Former Ted Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe is guy who told the Iowa caucus team in 2016 to tell the voters that Dr. Ben Carson dropped out of the race. So it doesn’t come as a surprise to see Jeff Roe now working for Ron DeSantis and deploying his bag of dirty campaign tricks.
The DeSantis team is planning to spend at least $1 million on a TV ad blitz using a fake voice of Donald Trump intended to trick Iowa voters. The desperate effort will backfire, as all desperate false efforts always do. If this is the approach of Team DeSantis, they will likely lose more voters than they could hope to gain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQiTpiPN7I
(POLITICO) – […] A person familiar with the ad confirmed Trump’s voice was AI generated. Its content appears to be based off of a post that Trump made on his social media site Truth Social last week. The person said it will run statewide in Iowa tomorrow and that the ad buy was at least $1 million — a massive sum though one doable for the well-heeled super PAC.
“The blatant use of AI to fabricate President Trump’s voice is a desperate attempt by Always Back Down and Jeff Roe to deceive the American public because they know DeSanctimonious’ campaign is on life support,” said Trump campaign senior adviser Chris LaCivita, referring to a top official with the pro-DeSantis super PAC. “After losing big donors and slashing their staff, they have now outsourced their work to AI just like they would like to outsource American jobs to China.” (link)
I have said from the outset, long before anyone wanted to accept that Ron DeSantis was being managed toward this 2024 effort, that everything created by the team around him is fake, astroturf and manipulated. This ad is just another example.
Ron DeSantis cannot win the GOP nomination without an external intervention to change the dynamic. If you start your review of sequence from that acceptance point, then you realize those who support Ron DeSantis will need to support the external intervention. In this instance, a corrupt and weaponized leftist U.S. Dept of Justice.
The DeSantis team, just like the Ted Cruz team that preceded him, are more anti-Trump and anti-nationalism than they are anti-corruption in government.
If it takes a corrupt and weaponized United States government to achieve their objective of a DeSantis nomination, then the corrupt and weaponized government is something they must accept. Hence, the baseline for my snarky prediction, “Hey, the bugs ain’t so bad.”
Again, this is not a grand exercise in political insight, it is simply following the sequence of necessary events to its most logical conclusion.
Ron DeSantis supporters will support Joe Biden in order to eliminate the problem of Donald Trump. However, the number of Republican voters who are willing to accept that conflicting outlook is far fewer than the number of ideologues within the GOPe willing to use it.
What I have just described, in that dynamic of diminished support, is exactly why Team DeSantis continues to shed supporters amid the ranks of voters.
Team DeSantis, the billionaires, the RGA, RNC and the entire coalition of ideological influencers, may be willing to eat the bugs – but the overwhelming majority of the voters will not; nor will they accept a transparently weaponized Dept of Justice as an external force against the will of We The People.
If you understand this dynamic, I mean really understand this dynamic, it becomes fun to combat the influence group being paid by the hundreds of millions in Sea Island funding.
In order to achieve their objective, the DeSantis supporters are forced to align with the corrupt system they pretend to despise. They are forced to deny that elections are manipulated; they are forced to deny the targeting of Trump is an inflection point that destroys our nation; they are forced to deny their association with the same corrupt and manipulated systems they depend on to achieve their objective. Pushing those supporters into the painful sunlight of their hypocrisy is not difficult.
Team meatball has to win in Iowa; even their own internal campaign team admit that without an Iowa victory the campaign just evaporates. Their desperation with the ad is pathetic, just like the campaign that sits behind it.
Seems to me that most people are astounded by the level of lies, harassment, intimidation efforts hurled directly at President Trump for the last several years that they are questioning everything being said about Trump. There is a point when people say to themselves they don’t trust anything being said about him but will listen to what he actually says. This ironically has made him stronger and has brought more focus towards him. Only the sick Trump Derangement Syndrome people are taking in every piece of negative publicity. This super human man has blown up their paradigm and they just keep making it worse for themselves.
Astounding handlers have never heard of reverse psychology. I use it with my 14-year old all the time.
In the military it was preached to us about never leaving a pattern or the same routine for the enemy to follow and exploit and use against you!!! 🤔
Superhuman… damn sure is SUPERHUMAN and able to shrug off more stress than ever placed on an entire Administration
Actually listening to what Trump said rather than rely upon MSM is what turned me around. In the 2106 election I reluctantly voted for Trump; in less than 2 years I was a supporter. By the end of 4 years I became an avid supporter and view him as our only hope to remain free. Anyone who is willing to take on such hatred and lies in order to help save this country and it’s citizens is more than worthy to be President. Unlike that brainless, senile thief and degenerate who stole the 2020 election.
The link doesn’t work for me.
Go here …
I could tell it was AI immediately. AI is good, but if you really listen you can figure it out — but a short commercial like that might fool a lot of people. Sick.
It sounds like a robot.
sound gives it away every time
True. There are a lot of fools.
IMO, “AI” is nothing but a glorified computer program, but “computer program” lacks gravitas and doesn’t put fear into the equation.
Link is down again….
even at daily caller….
I wonder why….????
What does it say about “your friend” Ron De$anti$ if he is willing to USE a corrupted Federal bureaucracy, err “institution” … like the DOJ to attack a fellow Republican. You want to quote some Bible, Team De$anti$? Yeah … I know you don’t … but how about this one …
‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’” (Matthew 25:40).
Yeah, you want to LIE about, and MOCK Trump with your fakery? You’re doing it to US. you want to USE the DOJ to illegally attack Trump? Then what would stop you from doing that to US ? In a heartbeat ? These are EVIL men (and women) desperate to maintain their greedy LOOTING of America. Desperate.
Using the corrupt bureaucracies is just like using the corrupt, AI, voice of President Trump. The end justifies the means, which has always been the solution for corrupt politicians.
So they are just being treasonous TRAITORS because they have a death wish, know there is only one punishment for treason, and they want suicide by Patriot.
They could have just asked for help from Dr. Kevorkian before they got this far.
A corrupt person is simply corrupt. There’s no indication of when or where he became corrupt. If you believe in such things, he could have been corrupt from birth for all we know.
“When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
A corrupted person was presumably once not corrupt but became corrupt somehow: someone or something made him corrupt, and he went from not corrupt to corrupt due to this influence. Something or someone corrupted him.
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
― John Steinbeck
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
“Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations that’ve long since bought and paid for, the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pocket, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and the information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them.”
― George Carlin
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, ….whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or accidental condition of circumstance.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
AI hack clowns = never Americans
Or as sicko Pence says about American interests: “That’s not my concern.” Yeah, we know! That’s why we love Trump!
Should it not be illegal to use an AI voice to make a message about your political opponent? If not, then is it not possible for someone to generate an AI voice for Ron DeSantis, and talk about his allegiance to Sea Island billionaires, or the scheme from 2018 to run for President? Or maybe how he ran for governor in 2022 with no intention of overseeing the people in FL???
Or how Disney is still in charge of the Disney World property because they put it into a trust that according to an ancient Florida law, cannot be dissolved until twenty-one (21) years after the death of the last survivor of the descendants of King Charles III.”
Disney explanation: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167042594/disney-desantis-board-reedy-creek-charles
It should be illegal to use it to impersonate any real person if it’s intentions are to misrepresent that person. I’m sure there’s a bunch of legal jargon that would have to go with that.
Sounds like … FRAUD … to me?
Just telling the truth about DeSanis is all we need. Why do AI anything when it’s not needed?
The Super Pac behind this ad appears to be an arm of the DeSantis campaign. So much money behind DeSantis. Unlimited it appears.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/campaign-finance-rules-super-pac-backing-desantis/
The New York Times reports Never Back Down is planning a $100 million voter outreach effort, with the goal of contacting every possible supporter in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina at least four times. This is part of the group’s overall $200 million estimated initial budget. They also plan on hiring staff in at least 18 states.
“We’re knocking doors. We hit our 30,000th door yesterday in Iowa. There is a long way to go on that,” Never Back Down founder Ken Cuccinelli told NewsNation in May.
Ken Cuccinelli is everywhere on TV representing DeSantis. Saw him last night on Newsman opposite Dick Morris. He implied Trump was afraid to debate. What BS. Cuccinelli used to work for the Trump administration, as you know. He is slime.
If they come to my state I can guarantee they will only want to contact me once.
R.U. the snapping kind?
Their neighbor is a lobster. This should get interesting.
What do they have on Cockanelli?
All 100% RINO vermin.
Most people see through the fakeness of DeSantis and the motives of his backers, unfortunately the paid influencers are still giving DeSantis the Beto treatment. They never said nor link to anything negative about DeSantis, on the other side, exaggerate the positive of their guy (his courage, his demeanor, his policy stance, and his words of ‘not insulting Trump’ etc.).
Hence in all the posts they never admit 2020 election irregularities (‘won’t affect the FJB win’); president Trump incited J6 Capitol riot/insurrection (whichever is convenient); president Trump brought the Lawfare on against himself; and finally their trump card “Trump can’t win in the general election”, never mind how that would ensure their guy winning against Democrat nominee. ===> Some of these Sundance already touched on.
You see the combination of these over and over in online blogsphere, and the resulting back-and-forth argument degenerated rapidly, I am so sick of it.
Are you about? I cannot figure out what you are writing.
As a Floridian, NEVER RON DESANTIS! He is owned lock, stock and barrel by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the “elites”! The U.S. Chamber of Commerce represents Big Business, not workers. The Bush Cabal owns Ron DeSantis!
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce along with lobbyists “write” the bills for Congress. And the taxpayers get stuck with all the bills!
How is that ad even legal?
The Trump campaign MUST sue on any deep fake ads produced… not out of vindictiveness, but to (1) send a message that society will not tolerate this and (2) establish legal precedence in the absence of laws on the subject.
and maybe a bit of vindictiveness
pretty please.
It’s a direct quote from a T supporting website. What’s to sue. Moreover, it explains how he feels about turncoats, how we all feel. Why denounce that?
I’ve said before that Deep Fakery will be society’s undoing: complete and utter collapse. When we can’t trust that upon which rely on so much of our processing of the world around us, and if we don’t hold Deep Fakers severely accountable now to prevent this inevitable propagation of demonic technology, we will turn on each other in ways never before seen.
This kind of misuse of technology must be called out, and punished, in the most absolute terms. Thank you SD for doing your part to do so.
100%, if it is not settled now there can be 0 trust for anything going forward, and that is terrifying (not that there is much trust left now regardless)
Sadly, it’s not just campaigns that are seeking to replace the truth with lies. I’ve heard that Harari wants AI to come up with a “better” Bible.
No, thank you! I’ll take God’s inspired Word.
AI is a computer program that can change word meanings or whatever they wants it to do. It cannot think. It uses information fed into it to operate. It’s easier and cheaper than hiring a bunch of people to do it and yes it will be used just like the left is doing to change words or entire passages, whether it’s in history books or the Bible.
This kind of computer tech has been around for a very long time it’s just been consolidated and refined and made available to more people to use however they wish. Remember how photo editing and video editing used to be complicated now any person can edit photo’s or video. AI is no different just more complicated and can do many more things. We’re worried about not being able to believe who’s saying what or if it’s real, the same can now be said of pictures we see.
IMO the most dangerous part of AI is getting people used to seeing things on a screen like they’ve done in one church that has AI preaching the sermon. TV has done this. To many actually believe what they see on TV just because it’s there and says it’s come kind of authority. Getting people to accept something on a screen instead of a live person you can hold responsible or question is dangerous but no more dangerous than having politicians you never see in person to question and the only time you see them on TV is when they lie about what they’re really doing.
I’m not even sure I’m afraid of an AI that can actually think for itself, at least you could just pull the plug which is sure easier than getting rid of our criminal government.
Harris would do that with her brand of algorithm – a finite set of unambiguous instructions.
Explicit warning : “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.”
This, in the book of Revelations. Revelation 22:18-19 End times.
“You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.”
Deuteronomy 4:2
God’s command.
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
Stand forever.
Harris – created creature – another first Eve.
Just keep reminding everyone:
Trump has a Track Record: $1.85/ gas, 2% inflation, Manufacturing jobs coming back to the US, Border secure because Mexico put troops on it rather than pay the tariffs they would get, Prices falling, farm output growing, peace around the world, Energy Independence, etc.
DeSantis has a track record (the Bush Chaney Bush Obama ) One World Government, New World order, NAFTA, IMF, WEF, Davos, Soros, Bilderberger, Jobs, plant, equipment, raw materials, lumber, crops, all going overseas, and not even your Saltine Crackers made in the USA anymore.
Which would you like better going forward?
This is so essential what you are saying. Here in Virginia all seats in both houses are up for election in November.
The Dems here do not want to even discuss stagnant wages, crime in our cities
super high rents, high interest rates so nobody can buy a home without cash, food prices doubled and tripled and the working and middle class with dwindling disposable income and no savings and the influx of welfare dependent illegal immigrants.
Instead it’s abortion 24/7.
And stupid Republicans are allowing them to create this distraction trying desperately to figure out how to combat them on abortion.
I remember when Pres Trump ran in 2016 he used to have regular people come on stage with him and speak. Coal miners, mother and fathers of dead children killed by illegal criminals– it was so moving.
I hope he brings on those victimized by this economy and the open borders letting in drugs and gangs. We are forgotten again out here and know the Marxist Dems are using abortion to distract us.
Shouldn’t there be a disclaimer on the ‘ad’ stating that this is AI? Not surprising that this comes from DiShonest. #Never DeSantis!
My only disagreement with Sundance on the above is that “they” are willing “to make us” eat the bugs. They will dine on fine beef and poultry.
Your comment reminds me of a photo I saw of Stalin entertaining his top guys around a table filled with the best foods juxtaposed with starving and dead Ukrainian farmers.
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Whowudda guessed?
Ban A.I. before it’s too late!
Do people need glasses to see
what is in front of them?
BTW the President Trump’S A.I. voice sucks and
does not sound at all like him.
RINOS SURE ARE LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!
The more DeSantis shows who he is, The lower his numbers sink.
You’re getting there
His points sink and … Trumps go up
Trust in the Plan
Ban A.I. and The Singularity before
it’s too late.
We do not need anymore False Idols.
People are not G-D.
The AI voice doesn’t sound like Trump. It won’t fool anybody. It’ll backfire big-time on DeSantis.
This would be funny if not for the fact that it is such a threat to our futures.
I get it , just a bit of sage advice for Trump.
A failing, exposed ,puppet ,Republican opponent lecturing Trump, the front runner ,not to attack Republicans as he attacks Trump ,his Republican opponent.
Not only has DeSantis been exposed but so has everyone in his political orbit as well.
We are in some really desperate times.
We lost out country that awful night in 2020 .
Unfortunately the clock is running out on our ability to get it back.
This election is out last slim chance to get it back.
We better not blow it .
If we do we will only have ourselves to blame.
Anyone who opposes Trump, for any reason what so ever, is the enemy.
This is a huge picture election ,particular points are irrelevant now.
Everyone ask yourself.
At this point in time, would you continue to run in the primary against the most effective president In our lifetime , who has an insurmountable lead in the polls, who had the election stolen from him last time by the very same people who are supporting your campaign.
They are all waiting for the evil hand of lawfare to propel them to the nomination.
Scum all of them. Not worthy of any of our consideration.
GO TRUMP !!!!!!!!!!!!
This may be a brand-new legal theory for a brand-new era, but to my way of thinking the use of computer-generated content (written and/or voice) to impersonate another person with the intent to deceive others is criminal fraud which should be immediately prosecuted. Trump can and should begin with a civil lawsuit for actual damages.
If we allow this brand-new technology to be used for criminally fraudulent purposes, and do not immediately cause this to be recognized as punishable under the law, there will be hell to pay going forward.
Correct, however, DOUBLE standard.
Agree with everything you said.
At the present and for some time now, all TV could do was cut videos and only show the part they want. Use excerpts from videos to make it look like that’s all that was said. Go to commercial if a person speaks out of turn and fire people they disagree with or just lie about what was said or done.
What they really need is a computer generated person saying what they want and answering questions the way they want without needing to pay the questioner or person being questioned. AI can’t do that in fact it can’t even duplicate a persons voice so it’s believable to most.
It took computer guru’s 40 years to come up with a machine that could beat humans at chess. A machine, not a simulated person. I don’t fear AI in it’s present form nearly as much as I fear people sitting in front of their TV’s believing the news.
True Blue MAGA Trump supporters can see and hear the fakery. Ron DeFraud, love that name!
Great idea, RDS. Run the fake ad and gift DJT free publicity for the entire cycle.
That’s not even close to being convincing. What the heck is that?
If that’s supposed to be Trump’s voice they’d better ask for a refund from their AI vendor.
Now THAT is funny!
To me the AI voice can be easily discerned, but it seems most Americans now and too dumb to listen and too comfortable to care. Hard times are coming to our land and our grandchildren will be the ones who will be fighting it.
Most Trump voters will see this ad and think, why wouldn’t Trump exclude Gov Reynolds?? Trump wasn’t “neutral” when she ran but she’s going to return the favor by being neutral? Got it.
I don’t know what’s weirder, a turncoat candidate actually spending her own money to admit she’s disloyal and can’t be trusted, or the high pitched bad infliction robot voice that cuts off abruptly, like speaking out of context, while also showing their idea of the future, one under a cold hard lying regime.
Can’t trump campaign sue?
How long before we see an ad using AI voicing and CGI video technology to make a super realistic but fake video claiming to show Trump actually committing a crime.
Ugh.
I’m shocked, shocked, to find that gambling going on here. Lying politicans. Shocking but it is not surprising.
Trump says “DeSantis forged my voice, That’s not my voice!”
Even if Trump actually wrote those words DeSantis still forged his voice. It’s a fraud to represent to the public that its Donald Trump’s voice.
What surprised me about this was that I could tell that the clip was AI generated, the cadence and the intonation was off, not a lot but enough for me to question. This gives me hope that we won’t all be fooled by AI when the great deception occurs.
The DeSantis team is going to be very, very sorry they did this. The internet mockery will be like an explosion. I doubt “D” will ever recover.
My apologies in advance for my ignorant and naive questions here…
How do we know President Trump actually said this? Did he, himself, undisputedly, actually speak this “quote’? And if so, where is the recording to verify it? Or did President Trump, himself, undisputedly write this quote somewhere? (seems odd to me if he did…)
If no to either of the above questions, wouldn’t Desantis’ ad be highly illegal slander and prosecutable???
And if Desantis is able to get away with something like this, think of all the corrupt and shameful things democrats and others have reported said (but with no video recording to verify it) over the years that can now be used against THEM by their own adversaries/opponents.
What a can of worms to open up!
“They are forced ….” The circumstances certainly call for it, but it’s Rob’s willingness to do it that caused me to lose all respect for him. He’s no different than Mitch McConnell at this point. F*ck him.
It’s very easy to tell that’s an AI generated voice. It doesn’t sound like him at all. Can’t he sue them over this?
Raheem Kassam, Steve Bannon sidekick and CEO of the National Pulse compared Jeff Roe to Osama Bin Laden and said he always uses the same playbook and plays like a track the World Trade Center in 1993 and attack it again in 2001!!! He said that is why Roes candidates ALWAYS LOSE!!! He never heard of not following a pattern!!! 🤔
What is the deal here. These words were said on Truth social, and people are claiming it’s Trump, not AI. ??
Here is the truth social post.
I love Iowa, protected & expanded Ethanol, got 28 Billion Dollars from China for our great Farmers, ended the Estate (Death!) Tax on farms, made the best TRADE deals in history (USMCA, China, & many more), introduced the World to our FARMERS, & kept Iowa’s “First in the Nation” status. I opened up the Governor position for Kim Reynolds, & when she fell behind, I ENDORSED her, did big Rallies, & she won. Now, she wants to remain “NEUTRAL.” I don’t invite her to events! DeSanctus down 45 points!
Jul 10, 2023, 9:10 AM
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110690659780399869
It appears that Trump did post these words on his Truth Social site, but the deception was using AI to generate his voice saying them! The danger is that you could change a few words, and nobody would know the difference. AI is a very slippery slope that will lead to our destruction!
DeSantis is a Romney