That guy’s shirts are the best.
“You take someone on heroin, put them in one room, and someone hooked on cheese, put ’em in another room, and you take it away, I challenge you to tell me the person who’s hooked on heroin and who’s hooked on cheese.”
Well…
I’ve never seen anyone have the shakes and the pukes and the fevers from not having their cheese fix. I’ve heard and read that’s what happens to people who are kicking heroin, though.
And what if one of 'em is lactose-intolerant?
DeSantis is on a bit of a roll in the follies department today…
I can’t believe that Ted Cruz hasn’t seen this:
I’m eating cheese right now!
[Edit, on second thought, my first thought was backwards. Redoing it:]
Depending on how you read the commas, he’s just comparing someone who’s hooked on heroin (but has access to it) to someone who is prevented from eating cheese. He doesn’t necessarily say you take away the heroin. That comparison doesn’t seem quite as bad, though still just as stupid…
I can kinda see how that might be difficult because both of them would prob just be like “WTF is wrong with you and why are you locking me in this room and why hasn’t somebody arrested you already?”
I’m impressed, this squeezes together failures in reading, writing, and arithmetic all in the same tweet.
Slightly offtopic, but related… J. Michael Straczynski (of “Babylon 5” fame) weighs in on the topic with an anecdote about his own involvement in the fight against book banning…
I didn’t buy it. There’s always a way to fight the system. What I lacked was something that would give me enough leverage to get the book back to where it belonged. If I can force them to remove something they don’t want to remove, something that will be a much bigger deal that this quiet little volume, then maybe we can do a little horse trading .
So I decided to take on the Bible.
I’m not sure I have enough digits to count the number of times I re-checked that I’d spelled the name correctly…
When did Florida become such a state of prudes?
6th on a list of states by median age?
Multiple entries in a list of cities with the highest number of retirees?
I know a lot of folks who are over 65 and who aren’t prudes. It’s upbringing what does it; if one is raised in a conservative atmosphere. Heck, look at aging hippies! And how old is Ron deSantis anyhow? It’s the conservatism folks are raised into. (addendum: 'specially if they were raised in an evangelical Christian atmosphere.)
One folly, one not.