Via The Recount:

🤔 At a Hurricane #Idalia press conference, Gov. Ron #DeSantis (R-#Florida) was asked today if he supports President Biden’s call for more money for FEMA’s disaster fund: “How Washington handles all this stuff, I don’t quite understand.”

(Reminder: DeSantis was a three-term congressman.)

@GottaLaff “I don’t understand it, put me in charge of it.”
@quincypeck @GottaLaff
After all that's what the last administration did!
@GottaLaff Gee maybe if he had an Ivy League education he could explain it. . . . 🤷
@GottaLaff Dude, this is literally not your first rodeo-er, hurricane. How is this not part of your job to know at least some of it?
@GottaLaff “But, I DO want to be president”
@Eddiethebulldog He's the worst. Well, one of the worst
@GottaLaff

And this reply is treated by his supporters as a point of pride instead of a dangerous indicator of incompetence. Especially in Florida, one of the states most dependent on FEMA (due to regular state-wide catastrophes called "hurricanes") and the federal gov't (due to expensive real estate being covered by rising sea levels.)
@benhm3 Right. It's all topsy turvy
@GottaLaff (...and thinks he should be President)

@GottaLaff

I can't believe he's not driven out of the state with firesticks sticking out of a triple-wide Ford F67834-50 for not getting disaster assisstance.

They want to police bathrooms THIS MUCH.

@artisanrox I can't believe Florida voters.

@GottaLaff

i mean srsly, we can all clutch our pearls how performatively stupid these fascists are, but people PUT them in positions of power.

@artisanrox That's the part that we have to overcome. It drives me nuts.
@GottaLaff as in "I don't understand why THOSE STATES deserve money?"

@GottaLaff “Golly gosh gee, I’m just an average Everyman of the people, I can’t understand this fancy newfangled politics stuff.” -Ron Farmer Green Jeans DeSantis, probably

Reminds me of Clarence Thomas saying he didn’t follow the rules re: financial disclosure because the law is too complicated for him to understand while he’s rv’ing overnight in the Walmart parking lot like the rest of us common peasants, I mean people.

@tiamat271 Ha, yeah, pretty much.