Saturday, May 20, 2023

The Sanctimonious Blues Brothers Candidate.



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Apparently, the entirety of the US'ian pro-punditry expects current Florida governor and Disney villain Ron DeSantis to announce that he's running to be the Republican party's candidate for president next week.

So.

What's driving Mr. DeSantis?

Well, an 'inside source' managed to get the main talking point wurlitzered out to the faithful by an obliging CNN:

“...He thinks he’s on a mission from God..."


From the other side, the surrealistic smart money is predicting that Belushi's Ghost will soon put down his samurai sword and ask the following:

..."Will he be riding in on a Speedball?..."

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Meanwhile, in a time and place where the rules really and truly don't matter (i.e. the here and now), the New York Times is reporting the following re: Mr. DeSantis' recent rides:

...(DeSantis') political committee has accepted private air travel from roughly 55 wealthy, mostly Florida-based contributors and companies associated with them, including the heads of oil and gas companies, developers and homebuilders, and health care and insurance executives, a Times analysis of campaign finance records shows...


Why won't any of this matter?

Because, this:

...Mr. DeSantis has aggressively navigated his state’s ethics and campaign finance laws to avoid flying commercial. And he has gone to new lengths to prevent transparency: Last week, he signed a bill making travel records held by law enforcement, dating back to the beginning of his term, exempt from public records requests...

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...(T)he new law probably prevents law enforcement agencies from releasing more details, such as itineraries, flight information or even lists of visitors to the governor’s mansion. (Mr. DeSantis says he is trying to address a security concern.)...


Imagine that!


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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This DeSantis dude is really something, on camera, he exudes exactly zero charisma, has a grating voice not unlike this competitor and comes across as a vindictive, petty asswipe. Perfect candidate for today's Republican Party! That aside his vendetta against LGBTQ is just plain mean spirited and one wonders the roots of all of that, said roots tend to originate in a very deep, dark, closet.

Tim said...

Above comment from Tim W...

e.a.f. said...

DeSantos is one piece of nasty business. When he first started with the wierd anti child, anti history, anti gay, anti you name it he's against it if it gives people dignity and the right to determine their own course thought he might be trying to out trump, trump, but no he is just the way he comes across. As the saying goes, when some one shows you who they are.....

With the type of legislation DeSantos is passing, things only go downhill and the country will take a very dangerous turn. This guy is more dangerous than trump because he actually knows how government works.

His anti LBGTQ position and his attacks on transgender people, especially children is just crazy. You wonder how he got that way. Aren't there more important things to do in politics than try to control other people's personal lives. Wonder what is going on in his?