

Deadliest Shrimp will follow Gold Rush. See ya then!

[appalachiablue]

4. K/R Also 'Why Desantis Lost, from a Floridians POV': Culture Wars, Got Nothing Done 'GINO'

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/22/2218763/-Why-Desantis-Lost-From-a-Floridian-s-Point-Of-View

[Marcus IM]

5. Got nothing done?? The big insurance co's love him.

They're rolling in the loot that "getting nothing done" did for them.

Love (not) deflecting/ misdirection spin like this article.

[appalachiablue]

6. Of course D helped the powerful & DID NOTHING FOR THE PEOPLE- THE POINT, NOT SPIN

Why Desantis Lost (From a Floridian's Point Of View)

There's gonna be a lot of reasons and a lot of people citing the reasons he lost. He misspent his money. He bet it all on one state. He's not a good people person. Yada, yada, yada. The real reason Desantis lost is he had nothing to run on.

-- What did he advocate for? What did he do for FL that he wanted to bring to the Nation? He created a police force that polices elections and voters and is responsible to only him. Can we all agree here that any police force used against voters that answers only to the governor is a less than wise way to ensure democracy? He went after Disney because they would not follow his anti gay crusade (and has cost the state millions of dollars in the court case which is still going on). He fired publicly elected prosecutors because they didn't seem to be hitting his culture war notes thereby telling voters that their votes don't count (and don't forget the police force to monitor voters). He yelled, on national TV, at students for wearing masks during the pandemic. He made it impossible for any local county or city government to use a mask mandate to help public safety.

-- Meanwhile Florida is under threat of a state crushing housing insurance tidal wave of costs that individual homeowners can't deal with, not to mention the hordes of insurers that have fled the state making it almost impossible to find insurance to begin with.

--- What has Desantis done? Nothing. Florida suffers from sky high utility bills. What has Desantis done? He authorized major increases in those bills.

Desantis solved no existing problems and lost millions of taxpayer dollars to his failed culture wars. He's the very definition of a GINO (Governor In Name Only). Even republicans saw this. And they ran from him in droves in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. That's why Desantis lost. And that's why he'll lose every time...

[Vadem]

7. plus he and his republican legislature are fricking FASCISTS!!! n/t