WEBVTT - DeSantis’ Fashwave Adventure, Part 3 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:09.840 Ah, it could happen here. A podcast that is right 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:13.560 now happening in your year. It could happen a year. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.799 That's what we should call it, Garrison. We're changing the name. 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:23.639 We're rebranding our valuable valuable titles, uh, completely moving, moving 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.280 overnight to a whole new thing based on a whim you. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.200 Know, gambitzer. 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.440 Uh yeah, this is a This has been a fun week. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.519 We're all laughing a little bit at Elon Musk, but 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.599 we have something serious to talk about today, and that 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:45.479 is everybody's favorite fascist governor, Ron DeSantis. Garrison, you and 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.640 I spent just way too much time last week talking 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.480 about meetball Ron, and now now we're back. Now we're 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.440 back to because he keeps meatballing meetball ron Is ballin 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:56.920 and meeting. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.440 Yeah. So we wrapped up like a like a two 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:06.399 part episode on Ron Desanis's use of Fashi rave asthetics, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.120 and then like two days later, the funniest thing happened, 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.280 uh where he just decided to basically basically post Son 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.240 and Rads. So we're gonna we're gonna get to that. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.120 But first there's a whole bunch of other information that's 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.560 come out these these past like really three days that 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.120 have kind of that are actually giving more context to 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.880 what's going on at the Dasantas campaign because stuff doesn't 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:34.840 look too good. Actually, you know, he he kind of 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:39.360 looks like he's losing everything as he slowly watches it 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:44.000 all crumble. So let's see. Let's let's start by talking 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.680 about everyone's favorite topic, campaign finances. I know this is 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.760 what what everyone tunes in to listen to. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.480 Yes, we love campaign finances. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.279 Yeah, so last week the public finally got a glimpse 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:01.200 at DeSantis's campaign finances. The financial disclosures that DeSantis had 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.760 about twice as much staff as Donald Trump and as 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:06.520 of last week. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.520 Yeah, Garrison, you just said that, and I imagine in 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.320 my head for a second that you were referring to 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.359 the amount of staff infections he's had versus Donald Trump. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.440 That's not true. No, Trump's definitely had more staff. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.040 There's almost no way, Yeah, that Trump is not leading 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.400 in the staff infections category. Please, I'm sorry to interrupt. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:29.120 But as of last week, the Florida governor had already 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.839 spent about forty percent of the twenty million dollars fundraised 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:38.360 from April to June of twenty twenty three. So the 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.239 campaign's suspending rate was averaging more than two hundred and 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:45.919 twelve thousand dollars per day, which is an astronomical cost 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.040 for a campaign for someone like running for president, basically 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:50.919 for the first. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:55.200 Time this far out too from the season proper hit. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:59.799 Yeah, it's absolutely absurd. The inflated number of staff have 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.160 use of private jets and luxury event venues has his 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.840 campaign essentially just burning through cash and with very little 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.280 seeming to come of it in terms of positive poll numbers. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.760 So another thing that they've. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.519 Gained maybe a point or so on Trump over the 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:16.360 last year. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:21.200 Yeah, after spending two hundred thousand dollars per day for 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.720 the past like four months. Another thing that these financial 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:30.280 disclosures exposed is DeSantis's heavy dependence on high contributors. So 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:35.400 just about fifteen percent of fundraising contributions came from donors 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.160 who gave less than two hundred dollars, and the vast, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.120 vast majority of DeSantis's money has come from donors who 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.320 gave the legal maximum of three thy three hundred dollars 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.000 in the primary, which also means that those who gave 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.280 that can cannot contribute any more money either. So he's 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.560 running out of people that are actually able to fund 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:54.520 his operation. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.040 Yeah, and it's worth noting he does have a super pack. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.000 You are not limited in how much you can donate 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.720 to a super pack, but super packs cannot spend money 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.360 on the same things as general campaign funds, right, Like, 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.920 there are limitations in what you can use that on. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.920 So this is actually a logistical problem for him that 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.920 he has maxed out his donor base. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.400 Yeah, and The New York Times has reported that future 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.799 like large prospective donors have been spooked by DeSantis's sliding 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.799 poll numbers, and they may be less willing to invest 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.960 in what's looking like a losing battle. So to combat 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:35.520 these swelling campaign expenses, including two hundred and seventy nine 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:40.080 thousand dollars at the four seasons in Miami, DeSantis's Tallahassee 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:44.240 based campaign has began undercoing massive cuts to campaign staff 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:48.760 this past week. Previously, Desanta's had upwards of ninety people 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.440 on payroll, but just this month they've eliminated thirty eight 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.880 jobs in a variety of departments, cutting more than one 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.520 third of his payroll. DeSantis's cutbacks are nearly quill to 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.800 the size of Trump's entire twenty twenty four campaign staff. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.960 Dessentis's campaign manager, Grenera Peck said in a statement, I 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.600 believe late last week quote, following a top to bottom 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.279 review of our organization, we have taken additional aggressive steps 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.320 to streamline operations and put Ron DeSantis in the strongest 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.960 position to win this primary and defeat Joe Biden. So 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.040 that that was their little statement accompanying the news of 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:30.200 firing almost forty people from their campaign. According to The 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.960 New York Times, advertisers are quote promising to reorient the 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:39.080 DeSantis candidacy as a quote unquote insurgent run and remake 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:44.400 it into a quote unquote leaner, meaner operation. So this 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.240 is the new strategy that they're trying to do, is 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.440 instead of having ninety people on staff in a largely 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.839 ineffectual strategy, have a more insurgent run with a smaller 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.760 number of people. But in addition to the dozens of 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.679 staff members who've been let go this July, two senior 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.680 advisors have also departed this month to work for an 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:08.760 outside pro DeSantis nonprofit. One of these senior advisors, who 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.960 was supposed to oversee the campaign's television messaging, voluntarily left 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.400 quote as the reality of a disappearing advertising budget set in. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.920 So these these two more more kind of seasoned Republican 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.279 advisors saw what was happening in the campaign, and they're 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.200 still pro DeSantis, but they believe they can be more 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.640 effective by working from outside of the actual campaign. That's 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.080 so funny, which is not a great sign for DeSantis's 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.720 internal internal team here if you have people like who 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.839 still like you, but they just can't work for you 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:49.120 because you're doing such a bad job. So Desatus's team 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.760 is now telegraphing a plan to engage with mainstream media 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.359 that in the way that they have not previously done 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.159 because they've he's so far kind of scornfully avoided it, 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.120 as we've talked about obviously. And they're calling this new 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.520 strategy the Dysantis is Everywhere approach, which is a good 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.440 Jesus Christ bad name for strategy. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.200 The part of the problem, Garrison, I don't know how 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.800 to like I can't like prove this the way that 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.000 we prove, you know, when we're when we're tracing back 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.920 the ideological roots of like a lot of our modern fascists. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.320 But what I what I believe in my heart is 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.440 that so many of these very young people on the 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.280 extreme right who are who are driving this campaign like 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.040 just want to be villains from a bad late nineties 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.880 early two thousands movie. They want to be they want 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.000 to be the bad guy in like the fucking supervill 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.360 hero movie, right Like that that's you don't You don't 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.560 say that about a guy who's good like this, You 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.800 wouldn't like the Biden campaign if they came to Joe 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.360 and we're like, we want to do a Biden is 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.040 everywhere thing, he'd be like, now that sounds kind of creepy. 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.600 Guys Like I already got a little bit of a 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.600 problem with that, what with a hair sniff, and I 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.800 don't really want to really want to jump on. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.680 That, right you know, Like it definitely has the vibes 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.560 of like zoomers who grew up watching like late nineties 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.960 animated superhero cartoons who are trying to like it. Yes, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.160 we're trying to emulate that for some reason. There is 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.360 one one really funny quote from the Times that I 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:21.000 will read because it quotes like internal sources that that 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.360 I don't have access to, but anyway, quote one person 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.120 close to mister DeSantis, who requested anonymity to speak candidly 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.200 about a candidate whom the person still supports, said the 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.000 governor had experienced quote unquote a challenging learning curve that 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.920 has left him quote unquote a little bit jarred. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.640 So it doesn't sound like a six year old who's 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.120 like not quite progressing fast enough in the reading where 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.439 they're like, maybe we need to try teaching him another way, 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.840 like we'll get out the different colored books. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:57.200 Like, yeah, so he seems to have a rough adjustment 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.880 period to campaigning in just more than one state and 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.640 having an actual like opponent to go up against, and 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.400 also like an opponent who's like actually a good who's 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:12.439 like good at being like a politician. Yeah. So yeah, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:13.720 a challenging learning curve. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.320 Indeed, I might I might specify, I think actually DeSantis 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.440 is a lot better as being a politician than Donald Trump, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.440 but that's not what the competition is. 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.760 Yeah, DeSantis is better at being like an effective like governor. Uh, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:31.360 he's better. 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.280 He's better at the machinery of politics, yes, whereas Trump 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.599 is better at holding power within the GOP. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.400 Yeah, and being like a showman. So we will we 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.960 will talk more about some uh some actually relatively breaking 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.280 news regarding the DeSantis campaign. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.480 Shortly cited for this. I just saw this before we 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:51.920 got on. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:10:06.200 Short shortly after this at break. Okay, we are we 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.560 are back. So a lot has happened in the past 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.400 two days, a lot has happened in the past two hours actually, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.520 but we're We're gonna have to work our way there. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:20.680 The first bit of news that was kind of both 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:26.719 it was both confirming my suspicions and in very a 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.680 very interesting piece of news in the first place, is 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.600 that that fast Wave inspired kind of homophobic Pride Month 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.600 video that we talked about in our last Dysantis fash 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.679 Wave episode. It turns out to be slightly more self 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.160 inflicted than what than what at least I said in 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.079 the episode, because I didn't want to make claims that 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.920 I couldn't back up. Because we have we have some 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.600 new new information regarding this video, I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:58.959 quote from this this article in the Times quote a 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:04.080 DeSantis campaign had originally produced the video internally, passing it 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.120 off to an outside supporter to post it first and 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.600 making it appear as if it was generated independently, according 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.560 to a person with knowledge of the incident, So this 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.240 video turned out to be actually be made in house. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.000 This actually was made by someone who was working for 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:26.000 Rondasantis as we speculated it initially, but we couldn't really 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.319 like say for sure because it was it was posted 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.440 first on a third party account. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.240 Specifically, the guy who was the one who shared it 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:34.280 is the dude who made it. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.079 No, that is for this next video we're going to 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.760 talk about. Yeah, the the homophobic one was shared by 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.400 this this this Protosantas account called Proud Elephant, who had 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.280 a corresponding telegram channel. This was the guy who posted 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.040 the first homophobic mean one. But yeah, so we found 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.160 out Sunday night that it was actually made by someone 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.480 at the DeSantis campaign, which kind of just to find 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:05.480 a lot of our suspicions about DeSantis employing staff of 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.120 zoomers who don't actually understand how to win a political 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:12.160 election and are more interested in just creating fascist memes, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.080 which is seems to be not a very effective strategy 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:20.760 for DeSantis so far. So again, just the day that 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.760 this news broke that that the video was actually made 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.240 in house, another fash wave of inspired video, but with 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.679 much much more overt Nazi imagery, was shared online by 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.720 a Dysantis campaign staffer. I'm Robert. Have you seen this video? 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.440 Yes? Okay, so I'm the son in rad video. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.280 Yes, So we don't have to watch it here, but 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.960 I will I will give a description of it for 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.560 for the people listening, because also we should probably souldn't 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.080 be sharing these things like everywhere on on like Twitter 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.520 and stuff anyway, Like it's not it's not a great idea, but. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.760 It's not going to make you happier help you in 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.720 any way. To see this, it's just like it's surprising. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.200 I will say that I was surprised to see how 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.160 fascy it was, to see how like explicitly accelerationist mass 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.480 shooter fascy it was. Yes, this is like christ Church 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:13.240 kind of Yes. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.600 Yeah, so we're not gonna share it, but but it 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.800 is useful to know what's in it. So I did 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.120 write a pretty in depth description of this video here. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.280 So this video was posted on Sunday, July twenty third. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.560 It's about seventy seconds long. It plays over a Meg 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.600 Myers cover of the song Running Up the Hill. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.320 Which was made you know recent Wait, isn't that the 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.000 one that was the one that the new season of 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.640 Stranger Things? A while back like it brought back to. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.640 The main Possibly it's it is it is a Kate 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.800 Bush original. This one is is a more like electronic 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.760 cover of the song. Yes, it's talking about like you know, 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:54.120 like a like a trying to like ask God to 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.319 help you with certain things. Blah blah bla blah blah 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.920 blah blah. Anyway, it starts with the Doomer wo Jack 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.760 sitting at a computer looking at headlines about the ineffectiveness 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:08.400 of Trump's border wall, unfulfilled anti immigration policies, and Trump's 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.400 pro COVID vaccine statements. So I guess we should probably 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.920 talk about what a wojack is in case someone is unfamiliar. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.520 If you've ever spent any amount of time on the Internet, 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.720 you've probably seen memes with kind of crudely drawn like 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.080 human faces and heads. These are called wojack memes. They're 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:31.440 they're they're very popular in like political spheres. They kind 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.440 of kind of rose to prominence on four Chat and 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.480 spread spread out from there. Everyone kind of uses them nowadays. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.920 They're pretty common, but there's a few specific like wojack characters, 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.880 like the chad is one. One of the more popular 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:50.320 ones is the Doomer wojack, which is someone who's taken 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.040 the black pill, so to speak. They've they've they've looked 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.640 at modern society and have decided that it's not worth 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.280 engaging in. Now there's this. There's doomers on the right. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.720 There's dumers on the left. There's doomers who look at 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:06.080 like climate change and the acceleration of like of of 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.280 capitalism and just decide, hey, this is this is too 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.280 far gone. So they become a doomer, and they're on 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.520 the left. There's also duomers on the right who are 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.720 like looking at gay marriage and the acceptance of trans 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.920 people to being like, oh, this is so socially degenerate. 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.560 It's the society's too far gone, and then they become 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.320 a doomer. But they're on the right. So it's it. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.480 It happens on It happens on both sides, and both 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.080 both sides use doomer memes. Uh yeah, this one is 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.080 because we're talking about it in this context of fash wave. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.040 This is obviously a fascist doomer meme. But that's that's 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:40.880 kind of what I mean when I say there's there's 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.920 a doomer wojack sitting sitting at a computer. It's like 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.440 it's like a guy with a beanie, like a scruffy beard. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.320 He looks like very depressed and tired, that sort of thing. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:54.160 So as as these kind of headlines about Trump's not 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:59.160 conservative enoughness are flashing on this computer, the dumer rojack 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:03.320 is looking increasing lead disillusioned and apathetic. Then there's the 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.880 clip of Trump holding up a Pride flag that plays 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.960 right before we see Trump signing the First Step Act, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:14.120 the twenty eighteen Criminal Justice Reform Bill. Then headlines flash 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.720 about violent criminals being released into the streets, that sort 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.840 of thing. So the doumer BoJack is looking at all 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.000 these things about Trump looking more and more depressed, when 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:28.800 suddenly a doorway appears with an almost angelic light pouring 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.440 in from behind, and as the door opens, we see 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:35.560 a silhouette of Ron DeSantis. More short clips of Ron play, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.400 and now the wojack is looking happy, almost like exuberant, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:45.000 seemingly kind of random images of outer space, volcanoes, rocket launches, surfing, 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.400 and the beach flash quickly on screen with with like 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:54.080 glitchy silhouettes of Ronda Santis looming above coastal ocean side 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:58.200 cities that are lit up by a sunset. A don't 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.200 tread on Florida Alligator flag spins onto screen like it's 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:07.200 a fucking like ms paint like edit and h. Then 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.040 the the video flashes more clips of DeSantis wearing sunglasses 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:15.320 standing in front of American flags as the sunset, Happy 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.639 Woejack fades in. So this is another woshack meme of 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:24.440 somebody almost like tearied eyed with like contentment, staring into 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.720 the horizon as like a sunset is behind their head. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.000 It kind of it kind of reminds me of like 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:34.400 the that guy who who stole that plane in Seattle 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.600 and yeah. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.760 Yeah, very sad story if you're not aware of it. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.320 A man hijacked I believe it was an Alaska Airs 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.479 flight a couple of years back. It was empty, like 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.399 he he worked at the airport. He just took the 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.920 plane and he got up into the sky and then 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.159 like he was just kind of a dude who was 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.919 sort of suicidal. There's very sad audio of him talking too, 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.199 because he gets on with air traffic control and he 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.080 makes sure that he's not going to hurt anyone else 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.359 and like then the plane goes down, you know, he 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.119 goes down in it and it's it's very bleak. He 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:08.720 was not a man who wanted to hurt anybody. It's 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.800 just this kind of like exist I've heard. I found 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.360 it set to a lot of vapor wave tracks. Actually, 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.360 like the audio the conversation between them, because he's kind 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.639 of I think a lot of people identify with his 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.320 sense of like I don't really know why I was 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:23.720 ever here. I don't really know. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:29.119 Yeah, it's someone who's dealing with like postmodern absurdity, but 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:30.760 in a way that like he doesn't want to hurt 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.639 anybody about it, but he just doesn't know what to 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:33.600 do with existence. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.080 Yeah, he had part of he had like the the 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.800 ten percent of what a mass shooter has, which is 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.280 exactly go out and I want to do something. But 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.600 thankfully he was also a good person and didn't want 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.440 to like murder strangers. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.600 So this became very popular on the Internet, including on 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.560 redda and four Chan. This he was he was dubbed 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.360 sky King, and there's there's footage of him basically crashing 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.720 this plane as the sun is setting, and there's there's 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.439 fut of which like him flying around in sunset. Played 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.520 often played with vapor wave with his conversation with attackt 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:10.000 for control. Now this is very popular. The sunset happy 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:14.600 Rojack is very similar. I've seen people post this image 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.600 in threads about sky King before, and I think a 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.719 lot a lot of people to understand it's like this 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.720 this act that this this skyking thing, that this has 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.520 more in common with like accelerationist like terrorism than what 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.600 most people can like really understand about like between like 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.400 shooting a random person for like violent crime and this 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.359 like this, this is more this, This is closer to 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:43.320 why people do accelerationist like terroristic acts. But this guy 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.520 was like not actually a monster, so he didn't do that. 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:50.720 He like explicitly didn't want to hurt anybody. He explicitly 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.320 didn't want to try to land the plane at the 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.320 airport because he thought he might hurt somebody. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.560 Yeah, and presumably since he worked at an airport, he 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.960 had some knowledge of how easily that could go wrong. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.199 Yeah. So this anyway, these two images are kind of 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.119 linked often on the Internet. So anyway, we we we 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.960 see we see the video getting like more hopeful with 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.680 with with Ron de Santis, you know, having stupid fash wave, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.560 having stupid fash wave imagery. Is this sunset happy Wojack 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.320 fades in as like as the doomer is now has 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.560 like contentment, and then this this, then this is followed 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:33.120 by very quick flashes of DeSantis and more more, more 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.320 beach imagery. There's a lot of beach in this video. Yeah, 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:40.120 there's like this like rotating sheet of stickers that read 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.040 make America Florida. Then we get this shot of a 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:47.600 small yacht zooming through the water with DeSantis campaign events 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:50.600 played over top of the water. And during this shot 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:54.960 we have another Wojack holding a rifle, wearing Camo military 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:59.000 fatigues that slides onto screen. He has a patch of 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.360 the flag of Florida on his plate carrier and his helmet. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.240 We get more shots of beachfront cities and rocket launches, 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.560 followed by headlines about Dysantis on a variety of topics, 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:14.000 including his anti immigration actions, his use of Florida's National 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:18.960 Guard in other states, DeSantis's anti diversity initiatives, his anti 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.160 education bills, his anti drag bills, the cancelation of pride 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:25.239 parades in Florida, and in general just kind of how 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:29.320 DeSantis has been pushing Florida further right. So, after this 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.840 barrage of headlines. We get to the most mask off 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.640 from a moment of the video. The flag of Florida 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:38.919 fills the screen with two lines of armed troops at 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:43.240 either side marching towards the flag. A still photo of 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.879 Dysantis is center frame, with his head right in the 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.919 middle of the seal of Florida, which is on the 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:53.199 center of their state flag. The head in front of 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:57.240 the seal creates this almost like halo effect around Dusantas's head, 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.359 and then the seal turns into a spinning son and 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.840 Rad as we zoom into the symbol as troops march 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.960 into center, and then the video ends. The Sun and 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:11.119 Rad is on screen for about ten seconds. So this 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.879 was a pretty upsetting thing to see on Twitter. 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.879 Yes, upsetting is one way to phrase it. Yeah, and again. 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:21.640 The Sun and Rad has a long history. It's kind 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:28.440 of a specifically a cultic version of the swastika it reached. 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:30.680 It has been around for quite a while, but it's 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.320 most recent. The kind of thing that brought it into 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.760 modern prominence was the christ Church shooter chose it as 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:40.880 the cover of his manifesto and also wore a Son 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:42.359 and Rad. I believe it was on the chest of 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:44.439 his plate carrier. When he carried out his massacre. He 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:45.640 also had a couple on his gun. 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:49.600 I think, yeah, so it's very clearly Nazi symbol. I 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:54.200 know there's some people make jokes about how this must 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:57.879 have just been an Azov battalion reference. Deeply unserious. 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.400 No, you can see some of these on Azam again, 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:03.640 this is a Nazi thing. They wear this too. Yes, 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:05.639 Azof uses it. 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.640 There's people trying to excuse the use of the sun 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:11.600 and rad by saying, oh, it's justin Azof simple it's 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:15.960