When you think the words “violent” “vicious” and “Florida” you probably get an image of alligators in the swamp. That is, unless, you’re familiar with the politics down there. As a matter of fact, you’ll probably get treated more fairly by the alligators than you will from the politicians in Florida. Ask anybody who’s been there.
Roger Stone does not like Ron DeSantis. He has never liked DeSantis, we are led to believe. But knowing Florida politics, if Stone ended up DeSantis’ campaign manager on January 2, nobody would be particularly surprised. It really is that screwed up down there.
Stone seems particularly interested in agitating the DeSantis/Trump dynamic. I’m not sure what good that does anybody, but Stone has some method in his madness, we presume.
Roger Stone blasts Desantis. He says Desantis is going to run against Trump, which will be “an extraordinary act of political treachery and disloyalty … Desantis’s campaign was turbocharged by an endorsement from Trump, otherwise he’d be working at a Dairy Queen right now.” pic.twitter.com/8IciqApRep
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) December 21, 2022
Now think through this: Does Stone just not want the GOP to continue? Maybe he doesn’t. Maybe he figures he’s made his bundle of cash, so screw what happens to the party going forward. Remember, his BFFs are people like Paul Manafort and Lee Atwater, self serving swine to the core.
So, that’s one answer. Or, does Stone think that Trump actually has the proverbial popsickle stand’s chance in Hell of getting the nomination? Evidently, he does. Ergo, if DeSantis poses some impediment, then DeSantis is the bad guy.
What is intriguing here is the painting of oneself into a corner. Trump and DeSantis are both Florida guys. DeSantis is the golden boy of Fox News these days, which is a major plus, but that and that alone may not elevate him beyond the insular world of Florida GOP-dominated politics and onto the national stage. Even Rick Wilson, himself a Florida man and one of the builders of the GOP machine in that state, has said that about DeSantis.
Stone is correct that Trump has functioned on the national stage, but consider this caveat: Trump was the brand new guy on the block, the unwashed phenomenon, the iconoclast to beat all iconoclasts, in 2016. That day is long gone. The electorate sent Trump packing after putting up with four interminable years of his incompetence. The idea that Trump lightning is going to strike twice, on these facts, is beyond absurd. It is fairy tale thinking — and it is something that Trump himself talks about daily.
So apparently, Stone is Trump’s pit bull. He’s out there to rattle the cages and get DeSantis riled up, but in the end, Stone must know (and Trump is too dense and self-involved to know) that Trump can’t pull it off.
But it’s a paycheck, right? And Stone loves being a troll.
Lay in a stash of popcorn, this is going to be good. We are about to find out what Ron DeSantis is really made of. Can he stand up to Trump’s goons? Can he figure out how to put together a better political machine of his own? Can he get beyond Florida? We know he’s there in Rupert Murdoch’s fantasy but what about the real world.
You see what a soap opera this is? Stay tuned.
Stone should have been behind bars decades ago.
Far be it for me to agree with the likes of Roger “My Brain Made Of” Stone. But he’s right about DeathSantis. It’s just neither the latter nor Trump are going to be the contenders everyone keeps pretending they are.
“We are the future, Charles, not them! They no longer matter!”–David Hayter, X-Men, spoken by Sir Ian McKellan, 2000
NOW, I see the package Trump is carrying, the one that includes bushels and tons of antique rhetoric, he does not realize is fractured by serious over-worked repeating, as that has been his norm … The popcorn should be ready for emergency consumption because I believe someone, somewhere is going to lower the boom on him when he is least expecting it …
Using perfectly clear language on a very public stage, that someone will come out and claim, “Trump, you should just sit down and shut up”, we have heard your stupid claims hundreds of times, and we are done here and now, time to clear off your desks and instead, explain how you have been and are still are the WORST business person in the whole world … Your claims to the opposite, are bogus and infantile …
As Trump huffs and puffs, choking on those publicly spoken words, a video should pop up, showing a rush of people to the Popcorn counter, ordering a large bag of popcorn with lots of butter, along with their favorite drinks …
I know I’m ready for it, and the further the GOP lets him drift before reality strikes that deadly day … He will blow his stack and come out swinging, but the audience with catcalls whistles and raucous laughter, may add a little spice to the hot tea.
I’m sorry, roger who?
A similar thing could be said about Stoned in his weasel existence with other politicians of the past and frump. He should be in the prison library typing his shit.
So that’s where destinkus got those go go boots….
Nothing like nazis hating nazis.