50 thousand of my own money to the first of my guys who feally nails fake evidence supporting my lurid fascist imagination

Let’s check in on Ron DeSantis’s anti-education goon and subject to fawning New York Times profiles inter alia Chris Rufo:

The standard for what counts as “hard” and “verifiable” are going to be non-existent and they’re still going to come up with nothing. But of course the idea is to pretend that there is some actual controversy here rather than a bunch of creeps ginning up hatred against hard-working migrants who are saving a community.

It’s embarrassing for anybody to treat this guy as some kind of respectable intellectual, but there’s something about major universities paying one of their most prominent and unscrupulous enemies to speak that’s particularly depressing.

…Apparently this is a sequel (feat. Jimmy Concepts):

You don’t say pic.twitter.com/rURh68UexR— Jacqueline Sweet (@JSweetLI) September 11, 2024