Despite previously having no issues with 3.3 million listeners for a Twitter Spaces event with BBC, it only took a few hundred thousand listeners for the collaboration between Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk to end in abject failure.
The goal was for DeSantis to use the edgy and cool Twitter Spaces tech to launch his campaign. The outcome was an embarrassing display of a billionaire funded national campaign trying too hard to launch a candidacy built on transparent fraud and political pretense. The memes coming from the disastrous event are hilarious, and very fitting.
Fox News – Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement was mired by repeated technical glitches on Twitter Wednesday evening, in a black eye for the social media platform.
The highly-anticipated announcement, set to be made via a conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur David Sacks on Twitter’s “Spaces” feature, was delayed as it appeared the platform was overwhelmed. Twitter’s mobile app repeatedly crashed and users complained that they were unable to hear the broadcast.
Nearly 700,000 users logged in to hear the announcement roughly 20 minutes after it was launched. The event was then abruptly shut down without explanation. […] Twitter users pummeled Musk over the botched rollout, and Democrats were quick to capitalize. (read more)
WASHINGTON DC – […] The spectacle represented a major embarrassment for both DeSantis and Elon Musk, Twitter’s relatively new owner, one that could haunt the former as he embarks on a bid to win the GOP’s nomination and the latter as he tries to position himself as a political kingmaker in the new media landscape.
DeSantis was slated to do additional interviews on more traditional mediums Wednesday night, where he will likely face questions about his launch on Twitter.
Musk has used Twitter Spaces before as a way to directly reach his 140 million followers and avoid going through outside media. However, his Twitter Spaces — which have drawn tens of thousands of listeners in the past — have been known to shut down suddenly due to technical glitches. Ever since Musk bought Twitter last October, he’s laid off nearly two-thirds of the employees, including large swaths of engineering staff, leading to shutdowns and regular technical problems on the platform.
Wednesday’s Twitter Spaces marks the first time the audio-only feature on the platform has been used for a presidential launch. Spaces first publicly launched in May 2021 and mimicked the audio-only app ClubHouse that launched in April 2020, but has faced a shrinking user base in recent years.
Sacks called the event “the biggest room that’s probably ever been assembled online.” The number of viewers fluctuated throughout the conversation, hitting at least 682,000 at one point, but holding mostly between 200,000 and 300,000 later on. (read more)
This is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to a presidential candidate and it’s not close. Just hold a rally.
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) May 24, 2023
Weird how these were already taken off the trending list. I'm sure it's coincidence and not election influencing… https://t.co/QBkf8tI2y2
— David Giglio (@DavidGiglioCA) May 24, 2023
That's odd… 🤔 3.3 million were able to listen to the BBC and Musk Twitter Spaces with no issues.
DeSantis has bad ju-ju… 🥴 pic.twitter.com/0GunBCISOB
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 24, 2023
Everybody is laughing at @GovRonDeSantis now lmfao. He canceled an event in his hometown bc he knew he'd get ratio'd at his own launch, so he chose to hide in Twitter spaces & it's been a catastrophic mess. My life is complete 😂🤣 #MAGA #DeSimps https://t.co/Kjejo85e3m
— Tommy Egan (@tommyegan1776) May 24, 2023
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1661498563120209921
Desantis’ twitter space is a dumpster fire hahahah
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) May 24, 2023
Thomas Paine
@Thomas1774Paine
If you think today’s DeSantis Live presser on Twitter was a technical disaster, just wait till Elon puts a chip in your head …
That’s the main reason it’s difficult to get behind Musk. That part of his schtick is Satanic.
Yep, transhumanism
Why did Mark Lavin say that he was voting for DeSantis because PT pulled some kind of dirty trick?
I didnt see any dirty tricks I just saw the President having fun and telling Desantis what its going to be like now that he has joined the big bad world Everyone thought he had pulled off a real stunt tonight with the musk deal and I am sure thats the way it was suppose to be but this was just a junk situation because he sounded dull and trying to read something instead of talking from the heart about what he wanted to do Just more words out of the mouth of someone who has not seen the real world and is being pushed by people who couldn’t care less about this country
Looks like a Levin quote was from 2016:
”I’m not voting for Donald Trump. Period. … These bully, dirty tricks, Nixonian tactics, they’re only going to backfire. So, count me as never Trump,”
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/275722-mark-levin-i-would-never-vote-for-trump/
Then he supposedly did do so. Twice.
Levin backs DeSantis as of last night:
Mark Levin who hosts Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, tweeted a link to Ron Desantis ’ presidential campaign fundraising page shortly after the Florida governor announced his candidacy on Wednesday.
The post did not go over well with supporters of former President Donald Trump, who is also running for the Republican nomination.
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/fox-news-host-mark-levin-gets-blasted-by-maga-twitter-after-posting-link-to-desantis-donations-page/
forgot quotation marks –above is excerpted from the linked article
He is on Fox. Fox is DeSantis central. If he wants to keep his job, he has to support him.
Huh. It’s almost as if he’ll stab principles in the back for a wad of cash.
I received an e-mail from their campaign and immediately blocked it. Do the same.
I did the same exact thing!!
What a total wanker. His backbone is more flexible than a pit viper.
Will Glenn Beck be next? I stopped listening to Vannity’s bosom buddy “Old Yeller” Levin years ago. He is nothing but a big mouth know it all who is a GOPe Fux Snews shill while screaming about everything they do. Total talking head Fraud.
Never trust the Kenite Levin. He is a ‘State of Israel’ firster and demands American blood and treasure shed to protect his ((Tribe)). He is genetically anti-Christian! That’s #1 in ((their)) playbook. Satan’s offspring don’t even hide it anymore.
Omg shut up, that’s insane and antisemitism. I absolutely love PDJT and this country!
Where exactly do you think Christianity came from? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian beliefs, values and laws.
Yeah, and he knows all about “Nixonian tactics”..
Because they were exactly what the Dems and his fellow traitors used to cost us the last election!
Levin is like a leaf—goes with the wind.
I’m Sorry, I guess i was half asleep when I read that statement, Between him and John Bolton I don’t know which one got to me the most last night, To bad that Bolton does not know what he is talking about when it comes to PT overseas policies I just think that NewsMax is picking up way to many of Foxes throw away and they all have something negative to say about P.T
I noticed the shift.
Bolton knows exactly what he’s talking about with PT foreign policy. But Bolton is a neo-con warmonger. That’s why he’s against Trump and his peace deals. Bolton wants forever war.
Fascinating, eh?
No politician has less in common with Trump than Nixon.
Perhaps Huey Long style populism, but Nixon is pure hot air.
And count me to never watch your show again
Absolutely right! They don’t seem to see the urgency.
You can bet ML is connected to MOSAD or the Clowns In America
That is the absolute truth about ALL on FNC.
ALL on FNC have book deals which is the payoff per Murpert Murdick to keep them on thier puppet strings.
I stopped watching FOX right after they fired Trish Regan because she said good things about Trump in 2016. I hold grudges. Sometimes forever.
Holding grudges is good.
Animals never forget a violent hand.
If your attacker has not begged forgiveness, holding a grudge is common sense.
FTM!! (follow the money – aka the WIIFM principle)
Desantis only listens to one radio station: WIIFM = What’s in it for me?
laugh out load… “Lavin” that is funny….
levin has turn out to be a weak kneed looser big mouth… He knows everything about congress and then bitches about what they should do and how they should do it….. day in an day out… He fails to see THAT he needs to get up and run for a seat. Until then he is POS looser…… That is why I quit listening to him…
Old Yeller. Best name for flip-flop loser Mark, ever.
Just like in 2015/2016, many of the RINO establishment were against Donald Trump until he won, then they all said they were for him. Flip-flop wherever the wind blows losers all.
And to somewhat quote a former fellow Minnesotan, I pray in 2024 we’re gonna party like it’s 2016 — when President Trump officially gets his title and position, again.
For the same reason he and all the other “DC-insiders” do everything else they do.. They’re being WELL PAID!
if we have learned anyth8ng, we have learned it isnt about money…time to stop that lie….target….dodgers…budweiser…..no money in it..just social engineering or collapse.
Cue the penguins. They will all be lining up and following each other off the cliff for their paymasters.
“Lavin” will be the first of many. Watch for it.
Here’s the big question that they need to be asked:
Why DeSantis?
In the big game, why would anyone go with the unproven young member of the minor league club when you have the proven seasoned “Big League” closer sitting in the dugout all warmed up and ready to go?
Doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Of course we know the answer, but they can’t say it because it gives away the whole game. So make them say it or look ridiculous for not saying it.
Truth!
‘Please clap’. DeSantis is hiding like Biden. Launching campaign with video and Twitter., Is the fix in?
I believe the fix is in. He is all set up to be selected in FL. DeFake signed an election bill yesterday that makes our elections less secure and less transparent. We have Dominion or ES&S in all FL counties. Vote by mail is allowed for anyone who requests it. FL election fraud claims and evidence coming out in several counties. DeSantis is doing nothing.
The reason they “launched” on Twitter is that it’s very easy to fake a big turnout with bots.
Authentic candidates don’t need to hide behind fake platforms.
And FL voters are not real happy with their meatball.
Any news about a recall?
And not have to answer questions about DJT.
Not knocking AM radio as I once had a show there, but twatter spaces is worse than launching on AM radio, which is currently on the chopping block.
Maybe Musk should just buy AM radio.
In a world of video options there is only once reason for this self inflicted chaos:
RONNIE D! #PLEASECLAP IS NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME!
So true! They can fake millions of listeners but they cannot fake 25,000+ at a rally.
I know I should be charitable but I really enjoyed the “Failure to launch”. Even after 30 min when the issue was resolved it was as dull as watching paint dry talk. All those consultants and RDS’ supposed brilliant wife’s expertise in media were an epic fail. The morning video intro was a taste of how much these Jeb! consultants (aka Rove) don’t know or understand Maga supporters (aka main street) with a Brit accented narrator. Why would you have a foreign accented narrator?
Because you’re an idiot?
The British accent was the first thing I noticed in DeSaster’s ad too. 🤣
Looks as if the tech guys in one silo forgot to tell the tech guys in another silo…
“Pssst… don’t sabotage the twitter launch… DeSantis is our Republican!”
🤣🤣
“the tech guys in one silo forgot to tell the tech guys in another silo…”?
More likely. they were just busy counting those trillions and trillions.
The entire thing is an illusion, swamp gas. made to fool the hypnotized (matrix dwellers) into a false reality that anyone cares even a little bit about Ron DeSantis.
What’s interesting to me is the real message, they are scared to death of our Great American President Donald J Trump and Ron is a compromised swamp rat who toes his masters line.
He has been suckled and then weaned on swamp ooze…his puppet strings have been permanently attached and “if” he were to get into the White House his favorite words would be “yes master, I’m a real boy” his masters sitting in a kind of darkened dismal Star Chamber most pleased with their pet would retort in a demonic chorus, “Good boy”.
Always keep your eyes on the other hand, these are demons whose only concern is “what’s in it for me” and if the complete destruction of the USA and the West is the price, well, sacrifices have to be made.
Think of Carnival Barkers on a Midway at a cheesy state fair barking, “step right in…” you name the side show. Folks it’s all for a swamp illusion to set up their fraud, don’t fall for it.
The greatest Carnival Barker of all time PT Barnum “There’s a sucker born every minute”. Don’t fall for their cons/swamp gas as this is not The Greatest Show on Earth, but The Greatest Con on Earth and what’s at stake? The lives of our children, grand children and generations of Americans to come “Vote for Ron you’ve bought the con.”
Ultra -MAGA!
The only difference between Ronnie D! #PleaseClap and Delusional Joe is age.
Yesssss, I’ve said that to everyone I know.
“In the procedure known as the Big Store the
swindler takes the mark to someplace that’s
gonna get him what he wants. He fakes a
horse parlor or a brokerage office. Why man,
there’s ticker tape and cats on the telephone
and messenger boys runnin’ in and out, it’s
a whole busy world. But it’s all a put on. The
cats on the phone, the impressive business
types at their desks, the messengers — they’re
all actors. Nothing is happening except that
somebody is being put on. The Big Store man
makes his own reality, understand. He creates
a whole world that somebody, for some reason,
wants to believe in. Real people, real action,
but it’s not exactly happening, you dig?”
-Robert Stone, “Hall of Mirrors”
“A first class grifter on the lamb from the FBI”
WOW!
Seen it decades ago, but makes me want to revisit. Just added it to my watch list. Our enemies make the real fake and the fake real, the Fundamental Transformation of Reality.
Well done!
God Always Gives us Blessings. Everyday.
Sometimes, our punishments are delivered in real time.
Ron, He’s Watching.
Elon forgot to charge the battery overnight?
Atsa some sleazy meatball.
Sundance, think you’re 100% correct with your assessment that the [DS] Bush-ites have their hooks in DeSantis in an attempt to remove Trump from the primaries. Don’t you find it odd though that everything Ron touches at the presidential campaign level implodes seemingly instantly? Not a fan of “coincidences”, it diminishes what God the Father has been & is doing in our lives for those that believe in His son. It’s looking to be an interesting summer/fall especially if [they] want to convict Trump of a felony & thus making him ineligible for 2024. Hopefully Biden doesn’t get us all blown up in the meantime.
A felony conviction would not make someone “ineligible for 2024.” Only a conviction of treason.
And a reminder to the young governor from that wise old sage Clint Eastwood; “A man’s gotta know his limitations.”
DeSantis has made mistake after mistake with his “running but not running” approach. Americans don’t like that.
He turned against Trump after Trump saved his first gubernatorial campaign. Americans don’t like that either; even a lot of his supporters don’t like that.
This campaign stands a good chance of destroying his career…which is what a lot of people who claim to be helping him just might want to see.
“Cabbage Patch Meatball” 😂
Love your pix!
What are the odds they pulled the plug because the numbers weren’t there. Better to claim technical problems rather than face the humiliation of running a show with a likely hostile and critical audience.
Yeap, fake numbers and technical issues. Sounds like Hillary’s playbook.
I can believe that this scenario is a possibility. One would think that they had 2 million bots ready to go as fake fanbois of Ron!.
Why bother with bots? Just display a fake number on the screen. Who’s going to know otherwise?
Twitter has alot of bots so most of those people were probably not even real.
I have a question..
If this latest wonder boy has actually received the $500M in contributions that’s been reported, why didn’t he simply buy time for his campaign kick-off from the legacy TV networks..?
Why didn’t he go to FAUX NEWZ who apparently reveres him?
I think that part of the reason was to make him look cool and hip with younger people.
The folly seems never ending.
Romney and Jeb! and Cruz were determined to find voters hiding in the deep woods.
Meanwhile, Trump has monopolized the voters actually available to any Republican.
As did Reagan: stop re-inventing the wheel.
Repeating: Elon Musk is a liar and a fraud.
It’s amazing how many people who are conservatives trust him
My guess is that it was sabotaged from an insider. There are still people at Twitter that hate Musk.
Nope, not sabotaged. Nobody showed up. Occam’s Razor.
Nobody showed up. Ron not important enough to be sabotaged unless it was a stage sabotage.
DeSantis is against Democrat Woke Policies that are
destroying the USA.
I like and voted for Trump but he never used his
Presidential Powers to ‘Drain the Swamp’.
Hey look! A new poster.
Haha and toting that playbook wokeness campaign strategy without a mention of impact of global economics on the US middle class.
😂😂😜
Can you enumerate for us what you believe those Presidential Powers were?
And how, exactly, President Trump never used them?
Just for shits and giggles, can you further elaborate exactly how Ron DeSantis would use those same Presidential Powers, to drain the swamp?
I’m curious is all…
How much is the GOPe paying you to say that?
Desantis is backed by some of the biggest globalists trash.
Yeah he wants to drain the swamp
Hello there new friend.
Tell us Meatballs(Please clap!) views on trade with China?
Or election fraud?
DeSantis on Election Fraud:
(1) He has never said the 2020 election was stolen. Won’t answer the question when asked.
(2) Just signed into law SB7050 otherwise known as the Fraud Protection Act by election integrity activists:
“Pressure has been building in the ‘not so free’ state of Florida as activists have discovered a massive scheme that likely exists in other states across the nation — the use of ‘blank ballots’ designated by election machines to ‘readjudicate’ ballots by software in large numbers.
In other words, ballots are designated as ‘blank’ when cast, then the machine software decides who the voter should have voted for.
For instance, in Miami-Dade County in 2020, 68,000 ballots were designated as ‘blank’ by election machines. In some precincts, the number equaled 20% of ballots cast.“
https://miamiindependent.com/breaking-palm-beach-county-election-officials-caught-falsifying-machine-election-reports-as-pressure-builds-in-florida-over-discovery-of-massive-machine-election-fraud/
“Highly anticipated,” by whom????? The rollout for obummer’s healthcare hoax probably had fewer glitches.
So despite all the support and being propped up by the Big Club, this boy Ron’s big event was flaccid at best.
Failure to launch indeed!
Soft pass for me on this minor league member.
I’m sticking with the proven All American. We know he can hit the long ball and hit it when the team needs it the most.
The most hilarious part for me, is some of the, so-called, conservative columnists raving about how DeSantis broke the internet with his gonzo announcement. Funny, I didn’t have any issues using the internet last night, so maybe broke the internet is hyperbole? Wishful thinking? Whistling past the graveyard?
No. They just lie.
Yep. They knew old not have support. This was on fb the moment DeSanctus announced. Note last paraphrase specifically.
“ You’ve sat back and watched mainstream media treat Conservatives unfairly for years. They are biased, dishonest, and hostile towards anyone that does not carry the leftist water. This is why Governor DeSantis and his team have treated them like lepers in Florida and it’s been an EXCELLENT strategy.
I don’t think many people understand the significance of the DeSantis Team announcing his Presidential run on Twitter. Mainstream media will have to go on Twitter to get their news. Read that again. This is a watershed moment.”
Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
How can anyone say DeSantis is the best policy candidate when he went entire time avoiding China, the US proxy-war in Ukraine, Foreign Trade, and Globalism? People saying he was substantive but if so why avoid top issues a President faces?
9:05 PM · May 24, 2023
Biden’s DOJ drops all charges against Soros-backed Massachusetts DA caught lying under oath
https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-doj-drops-all-charges-against-soros-backed-massachusetts-da-caught-lying-under-oath
BREAKING: Internal email to Target employees reveals $9 BILLION in losses for one week, pivot to George Floyd anniversary
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-internal-email-to-target-employees-reveals-9-billion-in-losses-for-one-week-pivot-to-george-floyd-anniversary?utm_campaign=64483
Until they close every store it’s not enough
Self deleted….wrong thread.
The DeSantis Campaign Motto:
“Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for others peoples hard work is rewarding and faster”
Spot on!
This is the ultimate definition of schadenfreude. Srsly, Ron! should tuck (oops there’s that word) his tail between his legs and slither back to his Gov! mansion and govern. I’m not taking odds, tho.
DeSantis can’t get things done like president Trump can,
Trump 2024.anyone else wait till 2028,
hahaha
The last internet fail that even comes close to this magnitude was the rollout of Obamacare.
the launch went ok, it was achieving orbit they fell short. Gulf of Mexicrap splashdown…. no crew onboard
Town hall is all in for Desantis and now so is News Max
Highbee is not our friend today!! He is annoying the h**l out of me!!!
I respectfully submit that rather than simply ridiculing Desantis’ Twitter launch, perhaps a analysis of the content of his campaign launch could be instructive and informative.
See here for an example: https://www.theepochtimes.com/five-takeaways-from-the-desantis-2024-campaign-launch-night_5290304.html?