Even crazier, if truth is told. I watched an interview with Trump from 20 years ago and the difference in his speech; his ability to speak in complete sentences, goes beyond striking. Granted he wasn't playing to a rally crowd; they are looking for entertainment and spectacle. But the interview was calm and Trump was organized in his answers. What a difference!
Chris - you were all over the DeSantis con from the start - nice job - your accurate insights are one of the reasons I subscribe.
Sounds odd - but for the sake of his children, I hope GRD was able to siphon off enough money to at least get them through college. I do not see Ron working again once his term in Florida is up. I also do not see donors flocking to him to ever run for President again, in 2028, 2032 or ever. And I cannot see Fox, ONN or other right wing media giving him a gig - he will not be able to attract any audience. What book publisher is going to provide an advance for a book from an incredibly failed candidate? Finally, what school or corporation will be hiring him as a Chief Anti-Woke Officer? Ron will need to get comfortable with some alone time.
Good night, Ron - don’t let the door hit you on the way out...
Trump run AGAIN in 2028??? He's 77 now, so he'd be running at 81. If he actually won (perish the thought!) he'd be 85 at the end of his "reign". His new hair transplant won't last that long.
If Donald J Trump runs in 2028, there would be taxidermy involved. He is still breathing in 2024, and he will be announced as candidate within the next couple of weeks. If every eligible American who despises the very idea of a second Trump administration will vote against him, then he will lose the election.
OK, I agree with everything you wrote. I struggle with the money. I hate the impact of money on our electoral process, but then I remember when TONS of money was thrown at Newt and he didn't register as a candidate much more than DeSantis. So, is there accountability from donors? Does this impact donors choices of who they give money to? What really is the impact of big money donors on the electoral process? Maybe these are unanswerable questions, but they make me pause.
Newt and DeSantis both had the same problem. As was said of Newt (who actually was raised in a trailer park in central Pennsylvania): "You can take the boy out of the trailer park, but you can't ever take the 'trailer park' out of the boy." Candidates whose major appeal is to Southern white trash redneck "Seething Inadequates" have never and will never play successfully on a national stage.
Someone mentioned to me that they were sorry for his grassroots volunteers, but if the campaign was largely given over to the SuperPAC, which famously relied on trained, paid canvassers who didn't have political views but just wanted a job -- was there even a place for volunteers? I'm sure there must have been some (DeSantis made a reference to their existence in his farewell message) but I really haven't seen any interviews with heart-broken DeSantis volunteers who were sure they could make the magic happen. One more way this was not a winning campaign in Iowa or any of the early states.
DeSantis was bad from the start, never saw him as a competitor to Trump. I was thinking, prior to him announcing, he would create a competitive race but never occurred. As to Trump in 2028, God help us. I can see him running again but also, would he want to lose AGAIN? He can’t take being a loser so that may be why he wouldn’t, besides being 4 years older. He’s already mentally unstable, 4 more years???
Elaine, as I think we’re all painfully aware, Trump always finds SOME excuse to believe that he DIDN’T lose, even when he won the EC in 2016. Fraud. Rigged. Election Interference, his current fav.
His obvious cognitive decline will only become more pronounced over the coming years, not less, and it will simply further untether him from Reality, so what would make anyone think that he wouldn’t at least TRY to run again in 2028?
Assuming, of course, he doesn’t keel over into his Big Mac before then, which is certainly a high probability....
Good points, Larry. What was I even thinking? This is all such a disgrace, it’s hard to believe this is what we are dealing with, AGAIN. That Big Mac may just be his undoing!
Trump, and his supporters, will never accept a loss under any circumstances. He lost 1 county in Iowa by 1 vote last week, and of course they were shouting that it was rigged against Trump because "the deep state" didn't want him to win all 99 counties. You can't make this stuff up.
It was easy to see that DeSantis was a jumped-up piece of Floridumb Man white trash 'gator bait back in 2016 when he made that godawful ad with his kid "building a wall" and "can you say Donald Trump?" Any parent that would put their kid through that should have been brought up on charges of child abuse and had their parental rights legally severed. And ditto the First Lady From Hell for being in on it with him.
As I said about him back then, "Would you buy a used car from someone who had a face like that?"
DeSantis could only ever be seen as someone "intelligent" if he was being viewed by someone in the "Seething Inadequates" demographic.
DeSantis seems very much like Scott Walker. Young, owned the libs in his home state, then proved to be a disaster as a national candidate. And it would seem that his chances of resurrection in a later campaign are equally dim.
Message versus messenger. Voters like the message, but hated the messenger. In Trump’s case, his supporters are so enamored of the messenger that they don’t care what the message is.
If you’re going to bring Paul Simon into it, you should mention that Donald Trump is still crazy after all these years.
Even crazier, if truth is told. I watched an interview with Trump from 20 years ago and the difference in his speech; his ability to speak in complete sentences, goes beyond striking. Granted he wasn't playing to a rally crowd; they are looking for entertainment and spectacle. But the interview was calm and Trump was organized in his answers. What a difference!
Chris - you were all over the DeSantis con from the start - nice job - your accurate insights are one of the reasons I subscribe.
Sounds odd - but for the sake of his children, I hope GRD was able to siphon off enough money to at least get them through college. I do not see Ron working again once his term in Florida is up. I also do not see donors flocking to him to ever run for President again, in 2028, 2032 or ever. And I cannot see Fox, ONN or other right wing media giving him a gig - he will not be able to attract any audience. What book publisher is going to provide an advance for a book from an incredibly failed candidate? Finally, what school or corporation will be hiring him as a Chief Anti-Woke Officer? Ron will need to get comfortable with some alone time.
Good night, Ron - don’t let the door hit you on the way out...
Trump run AGAIN in 2028??? He's 77 now, so he'd be running at 81. If he actually won (perish the thought!) he'd be 85 at the end of his "reign". His new hair transplant won't last that long.
If Donald J Trump runs in 2028, there would be taxidermy involved. He is still breathing in 2024, and he will be announced as candidate within the next couple of weeks. If every eligible American who despises the very idea of a second Trump administration will vote against him, then he will lose the election.
OK, I agree with everything you wrote. I struggle with the money. I hate the impact of money on our electoral process, but then I remember when TONS of money was thrown at Newt and he didn't register as a candidate much more than DeSantis. So, is there accountability from donors? Does this impact donors choices of who they give money to? What really is the impact of big money donors on the electoral process? Maybe these are unanswerable questions, but they make me pause.
Newt and DeSantis both had the same problem. As was said of Newt (who actually was raised in a trailer park in central Pennsylvania): "You can take the boy out of the trailer park, but you can't ever take the 'trailer park' out of the boy." Candidates whose major appeal is to Southern white trash redneck "Seething Inadequates" have never and will never play successfully on a national stage.
Someone mentioned to me that they were sorry for his grassroots volunteers, but if the campaign was largely given over to the SuperPAC, which famously relied on trained, paid canvassers who didn't have political views but just wanted a job -- was there even a place for volunteers? I'm sure there must have been some (DeSantis made a reference to their existence in his farewell message) but I really haven't seen any interviews with heart-broken DeSantis volunteers who were sure they could make the magic happen. One more way this was not a winning campaign in Iowa or any of the early states.
DeSantis was bad from the start, never saw him as a competitor to Trump. I was thinking, prior to him announcing, he would create a competitive race but never occurred. As to Trump in 2028, God help us. I can see him running again but also, would he want to lose AGAIN? He can’t take being a loser so that may be why he wouldn’t, besides being 4 years older. He’s already mentally unstable, 4 more years???
Elaine, as I think we’re all painfully aware, Trump always finds SOME excuse to believe that he DIDN’T lose, even when he won the EC in 2016. Fraud. Rigged. Election Interference, his current fav.
His obvious cognitive decline will only become more pronounced over the coming years, not less, and it will simply further untether him from Reality, so what would make anyone think that he wouldn’t at least TRY to run again in 2028?
Assuming, of course, he doesn’t keel over into his Big Mac before then, which is certainly a high probability....
Good points, Larry. What was I even thinking? This is all such a disgrace, it’s hard to believe this is what we are dealing with, AGAIN. That Big Mac may just be his undoing!
Though I’m an agnostic, I have to say: “From your lips to God’s ears!” 🤔
Trump, and his supporters, will never accept a loss under any circumstances. He lost 1 county in Iowa by 1 vote last week, and of course they were shouting that it was rigged against Trump because "the deep state" didn't want him to win all 99 counties. You can't make this stuff up.
You mention the possibility of Trump running again in 2028 if he loses in November. God help us all if that happens (and I'm an atheist!).
Trymp is unlikely to still be with us in 2028, so few worries there.
In everything he said and did, Desantis operated like he was trying to impress his "Daddy"...Trump.. and was scared to death of upsetting him.
At the end, when he was finally liberated from that feeling, he got better, but by then it was waaayy too late.
It was easy to see that DeSantis was a jumped-up piece of Floridumb Man white trash 'gator bait back in 2016 when he made that godawful ad with his kid "building a wall" and "can you say Donald Trump?" Any parent that would put their kid through that should have been brought up on charges of child abuse and had their parental rights legally severed. And ditto the First Lady From Hell for being in on it with him.
As I said about him back then, "Would you buy a used car from someone who had a face like that?"
DeSantis could only ever be seen as someone "intelligent" if he was being viewed by someone in the "Seething Inadequates" demographic.
DeSantis seems very much like Scott Walker. Young, owned the libs in his home state, then proved to be a disaster as a national candidate. And it would seem that his chances of resurrection in a later campaign are equally dim.
Message versus messenger. Voters like the message, but hated the messenger. In Trump’s case, his supporters are so enamored of the messenger that they don’t care what the message is.