It’s been a while since we had a genuine Treehouse challenge. So, today I stumbled upon an excellent opportunity for each Treeper to test their mental stamina, and the contest has benefits.
Yesterday Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was asked on Fox News, essentially, why he could not relate to people [video segment below fold]. Ron responded by saying, essentially, ‘hey, who cares, did you see how much money we’re raising‘. People immediately started being snarky and discussing it. However, the real answer can be found in this Treehouse challenge below.
♦ Here’s the rules: (1) Watch the video below which is prompted to start at 2:14. (2) You cannot walk away for a break, you cannot pause the video, you must sit and watch it without the assistance of alcohol, medication or any other cognitive numbing substance. (3) How long were you able to watch the video? (4) Everything is on the honor system. (5) Respond in the comments with your honest answer of how long you were able to watch. (6) Whoever lasts the longest is the winner.
Turn off any other distractions. Get yourself mentally prepared. Ready?
Okay. WATCH:
Be honest.
How many seconds did you last before you just couldn’t take it any longer?
Respond with your honest assessment of your stamina in the comments.
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Here was Ron DeSantis being asked why he cannot relate to people.
I already know what was said without even watching it. Does that count for anything?
🤣🤣🤣
BTW, I live in Oklahoma and had no idea Ron! had come here. Apparently neither did anyone else, nor care.
Yep,…..in Tulsa at a rodeo,wore a hat while Gov. Stitt gave him his endorsement. 😣😣😣🤷♂️
He got 3 to show up?
As far as I’m concerned, you won!
A few seconds of each was all I needed.
And Sundance lied about it being a mental fitness test. It was psychological torture.
BINGO! Don’t know why I didn’t think of it in those terms, I was more cued in to the “insult to my intelligence” vein of thought but now that you mention it, I was water boarded for training while in the military and I think I would rather repeat that experience than be forced to listen to the entire thing. Yep, I’m sure of it!!
The comments on this thread are by Far more entertaining than that self inflated ego she maintains.
42 seconds, I was gonna be the one to watch it all, but 🤢
33 seconds, tried to stop three time but made it to 33!! and I’m a mom of three kids so I’m used to talk about children. 😱
2:54…. That’s it…I’m done…I think it gave me diabetes…..
3:18 I’m out.
Make of it what you will.
I gotta go soak my poor head.
In some good bourbon I hope 😉
Ice cold water.
I got issues.
😵
3 minutes and 17 seconds.
I felt like she wasn’t going to stop talking ever and I really didn’t want to hear about her kid anymore. I did move ahead and check a few more sections but really couldn’t watch much.
Almost a minute.
Oh and it seems like she’s running not Ron.
Close. She is running Ron.
😂
Bingo!
She wants it more than he does.
40 seconds. She sounds like a machine gun.
4:50
I “win”.
Was it muted?
I got 4:30, painful. You des3rve the win
When the sound of fingernails being dragged across a chalk board haunt you in your dreams tonight because you listened to it for so long, will you still say the same ?
I’m not sure why I even tried. I knew better. It’s all a charade.
12 seconds , but do you get extra credit for noticing she was wearing stiletto high heels with those camo pants
She picked that up from Zelenskyy.
Ha!
You’re killing me, Smalls
Hahaaaa
I just spit out my coffee laughing.
Seriously Joe…. when a girl is that annoying, I wouldn’t notice her if she were wearing her birthday suite.
OK, I’ll confess , there was an article in UK Daily mail a couple of days ago that had several pictures from that event with her strolling around in that tshirt/camo pants outfit with the fitted tapered pants stopping at midcalf and the pinkish Stilleto High Heels being prominently shown — There were dozens upon dozens of reader comments there about how Camo and High heels don’t really go , pretty funny – But the Z comment above by Shadow is the winner
Boy Sundance, you sure are mean.
I fail big time. I can’t listen to these POSes. Used to be able to do so. Clinton soured me to doing so, but Obama flat out turned me off. Ended up not even being able to stomach listening to the clips Rush played. And it has greatly expanded since then.
I can’t even bring myself to hit play.
I agree Jim.
“How about a nice game of chess?”
I’m right there with ya, Jim! I’m an overachiever, but I failed on this one.
Hope we don’t have a test at the end of the lesson: “Summarize what you learned from these two videos.”
I’d have to answer: “I will NEVER, EVER, EVER vote for Ron!” and leave it at that.
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An entire minute! A whole minute until my brain said wth do you want to do this ugh.
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I did 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Lots of kids with M names. If there’s another in the future, it just has to be named Mini-Meatball.
4:20. Lol.
109 seconds before I lost interest.
I had to stop at 3.34 minutes mark.
That woman is taking waaaay too much Adderal
Exact same time!
One minute of watching this idiot from FOX kissing DeSwampis’s rear end while claiming to have met him just once. Oh sure. Pure barf!
He said that twice that he be only met him once….
Too much a%* kissing indeed.
It reminds me of Godfather II, when, in the Cuban nightclub, Fredo Corleone is “introduced” to Johnny Ola, and Johnny shakes Fredo’s hand and says, “We never met.”
OMGoodness! What did I just suffer through? I made to 6 minutes and 11 seconds.
What a narcissist. She certainly loves to talk about herself. She is a monolog sort of gal. She is not a conversationalist which explains why Meatball is awkward. He does not need to speak because she will just speak over him anyway.
He probably hasn’t spoken a word in her presence in years.
He is a tool for her to get to where she wants to be: state capital and then, national capital.
LOL! You nailed it, Dantes.
My immediate family is full of narcissists. I can spot them a mile away. Then I stay away from them.
Casey is a Grandiose Narcissist.
Arrogant or haughty behavior
Exaggerated stories or accomplishments
A tendency to domineer conversations or belittle other people’s opinions
An obsession with money, power, and prestige
Anger when confronted about negative behaviors
A need for excessive attention or praise
A lack of remorse or guilt when they hurt someone
An inability to accept criticism
An inflated sense of entitlement
Grandiose narcissists can be highly successful in life—as long as their need for external validation outweighs any negative consequences of their behavior.
Nailed it!!!
Your last sentence sums it up. However, throw in flight of ideas, delusions of grandeur, pressured speech and you have bipolar. Or high on a drug.
Narcissists also use people for their own ends. They also use your own circle of friends against you when they are done (temporarily) with you.
She has connections in the media related to her prior career of around 2014 ish. They will cover for her.
And her first name is Jill, not Casey.
Bingo. I can second this, as I’m also quite familiar with having grandiose narcissists in the family. I likewise avoid them.
yep. just back out of the room.
“She is a monolog sort of gal.”
I am stealing this line for future use. Hope you don’t mind.
Not at all!!
Sort of a … grifter ?
I had to stop at 3.34 minutes mark.
That woman is taking waaaay too much Adderal.
That’s the same impression I got….some form of amphetamines must be involved. Classic tells….fidgety, overly talkative, excessively thin, inflated sense of self and abilities….
Dr. Puddy (my bill is in the mail).
Maybe she got into hunter’s little baggie of coke?
Oh, and ~45 or so secs. for me!
Nuth’n but schmegegge out of her pie hole.
Oy vey!!
LOL….I had to google!
I loved it when my maternal and paternal grandparents mixed in a little Yiddish when they spoke. I miss them so very much!!
Me too!
Yep!
Yes, whoever is managing that pair miscalculated the dose or something!
Well if she is on Adderall, there is a problem there, as it seems to be in short supply in Florida. Parents of kids who need it, are having trouble getting it.
Yes, as a clinician, the possibilities of mania, ADD, or psychostimulants crossed my mind
One minute, 12 seconds at ‘snow cone machine’ …..
I got past the snow cone machine and she was talking about New Hampshire… I guess that is a little over a minute of pure babble.
That is when I bailed Esmeralda.
My brain just stopped, stopped cold.
It could not process anything that woman was yapping on about any more.
I bailed at the spitfire jumping off a table….was that before or after the snow cone machine?
I think I left when she was talking about her daughter going to bed in full princess regalia. I thought, who’s the Mom?
I watched till she was babbling about magic erasers getting crayon off of French wallpaper and slime out of oriental rugs.
She needs to switch to decaf.
HOLY! Where are the 19th C. Zuber French wallpaper police?
3:12 mins. She is trying way too hard.
About 40 seconds. Regalia?
3:46. I’d say she’s a suspect for that baggie in the West Wing.
Twenty seconds was all I could take of Casey DeSantis. I don’t know why she’s giving me a “Hillary” vibe.
That’s why she’s called Jillary
I had the same vibe!!!
They named their son Mason. That’s all I needed to hear. It’s an occupation, not a kid’s name.
I could not continue. Someone who was able to hold on longer please tell me if they have another son named Jaxson “with an ‘X’”.
Lol the spelling with and X is a pet peeve of mine also.
Hey, I resemble that remark! Don’t know how long is “longer,” but my middle name is Mason and my son liked it so much, he named his daughter that for a first name. Defied my wishes. But some names are adjectives, worse than being a noun: like Strong, Fast, Comer. Or a verb: Trump!
I watched my stopwatch (1 min 12 sec) more than the video—more interesting. What was the point of the video? To make us adore Melania? Wouldn’t want to listen to miss de santis for two minutes, not to mention four years. I’ze zousted!
I thought that Madison was a stripper name..
Or a Jar.
That’s Mason lol, but definitely get your point. An empty jar, with the lid screwed on and no O².
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We had a waiter who told us his name.
I guess we looked a little uncomprehensive because he felt the need to clarify it — Mason, as in mason jar . . .
Remember this child?
I lasted for 1 minute and 35 seconds. The kid jumping off table was enough.
I watched the whole thing, because it gives me the whole story on just how elitist he and his fellow travelers really are.
Trump will win the primary in a landslide and either Biden or Newsome will win the election. Too much at stake for DC to have Trump 2.0
I had hopes for Ron, but CTH has thoroughly exposed him.
And under any sElection scenario, It looks GRIM, imo.
A Trump Win and democRats unleash Antifa and MB and BLM and FIB.
Gruesome Newsom Wins and forgetaboutit.
You WIN!!!!
but w/out the chicken dinner
President Trump will Win!
I made it to the 8 minute mark. Holy shit she has kamala Harris mouth! I had to stop when she was talking about her dumb ass kids taking the golf carts to miami. Seriously she did not take one breath the entire time I watched!
3 mins.
It took me that long to figure out who she was and what she was talking about. Had I known that before watching, I would have not even bothered watching 1 second.
Honestly, two minutes was all I could take. Why would anyone want to listen to her go on and on about her kids? She probably started talking about herself, but since I tuned out, I don’t know. She has a very self-centered “all about me” problem.
Good Lord. PC was still on same volume from Salty Cracker livestream and I couldn’t even get thru the kids’ names. FAIL.
Theyre really hurting if they had to send her out.
She never shut up. Just babble, babble, babble. About absolutely nothing.
It seems she just likes to hear herself talk. Ands she’s a first class narcissist because she thinks everyone wants to listen to what she has to say.
I got hung up trying to decide if that was Kim Reynolds with her on stage.
Well, as a teen I read Hermann Hesse’s Siddharth, and the discipline of “I can think, I can wait, I can fast” got me to 9:30. Painful, yes, but I coukd also survive on locusts if necessary (d&ckhead Bill Gates saying I should eat crickets is not that!).
She is terrible!!! Who the hell cares about her trivial tales of parenting? Nearly as bad as a teality TV program set in a toilet stall.
I also read Siddhartha
as a teen. It was on our list of books we could choose for literature class. I was able endure 20 minutes before my brain shut down and nodded off.
Me too. I still have my copy and it’s very old.
My favorite is “ I watch, I look, I listen.”
I pulled out early….:LOL
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So, no kid stories, eh . . .?
3:44 BUT I have had two gins!!
Rule violation haha!
69 seconds. I would have fast forwarded from there to hopefully something more substantial, but I assume there’s not.
“you must sit and watch it without the assistance of alcohol”
I would have been tied for 1st if it weren’t for the this outlandish restriction placed upon the participants of the contest.
2:22 – She lost me at “Duck in the water” …
A terrific test, thanks!
Not long, what a vacuous self absorbed dolt.
Goodness me..most here could watch the entire thing, but why?
De Santis is a schmuck, much of the entire world is now laughing at him.
Married to that….😟
Getting “ bent over by billionaires”
Plummeting in the polls.
I would pay money to just watch Mrs D and Melania in the same room, and watch Mrs D’s face as all the attention went to Melania.
I will go back and skim through it now.
Cheers!
4:44. If anybody is compiling a list of the reasons why RDS is running for President, we may have discovered another one: it gets him out of the house and away from this.
😂😂😂
Heck,….I’m feeling sorry for the guy.🤣🤣
I am too ToddAO, just a little.
Guy is a goober and his life is a mess.
1 minute…give or tale a nano second. women drive me nuts.
4 minutes 44 seconds. Torture. I want the time back.
32 seconds
I lasted about 30 seconds and then my ears started to bleed. How would you like to listen to THAT every day?
I clicked off after the “princess” bs. What I gathered is that she is a phony;
but, I already suspected that after the Jacquie Kennedy impersonation.
2 minutes of watching saccharine goo. I forced myself. Both of these women were so disingenuis and smarmy. It made my teeth hurt.
After 30 sec I started to skip ahead, then again, and again, then gave up. Total time 45 sec.
I like Casey as a person ie; cancer survivor and mother of three great kids, however, her attempt to relate to the audience on a personal level while instilling Team DeSantis as our nation’s solution in the upcoming contest with Satan was sadly uninspiring.
Casey is spot on for the Internet Moms. She is real and her stories are spot on.
Ron is managed, so he is mangled.
someone needs to tell her “just because it happened to you doesnt make it interesting to me”
50 seconds and couldn’t take the Hannity wannabe any more. So sick of the TV personalities who have on a guest then blabs on and on and on. Never even got to RDS, which didn’t really matter since I don’t like him.