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.
This is the moment when DeSantis accepted the fact he has lost and went full Paul Ryan. Never go full Paul Ryan, at least before defeat is certain.
Paul Ryan, reviled by the base, adored by the elites in both parties.
I agree, never go full Paul Ryan. He’s the epitome of everything I abhor in the GOPe.
Very accurate description.
I used to believe the P.R. from the machine about Ryan, then watched him take a dive in his VP debate with Joe Biden. I then realized we’d been played.
I used to think R.D. could be salvaged for 2028 if he dropped out of the race and just did MAGA things until the 2028 primary season. Now I see him as he is, reaching the same conclusion as SD described RD.
I’m almost convinced we will have to start a 2nd political party from scratch. Maybe we can effect a hostile takeover of the GOP. That will get rougher and uglier than we’ve already seen.
I agree on RDS but I’m glad he Ryan’d himself and saved me my potential angst.
I also agree on the party and affiliations. I’ve been let down and played so much by the GOP/RNC that the ONLY thing keeping me in the party is being able to support Donald Trump.
The party is wholly out of touch with the base and worse, feels they don’t need and want the base.
If the MAGA base dropped the party, there would be no party.
I’m glad it wasn’t done in 2020 but the need for a new party or a massive GOP course correction is palpable.
re: the Three Pillars of America First couldn’t be clearer. I have always wondered what the problem is with these RINOs (democrats in RINO drag)
Big Ron just gave himself a nickname.
DRAINO Desantis “democrats and republicans always in name only” And it never works to unplug the clog.
Now we are just “listless cultists” Way to go Ronnie.
Just REMEMBER: Trump is a leader, DeSantis is NOT. Trump CREATED and DEVELOPED the MAGA MOVEMENT, DeSantis DID NOT! In fact, DeSantis hasn’t created anything. Leaders are change agents that make the world better; followers are RINOS. DeSantis is a RINO.
Indeed. DeSantis came within a hair’s breadth of losing his first run at governor to a Soros-funded, closeted gay drug user who was under FBI investigation.
If it hadn’t been for Donald Trump dragging Ron! across the finish line he would have lost.
And this is how DeSantis shows his gratitude?
And he wouldn’t have gotten to that general election without the boost from PDJT.
President Trump has created thousands and thousands of jobs for working and middle class Americans. Doesn’t RDS get it?
And then he essentially channels Hillary and calls us names and disses us? Is he nuts? He,and for that matter, Ramaswarmy, Haley, Christie, Pence and the rest of them have done NOTHING for the working American!
What a bunch of losers who are insanely jealous of Pres Trump and his genuine love for the people and this country. Love that is not just empty rhetoric. But love with a decades long record of action.
This is close to a “Deplorables” moment and a possible death warrant for his campaign.
DeSantis decided, “I’M WITH HER!” (lol)
“Baskets,Vessels ” why don’t they just tell us what they really think. Just call us Stupid, lowlife…
I will not watch backstabber Ron! He’s a NOBODY!!
Notice that Ronda is still copying PDJT’s mannerisms, he is sitting on the edge of the chair with his hands at low steeple.
What loser Ron is. LOL!!!
This “listless vessel” contributed money to your gubernatorial campaign and voted for you twice. You are a listless presidential candidate to this “listless vessel”.
“What a maroon!”
How to efficiently describe Ron Desantis: He is a rectum.
Well, that’s helpful.
Not.
This is what a failed campaign looks and sounds like. If he was swimming he’d need that towel.
How does Ron DeSantis said this “I’ve been fighting the Republican establishment my whole career” with a straight face?
When he was an obscure lowly congressman from FL, how does his record show that he’s been fighting GOPe? It doesn’t, and therefore Ron’s been lying, hoping the GOP voters will only look at that shining record of him being the FL governor.
Not only does he not fight the GOPe, he’s one of the people who backed Paul Ryan for Speaker. Him and Paul Ryan are very good buddies
And his FL record only shines if you listen to his lies.
DeSantimonious is the listless vessel, devoid of principle, who simply follows whatever his RINO handlers tell him.
Beaver tail and Polo shirt. It doesn’t exactly scream out middle class interviewer.
It looks more racoonish to me.
Even DeSantis’s timing is bad. This is his sledgehammer? I know he was supposed to hammer that Ramaswamy guy, but he sets this up as his fort/hill he will need to defend?
He pops this crap out expecting it won’t be used during the candidate debate (that no one will watch). Debate viewership numbers will be in the toilet. In order to salvage something, the MSM talking heads will focus on this stupid DeSantis talking point as the sign he lost. That will be the narrative going forward until Breech Loader Pence says something stupid. Chances are, Breech Loader has nothing more to say.
We all know the reason why no one will watch the debate is because the Donald will be telling the American people his message.
This debate is going to be like T-Ball. The only spectators will be parents watching thier kids perform.
If Pence opens his mouth he’s bound to say something stupid
I’m beginning to think that bringing on all these RINOs was meant to undermine DeSantis, just like they undermined Sarah Palin. The Neo-Democrats see a rising star in the Republican Party, they latch onto them, and then they destroy them from within.
Every morning he wakes up he can make a choice: Am I going to continue this humiliating charade or am I going to break these chains that hold me and which are propelling me into the undertow?
Do yourself and us all a favor and break free; the road you’re on now may look like it’s paved with gold — but isn’t your soul worth so much more than mere gold?
I don’t. I see him as having planned this from the beginning.
So DeSantis is Robert Redford and this is The Sting — the con within the con? The egos of the elite might be huuuuge, their intellect is not
He undermined himself when he let the democrat counties in Florida lead him around by the tongue on COVID medical care access. I kept telling him the local press was sabotaging the sound on his press conferences on local stations. His staff never cared to review these videos and get their own sound system and print a transcript. The public had no clue what was going on here.
Meatball Ron destroyed himself. All the RINOs had to do was wave some money in his face.
“Macaca.”
This is exactly the same sort of ignorance and idiocy that led people to trash talk Rush for 30+ years.
They always assume that followers of Rush — and Trump — are fools who can’t think for themselves and are parroting what they’re told.
They never, ever consider that their popularity is the result of the defense of viewpoints outlawed elsewhere but nevertheless held by a majority of Americans.
This has to be one of the most senseless, insane, and unnecessary acts of self-immolation since Thich Quang Duc.
All he had to do was stand behind Trump, drive all other comers into line behind him, defend him and the dishonest election to the hilt, and ride some long coattails into 2028. But nooooooo.
agreed 100%….I’m pleased he outed himself as never maga….I will never vote for him.
DeSanctimonious’ job was not to survive til 2028. It was to either pluck away MAGA voters or failing that, to tear down Trump as much as possible.
He’s failing at both.
I’m torn between amusement and disgust.
I would compare Ronda to the former senator from NJ Bob “The Torch” Torricelli.
At least Thich Quang Duc immolating himself led to Diem being deposed (by the same CIA who backed him, but I digress). I fail to see what purpose Meatball Ron immolating himself is serving
This is RINO Ron DeSwampis’s “basket of deplorables” moment. He’s channeling his inner Hillary Clinton. I guess he forgot how it worked out for her. Time to stick a fork in Ron the Con!
Ronny boy just officially made my scumbag list.
Nothing else has worked, so let’s try INSULTING our way to the top! Yeah! That’ll work!
(PATHETIC!)
These political savants have it all wrong. Trump saw the Tea Party as a movement without a leader, and he stepped into the breach. This is not a case of cultiists following a figurehead, as was the case with the doltish obama. The political movement which put our Constitution first was long a part of Ron Paul’s legacy, and got a boost from the protest on the mall in 2010 (kill the bill), and his 2012 campaign.
For deSantis to say the million who peopled the mall in 2010 are “listless” sounds like sour grapes.
I was part of the million (and a half, the park police told us), but it was in 2009.
A wonderful experience, by the way…
Ron DeSantis is the equivalent of a Human Dial Tone….
I’m sorry but I don’t get your premise; pillars what pillars? There is only one reality that matters at this time, and the empirical evidence is overwhelming and that is the 2020 presidential election was stolen. For the love of God and in the name of Jesus these people are criminals! Clearly they will stop at nothing to perform their wickedness.
We need action from all the attorney generals of all the red States, they need to indict all those who are involved in election interference. This is a war, if these feckless lawyers and so call conservative politicians and pundits continue to to sit on their fat asses waiting for the scraps of money and power to be doled out the republic is over.
These immature people have no idea what’s coming and it’s coming fast.
Keep it up Ron and you will not get another vote in Florida. Not even for dog catcher! I mean no disrespect to dog catchers.
MAGA 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
I have to say, I don’t watch FOX. I used to DVR Tucker, Hannity, and Ingraham. Stopped watching Hannity and Ingraham and when they sacked Tucker, FOX had nothing to offer me.
I guess he didn’t take “be likable” to heart!
Sean Astin or Will Witt?
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/sean_astin
Also known as Rudy.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000276/
This is his “Basket of deplorables” moment. Bye-bye meathead. MAGA!
FJB
The disconnect is easy to understand. The UniParty interests are not just different from the average citizen, they are at odds.
They cannot understand us because they have no basis upon which to do so. They think Trump came along and gave us our concerns because they were blind to them to begin with.
Trump came along and ADDRESSED our concerns. WE WERE HERE FIRST!!!
VSGPOTUS just gave us voice.
They cannot understand and don’t really want to.
With his/this attitude….
Meatball is unelectable.
Ron Desantis was brought into this campaign by Griffin, The big money donor who told the world he wanted one thing from Desantis and he had bought and paid for him to do what he wanted and that was to bring down P.T and the supporters who was behind him and thats been the bottom line of this goof balls campaign all along. He has nothing of worth to offer anyone let alone President Trump and as far as he was concerned when they raided P,T home he left town so he would not appear to just do nothing but nothing is what he did.
Now that he is losing and all of his donors are abondoning him He now wants to call us all names but he also thought that by saying President Trump did not own the Mega supporters they belonged to everyone He would just walk in and take the people all away from him , but he was wrong then and he is wrong now We are staying with Trump because of all the things he has done for us the American people.
I have said from the beginning there was something wrong with Desantis and I am truly grateful to Sun Dance who proved this to be right.
I didnt like the man and now just digusted with the moron and all of his rich donors who have stuck around They will do nothing but lose more money unless they pull him out now, which by the way I couldn’t care less if they do are not Their money to lose.
People need to stop telling this creep that he should have waiting to get into this race, He did this because he was paid to do so and now its all on him and maybe one day he will wake up but for now when he goes back to Florida he will have to do what he has to do but maybe if the people of Florida are smart they will kick him out of office and get some one new. He does deserve that .
Vivek is also out there now claiming that PDJT doesn’t own MAGA. I’m thinking his shelf life may be a lot shorter than even Ron DeStablishment’s.
It’s the latest talking point amongst failing, flailing, and about to be falling on their faces primary opponents of Donald J. Trump.
We all know that 1) PDJT absolutely owns the entire concept of MAGA, and 2) running against him in the primary proves each one of these cretins is the sworn enemy of MAGA.
Vivek is running for 2nd string captain of the MAGA team. Trump won’t be around forever so we need to train some replacements for the MAGADon.
Ask your self what it would be like if all the republican candidates and the RNC supported Trump and espoused America First while dogpiling on anybody who criticized any of the team. Right now Trump has a team of 1 1/2 members and he needs more.
Replacements will be needed, ‘Smarmy isn’t one of them.
Vivek is just Ron but smarter. He’s still backed by globalist corporate interests, he just manages not to put his foot in his mouth at every opportunity
Make no mistake, if they are running against Trump after all the indictments, they are an enemy of MAGA. Republicans should be coalescing around Trump and figuring out a way to defeat the Democrats’ fraud machine in 2024. Instead most of them are blowing through tons and tons of cash so, come general election time, they can say they haven’t got it to dedicate to these endeavors
Ramswamy is just Ron, with big teeth and some rapper moves…
Folks,
I just watched a couple of minutes of RDS’ interview, and I have to say he’s right about what I heard him say. Number one, you MUST have principles! You must have core beliefs and principles that guide and direct what you do, how you do it, and so on. Number two (and DJT should know this as a businessman), PERSONNEL IS POLICY! RDS is 100% right about having people who are on the same page with the POTUS. Unfortunately, DJT selected a lot of Swamp Creatures to his cabinet, and what do you know, they stabbed him in the back. Finally, I like that he’s going to have a plan of action in place, so they can get rolling on Day One. DJT and his crew didn’t have that, because they didn’t expect to win in 2016. One MUST have a plan of action in place!
DeStablishment is absolutely true to his principles…
….which are…
…globalism (TPP), money-grubbing (just look at Casey), corruption (pushing in a law change that would let him run), corporate cronyism (pretending to be against Disney while quietly allowing them to continue their madness), and lest we forget, disloyalty with a capital D.
He is the very exemplar of all these principles. And many more!
Oh look, rhonda still has paid trolls. Markymark, I thought the deswampus campaign cut your funding?
“… you MUST have principles! You must have core beliefs and principles that guide and direct what you do, how you do it, and so on. “
Great. But Trump shows more signs of having those core principles than DeSantis does.
Where is The Funky Bunch?
In what world would Ron DeSantis not hire a bunch of swamp creatures? Number one he’s taking money and advice from the best of them (Paul Ryan, Jeb!, Ken Griffin) and number two he can’t even find competent people to launch his campaign for him, so what world would he hire better people than Trump ever did?
RDS may hire Swamp creatures, but the fact of the matter is DJT DID! Reince Priebus, anyone? Does Bill “CIA” Barr ring a bell? He was a BUSHIE, for cryin’ out loud! You don’t get any more RINO than the Bushes or people working for them, e.g. Bill Barr.
LMAO!!!! You’re new here, aren’t you? My, aren’t you a peach!!
Maybe you can write him in on your ballot 😜
“We have put together, I think, the most extensive and
inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of
American politics,” Joe Biden said in a video.
Joe Biden is an Election Fraud criminal.
Election Fraud will continue until Election Fraud criminals are
arrested and prosecuted for this crime. We must enforce the law.
If this does not happen then we are a lawless Banana Republic.
We are no longer a Republic.
Maybe DRAINO Desantis doesn’t want this big loss in the primaries and he is doing this so he has an excuse to give his money men when he withdraws from the race.
Well, this restless cretin will never vote republican again for any reason.
For far too long we have given in to the extortion of the lesser of two evils scam.
Better come up with an alternative. I will not be back. Goodbye.
Sundance, you have a great sense of ironic humor.
“….young millennial wearing a beaver tail on his head,”
Most importantly, Trump has promised to eliminate all the corruption, the deep state, fake news, the corrupt legal system, street crime, trans indoctrination, etc.
Desantis’s worst mistake, I think, is his refusal to recognise that Trumps last presidential win was stolen from him, and from the tens of millions of patriots who voted for him. Anyone who denies that, or fails to see the monumental significance of it, is leaving the door wide open for it to happen again….And if it happens again, it will be the beginning of the end for this country & western culture. It will be unstoppable after that.
I believe RDS wanted to say “listing” but came out with “listless” instead. Listing would make more sense, but only marginally. Either way, this man/vessel is sinking.
I think he meant ‘listless’ in the sense of lacking energy, lethargic, and ‘vessel’ in the sense of empty vessel. Basically in his own pretentious way he’s trying to say that Trump’s supporters are a bunch of mindless, apathetic drones who will follow anyone and believe anything. As someone else here said, it says a lot when he thinks that and yet these ‘listless vessels’ won’t follow him or believe him
The irony is that he is a listing vessel. He’s taking on water and he’s sinking fast
I believe RDS actually meant “listing” in the sense that Trump supporters were on a sinking my ship. He misspoke; but such a stupid error could never be corrected. Either way he comes off as a fool.
DeSantis is your atypical politician – promise everything deliver nothing! Pretty obvious when asked about draining the swamp he sidestepped the answer because he IS the swamp. Had it not been for Trump he would have lost anyway – too bad Trump endorsed this sell-out!
DeSantis couldn’t fill a classroom much less an auditorium! He throws MAGA Republican under the bus like a true moron and then thinks (that’s his first problem) he can actually become a president – spoiler alert Ronnie – NEVER HAPPEN!
That settles it Actually it’s been settled since President Trump announced his intentions to run again. Desantis is a “professional”, career politician. That means that politics is this chosen life’s calling. They’ll do and say ANYTHING to fool “We, The People’ but we’re just not buying any more “professional”, career politician recycled waste words anymore.
Ron, Ron, Ron, you’re losing supporters. Me being one. Before, I might have voted for you over Trump. Now, I’m not sure I’d vote for you over Christie or Kennedy. We don’t attack our own, we attack who is destroying this country, and that is the DNC, not Trump.
I would argue for two more pillars of MAGA: Energy Independence and National Greatness
Trump believes in Energy independence / abundance and dominance by exploiting all of our energy resources such as clean coal, natural gas and oil for export (esp to Europe and Japan to balance trade), nuclear energy, renewable resources that makes sense, ethanol, updating our energy transport and transmission systems, etc.
Trump believes in national greatness as an overarching theme. He believes the US should have the best infrastructure, the best airports, the best high speed trains, the best highways, bridges, etc.
Trump believes the US should have the best cities. No crime, homelessness, thriving communities with opportunity zones, investments, manufacturing, tourism, etc.
Trump believes the US should be technological far advanced, protecting our intellectual property, getting all of our semiconductor technology domestically, iPhones built in US, US reaching the Moon and Mars first, rural broadband, etc.
Trump believes in an unbeatable military. He believes in actually building a comprehensive missile defense system, Space Force, modernizing our nuclear deterrence, etc.
Trump believes in affordable health care, having the best pharmaceuticals / medicines, research and manufacturing of medicines, drugs and equipment here in the US, renegotiating drug prices to what the rest of world pays, having the states negotiate health plans across state lines, etc
Trump more than any politicians I’ve seen has the most comprehensive agenda and one that he sincerely believes he can accomplish in his term in office. He was well on his way to doing just that and the corrupt political class could not abide by that because their trade is in pretending to do things and pretending things are too hard to accomplish in order to fleece the American people!
Trump has exposed them. We must get this man back in office to finish the job. He upset the apple cart and the Uniparty consensus surrounding immigration, foreign policy and trade. That consensus was forged in the post WW2 Marshal Plan era and has only grown more corrupted being financed by the Federal Reserve. These institutions are corrupt because they are unaccountable.
We need a new political party – American Party – to replace the Republican Party.
We need a new constitutional convention to plug the holes in our great constitution to protect our republic from this unaccountable, corrupt systems of the intelligence agencies, the inter agency, the bureaucracy, the Federal Reserve and global entities like the IMF, WTO World Bank, G7, and UN.
When we do these two things, we would truly have MAGA!
“I AM SEAQUINN”… a proud American… if MAGA pillars of America First make me a “Listless Vessel,”
… then Alex, I’ll take “Noodle Boat!” for $1,000.
I am going to need a listless submarine if it keeps storming all night here in sunny SoCal!
I will never vote for Ron DeSantis. End of negotiations.
And another thing… did anyone comment yet on the bookshelf idolatry behind Muskrat Love Millennial displaying family DeSantis dolls??? WTF.
I’m definitely repouring!