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Daddy DeSantis' Sunshine Imperium / Jasper Craven

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Jasper Craven discusses his Baffler article, "The Sunshine Imperium: The Militarism of Ron DeSantis." Chuck and Will review the latest hangover cure, Siberian (red) ginseng, and fresh responses from this week's Question from Hell. Seb's "The Past Inside the Present" segment edifies and terrifies with a deep dive into the differences between American and Soviet nuclear doctrines.

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0:00.0

The water is with the rest of our power.

0:03.0

Take a turn. Take attack! This. This is hell.

0:37.0

The future ain't what it used to be. This is hell. And according to our first

0:47.4

guest this week, our future might be found in Florida Governor Ron

0:51.8

Desanis's disturbing past and what a creepy past it is.

0:57.0

There's his cruelty toward teammates in college, then there's the weird fraternizing with his high school students and jackass like

1:04.7

humiliation that was apparently part of his teaching style as was his pension for

1:09.8

defending the South's reasons for fighting the Civil War.

1:13.3

Add in the inhumanity he was in the midst of when working in the notorious US-run prison in

1:18.6

Fallujah during the Iraq War.

1:21.0

Then moving on to a job where he deceived Guantanamo detainees into believing he was there to help them.

1:27.0

And the candidate for the Republican Party's nomination is the next president of the United States appears to have lived a waking nightmare

1:34.5

while turning others lives into nightmares of their own. But all those horrors

1:39.8

seem to have worked to Desanis's advantage as he has quickly moved up the

1:44.2

Republican Party power rankings in the run up to 2024. If Desanis does

1:50.6

somehow win you can expect him to be spoiler alert. Well, expect him to implement a project

1:57.7

based on the belief that there's no price too high for the American way and we owe those who use brute force to

2:06.9

secure it everything. The worst part is Desantis is not an allotin

2:11.6

anomaly. He is very much the face of the

2:15.0

2023 Republican Party in the United States,

2:18.0

a face that is the shadow of trumps

2:20.0

and is a specter of cruelty, brutality, a police state bolstered by the military and leaders

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