A New Politics Thread

SD · March 30, 2023, 02:06:48 PM

Quote from: Rome on March 30, 2023, 01:45:45 PM
No one noticed. That's the headline. That's how incompetent DeSantis and his band of fargwits are.

Disney did a masterful job of laying low and acting like they'd comply with everything. The new agreement was mentioned briefly during a public meeting...just not enough to draw attention. Desantis is now getting his ass kicked by Trump and Mickey Mouse. What an embarrassment

ice grillin you · March 30, 2023, 02:24:10 PM

Quote from: Rome on March 30, 2023, 01:45:45 PM
No one noticed. That's the headline. That's how incompetent DeSantis and his band of fargwits are.

almost more than incompetence is they just dont care what they claim to believe in....im not saying that there are not homo or transphobes or racists in his admin but for the most part those are nothing more than bloodlust low hanging fruit issues for his voters...desantis wants to look like hes fighting for his people far more than he actually believes in whats hes doing and because of not truly being invested in what you are doing you are going to overlook regular shtein much less something like what disney did...

to desantis it was the over arching fight against disney and gayness becoming public that mattered....so once it was ringing out that he was going after the "woke" corporation he didnt much care what came after

MDS · March 30, 2023, 02:50:22 PM

pretty much

its really all performance art for the base...you dont actually have to do anything or believe in the things that you say, even. and the entire right wing world is in such a homogeneous echo chamber that this bit of information wont even make its way to people. fox, newsmax, oan, libs of tiktok, etc. wont touch it so the base wont see it. right wing pols know this so they are free to be as empty and useless as possible so long as they say what the mouth breathers like.

SD · March 30, 2023, 05:46:51 PM

Trump Indicted by grand jury

Rome · March 30, 2023, 05:58:31 PM

Criminal indictments are nasty business. They're not indicting him unless the evidence is overwhelming and ironclad.

He'll still skate, though. It only takes one to hang a jury.

PhillyPhreak54 · March 30, 2023, 10:37:00 PM

I'm sure that it's being spun by fox as something good for him and no big deal

MDS · March 30, 2023, 11:13:46 PM

theyre inciting another riot and claiming its political persecution...glenn beck put a maga hat on in the middle of his tucker spot. nobody is jumping off.

lets goooo burn it down maga chuds burn it all down

PhillyPhreak54 · March 30, 2023, 11:29:35 PM

I saw a clip of that stooge Dan Bongino crying on FOX

hunt · March 31, 2023, 09:09:15 AM

the fact that everyone is saying this will help him in the primaries tells you all you need to know about the repug party.

Diomedes · March 31, 2023, 09:45:22 AM

I don't buy it. His political career is over. Trump 2.0 out of Florida is next for the American Taliban.

ice grillin you · March 31, 2023, 10:11:08 AM

this is all a waste until hes indicted for jan 6 or even more so for the georgia election shtein....that stuff is treason as far as im concerned

MDS · March 31, 2023, 11:35:41 AM

Quote from: Diomedes on March 31, 2023, 09:45:22 AM
I don't buy it. His political career is over. Trump 2.0 out of Florida is next for the American Taliban.

if hes not charged in the j6 or georgia stuff, which are more serious offenses, i wonder how long the process will actually take for him to be convicted of a crime in ny

up until that point he can run for president, no? less than a year from now he will have the nomination wrapped up and theres no shot hes found guilty in less than a year. and even if hes guilty cant he still be on the ballot. some real fun constitutional crisis going on here.

General_Failure · March 31, 2023, 12:02:07 PM

There comes a point when you have to wonder if the FBI is even worth keeping anymore if this guy hasn't died from "natural causes" yet.

Diomedes · March 31, 2023, 03:10:23 PM

To be clear, I'm not saying that I think this indictment is the blow that finally kills his political career.

I think his time is up. He's lost the juice. His supporters are looking elsewhere. January 6th hurt him, as will this indictment, and whatever follows around his efforts in Georgia. But regardless how any of them turn out, I think DeSantis has the momentum and is likely the future of the Republican party.

General_Failure · March 31, 2023, 05:57:07 PM

That may be, but he's shown a willingness to drag everyone down with him if he doesn't get his way. He would happily split the vote and run as a third party candidate if the Republicans won't step in line, but Republicans are more than willing to step in line no matter how stupid it would be, so long as they keep getting elected for doing it.