Trying to Run With the Big Dogs
The entire time Ron DeSantis was on his whirlwind five nation tour, he looked as if he was a big, stupid hound at a strange dog park. He knew he had to be there but didn't know which dog's ass to sniff. It was capped off in London, where DeSantis was there ostensibly to meet with British business leaders to sort of, kind of shore up trade relations between Florida and the UK.
Let's just say GINO (Governor in Name Only) DeSantis left the Big Business bigwigs a little... underwhelmed. Forget the fact that the bulk of the UK's US trade relations are being conducted with Biden's White House or that DeSantis isn't even a declared presidential candidate at this point. For more sheer awkwardness, you'd have to look at this guy and his lonely little photo op before Number 10 in 2012.
No, there weren't any embarrassing photos of DeSantis eating blood pudding with three fingers,
but there was still plenty of faux pas to go around for the international
media. He'd just flown in from Jerusalem, in which he'd yelled at a
reporter for asking him questions about his advocacy of torture when he
was a shyster at Gitmo. He'd just sued a fictional mouse and Ft.
Lauderdale was still underwater, which he still hasn't even mentioned.
Those who'd seen DeSantis said he'd looked "spent", as if he was at the end of a state trip, which he was, even if the state is Florida. Others said he looked bored and stared at his feet because, gosh darn it, Ron still hasn't adjusted to the fact that he sometimes has to share space with other carbon-based life forms. Another described him as looking like a state-level official because, well, he is.
Basically, what a small chunk of the world saw was what they got- a tuckered-out, overrated bureaucrat at the end of a long road trip that never should've been taken. What they didn't get was a statesman-in-waiting, a serious politician moving up in the world.
posted by jurassicpork @ Saturday, April 29, 2023
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