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Imagine spending all that money and time to get crushed and fold like a piece of paper.
Sack of shit.
He got his participation trophy. I think thats all he really wanted in the first place.❄️🏆
What a spineless piece of work…
saw that coming from a parsec away, probably trying to suck hard so he can get that VP position and be the next to be almost murdered by Trump.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
DeSantis entered the Republican presidential race with an impressive political operation and widespread popularity in the party after achieving a blowout 2022 re-election win in Florida, which had for decades been one of the most tightly divided states in the nation.
When DeSantis officially launched his White House bid in May, a glitchy Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk became emblematic of a campaign that was often overshadowed by infighting, financial troubles, and a complicated partnership with the super PAC Never Back Down.
He weaved his signature war on “woke” through several policy proposals, including ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government, barring transgender service members from the military, and banning gender-affirming medical care for minors.
After the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, DeSantis mobilized the Florida Department of Emergency Management to organize evacuation flights as the war raged, with those efforts extracting nearly 700 American citizens from the Middle East.
By the end of his run, DeSantis was regularly attacking Trump in his stump speech, chiding the former president for not following through on 2016 campaign promises like building a border wall, for refusing to join primary debates, and for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
After celebrating a second-place finish as a victory, DeSantis opted to first visit South Carolina instead of making the traditional overnight trip for presidential candidates from Des Moines, Iowa, to Manchester, New Hampshire.
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Spends months talking about how trump is incompetent, then endorses trump
To be fair, other than the subtext created by running, I don’t think he’s ever criticized Trump.
He hasn’t. With a handful of obvious exceptions, the entire Republican leadership has spent the last four years running a clinic in cowardice, pathetic boot-licking and groveling.
I hate to make you feel old, but it’s a lot more like 8 years now, almost 9.
Yeah, sigh, you’re right. On the plus side, I’m in my 50s and already feel old, so no worries about that.
I’d imagine in a dark and dystopian future, the dictatorial and dysfunctional trump dynasty will simply imprison any challengers to the throne, like their daddy Putin does.
It’s an interesting and terrifying thought experiment. Hopefully we’re not actually going to run it IRL.
For whatever it’s worth, I don’t think it would fly in a country as massive and habitually fractious as the US, but I’ve been wrong about a lot of things in the past --never imagined that an unlettered buffoonish corndog conman like Trump could even come within sniffing distance of the presidency for example-- so who the fuck knows?
I don’t have a lot of faith in my fellow Americans. I probably never should have, but hindsight is always 20-20 or whatever.
Please clap
He’s a loser little titty baby
I renounce Jesus Christ!
Remember when he was widely being portrayed as the intelligent version of Trump we should all be afraid of?
So, he was able to make Florida pretty awful for non cis het people; he actually cared to forward the culture war and people get hurt in war. I became less afraid of him as a candidate when Disney stripped the power from the board he took over and he very obviously with his dick in a vise opted to tighten the vice.
