Ever since we pointed out the branding and image consultants hired by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in April, 2022 as part of his national rebranding launch, we have faced some criticism from non-believers. [Go Deep] However, the truth has no agenda. The reality of the situation exists regardless of our comfort level.
ABC News is now reporting that Ron DeSantis will skip the exploratory committee phase and go straight into full campaign mode. However, the best part of the information provided from within the DeSantis operation is this, “the team has been paying close attention to how to help manage the governor’s facial reactions in the upcoming debate.” Too funny. Nothing screams authenticity quite like taking political lessons in controlling your facial expressions.
Everything about this DeSantis construct is astroturf, fake, manufactured and inauthentic. It’s the major Achilles heel they just cannot overcome.
(Via ABC) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is moving more aggressively toward making his 2024 presidential campaign official, with sources telling ABC News the governor’s team is leaning toward skipping the launch of an exploratory committee altogether and is instead expected to launch a full presidential campaign next month.
The decision to skip the exploratory committee comes as DeSantis caps off an aggressive legislative session that saw him push a hard-line conservative agenda and dive head-first into numerous culture wars, while facing increasing attacks from his likely opponent, former President Donald Trump.
Sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News the decision to skip the exploratory committee comes as the governor is itching to start making his argument to voters by touting his accomplishments and to start pushing back against Trump’s numerous attacks.
[…] Sources said earlier this week that Trump plans to skip one or both of the first two Republican primary debates. But those close to DeSantis emphasized that they are preparing for either scenario, and are skeptical that the pair would not ultimately face off on the debate stage.
Still, sources said the governor’s strategy heading into the debates will be more focused on introducing the governor on a national stage rather than getting into a sparring match with the former president. However, the team has been paying close attention to how to help manage the governor’s facial reactions in the upcoming debate, sources said. (read more)
It has always been this way…. Club branding is subtle on the image front, but very clear on the substantive messaging side. Social issues selected to maximize camp coalition and influence base.
Consistently present is political messaging where the Republican voter base can say “yes.” Keep the “yes” messaging at the forefront (social emphasis). Focus on values. Schools, kids, safety, woke pushback, media bias etc, keep the audiences nodding yes. Ultimately, it’s a sales technique. Identify with the target to influence their decisions.
Issues around multinational & corporate economics, hard economic and trade issues, foreign policy, all these things must be avoided – except in general terms. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not to be challenged, not really. Keep the message social and build the emotional connection. It is harder to break an emotional bond than a logical or cognitive bond.
These are the political techniques of Lee Atwater that still make up the bulk of the GOPe Club playbook. The greatest skill of the professionally Republican is to present the illusion of choice in such a way as the voters do not see it.
Keep in mind, back in Washington DC both clubs are collaborating on the Trump removal program, because both clubs benefit.
Gotta work on those facial expressions Ron.
Desantis, broadly speaking, is picking up the culture wars as his principle weapon, an issue that flits around the periphery of everyday life. Good luck with that.
President Trump, however, is picking up the economic war that harms us every day as we try to live our best life.
Seems a 60/27 split is about right,
Just a waste of money.
It’s OPM, so they could care less. As long as they all get their take it doesn’t matter whether he wins or loses, and lose he will. Their lives change not one wit. They’ll still get invited to their cocktail parties and people will still hire them for the next power hungry LOSER.
OPM = Other People’s Money
They can’t stop PDJT they only want to slow him down, Meatball Ron is a speed bump.
Desantis, BudLight, Brian Kilmeade – not popular as advertised
The RNC could make a rule up where people under indictment cannot be selected by their party. Everything seems to be moving that way. Just this week a crooked DA in Georgia gave 6 members of the alternate electoral leading to J6 immunity to testify, even though they did not ask for it. This is a setting up just like a classic Delphi Technique project.
Then Trump runs as an Independent. The US Constitution allows him to run. 35 years old and a natural born citizen.
Write in
Immunity from what?
Executing on their Constitutional rights and duties? On behalf of themselves and their constituents?
We have a “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. These are our laws, in place, for centuries. There to protect us from fraud such as this.
An indictment without stated valid criminal offenses (not misdemeanors) is not an indictment and an indictment is not a conviction because you are innocent until proven guilty in an unbiased trail with an unbiased judge and jury.
Fake News is a willing partner in this. Remember Pelosi’s famous Wrap-up smear video? This is just a variation. None of this exists in reality and is a projection, but people will swallow it.
But what about those who were never indited but should have been? We all need to be wise as serphants especially in these days we all are living in.
Listened to War room today, it’s insane what Trump is fighting MI-5, MI-6, European deep state, they want the flow of American taxpayer monies to never stop
Than our entire deep state. Listened to a clip of Barr, what a piece of sh!t, they are trying to sell DeSantis as the one that can deliver on MAGA polices, saying Trump can’t get the job done
Lol, as if DeSantis should ever start the real job
Even the Never Trumpers I know are no longer enthused by Ron!
There are all kinds of “CONCEPTS” that “BUSINESS IS CONSTRUCTED” of.
ie: Every business “MANAGEMENT” major knows that:
ie: if Management doesn’t care, then their employees won’t care either……….
There are all kinds of CONCEPTS like that in business.
Ron Desantis “IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE CONCEPT CALLED: “THE PETER PRINCIPLE” .
“THE PETER PRINCIPLE” states that: “EVERY EMPLOYEE TENDS TO RISE TO HIS LEVEL OF INCOMPETENCE.”
As Governor of Florida, Desantis is extremely COMPETENT.
Desantis is unfortunately “leaving COMPETENCE BEHIND as tries to rise to the next managerial level of PRESIDENT”, WHICH HE IS CLEARLY NOT READY FOR.”
There is NO WAY i will vote for Desantis as President.
Then that would make Trump should he win; biggus dickus, bigly.
So true about the social issues. This is all DeSantis has. Of course we have never heard of how he is going to cut spending or how he is going to rein in the deep state and the intelligence community. Issues far more important than social issues.
DeSantis is pure GOPe. Social Issues: But he never solves them completely. Florida has all the ills of a blue state just a few years behind.
Absolutely correct, TA!
94% Wall Street money !!!!
Looks and sounds like Fozzie Bear.
Lol! He does, actually.
I would love to see someone meme Ron as Fozzie Bear in his Studebaker. 🤣
Desantis has no chance against Trump, so the Rinos must be counting on the DOJ witchhunt to take Trump out.
I’m sure McConnell and Ronna McDaniel are involved.
Go beyond.
We are close to not being a country.
Since when do elites care about law?
Will he get his SAG card too?
His Japan appearance was an embarrassment. People like the Don and Ramaswamy have actually done real work answering to boards so it comes easy. Love the work Ron has done in Florida(although it has been very easy work), but he has never had a real job, even as a lawyer.
He used govt force on Disney that isn’t working… That is all he knows and it should scare you.
I know Ron is bought, clearly, but I won’t deny he did good things for Florida, has a beautiful wife that just had breast cancer, beautiful children,
They are going for Camelot angle
Don’t underestimate him, the money and mouths are there
DeSantis is banking on the corrupt, DA’s, DOJ, and deep state to do their dirty work to derail President Trump.
What he should do is direct his AG to bring charges against the DOJ and all the FBI agents involved in the Mar Lago raid for an illegal search and seizure (civil rights violation). It would be great to have the trial in SW Florida. But he won’t because he’s in on it.
Yeah, if RDS turned coat right now, he’d likely set himself up for big things. JEB! status leads nowhere.
He has to be in on it
I was a little baffled by the attacks I’ve heard coming from Trump against DeSantis. One ad I heard was attacking him on social security and then I heard Trump defending the pedo grooming Disney. What gives? Trump is great in his economics and foreign policy. Trump might be able to expose this weakness in DeSantis. I just feel attacking DeSantis from the left is a losing battle. What do I know though? I’m just a knuckle-dragging deplorable.
Actually you’re not one of us but ok.
Two first names is a dead giveaway.
Please tell Christina, or Jebba, or whomever is your supervisor, that you need better training before being let out on the sales floor.
Thanks.
Wow! You actually think I work for DeSantis? Yes I’m the man with two first names who is not ashamed. Like “Alleycats” hiding behind a pseudonym. Look,I understand that DeSantis is being supported by a bunch of rino scumbags. All I was trying to say is Trump shouldn’t take the position of defending Disney just because DeSantis is fighting a culture war against them.
Thanks, for the Shareblue Rolcon type concern, but no thanks. In your assessment, I guess Sundance and the CTH exposing the GOPe Meatball was/is “attacking from the left”. 🤔🙄
Wrong! I agree with the CTH assessment. Ron DeSantis is being supported by rino scumbags. I also know that DeSantis has been the only Republican governor to pushback against woke ideology. I’m questioning the wisdom of attacking DeSantis for the very thing we should be cheering for.
He is not the only governor pushing back on wokism, he’s just the only one being groomed by the The Party, so he gets all the press.
You’re right, he shouldn’t have attacked Ron on Disney. Disney is slim and trying to destroy our children, that’s one area he should have left alone
Gotta work on that clown act. The simple fact that DeSantis is going to walk into this police buzz saw demonstrates he is already controlled – or has such poor, out of touch, judgment he should not be in the office.
Both your assessments are accurate.
I do believe they aregoing to send Trump to prison until his trial for sedition or at leadt house arrest.
“Nuts.”
>>> DeSantis Will Skip 2024 Exploratory Committee Phase (and jump directly into potus run)
Because on his campaign-but-not-campaign “book tour”, Ron DeSantis only hears people who want him to run,
While his event organizers were too busy turning away those show up with MAGA gears.
GRASSROOT SUPPORT !!!! Yeah, that’s the ticket, no need for exploratory committee because he hears it directly from The People.
The GOPe knows they got a lemon on their hands with RDS. They realize now that DeSantis is nothing but an empty suit so they have to “revamp” his campaign and rebrand their candidate. Those are bad signs of a political campaign and a future political career about to implode.
DeSantis is such a fool. All he had to do was declare himself a non-candidate at the beginning of the year, voice his support for Trump, and he would probably be in the drivers seat for the nomination in 2028. By taking on Trump in 2024 he’s going to get destroyed, and his puppet strings to the GOPe will be exposed which will end any future presidential runs. Better for us in the long run to know now that Ron DeSantis is a backstabber and an establishment Republican!
I agree however I am better off seeing what RDS is made of and it’s too bad.
Excellent observations. Now he’s shown himself to be the turncoat he is. I make one suggestion. Instead of an empty suit, I see him more as an overstuffed shirt, with bulging buttons.
He’s starting to look very “Marco Rubio”. In the 2015 debates, Rubio revealed just how much of a dimwit he is. Sweating his way through debates. Trying to use all the “Reaganesqe” tropes. And you could tell the consultants were doing everything they could to paper over another eGOP phony.
The traitors at the DOJ will indict Trump for “something”. But the longer they wait, the less likely they go to trial and get a conviction before Trump takes office. At which point he can pardon himself and start Operation: Decapitation against the leadership of the #resistance. It’s going to be epic, the number of people thrown out of government.
He is even wearing those goofy high heeled black boots like Rubio did. Literally, he is not even comfortable in his own shoes. Pretends to be taller when the voters could care less. Not his height we despise.
With all due respect to the chubby and short, DeSantis is too eager, too chubby and too short. Hence, the nickname “meatball.”
Imagine the part he would be able to play/try out for in a casting call for “The Godfather” movie.
Of my friends here in New Hampshire, the only ones who look favorably on DeSantis are those that have uncritically voted for Ds all their lives and will likely vote for whichever D is on the ballot.
Thanks for the ground reports from NH!
You forgot to add the pictures of Hitler practicing his poses for his speeches back in the day. I’m sure Ron’s handlers are following their leader’s playbook.
One doesn’t need to go that far.
Mr. Z, the porn star in Ukraine has replaced him. Followed by Delusional Joe and every other unlawful tin cup dictator we have watched in the last 3+ years rob and suppress their people, repeatedly.
They have killed millions with their designer bioweapons, lockdowns, drugs and plandemic nonsense.
Same old remake and facade. It seems to only work with with gullible/stupid/indoctrinated people which coincidentally inhabit the ever depleting voter base of the Democrat/uni-party. That said, Ron would probably be better off confronting Gavin in the primaries where they could face off using their facial expression techniques on each other where slight of hand takes precedent over substantive policies that actually benefit the US citizen at the MSM sponsored DNC Presidential Candidate Debates.
Between signing the red flag bill into law and signing the hate crime legislation (in Israel, no less!), Ron DeSatanist has shown his true colors. Hint: he’s NO conservative!
he is running commercials here in virginia, and his voice is just grating,,,,I don’t think the meatwad has any other facial expressions or voice tonality than the one he was born with,,,,I will not vote for him
If republicans do not fix the rigging of free and fair elections, it will not matter which republican runs against the democratic candidate.
We are the cavalry. This time around it’s not a spectator sport.
Omega4America could always use volunteers (cleaning up dirty voter rolls). This thing called the Internet is super easy to use and spits out all sorts of election integrity projects underway that could use donations or volunteers.
President Trump is raising money for ballot harvesting in swing states.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/4/trump-camp-raising-money-gop-ballot-harvesting-ope/
Every RINO has a plan until Donald J. Trump punches them in the mouth.
I think Trump could deal a knockout blow in the first debate. He’ll be goaded into responding to indictment and J6 questions… so dismiss those in 8 words or less, and remind everybody how the country was doing Gangbusters for four years and how much their lives suck today. Box DeSanctus into his Establishment corner… tear down the ridiculous façade. Trump already has lots of ammo, least of which DeSanctus’ recent failed overseas whatever-that-was.
Then you skip the next couple of debates, and go on a pro-America social media and television Blitzkrieg. It’s hard to argue with a proven track record.
Trump has facts, a good memory and excels at debate. He can really throw, a solid, figurative counter punch.
I really hope he skips the debates. Here’s why:
President Trump is up 40 points; he is the defacto nominee. To agree to debate is to act like the primary outcome is in any question. Don’t give them that by debating. Let the RNC suck wind with their kiddie table debates. He is the nomineee. A nominee doesn’t act like the others are still contenders.
Yes. While it would be fun to watch him counterpunch these losers, he does not need to upset the pearl clutching-type voters who still see him as a meanie. They just need to miss his policies and vote for him.
kiddie table debates
Meme worthy.
Every RINO has a plan until Donald J. Trump punches them in the mouth.
😂😂😂😂
Training camp will be tough for Ron. You either have charisma or you don’t. I don’t think he has the charisma to be a presidential nominee. He only beat democrat gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum by a hair. And he’s already soured his relationship with the many Floridians who voted to re-elect him as governor instead of the flip-flopping Charlie Crist only to see him decide to instead run for president halfway through his term. Ron will certainly need a voice coach to change his irritating voice.
Things didn’t go well for DeSantis on his European tour
In moderation?
Things didn’t go well for DeSantis on his European tour
Wait Ron Trump will destroy your political ambitions .. Your a good Gov here in FL. Your also 94% Wall Street owned …
Meatball is getting on my nerves like a mosquito buzzing around your head that you just can’t seem to squash.
We all need to “just say no” to Ron DeSantis.
I don’t know what I fear the most, the failure of MAGA or the success of Marxist Fascism. I much prefer MAGA, but I still think DeSantis would be preferable to anyone Obama chooses for the Democrats. For now, I get to support Trump in the Repug Primaries. I will deal with other scenarios if I have to.
I hate fake establishment politicians of any political party, whether they are Republican, Democrat, or other.
DeSantis’ facial expression training reminds me of Mitt Romney practicing “zingers” for his debates with Obama. If you have to practice zingers or facial expressions, then you aren’t capable of genuine expressions of either one.
The Republicans in the Florida state legislature are protecting and enabling Ron DeSantis’ presidential run in the exact same way the Democrats in the Illinois state legislature used to protect and enable former Illinois speaker Mike Madigan.
Madigan was the most politically powerful person in Illinois and ran the state with a corrupt, tyrannical fist.
Madigan was in the Illinois House for 50 years and was speaker for 36 years. He was speaker for all but two years between 1983 – 2021 and was the longest serving leader in any state or federal legislative body in U.S. history.
Ron DeSantis is now Ron DeMadigan to me.
At least Madigan is self-aware enough to recognize that he is unlikable and therefore avoids the public limelight at all costs. DeMadigan and Romney both lack that level of self-awareness.
“The truth has no agenda….only people with bad intentions do!”