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.
After she took her 1st breath which I guess was 44 minutes in
She is going to be really upset to learn how badly she bombed, but then again, I have the feeling she won’t understand that she bombed. No doubt she thought she was glorious and Ron! said “great job honey”.
He wouldnt tell her otherwise- ever. Thats apparent.
No doubt Ronbo said, “Great job, governor’s wife.” Apparently, they are not yet on a first name basis.
reminds me of
I didn’t get but to 5:41 and it was hard to get that far. I hope it got better for the ones who watched the whole thing.
She has lots to say, but it is all about herself. Not her concerns for others, her concerns for moms, the needs of women.
5:37 mark and it was hard to get that far. Hyper with zero content.
There has to be a formal name for Jill’s personality disorder. Anyone want to take a stab at it?
I can see money and or first lady disorder.
I only lasted a couple of minutes but I think the answer is narcissism. It’s all about her. I guess her defense would be she was answering the question but even so she could of mentioned helpers or even him or what she learned from her mother or friends or other mothers.
I watched a bit of his clip. I had new no idea he is so ineffective.
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Inauthentic.
Narcissist
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That’s it thank you. The first L of Florida would not get far with the so-called MeAgain, Prince Harry’s wife. They have the same personalities, they are the center of attention and who cares what anyone has to say. Truly nauseating.
I’d say a cross between histrionic and narcissistic.
Like this one. A cross beed. Wonder what cross breed dog would equate? Gotta be one.
Poodle and Afghan, a Poofghan
What’s her name? Johnny Depp’s ex-wife. She is bat-crap crazy and I think Mrs. RonDuh is too.
Amber Heard.
She’s trying to hard? Is that a personality disorder?Ugh,that’s 15 minutes and 6 seconds I won’t get back.I wanted to listen, I really did. I kept zoning out,thinking,Ron’s had all the talking he can stand. No wonder he’s detached,he hasn’t been around someone who would let him get a word in, I gotta go do some breathing exercises.
You make an intereting point ToddAO.
No wonder DeSanctus looks like some one just hit him on the head with a hammer all the time.
I can’t imagine living with that every day all day.
Histrionic, self-absorbed grandiose blowhard. Shes ready for the wives of Tampa or in fact any wives of show…
Brainless?
Cocaine?
Wow, something made this woman babble a hundred moter mouth miles a minute.
Jilted.
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3 vomits = 3 seconds
2:47. When she called her husband the sitting governor.
He was elected and that’s about it.
Been running since the day he was sworn in.
He’s more like a traveling gov, never in his home syate.
Kinda like the old timey circuit riders.
Oh yes, with their kissing babies and thumping the Bible! No matter how they dress it up, it’s still snake oil they’re selling.
These kids are “the amateur hour.”
Everyone loves their kids but evidently the youngest girl is her favorite because she was born in a princess suit while Ron was governor. Perhaps I wasn’t paying close enough attention…
I’m calling the Governor and his wife kids. Not their children.
55 seconds. And I was trying to tough it out
Life’s too short, my friend.
About a minute. She’s certainly all about her family.
Nervous motor-mouth energy. Too much I..me…me..mine.
I would never want to see her again in person or on stage. Don’t have time for her Casecentric world palaver.
She should have married Obama-I -me-mine
I think we found the source of the mysterious cocaine in the WH. My goodness!
Indeed. With Rob’s rubby-sniffy nose video clip a few weeks back, I’m starting to get a feel for how they roll in the DeSantis household. She probably got him hooked, but she’s definitely a connoisseur… that’s my guess.
LOLOLOL!!!!!!
Hahaaa
4min mark, he is a Made Man regurgitating what the big donors tell him. Wasn’t he against US involvement in UKR before he kinda wasn’t (donors), now back to the former (polls slipping). Handling of Trump raid and indictment.
I made it all the way through, under the influence of black tea and ice cream. DeSantis was talking at three times the speed of Trump the whole time, and Donald Trump was certainly The Elephant Who Must Not Be Named in that room.
I did get some information out of it: Florida is building up “CarePortal”, a software tool for the government to connect needy people’s specific needs with public, private, non-profit, and faith-based organizations who can fill them. That has great potential to turn into Socialism on Steroids, if they scale it up far enough. Iowa’s governor was very interested in it.
“I did get some information out of it”
Impressive.
Maybe both he and Jill are hitting Hunter’s baggie.
Sounds more of a scam to steal their votes. Kinda like an election roll of poor voters who won’t vote but magically will for DeSantis in the primary.
It’s just another list for election hackers to use.
I come from a family of leather necks. From the onset, I cheated, drinking while watching, I survived to the ten-minute mark (less 2.15).
20 seconds. That was 10 more than I should have.
Wron’s response was clumsy and tone deaf. He just proved why he’s disliked.
Trying too hard, Jill. Actually made 40 seconds, which surprised me a little. Once she got to”Alicia Keys”, her intensity was really ramping up, so I was like “Ok, I think we’re done here”.
listened to speedball to the 4 minute mark. she did not take a breath non stop yapper
I long for the days of the lovely Melania!
me too!
The funny thing is: I know you’re not joking about the hairball… which makes it even funnier.
Smug big eared little Pr!(K
What a motor mouth! Oh my!
54 seconds. When she started talking about her daughter being “on fi-ah,”I had to stop to avoid throwing my laptop across the room! Good Lord, that was the most painful 54 seconds I’ve spent since my colonoscopy prep!
I made it 2:46 (32 secs). However, I was then in immediate need of alcohol assistance.
Hello Everyone,
I tuned out at the 10.21 minute time—could not take the continuous whole-body gestures, the arm dividers, the hand chops, while Mrs. DeSantis
took not one breath between her streaming stories on re-call memory. Chirping like a bird to the camera audience, though not to the actual Governor sitting next to her, on stage. Before my sign-off, I did hear Mama Casey pay the compliment ‘great Governor’ to her on-stage partner. Over-kill like-ability, that’s my observation.
I was not sure which one I was supposed to listen too, but 15 seconds on each one, What a waste of time.
I watched the whole thing. Fast talker. Im a fast talker when alot of things are occurring in the arena of life. Casey has alot on her platter and shes not to far from most “it’s all about Me” generation. The princess line was over the top!! Obviously Disney is instilled into the little ones everyday life…hence the Princess reference. Casey sounds like a Momma Bear!! However if given the chance she would take lots of vacations or travel without the children!
Now, Ron, total jerk, probably a jerk at home also. I was impressed in the beginning when covid hit, Disney groomers and school indoctrination was being hashed out. However, only up to 3rd grade, no going against Biden regime when antibodies were stopped in Florida. All Fake and insincere attention grabs.
He was always a no for Me. Casey, was a no the moment she wore gloves! Very immature nature.
I watched for about two minutes because Mama DeSantis is rather toothsome.
Minute & 30secs
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6:53 seconds my brain was zoning out before then but at that point I had to turn it off. God help us!
Well being retired, 85 years old, lots of time on my hands, and married to the same lovely woman for 64 years, I watched the whole thing, and even went back and watched the first 2:14 minutes! With that said my wife could probably out-talk her!
My thoughts while watching this was, well maybe Hillary was right when she said most of those 33,000 emails she deleted were about their kids, grandkids, weddings, etc. etc.
Also, the Bible says to be long-suffering, and I have a lot of practice, but I wouldn’t change a thing! I thank God every day for the wife he gave me! God has Blessed my life beyond measure!
Wiley, if I could ever MEET you…your lovely wife would probably DECK me!!!!!
LOLOLOL!!!!!
Bless you!
Torture. I made it to the 9:00 mark by watching at 2 speed. Then I FF and hit misc spots at regular speed just to see. Sorta like when you watch a bad movie just because it is so bad you can’t believe how bad it is.
The Mrs. RonDuh sucks, like really, really badly. I also cringe every single time I see or hear any of the “mama” crap from any of them, especially Mama Bear, Kari Lake uses it and it makes me want to barf.
And the woman doing the interview? No clue other than she is a pearl clutcher.
Thanks SD, that was gag-a-maggot.
The pearl – clutcher was the current governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds.
I struggled to make it to 3:37. That’s 2 minutes and 3 seconds I’ll never get back. That woman sounds like she drank 3 pots of coffee. Good grief!
4:06. I pretty impressed with myself.
I did have some wine, though.
6 min. and 45 secs. She is definitely all about herself and is desperately trying but failing at projecting as an everyday mom. Such a phony.
Why are you not connecting with the people?
Look how much money we’ve raised!!!
Yes. From the elites that give a sh*t for me my family and my country.
MAGA.
Was going to try and watch it to the end but started nodding off around the 20 minute mark, so I stopped.
Gave her longer than my earlier reaction to shut her down .. at 2:12. Who cares? Not going to be anything of genuine note following. Except for vain platitudes and self promotion whenever she goes that way.
My ears are still echoing.
The head shake gives it away every time….he has NOTHING and he knows it and his wife is just beyond annoying trying to “connect” with all of the little people that she clearly despises! Sorry – I would a million times rather know that Melania just wishes she was at home in Mar-A-Lago and Donald wants to be on the golf course in Scotland but both of them understand that they are part of something bigger than themselves and therefore they are willing to give up what they want for what they know needs to happen!
wow, VM, you just laser pointed out the difference between
“authentic” and “inauthentic” in 2 sentences.
outstanding comment!
1:45 and I’ll never get that 1:45 back.
I’m going to look ahead a bit, to 2024 and ask… has anyone given any thought about who’s going to be our choice for governor of Florida come the next election?
Wait.. wut? Did Florida ditch those hackable computer voting terminals under meatball’s watch? Didn’t think so.
3:17 that was enough i loose and i am good with that be well treepers thanks for every thing Sundance have a great weekend
R.D.
A minute, 20 seconds. There is an aura of obliviousness to this lady that seems a perfect complement to her husband’s.
I watched it up to 3:43 waiting for her to say something (but I also have to confess, that one part of me thinks this confirms all my prejudices about Americans).
Oh my goodness, she loves to talk. I listened for about 1 or 2 mins. I guess. I got tired of hearing her talk about her little girl. I did hear he say the media was asking her an important question about why it was important for her husband to win the governor’s race. And she doesn’t remember how she answered because her daughter needed to use the restroom. These people are a bunch of fakes, she’s a fast talker and she loves the lime-light.
It occurs to me that nobody’s brain moves as fast as Mrs meatball’s mouth. It’s like an Olympic sport trying to make sense of all that verbal diarrhea.
In her desperation to somehow connect with the other moms, she misses the mark. But she can possibly match wits with their teenage baby sitter.
90 seconds
Made to about 11:14, so 9 minutes? I raised 3 boys so the kid stories didn’t bother me, plus my sister-in-law talks non-stop so I’m used to that. Then I realized my mind was wandering, so I figured it was time to stop, lol! I was kind of turned off by the slime on the ceiling talk. Good Lord, woman, do you ever discipline your children?
The first child born to a sitting governor in Florida in 50 years and the Little Princess who wants to get on all the tabletops and then the mention of “Moms for Liberty” . . . aha! I knew it! The “Moms for Liberty” response that Trump received really griped her, hence the “Mamas for De Santis” . . . even had a tee shirt!
Yup, Motormouth . . . makes me despise her husband and the billionaire contributors and Jeb Bush and the Bush Family and all the consultants and “influencers” who are winding her up to go out there . . . all in the effort to stop MAGA, stop “America First” from rising again . . . and here I am, running on in my sentence!
I am going to go sit, quietly.
Going to Washington … all in the effort to stop MAGA, stop “America First” from rising again”
and yet they are going in to clean up the Swamp”
No self-awreness. She is one big faker like the rest of them.
I watched for 4 minutes and 13 seconds until my nerves could take no more. It was similar to listening to someone scratching their fingernails on a chalkboard. What a motor-mouth! There were no pauses between sentences making me wonder when she would ever have to gasp for air. I understand that proud parents want to talk about their little ones in detail, but there is a time and a place for that, which is not when you are promoting “the Govenor’s” campaign for President of the United States.
2 seconds
I lasted a minute 20 seconds with Mrs, but only about 22 seconds with her husband. These two are not likable. #45 brings a huge personality; but like him or not, there is substance and there is honest care for America. With Mr. DeSantis the defensiveness exposes the disconnection with people that he brings. And why wouldn’t it, since no one better than DeSantis knows his own deviousness. Only Ms. DeSantis seems oblivious to it.
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God’s Children are not for sale.
But this lady sure wants to market hers as some sort of commodity.
Children that young do not need their parents out on the campaign trail — with or without them.
Her absence from them on this trip seems to have her misremembering their age and birth order: she said the kids were 6,5, and 3; mentions the only son first, saying he is the second child (so the 5-year old); then she starts talking about her diva daughter, claiming in a previous campaign event she decided to have her 5-year old on stage with her . . . but it was her oldest daughter.
Yes. I lasted almost 8 minutes through this.
Methinks she is a nervous talker — just rambling on, trying to take a ‘mansplain’ stance by widening her legs and leaning forward, before realizing that probably was not a good look, and I do not believe I heard her say ‘Ron’ at all . . .
Yes, nervous. That’s what I thought. A nervous performance.
She seems to be a “country club mom in a cell phone/Facebook generation”. Look at me! It’s as if being a mom is some sort of part time “look at me” performance.
Pressured speech, arrogance, focus on self and delusions of grandeur? Nervous talker? Nope, not even. Its deeper than that.
Methinks she is a nervous talker — just rambling on, trying to take a ‘mansplain’ stance by widening her legs and leaning forward, before realizing that probably was not a good look, and I do not believe I heard her say ‘Ron’ at all . . .
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So, the Kamala Harris of the Republican Party.
You are spot on! Maybe her girls are acting out what momma is doing. I have 5 children and 14 grandchildren. They always imitate mom and dad.
I lasted several minutes, until 6:27 – Casey D – Entitled , Contrived… way too much so. and at every sentence she was telling you how orchestrated things must be, and she doesn’t want her kids around because that is just to real.
I get the feeling the Nanny is a 24/7 position at the DeSantis house.
Ron – smug Bobble head (full stop)