This guy on MSNBC has DeSantis pegged.

[Baitball Blogger]

Mike Menudo?

He said that DeSantis resembles the dictators he loves to hate. He retaliates against people and organizations for a simple tweet. And he keeps attacking American icons. So far it’s baseball, Disney and even stepped in to tell small business what to do. And, yet, he plans to run in 2024 as a candidate for American president.


I agree. De Santis is little Fidel.

On edit: A Batista wannabe.

[lark]

1. Fidel was benign compared to what Death Sentence would be as president.

He's a smarter, less blatantly profiteering criminal but every bit as right wing fascist authoritarian as drumpf.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Agree. De Santis doesn't have any sensible filters.

He attacks American icons or First Amendment rights with the same dismissiveness as a foreigner.

[atreides1]

3. Actually

He's more like this guy...on his second time as head of state of Cuba!

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fulgencio-Batista


Fulgencio Batista, in full Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, (born January 16, 1901, Banes, Cuba—died August 6, 1973, Marbella, Spain), soldier and political leader who twice ruled Cuba—first in 1933–44 with an efficient government and again in 1952–59 as a dictator, jailing his opponents, using terrorist methods, and making fortunes for himself and his associates.

Batista has been part of the myth of a great Cuba...told to generations of Cuban-Americans by their elders! When they see DeSantis they imagine him to be a reincarnation of Batista!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I think we could all stand to have a lesson on Bautista.

It’s all making sense the more I hear about him.

[OLDMDDEM]

5. Hmmm

Remember to not tell the children as they might feel bad.

[ancianita]

7. Batista came from the people, appealed as a populist, then turned on them, sold out to the mafia.

[Kid Berwyn]

47. The Batista-Lansky Alliance

The Batista-Lansky Alliance

How the mafia and a Cuban dictator built Havana's casinos

| By Matthew Reiss | From The Cuba Issue, May/Jun 01 Cigar Aficionado

It was December 31, 1958. Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista raised a New Year's Eve toast to his cabinet members and senior military officers and wished them hasta la vista. After seven years of building Havana's tourism industry by inviting gangsters such as Meyer Lansky to construct casinos, helping to fund their enterprises and taking a large chunk of the proceeds for himself, Batista knew his presidency was over. His plundering had weakened Cuba's treasury and demoralized the army. He filled three cargo planes with all he could carry and was on his way to the Dominican Republic before the sun came up on 1959.

Nine days later, Fidel Castro's guerrillas took the capital and installed what would become the longest-lasting communist government in the Western Hemisphere. But while Castro could close the casinos, arrest the gangsters and deport or imprison Batista's henchmen, he could not bury the skyscrapers that had drained the wealth of the island. Castro inherited from Batista a Havana of overt poverty and ostentatious wealth, where the haves of the world's richest nations had come to exploit the have-nots; where statues of Lenin and Marx would be dwarfed by glass and stone monuments to the Mob; where the nation's architectural landmarks would be a constant reminder of the days when criminals were in charge and the Mafia roamed free.

But until that last day of 1958, the only revolution that mattered to Mafia financier Lansky involved a roulette wheel. During the Batista years, Cuba was a place where a crooked man could make an honest living. After a half century on the wrong side of the law in the United States, the celebrated gangster was legit. America's high rollers and celebrities were living large in the casino of Lansky's luxury hotel, the Riviera, and the drinks were on the house.

As a kid in Manhattan's Lower East Side ghetto in the early part of the century, Meyer Lansky learned how to cheat, bribe and split fees with other cheats. He ran into Charlie "Lucky" Luciano, as legend has it, in a street fight, and Lansky's tenacity convinced the Sicilian Luciano that this Jewish kid had possibilities. Together with another local Italian, Frank Costello, and a young tough named Benny "Bugsy" Siegel, they created a powerful network of numbers runners and bookies throughout the city. With Luciano at the helm and Lansky at the register, the combination soon expanded nationwide.

When Prohibition took effect in 1919, Lansky's and Luciano's gambling alliances helped provide contacts with illicit liquor distributors across the country. The pair soon controlled a healthy share of the import and transportation of bootleg liquor.

After 14 years of windfall profits, many bootleggers were put out of business by the market forces of competition when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. Lansky's financial success had already made him a target of law enforcement. When New York started getting too hot, Lansky looked for other places to take his gambling operations.

In the mid-1930s, a Cuban army sergeant named Fulgencio Batista took advantage of political chaos in the former Spanish colony and formed his own government. At the time, the island republic was foundering, as was its gambling industry. Years before, Havana's nightlife had attracted wealthy entertainers from the United States, such as Sarah Bernhardt and Enrico Caruso. But Cuba's gaming industry had become mired in cheating and corruption by the 1930s. So, in 1939, Batista recruited a New England racetrack owner named Lou Smith to revive Havana's Oriental Park track and Meyer Lansky to clean up the casinos.

Continues…

https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/the-batista-lansky-alliance-7197

[plimsoll]

9. Keep the Fidel comparison

People who aren’t living that freedom fighter cosplay anti Castro reenactment will know he’s more like Batista, but the followers will be confused long enough to actually pay attention. Democrats need to fiddle back with the emotions of the GOP base.

Sure they could start peddling an accurate reading of history, but that starts breaking other parts of the narrative.

[ancianita]

6. Fidel never, never ate his own. He never attacked people in his country. Where do you get this from

Last edited Mon Jun 6, 2022, 10:53 AM - Edit history (1)

You might read up some more on Fidel Castro. He was everything the Batista fascist Cubans -- and Marco Rubio -- are not.

DeSantis can't be BOTH a little Fidel and Batista wannabe -- they're polar opposites.

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Good info. Thanks!

[LoisB]

21. Exactly! I am surprised at the Fidel Castro comparisons.

[roody]

40. Thx

[obamanut2012]

8. He also wants to take over Reedy Creek from Disney

Not have the two local counties run stuff, but HE wants his office to literally take over Reedy Creek, which is Disney. So... like Castro taking over private companies???

Of course, he is really Batista and not Castro.

[Hotler]

10. If DeSantis takes power, there will be death squads.

They will come for Democrats and Liberals. They can't wait to kill. They're planning a purge. Don't take this lightly.

[onethatcares]

14. he made himself head of the Florida Guard

with the excuse they'll be only used in emergencies.

[RicROC]

16. just like, people are not criminals until they commit a crime

[overleft]

33. Deathsentence will create the emergency.

[onethatcares]

34. probably something about voter fraud

and along with his poll watchers and his gestapo it's gonna be a rough election cycle here.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Oh! I definitely see it.

They talk in codes. All he has to do is make a wishful thought out loud and one of the nutcases will make it come true.

[obamanut2012]

24. I expect him to purge LGBT public servants

When he gets reelected, because of course he will be reelected, because most people moving here the past year (and it is a lot) are moving here because they love him.

And, he will be allowed to, because overturning Roe and Casey will lead to that. He will outlaw same sex marriage, first. I expect that this summer after teh SCOTUS Roe decision.

I am scared.

[ancianita]

30. You need to give some sourcing for this. Some counterintel site. Because this is too serious a

charge to just float around here. Mass shootings are bad enough. Let's not add to our problem by dumping fear talk without facts to back them up.

Whaddaya got?

[certainot]

11. amazing. desantis was a proud dittohead, limbaugh was proud of him, he barely won and yet florida

dems continue to let 5 universities support 20 x-limbaugh stations without complaint - from fakenewsradio.org Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2

and now the tampa bay rays are in a fight with him - someone tell them they could trash desantis good by pulling games of 4 RW radio stations that love desantis. he trashes their positions on guns and LGBTQ, and so do those 4 stations

common rays, start the exodus of pro and college teams from 100's of those stations and revive this democracy

[Baitball Blogger]

25. Hope someone on our side hears you.

[obamanut2012]

26. The DeSantis-appointed BOG runs teh universities and colleges

They is very little autonomy here, and he plans to literally take all of it away when he is reelected. He has stated this.

You cannot blame the universities and colleges for this.

[certainot]

46. basically those stations got desantis elected and they need those unis to help

with community vis and bring in advertisers - conversely, if they made moves to drop those stations they'd make major positive PR

those stations have been working for years to defund public ed!

the unis basically help the fossil fuel ind deny global warming - and floriduh is on the short list for sea level rise and intensifying storm damage.

yes we can blame the universities for not reassessing those radio associations after they were bought to sell kkk BS

those 87 universities need to reread their missions statements, and stop helping elect fascists like desantis

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. DuhSantis..AKA the The Little General.. AKA the Little White Hope....

[lastlib]

18. Little League Nixon........

except Nixon actually did a couple good things (OMG, did I actually say that??!?)

[Maine Abu El Banat]

13. While railing against

Socialism 🤭

[IronLionZion]

15. Repubs love the authoritarian strongman type

especially if he punishes people they hate

[Cosmocat]

17. He is like ... Trump

He isn't a "celebrity" but he is more of an actual business man and not a moron.

But, he is just as mean spirited, and as you note, a wanna be dictator, but just a more competent person generally and as an elected official.

He won't beat Trump, because Trump has the mass appeal and his master skill is hitting at the lowest core of human beings, which sadly is the way to the hearts of most of our electorate at this point.

But, is something happens to Trump, he would be next in line now. You just can hear it when the Rs talk, they get and like what he is putting down.

[AZLD4Candidate]

28. He's a combination of technocrat and kleptocrat with megalomania.

Worst thing out there to be.

[Cosmocat]

38. Yep

Nm

[Kid Berwyn]

20. DeSantis has B.O.

Body Odor

[Baitball Blogger]

27. Have you been in close proximity to him to come up with

Firsthand info?

[Kid Berwyn]

29. Photographic analysis.

Look at those faces, the eyes…the revulsion.



I think Ron DeSantis is NAZI scum

Remember, two words destroyed Jeb Bush: “Low Energy.”

[czarjak]

52. "Please clap" sealed it. And he was actually nearly making sense compared to the StableGenius.

[marmar]

23. More Mussolini or Pinochet

[The Polack MSgt]

31. I like Papa Doc DeSantis, And his supporters are the Ton Ton Le Q

[Hulk]

32. He behaves like his idol, the orange shit pile....and his cult love him for it.

This little dictator piece of shit is the perfect "mini-me" to the dotard. I'm always amazed at the swarm of grinning shit eaters that stand behind him and smile when he signs some fucking piece of toilet paper bill he rams through to demonstrate what a complete, incompetent asshole he can be. He's actually proud of it...and his cult wet their pants for him.

WTF is wrong with these people!

[slater71]

35. De Santis will beat Trump.

If he runs he will beat Trump. He will be the dictator and forever president of our country. What all his supporters fail to realize is that once he is elected, he will through away all his supporters because he will not need them anymore. I don`t think Putin cares one bit about the general people of Russia. De Santis will not care about the people here except the billionaires just like Putin. The man is dangerous just as Trump is. But the stupid people and the corruption by the Republicans at the polls will carry the day and deliver to our country its first fascist authoritarian dictator. And when he starts to do the things he did to the businesses and the companies in Florida, the idiots who voted for him will say "Duh, I did not see that coming." Too late now fools. Remember, DeSantis has never said one word against what Putin has done to Ukraine. He has named himself the commander of his 3.5 million dollar election force. He will not hesitate to take control of the national guard in the states and the militias will help him. We are headed to dire times in our country if DeSantis or Trump wins. Without a civil war, we will never see democracy again.

[Joinfortmill]

45. He may get the nomination, but he won't win unless there is voter shenanigans.

[bermudat]

51. If DeSantis wins presidency in 2024, there won't be a presidential election in 2028.

[sop]

36. Other than being an aspiring authoritarian, DeSantis isn't anything like Castro, or Batista.

DeSantis is more like Jair Bolsonaro, or even Rodrigo Duterte: violent, vengeful, rigid, moralistic, authoritarian, opportunistic, rightwing strongmen with thin skins, huge egos and a taste for wealth.

Anyone trying to make DeSantis out to be another Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez or Nicolás Maduro would be ridiculed by Floridians who lived under those regimes. And comparing him to Fulgencio Batista would likely gain him votes in South Florida.

[Warpy]

37. Thanks for that edit. De Satan is just like Batista and for the same reason

Maher is fond of saying how well Florida did by staying open during Covid. Maher hasn't checked the per capita death and disability statistics, only the business ones. De Satan was a fucking disaster.

He's worse than TFG because he's just a hair smarter. I'm not sure he'll play well nation wide, he lacks TFG's oily charm and he's never been a "reality" TV star. However, he is still very dangerous, he's following the Batista playbook word for word.

[DBoon]

53. BTW, here are the Covid stats for Forida

#7 most cases per capita in the country at 291,088/million population. By comparison, California ranks #35 with 244,455/million

#19 in deaths per capita in the country at 3,476/million population, By comparison, California ranks #39 with 2,322/million

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Fritz Walter]

39. DeSatan refused to divest state retirement system of Russian investments

This tells me he is owned by Putin and his cohorts. While other states dumped Russian holdings shortly after the attack on Ukraine, Ronnie decided to let the legislature decide what to do. And -- given his recent use (abuse?) of the veto pen on successfully-passed spending bills during their recent session -- what's to stop him from whipping his pen out again?

Charlie Crist should publicly throw this into his face every chance he gets. Even if he doesn't get the Democratic nomination...

[Baitball Blogger]

41. Crist is still running?

Haven’t heard a word.

[Joinfortmill]

44. Florida needs some strong democratic candidates.

[obamanut2012]

49. Our primaries aren't until August

[Fritz Walter]

50. Guess so

I’m still getting direct-mail requests for $$ from his campaign.

[Baked Potato]

42. He's going to keep on doing it.

He will target cultural icons and it won’t matter if the strategy is opposite of conservatism or decency.

Everything will be a culture or social attack. They want to get all the norms and traditions out of the minds of people and replace those thoughts with what they want.

The end goal is to create a great fear and uncertainty and then be portrayed as another “Only I Can Save You” paternal figure.

The way to combat this full on assault is to counter with a strong candidate who is not timid at all will hit Republicans with an iron fist of truth.

[Joinfortmill]

43. He hasn't got a chance. He's even dumber than the folks who voted for him

[MineralMan]

48. Spmeone's Pegging DeSantis?

Hmm...I need brain bleach...

[The Jungle 1]

54. Our job as Americans is to stop these fascist.

The fascist politicians and their enablers the fascist police must be dealt with.