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Sounds like DeSantis is getting ready to set up his police state.

The most important qualifications for becoming a secret policeman: the ability to trample innocents; the ability to spy on others; the ability to loot and steal; and absolute loyalty to the Glorious Leader.

Once that's done, they give you your shiny black uniform, bullwhip, boots, and pistol.

Then you can achieve your true goal as head of secret police in your hometown, stride down the boulevard in that uniform, bullwhip around your belt, bottle of booze in one arm, lady of questionable virtue (and big hooters) in the other, dispensing bonhomie and bullying as you go, setting old grudges and scores with the middle- and high-school classmates who pulled down your pants in class, excluded you from the football team, and wouldn't go with you to the prom.

Bear in mind, our newly-minted secret policeman is usually in his 40s by the time he acts out THIS scenario....

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DeSantis is on record now of being afraid of encounters with 15 year old kids and 80 year olds, like Joe Biden.

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I don't want to live in a country where bullies can't goon on children.

No, wait, the opposite of that.

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Sep 4, 2023·edited Sep 4, 2023

Regarding ''Deputy Sam Gerard to his Richard Kimble'' is a TERRIBLE comparson as in the TV series, it was by far way bettter that two stupid fucking action movies. It is Lt. Philip Gerard against Dr. Richard Kimble, using the incredible talents of Barry Morse as Gerard., David Janssen as Kimble, and all of this narrated by the unique voice of William Conrad.

I honestly couldn't have even told you who was in the film(s) and had to look it up. All Hollywood ACTION stars in what took 120 51-minute episodes for the TV show to finally show the real killer. THAT is what suspense is really about, not stupid fucking action movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fugitive_(1963_TV_series)

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I forget who it was that said running for president diminishes most of the people who do it, but the observation seems to me to fit the current governor of Florida. His campaign has done him no favors, and my guess is that when it ends (predictably) in miserable failure, he's going to feel like a downright buffoon, an even more exaggerated caricature of a self that was already a caricature drawn from the idiocies he promoted to get himself elected governor. His presidential campaign has been small-minded and unflaggingly cruel, and he richly deserves to lose.

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DeSantis needs to be asked the exact same question, everywhere he goes, until he answers.

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Minor spelling correction: adicktion.

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I've been scrolling through these comments and just noticed a new variant of Ronnie's name: DeSanitize, synonym for soil, or to pollute.

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When you turn on captions in Youtube, Youtube auto-transcribes Ron DeSantis as Rhonda DeSantos. Heh, it inadvertently gave him a drag name. Either no one told them or they know and don't give a shit.

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This kid’s mom is my mom’s friend. Security surrounded the mother too!

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So, you know what’s wacky, is that as I read more articles, I think this is not the kid we know, but possibly a second kid, because it was specifically DeSantis’ security guys that surrounded the kid and parent known by my mom. Ron hates teenagers I guess.

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Poor Ron probably sleeps with a security detail holding a softly lit stuffed elephant that plays “try that in a small town” while Ron tosses and turns in his damp sheets, the image of a teenager asking hard questions in front of a crowd plaguing him. Shhhhhhhh, sleep now, little Ronny, don’t you cry, you are warm and safe and free of any sensible Covid restrictions.

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Hush little Ronnie, and don't you sob,

Mommy's done and got you a Gov'ner's job,

And if that Gov'ner's job runs out,

Mommy's got you a White House out.

And if that White House out doesn't work,

Mommy's run out of patience, jerk.

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“I know what you’re experiencing, and we’re all very afraid for our children—even if they’re exaggerating.” Well, yeah, I'm afraid for lots of our kids across the United States, but I'm afraid because of people like you and your husband.

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Ron accidentally referred to her as "Mommy."

Need I say more?

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The GOP's two issues are hate and fear and they will use any issue, any person or people, and any lack of a flag pin to inspire those emotions in their base.

Though I think that their constant fear of everyone who is not just like themselves is real.

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Their two issues are hate and fear, and a fanatical devotion to the Trump... Their three main issues are... I'll come in again.

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I'm not sure if they are really dedicated to trump or if he's just a symbol to them--something easy to attach to. We don't hear much about Ronald Reagan anymore and at one point they wanted to name airports after him.

I suspect the MAGA hats mean more to them than trump does.

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The first thought that popped into my mind was that this kid's parents ought to get a smart, relentless lawyer, and possibly the ACLU, and sue DeSantis' asshole out.

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The second thought that popped into my mind was that the real threat wasn't from DeSantis or his goons, it was from some random crank in his fan club, because we've been in an unacknowledged civil war since at least 2015.

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Wow, he really IS Wuss in Boots!

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So, kidnapping and assault, for starters.

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Also a Federal charge of depriving him of his Constitutional rights.

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DeSantis being a petty pissant. From the Guardian just now: DeSantis snubs Biden

JFC what what a dick, or actually a chancre. (The lesion that forms on the penis as a primary symptom of syphilis.)

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You say that as if it's a bad thing. It is both a compliment and a pleasure to be avoided by DeSantis.

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You're correct that avoiding contact with DeSantis is a good thing. But Old Puddin' Fingers sure can't avoid being a dick. I think it's an addiction.

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How does he manage to be a d1ck, a pu$$y, an @$$hole, and a b00b, all at the same time?

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As I was told by the nuns in the 1950s: It's a mystery of faith.

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