This, like Jen’s please clap moment, is something you couldn’t really imagine Trump doing. Trump is never self-evaluating when he speaks (sometimes to his detriment), never second-guesses himself. If he feels like smiling, he smiles, scowling, he scowls. It can be obnoxious, but…
Jeb’s name is so retarded that autocorrect keeps changing it to Jen no matter how many times I try.
Look at him. Just like his rambling stream of consciousness interviews, his emotions manifest on his face as soon as they form.
Ron DeSantis has a very tough job. After the 2020 election shenanigans and the unprecedented institutional abuse against Trump and his supporters, Trump voters see their guy as the incumbent, and they see RDS’s candidacy as a selfish outside disruptor trying to primary the incumbent before a tough election. Maybe that’s not fair, but that’s how it is.
He has to do several things to be successful, and even if he does them all perfectly it may not be enough. His policies aren’t much in question, and he’d be wasting his time on the mic touting them. GOP primary debate watchers know he’s good on policy. It would be nice to see him firm up an anti-intervention stance on Ukraine, but otherwise his time will be better spent elsewhere.
I was just in a Space where @JackPosobiec made an important point: there is only one candidate the regime hates and fears enough to throw out every norm and standard to defeat, and that’s Trump. I’ve seen RDS supporters ask a good question: If Trump couldn’t stop them from rigging the election in 2020, when he was President, how’s he going to do it now? A fair question, but a good (if somewhat evasive) answer is that, at this late hour, what’s the point of nominating anyone the regime won’t pull out all the stops to defeat?
RDS has to thread a difficult needle. He has to condemn the unprecedented abuse of the system against Trump (Christie might be his best foil here), but every time the subject comes up it hardens support for Trump with his base. If he tries to frame himself as Not Trump, he has no chance; he has to make the make case that he’ll be a better Trump than Trump himself. GOP voters aren’t looking for a President, they’re looking for a war general, and RDS has to convince those people that he’s going to burn Washington DC to the ground.
I don’t think his personality would allow for it, but Trump should say something like: “Look, I know a lot of you guys don’t like me. And to be honest, I get it. I know I can be obnoxious. I’m not a typical politician, and my style can be off-putting, and I get it. But this is bigger than me.” And go from there.
RDS is coming more aggressive than usual, feels a little unnatural, but it’s good overall.
Vivek wasted no time calling down the fury of Lord Shiva on his enemies. He’s the one bringing the entertainment, and Trump taught us that that should not be underestimated.
Samuel Whittemore was an American soldier. Gather ‘round to hear tell of his exploits.
Sam was born in Charlestown, MA in 1696 to an ordinary family. He wasn’t blooded until, as a 48-yr-old private, he helped capture the French Fortress of Louisbourg during King George’s War. /1
Sam returned from King George’s War at 52-yrs-old, and lived in peace for 12 years. Then, he signed up to serve in the French & Indian War, helping to capture the Fortress of Louisbourg yet again. He was 64-yrs-old. /2
On April 19, 1775, British forces were returning from the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Militiamen sniped the redcoats all along the way, so they were fired up and read for payback as they approached Sam’s village. The 79-yr-old grabbed his musket, two dueling pistols, and… https://t.co/DJKn5Yzd5Vtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
One of the greatest tricks the devil ever pulled was killing tens of millions of Russians while driving them at gunpoint into combat against their neighbors, then fading into the background and making it taboo to say his name as people blame the Russian people for it all.
Stalin was Georgian. Most of the early Soviets were run by Jews, and the secret police was mostly Jewish until the purges of the late ‘30s. Kruschev was born in Ukraine, and the USSR didn’t have a Russian-born General Secretary until Andropov in the 1980s.
Yet somehow the Russians, of whom more were killed than any other group, are the only perpetrators, while everyone else involved was their victim.
I think: DeSantis cannot beat Trump in a primary, and there’s nothing that could happen in the next year that will change that. If he goes hard, he will lose and never recover, but it’s hard to back out now w/o looking like a beta.
One way to back out w/o looking scared or deferential is to refuse to run and be the beneficiary of the Biden administration’s Gestapo tactics, and the Tammany tactics used against Trump in the 2020 election.
True, but he’s let it look that way, and his surrogates have been out there as if he was. I’m buddies w/a lot of DeSantis supporters, and I’m not trying to piss in anyone’s Corn Flakes, but RDS is in a no-win situation right now imo
Civilized people are at a huge disadvantage in these situations. The Target customer is an unbalanced anti-social, waking up in jail w/a black eye is just another Monday. The seated man has a job, people who depend on him, and should simply avoid places where animal attacks are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Who hasn’t been in a situation where you had to decide whether it was time to end your date to get into a drag-out brawl w/gutter trash, or if it would better to just wait it out for a few minutes so you don’t have to explain to your boss why you’re in jail and can’t make it in?
Add to this the certain knowledge that the whole thing will be recorded and you’ll be turned into a hate figure by national media before you’re prosecuted for a hate crime.