When a certain spray painted being with lacquered hair that looked like cotton candy soaked in pi$$ came down a New York escalator in 2015, a lot of our values and norms came crashing behind him. That same creature is running for election for yet a third time in 2024. Running against him is Ron DeSantis, who has been advised to give up the ghost, even as Mike Pence has. DeSantis won’t do it. Hope springs eternal and he thinks that something “existential” will happen to Trump — whether that’s incarceration or Big Macs, or both, we don’t know. We do know that this is what the two of them lashing out at each other looks like. And it’s only going to get worse.

A bit more elaboration.

That is the way of things. And here’s Trumpty lashing out more.

“Please, Sir. May I have another endorsement?” “No! Off with his head!” Oh, excuse me, I’m mixing up Charles Dickens with Lewis Carroll.

And it’s not just Trump dragging DeSantis’ heels. With DeSantis’ anti-gay stance, he’s made himself ripe for this level of criticism.

What’s that you say? You hear Trump singing Lola in the next few days? Could well be. Trump’s just getting warmed up. You know he’ll go lower, he always does.

So what is DeSantis going to do?

  1. Keep attacking Trump and providing the Democrats with great ad fodder?
  2. Keep sticking pins in that orange voo doo doll and saying, “Something existential!! Goddamn it, now!!”
  3. Keep repeating Mike Pence’s mantra to voters, “Help! Help! I’m over here!” Oh, sorry, now I’m confusing Mike Pence with The Incredible Shrinking Candidate Man. Happens all the time.
  4. Keep asking Casey to have a little girl talk with Melania, you know, about poison, inheritances, children and stuff.
  5. Keep playing Man Of La Mancha (and forgetting about how it actually ended.)

The thing that’s amazing about DeSantis is that he just can’t seem to react to peoples’ reactions to him, in real time. He’s following a playbook that he and Casey cobbled together early in the game. It was a dream then and it’s an exercise in futility now. And the only person who can’t see that is Ron. Even Casey sees it, she just doesn’t want to get into it with him.

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