Does Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know what he's doing? We're about to find out.

[Zorro]

Florida Man is devil-may-care and slightly oafish, beloved but not admired, newsworthy above all. Florida Man — christened as a meme in the previous decade but perhaps as old as the state itself — is the guy who straddles an alligator cage, in defiance of conventional wisdom, and hollers, “Watch this!”

Gov. Ron DeSantis is a certain kind of Florida Man. Not because he wore jean shorts and flip-flops to his first day of classes at Yale or because he recently put a surgical mask on upside-down at a news conference, although both those things did happen. Fact is, DeSantis has a reputation for being smart and strategic.

But as he begins to end Florida’s stay-at-home order while the covid-19 pandemic continues to rip through the United States, it’s hard not to imagine the governor standing astride the alligator cage, hollering at the rest of the country to check out what’s about to happen.

“I think there has been a lot that’s been done to promote fear, to drive hysteria,” ​he said at a recent news conference announcing the phased reopening of his state. “​I think people should know that the worst-case scenario thinking has not proven to be true.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/does-florida-gov-ron-desantis-know-what-hes-doing-were-about-to-find-out/2020/05/08/8bf6537c-9135-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Does Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know what he’s doing? Nope. He's a Tea Baggin' Trump Toadie.

[beachbumbob]

1. State revenue is derived from sales taxes, toll taxes and without tourism. Florida is dead in the

water. DeSantis is screwed no matter what he does, I like that a lot

[42bambi]

2. Ruthless Ron claims - "​I think people should know that the worst-case scenario

thinking has not proven to be true.” Yeah Ron, except for the 80,000 lost souls that you just dismissed.

[monmouth4]

3. He will be a one-termer as far as I'm concerned. Dumb as a rock..n/t

[LastDemocratInSC]

4. The Florida state motto should be changed to "Teneat Dolor Meus"

Which is Latin for "Hold My Beer".

[Roland99]

5. Of course not. And neither do many of its self-entitled residents

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213420363

[Initech]

6. The question we should be asking isn't whether or not they know.

The question should be whether or not they care. And the easy answer to that is no.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Maybe it's just a test of the effectiveness of GOP gaslighting.