Everything about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is shallow fakery and manipulative astroturf.
The term “astroturf” is given whenever a political operation attempts to generate the illusion of support where little to no support exists. Astroturf politics is pure fabrication and highlights the smallness of the candidate for whom the astroturf operation is conducted.
In republican national politics we saw astroturf operations around Carly Fiorina and Ted Cruz in 2016, so it doesn’t come as a surprise to see the same individual’s surface again as hired by Team DeSantis to create his 2024 astroturf campaign. Yesterday’s trip by the meatball to Georgia was pure astroturf, complete with free DeSantis ’24 swag, t-shirts, and various freebies in order to support the artificial optics of the campaign [see video at end].
With the support of Jeb Bush and Karl Rove, team Meatball has hired former Cruz and Youngkin campaign officials to help generate and enhance his illusion. They even hired people skilled in manufactured polling [WPA intel] to create false data for media to promote. This action comes on the heels of the meatball’s instructions to state senate allies for them to change Florida law, thus permitting him to run without resigning.
WASHINGTON – […] The upper ranks of Never Back Down, a group founded by former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli, will include top strategists to Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign, a top adviser to Glenn Youngkin’s 2021 Virginia gubernatorial campaign and senior communications aides involved in former president Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential run, according to a person familiar with the plans, who, like others in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private arrangements.
The sheer firepower of the senior team suggests that Never Back Down — which will be able to accept donations of unlimited value and transfers from DeSantis’s state political committee — will have a more expansive role in the 2024 campaign than past presidential super PACs, which have traditionally focused almost exclusively on television and digital advertising.
[…] Phil Cox, a senior adviser to the 2022 DeSantis reelection campaign who has been a point of contact for Republicans hoping to support a White House bid, will serve as a senior adviser to Never Back Down, the person familiar with the plans said. He will work with Axiom Strategies President Jeff Roe, the architect of the 2016 Cruz campaign and the 2021 Youngkin campaign, whose role with the group was disclosed last week.
Kristin Davison, an Axiom consultant who has worked as a top adviser to Youngkin, will join the group as chief operating officer, working with Chris Jankowski — a Virginia strategist who has worked with Cox — who has taken the title of chief executive.
[…] Chris Wilson, a Republican pollster at WPA Intelligence, will lead the data efforts for Never Back Down. He worked on Youngkin’s gubernatorial campaign, and served as director of research, analytics and digital strategy for the 2016 Cruz presidential campaign.
David Polyansky, Axiom’s chief strategy officer, will also join Never Back Down as a senior adviser. He previously worked as a senior adviser to the 2016 GOP presidential campaign of former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, as top adviser to the Cruz presidential campaign and as a Senate chief of staff to Cruz.
[…] On Monday, Matt Wolking, a deputy communications director for Trump’s 2020 campaign who works at Axiom, announced on Twitter that he was joining the group. (read more)
Right on cue, today Meatball spox Matt Wolking starts promoting a Meatball WPA Intelligence poll for NBC to promote.
https://twitter.com/MattWolking/status/1641474148407943168
The coordinated astroturf effort is extremely visible, and makes the meatball look smaller than a spaghetti-o.
Next up is an exceptional video explanation by Randy of what happened in Georgia yesterday.
Everything noted in the ‘on-the-ground’ video in Georgia is describing pure astroturf.
If Casey DeSantis had any shame or humility, she would be embarrassed for her Meatball. However, as Casey takes counsel from Cindy McCain while shopping for tiaras and drapes, the general optics are that Mrs. Meatball is one of the biggest pushers of the 2024 enterprise.
What was the Desantis event in Georgia really like, and what actually happened? Here’s a breakdown and key takeaways from your citizen anti-journalist Randy! pic.twitter.com/DD4uPLlYl0
— Randy the Savage (@reannadilley) March 31, 2023
As an Italian…I absolutely hate seeing people call another person “meatball”. Especially when it’s meant in a derogatory way.
I hope you are being sarcastic, as meatball is pretty generic. But if you are not being sarcastic, then think of it as a Swedish meatball, or better yet, think long and hard about what the phrase, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” actually means.
Speaking of facts, can anyone tell me when/where he got the name meatball? I missed it and would like to know.
PDJT put something on Truth Social that said (paraphrasing): Some people call Ron a “meatball” but I would never do that.
Thanks.
I think it had everything to do with Archie’s Son-In-Law, who is STILL the biggest meatball of all – Oh, Pardon ME!!! The biggest Meathead!
Ah… Whateveh… Same Thing…
Ha ha. Do you really think that Italians are the only group of people on the planet that thought of grinding meat, shaping it into a ball, and cooking it??
You being “upset” about that is an insult to what Italians actually did contribute to the elevation of white, European, higher culture.
HEY! I happen to Appreciate Spaghetti and Meatballs!!!
Besides the Swedes, the Dutch have gehaktballen. I will also add that many Arab/Mediterranean countries/cultures have meatball recipes (kibbe, dawood basha, kefta/kofta, etc.).
You must have forgotten one of my Favorites, Swedish Meatballs.
He’s stull a Putz.
And we just found our first Italian snowflake. We’ve been slurred and called so many names we can’t begin to count, not to mention our depiction in movies for decades. Not until Joe Columbo did an Italian ever say a word. Stop the nonsense. Besides, Rhonda has no Italian cred. He’s forever MEATBALL
Ha ha. Yeah. “Meatball” broke “Susan”.
Don’t forget all the Italians that portrayed Indians in Hollywood westerns all of those decades. The most famous didn’t star in movies but in the squared circle, his ring name was Chief Jay Strongbow a.k.a. Luke Scarpa from Nutley, NJ.
No offense, but you sound like a humorless leftist who cannot laugh at themselves.
You find it offensive; I find it funny.
That is why I’m happier than you.
As a Swede … I absolutely hate Italians who believe they invented the meatball and have some claim to its use.
I’d like to take this moment to apologize to all Swedes for misappropriation
How quickly the MSM took aim at DeSantis makes me wonder if Trump isn’t really the establishment candidate?
Put the pieces together…the two-fold dialectic.
Umm, on ScribD you can open a free account and download the movie script, “Splinter Strategy: How the RNC Runs Presidential Campaigns that Ruin America”… there are some small roles that you would be perfect for… it’s really old but the RNC is re-releasing it’s 2023 edition and it’s re-titled, “The Courage to be Free”
The idea that Trump is the establishment candidate is ridiculous. Anyone who says it is a plant.
Ha ha ha. Is that Meatball Ron’s next tactic?? Vote for me!! I’m the real MAGA!! Trump is a phony!! Trump, Romney, Ryan, Kemp, Bush, and Rove are all best friends!!
No. They overpaid for him. They wouldn’t do that.
The MSM takes aim at….. ? Have you been sleeping for the past 8 years ?
Ron gets a pass from the MSM. And Ron’s coterie of advisors proves he is an anti-Trump candidate, simple.
Congratulations. Dick Tracy cracked the case. The riddle wrapped in the enigma
Never Back Down??? So now he stole one of Trump’s famous last lines at every one of his rallies for the past years?
Never back down, never give up ……………….. etc ……………… so what’s the next political move DeSantis will make? Making hats that say “Make America Safe Again”?
Does he not have an original thought in his head?
Trump didn’t make that up. I appreciate mythos but I adhere to truth.
Well “never give up” is more well known from one of the last speeches Jimmy Valvano made before he died from cancer.
“Never give up. Never, never, never give up!” – Winston Churchill to British troops during WWII
YES!
And you can take that back to FORT McHENRY in 1814, as well
At 30X42 Ft, containing 400 Yards of Best Quality Wool Bunting, they had the Largest Ever American Flag flying over that Fort for the World to see that they MEANT EVERYTHING that FLAG SAID,
In The Dawn’s Early Light, as the American Patriots kept that flag flying high through the worst Bombardment the British Navy could give it – From 7 AM on the morning of Sept. 13, 1814 until 1 AM, the British fired relentlessly. When their reconnaissance returned to the ships, they told them the Flag was still there. The British did not understand. Then the British levied another THREE HOURS MORE at that Flag. For 25 Hours the British hit that flag with everything they had – including 1,500 Bombs. The Flag Was Still There.
The British gave up, Somewhere in all of this, on Sept 14th, having failed to fell the Flag at Fort McHenry, and realizing the British land assault on Baltimore had also been abandoned, the British had decided all this was too costly a prize, and their officers had ordered a retreat.
Francis Scott Key said he remembered something that George Washington said, ” The thing that sets the American Christian apart from all other people in the world is that he will die on his feet before he will live on his knees.”
For, later that morning, what was stunningly discovered at the Fort was that the Flag, comprised of 400 YARDS of Best Quality Wool Bunting, was being held aloft on the flag pole, by the Dead bodies of the Patriots inside the Fort.
DeSanctimonious hasn’t got that kind of Sand in his belly.
All he’s got driving him on is the picture he sees in his own mirror…
All the $$$MONEY the RINOS and DIMS paid him didn’t make him Valuable.
That amount of money could not outweigh the fact that he has been BOUGHT.
But NOT with The Price that Matters.
He sold himself to the cheapest bidder.
Hey, wonder if all his new dough is parked in one of those Crashing Banks???
President Trump owns the platform, DeSantis is left with the typical platitudes.
President Trump was bought with A PRICE – THE PRICE – the Blood of Jesus.
Isaiah 45: 1-9, 11, 13; Isaiah 41:1,2; Isaiah 44: 24-28.
God’s Cyrus/Darius for This Age. Daniel 5.
No. And when you are so inadequate you have to rubberstamp ads from JEB! and Ted Cruz, there is no reason to suspect he will ever GET one, either.
Thanks. I kept waiting for that simple NO.
Of course it’s no. They do not have original ideas because they are PUPPETS and if they could think they could be a bigger danger than a meatball.
Remember that they have no original ideas and can only respond as they are programed.
They killed the Muse for thinking outside the box, which is way outside of the allowed forced compliance.
That is why they always infiltrate and destroy that which is healthy like the cancer they are best correlated to.
I don’t trust the lot of them, the Uni-Party is nothing but a bunch of grifters looking out for themselves and their big campaign donors.
Phhipppppph on DeSantis and his Uni-Party backers.
Trump is always seeking donations after his press brouhahas. Hold everybody to the same standards. I have unsubscribed 10 plus times to his donations requests. This favoritism/look the other way for our guy” is what broke this country. It ain’t gonna be saved by the axe that broke it.
Do you work for the Run Ron Run campaign or are you just very sensitive?
Me thinks Randy is a plant.
You know, like a vegetable.
Or a meatball.
Toolbox.
Randy, you are missing the point. The Uniparty grifters beg for money from the little people and then ignore them until the next campaign season. In the meantime, they get money from the big $$$$ donors and do their bidding.
PDJT, actually delivers on his promises to the little people. He gets our money and then, works for us. THAT IS WHY THEY HATE HIM!
To recap: uniparty takes our money and then ignores us. PDJT does the opposite.
You probably need to change your name to Ron!dy.
Trump seeks small donations from those who will vote for him – not humongous amounts from those who want to BUY him.
ONLY BECAUSE the DIMS and RINOS have worked RELENTLESSLY to strip him of his own hard-earned money, by sucking it out of him with FAKE COURT PROCEEDINGS forcing him him to may $Millions in court COSTS for the evil deeds of GRIFTERS trying to bleed him out, since they cannot destroy his reputation WITH THEIR CHEAP LIES
Since you don’t understand that, we don’t expect you to understand what sets President Donald John Trump Sr, Apart in This Generation.
Obviously, you don’t know what difference it makes if Babylon in Daniel’s Day was ruled over by Belshazzar, or Darius, or why Belshazzar got the Handwriting on the Wall, telling him his immediate Fate.
And you don’t know what makes the little backstabbing DeSanctimonious so much a Belshazzar of This Age.
PRESIDENT. DONALD. TRUMP.
There…I said his name for you, Ron.
I’m wondering if Cruz is going to back DeSantis out of spite of President Trump for the conflict in 2015 during the GOPe run off.
I don’t think so. 1. As we all know Cruz is from Texas. 2. Cruz really isn’t aligned with Rove, Ryan and Jeb! 3. DeSantis hasn’t proved anything yet.
Good points. Just something I’ve been thinking about.
Read my post next to yours of This. Regarding Ted Cruz “of TEXAS”, who is NOT a USA Citizen.
And sealed his and his parents’ BIRTH and CITIZENSHIP records.
In 2016.
You are too too too funny. PLUS you forgot that Cruz was born and RAISED in CANADA, where he was a Natural Born Citizen.
And that Trump didn’t pick on CRUZ, FIRST, and DITTO on Carly the GREATEST FAN of the IRANIAN CIVILIZATION living in America FIORINA.
That TRUMP isn’t the one who wrote the TPP for Karl Rove Geo Bush, Jr. AND also the North American Union documents, too.
And that CRUZ sealed his Birth and Citizenship records along with BOTH HIS PARENTS records too, in a MINIMUM of 6 Federal Courts, back in 2015-2016. Just like YOU-KNOW-WHO, before him. And you said that like you didn’t KNOW that Cruz and Heidi FIRST MET when they started working for Geo Bush Jr in 1999, and worked for him until they moved to Texas, where Cruz had NEVER LIVED BEFORE IN HIS LIFE, though his father and mother had, before he was born….and before he was raised in Canada until he was 18 yrs old and came to America to got to TOP universities in upper North Eastern universities and law schools.
Where his Dad was NOT a US Citizen or a TEXAN either, but was born and raised in CUBA, and NOT an enemy of Fidel. His dad just palled around with Lee Harvey Oswald for years in the Southern states, until just before JFK visited Dallas. and his dad went to Canada just before that happened.
So DeSanctimonious’ HANDLERS just happen to pick Cruz who worked for at least 10 yrs for Geo bush Jr, and also picked JEB!’s HANDLERS to work for DeSanctimonious’s TEAM, but … well,
… you KNOW that DeSanctimonious doesn’t have anything to do with JEB! and Geo. Jr. and Karl rove, because it was PAUL RYAN that praised Ron, and Ken Griffin who so proudly BOUGHT him that he closed up his BUSINESSES up North and brought them down to FLA, just so he could be near his new friend.
Just the fact that he’s doing all of these things but refuses to announce that he’s running tells you all you need to know about how authentic Ron DeSantis really is. If he has any sense at all, he will just gracefully bow out and endorse Trump. That’s the only chance to save himself now.
The establishment gave him all that money, he can’t back down now. His political career is over.
Oh, didn’t you hear? That Bill he’s been waiting (cough cough) for from Fla Legislature releasing him from obligation to RESIGN from Governor’s Office before becoming a Candidate for Prez…
HIT HIS DESK LESS THAN 3 HRS after that INDICTMENT was posted in the News.
BREAKING: MANHATTAN GRAND JURY VOTES TO INDICT TRUMP
Cristina Laila Mar. 30, 2023 5:15 pm
Florida Senate Quietly Introduces Bill That Could Allow Desantis to Run Without Resigning a Governor
Brian Lupo Mar. 30, 2023 [[[LISTED INSIDE THE ARTICLE as dated at 7 PM, March 30, 2023]]]
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/florida-senate-quietly-introduces-bill-that-could-allow-desantis-to-run-without-resigning-a-governor/
Don’t you just love Sundance calling Ron MEATBALL. I think that is going to stick with Ron.
I prefer the high road but we’re in a wartime setting now so I neither care nor think about it
Besides, DeSanctimonious has sunk WAY TOO FAR BELOW the High Road, he doesn’t even KNOW that such a Thing even EXISTS.
He’s being treated, all the same, way too much better than a BACKSTABBER can earn.
And BACKSTABBED in such a quiet way that when Trump responded to that, that endorsing Joe O’Dea might not be a Best Move for DeSanctimonious, that Most people still do not know that DeSanctimonious FALSE ACCUSATIONS that he was NOT “OBEYING Trump Properly” – was a BALD-FACED LIE.
That Trump didn’t go out and tell the World that Joe O’Dea was running on a TICKET of PROMISING to PERSONALLY PREVENT TRUMP from winning the PRESIDENCY in 2024….
AND DeSANCTIMONIOUS didn’t tell anybody THAT FACT, EITHER!!!
I am sure that COLORADO Republicans who subsequently got landed with the DIM LIBERAL instead of the Constitutional Ron Hanks after the GENERAL ELECTION, when Joe O’Dea FAILED to Conquer, even with DeSanctimonious’es Stamp of approval, must be really “Pondering” the “Big Favor” that DeSanctimonious did for the Great State of Colorado.
I definitely don’t thing Trump told him that move was not wise, because TRUMP might be SCARED of Joe O’Dea denouncing TRUMP for President in ’04!!!
WHAT A LAUGH!!!
https://coloradosun.com/2022/06/06/colorado-senate-primary-hanks-odea/
(There are three or four articles out about that same time from the Colorado Sun, and giving Joe’s PLATFORM which includes his statements about Trump, and also giving the Platform of the first of the Primary Candidates, Ron Hanks, who is a Constitutionalist – also whom Joe rakes as harshly over the coals as he thinks he can get by with, etc. – And it was the PRIMARY for another STATE that Ron DeSkunk butted into, tail up, First.)
RDS is giving aid-&-comfort to the enemy…he is a traitor and an enemy to America…call him any name you want…all I know is the name of my president is DONALD JOHN TRUMP…there Ron, I said his name!
Is this 2023 or 1923? Meatball/grease—- really?
But even 100 years ago, I think then Prez Calvin Coolidge would have had a similar response to Trump’s.
Except he would have said nothing, but flashed a look that spoke “C’mon, just knock it off”.
Take a better look at the history of American politics when back in the day a candidate would call their opponents’ ancestry into question, portray Lincoln as an ape, etc. Please dismount your sanctimonious high horse and get over yourself, alright?
In October my 19-year-old son and I door knocked two weeks for Herschel Walker… I guarantee you, and my then non-political son will guarantee this too, there is no Florida governor out polling the greatest president ever, Donald J. Trump…(I’ll say his name)
Neither Cruz nor Fiorina was the Republican nominee that year, so why hire their consultants?
If I wanted to win anything, I’d hire a team that delivered victory, not failure.
Yessss. Follow the RNC model. Elect a Rona McRomney clone. Hell, maybe ol’ Rona herself can hold down two jobs!
These political consultants make money during campaign season. I have a feeling that it is just a giant money laundering scheme with everyone going home after their “failure” with a nice sum of money in their bank accounts.
The media wants a faux competitive campaign season so that people will tune in. Poll groups make money by the campaigns. It is one giant money making scheme for a lot of industries.
This batch of “consultants” didn’t even bother to draw up anything ORIGINAL, just Exactly as possible copied their own 2015 work.
Did you see the commercials that Ron and his Family made that were managed by those consultants?
With all the Money DeSanctimonious had for that batch of production, he was clearly PROUD as PUNCH for his commercials to be BLATANT COPIES of the Originals, including his farcical “So God Made a Warrior!” in which they even got someone to as closely mimic Paul Harvey’s voice as possible. While Ron did his best imitation of Comic Book superman with his Chest puffed out like his EGO.
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Cold anger replaced with resolute in rage…
Time to PRAY to the One True God of Heaven. Throw ALL of your Cares upon Him, because He Loves you and Cares for you.
He died on the Cross to have the RIGHT to carry your burdens FOR you.
Trump is the Man that God anointed FOR THIS HOUR and God is NOT going to fail Trump, or us!
OR the REST of God’s AS YET UNFULLFILLED BIBLICAL PROPHECIES (Precious FEW of them NOW LEFT that are meant for THIS Time, NOW ) which HE Designed for THIS HOUR!
2 Chronicles 7:13-15 and see how that plays out in 2 Chronicles 20, and in Numbers 16, and Daniel 5…. and so very much more….
Bluh!
What was visible to ME was the Legislative bill hitting the wall like spaghetti on an Old Italian Mama’s Kitchen Cabinet, LESS than 3 HRS after the Indictments, the Fla Legislation that would potentially allow DeSanctimonious, who is currently drowning in his own glorious opinion of himself, to NOT have to resign from office in order to register as a Candidate, which he isn’t seriously WAITING AROUND FOR, at this time, surging ahead with his own plans like he thinks he is as immune to trouble as Braggs is.
And that the World sees him through his own eyes. which are thoroughly dazzled as he beholds himself.
Them showing Cheney in 3rd place pretty much sums up this poll, lol.
WeThePeople will NEVER vote RINO again … that includes magaLITE DeSantis – funded by the bushCARTEL/McConnelRINOS & deepStateNeverTrump failures.
WeThePeople will vote Trump & MAGA … nothing else !!!
I don’t really care about charisma or his voice. Those are horrible criteria to use when judging a candidate. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were charismatic. The only thing that matters is whether he is for the Constitution or against it. I will never vote for DeSantis because he is a GOP establishment sleazeball who backstabbed Trump after Trump endorsed him for governor. And he is bought and paid for by establishment, deep state RINOs. Phony as a $3 bill. I hate phonies.
Randy the Savage … makes me feel quite randy for an old dude.
Notice especially the observations Randy makes starting about 4:10…
SO! Their Big Great Plan is to simply Bluster their way through like a Cat 5 Fla Hurricane!!!
As if nothing exists except their own little mirror!
LOL!!!
How “IMPRESSIVE“!!!
So LOL!!!
Could someone please explain to me what exactly it means to call Ron a meatball? He’s a back stabbing traitor who is bought and paid for the globalists. But I don’t get the meatball insult. It seems way too mild. I call him much worse.
If DeSantis was smart he’d realize his 2024 campaign was fruitless and either 1) position for Trumps VP or 2) set his sights on 2028.
Let’s make one thing clear here – any declared, or would-be, Republican candidate who promotes him or herself on the back of Trump’s indictment is finished, and that includes the coy (“what, am I running?”) Mr. DeSantis. At this point, Republican voters, and patriots in general, are fed up.
This is -pre-2016 all over again, when the bile had filled the national cup and our chant was to “burn it all down!” But now, we know that it ALL doesn’t have to be burned down. Unfortunately for the statists, they miscalculated and allowed the hoi polloi a taste of what it’s like to have a President who actually cares about the country, enough to keep his promises and do what is right for America. Big miscalculation on their part.
Now, those who don’t come out strongly against this 3rd world travesty in what is supposed to be the heart of constitutional republicanism are done, politically. And if they misread the temperature of the room and go so far as to campaign against Trump, their political careers are over.
As Ric Grenell has suggested, the Left has given us no respectable option than for all of us to unite behind Trump as our standard bearer. This assault against him is an attack on the constitutional traditions that have set us apart from every other country. If this effort were to succeed, the U.S. would no longer be exceptional. They’ve really left us no other choice but to place their greatest enemy back in office, whatever it takes. The threat from the Left is too existential for any other course.
NEW VIDEO: Fox News Declares War On President Trump (substack.com)
Laura Loomer is awesome!
This made me laugh, because it is true: “…as Casey takes counsel from Cindy McCain while shopping for tiaras and drapes,”
Too bad. One Cindy is WAY too much.
Never-Trumper Katie Pavlich (she penned the article “Against Trump” in National Review in 2016) hosted the Dan Bongino show Saturday night on Fox News and she just happened to have “loud mouth” TX Rep. Chip Roy who was brought on to talk about the Trump indictment but also coyly slipped in that though he was “America First” he is supporting Meatball Ron in 2024. Curious because Meatball hasn’t announced yet. Katy had a big smile on her face. Is Chip becoming the new Dan Crenshaw? Someone should tell Chip that there is no America First without Trump.
Remember, Casey was media before she was Ms. Meatball. What plant!