Some unknown political consultant told Ron DeSantis it would be a great optic to show up at a Rodeo in Oklahoma and announce his presence. The event atop the bleachers came replete with grand trumpets to announce his entry.
The cringe-factor was already off the charts when Top Gov grabbed the microphone and announced, “Hello Oklahoma, great to be wit ya. Greetings from the free state of Florida, we appreciate what you do here“… and things went rapidly downhill from there as the audience turned to see King Meatball, deliver his prose. [video below]
This latest exhibition takes place as the Daily Mail notes donors are increasingly apoplectic as the “awkward” and “gaffe prone” campaign strategy rolls out – seemingly under the control of Casey Desantis.
[Via Daily Mail] – Ron DeSantis’s campaign wants him to meet and take more questions from ordinary voters to overcome fears about his temperament, DailyMail.com has learned.
The 44-year-old has so far shied away from Q&A sessions on the road, despite being a standard feature of U.S. politics. The Florida Governor, who is currently in a distant second place behind Donald Trump in opinion polls, has also evaded media scrutiny at his public events.
He recently exploded at one reporter in New Hampshire who door-stepped him and asked why he failed to take unscripted questions from the audience, raising doubts about his temperament.
And during a campaign event in Iowa last month, footage of DeSantis laughing manically about the cost of running a vintage Porsche triggered online jokes.
Now, three DeSantis staffers have said they have concerns about the Navy veteran’s presentational style after being overshadowed by his wife Casey at rallies.
They are now figuring out ways to overcome his rigid appearance as he makes trips to more diners and meets with smaller groups of voters in his bid to nail down the Republican nomination.
‘He just needs to chill out a bit and be less stiff,’ one source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. ‘He always looks awkward and needs to get out and meet more people.’
Another senior member of Team DeSantis fumed: ‘If his wife is a former TV reporter and she can’t teach him, who can?’
A third source said that they even had to coach the Florida governor on ‘when to smile’ when trying to interact with ordinary Americans. (read more)
Keep in mind, ABC News reported last month 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. However, given the outcomes, as represented in the Iowa appearances, the face control classes didn’t work out too well. Casey must be big mad.
The problem DeSantis has is a matter of authenticity. In the big picture, authenticity is an outcome of believing in your message. President Trump is exceptionally authentic because his America First message is his. President Trump believes his message. Juxtapose this with the brutally inauthentic Ron DeSantis, and you’ll find the outcome of a candidate who is selling the message created by others.
The Florida governor is a manufactured outcome of consultants, advisors and brand image managers who create the message that DeSantis has to sell. The result is something very weird, inauthentic and cringe. WATCH the Twitter Video:
🐊Rob #DeSantis interrupted a rodeo🤣 pic.twitter.com/v9ZBpifOZY
— miguelifornia (@miguelifornia) June 11, 2023
I have no sympathy for them. They are doing it to themselves; but I told you this would happen.
I had a somewhat favorable impression of DeSantis, that has now changed.
Without getting too petty, he is a dud.
No personality, no charisma. Those attributes can’t be attained or acquired.
Lost cause. DUD !
Hope I wasn’t too petty ! 🤣
Not petty at all. His lack of personality and zero charisma is just a reflection of his inauthenticity. He’s an overly ambitious empty vessel eager to be filled by the Deep State and Karl Rove. A big phony. 🧆
Thank you gold,
I like your take, empty vessel and phony.
Very interesting handle, goldduggar, past tense of gold digger…
You making a dig there.
Nice weather in the Keyes did you hear.
The Duggars were gold diggers And child molester protectors. They also hosed their adult kids out of royalties.
Of course, the sow who gave birth to Honey Poo Poo rutted with the POS who raped one of her daughters and did so after he got out of prison, Like a trailer park Hillary.
I’m more concerned about his complete lack of character. I don’t like people who are liars and bullies. Nor do I like wishy-washy people who change their “values” like underwear and are offended at the slightest provocation! All of those are traits of a vindictive tyrant (if the person gains power). No, thank you. We have enough of that already!
But that’s just me.
No, you are spot on. He is a mini dictator. The worst kind. I will keep saying it, the only difference between him and Joe is age.
Mini-meatball, Biden’s mini me.
King Meatball is the diet Coke of MAGA. Just one calorie, not MAGA enough, lol.
As long as we the people have breath in our bodies we can not give up fighting for our nation.
Start at the local level and run for either the school or hospital board, get your friends to run for town council or mayor.
Support the America First SANE people on the state and federal level and be very vocal against the RINOs like the Bushes and their puppets like DeSantis.
Get VERY involved with protecting the Vote before and on election day.
It’s sad that in America we now have to worry about the integrity of our vote like some banana republic. Import the Third World, become the Third World. The commies are turning our country into an open garbage dump.
Team DeSantis is run by idiots. You can’t teach authenticity. You either have it, or you don’t, and DeSantis don’t.
They think that we are gullible just like my dogs or a toddler. They have a low opinion of our intelligence and ability to discern when we are getting played.
Thanks to the internet we are able to come to websites such as the Treehouse and LEARN. We are able to bypass Government Approved Media who lie to us most of the time.
That is why we can now see that the battle was not between the RINOs and the commie dems. It is between We the People and THEM.
Team Meatball still thinks that it is 2004 when Obama came on the scene with his phony Greek columns and lofty speeches about himself. His campaign was all astroturfed until it finally became a movement. They managed to sell him to some of us and many voters fell for the slick campaign.
That doesn’t work anymore. The media gatekeepers no longer have a monopoly on the narrative.
Just look at the plastic faced nightmare.
Yikes!
The problem is that TPTB are right: Trump’s charges are serious, so they were right in expecting him to be out of the way for RDS. Even Alan Dershowitz’ support for Trump was qualified, and he wants to defend Trump! What does that tell you? So yeah, RDS’ handlers made a logical call when they said that DJT would be out of the way.
The charges against Trump are not serious.
The charges are a ruse and indicative of a Banana Republic. The more of us who dare to not pretend about that fact, the easier it is for the next guy to speak the truth.
The tricky part is it’s a personal, individual choice to go against the Party. We are all aware of what the Party is capable and willing to do to those who don’t go along with the ruse. We all see how the Party has lied, concealed, deceived and acted with hatred and contempt to go after Trump. We see what has been done to those who speak common truths (arrested, job loss, ext).
Trump is correct when he notes that the swamp scum are not really going after him, the swamp scum are going after everyone who disobeys the Party Line.
The absurd nature of what US Gov has become, and the effects this is having on everyday ways of life in the USA, can only continue if we pretend the propaganda being sent out over Media is true.
US Gov has no power over any individual. The moment any entity, including USGov or its representatives uses force, they are stripped of any benefit of the office they claim to uphold. Without that understanding, it is always war and deception against the people being ruled.
You are almost correct. The charges are serious until those with half of a brain read the charges. Now the charges are stupid, not based in law, and ruin what little respect the legal industry had.
PDJT is the most investigated president that we’ve ever had AND THEY STILL CANNOT FIND A CRIME. So they have to make one up.
Team Meatball should have know the above stated fact. But they relied on liars telling them that “this time we’ll get the Bad Orange Man!” So, they are stupid. They could have stood with MAGA but they chose otherwise. Now let them reap what they have sown.
The charges are exaggerated, hysterical, fake but NOT serious
Look up the word plenary.
Classifications markings are for what other people can or cannot do. Not the President. He is the Classifier.
Have you been listening to Dana Loesch again, Mizzle?
Dershowitz’s friends desert him every time he supports Trump in anything legal. It’s summer and Dershowitz wants to be invited to all the best parties on the Cape, so he picks something he can criticize about Trump and reconciles with his friends.
they were right in expecting him to be out of the way for RDS
DeSantis was planning to run for President in 2024 lonnnnnnng before the Mar-a-Lago raid. I’m certain now that he thought Trump would win in 2020 so he (DeSantis) would have a clear path to run in 2024.
re: “The problem is that TPTB are right”
We have found the one, lone sole viewer of MSNBC.
Ok, Ok Bill Crystal we got ya!!! 😆
A new saying for Ron?
“All boots and no cattle”?
Way long ago back about 1981, a coworker was crazy about Tom Selleck – she was having a birthday and some of us thought it would be really neat if the drugstore nearby would let us buy the lifesize cutout of Tom Selleck, but the gal at the drugstore would not budge – it would have been so neat but they had to keep it as a promotional item for a cologne, I believe, which was sold at the drugstore.
What the De Santis donors need to do is get that Tom Selleck lifesize cutout and put the face of Ron De Santis on top – they could cart it around the states in the back of a pickup truck and have mini-BBQ’s with Ron!
Whoever ends up with the most conservative votes will be the one I vote for. Right now, it seems that Dementia Joe has pushed his political prosecution to the point where Donald Trump seems assured the nomination.
Nonetheless, it will be a cold day in Hell before I vote for any member of the party associated with Obama, Biden, Holder, Lynch, and Garland.
I will never vote for a RINO ever again. I do not care if they are “more conservative” than the deranged commie lefty that the dems put up.
No more will I hold my nose and vote the lesser of two evils.
By the by, has anyone heard the song “81 Million Votes” by The Truth Bombers?
I heard on the radio that it had broken into a Billboard list, but cannot find it on even the Hot 100.
Can anyone tell me about the popularity of this song?
They played it on Real America this morning . According to Karri L. it is doing very well.
Steve Bannon played it on War Room this morning. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Go ahead and vote for whoever the RNC presents to you, but I can tell you from decades of experience that it is not good for America.
The endorsements for DeSantis in Oklahoma caught me off guard. I expected those that spend their time in DC to support him but the State Reps and Stitt is somewhat surprising to me.
Sundance has written about this several times–i.e, the governors association supporting Please Clap! Ron. I recommend you search the Treehouse and read those articles to get up to speed.
The TN State Repub Party sent out a notice last week excitedly announcing that FL Gov DeSantis will be the keynote speaker at the “Statesman’s Dinner” in July. It also mentioned that previous years’ dinners had included such stars as Mike Pence and other forgettables. Talk about tone deaf.
That should be a thriller.///
Was Trump invited?
Governor Bill Lee was elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. So is he just like Kevin Stitt and Rob DeSantis? Used Trump to win governor elections and then turns on Trump? Trump endorsed Lee in 2022, not sure about 2018.
Trump easily beat Cruz in the 2016 GOP primary in Tennessee, 45% to 25%. They liked Trump before he became President and I’m confident they liked his presidency. But December polls of Republicans showed DeSantis well ahead of Trump for the 2024 primary. Tennessee does have open primaries though so it’s not going to just be Republicans voting in the primary. And hopefully the polls have reversed since then. Come on people in TN, don’t vote for a swamp puppet.
On page 3 I posted a comment with the Republican Governors Association contributions to DeSantis’ 2022 Florida Governor campaign. The campaign fund was renamed to “Empower Parents” in order to disassociate from DeSantis, part of the plan to reuse that money for his presidential campaign even though it’s not allowed. If I did the addition correctly, the Republican Governors Association contributed an astounding $20.95 million to DeSantis in just 2 years. For his re-election which he was pretty much guaranteed to win anyway.
We’re not stupid. We know what they’re doing. It’s not another anti-Trump effort from the slimewads in the Republican Party who want to drag the party back to the pre-Trump days when the citizens had little control.
Shout out to all of the Tea Partiers who really got the ball rolling. Tea Party might not have achieved all of its goals but it sure did create momentum, and IMO is directly responsible for Trump’s astounding win in 2016.
Seems to me that Stitt is in the same vein as the last Az governor. These guys always show their RINO bonafides.
They’re all outing themselves this year. I hope the voters replace the traitors. Unfortunately both Kevin Stitt and Bill Lee were re-elected in 2022 and I think the terms are 4 years so the citizens of OK and TN are stuck with these traitors til 2026.
Why is DeSantis showing up at public events? Was he askes to be there? Seems like the people were less than luke warm to see him.
Why isn’t he holing the same HUGH rallies that Trump has been holding for almost a decade. I don’t think any candidate can come close to Trump’s numbers because Trump is saying almost the same thing he has been saying for the past 4 decades. America First and common sense policies.
A question for you: Do you REALLY think Please Clap! Ron can draw HUGH rally crowds like Trump can?
The answer to that question will answer your question!
I’m surprised that the Republican Governors Association hasn’t teamed up to not allow political rallies of more than 100 people to level the playing field for Meatball and the rest of them.
I was being sarcastic. Not any of the RINOs that the GOP Establishment will ever have Trump’s numbers.
Wish the GOPe would leave the Republian party and openly join the WOKE Democrat Uniparty.
But the current grift works so well for them.
Dummy Seeks New Ventriloquist > apply at deInSanity.gov
He could have learned so much at the knee of DJT.
Instead, he threw it all away.
What a waste . . .
Trump may have chosen Ron as his Veep running mate.
Now I think Scott may be a better choice.
No way in h311. Scott is a UNIParty RINO. He has nothing we want.
None of them are fit to lick President Trump’s boots.
I was not sure about that. Thanks for the info.
Scott just one heartbeat away?
I’d pass on that.
Why is it any of the splitter candidates? If they had any integrity and interest in America First they’d suspend their campaigns and get behind Trump.
The fact that they don’t tells you they should never be allowed to have power of any kind, ever.
“The 44-year-old has so far shied away from Q&A sessions on the road, despite being a standard feature of U.S. politics.”
Cigar store Indians don’t take questions either. They also don’t run the store.
LTFOL
He is pathetic, but he did far better than Hillary when she was talking like a southerner or in southern Negro dialect. He even did better than John Kerry buying a fishing license.
And he didn’t pull hot sauce out of his purse…
Gee, his handlers didn’t give him a bolo tie, a rope or cowboy hat.
No spurs?
O.k. (pun intended)
I’ve seen enough.
Ron has already crashed whatever chance he had remaining for 2028.
He needs to just go back to FL, be a good governor, tell the donors to pound sand, go back to doing right things.
You have to ask, has he ever wanted to do”right things”, or has he been pushed into it by the donors?
AUTHENTICITY TRAINING.. is that a fargin joke? You are either an authentic person or a decepticon. Face it Ronnie aint got the goods for the big leagues.
“Authenticity Training” is code for “Learning how to fake authenticity”.
Why do we have to suffer these fools?
The second coming of the Jeb!usite…
Please clap…
FallRINOs…
FDC…
FJB
It’s amazing how far DeSantis has fallen because of his idiotic decision to run against Trump. If he had just endorsed Trump and waited his turn, everybody would still believe he’s one of us. Now we know for a fact that he is not one of us and there is no going back now. He’s committing political suicide.
It was good that he outed himself now. Imagine if Trump had won in 2020 and then DeSantis ran in 2024, we might not have known what a lout he is.
Last question, did ron!’s handlers have him tuck his pants into his boots like a proper Florida Cracker when he went down to the clay and the mud/manure to shake hands with the barrel racers and maybe have a dip of Copenhagen snuff with the bull riders?
The Free State of Florida? Pretty sure Florida was a slave state, Ron.
So was Oklahoma..
I think that he was referring to the lie that Florida was the “free”, wild, wild, West during the covid lockdowns and subsequent vaccination nightmare. Of course, we know that FL was not free but, at this point, what difference does it make?
Would love for Ron to help solve the home insurance cost problem in Florida before taking on the world!
I guess that Meatball decided that the home insurance problem for the people of Florida is not important because he is trying very hard to get a new job and then, quit being Top Guv.
what caught my eye was the young guy (bottom right) and his body language. secret service (counted 4 in stands) were give him the “look”. he started laughing, put on his shades, drank some wawa, and then turned away from rob. possibly the TRUMPets did him in.
I liked the kid turned around with a cowboy hat and the guy in the red baseball hat with a G…. Their expressions need no interpretation. Whatever is going on in the ring is much more interesting than Ron in a weird shirt. Is he headed to Panama or the Phillipines?
Making a stop in GITMO – Homecoming.
DeSantis is terrified of uncontrolled crowds, and his handlers don’t seem to be able to get him over it. His instinct is to panic and get his security to remove any people who are wearng shirts or carrying signs for the opposition. He had ten senior citizens wearing Trump gear taken away by police in Leesburg, Fl, in February. And—they were only standing in the parking lot outside the bookstore where he was signing books!
But, the Oklahoma governor endorsed DeSantis. A big disapointment! Trump hit him hard for that.
I’m running out of Oklahoma politicians that I can ever vote for again.
If I’m not mistaken:
Lankford is sold out to funding corrupt Ukrainian officials over the American people.
Mullen and Cole voted for the Democrat bill extending the debt ceiling (and seem to be on the endless War Train).
And now Stitt sells out to the globalists supporting Deswampiss.
At least I can still vote for Josh! For now anyway.
Seems like we might have to start a new party.
It sounds like all the Meatball needs is for Naomi Wolf to get him wearing some earth tones.
I’m just very glad he’s our governor here in Florida.
As to the very biggest story of our time, Trump has taken full credit for the genocide jab. The Dems are laughing about that. But that issue trumps them all. He ABSOLUTELY MUST DENOUNCE THE JAB and apologize for it to just begin to regain true objective credibility, as opposed to poll numbers.
From the Tampa Bay Times:
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ top media adviser has a mantra that the governor won’t give an interview unless it’s recorded because she doesn’t want her boss’ words twisted out of context.
But when the governor announced on Tuesday that he wants a grand jury to investigate what he suspects is misleading information from the pharmaceutical companies over the safety of the mRNA vaccines, particularly cardiac-related deaths tied to the vaccines in young men, a cascade of old recorded interviews started spilling out.
Network television focused on video from late 2020 and early 2021 showing DeSantis touting the vaccine as safe and effective to prevent serious illness from COVID-19 infections.
“The vaccines protect you. Get vaccinated and then live your life as if you’re protected,’’ DeSantis is recorded saying during a May 3, 2021, press conference.
“The messaging should be ‘get a vaccine because it’s good for you to do it. It works,’ ‘’ he said in another.
“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert pieced together half a dozen of the DeSantis statements for his monologue on Wednesday. Colbert introduced the clips by saying: “Well, if DeSantis is going full conspiracy and attacking anyone who promoted this vaccine, I just hope he cracks down on whoever this guy is.
“We know that there is no time to waste when it comes getting shots in arms,’’ Colbert showed DeSantis saying in one recorded video.
“They’re safe. They’re effective vaccines,’’ DeSantis said in another.
You want to give his/our enemies another reason to demean him??
You don’t deserve him. Go away.
Trutherator, are you unaware that DeSantis was pimping the vaccine at least through the first half of 2021? That he received the vaccine and was most certainly boosted too?
Look at him in Feb 2021 wearing a mask and promoting the vaccine.
https://www.facebook.com/tampabaynews/videos/gov-desantis-holds-press-conference-in-miami-2821/2906785526313108/
And here is is on March 2 2021 telling the Florida legislature “today we have 3 safe and effective vaccines” and that people should get vaccinated
And here he is on May 4 2021 urging people to get vaccinated.
“My message is: The vaccines protect you, get vaccinated and then live your life as if you’re protected”.
And here he is on July 21 2021 still pushing the vaccine. “Occasionally there are some side effects”.
Can anyone explain when Meatball sends an email and you go to unsubscribe the link says defend DJT or DJT crew.
This is one of them and it seems the RNC is still playing dirty.
Anything from PDJT is still linked to Winred and I thought PDJT explicitly stated they were not to do so.
http://links.djtcrew.com/e/encryptedUnsubscribe?
I noticed if you go to Trump’s official site main page you are redirected to Winred which is a platform for fundraising, and they take a significant cut of your donations.
Here is Trump’s official campaign committee info including mailing address. I think it was sunrei who suggested mailing a check to the address. https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00828541/?tab=about-committee
Hahahaha!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182891/Awkward-moment-Oklahoma-Gov-Kevin-Stitt-asks-crowd-cheer-Ron-DeSantis-campaign-rally.html
Awkward moment Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asks crowd to cheer for Ron DeSantis during campaign rally – after becoming the first U.S governor to endorse his 2024 bid
Video shows Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asking a crowd to cheer for Ron DeSantis
When no one responded to, ‘Oklahomans love Ron DeSantis,’ Stitt prompted: ‘Let’s get an ‘Amen, brother”
There’s video in the Daily Mail article. There’s also a comparison video of Jeb Bush at a New Hampshire rally asking people to clap for him. rofl
To the DeSantis lovers: FAIR US shows that Florida is 4th highest in taxpayer costs for illegals and 3rd highest in number of illegals. So maybe the videos of busloads of illegals is disingenuous? It’s on page 44 of this pdf: https://www.fairus.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/Fiscal%20Burden%20of%20Illegal%20Immigration%20on%20American%20Taxpayers%202023%20WEB_1.pdf
The Florida governor is a manufactured outcome of consultants, advisors and brand image managers who create the message that DeSantis has to sell. The result is something very weird, inauthentic and cringe.
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RonGPT.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1m_iclAMXLo
Uhh, I am an Okie and you can’t fake OKIE, it is own unique brand of the southern vernacular!!! Also, I can tell Meatball doesn’t know how to speak fluent red neck, me on the other hand, I speak it quite fluently! The donors are getting what they paid for, plus my Governor, Stitt, is a conniving scheming typical politician first type!!! 😆
He does not speak as a Leader,,,,He speaks as a representative of others.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself.” I think Mr. Putin is using this same strategy with Biden and the incompetent WEF controlled puppets as he grinds the globalist money laundry known as Ukraine into hamburger.
1A rights hb269. This jerk went to isreal to sign hate crimes legislation. He’s a sham.