The Lincoln Project is taking an inordinate amount of glee in dealing with Ron DeSantis, the soon to be also-ran of the 2024 election. I suspect that’s because Rick Wilson is a Floridian and like New Yorkers feel a special angst regarding Donald Trump, so do Floridians (particularly disgusted Republicans or former Republicans) have it in for DeSantis. And well they should. Since DeSantis has been governor he’s 1) killed people via COVID; 2) run up inflation over double the national rate; 3) wrecked relationships with insurance companies; 4) alienated the state’s biggest employer, namely Disney; 4) slowed construction to a standstill due to his anti-immigrant stance.
It would be a cautionary tale if any one politician did one of these things, but all five? Simultaneously? Talk about disastrous governance — yet his motto is Make America Florida.
This is Lincoln Project’s latest and it’s a mini masterpiece. I have always said that the best political ads are in a genre all their own.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 12, 2023
Now this is comical. Here’s a passerby who praised DeSantis, except he didn’t get his name right.
His name is Rick dammit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/DcUj5KGVkf
— Momo🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Mozzymost140) August 12, 2023
Rick Scott, maybe? Rick Dees? Maybe DeSantis is being Rick Rolled? I have no idea. I just stumble across these treasures and share them. Rick Astley did Never Gonna Give You Up and being rickrolled is being trolled with a reference to that song. Ron, let me break it to you straight. They are gonna give you up. And fast. So fast your head will spin, like Beetlejuice, fall off your shoulders, and roll on down to Mar-a-Lago, where Donald Trump will stick it in a hat box and stash it in the john along with his classified documents collection. And his toupee, because that’s soon to be in his future. His hair is in the same rear view mirror as your candidacy.
Photo: JOE CAVARETTA / SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL
Yep! Back into his box he goes, in Withering Heights.
Oh the fun we can have tweaking book titles:
The Incredible Shrinking (DeSantis) Candidacy
The Terminal Candidate
Presidency Lost
The Wrong Stuff
That’s just off the top of my head. Maybe everyone else wants to chime in with their own revised book titles. Might as well have some fun at Ron’s expense.
Is it just me or are those some really deep lines in Ron’s forehead? You’d think he was super worried or something. Well, since his Presidential campaign is imploding and he’s blown most of the money he grifted maybe he can score a little extra consulting money with Senator Collins – she’d LOVE to be able to do such a “furrowed brow” when expressing her “deep concern!”
I could make a better man out of a banana…Kilgore Trout, a character of Vonnegut’s imagination. He wrote weird science fiction books that Billy Pilgrim found in a pornography store. Sounds about right. Right Rick? er…Ronald? Meatball? Puddin? Dopey? Grumpy? Hell…whatever is his name. It won’t be long before someone will be talking about the 2024 election with a question: remember that strange dude from Florida? Whatshisname…you know the guy in ratty jeans and white go go boots.
It’s a terrible thing that Vonnegut isn’t here with us. We’re living in one of his novels. Seriously. Nobody but Vonnegut could have come up with a character like Trump or some of the others that abound on the pages of the New York Times, forget about fiction.
He reminds me of the Steven King novel ‘The Dead Zone’. The hero is perched up in the balcony ready to shoot this presidential candidate that is like both Don and Ron. He is spotted and panic ensues. The candidate shoves some children out of his way while running for the door. This cowardice is caught on video and his run is over.
Pundit Katrina vanden Heuvel once remarked that Republicans know how to win elections, they just don’t know how to govern once in office. Now, it seems their election prowess is falling apart. Fox News and billionaire donors once thought DeSantis was “Trump without the baggage.” If they had bothered to get to know him, they would see that he will never win the presidency. The GOP field is a mess, and much of their campaign cash is going toward Trump and his co-conspirators’ legal bills! Democrats, meanwhile, are building a huge “war chest” from donors who want to preserve democracy. I expect Democrats to win in a rout.
You’re one Karen I like. ha.