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.
Victory! I made it to 2:23!
She sounds like Hillary Clinton. Starts with a string of clichéd lines – “organized chaos” etc.
But when she said “I’m not gonna lie about it.” I switched off.
Anyone who says that must be assumed to be lying at all other times.
Phoney.
Like I said – reminds me of Hillary.
I made it to 2:48. 34 seconds. Did I win?
4:23 constant talking=desperation. She knows they are going into the dustbin of history.
Approximately three minutes for each. Thank you, now I can get on with my day
I made it to 2:52… so 38 seconds. “This girl is on fi-yah!” was the last thing I heard. That was enough.
That was my endpoint too.
I really despise women who think talking endlessly and breathlessly about their small children is interesting to any adult.
I didn’t need mind numbing drugs, she made my brain spasm.
Me too, that was my limit, maybe I’m just too old for all this BS, but good grief!!
the Billion dollar wives club can have her. 2 minutes.
Nope. Not going to do it!
Only watched for 2:24. Are her children an inconvenience to her? Sure seems like it.
I last until 17:03
With Ron! I last until he started avoiding the question. I think about 10 seconds.
3:03 and it was brutal
Stopped exactly here too. I could hear the lack of periods and commas in her spoken sentences.
She talks like she’s coked up
Not at all; he talks like a nervous person who does not have much experience doing public speaking.
in my opinion, she did well enough on the whole after watching the entire vid. She looks like a normal suburban housewife and would be valuable tool to his campaign, not that I am in favor of that, do you think she can be coach to calm down as she does more of these things, and she will be his biggest asset, and the reason he wins, if he does, because of her ability to attract female voters.
just an honest assessment, no insults, or anything intended, just my opinion.
Maybe her and Hunter can run off together. Probably a more realistic chance of her actually getting a foot in the white house that way.
Winner, winner; chicken dinner! I actually backed it up to the beginning and watched to the end. The first 10 minutes was rough, but eventually got to the meat. Honestly, the child welfare program and how FL connected all of the local connections was actually interesting.
why didnt she lead with the interesting stuff then?
There’s apparently some template these people use; start off on some quasi-important topic, then pivot to humanizing yourself, then quasi-important topic, then delusional ramblings…wash, rinse repeat. 🤣
I can’t do the contest because I already smoked some pot this morning and that would break the rules.
Anyhow, I stumbled on the video yesterday but only lasted about 6 seconds.
57 seconds
22 seconds. Glad I haven’t had breakfast yet or I’d have hurled it onto the floor.
Around three minutes. The daughter went to bed in full princess regalia, that was it! Lights out! Does she ever stop to breathe? Annoying as all get out.
Lasted 32 seconds and the last 10 I was extremely agitated.
Who is tired of “that said”, “back in the day” “my/your craft”, “artesian ” and sooo on.
Add to the list “… at the end of the day…
I actually made it to 6 min, I kept waiting for the purpose of the interview or something interesting to be said. All I’ve ever seen of her is very short clips. This woman has verbal diarrhea. Ron! I lasted until he responded with “did you see the fund raising…”. So, essentially I listened to the question and lasted 3 seconds of his response?
5:36 minutes. The video was going to continue for more than 40 minutes. Would it get any better? Who cares? We are at war. These are very serious times. I can’t picture this woman in the WH.
2:14. Fake to the extreme.
Enough to know that if I had to spend any amount of time in a room with her, I’d be clawing at the walls to get out. Hillary Clinton has that grating voice that’s like fingernails on a chalkboard. This girl has diarrhea mouth and sounds more like she’s reciting from an encyclopedia of family history. I know what she’s trying to accomplish, trying to show that they’re real people, but her tactics are all wrong. She’s trying to inject years of family history into one soundbyte, i.e., “Oh, and there was that one time I sat through an interview with a five-year-old on my lap and….”
Has anybody noticed how DeSantis is speaking in a lowered voice now? I stopped listening to his videos because his voice was like fingernails on a chalkboard. This video sounded better, but all he ended up saying is, well, we’re just going to buy our support now that we have the money to do it.
LOL…..”and there was this one time; at Band Camp……”
She talked like an auctioneer (non-stop with no breathing in-between). Yes, she is proud of her children but I was not ready for the TMI (too much information) part. I made it to 3:36.
I lasted until the 4:29 mark. Too inane for me.
I lasted just shy of a full minute of Ms. DeSantis telling me everything in the world, I mean EVERYTHING, related to a question that I don’t remember. At least she was cogent, which is a lot better than Comma-la-la Ding Dong.
Oh, couldn’t take it! 😳
Got through all their children ……poor children…
3.37, when she started to give me a headache. Fast forwarded through to the end and at each pause she was still talking. Does this woman ever shut up?
I watched the first 5 minutes, fast forward to the end watched around another 30 seconds. First, she is better than her bobble head husband. I can’t stand watching Ron talk. He makes circles with his head, it drives me nuts. Back to Casey, not interested in her children stories. We all have cutesy children stories. Joe Biden tells about his childhood, his kids, grand kids, Kamel Toe does the same and our country is going down the tubes while they share cutesy stories. Tell me what you are doing and going to do to better life for our children!!!
4:02 minus 2:14 = IDK…..not worth the effort……it was a lot of fun reading ALL the comments though!
Thanks SD
You have to consider the audience. “Mamas for DeSantis?”
Oy.
The funny thing is that the puppetmasters thought the DeSantises LOOKED like the perfect young politician and his wife, but never considered how they SOUNDED.
Seems there is some cat ack on the floor to clean up first.
Maybe my stomach will be ready to try after that. If not no big loss listening these losers from Giligans island.
45 seconds was almost a lethal dose. Very rehearsed. Very personal yet impersonal. No thanks…
6:30, only because I like being tortured. Everything was scripted, nothing genuine and that Iowa Governor was in on the sell.
“Because I like being tortured.” 🤣🤣🤣
1:04. She had a chance to redeem herself after the cute stuff with the sleeping princess (and get on with it) but she just can’t stop.
Didn’t last a full minute. She sounds like a robot, no inflection in her voice whatsoever. She sounds like a nervous child trying to read off of a script as fast as they can to get it over with.
I Believe that First Lady Melanie Trump is far more smarter Than DeSantis wife,
Melanie Real kind sweet inside and outside,
I made it to 3:23. Bored out of my mind already.
Nope, not gonna even try. I lost. Oh well, back to brewing a Rauchbier and Amber Kellerbier. What a beautiful Saturday!
3.5 when she finally takes a breath. She missed her calling as a sponge diver.
Nope. That t-shirt! There’s a lot of Spanish speakers in FL and elsewhere who know that ‘mamas’, without the emphasis tilde on the second ‘a’, means “breasts”. What idiot came up with this stupid idea?
I watched a few minutes with the sound off. Those hand gestures! And if a kid squirmed like she does they’d be asked if they needed to visit the restroom. She sure kept the mic right in front of her mouth, probably had been coached to do that but it looked very unnatural.
I can’t watch the gov at all because all I see is Ronald McDonald.
I made it until she said the word Diva.
49 seconds.
Side note, when Casey imitated her daughter saying ‘fire’ all I heard was ‘fweedom.’ EWWW.
Wasn’t going to take the challenge until reading some of the comments. Got intrigued, cleared my mind of all prejudice and inclination to give the looked for CTH response to get in good with Sundance. If anything, I felt a bit rebellious and was prepared to like her. I lasted less than 10 seconds. I do some public speaking myself on occasion and I know a MEMORIZED spiel when I hear it. Besides which, she has the voice of a jackhammer.
36 seconds. I am weak. Vapidity in women makes me sick. It always has. It is a flaw in my character as a woman. I live with it and accept myself in spite of it.
A little over 3 minutes. She talked continuously and was trying too hard. I noted the other woman would kind of laugh and look to the audience which was to see how they were responding.
I think the DeSantis couple are too young and inexperienced for the job.
1:35 for the missus, 0:45 for the Gov. How vacuous they both sound
I made it to the on fie-ah! Zoom zoom, fast talking there! They’re trying too hard to sell a product no one wants. Even her outfit…I saw her in another pic, same clothes. Really tacky, more so with the taupe heels.
same stop point here.
I made it to 44 seconds. Actually my mind started wandering off on some other topic and then I realized I had the headphones on and was supposed to be watching the video. I believe it took about 6 seconds before I lost the video in my thoughts.
I’m having trouble with her voice. She is like a saleswoman that I avoid at a store…….no thank you. 10 seconds.
Lol. “Would you like to try our new perfume?”
Ron and his wife seem to be a matched pair for sure. I was able to listen for a minute 36 seconds and the ONLY thing I heard was…………….. ME, ME,ME.ME.ME, or is it just ME?
Yep, me me me me me.
To be fair. Trump is all about me me me as well. That said Ron is not my guy.
I don’t see Trump as me me me, he’s worked his adult life pitching ideas and his vision for building so that is how he presents. I don’t care if he’s brusque or makes mean tweets, he’s effective and that is what matters to me.
To be fair, President Trump has accomplished an enormous amount in both his private life and in politics. DeSantis has never produced anything in the private sector or signed the back of a paycheck.
Also, President Trump uses the world “we” an enormous amount of time. “We” as in himself and the American citizenry.