Not nearly as terrified as 16% DeSantis: pic.twitter.com/JROVzF2kMx
— Osher Feldman (@osherfeldman) April 27, 2023
Why do you say that?
— Osher Feldman (@osherfeldman) April 27, 2023
I’m just now learning that Bill Mitchell (an aggressive and ridiculous plastic surgery boomer Trump sycophant Twitter personality) is back and is a DeSantis shill.
I will never forget the day I learned that “@mitchellvii” is “Mitchell 7.” For at least a year, I thought it was “Mitchavelli,” like the Machiavelli of Mitchells, and I will never forget associating that face with thinking up that internet identity, and the joy it brought me.
I guess switching sides to DeSantis is a bit Mitchavellian.
I’ll bet he’ll get paid $1,500,000, when all is said and done. While he’s got no engagement, he’s got nearly half a million Twitter followers still, and I think the people handing out money to DeSantis are taking big cuts, basically being paid commissions on passing out cash.
It’s looking a bit sloppy.
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared that he is so far ahead of his 2024 Republican presidential primary opponents that he doesn’t see a reason to participate in the GOP debates.
“I’m leading by 40 points. A lot of people say, ‘Why would you do a debate when you have people at two and three and fifteen and fourteen [percent]?’” Trump told John Catsimatidis, host of the “Cats & Cosby Show” on WABC 770.
“People don’t debate when they have these massive leads. They say, ‘Why would we debate?’ I would have a hostile group of anchors — a hostile network — asking questions. Why would I do that?” the 76-year-old former president said.
Trump went on to decry that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, site of the second scheduled Republican presidential primary debate, is “run by the Washington Post,” which he derided as “the enemy of the people.”
“The publisher of the Washington Post is the chairman of the Reagan library. And that’s where one of the debates would be. I don’t want to be there,” Trump told Catsimatidis, referring to former Reagan White House aide Frederick Ryan Jr., who is now chairman of the Reagan library and publisher and CEO of the Washington Post.
Trump continued, “When you’re way up, you don’t do debates.”
The former commander-in-chief then reiterated, “You’re going to have people at 1% and less than 1% asking you questions? It’s sort of like crazy.”
The funniest thing would have been if Trump had thought the @ was Mitchavelli and hired him as a strategist because he looks Mitchavellian.
And then Mitchell was dumb enough to say “it’s Mitchell 7” and Trump was like “well, maybe I’ll hire one of the other six – you’re fired.”
He’s right about the debates, I guess. But I’m still personally confused as to what the purpose of this campaign is.
Honestly, I want the Bill Mitchell lore now. He was banned in the lead-up to 2020 just because the official policy of the site was that you weren’t allowed to support Trump at all unless you were an important intelligence asset that is also totally ineffectual (basically, I think Jack Posobiec was the only Trump supporter on the site).
I wish I was Tom Woods and did a 30-minute podcast every day and was really rich and filled with fake emotions that feel like real emotions, and I could call up Mitchell and get the lore.