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.
Mark 22:19 I have ahigh tolerance for pain. Boy that woman can talk! She has read the play and she has her line down. I think Casey likes the concept of motherhood. However, she is in love with the idea of being the “First Lady”, of the USA. Maybe they are grooming Casey to run for office of President and make Ron can be the First Lady. He would make a great stay
at home mom.
Casey knows the script better than Ron.
Why is he blinking so often? Morse code hostage message? “Blink blink blink blink( please get me out of this nightmare) blink blink blink blink blink”
Poorly fitting contact lenses…
Yes, the blinking is really weird.
Blinking, head ticks, lip licking… Aside from being one weird dude WHO the hell is WE?
Ron does not even have one original idea or though.
Kurtz: “The horror, the horror.”
I was out at “Alicia Keys”. (About 36 seconds).
Same here, seriously, LOL
47 seconds. Jesus.
I lasted less than 1 minute. A longing for Melania started kicking in…
very definitely . . . Melania, we miss you!
Four excruciating minutes and I’m done. Did Hunter send her a baggie?
How did you make it that long? I just wanted ear plugs.
OK. That was pretty cruel. Unless you were giving away a private dinner with Trump, I just could not take it. I got to the 4 minute mark and I couldn’t take any more! I am sorry. I just couldn’t.
420 SECONDS. COULD I HAVE LASTED LONGER. YES, ESPECIALLY IF IT WAS AN IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENT WITH MY SPOUSE. BUT SINCE THAT WAS NOT THE CASE, I BAILED. I HAVE HEARD THAT SHE IS THE MORE DYNAMIC IN SOCIAL SETTINGS. I WOULD SAY SHE TRIES TO BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTION. THEN AGAIN MAYBE SHE FEELS SHE NEEDS TO DO THAT AS A COMPENSATION FOR THE GUV.
A little over 4 minutes, I’m exhausted & shes a narcissist.
No doubt and no thanx.
Trump 2024
You are a trooper.
My thoughts about her being the American Markle of “Me-again” Megan who wanted privacy but seeks media attention.
I bailed on the ‘spitfire jumping off a table’….
On the Ron vid…I did not even make it to him speaking.
Ohh perfect comparison. There’s something completely disingenuous about Casey.
I lasted about as long as you did.
Isn’t she from California? Haven’t researched her. Maybe she is a Getty friend like Newsom.
Yeah that became more than I could tolerate and even though I tried I couldn’t make it more than a couple of minutes.
😂I stopped after he said “nobody has fought harder than I have for the American People.” I stopped, laughed out loud… and realized I had failed the test🤣.
Great one. Needed that.
Sorry, team. Three minutes, max. Look, I think Ron has bitten off more of the globalist scheme than he planned on; he is more disconnected with the base than anyone yet he is getting paid handsomely.
Part of me feels for the guy, but you need to understand the cartel you sign up with.
This Floridian voted for DeSadsack, but never again. Insurance companies screwing homeowners left and right and RD quit his job as Governor. He has made himself unelectable by seeking that brass ring.
And yet he’s still collecting a paycheck from you, isn’t he?
Me thinks Mrs. DeSantis is on speed. She is high on something.
I thought the same thing, she winds herself up and witters on and on. I am not familiar with drugs but l am experienced with the speech patterns of witnesses giving evidence. First of all, Casey speaks way too fast, she barely takes a breath, it creates an overload feel to whatever she is saying. There is also a hint of nervousness underpinned by her ruthless desire to hold the audience.
Casey lacks authenticity.
I lasted 5.33mins, watching this drivel.
Ok, I made it through the entire video. All parents like to tell stories about their kids when in a gathering relatives and friends not at political events, boring and absolutely nothing governing a state. I was ready to scream if I heard another “ harnessing horse power”. Someone find the poor animal and set’em free. This women speaks 500 words a minute, I can listen to 100, don’t trust anyone who talks faster than you can listen, for me it means they’re trying to slide a lot past you, creates mental fatigue, becomes just erratic white noise. I’ll just say got leave, have a great day …..bye. Sundance you’re a cruel task master. Lol
omg, that line was hilarious: “Someone find the poor animal and set’em free..”
I choked on my coffee.
4:41 Casey just drones on but unnaturally fast to the point that her pauses to breathe seem out of place.
Two minutes, 3 seconds followed by a double shot of bourbon.
First thing I noticed is that she did not answer the first question. Instead she went on a non-stop tangent about her kids which I assume was supposed to be cute. It wasn’t! Sounds like they have no parental supervision. If she told one more boring breathless story about her kids, I was going to scream! She finally stopped talking about her kids but I had to fast forward because I was so bored! She comes across as totally fake and trying way too hard. She thinks way too much of herself! In all of those many many many words, there was no substance!
I watched the second video and wanted to punch DeSantis in the face when he ignored the question and bragged about his fundraising! That’s not fundraising! That’s billionaire donors giving you bribes in exchange for doing their bidding. I can’t stand him or his fake wife.
As soon as she said, ‘first baby born to a sitting governor of Florida in 50 years.’ I was done. 🙄
I got as far as the kid jumping off the table. Tell it to the bridge table honey. Yikes.
yes, me too. How is that an accomplishment?
That’s when I shut her off also. What kind of accomplishment is that for the people of Florida? Where’s the refund of the money they’re not earning from Floridians?
I was going to post a clip from the movie Major League which involved a crude hand gesture as my response to that line. However, I knew that in all likelyhood that SD and or Ad Rem would have taken it down immediately and would have put me on time out, LOL.
10 sec. from 2.18, right after she said, “…the first born to a sitting governor in the state of FL in 50 yrs.” Yawn.
By the way, I want to ask her when referring to Ron why she always says, “the governor,” and not “my husband.”
Yuck. Off putting.
I’m not sure what the time stamp was, but it was the part where she was describing getting slime out of oriental rugs and she then said, “I could go on forever…”. That was it for me.
As for the Ron video, the head movement drives me crazy. For some reason, I get the impression Ron is trying, very unsuccessfully, to imitate Ronald Reagan. Desanctimonius is a fake.
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It was a bit like a train wreck. Almost hypnotic until it was not.
Oh LOL just noticed Casey’s tee shirt, Mama’s for DeSantis. Blech.
Aderall perhaps?
This “interview” reminded me of an experience we had when we invited a new neighbor over years ago. She yammered incessantly for an hour while we struggled to get a word in edgewise. When she finally left we looked at each other with mouths agape, not believing what just happened. Could not look at her husband from then on without wondering what he must endure, or whether her run-on was a pathologic result of lack of conversation at home.
I lasted about six minutes, then I got tired of hearing Eleanor yelling over and over, “Hey, I’d hit that!”
(Amelia Earhart had a puzzled look on her face)
I win. I watched zero seconds.
I’m good….you can have your winnings. Migraine coming on….good grief can that woman talk.
62 seconds, tapped out.
6.35
does that count? What do I win?
Second, that is…
1 minute 30 seconds. My first thought was “who cares about what your third kid does?” Stay home and take care of your kids. Next thought was “why aren’t you home taking care of your health? Didn’t cancer teach you what is really important? Do you want to see your kids grow up??”
I pushed myself and made it to 3:00 but…..THAT VOICE!!!!
When Casey speaks it is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. UGH!!
59 seconds. Those girls are in for a rude awakening.
1:36 (stopped it at 3:50). Her voice is grating, and she doesn’t even pause for a breath. All the lady asked was how do you cope — did she ever get to the answer?
Ron? He doesn’t look a bit happy. He seems very uncomfortable. He needs to loosen up — not sure he’s up to this.
Two min.
1 minute 26 seconds. She seems nice. She has a machine gun mouth and just talks. I have heard this conversation before. . . many times. I don’t know why some people do this other than to think maybe they just need to get every thought our of their mouth when given the chance.
I made it to 6:47. Good grief! Wow! And this is his wife… okay, I am REALLY convinced now that this guy is a totally fake, plastic, and strangely mental swamp dweller.
Side note. I joined our local republican committe here in Stafford, Virginia about a year and a half ago. I wanted to get “inside” and change things. I found out there were many of us doing the same. We all worked hard for the party, went through a district redrawing (done by previous democrat majority), a spirited district primary, and then a long tough congressional race last November — we lost to Spanberger, which is another story. Well, I and many other “Trumpers” worked 45 days of early voting, did door knocking, all-day events, and voting polls. We worked our rearends off.
Fast forward to a just concluded primary. Many of us supported Matt Strickland who had called out our RINO/phony republican governor Youngkin on his two-faced approach to unconstitutional Wuhan (Covid) restrictions concerning his restaurant. Many of you may remember this. Anyway, Matt was winning and it was all volunteers, vets like me, and the kind of people you don’t see in republican committee meetings and their social circles, i.e., snobs. Well, the uni-party machine couldn’t have that. They spent nearly a million dollars in this primary, governor squish-empty-nothing-burger Youngkin basically ran against Matt, and they sent out 2 to 3 mailers EVERY day with outrageous lies about Matt
My “republican” party proceeded to smear Matt’s combat service as “for profit,” belittle and diminish him and his wife’s creating a small business from nothing (sneered as they called him a sandwich shop owner), and told uninformed republican voters that he was a liberal supporting transgenderism. It was unreal. Never seen anything like this. In the primary last year, these same snobs went insane when one candidate dared to call out another’s voting record. “We don’t attack other Republicans.” Wow. Anyway, I and many others are QUITTING the committee. They won’t have us to do all the work anymore. Good luck. WHO IS JOHN GALT?
I have so many stories to relate on this primary and the past one. I feel like I should share them here, but I know I am winding long. Sorry Sundance.
I’ve also done hand-to-hand combat with RINOs, real up close and personal. No doubt some of those like-minded, fellow travelers sidling up to you were plants, as well.
I have this uncanny ability to read people. I can smell their patronizing insincerity and pandering a mile away. Can’t figure out why so many patriots remain so gullible. It really gets old.
I want a divorce from the Republican Party. They can keep the whole shebang. It’s unhealthy to stay in a toxic relationship.
Both parties are the same-controlled. And the money and influence is used to destroy real opposition which could change policies and stop governmental waste. That is my concern with the money RDS has raised. The negative campaigning will be huge! Relentless, and, historically a percentage of people will be so turned off they will not vote for either candidate which typically plays into the hand of the negative campaigner who appears will be DeSantis
1:25 and I was done.
6:02. These people are so full of themselves there is no room for WE the people.
Given my expectations, I didn’t bother….
1:05. When she went for the ‘corn’ I’d seen enough.
6:48 too long.
I watched it all. Casey is awesome, as is Kim. I prefer Trump to DeSantis, and I normally like your analyses.
But here, brother, you are really screwed up. What happened to you?
It’s a bit early in the day to be getting high, don’t you think?
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RDS influencer.
6:32 – that’s enough, LOL
Seriously no more than 45 seconds. She is a fast talker so she said a lot of nothing in that time.
1:05.01. That’s it, I don’t like her.
5:47
She sounds bipolar.
Helicopter mother and gov. wife. No thanks.
I beat you by 1 second😊
Playing the clinical diagnosis game, my guess is she has a Borderline Personality Disorder rather than being Bi Polar.
BPD == a subset of clinical Narcissism.
She needs to be asked if she rewallpapered the Gov. Mansion at 2am.
The Mrs. At 36 sec. The carnaval barker voice of her’s was too much. His was 1:45, I kept waiting for him to answer the questions. Instead we got his canned spiele, which sounds robotic.