Previously billionaire Rupert Murdoch paid Megyn Kelly, through advances on her book deal, $10 million for her political efforts in 2015 and 2016. Rupert Murdoch owns Harper Collins book publishing.
Book publishing, as done by politicians in both parties, is the way money is laundered to candidates and various campaign finance rules are subverted. Nikki Haley, Kristi Noem, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo and Tim Scott have all released books in the past two months in advance of their 2024 presidential bids.
As noted recently by The Guardian, “Lachlan Murdoch, the heir apparent and eldest son, who co-chairs News Corp and runs the parent company of Fox News, has reportedly told DeSantis that the group would back him if he ran in the next election. “Lachlan has been keen on Ron for some time. He’s viewed within the organization as a sanitized version of Donald.”
Candidates are personally financed by the book publication laundry system through advances, typically several million, and then again indirectly by supporting organizations through mass purchasing. It is not uncommon to find hundreds-of-thousands of books in various warehouses purchased by groups as indirect contributions to boost the candidate of their choice. The purchases determine the “best seller” rankings.
It is unknown how much billionaire Rupert Murdoch has paid Ron DeSantis for the 2024 campaign but considering the stakes for this election cycle it’s likely in the $20 million range.
(Via Fox News) – Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will chronicle his life in public service in a new book that will publish in late February in what will be seen by political pundits as another step by the conservative champion toward a possible 2024 presidential run.
The autobiography by DeSantis, who was overwhelmingly re-elected three weeks ago to a second four-year term steering the increasingly red Sunshine State, is titled “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival.”
Word of the book, scheduled to be published Feb. 28 by Broadside, the conservative arm of HarperCollins Publishing, was shared first with Fox News Wednesday. (more)
As we have chronicled since July, the decision for Ron DeSantis to enter the 2024 contest was made before the spring of 2022, everything thereafter has been a grand game of position and pretense. The seeds for the effort were laid even earlier in February when the DeSantis team reached out to “conservative influencers” to form the alignment for the August ’22 shift and branding campaign.
According to the most visible and predictable roadmap, DeSantis will likely be held back from an official announcement until later in 2023.
The problem for DeSantis handlers is that when the announcement is made all pretenses will be dropped and many people will review the landscape in hindsight and see the roadmap.
A combination of pretending, deflection and obfuscation is the management team’s #1 priority right now to avoid the Florida voter anger about being duped on DeSantis intention. However, they do have to follow the timeline of the script if they want to try and maintain the campaign momentum.
By design, Governor Ron DeSantis will almost certainly be the last candidate to enter the 2024 race, sometime late summer. The entry will depend on their success in keeping him in the spotlight and headlines without ‘officially’ looking like they are trying to keep him in the spotlight and headlines. Fox News will play a key role in keeping DeSantis spotlighted.
Everything is being carefully managed; however, when you know the script, and know where the tripwires are located, it’s very easy to see it playing out.
We will not have a valid election in 2024, because 2020 and 2022 will not be rectified beforehand….
The cheating will not be about Demonrat and Republicant…
It will be inside one of the parties…making it impossible to detect cheating…
Just my thoughts…
Murdoch tells Trump he will not back fresh White House bid – report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/15/murdoch-press-turns-on-donald-trump-in-favour-of-defuture-ron-desantis
Hi All,
I have posted before RE: RD and I will say it again.
HUGE mistake RD! (I live in FL)
Just because he has been a decent Leader as Governor, does not make him Presidential material.
Maybe, somewhere in the future, but in my opinion, not now.
I am just mostly sad because his run will detract from Trump votes.
If not for Trump, we wouldn’t know what we know now about all the Government corruption, greed, and the rest.
( But we here, Thank God, also have Sundance spreading his light, without which, I would know far, far less!)
Disappointed in RD because he has jumped the shark, bought and now, clearly paid for.
Bummer all around! Don’t see winning for us.
Plus DeSantis is biting the hand that fed him. He would have NEVER won the gubernatorial election had it not been for President Trump.
I agree, but how is this anything new in American politics. Name ID is the most important thing for every politician. Let him play his cards and we will play ours. I think he would be better off supporting Donald Trump in 2024 and save his own powder for 2028. His resume needs more time to be built.
But, there is the real possibility that the country will suffer for another eight years and beyond if the Demcommies defeat Donald Trump. If it looks like that a year and a half from now, DeSantis may be our best remaining option. Maybe that is all he is working on at this point.
There are just too many variables to decide a year and a half ahead of time who we will and won’t vote for. Lets spend that time trying to expose the real Devil wherever it pops up. Democrats will never fail to commit many crimes to get their people elected. It is time to figure out what they are doing before they get a chance to do it.
Be especially aware when all the significant players in that bunch of gangsters disappear for a few days in Southern Italy or somewhere else on a strategy planning session. If we had known that, we could have figured out the COVID19 mess before they made it.
And this wonderful new literary masterpiece? Is lots of free advertising for Donald Trump! Free is good!
…RDS is a marketing project right now…not a finished product…Trump is the complete product…
that said…consider this tactic from the business world:
New-market disruption targets customers in fringe markets that are deemed too small to attract the interest of the existing incumbent market leaders. Targeting these unserved customers with new products/services triggers the creation of a new market niche. Incremental product improvements over time lead to customer defections from traditional market leaders. By the time the market incumbent begins to notice defections to the new market, it’s simply too late. Market disruption has set in.
https://zacharyscott.com/the-challenge-of-disruptive-competition/
https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation
marketing and advertising use two different types of research to refine their product.
RDS is nothing more than a ‘disruptive competitor’ before it does become irreversible…we have to stop the disruptive market. And it will be a fickle market as they try to take down our beloved POTUS.
Trump was a disruptive competitor when he rode that escalator…truthfully, I think his business acumen, has this!
I always think of Trump in terms of questions asked and majority answers to just Yes/No.
Does Trump belong to the handful of people who may be imitated but never could be replaced?
Does Trump belong to the handful of people categorized as there is only one of such?
If NYC were to be destroyed by earthquake or sink in the ocean, will rebuilding it restore the essence or historical ‘soul’ of NYC as we know it? In other words, would there be always one NYC?
“The Courage to be Free”
Since when in America does it require courage to be free? I thought that the US Constitution gave each of us that right.
This sounds like a title of a book that would have been written prior to 1776.
Freudian slip, I wonder. Does RDS not believe that we are already free?
I thought the same thing!
Maybe takes courage these days to do what you must to be free.
Agreed. Why not just name it Profiles in Courage and run as JFK. My God, nothing changes.
Seabee, the title does not refer to freedom. Rather it refers to price or what it takes to buy the man. After the book payout, DeSantis will be their “free” agent.
They already own him
You got that right. I am so disappointed in DeSantis. Anyone can be bought.
Probably just picked a couple of buzzwords that invoke the warm and fuzzies on the respective political sides …. Courage and Free. (“Free” serving a dual purpose here, meaning something vastly different to Patriots and Democrats).
It was poll tested and focus grouped, and that was the best the Consultants could come up with.
Campaign consultants are people that got fired from their job, working in Huma Resources.
The terrorists hate us for our freedom.
The MAGA terrorists hate us for our elections.
Election Freedom Fake Again
The Courage to be Cheese.
“The American people believe…”
“The American people know…”
“What’s important to understand…”
“At the end of the day…”
Pretend Back Better
QUESTION: “Since when in America does it require courage to be free?” ANSWER: Since the 1700’s
Freedom is a concept.
Exercising it is an action.
“The Courage to be Free” makes one pause and ask; “Does RDS currently have the courage to not be beholden to the big donor class and truly have the courage to represent We The People instead? It is not looking that way to me.
Ron DeSantis “is viewed within the organization as a sanitized version of Donald”
RINO Translation:
We own him.
“You have a Republic…if you can keep it” Apparently that last part is where courage comes in.
Wrong. Don’t ever fall for that lie. The Constitution does not grant us freedom. Rather, it protects the freedom that we all inherently possess.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, Kgk.
it’s not hard to interpret the Treeper Tea Leaves..
the RNCDNC corporation are already setting up their next steal..
Biden will announce he will not be running again.. then the DNC will introduce their younger Newsom..
and the RNC will introduce their younger DeSantis.. making it easier for shallow conservative voters to dump Trump via their social network circle..
fracturing the MAGA base.. keeping the torches and pitchforks at bay.. making it easier for the RNCDNC to accomplish their next steal..
And then hopefully PDJT runs an “America First”3rd Party and MAGA live on!
This is going to be a long fight.
Better be prepared to donate MONEY for that…It’s enormously expensive and time-consuming. I was friends with the guys that founded Perot’s Reform Party…Millions and millions of $$$, mostly Perot millions, to set up the party in all 50 states. And lots of time and obstruction.
If every 2020 Trump voter donated $100 to set it up, we might have enough.
Start putting your piggy bank aside now, so we can finance it when the time comes. A couple of billion might do it. After financing his 2016 campaign out of his own pocket, I’d never expect him to do it again… .
Right?? It IS up to us, yes?
$100 in FEDcoin?? That might be worse than exhausting my Carbon footprint for a whole year…..and take another ten to rebuild my Social Credit Score.
Yes, one wonders how long our currency will last. In fact, if the bad guys are successful in forcing the CBDC on us, No one would be allowed to donate.
Dismal prospect indeed. Not sure we’ll even make it to 2024.
If, We The People, do nothing we won’t last until 2024. The Republicans aren’t going to save us.
The RINOS destroyed fair elections in 2020 by using JUDASpence to certify a stolen election for the loser.
RINO’s voter base is close to zero.
RATS only vote RAT (unless McConnell’s PAC pays them to vote RINO to defeat a conservative).
RINOS know WeThePeople will never vote RINO again.
RINOS are using DeSantis to destroy Trump, MAGA & magaLite DeSantis for a 2024 trifecta.
Winner:
Soros & Schwab’s New World Order
RATS are evil.
RINOS are their evil enablers.
It will have to be done somehow, because there is NO way GOP will nominate him. They will try in anyway possible to destroy him. I just pray that Mitch and his crew are destroyed first.
I can’t wait to watch and relish these traitors’ eternal agony in Hell.
Of course, God will not let me rejoice in their suffering…Drats.
The BIG difference … Perot was picked by the RATS to split the white male Republican vote and elect Clinton … the RATS did not interfere with Perot … and without Atwater the idiots at the RNC/GOP were clueless.
I have fond memories of Mr. Lee…Of course, Rove thinks he’s the rightful heir to Atwater, but he’s a poor imitation.
The Perot guys I knew were not out there to do anything for Dims. I grew up in Highland Park in Dallas, old money, and we knew the Perots…
If anyone could truly know Ross. He was the energizer bunny! And if he wanted to do something, he did! He was a very sharp guy…I don’t believe that he was duped by Dims, or he would have picked up on it right quick. He was nobody’s fool. He was quite prescient, he saw where NAFTA was going, and he was a patriot.
And he ran because he was disgusted with RINOs. But I think he’s a working man’s millionaire, he was motivated by the same things. And had a huge ego.
His guys told me that getting the party set up AND qualifying on a strict timeline to qualify as a presidential candidate was very hard. He got pushback from both sides.
Perot was clear on Clinton -“he’s not capable of running the corner grocery store” … but … Perot’s intent was a personal vendetta to make certain bush41 lost – for being Reagan’s VP “messenger” denying his search for missing Vietnam Vets … and then blaming P.bush for losing a computer contract with the Saudis.
It was clear Perot had a mental break when he accused P.bush of sending “Vietcong ninjas” to kidnap him and ruin his daughters wedding … the Perot workers truly believed a 3rd Party would work “this time” … and they did very well … but … sadly Clinton won with 43% of the vote … gave WeThePeople 8yrs of filth & evil followed by 9/11.
actually it’s going to be a short one.. we are approaching the two minute warning in this Fourth Turning..
it’s time to play the ‘Hail Mary’.. “..run Forest run..”..
Right. That’s what I say, too. Trump is going to have to run as an America First 3rd Party candidate.
There’s just not enough time to qualify for 2024, for another party, and it costs…At least a billion dollars. And that money will have to come from us.
And he’ll be too old after 2024. No easy answers.
I thought President Trump should have formed a new party after he was cheated in z020. There was so much confusion and finger-pointing and trying to figure out how to save our country then. Sadly, it still continues. Truth has been beaten to a pulp by intense verbal put-downs of Patriots by the mockingbird media ignoramuses.
I say we start flipping their tables and being generally non-compliant with their diktats.
The Lord did the money changers’…
Worked for Ghandi.
The line starts behind me. /s
Make Haters Fake Again
There you go – Lucifer vs Satan
I think it is a great chess move on their part. Given their ability to whip FOX and Ellen watchers into a frenzy to beg for experimental vaccines, it just might work…
Except ….
DeSantis’ Judas move is so obvious and disgusting that it will surely destroy HIS base and result in Newsom winning.
20million. It’s too bad he went to the mountain top and said, “yes” to all that. He seemed to be a decent guy before he sold out.
Only God can save us now. Pray.
Very, very likely. Biden will not be running in 2024, you can take that to the bank.
“The Courage to be Free”
How much is free, governor?
“DeSantis refuses to commit to serving full term” video
Not enough courage to answer a question. Tells me all about RD’s courage.
It tells you he is being controlled and is trying not to go off script. Politicians are not going to save this country.
Or that he believes PDJT is going to be indicted.
It’s politics – regardless of how one views the integrity aspects of it all.
Well at least you can’t claim he lied when asked. Remember Hillary swore in a campaign debate she was in for a full second term in NY. That lasted what, 6 months before announcing?
If he’s so “savvy”, he should’ve been prepared to answer that question.
He got scared, and it was shown on his face.
Hillary will try to lie to God at the Pearly Gates, she thinks she runs the show! IMHO!
Please don’t misunderstand me, I find DeSantis to be very suspect right now and if he pulls some GOPe tricks, I will not vote for him, or any other GOPe Uniparty candidate.
That said, our problems are huge, so huge that only one man, even DJT, will not be sufficient to right this ship alone. Therefore we need to be open to receiving other warriors to our cause. We just have to vet everyone.
It will be a very difficult fight ahead and we will be stabbed in the back a lot. Look at how many Tea Party candidates were really Uniparty operatives or crossed over to the enemy when they got to DC.
For the few people who are hard on DJT for his personnel decisions, we are surrounded by enemies. Every one of us will no doubt mistakenly support a Uniparty operative under cover.
Let’s stand together and be each others’ eyes and ears, locally and on-line.
Yes. I used to think highly of Harmet Dhillon. She was bought off if she was ever sincere.
Same.
God’s way – proven
https://opusdei.org/en-us/dailytext/may-you-not-lack-simplicity/
I watched as the arguments for RDS started here.
It was “Trump/DeSantis 2024”.
Then it was “yeah, but suppose ‘something happens’ to Trump, wouldn’t RDS be a great ‘back-up’?
Then it was “Trump has too many negatives, RDS is Trump without all the sharp corners.”
So, while I don’t agree with ANY of that b.s., KL fills that blank, much better than RDS.
“But, she’s NEVER served in ANY political office!”
Yeah, numbnuts and neither had PRESIDENT Trump, in 2016.
It’s not just the president & Congress, it’s the incredible bureaucracy in DC, there are 100,000 people working in the state dept. alone. Thank you FDR, for loading up the government with socialists, as they continue to hire their own kind.
Mr. Dutchman. Who is KL?
A while ago she ran for Governor of Arizona. Her name is Kari Lake.
Kari Lake is the female version of a younger DJT and a Trump/Lake ticket in 24 would rock the world. DeSantis is a less than inspiring speaker he’s not bright enough to mask his GOPe bona fides. If he’s dumb enough to throw his hat in the ring he’ll deserve the trouncing coming his way.
Your observations are very wise. Look at Rubio, Ernst, Gardner, ad nauseum. Grifters. Couldn’t wait to sell us out.
You are right on that. You ever notice how Ernst looks into the eyes of Mitch like he’s her Daddy. Sickening 🙁
Yes, and to be catty, she looked so much better in short hair. That mop just drags her down and ages her.
Yes….Very good statement.
This needs to be said much more often!
Wow. What an “original” titles. Did Ron ever have to read “Profiles In Courage?” I wouldn’t read that book if you gave it to
me for free.
Obummer became a millionaire from his his book sales? Yeah right. Best way to launder money for all involved until that pipsqueak bitcoin fellow who has no idea what happened. There’s a sucked born every minute as Groucho Marx used to say.
And speaking of machetes, yoi, but the Long Knives are really coming out early as to who will be deemed electable in 2024. Enjoy the show. I know I will after I put on my armor of the best kind.
typos sigh: title, read Desantis’s book, sucker. So sorry. I need to calm down and read what I write before I post.
Oh yes he’ll be rich and happy, but at what cost to America? That is why the Desantis needs to be shown the door.
God bless Donald Trump. The only REAL President America ever had.
Ah – that’s why the (Murdoch owned) NY Post has been dumping on Trump the last few weeks.
The last few weeks? Try the last half-decade. The Post has never been the Trump-friendly publication some people believe it has.
The only way any of “THEM” win is by cheating or by buying the position. We the people of the United States of America certainly don’t vote any of “THEM” into office. Murdoch is wasting a bunch of money just to have the election stolen from DeSantis. Tax write off, no doubt.
“THEY” will pay very soon. The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords is coming. He will set things right.
Actually, any time the GOPe is seriously under attack, their Dem comrades are quick to do “whatever is neccesary” to rescue the RINOS, because the Dems realise that if the RINO wing goes down, the Dems go with them.
A one winged bird can’t fly.
MAGA is now directly at war with the GOPe, so I actually think they intend to give it to DeSantis, to reinforce the idea that MAGA Can’t win, but RINO can, to “bring us back to the plantation” by giving us the appearance of a win.
After all, they don’t really CARE if the WH is D or R, as long as its Uniparty.
And, they have made so much progress with the Uniparty agenda, they can put DeSantis in, and sacrifice Newsome.
Newsome will be like Chriss, a sacrifice play, no doubt handsomely rewarded.
What an ass*ole. What a wasted vote! Floridians should be angry!
This Floridian is plenty angry. I started bending my neighbors’ and coworkers’ ears about Ron DeSanctimonious the day after the election. He’s well liked here, but there’s no enthusiasm for him like there was – and still is – for Trump. The only “excitement” for DeSantis is coming from grifters and shills on conservative websites and social media.
If that bloated pig DeSantis wants his political career to be destroyed by Trump, by all means, he should try to run against DJT in the primary.
“The only “excitement” for DeSantis is coming from grifters and shills on conservative websites and social media.”
And their synchronized dump of that excitement was as obvious as the pause and dramatic shift in ballot counting on election night November 2020.
His entry into the race will divide the GOP for 2024 making a run unwinnable. He can not unite the GOP in 2024. If RDS is smart, he will let someone else lose.
This Floridian was so angry that he did NOT vote for him DeSantis this fall. I’d rather have him be a one-term governor than to use his mandate to corrupt the entire MAGA movement beyond repair.
More and more it has become obvious to me that everything that is going on that is destroying our country can be traced to the same devious consortium of billionaires, multinational corporations and banks who are increasingly controlling all government actions and government policies.
The unlimited immigration. The Democrat drive to control elections. The alignments of the uniparty. The conflict in Ukraine to destroy Russia by proxy. The US demand for EU sanctions be applied. The destruction of the Nordstream pipelines. The crime and violence and protests to create chaos. Abortion to keep workers working. Destruction of family ties. Surveillance and censorship. Green energy agendas for more profits for the elites. The interference in foreign countries. The lockdowns and vaccine mandates. The intolerance of critical race theory to destroy community cohesion and values.
Truly, the only hope we have is Donald Trump and the few others who are willing and able to take a stand against the billionaire’s club.
What value is money when freedom is lost? When one becomes the most wealthy and powerful in this life at the cost of crying masses? When one faces God’s judgement?
He can’t work within the R party structure, they are all making that clear. He can’t win as a write-in. Just as he created TruthSocial, he’ll have to run third party. What are the chances there? Splitter candidates elect luciferians.
If in the end you only have two choices, RDS or satan 2.0 Newsom, please don’t sit on the sidelines.
I will never vote for DeSantis. He betrayed us here in Florida.
Two bought dummies? No thanks.
Folks think it’s takes big money to form up a third party; which I understand. However, PDJT has a built in advantage that he already has a ~80M voter head start. Folks who will be with him through thick and thin. ….’and he may pick up many more when fellow citizens figure out how they are being hosed
In the end, we’ have to find out how to destroy the voter fraud game.
Speaking practically, Trump likely only has 35-45 million votes running as a third party.
What DeSantis fears is a third-party run by Trump in the case they block him from running as a Republican.
Ask Trump what’s his plan. What happens after he’s re-elected. Same old complaining about how the entire D.C. was/is ought to get him? We know they are. But what’s the battle plan?
How is he going to address Voter Fraud? What about the DOJ and the FBI that have already appointed another phony special counsel, will abuse classification rules and leak to the lapdog media? And what about the GOP leadership that sabotaged his entire first term in office and intentionally sacrificed the House majority to proceed with impeachments?
He HAS talked about some of his plan, its not all just complaining.
Every rally speach, he added something new, you just had to listen for it.
He HAS talked about an Executive order, enabling him to fire people, without it taking 16 frickin years, as it is now.
Remember what he did with the Veterans admin?
He can do that for ALL departments, and the legallity is alteady assured by the Veteran affairs test.
National School Choice, for EVERY student; the voucher system WE wanted 30 years ago; $ goes with the student.
Drug dealers get the death penalty, actually I thing drug or human trafficers.
And, this time he WILL have a whole host of people from outside the beltway, to staff his administration; people who have been subjected to, and survived the unrelenting vilification he has experienced, and so are “tried and true”.
People LIKE KL, AH, BM, MF, Deperno, Mastrianno, KK and many many more.
The STAFFS for those candidates, who have likewise survived the assaults, including death threats, etc.
PUT their names up, and FORCE McConnell to block their confirmations, insteadvof just letting him veto MAGA people with a phone call from a staffer.
A PDJT term in 2024, will NOT be a repeat of 2016, thats the one thing ee can count on.
Nobody is going to allow President Trump to fire people, NOBODY. But if he’s elected, you are free to watch him litigate his jammed up executive orders in a legal system that is financed and physically controlled by the enemy.
The truth is that without McConnell agreeing to play ball, there is not much a Republican president can legally do.
McConnell and the people behind him hate Trump and would pull out all the stops, including joining the Democrats, to prevent Trump from enacting his policies.
Remember how Paul Ryan went voluntarily into a full “self-destruct mode” back in 2018 in order to allow Pelosi and the Democrats to retake the House and proceed with their first impeachment? I do.
McConnell and the Democrats will pass any fraudulent piece of a so called “bi-partisan legislation” to protect the SWAMP from Trump and subvert his America First agenda.
I guess what I’m getting at is you cannot reasonably expect to use an utterly corrupt system to fight the same system and corruption. The federal judiciary will always stab us in the back and protect their benefactors. Just look at Kavanaugh, Barrett and Gorsuch… It couldn’t be more obvious.
To quote CJ Hopkins: We have pretty much burned our bridges at this point. Unless you’re prepared to mindfxxxck yourself, and gaslight yourself, and confess, and convert, there’s no going back to “normal” society (which we couldn’t go back to anyway, on account of how it doesn’t exist anymore).
It’s amazing President Trump accomplished anything with all the long knives out for him! Or, did you forget?
Any debate question (accusation) on the economy, border, oil supremacy, et al, he can answer by, “I already did that!”
Stop going wobbly!
It’s more than wobbly. It’s more like abandon hope all ye who post here. I wonder why Small Fizzle Burlap Depends is dirty dancing as fast as he can. Don’t you?
Good point!
Political books by political candidates stink of graft and corruption.. I have never bought one and i never will..tho the corrupt payment is made up front by the publisher.
with plans and $ support … before elections
Pence, Pompei,Nikki Hailey .. not to mention the publication A Promised Land, BHO’s memoir of his rise to the presidency, significant legislative victories and preparations for his second presidential election win.
Quite a few of them eventually end up at Big Lots for a buck! By then it is all over for them, but kinda fun to look back & study their foibles!
It’s pure money laundering. Everyone in DC knows it.
Well, it sure helluva lot easier to play with these guys rather than to antagonize them if you are serious about running for office…
Quick question: Would you hire a defense lawyer known for antagonizing judges in court rooms, judges who could arbitrarily deny his motions, go “inexplicably” soft on Brady, disallow any exculpatory evidence or testimonies, and manipulate the juries when you are on trial? Even if you know the judge is a moron, a biased hack of often all of the above, calling him or her out and put on a show would never benefit the client. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t like losing in courts. Now tell me, are we not hiring the president to represent us? Can we afford to lose?
That said, accepting contributions from people like Murdoch(s) or Griffin does not necessarily tantamount to being a globalist puppet. Quite to the contrary, the history of mankind is full of leaders who turned on their donors, mentors, and benefactors the moment they were elected, coronated, or sworn in. Don’t believe me? Just look at the justices Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Gorsuch, latter to a lesser extent.
I am eternally grateful to President Donald Trump for exposing the underbelly of the feral beast and the lying media. But the candidate and then President Trump erred grievously in believing that he could accomplish everything he wanted on his own. The “Art of the Deal” does not work when the other side holds almost all the cards.
I think DeSantis gets it. He learned from Trump and understands that if he declares an all-out war on the Main Justice, FBI, and the Corporate America at the same time, the system will pull out all the stops to destroy him. And DeSantis is far from being a sure bet. To whatever degree the woke D.C. bureaucracy has infiltrated the states, as a governor of Florida, he does not have to deal with a national security apparatus that has been setting its own foreign policy, abusing classification rules, and engaging in criminal leaking to a compliant corporate media; a Justice Department that has been weaponizing the resources and capacities of the FBI to undermine an elected president; and an army of still unfireable flunkies unanimous in their implicit belief that all policies of the United States should be managed by a professional class of bureaucrats, and not by the elected president.
In other words, we need a candidate with a clear objective and plan not just how to win but rather how to bring the national security state, including the FBI, to heel once in office.
The economy and foreign policy are not our first priority because everything that was done to our economy was a result of grievous sabotage. The “U.S.S. America” is nothing like the Titanic. Believe it or not, our ship was just fine and had not hit an iceberg. Rather, we are being deliberately sunk by a bunch of unelected loons who were punching holes in the hull of the ship! I guess we need to learn how to prioritize. But I digress.
I think we all agree that Nikki, Pompeo, or Pence among others could never “pull a rabbit” (heck, I don’t even believe they own a rabbit, or a hat…). We know that Donald Trump cannot do it. We like him trashing the D.C. swamp before our first coup of coffee. But was not enough then, and it will sure not be enough in 2024. The enemy was warned and knows that we are coming. If re-elected, a big “if” by the way, he will be under scrutiny in a multitude of politically motivated investigations from day one of his second term with the hostile Congress holding faux impeachment hearings and Senate trials while actively working to stop and/or subvert his America First agenda regardless of the majority.
Remember, even if conducted legitimately, elections no longer reflect the will of the people. We need a rabbit, we need a surprise.
Sundance has opened my eyes to the degree that all hope is gone for true electoral success anytime soon. The system in 2016 was still winnable, but now the luciferians have fine-tuned their harvesting into an election success story time after time. We are dealing with very educated people with nothing better to do than engineer election outcomes. We are so far behind in this game that winning in 2024 is a near impossibility.
The Rs are morons. They are just happy to be in the spotlight and having a camera in their face. They slept while Lucifer worked.
I can no longer extract happiness from elections. Every one is a study in depressing outcomes and the R bigshots just shrug it off. They aren’t in it for us.
The sooner we stop with the abusive relationship the better. MAGA is not allowed in the party. We had that chance Nov 8 but were rebuffed, both at the hands of the Rs and the Ds. They aren’t into us. I have no answers bc the Rs don’t want to win.
DeSantis is too politically savvy; if he believes he cannot win, he is not going to run. There is no upside for him, a successful governor of Florida who turned a purple state solidly reed, to be branded loser.
Trump wants to run because of his ego (and I totally get it, he was defrauded of the second term). He has however little to no chance to win and if he could pull a rabbit and win, he won’t be able to govern amid the onslaught of phony criminal and national security investigations, GOP sabotage, judicial activism, and complicit MSM.
I’m not sure he wants to run because of his ego. That’s a media talking point.
President Trump is a winner. Imagine how he feels about letting the American
people down. Winner’s don’t quit! It may not be about ego at all.
I don’t think you understand – DeSantis has already decided to run in 2024. He just hasn’t announced it yet.
The RINOs are hoping to inflict maximum damage on Trump so it doesn’t appear like DeSantis is the one betraying him – they still want millions of Trump voters voting for DeSantis in the general.
Actually, I represented pro se, en proper,..latin terms for representing myself thruout my life.
And the guy everyone misquotes about having a fool for a client, was a LAWYER.
I was fighting for ME, it was MY LIFE, MY ASSETS, and My CHILDREN I fought for, and I fought.
I once threatened the Le Officer, the DA and the Judge with their jobs if they found me guilty; I won.
I once discreditted an expert witness in cross examination, something every first year law student is taught “you will NOT succeed, and making the attempt and failing, will help the other side. DO NOT ATTEMPT IT.
However, like the bumble bee that never studied aerodynamics, I never went to law school.
Hence I DID it, and because I did it, I won.
So yes, mister “too big for your britches”, I want a FIGHTER.
Please… Now you are hallucinating. Threatening a judge?
Without their enforcers, they’re nothing. Detritus. Use it. This is war.
So, you think DC and the Leftists won’t eat DeSantis alive. Being the Governor of Florida is nothing like entering the
DC Swamp.
I think that he will be attacked viciously… To quote my previous post “DeSantis is far from being a sure bet. To whatever degree the woke D.C. bureaucracy has infiltrated the states, as a governor of Florida, he does not have to deal with a national security apparatus that has been setting its own foreign policy, abusing classification rules, and engaging in criminal leaking to a compliant corporate media; a Justice Department that has been weaponizing the resources and capacities of the FBI to undermine an elected president; and an army of still unfireable flunkies unanimous in their implicit belief that all policies of the United States should be managed by a professional class of bureaucrats, and not by the elected president.”
This is what Trump or DeSantis is going to be up against, if nominated.
DeSantis spent several terms in Congress so he should know it well. Old habits die hard! President Trump gave him support and encouragement while running for Governor of Florida. This is how he repays the favor?
Book or no book he loses MAGA and stays the RINO that he is!
This is a very smart comment. I don’t have an answer to it though.
DeSantis’ billionaire backers must be so disappointed that Musk and Apple made an agreement. They were so hoping that DeSantis could make a planned stand against Apple for political points and photo ops.
Well, DeSantis took on Disney and clearly won. His billionaire backers may be in for a rude awakening…
He is right not to alienate everyone at this point. Why should he? It’s not a winning strategy. You don’t warn the enemy before you attack. Read “The Art of the Deal.”
Whaat?? Disney does whatever the hell they want. DupeSantis made some scary noises at them and that was it. You don’t live in Florida do you?
Disney was not a DeSantis donor. What will DeSantis do when it is a donor? I sincerely doubt he will do anything. And we know that he is pro-Ukraine war, though he is trying to avoid dwelling on it.
Test issues might be lowering hospital costs or even chemical and physical castration of minors. With all the hospital systems donating big money to DeSantis, will he take on the hospitals to curb trans surgeries?
DeSantis ignored the proven and vast voter fraud (ballots printed and singed from undeliverable addresses, in the run up to 2022. Was worried, but now understand how the huge margin appeared.
DeSantis is gonna get hit on the head by both sides over maga issue.
The Dems will call him maga monster (worse than Trump) and constantly call for him to denounce maga and Trump. They’ll air that 2018 maga commercial he did boasting Trump’s endorsement and be screaming that there is no room at the table for maga.
On the other side, the Trump wing of the maga movement (heart and soul) will be saying DeSantis isn’t maga (America First) and won’t want to support him in the General election, especially if it is a long bloody primary.
I’m not sure yet if DeSantis will end up like Scott Walker (rise fast, fizzle out faster), like Ted Cruz (Ride out near to the end as the Trump alternative but not cross the finish line), or win the primary and then suffer with The same attacks and smears on the level of what they do to Trump (but without the Trump Teflon protection).
Quick questions: Assuming Trump is re-elected, which is fine with me, what is he going to do? I mean what’s the strategy? Will he be able to bring the Justice Department and the FBI to heel? Or will he be complaining about the Special Counsel on Truth Social like he did on Twitter between 2017-and 2020? What’s the strategy?
As I already posted earlier today, we need a candidate with a clear objective and plan not just how to win, but rather how to bring the national security state, including the FBI, to heel once in office.
The economy and foreign policy are not our first priority because everything that was done to our economy was a result of grievous sabotage.
Sure, let’s expect him to put all his cards on the table prematurely. Good advice.
We saw his plan before – there is none. As a businessman, Trump understands the economic components, but was way in over his head with trying to drain the SWAMP that ended up installing their favorite avatar, a man who used to be Joe Biden.
“The economy and foreign policy are not our first priority”?
Are you INSANE?
I listed earlier, PDJT HAS made clear statements, on SOME of whatvhevhas planned, I forgotvto add make CHINA (CCP) PAY for releasing COVID on the World, and he already demostrated he knows HOW; Tariff the crap out of em.
Oh really? Did Mexico pay for the “big, beautiful Wall?” And what about “draining the Swamp.” Who ended up being drained, the Swamp or the Chief Draino? Did I mention the “Operation Warp Speed” that gave us an assorted selection of poisonous shots that ended up killing more healthy, young people than the actual virus? Please don’t get me started…
But most importantly, you cannot govern or implement any policies while you are the defendant.
Hey Ron, you have a State to run, get off the phone/tablet/laptop.
What are we even battling for in this effed up party? As long as the current senators are in place and the leadership cuts us off at the knees we have no chance in it. They’ve made it clear, no MAGA need apply. They’ve let Lake and other Trump endorsed candidates fall to the ground, and Walker is next.
Taking the party over will take too many election cycles, by which time the clock will have run out. Please tell me the game plan.
THEY have gottenbus distracted with DC, with CONGRESS and WH, at the expence of STATE Governments, wherexall the real Governing takes place, and way too many are still falling for it.
And your post, Greg reflects this all too common view.
Lock Trump and DeSantis up in the same room and don’t let them out until they reach an agreement.
A primary slugfest will hurt them both badly and further reduce our already deminished chances to retake the White House.
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Just kick RDS back to FL.
And just like that, Ron Desantis declared for the Presidency.
And just like that he spit in the eye of Florida voters.
At $200 million and counting, he is just fine if he loses now. He gets to keep it all, tax free.
Tax-free?
“Book publishing, as done by politicians in both parties, is the way money is laundered to candidates and various campaign finance rules are subverted. ”
Never thought about this! But now it all makes sense, I guess when the blue-collar worker sees the polished professional touting their newest book, we just roll our eyes and say, who the hell is reading these books! And get our asses back to work…
But the mice in the warehouses are eating cheese and reading like crazy! : )
mankind has reached the end of it’s expiration date … our “CREATOR” has had enough … and the ‘created’ is in for a truly ‘rude awakening’ … we don’t run or own anything … it ‘s blessings from the “CREATOR” that sustain humanity … the coming reckoning for humanity will be ‘humbling ‘ … we have earned the ‘ass kicking’ coming our way …
DeSantis and Musk are Uniparty Reversal Artists. This is where the Uniparty really earns its keep, proving itself one of the most adroit constructs in the history of crowd control.
Nothing has ever managed the turns better.
When the dialectical pendulum reaches the insane extremities of its current arc, a host of belated saviors are dispatched to restore some semblance of normalcy.
DeSantis buses a bunch of bedraggled immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard. Swoosh! Musk chastises Hillary Clinton on Twitter. Swoosh!
The Reversal Artists become the undeserving recipients of mass pent-up elation and relief. At last! Early glimmers of renewed sanity! This is the managed backswing phase of the pendulum when our Timekeepers realize they’ve pushed us far enough for one cycle
By the way, DeSantis is a Big Pharma minion and Musk is a MIC/DARPA butt-boy. Nevermind. Let’s savor the Martha’s Vineyard newsreel for the great TeeVee it is.
We can’t win for losing, sometimes in fell swoops, sometimes in smaller bites. Yet we allow the smaller losses to fill us with elation. Because that’s how beleaguered and famished we are.
Did I mention the train?
The pendulum is affixed to the aisle of a hurtling train. It’s easy to mistake the right-left movement of the pendulum for the first-order determinant of ‘where we are’ when in fact it’s the ever-hurtling train that never ceases taking us to where we least want to be.
The pendulum is the distraction that hides the train.
How is DeSantis a big pharma guy? That doesn’t make any sense
more evidence of RINO-hood for the sweetie-pies who won’t acknowledge the evidence before their very eyes. Some people, it seems, develop an attachment to a celebrity but can’t allow themselves to admit evidence that their initial attachment was made without full knowledge
Looks like Gov. DeSantis is/has been following the standard preordained formula laid out by GOPe grifters/strategists.
I wonder when or if he ever will break the bondage of these DC insiders’ grip then, only then will DeSantis show us “the courage to be free”.
I’m sure he didn’t write the book but got paid for the book and now he’s on the hook. I wonder where and when he will stab America in the back first? And over what issue? Open borders? The budget? China?
Which chapter covers his fast tracking of TPP? If President DupeSantis (puke) handles what used to be the Southern Border anything like the way he hasn’t done sh!t about fentanyl and child trafficking/slave labor/sexploitation in this State, it going to be a long and painful 4 years. We may very well have the highest per capita hard dope overdose rate in the Nation. By my Governor’s own admission, 70+% of “new arrivals” claim Florida for their “final destination” after his trip to the Border, which was my first clue he thought himself ready to run. The cover photo on the book no one will ever read makes him look an awful lot like Chairman Xi.
De Santis will lose against Trump in the primaries. If he doesn’t know that then he’s not as smart as he thinks he is. Once he loses then he will immediately become an “also ran”. It will destroy his career…
I believe pitting De Santis against Trump is a splitter strategy designed to divide the party to the benefit of the entrenched RINOs. That will keep the business as usual going with the democrats in control.
My strong belief is that we should all steer away from the shinny thing they all put in front of us. I’ll explain:
There is a very good reason there is a Senate in the Federal government ordered in the constitution. Two senators per state, REGARDLESS of population. That is where we can win. That is where we can change the course of the county.
Unfortunately the powers that be know this all to well: The control of our government flows through the Senate, and for us, control of the Senate flows through Kentucky.
As long as Mitch is in the senate we are never going to change ANYTHING. He likes it just the way it is. The man has to go. A MAGA senator MUST run the senate. This is where we HAVE to concentrate. Everything else in the news and social media is designed to keep us busy focused on something else…
It just struck me. Looking at that book cover photo. I can’t be the only one. You know what I see?
“Meet Bob. Bob is doing well” .
Haha… can’t unsee that
Are all the sheeple ready to stampede over to the RDS camp?
Are the RINO knives sharpened? 🔪
Florida man sounds good.
•Propaganda in place. ✔️
•Book deal to promote. ✔️
•Billionaire 💰. ✔️
•MSM on board. ✔️
•Just enough opposition to give the semblance of credibility. ✔️
Baa-aaaaaaaa Baa-aaaaaaa
🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
I’m starting to think a third party might not be such a bad idea. We got no chance of fixing the corruption without it. The shiitebags are to deeply entrenched in the GOP to ever fix it.
NO matter what I’ll vote for Trump 2024.
This is why America needs Trump, he isn’t subject to being bought and merged into the borg.
I’ll tell you why I don’t like this. The enemy is backing this.
*When you see Elon’s enemies stacking up: EU, BigTech, Feds you know who has the most to lose and who wants to assert not freedom but control.
*Trumps enemies are everywhere, you know the he’s aiming the gun at them and business as usual (march towards Marxism, globalism, collectivism, etc.
DeSantis will not advance until he starts making serious enemies right now: RINOs, Uniparty, DC Swamp, WEF-Globalists, Satanists-Cabal, BigTech, CCP, etc…..that’s when you know he’s serious about We the People.
The grooming of corruption right in your face.
This worries me about DeSantis – I also read he gave $100,000 to the Daily Wire….
‘Book publishing, as done by politicians in both parties, is the way money is laundered to candidates and various campaign finance rules are subverted.’ – Sundance
No doubt the new Republican-majority House will subpoena the Clintons, the Obamas, Nikki Haley, Kristi Noem, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo and Tim Scott to probe this hiding-in-plain-sight form of corrupt kickbacks and money laundering.
Wait … who am I kidding? Clowngress will no more intervene in publishing-industry corruption than it will stop the sewer of dirty money flowing into, and sometimes back from, the Ukraine.
This is how empires die, as broad-daylight corruption goes not only unchecked but openly celebrated.
While a Murdoch book contract is interesting, it’s chump change compared to the big bucks that will flow from the real owners of the Republican Party.
Shel Adelson’s (dearly departed) “Vegas Primary,” in which Republican wannabe’s trekked to kiss the ring of the king, is where the real money comes from.
Adelson’s widow, Miriam, is likely to continue this market.
Very likely that little Ron DeSanctimonious is already receiving Miriam’s largess. Let’s see what happens in March. Big, big, big bucks likely flowing to his handlers then.
DeSantis was worth 350K about 4 months ago. There is no way he can protect himself in a national campaign with those kind of resources. So, he has to get the billionaire oligarchs to dole out cash. Now we are seeing that.
No way these folks don’t want something in return.
All the good press he’s getting will probably go away after the primary season is over if he is the nominee. It’s always that way. The oligarchs like to pick both candidates so that they can’t lose no matter who wins.
All I know, when the crap hits the fan, every politician better have their i’s dotted and their t’s crossed. Because there is a big beautiful brand new high security, ADA compliant facility in Guantanamo Bay that has plenty of room for more crooked politicians than our country can produce.
That cover photo has a little Reagan morphed in. Ugh.
Trump did not even take his Presidential salary. “The Courage to be owned,” methinks. Selling out to the establishment does not take long for some.
I like Governor DeSantis. I do not like the Murdoch kids.
I would support any republican candidate that the Murdoch’s oppose. They gave us Paul Ryan.
Book deals = money laundering
I’ve tried to explain to my fellow Republicans and conservatives that Desantis may not be who they think he is, and that Washington only wants him to be a spoiler for Trump and doesn’t care if he can actually win the election. What they really want is another magnanimous loser like Dole, McCain, and Romney who will smile, congratulate his opponent, and then slink away with his tail between his legs.
This is just more evidence that Trump is the one and only candidate who is not beholden to the GOPe. Everything else is just noise.
Desantis = The Great RINO Deceiver! The WEF’s new goto minion