Previously: Frustrated DeSantis Fires Staffers as Campaign Implodes, Fails to Manage Resources
Meatball Ron is about to be Meatball Soup.
What a loser!
Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, the biggest individual donor to a group supporting Ron DeSantis’ presidential bid, told Reuters on Friday he will not donate more money unless the Florida governor attracts new major donors and adopts a more moderate approach.
The comments by Bigelow, who gave $20 million to the pro-DeSantis “Never Back Down” super PAC in March, underscore donor concerns about the Florida governor’s struggling campaign, which has been unable to make a dent in former President Donald Trump’s huge lead for the 2024 Republican nomination.
“He does need to shift to get to moderates. He’ll lose if he doesn’t … Extremism isn’t going to get you elected,” Bigelow said in an interview, adding that he had communicated these concerns to DeSantis’ campaign.
When asked which specific policies Bigelow did not support, Bigelow cited only DeSantis signing in April a bill passed by the Florida legislature banning abortions after six weeks, a move that came after Bigelow had donated the $20 million.
Bigelow said he would not donate more money for now. “Not until I see that he’s able to generate more on his own. I’m already too big a percentage,” Bigelow said. “A lot of his donors are still on the fence.”
It is hard to even comprehend the way this hype has collapsed. I think it’s worse than the Zelensky collapse.
The DeSantis campaign is like Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.
Millennials know.
I was 12, and I was obsessed with Star Wars. I bought tickets for the midnight show, and then tickets to watch it again the next day.
I went at midnight, and fell asleep.
The whole thing was just all talking.
The only action scene was that stupid autistic kid in a real crappy CGI speeder race.
Darth Maul – who looked freaking sweet in the trailers – was only on screen for 6 minutes.
That is 1/3rd of the screentime of (somehow completely unfunny) racist caricature Jar Jar Binks.
The DeSantis campaign doesn’t even have an action scene.
I guess the closest thing to the 6 minutes of Darth Maul screentime would be Ron’s bizarre laugh.
Literally, the only exciting part of this campaign is waiting for the next clip of this asshole laughing.
It’s just this droning thing that totally sucks and is boring and everyone is falling asleep or walking out.
In the middle of this boring nightmare, DeSantis is switching tactics in the worst way imaginable by whining about Trump immediately after his latest fake indictment.
DeSantis attacks Trump just a day after his “arrest and arraignment” over J6.
Instead of trying to unify the party against election inference by the Deep State, Ron cries about Trump with whiny complaints because he can’t take a little trash talk.pic.twitter.com/7sObMU6uGu
— Suburban Black Man 🇺🇸 (@niceblackdude) August 5, 2023
Watch that video and watch him copying Trump’s hand gestures.
These would be the Jedi Mind Tricks.
It’s gotta be the creepiest thing in the world that this meatball hired some professional to come in and give him lessons on how to psychologically (subconsciously) manipulate Trump supporters by copying his hand motions.
It’s like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel.
I wonder whose idea it was?
Honestly, I thought there was going to be more of a challenge here.
I thought DeSantis could say “look, I’m Trump without the baggage.”
But no one could have imagined just how badly this guy sucks.
You watch a video of this prick talking and realize that if you were at a club, and there was a guy hanging out and talking like this, a bouncer would escort him out for killing the vibes.
He has ended his political career.
He might try some kind of Hail Mary, which could end up being funny.
I’m not even joking here: I think it is possible that that black guy is going to end up pulling ahead of DeSantis.
The primary is “Trump v. Not Trump.” It’s not really about DeSantis. DeSantis was simply expected to be the best “Not Trump.” The black guy is almost certainly better, just as a personality.
The Indian guy is in third place right now, though I’m not really sure why. He’s not really “Not Trump.” He’s far-right and his stated policies are actually much better than Trump’s (seriously). He’s in the Trump category of “not a true conservative” or whatever the hell. He’s a Trumpist, basically, just with more clear articulation.
I like Ramaswamy. I didn’t at first, because he was talking about China, and I just assume that’s a shill issue, but then I listened a bit closer and he was talking about China like Trump talks about China – as an economic competitor. (This is opposed to the way DeSantis or Pence talk about China – “we have to have a war with them to save gay marriage in Taiwan.”)
I assume Ramaswamy will be the second choice of every Trump voter once there is a debate.
When there is a debate, DeSantis is going to crumble like the shittiest meatball. He’s a gluten-free meatball.
By the way, gluten free is a cult.
I’m paleo, and think potatoes and (white) rice are much cleaner carbs than bread, but the issue isn’t gluten, and gluten-free anything is disgusting.
That really is a better analogy than the Star Wars one – DeSantis is a gluten-free meatball.
But you’ve got the black guy, you’ve got Pence, you’ve got Nikki Haley. Those are the three “true conservatives.” One of them will be the top challenger to Trump, and everyone has assumed for like, two years that it would be DeSantis, and I now question this.
People who believe in this “true conservative” bullshit love the idea of a black guy. Especially he is so docile, like a hippopotamus.
I am actually going to go on a gambling site and bet $500 that the black guy will be in second place after the second debate.