Ron DeSantis Is TNR's 2020 Scoundrel of the Year

Ron DeSantis Is TNR’s 2020 Scoundrel of the Year
An heir to Trumpism, the Florida governor has concealed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and fomented a depraved indifference to human life.

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For so many of us, the person of the year is Nothing. The thing that killed mom or laid out the elementary school teacher was Nothing. Nobody saw it. Either dad tracked nothing home from the grocery store or there was a fatal amount of Nothing smeared all over the produce. Maybe it was on the car door handle. Nothing got through the mask I wore to the drug store. Nothing is coming to help.

This year, we didn’t know when Nothing was going to happen to us. The only people left to answer for how the Covid-19 pandemic became real to them are those it left alive. How did the Nothing creep in? Was it negligence or accident? Or did it sneak in on the decisions of powerful men?

Becoming Scoundrel of the Year requires something less than Nothing; it requires being its handmaiden. Ronald DeSantis, current Florida Gubernatorial Occupant, is not even an original source of nothingness. It molded him, and it will be his only legacy, but his direct victims will never know what act of economic extortion and unvarnished mortal contempt brought about their demise. Nothing will be his fault.


You can’t see Nothing coming, but you can see Ron, broadcasting from its nerve center, mask hung ineptly, eyebrows arched like a dog that shit on the rug, face red and puffy like every press conference is a field sobriety test he’s bombing in real time. The man is a fading echo of something more substantial. As we wait for the individual pandemic horror that becomes, for each of us, the eponymous one, DeSantis is all we have.

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Florida does not have a governor, but pestilence does, and in this respect DeSantis has served his only non-Trump constituency with an ardor unparalleled in his career. His legacy of evasion, distortion, and endangerment in furtherance of the unchecked spread of disease among every other citizen of the state could only be surpassed by his dying of Covid-19 in a protracted Clouseau-esque manner.

“We see people dying—it sucks,” he said. Bro—no shit, bro? There are fates worse than death, though, like accountability. “I had no illusions of ever being treated favorably by the Acela media,” DeSantis added. “This is as hard as I’ve ever worked at anything, and I’ve had to work very hard in my life to get where I’m at.” Have some perspective—think of the death toll on him.


https://newrepublic.com/article/160608/ron-desantis-florida-new-republic-2020-scoundrel-year

Man's Head 'Torn Off' in NYE Firework Incident

Another man died in Germany

https://www.newser.com/story/300748/mans-head-torn-off-in-nye-firework-incident.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login

A man in eastern France was killed when a New Year's Eve firework exploded after he went back to inspect it, reports the AP. The 25-year-old died instantly in the incident in Boofzheim, close to France's eastern border with Germany, the regional government said Friday. AFP reports his "head was torn off" in the incident and cites a local paper that reports after the lit firework did not explode, two men walked toward it to see what was going on. The second man was treated for facial injuries. The regional government had banned fireworks for New Year's Eve and a nighttime curfew was in place to dissuade people from gathering in public during the coronavirus pandemic.


In neighboring Germany, police said a 24-year-old man died after lighting a homemade firework in Rietz-Neuendorf, about 20 miles southeast of Berlin. Police said Friday that explosives experts found several more unused devices in the vicinity. Germany banned the sale of fireworks this year to deter gatherings and cut down on the large number of serious injuries that clog up hospitals every New Year’s Eve. The Guardian adds that another fatality occurred in Italy, where a 13-year-old boy died due to abdominal injuries caused by a firecracker.

Trump hotel hikes rates from $400 to $2225 per night to cash in on inauguration

Full video of woman tackling black 14 year old cuz she thinks he stole her phone

Omg. She tackles him like a football player

Fyi..she had left her phone in Uber