Posted on 02/05/2023 8:59:57 AM PST by SoConPubbie
“He’s Donald Trump without the baggage!” has become the rallying cry of a cadre of conservative social media “influencers” and political hacks, who have spent the last six years building their large online followings, selling merchandise, becoming e-celebrities, all while pocketing boatloads of cash off of attaching themselves to President Trump’s name and MAGA/ America First branding.
However, in a major plot twist, many of these same individuals are now dedicating their time and resources to destroying the greatest President in modern history ahead of the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary, with hopes of killing off President Trump’s 2024 campaign with propaganda and scripted and coordinated social media posts for their new Lord and Savior, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
But, it doesn’t take a stable genius to realize the hype surrounding “DeSantis 2024”, and the sudden anti-Trump narratives that are being pushed by Conservative Inc. (CON-INC) is a coordinated attack that is being funded by the GOP establishment, the bloated Military Industrial Complex, and our nation’s most notorious NeoCons.
All you have to do is look at the people coalescing around DeSantis in his disgraceful act of betrayal toward President Trump, the man he owes his entire political career to. Take for example Ron DeSantis’s billionaire sugar daddy, Ken Griffin, who said he is ready to back Ron DeSantis for President in 2024, and called President Trump “a three time loser”. Griffin, who is the head of Citadel, donated $1 million to the Obama Foundation in 2017, and in 2020, he wrote a $500,000 check to Joe Biden’s inaugural committee, despite evidence that has shown massive fraud in the 2020 Presidential election (voter fraud, which DeSantis has completely refused to acknowledge or admit).
However, one of the most telling alliances Ron DeSantis has formed, which highlights the fact that he is thorough and through a member of the GOP Establishment, is NeoCon-warmonger, former Ambassador John Bolton.
Bolton has yet to find a war he hasn’t liked, and he has emerged as one of the top cheerleaders for Governor DeSantis, who only escaped from the pits of political obscurity in 2018 during his nearly failed Gubernatorial campaign by painting himself as a “pitbull Trump defender.” It is important to remember that then candidate Ron DeSantis only won the Florida Gubernatorial election by less than one percentage point, and would have lost to Democrat Andrew Gillum if it wasn’t for Donald Trump graciously endorsing DeSantis, who was nothing more than a no-name Florida Congressman in 2018.
While it is true that President Trump hired Bolton during his first term as President to serve as his National Security advisor, President Trump fired Bolton in 2019 after the two had disputes over foreign policy decisions regarding Iran, North Korea, and Afghanistan. On September 10, 2019, President Trump tweeted that he had fired John Bolton, which Bolton profusely denied, claiming that he offered his resignation to President Trump on his own accord.
Although Bolton has faded into a state of irrelevancy since he was fired by President Trump, he made waves on Thursday by bashing his former boss on national television, declaring: “Trump’s 2024 campaign is poison to the GOP.”
Naturally, Trump hit back on Truth Social with a brutal rebuke:
Just a few months ago, in one of Bolton’s many attacks on Trump, he took things a step further and seemed to give a tacit endorsement of Ron DeSantis challenging President Trump in 2024 for the GOP Presidential nomination.
“[DeSantis has] had a very successful run as Governor of Florida. He won re-election on Nov. 8 with a big majority. A lot of people look to him as the next generation candidate,” Bolton said, according to The Guardian. “That’s one of Trump’s biggest problems – his act is old and tired now.”
It is ironic, but unsurprising that the Left is taking a victory lap with the warmonger’s comments, considering just a few years ago, these same Leftists were correctly attacking Bolton for the blood he has happily acquired on his hands for decades, by serving as a cheerleader for endless wars abroad, particularly wars in the Middle East, including the Iraq War.
On July 12, 2022, during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Bolton admitted on live television that he has helped orchestrate coups in foreign countries. He continued to berate Trump on CNN, saying that Trump is not competent enough to “orchestrate and pull off a carefully planned coup d’etat…”
In other words, Bolton thinks Ron DeSantis is much more fit for violating international law than President Donald Trump, who has been very vocal about being anti-war, and has publicly condemned the Iraq War. In 2008, Donald Trump said George W. Bush should be impeached for lying about alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), claims that catapulted the United States into the Iraq War.
In 2016 while campaigning for the Presidency during the highly confrontational GOP Presidential primary season, President Trump directly confronted GOP establishment darling Jeb Bush, the brother of George W. Bush, about the Iraq War, calling it “a disaster”.
Donald Trump on Bolton April 9, 2018
john loves his 15 minutes of fame and nothing else- he is a glory hound- who was butt-hurt because Trump didn’t elevate him to higher power-
I’m going to bath in the insults and sh*t I’ll take from all the DeSantis fanbois on here. I look forward to it.
Side note...I do think he’s doing a good job in Florida. He’s doing the things that all of us, who live in other states with Republican Legislatures, SOSs, AG, Lt Gov, Governors, wish our elected rep’s would do. You know, the things they all promised they would do, but don’t, because they’re too busy being bribed and coddled by developers and big business while selling out the people.
Anywho....DeSantis won a resounding race, against an absolute nightmare of a candidate in Crist. I think there’s a fair amount of things that DeSantis has done, especially in regards to covid, that is being overlooked or ignored. Thankfully, he’s got a great doctor working for the state that appears to be setting stuff straight and giving him some great advise and counsel. Unlike the lies and fabrications that were being fed to Pres Trump, by Birx’s own admission.
However, it sure is nice to know that of the 1,000,000 people that moved into your state and registered to vote. 887,000 of them are Republican voters. If that many Republicans moved to Penn, Mich, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, NJ, Maryland, Virginia, and most other states other than California or NY, there would probably be Republican Governors and legislatures all over the place.
Exclusive — Vice Chair of FL GOP Christian Ziegler: Only 17,000 of the Net 1 Million Moving to the State Registered Democrat ....
When your team is stacked, it’s stacked. And those 887,000 are also ensuring that the state legislature, county commissions, city councils, school boards, zoning boards, Sheriffs, Coroners and damn near any other elected position are REPUBLICAN.
All that being said, if Bolton, Ryan, Wall St, Hedge Fund Managers, Bush, Boehner, etc are supporting someone, I think there might be something there. Just sayin’
[However, it sure is nice to know that of the 1,000,000 people that moved into your state ]
And WHY do you think they all moved here??
Unfortunately DeSantis had an appallingly neocon, pro-war record in Congress.
Which is more reason to keep him at the state level, where he’s been great for FL.
I think we need to think beyond the Trump-DeSantis dialectic for 2024. If only there were more and better options...
Let’s see…..let’s say that 5% of them from NY
1. Better weather
2. No state income tax
3. A supportive environment across the board
4. Law and order sheriff and police departments.
5. Better business environments for companies to move to
6. Lower property taxes than what they were paying in NY
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THISE THINGS BEING IN PLACE BEFORE DESANTIS WAS ELECTED.
But of course, he spreads his Ron Fairy Dust and everyone forgets about that
actually, desantis is stopping the fairies from spreading their dust and indoctrination of florida’s citizens children...
do your homework...
I’m not talking about those fairies.
I’m talking about his special dust that turns makes all of you drooling FanBois.
But, that is a perfect example of him doing something rather simple…..WITH THE HELP OF A LEGISLATURE THAT SUPPORTS THESE INITIATIVES AND ALSO BRINGS HIM BILLS…..that not many other Republican Governors do.
Every Republican Governor and Legislature should be doing what he’s doing. But most of them are RINO hacks.
appreciating the job my governor is doing doesn’t make me a “fanboy”...
you sound jealous...
you sound jealous....
To some extent I am. No problem admitting that. DeSantis has done some good things. Things I wish my Governor and Legislature has done.
But, I have Kemp. Kemp didn’t win the election, the powers that be allowed him to keep him position. Why? Because the Hollywood, EV, Leftists that now control the Governors, SOS and AG offices know that with Kemp, Raffensberger and Carr there, they can get what they want.
Georgia also has a majority Republican legislature. If Abrams had won, which she could have done easily just like Warnock did, she would have to fight tooth & nail for everything.
With Kemp in office, the legislature will go along with everything he wants.
Lots of folks on here that live in Georgia. Some come after me because I say that Kemp is a POS.
Well, I doubt any of them live anywhere near an EV company that has ZERO market share, for a plant that might make trucks that no one buys, that promised 7500 jobs at the plant itself(Kia makes 350k cars a year in West Point, Ga-has a sizable market share-employs 2700) and an additional 7500 jobs for whatever, is getting $1,500,000,000 in tax breaks-some of which are being kept from the public, and is destroying 2000acres of farm land when it could have been built somewhere else, closer to a highway.
That’s just one example of all the crap Kemp’s Puppet Masters are shoving down our throats and this isn’t about Georgia, Kemp or them.
So, YES, 100% I’m jealous that your Governor doesn’t have puppet masters telling him how to destroy Florida.
However, he does have puppet masters....Griffin, Koch, Ryan, Boehner, Bush, Chamber of Commerce, Wall St, Hedge Funds....they just don’t need their IOUs cashed in yet.
desantis ran for reelection for florida governor last year (2022)...
his opponent was “globalist” charlie crist...
desantis needed big money donors to combat and win against big money backed “globalist” charlie crist...
desantis’s putting florida first, its citizens first, and florida’s citizens children first prove he’s an “anti-globalist” and doesn’t have the puppet masters you’re leading people to believe...
Fight the urge to troll.
Here’s a short list of folks that are pushing him to run:
Ryan, Bush, griffin, Koch, Boehner, Wall St
Which of those are not globalists?
You can add the Club For Growth to that list as well.
let’s have a contest...
you compare your governor against mine...
you win the kickoff... 😁
Anyone associated with Bolton is a problem. That guy would start WW-III if Biden doesn’t.
I agree. I just hope Ron is smart enough to see that.
you seem to understand ...
he is ...
Some of the people who are supporting DeSantis are doing so because they don’t want Trump.
Other people, including myself, are supporting DeSantis because he would be a great President.
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