Ron DeSantis Really is “Florida Man” Incarnated

The guy who set himself on fire outside the Trump trial last week turned out to have been a whacky conspiracy theorist. He did what he did for utterly crazy reasons and was not doing it for Trump. He had driven up from his home in Florida, hence was also a “Florida Man”. In other words, what we had was just one more “Florida Man” news story — Florida Man sets himself on Fire outside Trump Trial for no rational reason.

“Florida Man” is actually a meme.

The term “Florida Man” has it’s very own Wikipedia page, where it is explained …

Florida Man is an Internet meme first popularized in 2013,[1] referring to an alleged prevalence of people performing irrational or maniacal actions in the U.S. state of Florida. Internet users typically submit links to news stories and articles about unusual or strange crimes and other events occurring in Florida, with stories’ headlines often beginning with “Florida Man …” followed by the main event of the story.[2]

Given the reputation the State has, it is perhaps wholly appropriate for Florida Man Ron DeSantis to also be Gov of that same state.

He is rather famous, and perhaps far more correctly tagged “infamous”, for doing a whole slew of utterly bizarre and deeply weird stuff while Gov …