The Book of Genesis, Sistine Chapel, etc. updated by Ron and Casey DeSantis.

[hay rick]

It's crude. It's sacrilegious. It's a DeSantis campaign commercial:

Link to tweet

The mass media may be too embarrassed to give this video the coverage it deserves. Also, there's a risk it could derail the DeSantis narrative that they have been busily assembling in advance of the 2024 presidential campaign.

This video should not be confused with a random exercise in repulsively bad taste. In fact, DeSantis has been carefully crafting and refining his message with the objective of claiming evangelical Christians as his dependable base.

[Walleye]

1. On behalf of tens of millions of people I say this guy is a piece of shit

[Native]

2. A steaming pile.

[Hotler]

13. All he needs is that little black mustache. He's a Nazi. nt

[CTyankee]

3. Do NOT underestimate this guy. He knows what he is doing and is betting on The Stupid to be fooled

n/t

[NowISeetheLight]

16. Agreed

He’s intelligent…. Way more dangerous than Trump. I can totally picture him as a “Young Hitler” personality. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

[Tbear]

4. Fighters went out with the Old Testament

He blesses peacemakers now. The humble, meek, poor in spirit.

[hay rick]

6. Ron is an Old Testament kind of guy. nt

[Genki Hikari]

11. Since when?

I seem to remember that particular deity getting violent with those merchants at the temple--even though they weren't doing anything violent? Yeah, real peaceful, that, and yet all the followers seem to love him for doing that.

And then there's this telling bit:

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

--Matthew 10:34

Well, that's one true thing he said. Because that's exactly what way too many of his followers have done ever since. See: Crusades. See: Reformation wars. See: Inquisition. See: Conquest of the "New" World. See: Persecution of Jews, women (witch hysteria), brown people (it's okay to enslave them, as per papal decrees!). See: Well, I don't have all day for that list.

All of that is a rather weird definition of "peacemaking."

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. I thought Gawd didn't pick our leaders.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. That woman he speaks of surely isn't an immigrant.

Hubris.

[Phoenix61]

8. Not an original thought in his evil little head.

“As Axios first reported, the ad is a spinoff from the popular and beloved “So God Made a Farmer” speech delivered in 1978 by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey to Future Farmers of America in Kansas City, Missouri.
Harvey’s ad began: “God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So God made a farmer.’” “

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/252752/desantis-criticized-for-running-god-made-a-fighter-ad

[hay rick]

10. Thanks for providing context which I missed.

Paul Harvey's speech here:

[Timeflyer]

9. He's a vengeful arrogant bully responsible for untold deaths from COVID in FL.

Now he's destroying lives by vilifying LGBTQ kids (like growing up isn't hard enough without official government censure) and making skilled educators afraid to teach truth about US history. Waiting for the arc of history to squash him and his enablers, but it's gonna take years to undo the damage.

[hay rick]

12. Paul Krugman estimated that DeSantis' policies led to approximately 20,000 avoidable deaths.

I think he's in the ballpark. I wrote about DeSantis' Covid culpability a few months ago here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217050914

[hay rick]

14. His pandering is paying early dividends.

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In Florida, many "non-partisan" elections for school board and city commissions are held on the primary election day. In my county, an evangelical Christian megachurch pushed two county school board candidates and a city commission candidate. All of the candidates were church members and were endorsed from the pulpit. Parishioners were offered help in filling out their ballots. All three candidates were elected.

Governor/campaign synergy for the school board campaigns was orchestrated. School board candidates were given a questionnaire by the DeSantis campaign giving them a chance to pledge support for the governor's education agenda (Don't Say Gay, "parental rights," etc.). They were then endorsed by the governor and their campaigns received financial support. Their "woke" opponents were attacked in multiple, expensive mailers sent out by DeSantis-aligned PACs.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

15. I think this is may qualify as the most repugnant political ad that I've ever seen.

[allegorical oracle]

17. Great quote about DeSatan from FL's pro-choice minority leader of the state senate, Lauren Book (D):

"People have said Donald Trump is like Jason: He goes through with a chainsaw and kills everybody there. Ron DeSantis is like Hannibal Lector: He's going to enjoy you with a glass of Chianti."


on Huffpo a couple of days ago, so don't know if link is still active. Word is that Ron is going to propose changing the current 15-week abortion law to outlaw it at either conception or six weeks.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-republican-supermajority-in-florida-is-ready-to-shred-abortion-rights/ar-AA156uzA?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b51e5ad2fc2a4ef1a02006e81d4e985d

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. I think the media have done the right thing by not giving this coverage

Why on earth would you want them to draw attention to a Republican campaign commercial? Yes, it obviously puts you and me off, but we would never consider voting for him anyway. As you say, he's aiming for evangelical Christians, especially those he needs to pull from Trump (whom they are bound to still have disgust for, even if they think he's useful). He may think it will eventually be a net help with independents too, but his strategy now is to beat Trump in the primaries (or persuade Trump to drop out with some excuse). It would be disgraceful if the media were drawing attention to this (or, even worse, showing clips from it).

[hay rick]

19. I disagree.

This is a message that is tailored to appeal very narrowly to evangelicals. The media downplaying this allows the DeSantis campaign to manage the distribution of this message to their target audience (it has been on Twitter, but not Youtube or broadcast media as far as I know.) I think the style and substance of this message would be repugnant to many people who take their religion seriously. As I said, I think the media is protecting the DeSantis campaign with sparse and selective coverage.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Doesn't matter. DeSantis doesn't have to appeal to non-evangelicals for another 2 years.

It's all about getting Republicans to think he's better than Trump. Republicans have been proven to have no coherent idea of what a "good Christian" candidate is. They just need ways to feel they are the "good Christians", and this provides that. And there's no way that telling independents or Democrats about this now will have a noticeable effect in 2 years' time.

But I still think the number of non-Republicans who would have their opinion of him appreciably lowered by seeing this is tiny, now or in 2 years' time. They just won't care.

The media talking about this now would be a contribution in kind to DeSantis' campaign.

[Conjuay]

21. I think

his boots are the wrong color.

[hay rick]

22. He doesn't like to wear his white boots after Labor Day.

He did make an exception for Hurricane Ian.