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.
Well, they do call her the “secret weapon”.
She didn’t visit the Whitehouse on Friday, did she? And maybe left something there.
Okay, so I took a second crack at it. The first time, I made it a bit more than 7 minutes into it before my attention was stolen away by a video clip of PDJT on WarRoom which was playing on the TV. This time, I made it only until about 3 minutes. What I realized is that what I hear in Jill [Casey] DeSantis’ long and winding yack-attack is the woman I would divorce, but probably never marry or date. My professional life is full of noise and voices. When I spend time with my own wife, I like it best when it’s quiet. After 35 years, we don’t need to speak much anyway, as a well-timed look generally says all, but the thing is, this reminds me of a teenaged girl who is so self-absorbed that without taking a breath, in a stream-of-consciousness babble, wishes to tell you every nuance of her entire life in a “Political Spouses for Idiots” form.
I don’t know why I’d want to hear about her childrens’ crayons on the walls, or slime in the rugs, or anything of the sort, but I’d be thinking, as a taxpayer, why the heck we’re funding the inevitable resultant clean-up. I think that’s the real problem I have with Mrs. DeSaster: I don’t like most politicians, even the ones for whom I vote, never mind their spouses, children, or extended families. It’s not relevant to me. I don’t and won’t vote for politicians because of their familial relations, but might vote against them because of same. I want to hear from the candidate. Not his wife. The problem they face is that DeSaster is about as personable as a turnip.
On a side note, does anyone else think that Pierre Poilievre is the Canadian francophone version of DeSantis?
30 seconds. That voice — like a Karen Stepford Wife
55 seconds…I may lose the challenge, but my mental health is the real winner here
I made it to mama DeSantis saying she has three kids, names them and their ages. Done. I have no mental stamina.
3 minutes and 22 seconds SMH
casey’s reviews be like….
😂😂
Perfect 🤣
Anyone ever listen to the
Rino supporting
Guy Benson ?
He blabbers on like it is
a timed race.
I can never watch or listen
to him ever again.
Finger nails on a
chalkboard.
Shapiro is the same way. Talks as fast as he can, and as long as he can. I never trust a fast talker.
Yes, Thank you for bringing that up.
Both of them also are in the age group of most brainwashed and indoctrinated.
But then so are many adults that rely on tv and the anti-social media for information.
I confess … I watched more of the hilarious Big Bang attachment – than I watched of the Treehouse challenge … I cracked up at the “KMN” comment.
She is beautiful, a good mother & supportive wife … and thrown into something hugely intense way before she was ready.
Good one “soom”!
Loved that episode, it’s where I learned the acronym KMN.
Kill Me Now described my mindset perfectly when I was listening to Casey DeSantis.
So glad I was not stuck in the audience and could not just shut the video off like I did while at home.
God help those poor people.
Ron wouldn’t have beaten the gay crackhead if Trump didn’t endorse him.
Ronda would not have beaten his primary opponent (Adam Putnam) if Trump did not endorse him the first time.
I couldn’t bring myself to click the button…
Two and half minutes. I’m done. That voice . And I have a severe hearing loss.
126 seconds. She is cute though. Motor mouth usually speed, cocaine or similar
Cute? She’s wearing more make-up than a Kardashian!
You forgot the hair spray! I’d guess to say she is 3-5 lbs heavier due to all that eyewear and mascara! And this is her daytime look 😬😳
Meowwww
I hope no one lights a match near her, the hair spray she is sporting will torch the whole place.
I will discount the makeup though for Casey being a cancer survivor. Whatever outward persona may project, cancer survivors have their internal struggles that is reflected on the survivors in a physical way.
The survivor sympathy ends at the point where you see that Casey wants Ron to be president desperately than Ron himself wants to be one.
Always be weary of the ambitious types who thinks that they are running out of time and desperately wants to finish their bucket list.
I know a lot of cancer survivors.
They are usually humble, grateful, thoughtful, graceous, considerate and mature beyond their years.
Did not see this in Casey.
Fugly, Fake, Superficial, Shallow.
Me, me, me, me
13 minutes and 34 seconds.
Interesting that she starts off by comparing herself to a duck. Fans of Eric Holder called him “The Duck” and wanted to hear him quack. Medieval Wiseman says that if she’s a duck then she floats, if the floats she’s made of wood, if she’s made of wood then she’s a witch.
Three times she said, “It’s so funny” and then told a story of how her children interfered with her being the First Lady of Florida and not once did the audience laugh.
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It’s like she doesn’t realize ducks can fly . . .
She was self-aggrandizing.
Ducks don’t have to paddle like mad to float, their bones are hollow and they have air sacs within the body for good water displacement. They can sit peacefully without need to yammer on and on to stay afloat. She is no duck and knows nothing about the fowl she associated herself with. She also usurped the analogy, “Stanford Duck Syndrome” as her own. She’s delusional to think that she comes across peaceful….
Ironically this is who DeSantis’ Republican primary competition was, and beating RDS handily I might add, prior to PDJT endorsing RDS. ❤️PDJT, RDS? Not so much…..
– Adam Putnam
“Currently the CEO of Ducks Unlimited, Putnam is only the 6th executive staff leader in the organization’s 82-year history.”
https://floridacitrushalloffame.com/inductees/adam-h-putnam/
Ducks Unlimited….oh the irony!
Not even a full minute. What in the Hell was she droning on about. Is she trying to out do Kamala in nonsense?
15 seconds. Mrs. Top Gov barely stops to take a breath.
44 seconds.
I just can’t do it, Captain (apologies to Montgomery Scott)!
I have a lot of endurance I sailed long distance races, Worked in surgery 24 hours without breaks.
I can brag about lasting 4 minutes
I could only take 10 minutes and 42 seconds
OMG!!!
47 seconds.
We have a 17 year old niece living with us and she and her friends are far more enjoyable to listen to.
Sundance…am going to play devil’s advocate…why are we letting the handlers know how detestable that spiel was? I know you have reasons….
For those who didn’t know why Ron DeSantis can’t connect… look at what he’s married to and what kind of impact that would make on his ability to perform as his need to drown out any and all perspectives, outside his own and the donors who finance him, is firmly locked in place.
3:49 min. mark
I managed 3.28 before I got the urge to smash her over rehearsed face in!
I didn’t make it very far at all…I DID make it to 2:36…
Hey, I’m OLD and have very little patience with any of this nonsense.
I utterly wasted 5 min. And 35 seconds of my life.
I watched for 4 seconds!
8:17 “st. Augustine Florida”. WTF. Wind her up and watch her go. It’s a wonder the host can get a word in. They have small children, have they ever thought it might be wise to raise your children out of the public spotlight? In this case I think not, that the whole trophy wife thing AND the kids is to make the perfect staged facade of presidential candidates family. She’s been coached to be “real”. Too bad it’s not working. Stop trying so hard Ron, like I said previously… we’re just not that into you.
“Wind her up and watch her go”
You have made me remember something bodinator.
When we were kids my brother had a toy windup monkey that would bang some little cymbals together wildly and skitter around like crazy when we wound up a key in it’s back.
Casey DeSantis reminds me of that toy, wind her up and watch her go.
Some one on another blog called her “Cocaine Casey” a bit harsh but the point was made.
I had a head start in knowing that Wifey would be a big part in the Guv’s downfall. Apparently Wifey’s reputation precedes her.
My time – 0 seconds
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Had to read through ALL the comments, just for entertainment value, and noticed a few song and movie references, and then it hit me!
Casey is repping the new Disney film – Barbie!
Come on, ladies, help me out . . . Wasn’t Barbie’s brunette girlfriend named Jill?
– I can just imagine the governor’s mansion plastered in pink within the living quarters.
-Were those kids driving a Barbie car?
– Surely the older daughter dressed her just like she does her own dolls.
– And, obviously, she does not have flat feet.
– Overly jealous, or insecure, of the blonde (Melania or Jill?).
– Trying to play the political spouse, must even have a political-looking boyfriend who is portrayed as entirely ineffectual.
Yeah. That’s 30Pence playing Ken . . .
Yep-haw, Skipper!
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Oops. I forgot the music reference . . .
‘You’re so vain . . .
You probably think this race is about you!
Don’t you? Don’t you?’
Carly Simon song about 1973 .
Midge. Barbie’s brunette girlfriend was Midge. I had an original when I was a kid.
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So did my older sisters.
I got the Skipper doll — younger sister to Barbie.
No wonder I absolutely abhor high heels — my doll had the flat feet . . .
Yep it was Midge, I had the whole family.
Barbie, Ken, Skipper, Midge and there was one called Stacy I think that I never got.
Oh come on. She’s just a young Mom of three sharing with other Moms. I’m not a particular fan, but it is representative of how Moms get together and talk.
She…is not running for POTUS.
Picking on someone’s spouse…adds nothing to the very serious discussion of who should be our next President.
It took longer to write this than listen.
I’m sorry Sundance, “I like…have better things to do with my time, forreelz…”
Good Lord, truly, my eyes began glazing over about 2min in.
Two minutes 36 seconds. The woman never stops talking. Why does she imagine people want to hear so much about her children? What is wrong with her?
What is a wind up toy?
Wow, I got to just over 3 minutes.
Congratulations to the winner(s) of the person(s) viewing the video for the r d stamina challenge contest!
p.s.
You way, way outlasted no click, 0 seconds.
Love thy neighbors
Moving along to the man himself, does he look different now than he did, say, a year ago? His face seems to have changed. Has it become more wussy, or is that my imagination?
I have always thought he has a “hostage smile”
Stockholm syndrome? Maybe he was forced into this “role”?
He’s on a low carb high protein diet I believe Atkins or he’s using that new weight loss drug. Regardless Kay your are spot on with the “wussy” take. Problem with Ron DeRINO is that he’s awkward, socially stunted, has bizarre bodily tics, facial and head movements and is outwardly unlikeable. He is incredibly snarky when responding to questions that trigger him and he comes off as a phony baloney. I actually find short men attractive (I’m 5’ 9”) but I only LIKE short men who own their height and don’t resort to shoe lifts. Bottom like is Ron comes across as uncomfortable with all things himself. AND fixing one’s self esteem is a tough one!
I agree he looks more blank and wussie now Kay.
The guy has checked out for sure.
4:40.
I’m sorry.. I am my kids’ mom, but I spent my kids’ lifetimes avoiding being that mom, the one who cannot stop talking about her kids.
Made it to 4:35 mark
But I’m father and husband of over 25 years, so developed a higher tolerance of mom babbling
Back in my single days, I could have only lasted 20 seconds max
DeSantis should send out Robert Bigelow and Ken Griffin out to campaign for him. They could explain why they bought him, and what they expect in return for their money. A little honesty would be refreshing.
They’re sending her out to help his campaign. Fail. Melodramatic, canned lines, etc. And I agree with whoever commented the other day “Mamas” is somewhat offensive. I’m sick of it too, I’d like Kari Lake to stop using “Mama Bears”, it’s getting old.
I watched until The mutual gush about the hurricane. Now I’ve earned a mind numbing cocktail (with a generous pour)
She is a pure borefest. Maybe it’s my ADD kicking in. Right?
She looks like one of the NJ Housewives. Theresa Guidice. Right?
She’s a phony, right?
I prefer Melania. What you see is what you get–a beautiful confident woman.
Three minutes eight seconds, so fake and knowing all that CTH has exposed, I can’t waste my time listening – ugh!
24 seconds. I need lots of alcohol and maybe some drugs to silence the voice of that woman thing..brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
About five minutes. I’m sure she is an excellent wife and mother, it’s the first time I’ve heard her speak more than a couple words. My reaction was “you’re never gonna stop talking. I’m cutting you off.!”
Red Bull?
I got as far as 6 min.
I was reminded of the Homer Simpson episode where he was being talked to death and screamed out “Shut up!! Will you shut up!!!!
1:02:47
How is this relevant? Every vid I have seen of her, it’s the same crap. The last one was about Slime.
She can’t hold a candle to Melania Trump.
An absolute embarrassment. Narcissism.
3 minutes 53 seconds. The deal breaker was the segment about using her young child as a prop in an interview. I was doing so well. Thought I was a champion for enduring the babble about enabling a child who demands a princess outfit for sleepwear. Looks like the aspiring first couple should get a handle on basic parenting and common sense before becoming “our leaders”.
Hyperglycemia warning.
OMG, he married my neighbor!
120 seconds.
I have chosen not to engage with women who talk incessantly and exclusively about themselves, their children, and /or grandchildren…makes my head hurt!
Can’t go the “Mama Bear” stuff either…
Life is way too short!
Really – all mamas are bears regardless of species. Why do people make some obscure connection to some cause as if it’s especially laudatory; especially referring to themselves? The kind of women who talk about their kids,look at each other’s kids misbehaving or otherwise; in any gathering, are more often made up of those who don’t want to be branded or left out or gossiped about by the other women. Keeping the fake image.
When they have no choice to avoid engagement with their kids’ friends’ mothers; the Joneses, whose kids” parties they try to match or keep standards imposed upon them. Commonly observed is that their conversations and engagements are superficially polite with focuses mostly on anything, the kids uppermost in providing constant distractions. Anything, except having to engage naturally.
Nothing of the relaxed natural behavior among adults glad for a chance to catch up with each; leaving their kids to play, to make all the noise, food and whatever messes at parties.
Casey video: I checked out at 7:58 mark. Casey may be a lovely person. A little bit more personality than rds. However, I really did not need to hear blow by blow description of the day in the life of small kids. Good grief. I did not finish the video. Perhaps she mentioned something about what the Mamas actually believe and hope to do. Pretty much into herself, using her kids to describe her life. I changed to Perry Mason black and white from 61.
rds video: I cannot stand the fox news host. He is a weasel. Had to get past his L O N G question. Bored before rds’ NON answer. Sorry, rds has a smug, elitist demeanor. He is not warm. He has the personality of brunt toast, and when he speaks it oozes out. I bailed at 6:07 mark. Did not finish the video. And I missed the closing statements of Perry Mason.
My stamina to endure the word salad of uninteresting people who are full of themselves, and do not present an honest assessment or solution to a given situation must be very low. I am 80. I know my time is limited. I try not to waste it on numbskulls and ne’re-do-wells. Neither one of these political creatures brings strength to my mental capacity to endure the torture of their voices, and certainly not the content of their words.
For my part, you exposed my almost no stamina to endure swamp creatures. I may (not a promise) try to “practice” stamina endurance for the swamp. Thank you Sundance.
Really – all mamas are bears regardless of species. Why do people make some obscure connection to some cause as if it’s especially laudatory; especially referring to themselves?
Yep, 8 minutes for me with Casey. And I just don’t care to listen to Ron. Too many flashbacks to Romney with that one. So, next….
I watched one minute and 38 seconds of it and couldn’t take any more.