If the Bard was here with us he would say, “The lady doth protest too much methinks.” The Bard would actually enjoy keeping tabs on the Ron DeSantis quest for the presidency because if Ron and Casey aren’t the modern day Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, then I don’t know who is.
In all events, for reasons that she alone knows, Kimberly Guilfoyle is simply adamant that Ron DeSantis drop out of the 2024 race, which he only just tepidly entered last Wednesday with a failed launch on Twitter. As if her opinion is going to move the needle one fly speck’s worth of distance.
Listen to her rave and see if you can divine what her game plan is.
Guilfoyle to Desantis: “You are going to get hurt. And damaged. Badly. By the time Trump is done .. you’re gonna end up in the junkyard. You’re not gonna be in good shape for 2028. That’s just a fact.” pic.twitter.com/DJiWRaH7B0
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 27, 2023
The last part is interesting, “It’s not time to strap on the training wheels and take a spin.” I don’t think that’s what DeSantis is doing. What I see him doing is positioning himself. When it all comes down around Trump’s ears, however that may look, guilty verdicts on criminal matters, prison time, whatever, then DeSantis plans to be standing there as the embodiment of the Safe Republican Daddy who is going to steward you back to conservative values.
Now of course that’s a joke, because if there’s any bigger fascist in politics today than Donald Trump, it is Ron DeSantis. His maneuvers against big business in Florida, and his interference with education, health, and most recently, trying to get a judge disqualified whose actions didn’t go anywhere near the bar for such a thing, prove all that.
So what is Guilfoyle doing? What is the MAGA logic here? That Trump must run unopposed and all must bend the knee — or else they’ll never work in politics again? Plus, their legs will be broken?
Or, maybe we’re overthinking it. Maybe it really is this simple: Trump just wants a clean shot at 2024. He’s offering DeSantis a clean shot in 2028. But DeSantis needs to endorse Trump and walk away now. That’s a simple interpretation and considering the simplemindedness of the people we’re dealing with here, maybe that’s as complicated as it needs to get.
What are your thoughts?
The scene in the Sopranos comes to mind, where Tony takes his friend out on a boat, shoots him, and dumps his body overboard, wrapped in chains. Ahhh…former friends sleeping with the fishes.
In a real world context, why should Trump cares if DeSantis runs, since Trump reports everyday how he’s leading DeSantis by 70 points or so. Who in their right mind would care, with those numbers?
Trump is too much of a megalomaniac to be paving the way for anyone else’s success, even in some vaguely distant future. This is just Guilfoil being the MAGA mouth breather that she is, speaking the only language she knows
I’m just wondering if Trump does fear on some level that DeSantis could beat him. Else, why bother?
That’s a question for Mary Trump. His insecurities must surely run deep.
“He’s offering DeSantis a clean shot in 2028.” Now that made me laugh some. As in thinking sure, Trump will keep his word on that to DeSantis! Or any other challenger. Pence of course would fall for that, but even DeSantis knows how worthless such a promise would be. He’s too much like Trump in too many ways and he knows how vindictive Trump is, AND that Trump would enjoy the hell out of publicly humiliating him or anyone else stupid enough to fall for such a promise when the time came to renege on it.
Gonna get hurt? By who honey? You? Sheeeit go back to jr. and snort another line. What a moronic twat.
She’s nothing but another one of Trumps mouthpieces….a real POS!!
I had hoped when DeSantis got in, I could take my eye off Trump. But no. Because he’s actually worse than Trump (if that’s possible). If these things were possible, break all their legs. Throw them overboard. Then let someone like Asa step forward. Wouldn’t be exciting. But at least it wouldn’t be crazy like both Trump and DeSantis. I’m a Democrat, this shouldn’t even be my problem but you Republicans aren’t able to fix it yourselves.
Just a nitpick, Ursula, but the Bard’s line you quote is from “Hamlet” and I don’t think Shakespeare would use a quote from one play while thinking of a politician and his wife as characters from another.
In “Hamlet,” the quote derives from Hamlet and his mother Gertrude’s watching a play in which the queen in the play swears that she will never remarry if the king dies. Hamlet asks Gertrude how she’s enjoying the play (as Gertrude had recently gotten remarried to Claudius whom Hamlet believes responsible for his father’s murder) to which Gertrude responds with the familiar quote because Gertrude thinks the play-queen’s vow and protestations to never remarry are too difficult and absurd to take seriously.
Now, if we could only find proof that Casey DeSantis had been responsible for doing in some of Ron’s political opponents, then she’d be a PERFECT candidate for Lady MacBeth. I also think Ron doesn’t really hold up to MacBeth; he’s waaaaaaay too eager to get his own hands dirty (MacBeth in the play usually had to be pushed into his actions and tried to avoid too much “unpleasantry” while DeSantis seems ready and willing to take on whoever or whatever; Casey may be whispering instructions but Ron really seems champing at the bit to do it–as long as he doesn’t have to talk to people or the press afterwards).