re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Even DeSantis could not be so dumb as to see his prank as anything but grandstanding and a distraction.

I’m going to beg to differ. I think people like DeathSantis - governors of Republican states, Republican congresspeople or senators, men and women who have actual power instead of just talking heads like Fucker Carlson - genuinely feel that they are untouchable. They have been emboldened by their continued success in duping people into voting for them, even as they have gotten more abrasive and destructive. I think they genuinely believe that they can enact these utterly asinine laws and that, even if the laws get challenged or even overturned, it’s still a limited success because - hey, they got away with it, didn’t they? They rammed through a wildly unpopular bill over the objections of well-reasoned people, and they’ll still get to keep all their power because nobody who votes for them cares about anything except White Republican Jesus.