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[–] AndreaHill@lemmy.world 118 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

You can look into those big dopey blue cow eyes and see what a clueless buffoon he is. Suckled from youth on a conservative teat that nourished him with a penchant for rejecting the very reality before his eyes and adopting ignorance as a world view. A fascist by any objective measure who sees a saviour when he looks in a mirror. A vacuous toad that is somehow less likeable and less intelligent than the Orange Shitgibbon himself. Bolstered by a small portion of the 70 million unthinking lackwits that celebrate incompetence, he bumbles through each day trying to assuage his feelings of inadequacy by cancelling anything that smells of progress, equality, inclusion, or fairness. To those who push back on him with data or facts that contradict his conjured reality, he harasses, sues, fires, or otherwise makes shift to inflict as much misery as he can. Unable to reason or infer cause and effect, his prosimian brain finds challenge in scooping puddin’ with three fingers, like a slow lemur that chanced upon some eggs in a nest. With no capacity to project effect from actions, he tirelessly navigates the garbage scow that is Florida’s economy onto the rocks of despair. Standing in the wreckage of his own state as essential workers and those with higher education, dignity, and the means flee, he stands and flings mud at Disney, like a petulant child who has been denied a cookie. Yet he’s not content with destroying his own state. He’s not content with being a gnat repeatedly slapped by Disney’s swooshing tail. Disney, an employer of 32,000 people in Florida. He has taken his game to a higher level by using migrants as pawns, putting women and children onto buses without means or recourse. Promising them there is a plan, and sending them off on long journeys to other states to meet whatever fate befalls them when they are dropped off bewildered on a sidewalk a thousand miles away. This is a man who portrays himself as a follower of Christ, yet incurs no dissonance in treating human beings as cattle, with which to score brownie points from his aging white claque of covidiots, imbeciles, bible thumpers, and racists. Trump was content to quietly lock women and children in cages. Desantis takes it a step further; human suffering is the advertisement. Knowledge and reason are the antithesis of the conservative mind. Those who have attained some measure of each usually conclude that an educated populace offers the best hope for solving the world’s crises. Men like Desantis know that educated people are more apt to reject conservatives’ plan to return us to a feudal Middle Ages society, therefore Desantis has declared war on education; banning books, banning classes, and whatever else empowers people. And so we will continue to watch each day what this lout brings to bear, and to what depths of depravity he can attain in his quest to foment the de-enlightenment.

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read this in Fox Mulder's voice and it works nicely

[–] const_void@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Great call.

“Scully, this is a classic case of demon fetal harvest.”

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Hey honey a new copy pasta just dropped

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost every sentence is a killing blow. I was very amused while reading it, kudos.

[–] Ddubz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

What is really sad though, is a not insignificant amount of the people who should read this can't read above a sixth grade level and would need to spend an hour with a dictionary to comprehend it.

Insert King of the Hill "if those kids could read" meme here.

[–] pickscrape@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This reads a lot like a Jonathan Pie rant. 😂

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That was such a pleasure to read

[–] Hankaaron@yall.theatl.social 3 points 1 year ago

I hope Gavin newsom repeats this word for word in their debate in November

[–] theragu40@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Does Lemmy have a "best of" community yet? This could be the founding comment.

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the kind of comment that makes we wish we had awards to give out, because this one deserves all the awards.