Ron DeSantis is out
Kind of sad that we didn't see any direct confrontation between Ron and Donald. At least we will get to laugh when he has to endorse Trump.
Kind of sad that we didn't see any direct confrontation between Ron and Donald. At least we will get to laugh when he has to endorse Trump.
I really wanted to see Trump just ignore every question and relentlessly bully Desantis until he started to cry.
Same, I really wanted to see Trump doing a DeSantis impersonation on the same stage as Desantis
trump bugging his eyes out and wiggling his head around like this every time desantis tries to talk
this is my first time hearing about this. Wow. He had an amazing life, whatever you think about him. Some called him Meatball Ron, not me. I would never do that, but many people did call him Meatball Ron.
He's out you say? Good for him, good for him. I didn't think Ron had it in him to live to his truth, especially with all the nasty, nasty things he's said about our precious homosexuals. But i hope the coming days Ron grows more comfortable and honest with himse—
Race? What race? Ron doesn't look like an especially active person to me.
I'm surprised he took so long. It was a genuine master class in how to fuck up a campaign. Hopefully this launches his new career in alcoholism or something.
If you also want to look like a Christmas elf with depression, take my new line of bone-based supplements.
God dammit. I wanted to see him get bodied over and over. Nicknames, impressions, the works. What was even the point of all this, then
on top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed
he rolled off the table and onto the floor
and then my poor meatball rolled right out the door
he already endorsed trump in the announcement he made to end his campaign. he shit on nikki haley too
The cope from NeverTrumper Republicans is a sight to behold. Trump Nation hasn't even turned its full attention to Haley yet and when it does she will be reduced to a shell of her former self just like Jeb, Rubio, and now DeSantis. Weirdly, Cruz hasn't lost as much mojo as other former Trump rivals but that's probably due to his entrenched position and complete lack of conscience or shame.
He endorsed Trump during the announcement, and some of his #NeverTrump fans called him a cuck, lmao.
Basically a subset of fascists who want a more effective approach, and oppose Trump because they believe he's a grifter who's not serious and won't deliver them the goods.
I feel like desantis is too evil though, liberals might actually break the law with him. oh, who am I kidding? they support Israel and biden, they'd do anything.
Demographic split shows DeSantis only beats Trump with the younger GOP voters, 18-25 iirc. Trump is TV fash and DeSantis is tiktok fash which is why he’s so embarrassing
It'll be interesting to see what happens to him next. He's term-limited in FL so unless he declares himself Florida Dictator For Life, I have to wonder who wants to scoop him up and give him a job after such a spectacular tail spin.
Trump could give him transportation secretary like Biden did to Pete lol… that’s where careers go to die
at first i thought there was no way trump would give him the VP, but idk now. trump needs that nerdy fascist contingent and desantis speaks to them. you got a ton of PMCs in america and they love a good ole "respectable" fascist who uses the proper dog-whistles. im a PMC and i have several coworkers who are horrible people who vote GOP but hate trump. its not like they'll vote dem, but desantis being on the ticket would increase their likelihood to actually go to the polls
He conceeded to Nikky already? My goodness they aren't even letting the Republicans vote in a primary. I'd feel bad for them but....ya know.
2024 is going to be year where both major parties have no one standing on their primary ballot and we have no choice but a general election. AGAIN.
Real nice "democracy" ya got there. 3rd parties need to use this moment. If there was ever a case of what do you have to lose?
Seriously thought we'd get more entertaining milage out of the pirmaries.
If third parties come close to success they’ll just change the rules again to make it impossible for the next go round. It’s a non-viable pathway until one of the major parties dies
A fucking half decade of buildup with a kings ransom spent by pundits, think tanks, and the general ghouls of the GOP and he folded from Trump at 10% of his power. Amazing
Lol I was tweakin’ hard when I thought he would be a great terror even worse than Trump.
I should’ve known he was done after Trump called him Meatball Ron.
That's really like how characterization in a shonen works. He's really fierce and awful behind his silhouette but then you see him and it's fuckin Meatball Ron who makes weird faces and says "hungwy"
A deepfake campaign ad of Ron’s face on meatwad dipping a finger into a pudding cup while saying “ronny hungwy”
I remember saying this guy would be this cycle's Giuliani last year and people telling me he would be a serious threat to Trump.
I figured he would be at least a bit of a competition due to the old money GOP doing everything they could at first to push Desantis’s less vocal racism over trumps screaming facism.
Oh for sure but DeSantis was the quiet respectable persona they crave for legitimacy.
So that just leaves Nikki Haley. Is NYT now gonna try to take her seriously now or just ignore her?
If he endorsed Haley, maybe. She already had a huge, uphill battle. Assuming most of DeSantis' voters actually go to Trump, she's done.
DeSantis already endorsed Trump.
The only people who have voted on DeSantis so far have been the Iowa caucus. They gave him 21% but they're notoriously weird. Like they nominated Rick Santorum in 2012 and Ted Cruz in 2016. I know there are polls and everything, but I would have been surprised if DeSantis was cracking higher than 15% in any of the primaries. There's no way Haley had a chance at any point, it's going to be Trump.
And that's people that drug their asses out in negative temps to caucus. I'm assuming turnout was very low. I had very little knowledge that they were still really doing a Republican primary.
So this is probably just the strangest subset of people that felt compelled to do this.
The front-runners are old. If you're keeping track of them, I think it makes sense to also keep track of who might step in in the scenario of or of them dying.