Trump is a malicious, dangerous moron. But Ron DeSantis is pure evil.

[Cyrano]

Both of these men are a deadly threat to democracy and humanity.

Trump was born to wealth and taught to be a vicious, uncaring, narcissist and scam artist. Of late, he seems to have developed a "Jesus complex" which makes him even more of a dangerous moron than that which he's always been.

DeSantis, however, is a different kind of beast:

DeSantis graduated from Yale in 2001 with a B.A., magna cum laude. After Yale, he taught history and coached for a year at Darlington School in Georgia. He subsequently attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2005 with a Juris Doctor cum laude.

As the current Florida Governor, he's doing all he can to destroy the First Amendment. He's also banning books, destroying our educational system, trying to turn women into chattel, allowing anyone to carry a gun without a license, and doing everything he possibly can to turn the state into a horrible, dystopian nightmare.

Trump is an ignorant, malicious prick. DeSantis is highly educated, which makes him a more dangerous, malignant prick.

In the film, "Inglorious Bastards," the Nazi villain is turned free at the end of he war. Yet, the "good guys" burn a swastika onto his forehead using a branding iron. Perhaps, DeSantis should have "Educated Uncaring Prick" branded onto his forehead.

[Lovie777]

1. Both are pure evil......................

actually a whole lot of them are. Seems like it's a contest going on of who can be the most horrific.

[housecat]

30. agreed

[Ocelot II]

2. DeSantis is well-educated and surely knows that what he is doing

is basically crapping all over the Constitution, no matter how you interpret it. TFG is a thug who doesn't know and doesn't care. I'm not sure which of them is more evil and I'm not sure it matters - it's just evil. Both have to be stopped. I think DeSantis might be more stoppable because he has all the charisma of a compost heap, and he seems to be fading already. TFG is also fading. But the evil he has unleashed is not - it will just inhabit another host.

[NCDem47]

11. DeSantis is an Ivy League educated lawyer

Folks, think about that.

He has studied how to "work" the law. As an exceutive, and with wierding power over legislative and judicial, he knows how to bend the law to meet his objectives.

[Ocelot II]

13. That's his sort of evil. He knows exactly what he's doing

and at least up to a point, how to do it. However, he can't cure his own blandly unpleasant personality. He has also been able to get away with turning Florida into North Korea with nicer beaches, because he operates entirely inside the bubble created by the GOP/MAGAt base that he's trying to lure away from TFG. While he may be book-smart, because he never leaves the bubble he might not have figured out yet that his fascism will not sell as well outside Florida.

[ancianita]

25. He'd better know what he's doing about the Sargasso forest that's about to hit his coasts

by June.

If he's half as smart as he presents himself, he'll have engineers keeping that forest out in the oceans and Gulf. If not, he'll go for the fed state of emergency money, so he can blame Biden. Or he'll institute a state income tax to pay the astronomical costs of removing the 5-10 feet walls of seaweed once it hits the coasts. The mitigation for that will be too late, really, and will wreck the tourist based economy of the state.

I live here and don't want the state further impoverished because of his aggressive stupidity. And I hope Biden's FEMA won't help him, since there's nothing lost, harmed or damaged but tourism business.

If Florida's Republican women aren't already pissed off at him, he's still got 'til June to keep from losing the rest of Florida's Republican voters over this coastal pollution.

[housecat]

31. well put

[Irish_Dem]

3. Trump is pure evil, he just is a bit more affable and charming than DeSatan.

Trump is lower IQ than DeSantis and a bit more affable.
So we think he is a moronic buffoon.

[Wishful-Thinking]

4. I still don't see why DeSantis thinks this will help him be President?

I feel like there’s a bigger piece of the puzzle missing. I keep hearing the words “follow the money” ring in my ears.

[Walleye]

12. Just being highly educated doesn't make him a smart politician

[Cyrano]

19. Seems it doesn't make him a decent human being either

[Walleye]

20. Definitely that, unfortunately that's true throughout history

[housecat]

32. Highly educated is highly overrated. Like anything else, it depends

[Skittles]

45. the bar was very much lowered with Trump

you don't need the will of the people, you just need to manipulate the Electoral College outcome

[The Mouth]

5. Truth

The only thing that actually stopped Trump was his own greed, lust, and incompetence.

I hate to say something negative about my fellow Democrats and progressives, but *many* of the people who should have known better vastly underestimated Cheeto Benito.

It's so easy to hate him we've been blind to what an effective political force he was.

Sun Tzu would say 'NEVER underestimate your enemy'. We did and we lost, SCOTUS, our national prestige, and so much more.

DeSantis is much cagier. The only thing he doesn't have is Trump's charisma and utter shamelessness.

WE didn't beat Trump, President Biden didn't beat Trump, Trump's own hubris and arrogance beat Trump. DeSatan won't make nearly as many mistakes.

[Walleye]

22. I think what we really did was overestimate the intelligence of the average MAGA voter

[housecat]

33. Ya think? And we underestimated their number. Millions.

[Walleye]

35. Oh yeah that was a pivotal mistake

[housecat]

36. Yes never underestimate the enemy or believe anything they say.

We watch nature-wildlife on tv. Predators, like the big cats, know to respect their next meal

[Kaleva]

6. So you'd prefer Trump?

The guy who actually attempted to overthrow our government?

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. I'd prefer to run against Тяцмр.

I’m pretty sure that’s a win for us.

DeSantis is an evil asshole for sure but I think he has a better chance of winning.

[BlueTsunami2018]

7. Aldo cuts a swastika into Landa's head with a Bowie knife.

In Inglourious Basterds.

But your point remains.

[Cyrano]

16. Sorry

I'd probably toked too much by the end of the film.

[Roland99]

8. Exactly. trump is more about the grift and using people and positions to enrich himself

he's not an idealogue. He's an opportunist. A con-man.

DeFascist has truly become an adherent of his draconian policies, pushed toward that edge after Putin puppet Christina Pushaw joined his admin.

[Cyrano]

10. I often wonder if people like DeSantis have a

missing gene, or are somehow mentally or morally impaired.

And these days, I'm having that same thought about much of the Republican Party.

[housecat]

37. i'm pretty sure they are an entirely different species.

[lame54]

14. Actually a big knife

[Cyrano]

17. Got it. See post #16.

[republianmushroom]

15. agree with post

[RoeVWade]

18. DeSantis is making himself more and more divisive. Good for Democrats, keep at it Ron.

[housecat]

38. Good for Disney too

[Steven Maurer]

21. They're both pure evil; DeSantis is just more competent...

...in being able to successfully push forward evil acts.

Although even this is only relatively more competent. He had his ass handed to him by Disney, for instance.

[dameatball]

23. The fact that the Desantis administration "surgeon general shopped" to come up with Ladapo tells us

all we need to know about Desantis's indifference to the unnecessary deaths of Floridians. He will do whatever suits his ambitions even though he knows better.

[Paladin]

24. As I've said before: DeSantis scares me a lot more than trump. (nt)

[speak easy]

26. DeSantis does not have Trump's lifetime experience of manipulating snd intimidating people.

Donald Trump 'Eats Your Soul in Small Bites,' Says James Comey
'How Trump Co-opts Leaders Like Bill Barr'
https://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-suggests-barr-diverted-because-trump-eats-your-soul-small-bites-1411978

[ananda]

27. I think they can both be pure evil.

One begot the other, so to speak.

[world wide wally]

28. Thus the age old question:

Would you rather drown or die in a fire?

They have just set the bar so low.

[Silent3]

29. The (sadly) funny thing is that while DeSantis is clearly smarter than Trump...

...DeSantis is faulted for not having as much "charisma" as Trump.

Clearly a lot of people susceptible to Trump's so-called "charisma" are out there, but, damn, I'll take dull and lifeless over that variety of supposed charisma any day.

If DeSantis can somehow win despite his lackluster personality, he's certainly more dangerous than Trump.

[Warpy]

34. Sounds right on the money to me

It's why I've called him De Satan for years.

These guys always look so great on peper. Then you have to look at what they're doing with it. Suddenly, they don't look so good.

Floridians are either on board with this attempt to make Florida worse than North Korea. So many seem to be mean spirited enough to trash their own rights just on the off chance somebody else will be hurt by it, preferably a librul.

[housecat]

39. Excuse the oversimplification, but IMO Florida migration from the South is mostly Latino, and not

the liberal ones. Migration from North and East Coast come to retire or do business, and many are wealthy and
conservative. Pretty sure home-grown magats have always been there.

[Aviation Pro]

40. Not burned, carved

....

[A HERETIC I AM]

46. Right. With the point of a Bowie knife.

[lpbk2713]

41. Let's not forget DeSantis was an assistant urinalysis coordinator in the Navy

That shows he has a lot of valuable military experience.

[bringthePaine]

42. have heard it said repeatedly: Dolt45 would swing for his treason in most other countries,

which bespeaks the deterrent value of punishment befitting the immeasurable
level of criminal fuckery, while addressing DuhSphincter’s psychosis to boot! not a fan
of such ultimata, but worth weighing when
determining appropriate redress…

[moondust]

43. He's an anti-vaxxer now.

If given the chance he would probably nominate activist anti-vax judges who would find a loophole that allows them to remove life-saving vaccines from the market.

[NowISeetheLight]

44. I'd Rather

I’d rather have another Drumpf presidency than a DeSatan presidency. Trump us a self-absorb narcissist. DeSatan is no better than Hitler in my opinion. His actions in Flori-duh almost mimick the early actions of Hitler as he slowly took over Germany. Trump is just an asshxxe. DeSatan is evil.

[GuppyGal]

47. DeShitbag has been at this a long time. This shit ain't gonna fly in the long run...IT WILL NOT nt