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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 02:38 PM Jan 2022

DeSantis Betting That Republicans Want a Stupider Version of Trump

TALLAHASSEE (The Borowitz Report)—As he explores a bid for the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination, Governor Ron DeSantis is betting that G.O.P. voters are looking for a stupider version of Donald J. Trump.

According to a source close to DeSantis, the Florida Governor has decided to “run to the stupid of Trump” to pick up the support of voters who now consider the former President too intellectual.

“When Trump recently said that he got the booster, that was the last straw,” the source said. “In the eyes of a lot of Republicans, Trump is basically Fauci now.”

“Trump’s surrender to science is a slippery slope,” the source added. “It’s only a matter of time before he starts flirting with geography and grammar.” As DeSantis stakes his claim to the dumber-than-Trump lane, he spoke at a fund-raising event over the weekend.

“Donald Trump believes that one plus one equals two,” the Governor told his audience. “I think the American people should be free to decide for themselves what one plus one equals.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/desantis-betting-that-republicans-want-a-stupider-version-of-trump

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DeSantis Betting That Republicans Want a Stupider Version of Trump (Original Post) Zorro Jan 2022 OP
Now That One, Sir, Is A Genuine Headline The Magistrate Jan 2022 #1
I love good satire LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #2
Impossible. brush Jan 2022 #3
I used to think..... MyOwnPeace Jan 2022 #4

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
4. I used to think.....
Tue Jan 18, 2022, 04:12 PM
Jan 2022

that Borowitz was brilliant.....

but now I realize that the RepubliQan Party is providing him with SO MUCH free material that he should be paying them some type of 'finder's fee'......

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