This whole thread is hinging on the theory that the author was successful in dunking on DeSantis’ dunk attempt by pointing out that this was a boating reference. It wasn’t. She wasn’t.

At this point, I wonder if even that would discredit him in the eyes of his fan base.

Not too mention that vacant, Stepford Wives like stare with the overtly bright pearlies.

Listless is another term for becalmed. It means the sails are up but the boat isn't moving.

$20 says he already does.

I assumed that it's some obscure biblical reference which fundie types throw around as part of their jargon.

The only nautical interpretation appears to be the author’s. No one else said anything about boats, I guess she just saw ‘vessels’ and her minds went to boats. (A boat can be listing, that is to say ‘tilted in one direction or another that indicates damage/change in buoyancy’ - ‘listing to port’.) Everyone else seems…

I read it as “having no direction of their own”? Of course they’re insulted because they know it’s actually true. Still, it’s a pretty tortured metaphor.

just missed “taking away our guns” and stealing our jerbs” and you’d have nailed a bingo in one sentence.  ;-)

“Listless vessels” AKA “restless husks”.

How dare you? That’s fuchsia 

Father? More like sperm donor, Musk probably cannot even remember the names of his kids and is more interested in being a edge lord than a parent.

Can a listless vessel be affected by something coming down a pike? Is the pike flooded?

Then again, any vessel, passenger or cargo, ought to have a manifest. A vessel without a list of what’s on board could be a bureaucratic inconvenience...

In other news, the chair of one of DeSantis’s PACs who claimed he had a business degree turned out to be referring to a Sizzler certification course he took when he was 19. None of that is made up.

Indeed. “Listless” is the opposite of “listing” and would be a very good thing on a boat — although, etymologically, the list of listless has absolutely nothing to do with boats (“list” meant “desire”, so “lack of desire” is the meaning of listless).

Over-population in the global north is the real problem. People in this part of the world make the climate crisis much worse with their lifestyles than their counterparts in the global south do. A population drop in first-world countries would be of great benefit to slowing down the inevitable destruction of the…

Just pure corporate worm brain.

This was always stupid posturing - his bar in Nashville never stopped serving Bud Light.

Sure thing, Crystal.