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Failure to Launch – Elon Musk’s Twitter Spaces Fails for Ron DeSantis
The Conservative Treehouse - The Last Refuge ^ | May 24, 2023 | Sundance

Posted on 05/24/2023 6:14:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Despite previously having no issues with 3.3 million listeners for a Twitter Spaces event with BBC, it only took a few hundred thousand listeners for the collaboration between Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk to end in abject failure.

The goal was for DeSantis to use the edgy and cool Twitter Spaces tech to launch his campaign. The outcome was an embarrassing display of a billionaire funded national campaign trying too hard to launch a candidacy built on transparent fraud and political pretense.  The memes coming from the disastrous event are hilarious, and very fitting.

Fox News – Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement was mired by repeated technical glitches on Twitter Wednesday evening, in a black eye for the social media platform.

The highly-anticipated announcement, set to be made via a conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk and tech entrepreneur David Sacks on Twitter’s “Spaces” feature, was delayed as it appeared the platform was overwhelmed. Twitter’s mobile app repeatedly crashed and users complained that they were unable to hear the broadcast.

Nearly 700,000 users logged in to hear the announcement roughly 20 minutes after it was launched. The event was then abruptly shut down without explanation.  […] Twitter users pummeled Musk over the botched rollout, and Democrats were quick to capitalize. (read more)

WASHINGTON DC – […]  The spectacle represented a major embarrassment for both DeSantis and Elon Musk, Twitter’s relatively new owner, one that could haunt the former as he embarks on a bid to win the GOP’s nomination and the latter as he tries to position himself as a political kingmaker in the new media landscape.

DeSantis was slated to do additional interviews on more traditional mediums Wednesday night, where he will likely face questions about his launch...

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1 posted on 05/24/2023 6:14:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

On Truthsocial, the launch has been called both Yawn DeSantis and DeSaster


2 posted on 05/24/2023 6:18:55 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In-house sabotage?


3 posted on 05/24/2023 6:19:55 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

RdS X blows up on the launch pad?


4 posted on 05/24/2023 6:24:50 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Everything Karl Rove touches turns to sh!t.


5 posted on 05/24/2023 6:25:06 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.y )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DeSantis peaked when he joined Trump in opposing World War 3. Then he received orders to flip, and 3 days later he flipped to the pro-war side. Since then it’s been a straight-down path.

Very sad, and at a minimum he needs to sue his handlers for destroying his political career, as his performance in Florida would have been a great jumping off point...but only when the time was right, and when he was ready.


6 posted on 05/24/2023 6:26:04 PM PDT by BobL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DeSantis is a McCain Republican.
All you need to know.


7 posted on 05/24/2023 6:29:33 PM PDT by JustaTech (My mind is the weapon. Everything else is tools.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Schadenfreude


8 posted on 05/24/2023 6:29:44 PM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DeSantis is backed by the RINOS, globalists, et al.

Here’s the TRUTH about Ron DeSantis’ Presidential Bid!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT-mvXwUqbY&ab_channel=Dr.SteveTurley


9 posted on 05/24/2023 6:34:46 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump response - Language Alert

Trump just posted this on Instagram I’m losing my mind pic.twitter.com/LB8LSs8VIV— 𝐄𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚 (@EudaimoniaEsq) May 25, 2023


10 posted on 05/24/2023 6:37:47 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ Free kiryandil )
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To: BobL

That is a lie. He did not support the war, he basicly said that it is not worth our time.


11 posted on 05/24/2023 6:44:02 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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He did not support the war, he basicly said that it is not worth our time.

DeSantis said that again tonight on Fox News, that he didn't think we should be hung up in a war between Ukraine and Russia.

12 posted on 05/24/2023 6:47:29 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Florida is where WOKE goes to DIE!)
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To: cowboyusa

“That is a lie. He did not support the war, he basicly said that it is not worth our time.”

He was on BOTH SIDES of that issue, so we’re both right.

Anyway, he’s well on his way to joining the single-digit pack, so I don’t need to get spun up on him.


13 posted on 05/24/2023 6:47:52 PM PDT by BobL
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If you’re talking about Ukraine, Trump also flipped. He sent aid at first and then reversed.


14 posted on 05/24/2023 6:48:34 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Twitter’s “Spaces” feature, was delayed as it appeared the platform was overwhelmed.

If Trump's re-appearance on Twitter had caused it to overload for a few minutes, we'd never hear the end of how powerful a force that proves him to be.

15 posted on 05/24/2023 6:49:25 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Florida is where WOKE goes to DIE!)
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Great


16 posted on 05/24/2023 6:49:54 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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To: skr

“If you’re talking about Ukraine, Trump also flipped. He sent aid at first and then reversed.”

Yep, he made the mistake of trusting the Hate-Filled Ukrainians infesting the State Department.

However, Trump has NEVER supported this war and wants it to end, unlike, literally every other Republican, starting with Ted Cruz.


17 posted on 05/24/2023 7:01:39 PM PDT by BobL
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To: cowboyusa

His ending the war platform is mealy mouthed equivocations.
This is how you make a position 100% clear. An IMMEDIATE end to the killing, the waste of hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars, the incredibly dangerous WWIII saber rattling and the DC Uniparty Uke corruption machine.

“Every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues, we risk global war,” President Trump said in his latest “Agenda 47” campaign video.

“Our foreign policy establishment keeps trying to pull the world into conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia based on the lie that Russia represents our greatest threat. But the greatest threat to Western Civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, U.S.A.-hating people that represent us,” Trump said.

“These globalists want to squander all of America’s strength, blood, and treasure, chasing monsters and phantoms overseas—while keeping us distracted from the havoc they’re creating right here at home,” Trump said.

“Evicting the sick and corrupt establishment is the monumental task for the next president. And I’m the only one who can do it.”
DJT 3/16/23

Trump gives the warmongering neocon unipartyists their walking papers, RdS walks a mile for their cash.


18 posted on 05/24/2023 7:04:32 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Keep it up with the Rinos Ron and you not only won’t be pres, you won’t be a governor a second term.

Get
A
Clue

Your new friends,,,, aren’t.

They will spit you out like bad phlegm as soon as they’re done useing you.


19 posted on 05/24/2023 7:06:25 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: hardspunned

Ok, 1. Putin started it. 2. Ukraine should not get 1 cent. 3. They should come to the table.


20 posted on 05/24/2023 7:08:07 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM!)
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