Desantis is a POS and needs his own thread

[RDCanecutter 26198]

7 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I hear you, but what if some coach at FAU buys a kid a cheeseburger? 

SHUT IT DOWN.

[Pescado_Rojo 19320]

I'm starting to think all these assholes are what happens when you try to beat the Autism out of your kid instead of sending them to special ed and counseling. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26174]

9 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

I'm starting to think all these assholes are what happens when you try to beat the Autism out of your kid instead of sending them to special ed and counseling. 

I’m stealing this

[atomheartbevo 89304]

2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

WhAt AbOuT ThE iRiSh???

One of the nuts I keep on FB so I know what the mouth breathers are on about this week is constantly posting stuff about "Irish Slaves" in America. 

The mouth breathers are just angry that even after the Civil War, nobody wanted the Irish around.  They are lucky that Congress even recognized them as human beings (albeit the vote was down party lines).

[Sawbonz 27296]

18 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

1) ron and someone else are holding their beer bottles by the base instead of the neck.  That makes your hand cold and your beer warm

How long does it take you to drink a beer

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2654]

you see, white people were victims too! Thus, everybody was a victim, so really no one was a victim. That's my interpretation of their mental(ly challenged) gymnastics.

[tx 3 putt 75959]

Why does meatball want to kill veterans and send them to the unemployment line ?

 

 

[RDCanecutter 26198]

I got 100 bucks on the Light Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic vs the JAG officer in the Throat Slit Cage Match y'all.

[Pato del Muerto 52232]

1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

How long does it take you to drink a beer

I was basing it on the fact that he took two tiny sips during that clip

[WhatTheBuck 28696]

5 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Do you live in an alternate universe where the NCAA cares about things?

In 2016, the NCAA banned postseason events in North Carolina because of their “bathroom bill” that promoted persecution of the LGBTQ community. That law was repealed.

In 2020 they banned postseason events in Mississippi because the Confederate flag was prominently featured in their state flag. Their flag looks like this now:

It sucks that the NCAA doesn’t control the football postseason because banning all the bowl games in Florida would be a pretty strong measure. Probably not practical even if they had the power to do it. But they’ve successfully taken a stand over social issues involving racism and bigotry in the former Confederate states before. Kicking the Florida schools out is an unrealistic option but banning postseason events in the sunshine state wouldn’t be. 

[Bullneck 18959]

7 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

In 2016, the NCAA banned postseason events in North Carolina because of their “bathroom bill” that promoted persecution of the LGBTQ community. That law was repealed.

In 2020 they banned postseason events in Mississippi because the Confederate flag was prominently featured in their state flag. Their flag looks like this now:

It sucks that the NCAA doesn’t control the football postseason because banning all the bowl games in Florida would be a pretty strong measure. Probably not practical even if they had the power to do it. But they’ve successfully taken a stand over social issues involving racism and bigotry in the former Confederate states before. Kicking the Florida schools out is an unrealistic option but banning postseason events in the sunshine state wouldn’t be. 

Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah.  Watch this

 

Got damned i'm drunk and stone.

Edited August 5, 2023 by Bullneck

[WhatTheBuck 28696]

1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah.  Watch this

 

Got damned i'm drunk and stone.

“Pre-targeting” he says. That wasn’t helmet-to-helmet. He hit him in the chest. That was a clean hit. Should’ve kept his head up. “See what you hit.” But it wasn’t targeting. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19111]

2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I was basing it on the fact that he took two tiny sips during that clip

I guarantee that's not even a real Coors Light he's "drinking".

[SKJ 1298]

22 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

Has a comedian handed him a sharpie and asked him to sign a meatball yet?  Cause that would be fun. Just hand him a saucy one like it's completely normal and get his reaction. He might even throw it at the guy. 

Nah...

 

He'd just slowly eat it with his fingers then after, look at that person like a psycho while he licked his fingers clean...

Then he'd ask for some pudding for dessert

[Bullneck 18959]

9 hours ago, SKJ said:

Nah...

 

He'd just slowly eat it with his fingers then after, look at that person like a psycho while he licked his fingers clean...

Then he'd ask for some pudding for dessert

Waiting to see this on the sidewalk chalkboard of some restaurant advertising the "Desantis Special: Meatballs and chocolate pudding desert."

[kevwun 15572]

Lil Ronnie's biggest donor is making noise about not giving him any more money.

[Bullneck 18959]

23 hours ago, kevwun said:

Lil Ronnie's biggest donor is making noise about not giving him any more money.

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, the biggest individual donor to a group supporting Ron DeSantis' presidential bid, told Reuters on Friday he will not donate more money unless the Florida governor attracts new major donors and adopts a more moderate approach.

 

Edit: from the wiki he sounds like a loon (of course): 

Robert Thomas Bigelow^[1][2] (born May 12, 1944) is an American businessman. He owns Budget Suites of America and is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace.^[3][4]

Bigelow has provided financial support for investigations of UFOs and parapsychological topics, including the continuation of consciousness after death.^[5]

Budget Suites of America

 

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Budget Suites of America

Type	Private
Industry	Hospitality
Founded	1987 (36 years ago)
Founder	Robert Bigelow
Headquarters	Las Colinas, Irving, Texas, United States
Area served	United States
Services	Accommodation
Website	budgetsuites.com

Budget Suites of America is an American privately owned extended stay apartment chain founded in 1987 and owned by American entrepreneur Robert Bigelow.^[1]

It caters to budget travelers needing to stay for an extended period. Its rooms are primarily suites featuring a full kitchen. Budget Suites owns three hotels in Phoenix, Arizona; five in Las Vegas, Nevada; ten in Dallas, Texas; and one in San Antonio, Texas.^[2]

Edited August 6, 2023 by Bullneck

[C-Man 26930]

Feel like this is as good a place to park this as any: https://apple.news/AlyA_cM8-Sp6AMxlIdRF5DA

What It Means That Florida Will Allow Conservative PragerU Content in Schools
PragerU Kids videos include “How To Be a Victor & Not a Victim” and “How To Embrace Your Masculinity."
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“How To Be a Rational Patriot”
“How To Be a Victor & Not a Victim”
“How To Embrace Your Masculinity” / “How To Embrace Your Femininity”
These are some of the videos produced by PragerU Kids, a resource for schools approved by the Florida Department of Education, the company announced July 20.
PragerU Kids is a division of PragerU, a media company established in 2009 named after conservative pundit Dennis Prager. The company is best known for its 5-10-minute videos on news, history, and civics topics. In the coming school year, Florida grade school students could be assigned PragerU Kids videos to watch in class or for homework, perhaps alongside longtime classroom aids like Scholastic and Highlights magazines.
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The goal of PragerU and its kids division is to provide an alternative to what it sees as a leftwing perspective trending in American public schools and media in recent years, its CEO tells TIME. “America's education system has been hijacked by one side,” says Marissa Streit, PragerU CEO. “How are we going to have great teachers, if the teachers themselves are basically held hostage to one ideology? That is essentially what we're trying to break here.”
Of course, to many Americans on the other side of the aisle, those who take the PragerU perspective are the ones doing the hijacking. Florida has become ground zero for the education culture wars animating the country and the presidential race, and making PragerU Kids available in schools fits into Republican Governor Ron DeSantis’ goal of making Florida the state where “woke goes to die,” as he puts it. Earlier this year, DeSantis, who is running for President in 2024, tried to ban AP African American Studies; in PEN America’s ranking of states with the most book bans, Florida came in second place. And New College, the state’s undergraduate liberal arts college, is in the middle of a conservative makeover. Florida's Department of Education did not respond to a request for comment.
Florida's decision on PragerU Kids, which is organized by grade levels K-2nd, 3rd-5th, and 6th+, exemplifies the core battle over classroom instruction being waged throughout the country. One side says children are being indoctrinated by progressive teachers making them feel bad about their race, privilege, and gender; the other argues the right is trying to further marginalize marginalized groups and stifle legitimate academic inquiries.
PragerU's content had critics in academia even before it became an approved educational resource in Florida. PragerU has published videos questioning the scientific consensus on the extent of fossil fuels' contribution to climate change. Historian Kevin Kruse went viral on Twitter for fact-checking a PragerU video about why the South predominantly votes Republican (PragerU argued the racism that once defined the South "doesn't anymore"), accusing it of "cherry-picking" info. “It’s very important to recognize that these are not educational videos,” says Francesca Tripodi, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who found during 2017 research that college students raved about PragerU's trustworthiness as an academic source. “These videos are very explicitly created to get people to think a certain way... And the goal of PragerU is to advance a conservative agenda.”
Despite the controversies—or perhaps become of them—the company has significant clout: According to its latest annual report, PragerU racked up more than 1.2 billion views in 2022 alone. Its sources of funding include 300,000 small donors, according to Streit, who give an average of $45 per year.
And Florida's move has just lent the company new legitimacy. Becoming an approved resource in Florida schools is like PragerU has “just taken a strategic hilltop,” argues Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair of the Center for Right-Wing Studies at the University of California; PragerU now has that “status” conferred by being a state's official vendor to schools. And with it, the platform to elevate its ideas to a wider audience of impressionable young people.
Children 'are taught to be ashamed of America'
The PragerU Kids division was started in 2021 as a reaction to the debate raging at the time over how American students should be taught about the nation's history of racism.
Streit says PragerU Kids was an effort to provide an alternative to critical race theory—even though the scholarly framework, which analyzes discrimination in society, is not actually taught in K-12 schools—and to push back against the New York Times’ 1619 Project, a 2019 multimedia project that attempted to refocus the story of America’s founding around the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia. A major PragerU donor, the investor David Blumberg, provided the seed money to launch the PragerU Kids division, according to Streit; Blumberg did not respond to a request for comment.
Children in public schools "are taught to be ashamed of America," claims Jill Simonian, PragerU’s Director of Outreach and a host of several PragerU Kids videos, expressing a commonly held idea among those who argue that curricula focus too much on the worst aspects of the country's past. Simonian recently pulled her young kids out of public school and put them in private school after she observed their remote schooling during the COVID-19 lockdown. "I was not getting any kind of choice regarding what my kids were learning," Simonian says. "There was no transparency for me to be able to see what materials teachers were using."
PragerU has more than 100 employees and maintains offices in Los Angeles and Florida. Among the staffers producing PragerU Kids videos are former educators turned off by what they perceive as a leftist turn in schools. When asked who comes up with ideas for videos and whether any subject-matter experts are consulted, Simonian declined to provide names. "Are you kidding? We live in a country now where people are harassed and stalked and have had dangerous situations been put upon them," she says. "I'm not going to name anyone."
PragerU Kids offerings range from profiles of U.S. Presidents to business tycoons like J.P. Morgan and Charles Schwab. Some are supposed to be lessons in "character development": the 'How to Embrace Your Masculinity' video says masculinity was needed to defeat Nazi Germany and mine coal. Others promote skepticism about renewable energy sources and the factors contributing to climate change. A 2022 video describes solar and wind power as unreliable, while a 2023 video featuring an animated young Polish girl compares taking a stand against green energy to fighting Nazi oppression. When TIME asked Streit why the video teaches kids that arguing with scientific consensus is the same as fighting oppression, Streit said: “This concept that all scientists agree on something is an unscientific claim, because science is about constant discovery and wrestling with innovation and ideas. There is another narrative that scientists are trying to share, except that they're not allowed to do it because they're being bullied out of the conversation.” (97% of actively publishing scientists agree that humans are causing climate change, according to NASA.)
PragerU is going through the process of becoming an approved educational resource in other states, but would not reveal which ones. Streit says the company is not trying to write curriculum; PragerU Kids videos are supposed to be supplementary—and boost the company's sales along the way. Streit says: “The grand vision is that parents on the weekends will sit with their kids and watch our videos and order our books and order our magazines and have really great conversations with their families that can be supplemented with the work that's being done in school.”
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This is a real question from a PragerU quiz:

[locodos 5328]

On 8/3/2023 at 6:52 PM, RDCanecutter said:

They're gonna drag down Florida schools and STILL not get better in football.

 

[locodos 5328]

11 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

That’s right, ladies.  Men invented birth control for YOU!   We didn’t want to do it, and now we suffer through tons and tons of sex without being tied down by procreation and fatherhood.  It’s our cross to bear.  You’re welcome!

And now we're gonna take it away!

-GQP

[atomheartbevo 89304]

40 minutes ago, C-Man said:

“How To Embrace Your Masculinity” / “How To Embrace Your Femininity”

If you need an instructional course/textbook/video to show you how to embrace your masculinity, well you're never going to embrace your masculinity.  Or your femininity.  Might as well send off for a course from Charles Atlas.

Edited August 5, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[C-Man 26930]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/05/politics/desantis-trump-2020-election-theories/index.html

Quote

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sharply criticized his chief 2024 rival during a town hall in New Hampshire that aired Friday, telling the audience former President Donald Trump’s behavior could cause Republicans to lose.

“These insults are so phony, these insults are juvenile. That is not the way a great nation should be conducting itself. That is not the way the president of the United States should be conducting himself,” DeSantis said on WMUR’s “Conversation With the Candidate,” which was taped Tuesday.

DeSantis said at the town hall that he’s not going to insult somebody’s looks or dress and wouldn’t teach his kids to treat people like that.

“As Republicans, that will cause us to lose if we behave that way. There are millions of voters out there who do not like what Biden is doing to this country,” DeSantis added. “They do not like the direction the country is going in. But they aren’t going to sign up for a candidate who is behaving like that. So, let’s be better. Let’s look higher, and let’s set a good standard for our children to follow.”

While he acknowledged he was a “big supporter” of Trump, DeSantis called him out for running on failed promises from 2016, like eliminating the national debt, having Mexico pay for a border wall and draining the “swamp” in Washington, DC.

[tx 3 putt 75959]

He needs to retire the boots. Your height is what is ….

 

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

5 hours ago, Bullneck said:

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, the biggest individual donor to a group supporting Ron DeSantis' presidential bid, told Reuters on Friday he will not donate more money unless the Florida governor attracts new major donors and adopts a more moderate approach.

 

This guy?

[hayden_horn 11358]

51 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

He needs to retire the boots. Your height is what is ….

 

those boots are the best thing about his look.

why the fuck does he wear embroidered shirts everywhere? you're running for the fucking president of the united fucking states, man. if you gotta wear a nametag, maybe the job isn't for you.

 

[YGIFS 19447]

I'd like to be that kid's left hand.  

[Pancho 44181]

 

[atomheartbevo 89304]

Tacky Onassis must be furious that his campaign has fallen apart like this.  I wonder what she tells the kids.

[aggie08 21292]

36 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Tacky Onassis must be furious that his campaign has fallen apart like this.  I wonder what she tells the kids.

"Don't worry. He's not your real father."

[RDCanecutter 26198]

59 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

I wonder how high the bidding went.

[Pato del Muerto 52232]

23 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

He needs to retire the boots. Your height is what is ….

 

The up pointed toes make me think he’s also wearing boots 2-3 sizes too big so that his feet appear larger than they are. 

[Gap03 3223]

1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Well, okay, at least two dozen of us ...

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

19 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

The up pointed toes make me think he’s also wearing boots 2-3 sizes too big so that his feet appear larger than they are. 

He can't even do that right

[Pato del Muerto 52232]

2 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

He can't even do that right

Figured this was coming but even these are flat all the way to where the toes should be. 

[ChiTownDoc 21070]

 

[tx 3 putt 75959]

Wtf meatball ???

 

[Bullneck 18959]

1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:

 

From the comments:

 

 

 

[ChiTownDoc 21070]

19 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Wtf meatball ???

 

Yes, Columbus was a benevolent oompa loompa.  Who knew?

[Longhorn_Fan68 33779]

24 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Wtf meatball ???

 

big, if true

[Covri 6225]

5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Tacky Onassis must be furious that his campaign has fallen apart like this.  I wonder what she tells the kids.

Tacky: Say goodnight to your failure of a father.

Kids: 'night, failure!

Meatball: *sobs into a warm coors light* 

[abuelo gringo 316]

19 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Wtf meatball ???

 

Weren't the Republicans the "better dead than Red" people?

[SmokeyTheBear 5562]

Groomers

[C-Man 26930]

Oops, Meatball Ron's "anti-woke" policies costing Florida millions of dollars in business -- who could've seen this coming? LOL

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/06/economy/florida-convention-business-cancellations/index.html

Quote

MinneapolisCNN — A slew of new bills signed into law by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has draped the Sunshine State in controversy, spurring protests, lawsuits and travel advisories warning the state is “openly hostile” toward people of color, immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ community members.

The fallout is starting to spread to a key economic artery for an income-tax-free state heavily reliant upon tourism taxes: Florida’s convention business.

In recent weeks, at least a dozen organizations have announced plans to either cancel or relocate their upcoming conferences scheduled to take place in Florida, making a statement by having their thousands of attendees and millions of dollars flow into other states deemed safer and more welcoming.

While DeSantis’ office brushes this off as a “media-driven stunt,” tourism officials and community organizations in the state say what’s happening now may be just the beginning.

“Unlike leisure business, which is a very short-term booking window [in weeks or months], conference business is long term,” said Stacy Ritter, president and chief executive officer of the Visit Lauderdale tourism marketing agency in Broward County, Florida. “We’re booking ’26 to ‘30 now, so any impact that this might have is not going to be seen for years to come.”

Spike Lee's face in the video "still" atop the story (though the video is about Florida, it doesn't necessarily go with the quoted story) is the cherry on top

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33779]

1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Oops, Meatball Ron's "anti-woke" policies costing Florida millions of dollars in business -- who could've seen this coming? LOL

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/06/economy/florida-convention-business-cancellations/index.html

Spike Lee's face in the video "still" atop the story (though the video is about Florida, it doesn't necessarily go with the quoted story) is the cherry on top

 

oh shit, when the guy from the Capital One commercials is clowning you, you done fucked up

[BearSchlong 8072]

 

That guy is a national treasure.

[TheStoicPaisano 9904]

 

[Degenerate Gardner 4075]

9 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

 

The kids will be crushed

[tx 3 putt 75959]

On 8/6/2023 at 3:08 PM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

big, if true

 

[mdmost 42696]

Expect Trumps to go nuclear after this one

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-of-course-trump-lost-2020-election-rcna98200

[Red Five 40574]

How brave. He went on to say definitively that water is wet.