It looks like the Wall St. Journal is all in on DeSantis’ candidacy. Among the gems in today’s fawning editorial:
“His greatest achievement was his handling of the pandemic…Mr. DeSantis did his own homework on Covid health risks”
Almost spewed my coffee on reading that. DeSantis named Joseph Ladapo as his state surgeon general, and Ladapo is the guy who cosied up to “America’s Frontline Doctors” (the group that promoted bogus Covid cures like hydroxychloroquine and featured members who among other things, got convicted in the Jan. 6th riot and pushed the idea that sex with demons causes women’s ailments). Ladapo also cooked the evidence to issue a “study” claiming untoward Covid vaccine health risks in young men.
If DeSantis somehow got elected President, Ladapo would probably get named U.S. Surgeon General.
“One of Trump’s great advantages is he talks at a level where third, fourth and fifth grade educations can say, ‘Oh yeah, I get that. I understand it.’” Gingrich told host Laura Ingraham on her Fox News show.
The comment drew mockery from online critics. “The fact that [Trump] speaks to the children says everything you need to know about the educational level the Right is shooting for,” one person on Twitter wrote.
My guess is it refers, at least in part, to the “nuclear button,” to which, of course, Trump no longer actually has access. OTOH, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a penis reference, too…though I’m not sure how many guys would want to refer to their own manhood as a “button.”
It could be that he has opposition research on DeSantis that he can release at an opportune time, with the effect on DeSantis’ campaign similar to the effect of a nuclear bomb on a city. If he falls behind, he presses the button and blows up DeSantis.
TIL that DeSantis’ launch was at the Four Seasons hotel in Miami. You’d think he’d avoid that specific name after the Landscaping snafu. A BBC article about the event here.
If he had Trump’s shitty charisma to fall back on, he could just infer that he’d sic his rabid followers on them and they’d fold like Target did. But instead he’s Meatball Ron.
You know, it’s like Al Pacino’s character shouting that at Chris O’Donnell’s in ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was probably a similarly unbalanced power dynamic. I loved that movie
He’s now burning through money and dropping staff.
The GOP field is in total chaos. Trump is annihilating others in the pols, but that asshole is heading to the hoosegow. So I’m pretty damn sure the nominee will, of necessity, be someone else.
DeSantis is the one that many would have said would be the winner if Trump goes to jail. Until fairly recently at least, and I created this thread to dispute that sentiment. But now it seems that he’s beaten his head on Trump Rock and is getting taken out fairly early. (Even had he not done that, however, I don’t think he would have won–scroll up for details ).
Anyhoo, all of these candidates suck, and I don’t think any of them has a chance against Biden, so… good!
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