Why do people like Desantis again?

I think trumps biggest strength around election year is he always somehow seems to seem less crazy than all the other conservatives the GOP bring up.

Outside of being anti woke, not really having any solid regulation in place during the pandemic for Florida, and this homophobia beef with Disney.

What do people see in this guy?

Meatball Ron lol

Because they view idiocy, anger, and pettiness as virtues. They just want to see someone direct those things at people they dislike.

Same reason as Trump, really.

Trump 2024

Bring back The Don

DeSantis is blowing it. He needs to go full-blast anti-Trump.

Trump's a loser. He lost to Biden....BIDEN! Trump has failed at every marriage he has been in. His businesses have failed. Etc. etc.

I mean, Trump has A LOT of shortcomings and you could have a field day with him if you wanted to.

Now I'm not pro-DeSantis, I just want to see strife within the far-right/MAGA crowd.

@mrbojangles25: His whole schtick was that he was a COMPETENT Trump. He peaked too soon, and that image is deflating.

Republicans are attracted to authoritarians.

very true. oddly

Trump rose to prominence because he spread a message of hate, which spoke to a lot of poorly-educated, petty, spiteful people.

When the smarter half of those people finally realised that Trump was a total fraud, they jumped ship to De Santis, who offers a more palatable brand of hate.

He is the only high profile republican that is not trump.

DeSantis looks like the 6 million dollar man compared to what ever this Turkey is doing.

When the guy who has the job looks literally brain dead and can't properly talk or move around. Everybody becomes viable for the position. I'd say I'd rather have 90% of random people I meet be president over Biden.

He's the worst president in my lifetime.

Stop trying to derail because Disney destroyed your conman.

Trump 2024!!

But yes, DeSantis looks like a better candidate than Biden. Almost anyone is tho. Biden has been an atrocious president. He does nothing because he can't, he's sunsetting, it's embarrassing.

Yo Id hate to be a Democrat and feel the need to vote just to push this walking corpse back in as president for another 4 years... "Because I hate Trump..."

Sounds miserable. Democrats are straight up masochists.

Yo Id love to see Biden and DeSantis debate each other but 3 rules:

1.no cheat sheets

2.no teleprompter

3.Make John Fetterman the moderator

@sargentd: You really going to make fun of someone recovering from a stroke? There is no low for the right.

@LJS9502_basic: he needs to retire this is ridiculous, this after he admitted himself in a facility for severe depression for the last 3 months and Democrats just ignore it, just like they do with Biden. This is ridiculous!! These people should not be in positions of power.

You mean how Republicans did/do with trump.

Not even close.

Politicians like Biden and Fetterman make Trump look like the six million dollar man. Biden and Fetterman can hardly read and talk.

Makes Trump look like a boss even in his old age.

Back on topic to the thread. Trump is eating Desantis' lunch. I doubt he actually even runs honestly. Trump looks to have the nomination on lock. DeSantis has little bite, too much of a traditional politician, soft.

Don't hate DeSantis by any means, but he can't beat Trump. Not right now anyway.

Loading Video...Trump just rubbing it in DeSantis face lol.

Trump's such a bully 😂😂😂

@sargentd: either way i hope Biden doesn't run, put some democrat that is young bright and a moderate.

No one wants a moderate dem, that's just code word for republican without culture wars bullshit.

@nirgal: RFK JR would be way better than Biden

Such a conundrum. Biden is far from his best, no one can argue against that, but republicans are way too contaminated by the MAGA cancer to be able to beat them. Proof of that is that their best alternative is Desantis. So you'll have that piece of human garbage called Trump as their best chance after being defeated for re-election and having terrible midterms results.

I mean, it's going to be hilarious seeing Trump being defeated once again by Biden. Which for all the insults the MAGA cult throws at Biden for being way too old should give them pause to wonder how terrible must Trump be to keep losing against him. But that would be asking too much from them, they're too busy regurgitating whatever propaganda they're been fed this week.

As for democrats, Biden being president they are kinda stuck with him. But considering the state the world is in, whoever is actually dictating policy is doing a fairly decent job.

@rmpumper: this should be edited to :"I don't want a moderate Dem"

I mean when was the last time the most progressive candidate won the democrat primaries?

Do they?

Trump has overtaken him, even in his own state, from what I can gather. At least among politicians.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/22/inside-the-collapse-of-ron-desantis-presidential-campaign/

Apparently not a very good one according to Mercenary.

@sargentd: lol this is a isolated instance where I’m agreeing with Sargentd

🤔 I need to take a shower

@girlusocrazy: Didn’t he get elected because the other guy in florida was caught on camera in a hotel doing the drugs and the sex?

Only thing Disney has destroyed is themselves. They lost 123 billion dollars last year.

They got DeSantis pretty good,

Disney stripped DeSantis-picked board of its power : NPR

Also not even other Republicans thinks this silly spat is dumb as shit,

Republicans Turn on DeSantis Over Disney Feud (newsweek.com)

What an idiotic hill to die on.

Meanwhile Disney stopped donating to Republicans. Hahaha

Pushing progressive politics and causing your company to lose billions? Maybe it's not a politicians job to step in but the company has failed miserable and owes its shareholders an apology. I'm glad their getting wrecked.🤷‍♂️

I like him okay, I guess.

He’s middle-right, not too offensive. Would tow the status quo line in a lot of cases but buck against the status quo in other cases.

He’s diet-Trump, not too exciting. He does the bare minimum that every Republican/conservative governor should be doing. We’re just so used to RINOs that when a moderate-right guy like DeSantis comes along, right-wingers go gaga.

Btw…Trump 2024.

He's not middle right. He's far right.

@LJS9502_basic: Far-right is more like the Republicans in my home state of South Carolina. They are working to criminalize abortion there or at least make it illegal to have from conception.

Now THAT is far right, and that is what I like.

I know you do this a lot, but please stay on topic. This is about DeSantis. Disney owned his ass.

That 3rd world far right lunacy did you guys really well in the mid-terms.

Because republicans are becoming a fascist party and Desantis loves to show it off.

Ron DeSantis is a family man with kids like other family that live in Florida and they know that he care very much what happen to you family because it can happen to his family. He live and love Florida for a long time and he can make all his goals happen not just saying it because every month you see he pass and sign another law with the value of the family and the people that live in Florida and the trust him they know him.

You forget but Florida rememver nobody have to shut down the business and he protect family business and education in school when every body else panic and learn nothing FOR ONE YEAR AND MORE!! And lost job and product manufacture and lost so much so now you know the price everyone else will pay and the shockwave still happening from stupid panic decision.

Far right isn't anything to be proud of though.

It can happen lol

I like him because he appears to be able to respond to an unexpected question without a script, in a coherent fashion.

Low bar, I know. But this is the world we live in.

Generally he responds with anger. I'd rather not have a hot head in charge.

According to Politifact, Ron DeSantis has effectively failed over 75% of his fact checks. (Half True or below). I wouldnt take him seriously ever.

His fixation on culture wars is another large issue I have with him. Not a serious politician at all.

MAGA candidates are a disaster. Not one good one.

@LJS9502_basic: For sure. Populism (which the MAGA movement adheres to), deserves nothing but scrutiny whereever it rears its ugly head.

Sweden recently got a populist party running the parliament and the country has been a dumpster fire ever since.

@Maroxad: Yet he won re-election for the governorship in the third most populated state in the union by more than 1.5 million votes in a state known for being a swing state for decades.

He’s not center stage until Trump no longer holds that position for Republicans, but he is as serious and as viable a candidate for the GOP as any, which makes him an opponent to watch for the Democrats. And they are certainly doing that.

Since the court cases, Trump has been the clear favorite in the GOP 57% to 21%. To be fair to DeSantis, this can incrase once he officially runs. But for now it isnt looking good for him.

https://morningconsult.com/2024-gop-primary-election-tracker/

And by him not being a serious politician, I mean that his agenda is not serious. Since it relies on culture wars primarily.

lol what?

disney made $3.1B in profit last year.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/net-income

do you even know what you're saying or are you just making up numbers?