Ron DeSantis promises to shoot down imaginary smugglers "stone cold dead"

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: Ron DeSantis promises to shoot down imaginary smugglers "stone cold dead" | Boing Boing

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[dabeyc]

Campaign aide: “Governor, say vote for me and we promise to kill drug dealers has that muy muy macho Rodrigo Duterte vibe that voters will just love!”
Ron: “I like it!”

[Turnips]

I know of a guy in FL who smuggled a bunch of classified docs. I’m imagining a twofer.

[Gendun]

@Carla_Sinclair that’s the “Cato Institute”.

[FuckThisTimeLine]

@Carla_Sinclair

“We are going to authorize the use of deadly force against the cartels,”

to drug dealers

It’s too soon to talk about gun control

to nuts who literally gunned down kids at school/public place.

Fuck this guy, his party and everyone that support him.

[gracchus]

If you ever wondered what would happen if a sadistic serial killer achieved political office, look no further than DeSantis.

[Shuck]

Sure, immigrants aren’t the smugglers, but this isn’t him making the comment out of ignorance of that fact - you couldn’t tell who a smuggler is by looking at them anyways. This is nothing less than straight-up threatening to murder migrants (or presumably anyone you think might be a migrant.

The overt fascism is advancing a wee bit faster than I was expecting.

[Mister44]

As I understand it, most smuggling of drugs happens via the customs check points, hidden in freight. Like in Breaking Bad.

Sure, there is smaller time smuggling, but the bulk of it is via an industrialized black market.

[nosaj]

@Shuck

you couldn’t tell who a smuggler is by looking at them anyways.

Not a good one, anyway.

@Mister44

As I understand it, most smuggling of drugs happens via the customs check points

A friend grew up middle-class in a certain South-East Asian country that had the death penalty for drug smuggling. His father wanted him to meet all kinds of people as part of his young education. One family friend was a cop. An acquaintance was a drug smuggler.

When he found out the smuggler’s job, he asked “Aren’t you worried you’ll get caught?”
The smuggler replied “I get caught reasonably often.”
“So, how are you still alive?”
“The trick to staying alive is to carry enough bribe money. ‘Enough’ is a month’s pay or so, per guard.”

So yeah, this whole thing is a cover for violence against a scapegoated outgroup.

[Aloisius]

So he’s promising the government will engage in summary executions if he gains power?

And this is something people want?

[nosaj]

@Aloisius

And this is something people want?

His “base”? Yes. They’re sure the problem with leopards is they lack the freedom to eat any face they want.

[snigs]

So, guys like Giuliani who helped Purdue illegally traffic in opiate narcotics? That the sort of guy he thinks should be shot on sight?

[Mangochin]

Think “smugglers” as a euphemism in the same vein the nazis used “partisans”.

[smulder]

@Carla_Sinclair

hoping an impossible badass image will resurrect his flatlined poll numbers

… torturing prisoners at Guantanamo wasn’t manly enough apparently

[Steve_L]

@Turnips

I know of a guy in FL who smuggled a bunch of classified docs. I’m imagining a twofer.

How about someone who smuggled human beings across state lines? Does DeSantis want to let anyone capable of passing whatever requirements there are to be a cop in Florida be judge, jury, and executioner to them? [I don’t think even he’s that stupid.]

[Otherbrother]

@Carla_Sinclair

“If you have someone coming in with the fentanyl in their backpack, if they even break through the border wall — where there is wall — that’s the last thing they’re going to be able to do, because we’re going to leave them stone-cold dead at the border.”

Summary execution of actual drug smugglers would be bad enough, but of course there’s no way that officers would know what’s in the damn backpack. In an interview a reporter rightly asked how the border patrol would make that distinction:

Noting that DeSantis worked as an adviser to Navy SEALs, Burns asked the governor, “How do you discern if it’s a child, a mother, or a cartel member… A pregnant mom with a baseball cap and a backpack? How do you know you’re using deadly force against the right people?”

His response was that our soldiers in Iraq figured it out. (No, they obviously did not.)

[snigs]

Yes, they should ask an Iraqi how well the US sorted out their law enforcement.

[xkot]

“I like this guy DeSantis! He’s like Trump, but with even worse baggage!”

~ some potential GOP voter, probably

[angusm]

Mike Dukakis: “I’m gonna put on a helmet and sit in this tank.”

Everyone: “Man, what a sad loser wannabe, that’s his career over.”

Ron DeSantis: “I’m literally going to make a video in which I run around in a flight suit pretending to be Tom ‘Top Gun’ Cruise, then I’m going to tell everyone about how I’d like to use the military to shoot suspected criminals on sight.”

Some Conservatives: “That’s what a real man looks like!”

Other Conservatives: “What a sad loser wannabe. Now, stand over there and hold that Photoshopped poster of a bare-chested Donald Trump holding an AR-15, so I can airbrush some rippling abs onto his manly torso.”

I used to believe that, whatever their other possible faults, many conservatives were down-to-earth types who could recognize obvious bullshit when they saw it and wouldn’t stand for it. Those days are apparently long gone.

[Bubble_T]

Ron’s simply the best and taking down strawmen.

Now if only we could find a country where that was a problem, we could export him.