Watch Stephen Colbert rip Ron DeSantis' new bio with some savage help from the New York Times

Colbert firebombed Ron DeSantis' tedious, whitewashed autobio in high style Tuesday, flashing 7 vicious takes on the new book to viewers during an extended diatribe in which he added choice quotes from a scorching New York Times piece, like "…can't distract from the dull coldness at this book's core." and "...courageously free of anything that resembles charisma, or a discernible sense of humor."

     Along the way Colbert took swipes at the law DeSantis had to have passed to replace his original legislation to strip Disney's taxing authority of its Orlando environs after it was discovered that his first hamfisted stab at legislative revenge would have left many Orlando property owners owning a $2 billion tote bag of Disney debt. DeSantis' redo puts control of development in a board of DeSantis cronies and returns responsibility for taxes on Disney properties to Mickey's lap.

    Colbert did not forget to rip DeSantis' cronies, who include a principal proponent of Florida's new Don't Say Gay law, a businessman who runs a right-wing Christian ministry, an attorney who runs the Orlando chapter of the right-wing Federalist Society (which brought America Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh) and the hunter who killed Bambi's mom.

The entire takedown is embedded below.

Iowa's 1,600-page government "reorganization" gives GOP Gov. Reynolds power only Putin and Ron DeSantis would love

Official after official would now be appointed and serve "at the pleasure of the governor" in Kim Reynolds' new power grab/score settling maneuver. The Cedar Rapids Gazette, has all the details and they ain't pretty— unless you're an authoritarian, freedom-hating Republican. Here's a link to Todd Dorman's scorching exposé. He appears to have gone through all 1,600 pages with a fine-toothed comb.