Feeling empowered after his boost from Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp, a man of notoriously intemperate disposition, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis begins the process to align himself with the neocon establishment and labeling Donald Trump supporters as “listless vessels” devoid of principle, who simply “follow whatever comes down the pike from Truth Social every morning.”
Appearing with a young millennial wearing a beaver tail on his head, namely Will Witt from the Florida Standard, Ron DeSantis outlines his opinion that the MAGA movement is only driven by the support of President Donald Trump, a person who has exhausted his usefulness in awakening the electorate. As a result, the high-minded superior intellects of the Republican Party now need to step in, reestablish the core values of the conservative movement, and put the squirming MAGA children in their play pens.
You can watch the entire interview below; I’m just prompting it to the part that best highlights the sanctimonious arrogance of a dim-witted candidate who really doesn’t carry his own policies, only those of the managers and branding consultants that create his talking points. WATCH:
What the insufferable DeSantis and his branding/image consultants pretend not to know, is that President Trump’s America First policies are the driving force behind the MAGA movement. Those policies consist of three main attributes that are non-existent in any other candidate:
Immigration. The construct of a southern border wall, denial of illegal entry and a return to immigration border controls that block illegal aliens.
Economics. The implementation of MAGAnomics that puts incentives behind Made In America. Baseline tariffs on all imports. The removal of the 70-year-old one-way Marshal plan for tariffs on USA products into the EU. Reciprocal tariffs against all nations who participate in bilateral Free Trade Agreements, and a return to America first manufacturing independence.
Foreign Policy. The withdrawal of USA interventionist foreign policy. The respect of national borders and national policies that are the outcome of the independent will of people within sovereign nations. The primary responsibility of NATO funding, support and activity, to the member states of the European Union. The use of USA economic strength as a national security weapon.
Those three pillars form the baseline of the America First policy that President Trump represents. No other candidate comes even close to the policies therein. President Trump represents the vessel we are using to force the professional political class to accept these policy priorities. MAGA is a set of policies uniquely attributed to President Trump, because only Trump willingly represents those policies.
The GOPe know this; so too does Ron DeSantis and his handlers. Every candidate in the Republican field understands this set of policies, and they have been paid by the multinational donors to pretend they do not know. Their collective GOPe mission is to destroy the policy platform; therefore, they must attack the core of the Trump supporters by pretending not to know.
Now the deed has been done. Meatball has attacked me because I support Trump. Politicians can tell as many lies as they have breaths, but if they don’t target me, I never care. I know they are all liars. Meatball has decided he will join with the Uni-Party in its derision of people like me, who have seen much better days in this Country and who would like to get old knowing we have left the place at least as good as we found it. Meatball can say whatever he wants and I won’t be rewarding him with a vote or even an acknowledgement of his toady presence, if that were to accidentally happen.
I’m on TRUTH for one reason only….drum roll please….to read what PRESIDENT TRUMP is saying!
Me too!
Cause –> Effect
Cause : Ron DeSantis’ exquisite[sarc] “Listless Vessels” fiasco
Effect : Now THE NEW Ron DeSantis is : The-2024-Amateur-Manchurian-gopE-RINO-UniParty-DROPOUT
MAGA 2024 !!!!
Oh hay, There is an article on town hall and they are now saying that CNN edited what he said and he didnt say what they said he did and all that stuff, so they are saying we all need to read the transcript of what was really said Not entirely what they said he said/ and all that good stuff
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So if you listen to the interview Sundance posted in the OP, you’ll notice that the bit that was clipped does not really change the overall meaning.
“It was edited” is really kinda weaselling in this case. Like, “how can we criticize trump supporters without coming out and saying that we’re criticizing trump supporters”…
“…labeling Donald Trump supporters as “listless vessels” devoid of principle…”
Seems to me like those devoid of all principle are the first to say that about people with principles.
Listless vessels? Yea, that’s what you call people who are focused and on track with the Rudder in Chief — President Trump.
Ron De Insanitius has finally gone around the bend and is off his hinges!
This coming from an impotent vassal to wanns-be tyrants of monopoly corporations. Pathetic.
I listen to the whole video. And I think that with a conservative treehouse wrote in their story is simply a hit piece anyone who actually watches the entire video, will see a very thoughtful, governor and candidate, and a mega conservative.
You are suffering from BCS. Please seek medical help.
Hit piece? Oh who? Ron? No way. If you have been following the real story behind Ron’s run you would know that this is the truth…it’s not only on video but he’s been saying similar things all along. I’m a Floridian who worked for Ron, have been behind him all the way until he fell in with the bad boys at the park. He has done a complete 180 and is marching in the opposite band. Sorry but Ron is done.
I trust The Last Refuge…for intelligent articles.
Good Morning Listless Vessels! How’s everyone doing today. Oh wait. We’re not on TRUTH, we’re on CTH. Never mind.
Ouch! FOX News Piles On Ron DeSantis After His “Listless Vessels” Smear of Trump Supporters
By The Gateway Pundit
19 Aug 2023
https://rumble.com/v39h2gy-ouch-fox-news-piles-on-ron-desantis-after-his-listless-vessels-smear-of-tru.html
So Ron chose “listless vessels” over “basket of deplorables”…well at least he made Crooked Hillary smile.
DeSantis doesn’t come off as dimwitted in the least in the interview, but he’s pushing a policy platform that, while important and somewhat essential to MAGA, is somewhat wonkish, doesn’t actually help voters, probably isn’t lasting, and lacks any visionary aspect to it.
He’s 100% right about the civil bureaucracy. It has hijacked American policy for its own ends for over a century (as Trump learned the hard way), and it needs to be cleaned out (a return to the old spoils system being an idea worth considering), and Trump did fail to do this. The problem comes with how this idea being more of a benefit for politicians than voters. If DeSantis goes in on day one and fires every employee in the Department of Education (something I’d like to see), how does that improve the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans in any tangible way?
It’s not going to put money in their pockets, as any money they save will likely get spent elsewhere by Congress. It’s not going to get them new jobs. It’s not going to automatically fix all the universities and schools downstream by purging them of leftists. It’s really a secondary policy priority…not something that gives a tangible benefit to people, especially since the full abolition of the Department of Education would require Congressional action, and Congress has pointedly refused to consider this (and, in fact, fought against it) for decades.
Tariffs protect American jobs from Chinese predation. That is something meaningful and tangible for the American oublic…both short-term and long-term. Controlling immigration protects American jobs. Tangible and meaningful. Not starting new wars keeps Americans alive and keeps money at home. Tangible and meaningful. “Reform the federal bureaucracy” is a useful means to help achieve this, but the short-term benefits are more for the politicians and long-term it’s not something the President can guarantee. DeSantis might actually believe everything else about MAGA, but the problem for him is that he’s fixated on clearing the path to implementing policy goals and never actually gets around to telling us what those policy goals are.
DeSantis’ platform is basically something that a President can achieve temporarily by re-implementing Schedule F. He needs to be talking about more than that, though, if he wants to get voters behind him.
He thinks he understands MAGA Patriots, but he proves everyday that he doesn’t. Run over and kiss Jeb Bush’s ass.
…MORE CONTEXT for “listless vessels”…
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cuccinelli-calls-out-edited-video-densantis-cnn