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Apologies for a late night typo or two in the email edition. "Many" not "man" in the second paragraph. Eyeroll to myself. I hope everyone gets the amazing jokes in the artwork. If you don't, look up DeSantis and white boots. If you don't get the house reference, think Dorthy's house landing in the Wizard of Oz. "What a world."

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If Ron was a successful mimic of normal human emotions we'd be in big trouble. Fortunately, he has all the charisma of overcooked pasta.

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โœจIt is a relief to observe DeSantis' image melt like the Wicked Witch of the West, as the water of reality has splashed on his stiff face. With his evil policies and attacks on LGBTQ+ people, essential books, black history and recently on Slavery, it is becoming more and more unlikely for the man to be re-elected again.โœจ

โœจGood read, Sam ! โœจ

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I was also surprised by how swiftly DeSantis collapsed, but my Floridian friends werenโ€™t. According to them, DeSantisโ€™ victories were more about how weak his opponents were than any competency on his part

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idk, "weak" opponents don't really explain how someone with no human skills could be elected to governor of Florida twice. Decent known quality Crist or psychopathic lunatic DeSantis, really doesn't seem like a tough call, and yet Florida majority said I'll take the psychopathic lunatic.

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Iโ€™m still afraid of him. Heโ€™s obviously an intelligent man who reads voraciously and if heโ€™s capable of adjusting his presentation enough he could rebound. The only comfort I feel is that the traits drive his policy, vindictiveness, supremacy(of the white and personal kind), his sense of moral superiority are the same traits that make him so unlikeable. And he doesnโ€™t have Trumps ability to make people feel sorry for him.

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Aug 20, 2023ยทedited Aug 20, 2023Author

I hear ya Frank. Certainly the people in Florida still have a lot to fear from him because he is not going anywhere now. His degrees show he is scholastically intelligence but his voracious reading is only to find facts to support his beliefs and make him appear smarter with statistics and jargon. He is never reading to understand a POV he doesn't already have, which greatly limits whatever intelligence he has.

However, he has almost no emotional intelligence which is what has destroyed him and he cannot learn or recover from that. All the things that are being said about him now were true back in 2021 when I psych profiled him. I mistakenly assumed that since he was elected governor twice, he could at least fake some retail politics successfully, but he can't, and if you can't do that at all, outside of Florida you are politically toast. There is an even deeper psychological reason he's failing and will continue to fail as a Presidential candidate but that is for when it is needed, or he is really gone from the national scene for good.

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