“What happened to Donald Trump?” Thus begins the opening shot of the pro-Ron DeSantis Never Back Down super PAC’s assault against Donald Trump. It’s an ad that misses the mark, but speaks volumes about Ron DeSantis and his troubles. First off, nothing has happened to Donald Trump. He is nothing if not entirely predictable and utterly consistent. The premise is an absurdity. It also lands like a slap delivered by someone who thinks this is an action outfit:
For the life of me, I cannot figure out this rudderless DeSantis campaign.
If he wanted to show strength, he should have immediately called Trump a Yankee who doesn't belong in Florida the first moment Trump attacked him.
He should have called him a loser, that the Republican Party is done with, and he should have ended the speech by ordering Trump to leave Mar A Lago (because it's not written in the codes that he can live there).
But Ron is only strong enough to attack Disney or berate kids in public.
“These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they do, and one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you!” Ron De Sanctimonious new campaign theme song. Kinda catchy isn’t it?
He’s soft. He has soft pudgy pudding fingers, his white go-go boots--Wellington does not make white boots---are soft. His political ad treads softly on his tough MAGA opponent. He’s conservatively moving forward and testing the waters. I don’t think he can swim with the big fish and he knows that too.
Good to hear you are focusing on him. He is a very dangerous politician for Florida and our country. Please keep an eye on him and keep the reality of who he really is on him. If he gets in power you can see where he is headed. Just look at Florida. No freedom, just smoke and mirrors. Authoritarian government and no way to pull out of it with his gerrymandering. He’s well funded and dangerous
The answer is they are not really able to win, but they sure as hell know how to work the Electoral College. They've also gaslit everyone to think we are not really a democracy, but a republic.
I try to be optimistic. I hope I'm right too. It's afternoon now, I wasn't right about the Dominion case. I really hoped for a trial. Spoiler? - they settled.
You are correct in all your assessments of Ron. He is weak and thin-skinned. It is evident by the animosity he has shown towards Disney, Florida's biggest employer. He has made the calculation that alienating Disney for speaking out about his policies is a fight worth having. Yes, Disney will not walk away from their multi-billion dollar place in Florida. However, they are fighting back by changing their management structure so DeSantis can not have an equal seat at the table. I believe Disney's next move if DeSantis keeps interfering in operations is to move their board to California where his interference will not have an impact. DeSantis wants what Trump had and that is a shot at sitting behind the resolute desk of the oval office. Unfortunately that will never happen because of his partisan politics and his hateful policies.
All dictators and despots need a corrupt courts and followers in order to thrive. Hitler had his, excuse my words, Hitler had his pet jew, Erhard Milch. Now the white christian national party has their house nig***, in Clarence Thomas. The difference of Milch and Thomas is one was bought with the lives of his family and the other was bought on the slave market for money and privileges. I will leave up to you who is worse for I have already decided for myself. Unlike Milch, Thomas surrounds himself in world that hates him so much that they will use his greed against him in the end. Milch was a Nazi and had a brilliant mind for all things war and his knowledge was used with his acknowledgement and cooperation. Thomas has been bought for far less and his knowledge is being used to foment policies which will end the Great American Experience if we let it. History repeats itself when lessons are not learned or if they are forgotten. Stand up to the corruption in this country before it is too late.
DeSantis, by all appearances, does not seem to grasp that Disney is a multinational corporation. They have many avenues they can take. It will be interesting to see the outcome of this battle, when historically you are talking about the party of big business.
Hell, if he can’t beat Mickey in his home state with the power of his legislature behind him, how can he expect to last even through the first round in a fight with the twice impeached, criminally charged Orange Guy?
He's not going to win against Disney. Not gonna happen when you fill your administration with apparatchiks and mangy dogs. Like Joseph Ladapo. DeSantis has guys like that. Does DeSantis actually think he has more power than Bob frigging Iger?
Every time I see those WHITE BOOTS, I am triggered. Add a nice wig and some heavy make-up et voila: Ronnie D, the closet cross-dresser and Drag Queen, reading Art of the Steal at my local library. Sorry, just naughty thoughts today. :-(
Tim Ryan: "I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other." (The GOP is the antithesis to this.)
We must protect the smallest living things. Let nature manage us. I appreciate that you talked about your childhood. I've always trusted animals more than people. I hope many people watch what you've shared here. The humans don't understand the principles of nature. Thank You.
DeSantis is in a bind because he is a fascist, and Trump is not. He can only do real fascist things and blame an amorphous, non-definable "woke" group of people, which will through time and accumulated fascist power become more identifiable to people as specific minority groups. That part is coming if and when he gains more power.
Trump is in it for the money, but DeSantis is in it for the power.
Well, not so fast. Donald Koller, not so fast. Study fascism, read your history, read the brilliant Hannah Arendt, study her totalitarianism analysis, her banality of evil, focus January 6th, strip yellow haired bully prez TFG Trump, turn on the lights for his his slick downed cruel fascist Father Fred, the deeply fascist, incredibly prejudiced billionaire slum lord of Queens - the racist father - and study the wanna be, never will be, presidential focused moron fighting with Donald Duck and Disney while imitating Mussolini, light up Gov. DeSantis, stripping libraries of history and curriculum alike as he copies Mussolini and Hitler on their way to the Holocaust, study the weakest of them all, the tall, stupid, insipid, lying, worst Speaker since the deadly awful white haired bloated pseudo Catholic Georgian Newt Gingrich, the antithesis of Speaker Tip of Massachusets, light up Speaker Kevin the Fool from California, focus the fall down ugly fascist married to massive Chinese wealth, the man from ever more violent Louisville, Kentucky, the mercenary, democracy wrecking Moscow Mitch, the Senate Leader that will be remembered for destroying SCOTUS, focus the racist Black hating senators, governors and representatives of The Big Lie Jan 6 Insurrection, the GOP white - and Uncle Tom Black - senators, today’s transparently fascist and deeply screwed up prejudiced and incredibly dangerous failing intellectually bankrupt GOP - no matter where we look - surely you know, Mr. Koller, this bunch threatens the struggling, failing, spendthrift American democracy as much as The Troubles of Northern Ireland threatened England, Ireland, North and South, and, for decades, peace itself... yes, Bully Ron DeSantis is in a bind and he is assuredly fascist, but the wholly fascist illiterate Vulgarian, The Donald, Former Guy Trump is in a worse bind, is surely fascist, and is on his way to sentencing in quite a number of trials... watched over by the cunning, complicit Secret Service, all wrapped with lying DOJ AG Bill Barr, ignoring the patient Robert Swan Mueller, best of them all... the history of this period will rival the Civil War’s failed Reconstruction... and it is ALL driven my racism and America’s Original Sin, SLAVERY... and the auction block memorialised in town after town across the South... The party of Lincoln is long dead, the sprit of our greatest is forgotten.. and he was assassinated...
The brilliant Santayana said it well, those of us that cannot remember the past are condemned to relive it... and that is what we are doing. Ignorance and fear are driving this tail spin, and our raw fascists cannot spell Fascism... or define it... and we are doomed if we cannot elevate our White Trash... from all over this land... and elect a congress that can read the past and guide the future... no president can do what we need without support from a people that can read... and America’s Mob reads at a 5th grade level... and does not know what day it is...
Take out and read - For Whom The Bell Tolls - the author committed suicide in Idaho and his writings were outstanding...
Our access focused journalists and journalism itself are failing us... news papers no longer publish across America... and Yale’s multilingual patient Tim Snyder is the best historian we have...
Before recent events, I kept seeing the same talking points about DeSantis:
Be afraid! Be very afraid! He’s Trump but with a Harvard education! He’s going to be so much smarter about destroying our democracy when he is President!
The thing is, he’s not even going to make it in Florida if he keeps governing the way he has been lately. Even Floridians are going to soon tire of his fascist ways. The latest - because Disney didn’t agree with his homophobic mantra - he’s doubling down and threatening to sabotage their new $15 billion investment. In his state. 😳
I found the following information about the general popularity of Disney movies for 2022. A pure popularity contest would suggest that DeSantis in comparison to Mickey productions is a big “Ron who?”
Disney was the highest-grossing studio domestically, tallying $2 billion from “Avatar,” “Black Panther” and “Doctor Strange” sequels. The domestic box office total reached an estimated $7.5 billion in 2022, down around 34% compared to 2019, before the pandemic.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out this rudderless DeSantis campaign.
If he wanted to show strength, he should have immediately called Trump a Yankee who doesn't belong in Florida the first moment Trump attacked him.
He should have called him a loser, that the Republican Party is done with, and he should have ended the speech by ordering Trump to leave Mar A Lago (because it's not written in the codes that he can live there).
But Ron is only strong enough to attack Disney or berate kids in public.
You left out threatening to build a prison right outside Mar-a-Lago.
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Hah! True story. lol
DJT and DeS are both 'toddlers' having tantrums. There are no GOP adults around:(
Yes, if the GOP had any vision, Liz would be running for 2024 with Kinzinger (maybe, maybe not) as VP. Nope -they want to fight and be victims.
Completely agree. Whatever staffer saw those and didn't say a word needs to be fired! lol
Yeah, they bombed it with the boots, big time!
“These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they do, and one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you!” Ron De Sanctimonious new campaign theme song. Kinda catchy isn’t it?
Excellent campaign theme song -brilliant! Thanks:)
He’s soft. He has soft pudgy pudding fingers, his white go-go boots--Wellington does not make white boots---are soft. His political ad treads softly on his tough MAGA opponent. He’s conservatively moving forward and testing the waters. I don’t think he can swim with the big fish and he knows that too.
He sure as hell can’t swim in those damn boots!
Essay question: Compare and contrast this ad with the Puddin’ fingers ad. (2024 points)
Good to hear you are focusing on him. He is a very dangerous politician for Florida and our country. Please keep an eye on him and keep the reality of who he really is on him. If he gets in power you can see where he is headed. Just look at Florida. No freedom, just smoke and mirrors. Authoritarian government and no way to pull out of it with his gerrymandering. He’s well funded and dangerous
He will never get the urban center votes. I don’t see how he can, or any extreme Republican can win in 2024 unless they are able to ramp up cheating.
The answer is they are not really able to win, but they sure as hell know how to work the Electoral College. They've also gaslit everyone to think we are not really a democracy, but a republic.
Agree, however there are limits, even for cheaters.
We can count on their attempts to cheat lie and steal. I hope you are right.
I try to be optimistic. I hope I'm right too. It's afternoon now, I wasn't right about the Dominion case. I really hoped for a trial. Spoiler? - they settled.
Take 'Ron!' Down, Steve! We've been 'nice' long enough. This fascist must be taken down.
You are correct in all your assessments of Ron. He is weak and thin-skinned. It is evident by the animosity he has shown towards Disney, Florida's biggest employer. He has made the calculation that alienating Disney for speaking out about his policies is a fight worth having. Yes, Disney will not walk away from their multi-billion dollar place in Florida. However, they are fighting back by changing their management structure so DeSantis can not have an equal seat at the table. I believe Disney's next move if DeSantis keeps interfering in operations is to move their board to California where his interference will not have an impact. DeSantis wants what Trump had and that is a shot at sitting behind the resolute desk of the oval office. Unfortunately that will never happen because of his partisan politics and his hateful policies.
All dictators and despots need a corrupt courts and followers in order to thrive. Hitler had his, excuse my words, Hitler had his pet jew, Erhard Milch. Now the white christian national party has their house nig***, in Clarence Thomas. The difference of Milch and Thomas is one was bought with the lives of his family and the other was bought on the slave market for money and privileges. I will leave up to you who is worse for I have already decided for myself. Unlike Milch, Thomas surrounds himself in world that hates him so much that they will use his greed against him in the end. Milch was a Nazi and had a brilliant mind for all things war and his knowledge was used with his acknowledgement and cooperation. Thomas has been bought for far less and his knowledge is being used to foment policies which will end the Great American Experience if we let it. History repeats itself when lessons are not learned or if they are forgotten. Stand up to the corruption in this country before it is too late.
DeSantis, by all appearances, does not seem to grasp that Disney is a multinational corporation. They have many avenues they can take. It will be interesting to see the outcome of this battle, when historically you are talking about the party of big business.
Hell, if he can’t beat Mickey in his home state with the power of his legislature behind him, how can he expect to last even through the first round in a fight with the twice impeached, criminally charged Orange Guy?
He's not going to win against Disney. Not gonna happen when you fill your administration with apparatchiks and mangy dogs. Like Joseph Ladapo. DeSantis has guys like that. Does DeSantis actually think he has more power than Bob frigging Iger?
Love it!
Every time I see those WHITE BOOTS, I am triggered. Add a nice wig and some heavy make-up et voila: Ronnie D, the closet cross-dresser and Drag Queen, reading Art of the Steal at my local library. Sorry, just naughty thoughts today. :-(
LOL!!!
Tim Ryan: "I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other." (The GOP is the antithesis to this.)
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/04/17/smallest-living-things-a-film/ CAN you smell the fear?
Thanks for sharing that link!
We must protect the smallest living things. Let nature manage us. I appreciate that you talked about your childhood. I've always trusted animals more than people. I hope many people watch what you've shared here. The humans don't understand the principles of nature. Thank You.
Thanks for sharing this link.
I prefer Michael Steele's gift: WTF, Dumbo, which can be applied to the whole sticky morass and should be made into bumper stickers.
Also, do let's not be relenting or merciful.
Do let's flood Disney Pride as a pro democracy flash mob; perhaps we should arrive in white boots.
Disney Pride flash mob -love it. "Disney Pride" bumper stickers, too. Love this -thanks.
DeSantis is in a bind because he is a fascist, and Trump is not. He can only do real fascist things and blame an amorphous, non-definable "woke" group of people, which will through time and accumulated fascist power become more identifiable to people as specific minority groups. That part is coming if and when he gains more power.
Trump is in it for the money, but DeSantis is in it for the power.
Well, not so fast. Donald Koller, not so fast. Study fascism, read your history, read the brilliant Hannah Arendt, study her totalitarianism analysis, her banality of evil, focus January 6th, strip yellow haired bully prez TFG Trump, turn on the lights for his his slick downed cruel fascist Father Fred, the deeply fascist, incredibly prejudiced billionaire slum lord of Queens - the racist father - and study the wanna be, never will be, presidential focused moron fighting with Donald Duck and Disney while imitating Mussolini, light up Gov. DeSantis, stripping libraries of history and curriculum alike as he copies Mussolini and Hitler on their way to the Holocaust, study the weakest of them all, the tall, stupid, insipid, lying, worst Speaker since the deadly awful white haired bloated pseudo Catholic Georgian Newt Gingrich, the antithesis of Speaker Tip of Massachusets, light up Speaker Kevin the Fool from California, focus the fall down ugly fascist married to massive Chinese wealth, the man from ever more violent Louisville, Kentucky, the mercenary, democracy wrecking Moscow Mitch, the Senate Leader that will be remembered for destroying SCOTUS, focus the racist Black hating senators, governors and representatives of The Big Lie Jan 6 Insurrection, the GOP white - and Uncle Tom Black - senators, today’s transparently fascist and deeply screwed up prejudiced and incredibly dangerous failing intellectually bankrupt GOP - no matter where we look - surely you know, Mr. Koller, this bunch threatens the struggling, failing, spendthrift American democracy as much as The Troubles of Northern Ireland threatened England, Ireland, North and South, and, for decades, peace itself... yes, Bully Ron DeSantis is in a bind and he is assuredly fascist, but the wholly fascist illiterate Vulgarian, The Donald, Former Guy Trump is in a worse bind, is surely fascist, and is on his way to sentencing in quite a number of trials... watched over by the cunning, complicit Secret Service, all wrapped with lying DOJ AG Bill Barr, ignoring the patient Robert Swan Mueller, best of them all... the history of this period will rival the Civil War’s failed Reconstruction... and it is ALL driven my racism and America’s Original Sin, SLAVERY... and the auction block memorialised in town after town across the South... The party of Lincoln is long dead, the sprit of our greatest is forgotten.. and he was assassinated...
The brilliant Santayana said it well, those of us that cannot remember the past are condemned to relive it... and that is what we are doing. Ignorance and fear are driving this tail spin, and our raw fascists cannot spell Fascism... or define it... and we are doomed if we cannot elevate our White Trash... from all over this land... and elect a congress that can read the past and guide the future... no president can do what we need without support from a people that can read... and America’s Mob reads at a 5th grade level... and does not know what day it is...
Take out and read - For Whom The Bell Tolls - the author committed suicide in Idaho and his writings were outstanding...
Our access focused journalists and journalism itself are failing us... news papers no longer publish across America... and Yale’s multilingual patient Tim Snyder is the best historian we have...
On Tyranny is a great little read... start there.
Before recent events, I kept seeing the same talking points about DeSantis:
Be afraid! Be very afraid! He’s Trump but with a Harvard education! He’s going to be so much smarter about destroying our democracy when he is President!
The thing is, he’s not even going to make it in Florida if he keeps governing the way he has been lately. Even Floridians are going to soon tire of his fascist ways. The latest - because Disney didn’t agree with his homophobic mantra - he’s doubling down and threatening to sabotage their new $15 billion investment. In his state. 😳
This man makes Trump look smart. And that’s hard.
I found the following information about the general popularity of Disney movies for 2022. A pure popularity contest would suggest that DeSantis in comparison to Mickey productions is a big “Ron who?”
Disney was the highest-grossing studio domestically, tallying $2 billion from “Avatar,” “Black Panther” and “Doctor Strange” sequels. The domestic box office total reached an estimated $7.5 billion in 2022, down around 34% compared to 2019, before the pandemic.
Not all those dollars are from the lefties.
Disney knows how to make killer campaign films...
Ronny’s ad is crap
Way to play hard-ball, Steve. That's what we need. Thank You!!!
Boot boy is as big a loser as the orange traitor. I hope they both waste all their energy going at each other. And I won't be watching.