I had completely forgotten about this, until someone reminded me today. It is worth revisiting.
If you have followed the management and branding efforts of the team around Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the protestations today by campaign official and registered foreign agent Christina Pushaw are quite bizarre.
The Daily Beast wrote an article [SEE HERE] about how Ms. Pushaw organized an astroturf campaign of support for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, which included the recruitment of several conservative influencers. The substance of the article is generally well known.
In late 2021, early 2022, Ms. Pushaw invited a group of “influencers” to spend time with Governor DeSantis. It’s not a debatable event. Factually, the collective group took gleeful pictures of their first visit on January 6, 2022, and continued to post frequent pictures on their social media of events throughout last year. The group went to the reelection celebration and inauguration of DeSantis earlier this month.
However, for some odd reason, likely more concerned about people realizing the ‘organized‘ nature of the creation, in a bizarre turn of events, Ms. Christina Pushaw is now denying she ever organized the assembly and stating that without any documentary evidence, saying she organized the group is just a conspiracy theory. [Tweet Link]
If Ms. Pushaw is to be believed, the random group of Florida conservative “influencers” just happened to show up at the Governor’s office on January 6, 2022, without any invitation, organization or coordination on her part.
Even lacking the invitation details, hanging your defense on the absence of a paper trail under these circumstances seems like a very odd position to take.
Why does the DeSantis team fear sunlight on the origin of how this outreach and subsequent meetings took place? Very odd.
I sincerely doubt this group just randomly showed up at Ron DeSantis’ office, on January 6, 2022, without an invitation or organizing.
The same group then continued meeting throughout the year….
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Nothing about their recruitment, continued meet-ups and aggressive promotion of Ron DeSantis for the GOP nomination in 2024, would be that interesting or even noteworthy if Ms. Christina Pushaw didn’t paint them all into a box by denying she ever organized their first assembly.
And there’s the rub… Why is Christina Pushaw denying that she first organized them on behalf of the political aspirations of her boss, Ron DeSantis?
The only logical reason to make such an outlandish and transparently false claim, is if that original assembly was intended as seed material to use the “influencers” for another purpose, like a 2024 presidential bid. Yet, Ron DeSantis hasn’t announced a 2024 presidential bid…. so that issue is a nonstarter, unless that announcement is eventually going to come forth.
If Ron DeSantis is going to announce his candidacy for the GOP nomination, then suddenly all these background moves look like proactive steps on behalf of the management team. The January 6, 2022 meeting would then infer the presidential aspirations as far back as December 2021.
In combination with the $200+ million in Wall Street money assembled by DeSantis, perhaps that 2024 plan is the risk necessitating the absurd denial.
[Daily Beast Article Here]
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They all just randomly showed up to hang out with DeSantis. Yep, that’s the story and Pushaw is sticking to it.
For those interested, central planning and organization is the difference between “organic support” and “astroturf.”
Slava Ukraine!
I will always remember ukraine as the most corrupt country in europe
People disparage Russia as being the world’s biggest gas station. Those are the neo-cons, rinos, and warmongers in general.
The Ukraine could similarly be called the world’s biggest laundromat. Rich FUSA politicians would agree.
Russia (USSR) was the single most important Ally, who paid easily the greatest price in blood during WW2. The Allies would not have been victorious in either theater without her.
Japan was in over their head from the start, just a matter of time even without the Russians.
Japan got a huge break from the USN because of the defective torpedos for the first 18+ months. e.g. its clear MacArthur was counting on the subs to attenuate the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, and then they failed horribly with the nonexploding torpedos.
By 1945, we didn’t have to nuke Japan or rely on the Russian success in Manchuria or the threat of Russian invasion, starvation would have been less technically demanding.
But, we HAD to use them, so we could see what they would really do!
It’s kind of like you have to Pass the Bill, before you can READ the bill.
You know your history on torpedoes. Here’s a detail account as to why.
Miss the mark on Japan nukes. While true Japan was starving, military was getting their rations while LeMay was firebombing all the major cities, yet the military refused surrender and busy teaching civilians the art of fighting with bamboo spears.
Pacific campaign showed during island hopping, Japanese didn’t surrender and if carried over to the mainland we would need 2 million service members to take it.
Nukes did with one plane what required hundreds to do and finally broke the back of the military resistance.
Almost correct. The narrative presented at the time was 1 million US servicemen.
The only reason I know this for sure is that my father was packed up and sitting in New Guinea ready to go on to the invasion of mainland Japan. By the 60’s I was asking him why Japan was nuked.
Needless to say. He was all in on the nukes.
Two operations. Olympic and Coronet. Personnel as follows.
Olympic 705,556
Coronet 1,171,646
I rounded up😏
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
Thank God, after the fierce resistance taking the islands closer to Japan, we had two nukes to prevent our men and Japanese civilians going into the neat grinder.
This is something that I have come to know only recently…. It’s a shame but that’s how the narrative/US propoganda works.. it creates its own reality
You confuse an adversary of the Germans, and a bit of a thorn to Japan, with being an ally.
Russia was willing to sacrifice millions of their citizens to wait for the Russian winter to repulse Germany’s folly. I don’t know whether that should go down as a credit to them, or just a realization of how little regard Stalin ever had for human life.
Why is your premise “either/or”?
I still think Stalin was a psychpathic madman.
Doesn’t mean waiting wasn’t a strategic move.
Both … Russia had always fought with overwhelming numbers of men, wave after wave of them.
You supposition of waiting out the window ter was likely correct…
Do WWI for me then. It got to the point that women’s brigades were raised to shame the men who didn’t want to fight anymore.
Furthermore, their generals were next to awful.
Have you read Diana West’s American Betrayal?
There’s so much more about The Soviet involvement in WW2 than meets the eye.
To your last sentence I’ll add this: The Soviets would not have been able to add to its landmass along its western border (gobbling up much of Eastern Europe) had not the Americans prolonged the war past 1943 as we most certainly did.
I have a video meme of No Name/Mittens/DeSoros all saying that same “gas station” comment in different venues. Does anyone know how I can post the video? It’s not a link. It’s an actual video. Thanks!
more like corruption was thrust upon Ukraine and their patriots verboten
Just ignore the Biden Family conflict of interest please (and impeach Trump for a phone call). The UNIPARTY can suck it.
I think America is the most corrupt, we are financing it all, not to mention causing yet again millions of innocents to be homeless and dead. Not something I am not proud of as a citizen of this country.
I don’t think we Americans are the most corrupt, it is the government in DC that is one of the most corrupt governments on the planet.
Also, now that we know what’s been happening with federal elections, we are justified in refusing to accept any responsibility for the liars, cheats, thieves, con artists, and murderers who make up the controlling parts of the bureaucracy within the federal government.
When I refer to a country being corrupt, I’m talking about the ruling class (government). The people are the ones suffering under the corrupt regimes, and Americans are one such people.
Agree. “Ruling class” does extend well beyond government in most western countries. Owners and the top tiers of management of National / multinational banks, corporations, NGOs, are inextricably linked with the bureaucracies. This is further proven as we now see textbook fascism occurring with impunity and decreasing concern for the citizens’ opinions or concerns.
Pushaw worked for the Country of Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili from 2018-March 24, 2020.
He is currently serving a prison sentence for Abuse of Power and grevious bodily injury.
Prior to that he was the Ukraine Governor of Odessa.
Got in some trouble…got kicked out of the country.
But when Zelensky was elected…he pardoned Saakashvili.
Her old boss is not doing well in prison 😕.
Pushaw started working for DeSanctimonious on 2021.
Pushaw is the old saying….
Lay down with dogs and you wake up with fleas.
And she is one mangy flea bitten looking dog 😃 –I am being nice.
Seriously – how did someone so foreign end up running the DeSoros show?
How did he end up hiring her of all people? It’s strange.
Ukraine, follow the money.
Look at all the ukes from State, testifying at impeachment.
The more we see how everything goes back to Ukraine, the more their reaction to the perfect phone call makes sense.
The black ledger,, with Manaforts name in it, that was totally fake, came from Ukraine.
WHAT ALL is REALLY going ON there, and will we ever really know?
Well done on the name! “DeSoros”….has a nice ring to it.
The country created by Stepan Bandera in 1942.
I say this! ”The lady doth protest too much, methinks” is a line from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Methinks the line begins with “methinks”?
Otherwise, spot on.
Can we get a list of the people in those photos? I think I recognize some of them, but not all. Maybe they are spouses of the ‘influencers?’
Recognize some of the faces, but a name list would indeed be useful.
She used to be a regular on Fox, then left, IIRC. Now, she’s back often, showing up on a bunch of shows, pushing Ronnie, in one way or the other.
Matthew Tyrmand – “Mastermind” behind James O’Keefe ouster. Warroom regular, now BANNED
“Mathew Traitor” more like it.
The group included
* Fox News’ Lisa Marie Boothe,
* Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson,
*Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer,
*The Rubin Report’s Dave Rubin,
*New York Post and FoxNews.com columnist Karol Markowicz,
*Claremont Institute fellow David Reaboi
and
*conservative writers: Jordan Schachtel
and John Cardillo.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10419627/Ron-DeSantis-courts-conservative-influencers-governors-mansion-feud-Trump-grows.html
Benny J posts a lot on Twitter. Don’t think he is part of this group.
I know, that was the first meeting. He has been in none of the others.
However, Benny still pushes DeSantis and when does there are subtle nuances of jabs at President Trump and always orchestrated at same time others putting out same propaganda.
Benny is a traitor to President Trump. He got President Trump’s first interview after leaving office but yet, he is still here in this pic. Still he went on to non-stop push Ted Cruz as “The Lion”, trying to put him equal with the actual Lion, President Donald J Trump. Even after comments called him out for doing it, he continued.
Next, he moved onto DeSantipants and even posted a “DeSantis/Noem 2024”. He has never stopped pushing DeStoolus, all the while acting like 100 present in for President Trump but managing to get little digs in for DJT when talking about the Beast, DeSantis. He NEVER posts on anything or retweets anything from Last Refuge.
He never posts any expose on Ron.
Instead, he recently started post verse for the day from the Bible.
Until Benny comes out swigging telling the truth about Ron DeSantis he IS STILL ONE OF THEM as his absence from other pictures is by design to fool us.
For some reason, Rob Smith and Buck Sexton are not mentioned.
Schactel is a big disappointment.
Benny J was only in the first pic. I always thought of him as DT-strong so I’d be surprised if he’s involved.
I wonder too. The same Benny .. I wonder .. such pals
https://www.bennyjohnson.com/
and on
https://www.facebook.com/bennyjohnson/
I think that’s Lisa Marie Boothe in red, Dave Rubin directly behind DeSantis. Per a Daily Mail article, the group includes “Fox News’ Lisa Marie Boothe, Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson, Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer, The Rubin Report’s Dave Rubin, New York Post and FoxNews.com columnist Karol Markowicz, Claremont Institute fellow David Reaboi and conservative writers Jordan Schachtel and John Cardillo.”
“Won’t find a paper trail”. Who asked?
“Officer, I don’t know anything about that 7-11 that was just robbed”.
Nothing more useful then admitting guilt before you’re even accused.
Lisa Booth.
Buck Sexton is one of them. He is one of the clowns that took over Rush’s time slot of the Clay Travis Buck Sexton “show”.
And they are clowns. Talk about themselves as much as Hannity does about himself. Clay spoke in Franklin TN early in 2021 and “said we had to move on from the 2020 election”. I did. I moved on from Clay the next day.
AstroTurds in the Presidential punch bowl.
Are they all contracted to the same publisher or media outlet? Track the money.
Someone on the thread said “Random House”. Might check that out.
Maybe Tucker Carlson (Conservative Jesus) will point out the blatantly obvious in his next segment.
He will when he knows were on to him.
The Meatball’s non campaign campaign has been hijacked by MAGA and I love it! DeSanctimonious and his crew thought they were so smart, so clever, ahead of the curve, until Sundance throw a change-up and wooosh, strike out! Take some bench, Meatball!
Thanks for the heads up, Coach!
Indeed. The MAGA Trump supporters need to show up to every Meatball event.
But undercover, if your going inside, no MAGA hat wearers allowed.
Seriously should have at least 1 undercover record it, in case he says anything useful,…of, and try to surreptitiously get a shot of his feet and shoes, see if he is boosting his stature any.
Ron disingenuous. Is thst spelled right?
Well, it has a lot of vowels so it looks good.
Rhonda Santis. Fixed it.
I only see Benny Johnson in one photo (the first) so I’m hoping he stopped and realized what was going on and dropped out of the DeSantis shenanigans. I am so now a #Never DeSantis that it pains me to see anyone that I like now support this backstabbing meatball who likes to wear cowboy boots with lifts – ughh how I hate a man who can’t own his height and then lies about his actions!
oh, and let’s not forget the sunglasses which he thinks makes him look really cool – NOT.!
But he is a Top Gun//////
Top Goof.
Pop gun
Cool like Biden huh???
Yeah, first time around I was sad to see Benny in the mix. He did move to Florida, but I agree I hope he has seen the light.
I also cringe when I hear people that I thought were smart being sucked in by the Meatball.
He’s with TPUSA, they organized his coming out of the bunker tour, to suck MAGA cred off of MAGA candidates such as Kari Lake.
One of the reasons I no longer read or listen to anything TPUSA.
They have lost All credibility.
Agreed.
All those faulting Trump for the traitors that flocked to his Administration to betray him are ensuring that he knows every single one of them now and they won’t get the time of day.
This is not old days full of old plays, we are awake now, and we see them all.
Never liked TPUSA.
Actually, although not their intent, the TPUSA event with Desancta and Kari was very illuminating.
He talked for 10 min. about what he had done for Florida, and it sounded like a speech he would give IN Florida, for re-election.
“I did THIS,..for Florida.
I did THIS, ..for Florida
etc.”
Kari gave a great speech, and then highlighted other, less well known candidates running in AZ.
Much as PDJT does with his Rally’s, just like Kari did with her “ask me anything” bus tour around AZ., that’s what you do when you are a ‘star’; you SHARE the limelight, to help down ticket candidates.
Ron was all about Ron, and f*ck everyone else.
And everyone in the audience saw the stark contrast, between Desancta and Kari.
He barely acknowledged the candidates he was supposed to be there to support. I am surprised there are doors wide enough to get his head through.
https://twitter.com/WarlordDilley/status/1627777148676198427/photo/1
Benny Johnson has done the “we just want a fair primary!” crowd
His wife was in a bit of a debate with a Dilley show fan
Eternal Hope-ists gonna kill us. Read my comment upstream. Benny IS still kissing DeSanni’s Fanny.
Benny Johnson is of the “I just want an honest primary” segment of the DeSantites.
His wife was caught in the DMs of one of the Dilley Show people shilling Desantis.
I’ll try to find it.
It’s disappointing.
I can’t believe Benny Johnson among many fake maga influencers – looks so from this thread alone
Believe it, and look HARD at ALL that claim or try to look like they are MAGA.
With $200 mil in his war chest, and the connections his handlers have, they can set you up with several Board positions, $100,000/year to show up at quarterly board meetings, a book deal for millions,…what’s your price?
Few will be able to resist that.
Trillions at stake
I wonder if Benny took all the other photos after he was in the first one photo
This is second comment at beginning of thread trying to separate Benny from the group, which is suspect for the mere fact he is in only in one picture and not mentioned in comments.
As was responded above, he has not disengaged from this cute little group of “the beautiful people”.
“ However, Benny still pushes DeSantis and when does there are subtle nuances of jabs at President Trump and always orchestrated at same time others putting out same propaganda.
Benny is a traitor to President Trump. He got President Trump’s first interview after leaving office but yet, he is still here in this pic. Still he went on to non-stop push Ted Cruz as “The Lion”, trying to put him equal with the actual Lion, President Donald J Trump. Even after comments called him out for doing it, he continued.
Next, he moved onto DeSantipants and even posted a “DeSantis/Noem 2024”. He has never stopped pushing DeStoolus, all the while acting like 100 present in for President Trump but managing to get little digs in for DJT when talking about the Beast, DeSantis. He NEVER posts on anything or retweets anything from Last Refuge.
He never posts any expose on Ron.
Instead, he recently started post verse for the day from the Bible.
Until Benny comes out swigging telling the truth about Ron DeSantis he IS STILL ONE OF THEM as his absence from other pictures is by design to fool us.L
Never mind the fact they all knew DeSantis was planning to run for President before his run for re-election. What a bunch of liars.
This all dovetails with the
Corporate take over of James Okeefe and project veritas and the Paul Ryan Project at FOX news.
The PV fiasco was a concerted effort to undermine the most capable and effective person /organization that was a threat to all the underhanded efforts of the deep state.
The Paul Ryan con game at FOX is there to plant disinformation and sculpt the political narrative.
They were mistaken when they thought that the core supporters of James OKeefe were going to allow the Deep state to turn project Veritas into a propaganda device .
Everyone now see FOX for the trash that it has become.
They are also mistaken if they thought they are going to destroy Trump and manufacture a groundswell of support for the likes of the meatball.
If we don’t waver Trump Can’t Loose.
Go TRUMP
Fox and the Rino’s think if they go anti-Trump the Dems and other left Lunies will leave them alone. Now Fox is being sued for 1 and a half billon dollars. I hope some lefty judge awards it to them. I hate traitor Paul Ryan.
This is what many of us have come to believe. The RINOs, GOPe, are more evil, shady, and traitorous than the Dems. They are more conniving, hiding, deceptive than than Dems.
They pretend they are sticking up for the rights of We the People, when they are really congregating power and wealth against the constitution and against the good of the populace of the people of this nation.
What is Ron going to bring us that Trump has already show he did, against more resistance than any other president.
I don’t understand this concept. A Dem will always go totalitarian, and the totalitarians not only steal but they also kill. A RINO/GOPe will just regulate you enough to steal as much of your money as he can.
While both are evil, I believe killing is worse. But that’s just me, I suppose.
All those pampered spoiled privileged people in the pictures above are walking talking malignant tumors in the body politic.
Look how happy they are as they work to undermine this great country.
They are political filth.
And what for ? Money that’s what for.
Money – They never, ever have enough. These folks are empty pots that can never be filled .
Now we know were the 300MIL that Ronna McRomney stole from the 2020 Election integrity Fund went. To Fake MAGA Grifters and State Electors to win her another election for losing elections.
They have no honor.
they think they are “influencers” rather than what they really are, which are news aggregators.
Nay. Little more than stenographers. Pushing whatever they are told to push.
Sadly, self-important kingmakers have always been with us, human nature being what it is.
Pride, hubris, arrogance — run rampant in every age.
We happen to be witness to these frailties of our nature because “news” is thrust upon us relentlessly.
And fear of the future feeds the demand for the latest tea-leaves’ reading.
Contrariwise, Sun Tzu wisely urged us to “know your enemy.”
It’s a messy world. And, put not your trust in princes comes to mind.
Herein ends the Saturday evening ramblings of a very tired Treeper.
A whore is an “influencer” as well.
Pushaw seems to be a pusher of disinformation (lies)
the eyes never lie
She always looks strung out to me. And very unhealthy.
She is a Derp State operative.
Run D.O.A. may be the least organic campaign in history.
Her boy, Saakashvili, is in prison in Georgia. How did that work out for you, Ms. Pushaw? Were you a CIA or NGO asset for the deep state?
My gut says yes.
I kept her Wiki info. from months ago.
John McCain was her inspiration to get into politics.
She worked for The Stand Together organization.
I would say NGO and CIA stooge.
So that’s what ”Butt Sex”ton looks like, I didn’t realize that was him.
Limbaugh must be rolling over in his grave.
Is that Buck Sexton I see in the group photos with DeSantis ?
Didn’t Sexton work at the CIA ? Counterterrorism ?
Is counterconservative a word ?
Yes he did work for the CIA.
Those are part of the credentials he bragged about when he filled in for Rush.
I never did care for him and turned the radio off.
The only substitute worth listening to was Mark Steyn. IMHO.
I always got the feeling that he still has some kind of attachment to CIA.
He seems rather omnipresent in most of the photos.
Two reasons: He’s giving the “I’m Limbaugh’s next in line, and see who
I’m with” vibe to the uninformed.
Second ( The CIA connection). He’s the enforcer for the group. He does the
John Carlin role, by making sure everybody stays in line for each and every
utterance. Those that wander away do so at their own peril. Watch videos
of Carlin in action on PBS after the russiagate roll out, and you’ll get the idea.
Start watching Sexton’s body language in groups such as these. Watch some
videos of the group dynamic. Maybe I’m wrong, but this immediately came to
mind.
You never leave an alphabet
You never leave the company.
The CIA is like the mafia, but in cheaper suits; you never retire, THEY retire you.
Actually he worked for Glenn Beck too.
Briefly, isn’t that always the way?
He brought in the bowl of Cheetos for Beck.
Casey DeSantis is the Republican Gisele Fetterman.
In what way?
She might do the Hillary act behind the scenes. Always have thought
that Hillary wore the Pantsuit in the Clinton family.
There is plenty to be concerned with regarding Desantis without trying to legitimize a frequently lying communist propaganda outlet like “Daily Beast”.
How is citing a factual assertion of even an enemy “trying to legitimize” them?
As if Sundance had time or inclination for such a silly thing.
Factual is not unnamed sources from the communist Daily Beast propaganda and disinformation outlet. Desantis surrounds himself with a lot of people that could hire social media influencers including Carl Rove and many others.
Maybe it’s all true and maybe it’s a lie….It’s the “Daily Beast”. Did you hold them in high regard when they made up lie after lie about Trump and his team?
I won’t listen to unnamed sources from Daily Beast, and I won’t ever legitimize the snakes but you are certainly free to.
Why would I?
But I see the value in Sundance’s observations and don’t need to get on a high horse because I don’t like the source.
I definitely don’t go around asserting that his citation is “trying to legitimize” them.
You know he isn’t doing that.
Haspel is here?
Governor Hairdoo says Ron is all hat and no cattle
https://www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom-chimes-in-on-ron-desantis-disney-dispute-2023-4
Gavin Newsom heckles Ron DeSantis over latest Disney power struggle, on the Florida governor’s home turf
PALM BEACH, Florida — Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California praised Walt Disney World for its “masterclass” of putting Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida “back in his place” after the company created a loophole to maintain control of its land.
“I guess there’s a new sheriff in town,” Newsom told Insider on Saturday, in a not-so-subtle reference to a comment DeSantis made when he appointed a new board to oversee Disney’s district.
“It’s Mickey Mouse, back on top,” Newsom added.
The Walt Disney Studios is headquartered in Burbank, California, but the company holds powerful sway in Florida through the jobs and tourists Disney World brings. News broke this week that a law giving the Florida governor power to take over Disney World’s governing board is likely toothless.
During a wide-ranging interview, Newsom told Insider he was certain DeSantis would retaliate, saying he’s “incapable of not.” But he argued the Disney maneuver hurt the governor politically, at a time when he appears to be slipping in the polls when placed in a hypothetical 2024 matchup for the Republican nomination for president.
“It’s a bit of a yellow flag, if not a red flag, for DeSantis and a very perilous time for him politically, too, because he’s struggling right now,” Newsom said, calling the national attention to DeSantis an “over-hype.”
“Governor Hairdoo”… pretty good. Try on “Damien von Hairgel” for size. 😊
In the photos it appears that Ms. Pushaw has those same crazy-person eyes that the propaganda czar Nina Jankowitz has.
Is it going too far to think former CIA agent Buck Sexton is “the CIA’s candidate in the race”?
The Fox chick? I forget her name.
Lisa Boothe?
Nothing is too far… we noodle through our ideas together… yours has merit
I contend part of the denial stems from the fact there are far more bought-out entities than we currently know about.
We have seen hints of a wider operation, such as this Babylon Bee article and the revelation the DeSantis campaign has given the site over $20,000.
So there has to be much, much more out there.
At CPAC, KL said she was called by someone she knew, who said they wanted to talk, but couldn’t discuss it over the phone.
Came to her house, said they were conveying an offer from eastern interests.
Offered her a Corporate board position, $100,000/year, if she would stay out of politics for TWO YEARS.
When she declined, they upped the offer:”What would it take?”
She showed them the door.
“Eastern interests?”
What political offices do they want her to not run for, in 2024?
She scares the crap out if them, that’s for sure.
And, besides they low balled it with their initial offer, lol.
BTW, can someone tell me where the nickname “meatball” originated for RDS?
If it’s a slur on his Italian heritage, it’s one that can cost Italian-American votes.
Pardon me!!!!
How about “Asshats”, that’s not ethnic, is it?
“Jerk off”, ditto.
How about “Sh*t for brains”?
Ah, but then I offend the prudes.
I should think, for the many Italian-Americans, the fact that Ron is Italian heritage would embarrass them far more than him being called meathead.
I am 100% American Italian .
We Italians have as many dim witted low character People in our ranks as any other ethnic group.
Someone referencing Italian meatballs for what they are ,meatballs, is never a reflection on my character.
I think TL has it backwards.
I think DeSantis the meatball, will loose the proud Italian supporters because the meatball reference reminds us Italians with character and self confidence, well earned may I say ,of what type of Italian DeSantis the meatball is.
A meatball.
Ron DeSantis the meatball is nothing but a meatball.
Any Italian meatball who is offended by calling DeSantis the meatball a meatball ,to the point of taking offense and acting out politically because a meatball like Ron DeSantis was called a meatball ,was going to vote like you would think an Italian meatball would and vote for the Democrat nominee anyway.
Could I have said meatball any more than I have?
If so forgive me . Next time I will try harder.
Had spaghetti and meatballs just the other day. Enjoyed them very much. They have their place but I would never consider voting for one of them just as I would never consider voting for Ron DeSantis the meatball,
As a fellow American Italian I enjoyed your response tremendously. Now I’m hungry for meatballs.
Sometimes we need to have some fun?
Remember ,if your going to make meatballs don’t skimp on the bread or else they will be tough.😃
She uses the same plastic surgeon as The Joker. 😬
“the random group of Florida conservative “influencers” just happened to show up at the Governor’s office”
How many random groups of people with similar interests just randomly show up at random governors offices and get to see a random governor and get random group pictures?
Then the exact same group members randomly show up with his press person and get a random group photo?
Then randomly show up at other events?
Seems anything but random.
They all work for Random House!
So THAT’S how they got the name! Thanks.
From now forward, everyone commenting of the Desantis campaign should just say Random House as shorthand for the whole stinking charade.
Conjugating as a verb…
Random, RONdumb, Rundone…
Reminds me of the push to glorify and install BHO.
I like DeSantis, he’s doing a good job for the state. If he chooses to quit without finishing the job and instead be a Bush stooge, he’s not ever going to get a vote from me – ever.
He’s doing a good job for the state but I doubt I would ever vote for him as president.
Has he actually been IN the State he is doing such a fabulous job of running, since his reelection/installation?
I hear he is doing wonders with addressing the Insurance issues effecting his constituents.
Yes, that’s an issue, for sure. BUT … It’s time for Floridians to realize that there are simply some areas with some weather risks that are uninsurable.
When I lived in N. CA, earthquake insurance could be had, but at an exorbitantly high price. Homes there are uninsurable against quakes.
Same in FL with hurricanes.
It will be widely seen as using his voters as just a stepping stone to run for president. Ugh.
I saw a little blurb by a lady in a Trump hat who was outside one of DeSatan’s book signing. She said that the organizers had put a blue strip at the bottom of the stage so that people couldn’t see his shoes. That’s when I first began wondering if he is short, not that that would make any difference to me unless he is so self-conscious about it that he wants to hide it. Another sign of a phony with short man’s syndrome.
I have been so thrilled to see the Trump supporters outside his campaigns aka “book signings”, several cars riding around and Trump flags and flag-wavers.
Trump road rallies around his “Book Signings” are a great way to agitprop without granting the thin-skinned not-a-candidate the ability to throw people off of private property.
I thought that DeSantis had the political acumen to know that he is being used as a “spoiler.”
He needs to bloom right where he is planted. He is doing very well there. Don’t let someone lure you out of that office only to then discard you.
Too late. Ronnie’s got stars in his eyes.
Mike, give it up. He has been angling, or has been angled by his handlers,for just this role, since early on in his first admin.
He gave a tearful shout out to PDJT for getting him elected, walked off stage and immediately began strategizing how to create headlines, in order to begin building the narrative of “Trump, without the baggage”.
These people are not going to influence anything.
Think about it.
We’re the foremost website for political intellectuals and collectively we can’t name nor recognize but several of these people.
The Daily Beast article says Walker is probably the biggest hit.
I don’t see Scott Walker and can’t name another Walker with any name recognition.
What does this tell us about the RDS organization?
They’re not going to influence anything.
President Trump will eat his lunch and spit that whole organization out in the first debate.
The more they post their lunches on Instagram the more powerful they become.
Or something.
“Why is Christina Pushaw denying that she first organized them on behalf of the political aspirations of her boss, Ron DeSantis?”
Why is she denying it when there are multiple pictures of her with the group? Is she really trying to claim there is no evidence of her organizing it, so the same group showed up multiple times with her?
One of the pictures has a name tag showing “Gubernatorial Debate”, and the picture Sexton tweeted showed DeSantisInauguration. I can’t tell what the name tags with blue printing say.
If it was random meetings, why need name tags at all?
Why protest at all at what is so obvious?
Because transparency allows in sunlight and it will fry their narrative of an organic campaign, of a Governor reluctantly drafted to save the nation from the chaos of PDJT.
This simple truth completely undercuts their storyline, it proves the inauthenticity of their Top Goof.
We’ll put as usual, Maquis
Do not believe your eyes, believe what Plastic Tina is telling you.
If I was the Governor, I’d ask for my money back. All they do is repeat Pushaw’s directives. 🙄
That is good.
What a sleazy looking group; ill fitting mis-matched clothes! Do they all shop at Goodwill? And is that a picture of Rove on the table top? Notice the picture Jeb! on the desk.
Business people often have to put their entire existence and future on the line with every venture. Your local and regional real estate developers are a prime example. Everything is claimed as collateral for the next project, only a few can separate personal assets away from lenders on bridge loans or hard money loans to get a project started. They hope to reach the level of success where cash flow and equity can allow operation on lines of credit and/or reserves that don’t require such burdensome loan underwriting. It’s very hard to get there. Even Trump went through this, and perhaps still will since he, or the company, does such large projects. “Franchising” the name out to syndicates took most of a lifetime for him to achieve.
That is the stock of which Trump is made. He can charge into anything, knowing he will succeed, he has to succeed. He’s brash and arrogant because it is necessary for survival. Yes, he enjoys it. It’s part of the game to him.
He won the presidency because of that personality and the substance of his ideas.
Then we have Ron Desantis, who lacks the fortitude to say what he means or to mean what he says. He has hidden henchmen doing his work in secret, denying the whole activity. He is too weak a man to ever put himself wholly on the line with no way out. We see this in his childish game of pretending not to run until he gets a special deal so that he doesn’t have to resign his job to seek a move up. Clearly, he lacks confidence in himself as a candidate, thus will as a president. Controlling the circumstance so tightly out of sight is an admission that he knows he isn’t the right stuff. Someone has said the need to control is the reaction to fear.
If there is a difference in Alvin Bragg and Ron Desantis, I can’t see it.
That is perfectly brilliant. You finally helped me realize the thing about him that pricks the back of my neck – he’s absolutely insecure, and very nasty about it.
Entitled is how I view the little Napoleon dude.
It would be nice if someone was able to find out who all the significant people/influencers are in these pictures at the DeSantis events. Then someone could label the photos sort of like that photo from a few years back with Obama at a table with all the silicon valley tech ceos (etc.) around the table (labeled/identified) with Obama.
The new labeled photos could be useful for DeSantis memes or a “quick reference guide to DeSantis stooges” meme which could be posted in responses on these influencer’s social media accounts whenever they pop up their heads to attack Trump on behalf of DeSantis… thus exposing the influencer’s marionette strings.
Wow. Methinks Ms Christina doth protest too much….?
Wow! All hollow.
If it isn’t enough to sink his ship with a lying management and branding foundation; Desanitized has these tanks in his digital army; all flawed ..
and a new voice in one Nate Hochman.. a waffling one.
His A-team :
Jack Murphy, a podcast host and self-described “alpha-male giga chad” involved in a quasi-professional cuckolding porn scandal.John Cardillo, a former Newsmax TV host and unregistered arms dealer who allegedly stiffed the Ukrainian government for $200,000 worth of body armor plates.Christian Walker, Herschel Walker’s right-wing influencer son who helped tank his father’s Senate campaign.David Reaboi, a Hungary-loving and Qatar-hating bodybuilder with longstanding ties to John Bolton.And Caleb Hull, an ex-Trump digital strategist who has said some very, very racist things.
Already apparent is that Nate found it necessary to cozy up to the movement’s gutter-dwelling racists in order to climb the ladder of influence. First reported by the Dispatch last year, Hochman participated in a Twitter Space with white nationalist virgin Nick Fuentes—and lavishly praised him.
Note: Within 24 hours of this article’s publication, Nate Hochman had changed his Twitter bio
SOURCE ARTICLE :
https://www.thebulwark.com/desantis-finds-his-voice-a-natcon-culture-warrior-who-praised-a-prominent-white-nationalist
I wish someone would name the people in these photos other than Lisa Booth and Sexton.
Isn’t Dave Rubin in these pictures also ? He packed up and moved to FL
last year and bragged about it on the Ben Shapiro (Daily Wire) radio show.
Ben Shapiro got paid well by DeSanitized
Rob Smith, the black guy.
No critical thinker would vote for him. But just for humor’s sake: 1. He cannot be trusted in situations where Trump always shines, etc. 2. Pushaw is toxic. Her lying and nasty response does not bode well for that “team”. I have a feeling she won’t last long, especially if she becomes too “important” to him/his campaign…his wife won’t like it. I know I wouldn’t.
Bear in mind, they know he doesn’t actually have to “win over” MAGA voters, as in get their votes.
Their plan is, that he will never be on a debate stage with PDJT, never be on a primary ballot against PDJT.
Their plan is the typical “lesser of two weavils”;
With Bribe-em and RDS on the ballot, they are daring MAGA voters to ‘stay home’ and “give” the win to Joe.
8 million R voters stayed home in 2012, rather than vote for Mitt and they are thinking they won’t want a repeat.
And, RDS doesn’t really need our votes, he will have the ballots.
And now the talk about “Republicans have to cheat like Dems” (as if they have ‘t , all along) starts to make sense.
Katrina Pierson, former Spox for Trump campaign 2016 has also joined the influencers FOR DeSantis team. She’s busy criticizing 45 on Twitter.
She gets roasted but remains thick-skinned – she (guesses) she remains “unbothered”, because … it’s all about “me”
I hate that you pit DeSantis against Trump. Rooting for Trump. Reagan would hate what you are doing and so do I…
Sundance is just bringing light to the underbelly of politics. Don’t you want to know who is behind RDS?
Hate all you want. Perhaps you should separate (telling the truth, as is) from (pitting against). Libs call it whining or complaining when someone refutes or points out a lie. Pitting takes the cake.
You are free to root for DeSanctimonius. What has that got to do with Reagan? State your cause.
Happens all the time. Someone who knows the difference between guilty and not guilty. In his heart he knew the accused was not guilty. He also knew the difference between true and false, but truth as a concept wasn’t important to him.
Because of his weakness, he ultimately gave in to pressure and did a dastardly thing; even though he holds ‘power’ (yet having to answer to someone else for his position) to do so without justification for his weak cowardly act. Does that not ring a bell?
Idk. DeSantis has not even declared his candidacy. He reportedly had people removed from his book signing that were wearing Trump shirts. Why is that if they are supposed to be on the same ideological team? Why does DeSantis avoid saying President Trump’s name?
Reagan would understand completely. UniParty is not Republican.
Ah, a new concern troll has been born.
I guarantee you one reason Pushaw went into full denial is because the “influencers” were hearing from their audience that we do not appreciate what they are doing…. they all know we are on to them.
Woah! Grassroots vs astroturf. Now I understand. And, that stupid chick just revealed the manipulators diabolical evil. Does Pawn Ron even realize?
Interesting analysis here, also:
https://tomluongo.me/2023/04/01/indicting-trump-is-the-end-of-us-politics/
Saw it upthread somewhere, can’t comment from work….but a LOT of US employees have been playing in the Ukraine pig pen for a LONG time….
Must be some mighty good $$$ to be made there…
…on a side note my employers intranet has blocked Gateway Pundit…something about it being an “alternative” site…as if election fraud is alternative….
Interesting bit about TGP. I mention it because I was using my kindle to read emails yesterday and discovered Amazon has also blocked them as an ‘unsafe’ site. I had to change all sorts of settings on my device and jump through a mountain of hoops to get to the webpage, and doing so leaves my device unprotected while the settings changes are in effect. What the heck??
BTW….excellent thread….really good informational commentary
Rush would roll over n his grave if he knew two rabid anti Trumpers were carrying on in his old time slot.
Carpetbaggers. All of them.
Buck Sexton is part of Bunker Boy’s group?
How long do we put up with this crap?
DeSantis should remember this Bosnian adage, “Whomever will lie for you, will also lie against you.”
Who are all those people?? I only recognize Buck and is that Tyrmand?
You will recognise them they are starting to turn up on Fox more regularly in preparation. The push is on.
“We report, we decide.”
Fox is swapping spit with DeSantis and his emissaries on a nightly basis.
Too bad the Murdoch dilettante sons ruined their father’s network.
Lisa Booth (A Tammy Bruce disciple), Dave Rubin are regular commentators on Fox. .
Rubin is a gay podcaster that is bff with Jordan Peterson, use to be Peterson’s front man at his lectures, also a comedian.
Peterson has unfortunately come out to support DeSantis and I think it’s Rubins influence . It came roggt out and said although he liked Trump it was time for DeSantis
Took him down a notch or two for me and I did indeed stop listening to Rubin amd find Buck unlistenable
JDP is a troubled druggie and admitted just how bad his substance abuse problems were in grad school. They never went away. He’s a half-vegetable tool now of the Daily Wire.
Rush would gut Buck for doing this
Rubin is also an investor in the social media platform – Locals.
Tyrmand is a total jerk.
Tyrmand is the force behind pushing James O’Keefe out of Veritas. His presence alone should make you run from this group.
He led the Project Veritas coup.
Led them into oblivion? OMG!
Two more are Dave Rubin and John Cardillo.
That’s my question, too. Who are they?
I thought I saw Dave Rubin in there and the blond girl with the beautiful teeth who is a Fox News contributor. I can’t remember her name.
Lisa booth is her name.
Who is the Indian (?) looking guy in the first picture (wearing the light colored jacket)??
One of them looks like Benny Johnson (first pic), but he is very pro-Trump!!! So I guess that one backfired on them.
Buck Sexton is another and I just saw him on Tucker. As I recall, he was very much against the T indictment and very much for TRUMP!
Look, NOBODY is qualified with experience and the FIGHTING personality to go after the Deep State. Trump learned a lot while prez, and he’s seen a lot while not prez now. He’s ready to take it all on. How could DeSantis take it all on when they’re funding him???
Who do you think is paying for all the planes DeSantis is taking on his travels away from Florida after only 3 months in office for his second term. He said “You’ll have me for FOUR YEARS” while planning all along to not do that. BAIT & SWITCH.
Ron is a lying liar?
The big donors have reduced/stopped the “gravy-train” since his poll numbers crashed and burned!
If he will turn against the man responsible for his election, against that passed out in vomit-crackhead…
If he will turn against the voters who put him in office, in a few months…
If he will turn against the current laws of his state…
He will turn against anything…Namely YOU!
Amen to that statement rustynail
I used to watch Dave Rubin…Used to!
It is impossible to un-see what has been in plain-sight, for those with eyes that are open?
The reason for their/her “astroturfing” is simple?
At this point, Ron HAS TO RESIGN if he is running for another office!
The FL Senate is now actively working on changing that law!
We cannot un-see that has been revealed to us…And it ain’t pretty!
In the very first photo in the gov’s office, looks like Benny Johnson. I didn’t see his face in the rest of the photos.🤔
I think Dave Rubin is in there.
Has anybody read A Re-Declaration of Independence? jeffgoldstein.substack.com
One of my friends sent it to me he made it free, so you don’t have to subscribe to read it.
Yes. On the Protein Wisdom Substack.
Very good read. Pretty much sums my feelings up!!