{"id":74429,"date":"2022-09-23T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=74429"},"modified":"2022-09-22T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T13:43:26","slug":"qotd-ron-desantis-for-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/09\/23\/qotd-ron-desantis-for-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Ron DeSantis for Caesar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Oswald Spengler suggests that we&#8217;re in for a period of Caesarism, which is warlord rule that maintains the trappings of the old system. It might be as simple as [Mussolini]&#8217;s old litmus test: Do the trains run on time? But, since this is Clown World, fake and gay: Are the lights on for more than two days running?<\/p>\n<p>Ron DeSantis, for example, has gotten a lot of Grillers&#8217; panties moist, and while that&#8217;s one of the strongest possible arguments for the proposition that he&#8217;s just another Swamp Thing \u2014 Ace of Normies might not remember how hard he used to squeeeee for fucking <em>Paul Ryan<\/em>, but I do \u2014 it&#8217;s nonetheless true that Ron DeSantis has acted at least kinda sorta like &#8230; what&#8217;s the word?<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes: An adult.<\/p>\n<p>Ron DeSantis&#8217;s response to Covid was pretty much exactly what even the most flaming moonbat liberal governor would&#8217;ve done as late as 1990, because there were still some grownups in politics back then. Now that the entire Swamp is filled with autistic Mean Girls with PMS, the State can&#8217;t carry out even its most basic functions. Governors still have real power [&#8230;], and there are a few of them that aren&#8217;t totally retarded, and so I&#8217;d imagine we&#8217;ll see a period of retail-level Caesarism \u2014 the lights are on three days a week in Nebraska; quick, everybody load up the Conestoga wagon and head for Omaha!<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2022\/06\/17\/friday-mailbag-11\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Friday Mailbag&#8221;, <em>Founding Questions<\/em><\/a>, 2022-06-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oswald Spengler suggests that we&#8217;re in for a period of Caesarism, which is warlord rule that maintains the trappings of the old system. It might be as simple as [Mussolini]&#8217;s old litmus test: Do the trains run on time? But, since this is Clown World, fake and gay: Are the lights on for more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,53,41,13],"tags":[1489,1462],"class_list":["post-74429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-rondesantis","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-jmt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76697,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74429\/revisions\/76697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}