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Why Ron DeSantis Will Lose The Election And Florida. [1]

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Date: 2023-07-07

The train wreck campaign for Ron DeSantis continues to wheeze along like a senior citizen pushing a shopping cart in the sand. It’s almost like performance art. Like Andy Warhol or Tiny Tim or reality television. I admire their zealous devotion to dishing out the most provocative and awkward bullshit in complete defiance to sane political wisdom. They are blazing their own trail. Juicy. Why, indeed. Let’s dive in.

Desantis is attempting to be the third most influential right-wing entertainer in American history (behind TFG and Rush Limbaugh) and he is bombing even as a warm up act. Why all the fuckups? Why do they constantly push out press and events that are hilariously funny, but not funny at all? Because despite all that down-home tough boy mastubating in the gun store branding he is paying millions of sweet PAC money for, he is actually just an elitist. Like TFG, by the way. Stay with me, now. He suffers the curse of all elitists: no common sense and no sense of humor, just brains, no heart. He doesn’t see the world beyond his bubble and never has had to. Ronald can’t hide the fact that he is just a fucking snob; not only is he a horrible actor, his target market is too small and already dedicated to TFG. Whattsa a wannabe fascist with zero charisma to do?

See, Ron has a plan to follow in TFG’s footsteps to gain his audience when he is finally knocked off the pedestal. That’s the whole plan. Yes, The Mafia Donald will bite it hard one day: it will happen eventually. But how did TFG gain such a devoted following to begin with? They love him, right? It’s because he followed the path that Rush Limbaugh rode to riches by just being mean to people. For you younger folks, Rush L. was a radio pioneer who started his career in 1971, 52 years ago. Yeah. Rush always had this attitude of “We was just fuckin’ with ya, just chill”. It’s all about the Plausible Deniability . “Aw shucks”. Just makin’ conversation. Ooops; let’s get in trouble once in a while because negative publicity is still publicity that still buys you press. Lots of it. Lather, rinse, repeat. Most conservatives and I referred to Rush as a comedian/entertainer and not a politician because somehow he was able gain a following by just being humorously mean to to people, like your average dime-store comic. It then became being mean to groups of people. After that, marginalized groups of people. Then he got really mean. His audience thought he was hilarious. He went too far and got old, his star fading into the night. He became ironically deaf (from opioid abuse) and he eventually died after receiving the Medal of Freedom commemorating a lifetime of suppressing freedom for Americans. He was a trailblazer who will never be duplicated, but will often be imitated. Burp.

TFG sees this and thought “I bet I can take this farther.” His audience think he’s fucking hilarious, also. Admit it, even you were humored by his outrageous antics and followed his closely just to see what the hell would happen next until you realized the spell he was throwing down.

Ron now has a dilemma. “How do I take this even further than that asshole?” If RD wants to supplant TFG and gain his supporters, his timing is way the fuck off. See, He can’t attack TFG without pissing off the very people he wants to court and woo, right? RD is betting that TFG is gonna be knocked off that golden pedestal pretty damn soon. (That is actually a very good bet these days, (Does Caesars Palace have any odds on that)? Ron believes that army of bearded truck and jeep driving MAGAts will then follow him blindly, instead. HOWEVER: Billy von Ron Ron lacks the very thing that allowed The Donilator to manipulate millions of people — cheeky humor, however warped it is to us sane people. He’s like Carrot Top at a Harley Convention and about as funny, also. His antics don’t make you laugh at all: it makes you speechless. It’s awkward, confusing, and the most unfunny funny thing ever. When Campaign Ron laughs it looks like he swallowed a baby. When he is insulted, he lashes out in juvenile and bossy baby ways. When he makes a campaign commercial, he ends up promoting the very thing he is supposedly against. He has not an ounce of the wink wink, nudge nudge that both Rush and TFG knew was the KEY to their success and acceptance. TFG had years -YEARS of practice for his reality show role on TV. Training and learning how to manipulate people pays off, hell yeah. Ron De Alligator, however, has no talent for relating to people and nothing in his life that the majority of people can relate to, which is the most basic requirement of the job. He’s one bad actor. Maybe Ron is educated smart, but he dumb. No one makes decent performance art from privilege alone. If Ron can’t make his audience giggle, they are not going to support him. Instead of the wink wink, he’s going full throttle fascist and it is blowing up in his face, as well it should. He takes all the fun out of tearing apart Democracy.

I am reporting to you directly in real time here from the eye of the storm, friends: I live in Clearwater, FL. I’m a married straight white male, 60 years old. The most privileged status in this country, amiright? Fuck Yeah! Those pesky homophobic and draconian anti-disestablishmentarianistic* measures made into reality by the racists and fascists in my state aren’t affecting me at all. YET. But they will; they eventually will get down to me, and in many ways they already have. So I fight as much as I can. For myself and my brethren, because I actually still like people. Eh. Call me crazy. Our quality of life is sinking faster than a sinkhole here in Florida.

Ron “El Duce” De Satan has certainly lost a lot of the drunken mindless praise and adulation he used to get recently down here in the fever swamp, no doubt. There is a big military base here near Tampa; lotta ex-military here that are in his cult. I talk to my peers (cleverly disguised as an old fat white male) all the time, and the bloom has fallen off the rose for De-Fascist in the last two months because there are major problems here that he is ignoring completely. Things that are affecting the citizens of this state in huge financial ways. Many who moved down here from the east coast are leaving because it used to be cheaper than the east coast, but it isn’t anymore. Our insurance for housing and auto alone is roughly double what the rest of the country pays. Our food and gas is 20% higher priced, too. My personal living expenses have gone up 25% in two years (but my wages haven’t), and so have many others experienced the same problems. The homeless population has exploded. Houses in Florida go for a half a million bucks for a shithole that need remodeling. Rent is $1800 for a one bedroom apartment. Everyone is being crushed hard and flat, and they’re all kinda shocked it is being completely ignored at this moment while RD covers up and hides his presidential aspirational expenses and actions from transparency, criminally moves around state money, aggressively promotes hate towards any marginalized group, and essentially passes laws that just hurt our community and do not help at all, financially or otherwise. He is attacking children with the guise of protecting them. His enemy list is LGBTQ+, Women, Blacks, and Immigrants. That is more than half the population! It’s simple -he is a fascist, period. America beat the shit out of the fascists during World War Two and we ARE going to do it again. Ron hasn’t and won’t do anything for his citizens that would in any way benefit them ever , and he won’t do anything to benefit the whole of America, either. Let them eat cake, indeed.

This next election, let’s shove the fascists, racists and the haters back in the closet where they once were and ultimately belong. Fuck those people. Peace to you, out.

* (Always wanted to use that in a sentence. Not sure if it works, however.)

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