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.
Not even 3 minutes… is it just me or does she have Donald Trump mannerisms? 😂
It’s just you.
President Trump is a leader, casey desantis is a whiny little female who wouldn’t know reality if it hit her in the face.
Comprende?
It’s you
It’s you.
I watched the entire 30 min. thing on the toilet… my legs are numb now.
Takeaways…
The first few minutes were absolutely cringe, but as Casey Desantis warms up, she really has a similar cadence about her that is very Trumpian. I didn’t dislike her after watching this. State politics being more rooted in kitchen table concerns leads me to believe that RDS’s entire winning FL platform is her making. The 10 minutes of pandering to “single moms” aside… women eat this up. When RDS gets torched by PDJT in the primaries i wouldent be surprised if she takes the kids 60 miles north and takes the place of Brian Kemp.
My TWO cents…..
God Bless America!
Women eat this up? You mean like those Dylan Mulvaney types?
The ones that don’t read TLR.
I upvoted you for your choice of reading seat. It was the perfect place to watch the excrement coming from Casey.
10:03. Reminded me of a famous fast talker:
Meth Matters?
Or diet pills.
4 min 40 sec. When I realized Joe Biden used to talked exactly like that. 200 hundred words a minute with zero meaning.
This collection of comments is suitable for framing. Even by CTH standards, this one rocks!
I’m out. 35 seconds…
8 min 27 sec – 2:14 start = 6:13…
And there was this one time at band camp 🙂
Even in Iowa they know collarless t-shirt-camouflage-Capri-mom-pants and high heels is a leading trailer park trash indicator. This is how she portrays her message to Iowa? Did she hire Honey Boo-boo as her wardrobe manager? Oh and 11:23.
4 minutes, 27 seconds. We have a lot of women in southeast Texas who talk like that. So, I’m used to it. I think they used to call this grandstanding. The trick is to breathe in the middle of thoughts instead of at the end, that way there’s no opportunity for her conversation “partner” to jump in.
I have friends that I love who talk without stopping, but they have an interesting point to the story rather than a diarrhea spurt of random thoughts that run through their head.
32 seconds…..her baby if the first in 50 years…..blablabla
I almost stopped then, but managed two more minutes.
I made it to from the prompt at 22:04 to 44:09. I now understand time dilation first hand, and Dante’s 3rd circle of hell. Mrs. Gov likability rating is lower than her husband.
I tapped out at 130 seconds.
about 5 seconds after Casey began to blather. Nothing important was coming out of her mouth so why bother listening
3:19 Ah shucks, Elly May Clampett hairdo, capri camo leggings and down home family life–someone forgot the hay stock for her teeth! Hollywood staging and script in its condescending glory! I abhor anyone who uses their children as props.
She’s kinda cute. I figured something out: she becomes very tolerable when you turn the sound off. No idea how Ron! turns her off on a day to day basis, though. It not like there’s a mute button on her forehead… poor guy.
Are you saying Ron isn’t gay?
Not, sure how you inferred that from what I said… but yes, he’s triggered my highly calibrated gaydar on multiple occasions.
Lol! You teed it up. I just took the swing.
Well played, my friend lol
watched for 3:45. Was afraid her running at the mouth in goody, goody baby “mama” talk would destroy my computer.
Under 2 minutes. I stopped at flashback.
4:41 minus the start at 2:14, so 2:27. I hate listening to people go on endlessly about their kid, an overly indulged “spitfire princess,” yet. Barf.
Single mom here who raised 4 kids after ending a disastrous marriage, two with serious ADHD….I mean serious!
HOLD-MY-BEER!
as a woman, I smiled thru the children’s antics but at about 10:30 into it when they said Dasanctimonious started the mom’s for liberty during covid…could not and did not want to listen any more.
As a woman, I was BORED. Homey, funny children’s antics are not my thing. Nothing of substance. I broke the challenge rules, made it to 8:36 and then decided that maybe sailing with Captain Morgan would be more fun.
I tried, maybe a minute or so. It’s clear it was not she who forgot her blow at the WH.
30-32, then I disqual’d myself by cracking a cold one. Enough already.
Nobody should talk for that long without adding anything meaningful.
Ugh. 3:30. Just can’t do it anymore. Make her stop, please. At least take a breath. Wow.
Stream of consciousness babbling.
Saw it elsewhere lasted 20 sec.
Walked the dogs, worked on the car, had a few beers, then took a break to see what muh fellow Treepers were up to.
Looks like started disqualifying myself a few hours ago. But Hey – Its Beer:30!
Update: made it one minute – man that girl loves the sound of her own voice.
When she looks down at her feet, she can see the center of the universe.
LOL
The 2:58 mark.
It’s more entertaining (and shorter) if you take the challenge at 2x speed.
I listened to 5 more minutes of this lady, after my initial 1 1/2 minutes initially, thinking, okay, surely it gets better and she moves on from talking about herself or her three small children and apparently the man she’s married to, that she refers to as “The governor” (creepy), but she continues with crap like talking down the decor of the house that Florida taxpayers pay for her to live in! How disrespectful.
For over 30 years I was a court reporter, and I don’t think you could pay me enough to transcribe this 🙄🤣
“the man she’s married to, that she refers to as “The governor” (creepy)“
Lol. Not creepy. Just an honest description of their arrangement.
I wonder if the contract specified 3 kids or 4. She speaks about her children as if they’re just objects that she moves around in the house. Poor kids.
44 seconds was more than enough for me.
Sweet Lord Jesus! I made it to 8:58, shortly after she said “I could go on forever.” Yes, yes she could. If she had been to the White House recently, maybe she dropped the bag of coke. Imagine her in a conversation with Kamala! SNL could put people on the floor with that, if only they were still funny.
271 seconds, then hyperglycemic.
It occurred to me, the RDS campaign consultants are OKAY with this because when the RDS campaign flops, they can blame it on her!
Mrs. RDS is in a coping mechanism mode, if she had a tachometer attached you could see the Revs going higher and higher as she reacts to his dour and disgusted expression, he looks like a mean old alcoholic with a bad hangover and the most he can do here is glare and stare. He is a creep!
So I think the RDS campaign “honchos” are just running this thing as an operation to stop MAGA, to stop “America First” and when it is of no more use to them, Casey will be left in the dust with her grouchy husband and children who are jumping on tabletops and throwing Slime.
I do feel a whisp of sympathy for the girl, Casey – that she is being trotted out there as part of this “dog and pony show” by the campaign – not really so much that they regard her as a secret weapon to be a big help to her husband, but actually so that they can blame her partly for when this broken-down billionaire’s carnival folds up and leaves town – they will blame her and they will blame the mean old MAGA people observing the realities and speaking the truth.
Casey DeSantis: Seven full minutes minus 1 second. Why? The transparent ‘dressing down’ syndrome; a billboard message “I’m just like other young Mother’s like you” but then came the rapid fire identity crisis of empty talk filling the air like a dry cloud. Petty talk. Rehearsed Rambling. Mrs. DeSantis is devoid of inspiration, useful information, application or material for mind changing discussion. Husbands hearing a synopsis from their wife will be walkin’ while she’s talkin’.
Video no. 2: DeSantis believes we’re dumb. By default, given what he opens with, he reveals his IQ needs the support of his Donors dollars.
DeSantis opens at 4.28 with “…did you see the news today with the record fundraising we’ve had…”
It’s not one dollar one vote Ron. It’s one man one vote. And the rest of those who you would rule know that you don’t know that.
I made it exactly 1 minute. OMG! SHUT HER UP!
A kid goes to be in full princess regalia? Seriously?
Elitist, self-absorbed and “twirly”.
Elitist is not the term that comes to mind.
If you peel the cover off of the Rob DeSaster 2024 campaign, you’ll see the Lyin’ Ted 2016 playbook. How many times does CONservative Inc. need to be beaten before they learn their lesson? Authenticity cannot be purchased, coached, or learned.
I made it to 9:11 & had to call it quits… In thinking about it afterwards, I have to wonder what she was hopped up on???
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I think she mentioned it: corn-shine.
Made it until she took a breath. Note the glazed smile on the interviewer
3:10. And why is she dressed like she went through Fettermans’s closet? Had to cut it because of her rambling on about her kids. They are probably adorable, but truth is, not many people are into your kids or pets unless they know them. Have a neighbor just like her. Ask her a question and you hear about her dreams and people you’ve never met. ….And she’s too bouncy. Nerves? Or just inauthentic? And Ron. His voice. It’s whiny. Not sure there’s a fix for that. He looks nervous. If I were him, I’d be nervous. too…You can’t buy personality.
Forced listening to her could be a new enhanced interrogation technique.
:56
Totally boring; bordering on STUPID.
I made it about 4 minutes. Takeaways…1. Ron can’t get a word in edgewise. 2. She at least makes more sense than Kamala and Creepy Uncle Joe.
61 seconds
I couldn’t get past the first minute. She is a fast talking valley girl.
She probably thinks that shows having a fast intelligent brain.
No, not when you listen to what she is saying.
59 seconds!
She talks a blue streak! Does she ever stop?
I lasted a little over a minute only because I have never seen her speak in public. Overly aggressive, domineering, trying too hard to impress.
It’s what you said…”trying too hard.” Who in their right mind would want to be president? Do they think they have what it takes to govern this mess called America? So again I question the sanity of anyone who thinks they have what it takes and want to sit there, and talks like Joel Osteen, without humility, fear and loathing over what is to come. Unless they’re doing it for other reasons (self-aggrandizement; favors to donors; pushed by advisors and lobbyists?) …but that couldn’t be, could it? I’m shocked I say, shocked!!!
Just over 5 mins. Putting aside the fact that she is a probably a great Mom and loves her kids, but, yes, this was torture.
I am thinking that I can claim the grand prize, I made it to 12 minutes and 23 seconds and although I haven’t read the comments yet I do believe that nobody else could’ve gotten further, if they did they definitely deserve a prize.
Sundance, when I read your challenge I pooh-poohed and believed you must be exaggerating. I am amazed that those people remained.
It was torture.
I have never heard someone speak so quickly and for so long without stopping, I am reminded of amphetamines.
I was around 12 mins. then dozed off til 17. Promptly stopped it. Isn’t non stop blabbing a sigh of Peruvian marching powder use?
Yes
Did SHE just visit the WH and wander in an area she shouldn’t have? Just asking for a friend.
There’s a fellow at the bottom of page 3 that said he watched the whole thing and “she did fine.” But, could be a troll.
Could be John Cardillo…
Well, they do call her the “secret weapon”.
She didn’t visit the Whitehouse on Friday, did she? And maybe left something there.