So there is consternation amongst the elite republican Ronbois, because having spent months telling everyone they had to vote for Ron, half the GOP just spent the week rallying around the Trumpian flag You really can't make this stuff up “Trump doesn’t run the Republican party. We’re moving on. It’s time for new leadership. It’s time for DeSantis or Haley or Youngkin.”That’s the line from 1000 lobbyists, major donors, and the National Review cruise ship boys.Speaker Von Papen proves that wrong. https://t.co/NhZHobFQli— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 18, 2023
Where was Little D on 911? "just graduated college" .@stuartpstevens on Ron DeSantis' interview with Piers Morgan: "All of this sort of just reeks of not being ready for primetime." pic.twitter.com/6xhpT9K7rx— 11th Hour (@11thHour) March 24, 2023
That's why I don't believe for one second all this talk about Republicans moving on and wanting greener pastures. They don't want to leave the shit-filled stockyards they've enclosed themselves in. It's home, they love the stench, they want everyone else to partake in it and so they're willing to destroy the green pastures everyone else lives in because of their narcissism.
As wilson says, the people who want to move on are basically Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro, Mitch McConnell and Rupert Murdoch
The more and more I learn about him DeSantis just seems like another Trumpian narcissist to me. Several months before September 11 he had graduated from Yale and, as he says, didn't have a care in the world. Apparently it was 3 days before his 23rd birthday. To me that sounds like September 11 was not a big deal to him because it didn't affect him. Because it didn't affect him he doesn't have a vivid memory of where he was that day. It simply wasn't important to him. Alternatively, he was off vacationing somewhere for his birthday and really doesn't want people to know where for some strange reason (it would not be unusual to be on holiday around your birthday after graduating from Yale - at least I would presume).
They created the monster, realized they can't control it, and now they are helpless to do anything about it, try as they may.
Graduation is in May, so that's three or four months before 9/11. I'm guessing he wasn't on vacation, at least not anywhere he would have needed to fly, because when air travel shut down for a number of days after 9/11, he would have remembered how inconvenienced he was if he needed to fly somewhere. That's something that would have stuck in his mind - the personal inconvenience to him, not the impact on the country. As you said, narcissistic - I don't think that's specific to Trump or Republicans, pretty much anyone who thinks they can run the country has some level of "but what about ME" as their personal philosophy. Gavin Newsom is an example from the left.
OMFG I can’t imagine how many hours he spent in front of a mirror with Casey practicing his new fake laugh. It’s a work in progress. They will go back and look at the tape and adjust. pic.twitter.com/QNbhmfJ83G— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 24, 2023
Yeah - these Bushie era operatives & talking heads realize that the GOP as they know it is dead and Trumpism stole most of the base and all of the juice from them. Just saw that as his legal woes have intensified, Donnie's approval among the base has gone up while Ronnie's has dropped. I bet he could still out-poll Ron even if he's thrown in the slammer. Donnie knows his people well and knows that traditional Cons don't move the needle.
I was in 4th/5th grade that year, so a bit too young for Newhart's humor. I eventually grew to dig the Carol Burnett Show (everybody on that show was funny af. everybody, ever) and I liked Disney and Wild Kingdom on Sundays. All In The Family was a great show, and the theme even now reminds me of hearing it in the den in summer (because I wasn't at school), by the time it had gone daily.
Mom was a fan of Murder She Wrote. So I got a kick out of a book One page said that if there was a murder, it would be solved by an old, white haired lady who writes murder-mystery books.
I am rediscovering the awesome that is Harvey Korman, better known as Heady Lamarr ("It's Hedley!") along with Tim Conway. I watched a lot of TVLand as a kid, along with Nick at Nite at my grandma's. I have fond memories of All In The Family, the old Superman shows, along with the Adam West Batman.
Ron! The 2024 primary race has already spawned its first neologism: Enjebination, the process of becoming or being forced to become Jeb Bush.— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 22, 2023
The beaches along 30A are pretty. But the majority of the people who actually live there are, uh, not my kind of folks, put it that way.
Twitter is being powered by elite Ronboi tears right now If only they could have got his human interaction module functioning sooner Ron DeSantis' donors and allies question if he's ready for 2024 @DashaBurns @jonallendc @akarl_smith @HenryJGomez:https://t.co/iF4kzwDxAz via @nbcnews— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) March 25, 2023
I'm not sure if waiting until 2028 would be viable for DeSantis. Governing your state on the basis of efforts to generate Fox News chyrons is a short-term project only. If you wait five years, the consequences of bad governance may start to catch up with you.
73.something million registered voters approved of DeSantis' antics thru their support of Trump in 2020. Now, how many of them live in Florida, I don't know, but it would be folly to assume that their definition of bad governance is yours or mine. It would make more sense to assume they'd finish tearing the nation thing apart if an alternative meant conceding anything...
In Florida, at least, I suppose it's possible that DeSantis (or someone like him) can remain popular indefinitely through continuing to import grumpy white retirees from the Northeast and Midwest. But if you look at things like his attacks on public school librarians and teachers, his hiring of an anti-vax crank as Surgeon General, his feuds with Disney, his efforts (starting with New College) to turn the state's public universities into right-wing havens.... these seem like short term publicity campaigns that won't look very good once they fully play out. His national ambitions might depend on getting out before the bill comes due - and there's a large orange obstacle currently blocking that path.
The problem also seems to be that outside of Florida, what made him popular was his fashy grandstanding in FL that voters heard about and liked - but then once they actually got to see him more, they don't like him as much as Trump