 |
| Called the hell out of that one. |
You've had your fifteen minutes, Governor. Go back to Florida and f**k with Disney, and leave presidential campaigns to serious candidates. And sincere mad props for taking a sizzling parting shot at Jeb Haley's campaign on your way back to Tallahassee. There could be a DHS directorship in your future...until the coming election gets buggered harder than the last one.
Vivek for DHS. My number one suggestion to him -- Letters of Marque issued to bail bondsmen. $x per head, live on the hoof. The Southern border would be covered in people trying to cash in.
ReplyDeleteAesop,
ReplyDeleteIn the years I have visited this blog, I have enjoyed the vast majority of your posts, and at least appreciated the points you made on those I didn't. On substantive issues, there's very little you've said that I disagree with.
With all of that being said....
F*ck off.
I never used to believe there was a cult of personality surrounding Trump, but nothing has changed my mind on that like the way in which a governor almost universally regarded as one of America's best, and one of the most dogged fighters against the Left, magically became a "low-energy RINO" (not your words, but you don't seem to disagree) and a traitor to the cause, because he had the gall to suggest he might be a more effective leader.
I guess everyone's forgotten the way in which he squelched mandates for the clot shot.
Or how he stamped out the potential for voter fraud so thoroughly as to make once-purple Florida a reliably Republican state for at least the near future.
Or--since you bring up f**king with Disney--his demonstrated willingness to go to the mat with corporations trying to f**k with kids: a willingness notably lacking, I might add, in Our Orange Savior.
But maybe none of that mattered. Maybe MAGA was never really about anything except Trump's ego, and destroying anyone who might threaten said ego. I hope not; but that's all it's about now.
I don't know if DeSantis could have won in November, were he the nominee. Perhaps not. But anyone who still thinks Trump has a snowball's chance of doing so is deluded at best; and speaking for myself, I know whose ship I'd rather go down with, and it ain't the aging showman who still can't or won't admit his mistakes on Covid.
Go ahead and use your "Natzofast, Guido" or "Cluebat of Knowledge" lines if you want, or just shoot this whole thing into the ether. I don't care. It will be a long time before I can forgive you--and those like you--for this betrayal of the things I thought we all believed in.
How did I "betray" any of that?
ReplyDeleteMy beef with DeSantis is twofold:
1) He couldn't shut up about the 2020 steal fast enough, and seek to supplant Trump at every opportunity, knowing that Trump was going to be right where he is now.
So I have no love for a political opportunist climbing to power over someone else's head.
2) He ran the most bumbling, inept, screamingly not-ready-for-prime-time campaign I've seen in my entire lifetime, from either wing of the Uniparty. This bespeaks a man who can't figure out what he's doing, how to do it, or untie his own shoelaces long enough to get about it. That only became obvious to the entire country, as his poll numbers plummeted the more people got to know him. He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
If someone can't run a presidential campaign, they really have no business getting into the race to fuck things up. Every dollar spent fighting DeSantis and the other wastes-of-time is a dollar stolen from slamming Emperor Poopypants this fall.
DeSantis seems to make a decent governor, for Florida.
He should stay there as long as the citizens of the Sunshine State see fit to keep him around, and not flatter any further ambitions until he can figure out how to do anything harder.
Governor of a Top Five state is nothing to be ashamed of.
It is, unquestionably, a far cry from being presidential material.
And Trump is not "my" guy, as such. I said so in 2016, and that hasn't changed.
He is, however, and also beyond any rational discussion, THE guy this time around.
That much was obvious two years out, let alone Jan. 21, 2021, and I said so.
DeSantis' pursuit of the nomination was nothing more than delusion and the hubris of his inner circle of yes-men getting the better of his common sense.
And doing his best to undermine Trump from the outset - just like Jeb Haley, and the other political dwarves doing Biden's work for him.
Which places the rest of the field just slightly above Judas Pence, not just IMHO, but in the opinion of 2/3rds of the party, coast-to-coast.
Again, that last demonstrating a decided lack of fitness for the job, and a further lack of mental clarity, mainly from DeSantis & Co. sniffing their own farts.
I don't think anyone is going to dethrone the Emperor Select in November, because I think they're going to double down on Obvious Steal v2.0.
But pretending 1.0 didn't happen, and seeking to capitalize on that at Trump's expense, amidst his legal persecution, is simply a shitty thing to do, and marks DeSantis as a shitty kind of guy, when it gets down to character.
I have no use for that sort, and he'll either step up, take his lumps, and play ball for the greater good, or continue to be a second-rate local pol, and settle for that.
I'm happy to see the back of him on the national stage until he decides what kind of a person he really is: the guy Floridians thought he was, or the guy he's been the last year on the national stage. The two legends don't line up.
At the moment, and until ever proven otherwise, he has been found wanting in the sternest test of character there is.
That's not a "cult of personality".
That's seeing someone's character in the crucible turn out to be fit for fish sinkers.
I have no apology for calling that as I see it.
I agree - Desantis could have done so much better over the last 2 years, especially in working with Trump pre election instead of against him.
DeleteAs governor of a top 5 state, especially the one Trump is a resident of, he could have been a shield for Trump and required most of the charges Trump is facing to be supported in Florida court as a condition of Trump being booked in other states.
He could have easily pushed back against the Mar a Lago raid - it went on for 9 hours, more than long enough for Florida LE to respond, if they didn't know about it ahead of time..
So on, and so on... He could have changed the tenor of politics for the country by doing this but chose not to.
He could have essentially expanded his Florida changes nationally this way.
Jonathan
Sorry to upset anyone who wants to be "never Trump" again.......but either we have an imperfect candidate who can do the job, or mellow yellow Haley. Thin lips cannot figure out that the Confederacy has been gone for awhile, brass monuments cannot hurt anyone, and not everyone is Black/Mulatoo. Trump is a sinner in many ways, but he worships the True God and doesn't fXXX the lowly middle-class folks over. Trump can win, DeSantis will not. Believe me when I say as a Kommiefornian, the bar for bastardship is low, no one cares about The Northeastern Elites, and slick Willie has nothing on Gruesome Newsome.
ReplyDeleteI thought he'd hang on a little longer. Nikki is a corporate creature.
ReplyDeleteT-Rav,
ReplyDeleteSome points:
1) DeSantis probably had the easiest layup in politics if he had approached Trump to be the VP right up front. Deliver Florida on a silver platter. Then attack dog the Left assisting Trump for 4 years. At the end of which DeSantis inherits the GOP leadership. (Keep in mind 2028 will now have open seasons in both parties lacking an incumbent.) All it took was patience and DeSantis is a young man.
2) Rather than wait, DeSantis ramped up a campaign effort. Now that alone is really not an issue. Its who he associated with to staff it -- All Jeb UniParty types in most of the key positions. "You are who you associate with", old advise, but true and smothered DeSantis from the beginning. The Jebites goal was to dump on Trump and not to nominate DeSantis.
Shame really. The Dim Left Loonies could have been kept out of the Executive branch for over a decade. That is a lot of time to accomplish some changes.
Viewing from the nose-bleed section (aka cheap seats) as I do, it is very difficult to ascertain who the players on the field truly are in reality. Optics afford some characteristics to become more apparent, but none of us can really know. DeSantis is a good guy (I believe) and could make a run in 2028. But his candidacy seemed...flat, uninspiring.
ReplyDeleteNimarata Randhawa is a plant, a total Swamp Cesspool Operative with a snowballs chance, let alone the fact she is not "Natural Born", making her completely ineligible for Veep let alone President (parents were not citizens when she was born in '72, and the "anchor baby" thing is a fallacy). Neither is Harris for that matter, besides being dumber than a goldfish.
This report lines it out in serious detail, but it doesn't take a genius to see the flagrant ignorance being employed by her backers (not that they care):
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/no-constitution-does-not-allow-children-born-non/
Since we don't live in a vacuum or perfect world...the ONLY person who can take them on is Donald J Trump. This is his swansong, and he hates cheats and scumbags wrecking the greatest country on the planet. Foibles aside (who doesn't have them?), Trump's presidency was THE BEST in modern history,and I don't care about "mean tweets", I care about America First and the dictators a--holes in the world being put on notice, not coddled. The man is a warrior...for We The People.
My concern is The Swamp haven't been able to sidetrack him otherwise, even with their insane Lawfare tactics (Fani's fanny is on the block)...so they may resort to "eliminating the threat". They don't want America to be great, they want us controlled, and Trump is the obstacle to their anarchy and chaos. Squinty-Eyed Joe - the newest country song when played backwards gives us our country back, seems ready to short-circuit and blow a gasket with all that Chinesium Special Sauce they're pumping into him. Not sure he will even be alive in November.
(Apologies for the length, lots to cover in this tortured logic world of asinine politics that is working to undermine everything out Founders set forth.)
I don't think anyone is going to dethrone the Emperor Select in November, because I think they're going to double down on Obvious Steal v2.0.
ReplyDeletePerhaps. Or perhaps not.
Mathematically it becomes increasingly difficult as you pass 3%. So, if Trump pulls 55% of the vote in the general election, I don't see the steal working, just like it didn't work in 2016.
However, November is quite away off. Not only does Trump have to get there with no felony convictions, there is no telling what 3rd party candidates pop up as spoilers. Will RFK be a Perot?
Additionally, if a a few weeks from the election, if it looks like Trump has a sure-fire lead outside the margin of cheat, will there be an assassination?
Interesting times...