Posted on 02/18/2023 10:52:59 AM PST by Macho MAGA Man
While DeSantis has not formally announced a 2024 presidential campaign, he is currently the only potential contender who has numbers even somewhat close to Trump.
There has been speculation, including from the New York Times, that Trump might switch his nickname for the governor from “Ron DeSanctimonious” to “Meatball Ron,” but Trump said that just isn’t true.
“I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will,” Trump wrote in the post. “Even though FoxNews killing lightweight Paul Ryan is revered by him, Low Energy Jeb Bush is his hero and always at his side, his beaches and State were closed for long periods of time, his testing, testing, testing for the China Virus didn’t work out too well, and his loyalty skills are really weak, it would be totally inappropriate to use the word ‘meatball’ as a moniker for Ron!”
In another post, Trump said that it is obvious that DeSantis will try to challenge him in the Republican primary.
“All of the Fake News is reporting that I spend large amounts of my time coming up with a good ‘nickname’ for Ron DeSanctimonious, who is obviously going to give the presidential ‘thing’ a shot,” Trump wrote.
Trump also pointed to the fact that he dominating the polls when it comes to hypothetical primary matchups.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
desantis never announced he’s running for president...
trump obviously has ties with pfizer...
“Trump came out against them,”
And Lost!
Neither one of them is going to save a damn thing. Anyone relying on one man to save us from this worldwide disaster is naive and foolish.
Multiple BTTT
I give you that.
Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney
Trump
Boy, your party isn’t sending their best..
desantis was just sworn in for his second term as florida governor last month (january 2023)...
desantis issued a statement 4 weeks ago instructing people not to donate any money to any organization that claims he’s running for president in 2024...
“Meatball Ron” sounds like an ethnic slur. I hope no one stoops that low.
Robert Morris was a great man, but he didn’t lose his fortune supporting the revolution. He lost it in land speculation well after the revolution. He reminds me of Warren Buffet’s witticism that only the three L’s can ruin a good man: ladies, liquor, or leverage. In Morris’s case it was leverage. Morris also reminds me of P.T. Barnum, who made a fortune on Jenny Lind’s concerts (Hollywood, as usual lied), and then lost everything investing too much in a clock company in Connecticut.
Re: 38 - LOL!
Yes.
Trump took Pfizer money.
Trump gave your money to Pfizer.
It seems as if DeSantis’ own supporters may have minted it for the purpose of putting it in Trump’s mouth and thereby discrediting him.
As such the nickname should be fair game.
DeSanctimonious is itself admittedly stupid too, an adolescent play on “Santis”, sanctify, saint, saint, etc. But DeSantis’ brain trust, finding it couldn’t make a sufficiently silky purse out of that sow’s ear, moved on to create and disseminate the “Meatball Ron” myth.
Funny how everything always seems to work out in a way that favors Trump.
Trump is a complete douche. My mother, my brother, and I all voted for him twice but these attacks on DeSantis have lost him any chance to get a third vote from any of us.
I like his style and his work.
Can you explain why St Ron was meeting with other GOP governors and Albert Bourla?
Ron is a big boy. People here act like he needs protection. LOL I would wager nobody has the guts to ask Ron what that meeting was all about. Easier to ignore it and sweep it under the rug.
I won’t give Trump a pass either on the fake vaxes.
It’s not true that he can’t run as a sitting governor. At a minimum, there is no question he can run as long as he submits an irrevocable resignation that would take effect on the day that he would take office as president if he were to win the election. (i.e. if he loses the presidential race, the resignation would still take effect)
However, that part of the law is murky, because it says that an “officer” of the state who submits such a resignation has to submit it to the Governor with a copy to the State Legislature, and that if a candidate who files for an election fails to submit the required resignation, the Department of State is to transmit that name as an automatic immediate notice of resignation to the Governor. So there’s some thought that it doesn’t apply to the governor since that would mean a governor is required to submit his resignation to himself or to receive notice from an executive branch agency that he has resigned.
At any rate, members of the legislature have already said they are probably going to change this law to allow him to run. Prior to 2018, there was no language that would have prevented it. The “Resign to Run” law that existed in 2018 had these exceptions:
o Candidates for federal office;
o Persons seeking the office of President or Vice President. (ss. 99.012(3)(a), (6), and (7), F.S.)
I’m not sure why they changed it, but I think they should change it back. I think it’s possible they changed it in anticipation of Gillum possibly winning the gubernatorial race in 2018, and then him being selected to run as someone’s VP candidate in 2020.
While he may not have gone completely bankrupt until after the war, he spent the majority of his fortune financing the war, providing the actual weapons of war needed to fight. There was no one paying any taxes at the time so he PERSONALLY funded the war for years. He almost certainly could have been one of our first Presidents had he been interested, although by then he had already lost his status as the richest man in America by far.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/robert-morris-financier-american-revolution
By 1780, the American economy was near default, and the paper money that had been printed, known as Continentals, were worthless due to inflation. Without Congress able to pay for the needs of the war, foreign diplomats had to convince friendly European governments to loan them hard coin and gold.
In 1781, with the situation remaining in peril, Morris began bankrolling the needed supplies of the Continental army on his own.
The American army began receiving the supplies it needed, and for the next three years, Robert Morris personally financed the American Revolution out of his own pocket. “Morris notes” became widely circulated promissory notes within the ranks of the army.
Bourla spoke at an event, I'm guessing? That's hardly a meeting between the two. My guess is they're probably keeping great distances between one another, since DeSantis has empaneled that grand jury in the Florida Supreme Court to investigate Pfizer, don't you?
This is because we’ve been getting emails from the North Carolina Republican Party asking us to donate to support DeSantis for president. I think he became aware of that and he doesn’t want people to get hoodwinked into donating to the wrong place.
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