Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will tout his military experience in his race for President. But his experience at Guantanamo torture camp includes highly credible allegations that he volunteered to watch brutal torture and approved of what he saw.
Maybe DeSantis Can Torture His Way to the White House
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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FDR put Americans in concentration camps. Truman nuked Japan. Vietnam was a multipresident war crime. Carter funded the mujahideen. Reagan traded arms for hostages and generally starred as the figurehead the neolibs used to take over the Republican Party. George H. W. Bush was head of the CIA and unleashed four sons on the world. … Etc.
In short, Ron DeSantis would fit right in.
If anything he might be trying too hard with his early start?
Oh, he’ll burn out soon enough. See, theedia handled all the Republicans gently. Reagan was Grampy who couldn’t remember why he put his keys in the toaster. GHWB was a WWII pilot and you don’t trash talk them, even if they’re covered in blood. Then came Cheney and 9/11 so criticism was unAmerican. Not that the press would shove back in the first place — that isn’t their job, getting invited to the cool lunch table that is the White House Press Corps dinner is the brass ring they’re after.
Trump? He beat Hillary in a fair fight, even though she pulled every dirty trick she could to win the primary. And after four nightmare years, Biden won by an asshair.
All these trials and all this coverage? It’s why Trump will win in 2024.
US presidential campaign sloganeering has evolved from “a chicken in every pot” to “a feeding tube in every r*ct*m.”
“….his experience at Guantanamo torture camp includes highly credible allegations that he volunteered to watch brutal torture and approved of what he saw.”
Ron DeSantis has not sued “The Baffler” for printing how Mansour Adayfi projectile-vomited on DeSantis in 2006 while the guards were strapping Adayfi and other prisoners into restraint chairs so they could force-feed them Ensure shakes through a nasal tube. They were doing this to break a hunger strike, and Ron was spattered for saying “You should start to eat.” Because he would not comment on Jasper Craven’s “The Sunshine Imperium” (published by “The Baffler” this March), and has ignored it entirely since publication, I think that these are not allegations but actual verifiable events.