Ron DeSantis is an almost stunningly good actor. This site challenges anyone to find someone who plays “stupid” as naturally and convincingly as DeSantis. He is so good that many readers will be shocked to know that he’s an Ivy law degree grad. Yep, Harvard law.

We are not trying to say that everyone coming out of Harvard law is a world-beater intellectual. The point is that one cannot get in to Harvard law without showing some serious prowess and potential. And obviously one doesn’t graduate unless that person is “good enough.”

But does any governor play stupid better? DeSantis must be the type of genius that knows that if one looks and sounds like a genius one isn’t going anywhere in MAGA world. So he acts and sounds stupid.

Take for example his conversation with Maria Bartiromo over the simple question of whether he’s been vaxxed or not. We thought that the MAGAs were all about “choice” and not so much hating on people who are vaccinated. DeSantis is smart enough to have been vaccinated, but doesn’t do a very good job at just saying it:

BARTIROMO: “Governor, we’re not even sure what fully vaccinated means anymore,”

*POLITICAL FLARE INTERRUPTION: Yes, we DO know what fully vaccinated means. It means 2 original shots and a booster, or one J/J shot and a booster. See?

Onward.

Bartiromo referenced recent comments by Dr. Anthony Fauci that “fully vaccinated” could mean “three shots, which is two shots for the vaccination and then one booster shot.”

PF: SEE? IS THAT COMPLICATED?

Bartiromo then asked a very straightforward question of the Florida governor: “Have you gotten the booster?”

DESANTIS: “So, uh, uh, I’ve done, whatever I did, the normal shot,” replied DeSantis.

He then launched into his usual commentary about vaccines, including boosters, being “people’s individual decisions about what they want to do,” bragging that Florida had banned “vaccine passports.

Yeah, good for you, Governor. Make sure that Florida welcomes the people too selfish to do the right thing.

“One of the reasons why we took those steps is because we knew the definition of vaccination would be a shifting target,” he told Bartiromo. “And I predicted this a month and a half ago, and people said that I was wrong…

Absolute complete unadulterated BS. He “didn’t see this coming,” he was anti-vax (as a policy) from the very beginning and the booster decision and requirements had NOTHING to do with his decision and we STILL have not heard anything that could be considered confusing.

“It’s gone way, way too far, and that is a decision that people should make for themselves. But they should not have their rights, freedoms or liberties restricted based on these boosters.”

What about my rights and my daughter’s rights? This is the problem with a contagious disease. MAGAs – as per usual – talk about themselves and only about themselves. In five days my daughter and I are getting on a plane, she gets the window, I’ll sit between her and the creepy guy, and what about our rights to not have an “I have an immune system guy” coughing throughout the flight? What about OUR rights?

DeSantis plays to the crowd that only worries about themselves.

Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo: “Have you gotten the booster?”

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL): "So, uh, I've done, whatever I did. The normal shot. And that at the end of the day is peoples' individual decisions about what they want to do." pic.twitter.com/AJ6XF8UN5V

— The Recount (@therecount) December 19, 2021

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