A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis is going after the Transportation Security Administration in new comments from New Hampshire.
“One of the things that bugs me is TSA,” DeSantis said Friday night in Dover, regarding the federal law enforcement arm created in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks against the United States.
The Governor’s grievance was not with something TSA has done, but with what First Lady Casey DeSantis and he believed might happen.
“We did a trip to Israel and we didn’t have kids yet. So she got water from the Sea of Galilee and brought it back that we would use for baptisms when we had a family,” DeSantis explained.
DeSantis described a modest container: “a plastic water bottle like you could buy at a gas station.”
“And so we’re bringing it in and she’s like, you know, ‘Oh man, are they going to make me spill this out?'”
Happily for Ron and Casey DeSantis, “Israeli security” let them retain the fluid.
“You know, these guys are actually trying to prevent terrorism. This isn’t just theater. So we go in and .. the guy just looks at it and we’re like, ‘Is this OK’? He’s like, ‘Yeah, it’s water. Who cares? Take it.”
DeSantis claimed TSA “would have made you spill it out,” before illustrating other alleged excesses and failures.
“They’ll have a grandmother take off her shoes and they do all this stuff … and then any time Special Forces runs exercises, they get through every single time,” DeSantis added. “So it’s like, wait a minute, why do we have this big bureaucracy that’s not actually adding to security where you could do it at a much lighter footprint by just recognizing that some people clearly are not going to be threats.”
Ironically, one of the stories the First Family tells often is about how baptismal water from the Sea of Galilee was lost when he moved into the Governor’s Mansion.
“There’s people that come clean up after .. and all they saw was a half used bottle, they didn’t know the difference,” DeSantis lamented.
Luckily, once DeSantis mentioned that at a Boca Raton synagogue, “within 24 hours there were people digging into the Sea of Galilee,” which faciliated young Mamie’s baptism.
7 comments
Michael K
January 19, 2024 at 10:35 pm
What does he know about TSA? He flies on the private jets of the Uber wealthy fools who control him.
PeterH
January 19, 2024 at 11:47 pm
Please America…. keep this ignorant political hack out of office! Holy water can’t save this idiot.
MH/Duuuval
January 20, 2024 at 7:47 pm
Let’s give credit to The Help for prying Dee’s fingers from the bottle of wholly water.
Ron luvs Earl Forever
January 20, 2024 at 5:13 am
Harvard and Yale but STILL cannot separate Church from State.
Some “master race” White people turned out to be…
Jesus wept-
Tom
January 20, 2024 at 9:50 am
Try that “it’s just water, we don’t care” stuff now that Hamas has attacked them and see how that works out. Stupidity aside, he really is just babbling incoherently at this stage. He doesn’t seem to have a shred of policy and there’s certainly none of the ‘we’re going to bring everyone together and sing kumbaya’ stuff that retail politicians usually do. Seriously, a vote for rhonda is a vote for what exactly?
Joe
January 20, 2024 at 10:56 am
His little story contains just enough oddly specific cultural references to be a sure-thing made-up anecdote by the world’s worst campaigner. What an absolute weirdo.
Beth
January 20, 2024 at 1:13 pm
Wow this is one of the most ridiculous arguments made by dumb dumb DeSantis. He cannot stop showing the world what a complete imbecile he is. He and his wife are both insane. Holy water? Give me a freaking break. This lunatic wants to be president? The only place he belongs is on the trash heap of history with the rest of the Republican cult.
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