Current Events > DeSantis's net image rating is now down to -24

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I'm convinced he's only running to make Trump look good to conservatives

Those pics genuinely look like AI

Governor Pissbaby having a pissbaby moment

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It's actually kind of shocking just how pathetic DeSantis' whole campaign has been.

He was widely considered the front runner to replace Trump since like, two weeks after Trump left office, and from the second we actually had to take that seriously he's just been crashing harder and harder.

Irony posted...

I'm convinced he's only running to make Trump look good to conservatives

I'm like, 60% sure that the entire republican primary is just to flood the whole field with garbage so Trump can run them down and try to recover the momentum he had in 2015.

What an amazing collapse. He really wants Scott or Christie to pass him.

He really looks like he's a sociopath who had to teach himself human emotions.

Not surprised, the dude does a piss poor job at pretending to be a human being.

Gotta be honest, I have never been more invested in seeing someone's political aspirations fail than Ron DeSantis. And while I certainly won't count my chickens before they hatch, the past couple of months have been very rewarding.

He was always an overrated candidate for a national election. Appealing to Florida is not the same as appealing to a nation. This isn't the same Florida from even 10 years ago.

He's right where his ceiling is. A state-wide official.

I guess it's all opening the way for...

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PiOverlord posted...

He was always an overrated candidate for a national election. Appealing to Florida is not the same as appealing to a nation. This isn't the same Florida from even 10 years ago.

He's right where his ceiling is. A state-wide official.

This is obviously right, but I don't really understand why his numbers are crashing. He's the same exact person he's been for years. Just lacking charisma? His florida issues don't translate well outside florida?

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

I guess it's all opening the way for...

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animebop posted...

This is obviously right, but I don't really understand why his numbers are crashing. He's the same exact person he's been for years.

Yes, but now people are paying attention to him and realizing how weird and off-putting he is.

Irony posted...

I'm convinced he's only running to make Trump look good to conservatives

It's all an overly-elaborate plan to rocket The Rock to the nomination sometime next spring.

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itcheyness posted...

Yes, but now people are paying attention to him and realizing how weird and off-putting he is.

He's also veering even further right than Trump on policy, which is killing his chances at broader appeal. Policies he thinks he can defend with the same blind whiny stubbornness as Trump, yet without an ounce of charisma to sell them.

When Ron smiles, it looks like it causes him terrible pain.

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Bass posted...

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Shame he's so homophobic because he could fit a monster-sized dick in that mouth lol.

It's so weird to see a primary without flavor of the week candidates peaking.

Starks posted...

It's so weird to see a primary without flavor of the week candidates peaking.

Trump is so far ahead, that just isn't a "flavor of the week".
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/

Makes you really worry about his supporters. Most people are being really turned off the more they see, yet they're still rallying for the guy.

They're apparently not interested in democracy at all.

Vivek is only in 3rd for leaning in on being a complete dipshit.

Promising pardons and abandoning allies.

Starks posted...

Vivek is only in 3rd for leaning in on being a complete dipshit.

Promising pardons and abandoning allies.

He'd be hilarious if the Republican party wasn't a cult full of chuds that believe the trash he's been spewing.

Whomever was on his team telling him to keep chewing that culture fat in Florida for years really fucked him up. I mean, I'm sure he did it all himself, but if people were telling him this atrocious fascist shit would work well on the national stage, they should be shit canned.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

Whomever was on his team telling him to keep chewing that culture fat in Florida for years really fucked him up. I mean, I'm sure he did it all himself, but if people were telling him this atrocious fascist shit would work well on the national stage, they should be shit canned.

It was either him or his wife. Those are literally the only 2 opinions he cares about and his wife is pretty much in control of his campaign's decisions & focus.

Yes, she's just as much of a sack of shit bigot as he is.

People who know them describe them as some of the worst people lol.

Vivek is the Republican meme candidate. Kind of like Andrew Yang was for Democrats but way worse.

DeSatan is clearly imploding, not hard to see why.

Christie gaining is interesting in some ways, but I find people like to think of him as a big joke so that appeal is likely fleeting if you ask me.

Kradek posted...

It was either him or his wife. Those are literally the only 2 opinions he cares about and his wife is pretty much in control of his campaign's decisions & focus.

Yes, she's just as much of a sack of shit bigot as he is.

People who know them describe them as some of the worst people lol.

Yep, that all seems to track.

The party needs someone like Tim Scott, but amoral.

davyheinz posted...

Christie gaining is interesting in some ways, but I find people like to think of him as a big joke so that appeal is likely fleeting if you ask me.

Christie is the one that really concerns me. Everybody else is pretty much sucking Trump and his crimes off, however Christie is the only one who speaks truthfully on it in interviews and in general he just gives a very factual analysis of the situation.

It unfortunately helps him rehabilitate his past of being a Trump worshipper, who helped him prepped for debates, that is now scorned because he didn't get a position in the admin (I think he was vying for AG).

But of the candidates, Christie and maybe Hutchinson are the only ones I worry could actually garner substantial Independent/moderate support by presenting themselves as a "non-insane Republican" and if Youngkin jumps in I fear he'd also be able to sell that image of himself.

Kradek posted...

It was either him or his wife. Those are literally the only 2 opinions he cares about and his wife is pretty much in control of his campaign's decisions & focus.

Yes, she's just as much of a sack of shit bigot as he is.

People who know them describe them as some of the worst people lol.

According to Roger Stone, she is Lady MacBeth incarnate.

Manipulating her husband to achieve her goals.

I admit, this has been a treat. Seeing a terrible candidate crash and burn is one of the better outcomes for this guy. Everything worked out well in terms of DeSantis so long as you don't live in Florida.

Kaldrenthebold posted...

Whomever was on his team telling him to keep chewing that culture fat in Florida for years really fucked him up. I mean, I'm sure he did it all himself, but if people were telling him this atrocious fascist shit would work well on the national stage, they should be shit canned.

Well, that's exactly what propelled him into the national spotlight in a 'no such thing as bad press' kind of way, with Fox propping him up as the next big thing and CNN writing piece after piece about how dangerous he'd be; otherwise no one would've paid attention to him. But like you said, if he was smart, he would've pivoted away from that once he stepped on the national stage in earnest and adopted the 'sane, reasonable alternative to Trump' veneer that myself and others feared the most.

Thankfully, he's quite the opposite of smart. At this point I think he's a true believer of years of Republican propaganda - someone who genuinely believes the 'silent majority' has been waiting for a white savior like him to rise up and lead them towards taking the country back. I doubt he has even an ounce of conniving political savvy, and just got lucky as hell that A) the majority of Floridian voters are, well, Floridians, and B) the pandemic handed him a golden opportunity to paint himself as a big man against those snooty libruls and their public health measures.

Questionmarktarius posted...

The party needs someone like Tim Scott, but amoral.

I love how Tim Scott is open about being an unmarried virgin thinking it will get him votes with the Jesus crowd when the frontrunner could spend 30 minutes straight graphically talking about the sex he had with Stormy Daniels and would be cheered on for it.

Block_that_Kick posted...

I love how Tim Scott is open about being an unmarried virgin thinking it will get him votes with the Jesus crowd when the frontrunner could spend 30 minutes straight graphically talking about the sex he had with Stormy Daniels and would be cheered on for it.

Actually, he's now claiming he's had sex. So now he's a devout Christian who spent most of his life remaining a virgin for his god and yet betrayed his god by sullying his pure body with premarital sex. If only Republican voters condemned instead of rewarded hypocrisy.

Some of the gay progressive pundits I listen to feel like he's just trying to hide a secret love life with men on the side, humorously mentioning how Lindsay Graham, who has had those accusations for years, is also from South Carolina and that it's odd to have two seemingly lifelong bachelors coming from the same state.

I dunno about that, I wouldn't wish Graham and Scott being a part of the gay community considering everything they're going through (and already having Santos to deal with), but then I also don't want them to be a part of the straight community, so what's the right thing to root for here.

masterpug53 posted...

Gotta be honest, I have never been more invested in seeing someone's political aspirations fail than Ron DeSantis. And while I certainly won't count my chickens before they hatch, the past couple of months have been very rewarding.

Same, and I say this as a Floridian. Everyone involved in his campaign is dogshit and I want to see their careers go down in flames.

masterpug53 posted...

just got lucky as hell that A) the majority of Floridian voters are, well, Floridians

to add onto that, many current floridians only moved there during the pandemic when he claimed how it was the most free state in the union since they had no restrictions, so his approval among the rest of the nation is much lower without all of those conservatives to boost it
pretty much every ounce of support he has is from florida

FearlessMango posted...

to add onto that, many current floridians only moved there during the pandemic when he claimed how it was the most free state in the union since they had no restrictions, so his approval among the rest of the nation is much lower without all of those conservatives to boost it
pretty much every ounce of support he has is from florida

I wonder what his approval rating here in Florida is currently. Things are about to get so shitty here with school starting and prices going up everywhere for shit

SimulationSwarm posted...

Same, and I say this as a Floridian. Everyone involved in his campaign is dogshit and I want to see their careers go down in flames.

I'm with you there, bruddah. Living under DeSantis' rule during the pandemic was revelatory; it was the first time in my life I was ever conscious of a politician's grandstanding incompetence directly threatening the health and safety of myself and my family.

SimulationSwarm posted...

I wonder what his approval rating here in Florida is currently. Things are about to get so shitty here with school starting and prices going up everywhere for shit

I can only speak anecdotally, but it fluctuates with the wind. I have relatives who one month claimed he made them ashamed to be Republican, and in another they were fawning over how he'd make such a good POTUS.

Ron probably can't even win Florida in the primary at this point. He'll pull a Giuliani and go for broke.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Trump is so far ahead, that just isn't a "flavor of the week".
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/

Imagine having the far-and-away frontrunner of your presidential election hopefuls be a twice impeached, 4x indicted, traitorous criminal piece of shit liar.

Republicans are punchlines.

His interview with CNN was so abysmal. "We've moved on, Disney should just drop the lawsuit" came across as so pathetic. Much worse than "please clap".

If we had a dozen viable parties like other countries, it might not be so shocking.

But this is the choice that Republicans happily accept.

mybbqrules posted...

Imagine having the far-and-away frontrunner of your presidential election hopefuls be a twice impeached, 4x indicted, traitorous criminal piece of shit liar.

Republicans are punchlines.

And like I said in a different topic, DeSantis and the rest can't do shit to pounce on this - no matter how much they might lie awake at night dreaming about it - because to even have a chance of poaching support from Trump's base, they're forced to spinelessly toe the party line and support the 'political weaponization' narrative. You love to see it.

ClayGuida posted...

His interview with CNN was so abysmal. "We've moved on, Disney should just drop the lawsuit" came across as so pathetic. Much worse than "please clap".

He expects every lever of government to bow to him at whatever agenda he's trying to make on any given day.

Starks posted...

Ron, probably can't even win Florida in the primary at this point. He'll pull a Giuliani and go for broke

I agree, though the polls in Florida have been very odd.

If I was a Florida Republican, I would be kind of pissed at Ron for treating Florida as his safety school. It wasn't a surprise obviously that he decided to run for president, but the classy thing to do would have been not to run for reelection in Florida if the White House was his immediate intention.