Ronsense

 Just up I-75 from Mar A Lago where the indictments continue to pile up like classified documents in a bathroom, Governor Ron DeSantis is putting everything he has into his second place in the polls. Taking a page from Texas Governor Greg "The Fixer" Abbot in his attempts to control his southern border. Governor Greg has run afoul of those softies who don't believe that deploying a string of death-trap buoys in the Rio Grande river is merely "discouraging" migrants from heading north. That and the razor wire installed on the banks. 

If you're not a big geography fain, you may not have notices that Florida doesn't share a southern border with anyone but manatees and kelp. This doesn't keep Governor Ron from getting all worked up about smugglers bringing death into his swampy corner of the map. His latest television ad lets anyone bored enough to be watching that “We are going to use force and we’re going to leave them stone cold dead.” He's also cribbed a bit from old episodes of Miami Vice by referring to illegal drugs not as illegal drugs but as "product." 

Because that's the kind of tough guy he is. 

Meanwhile, at a recent gathering in Jacksonville, a man rose to ask a question of Candidate Ron. Instead of merely asking about Ron's poll numbers, the man told DeSantis that while he was a veteran and appreciated DeSantis' military service, he felt DeSantis' policies allowed "immature people" to access weapons that ultimately "caused the deaths of the people who were murdered a couple weeks ago." 

Grumpy Ron responded, "I’m not going to let you accuse me of committing criminal activity. I am not going to take that."

The man, who was black, replied, "You have allowed people to hunt people like me." 

Amid disapproving murmurs from the crowd, Governor Ron regained what was left of his composure: "Oh, that is nonsense. That is such nonsense," as the man was ushered from the room. 

The nonsense, down in Florida, continues.