Watch How Much Ron DeSantis Has Copied Donald Trump

WOR 710 ^ | May 25, 2023 | Mark Simone

[grimalkin]

LMAO. What is this? Are we now playing Proles vs. Bourgeoisie? Liberals love this kind of claptrap. Because his dad installed TV boxes, he's the working-class messiah? Give me a break.

Seriously though. Trump has been through the wringer for no personal benefit. At all. Nothing is hidden, which is why it's easy to criticize him. With RDS, I see a crafted construct. A faker.

[V K Lee]

TPTB have totally diminished the perception WTP had
of our President and our nation. Present
circumstances have tragically altered all we
considered true and honest.
Satisfaction would be the election of a President
who actually told truth when claiming to love this
nation as it was founded those many years ago,
rather than attempt to cheat, and exhort the country
of its people and wealth.
Show us a man who loves this nation as much as
he loves himself, his family;
one with the will power and ability to get the job done.

[grimalkin]

Unfortunately, Trump will continue his scorched earth approach and destroy the party if we’re not careful.

The "party" flatlined long ago.

[Zhang Fei]

[Trump has been through the wringer for no personal benefit.]

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He got to be the closest thing you can get to being a king in America. Bloomberg spent almost $1b for a shot at the White House. Other billionaires would spend the same if they knew for sure they would win. The reality is that it’s a long shot. That Trump took it means he’s a degenerate gambler, something that comes out in many of his failed ventures. But idea that he’s this selfless guy for becoming President - you must be joking. There isn’t a man - or woman - in the entire world who would turn the job down.

[Zhang Fei]

[[Trump has been through the wringer for no personal benefit.]

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You’re not a dumb guy. The fact is, though, when Trump talks, it flips a switch in a select number of people. It causes them to turn their brains off.

[grimalkin]

There isn’t a man - or woman - in the entire world who would turn the job down.

Do you truly believe that? I feel sorry for you.

[Zhang Fei]

[Do you truly believe that? I feel sorry for you. ]

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So everyone else does it for the power and the glory, but Trump does it because he is duty and honor personified? Gee - have I mentioned this wonderful business opportunity in crypto currency? This pans out - you’ll never have to work another day.

[jmacusa]

AOC is currently 33 years old. One only needs to be 35 to be elected president of the US. Think about that.

[Cobra64]

Ummm… I know my civics, and I also know that Trump has more than a dozen properties he could move to. My wife and I have lived in nine different states, so we know how to move. Ever stay in a Trump hotel? Try the one in Chicago… right on the river.

[skr]

Ahhh, okay, thank you for the clarification. However, one can only make so many hand gestures. I don’t think Trump’s are unique to mankind, and I highly doubt that DeSantis is deliberately copying them. It’s just petty fault-fishing.

[dforest]

Ahh, I am not so sure of that. Keep in mind they are trying to sell him as Trump without being Trump. I can see that kind of happening.

[Fresh Wind]

I want to see DeSantis copy Trump by announcing a rally a couple of days in advance and draw in 10,000 to 20,000 people who are willing to wait hours in line to get in.

[poconopundit]

That's beautifully stated, V K.  Your comments raise the primary race debate to a higher level...

Show us a man who loves this nation as much as he loves himself, his family; one with the will power and ability to get the job done.

Amen to that. And yet people mistake the notion of self-love.  In a man like Trump, pride in his own work is raised to the point where every project he touches has the "Trump" signature, logo, or personal reputation attached to it.

"In archery we have something like the way of the superior man..  When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself."
Confucius

Jesus had no qualms with merchants..  Seeing the Roman coin, he said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's", but he drew a line when merchants and money-changers set up shop in God's temple..  He threw them out. And he probably shouted a few imsulting tweets at them, too!

Ralph Waldo Emerson had some things to say in his essay on Heroism:

"Our culture must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into a state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but be warned and self-collected.

And neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behavior.

We give this military attitude of the soul the name of Heroism..  Its rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease, which makes the attractiveness of war.

It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advances to his own music.

There is something not philosophical in heroism; there is something not holy in it; it seems not to know that other souls are of one texture with it; it has pride; it is the extreme of individual nature..  Nevertheless, we must profoundly revere it."

[DoughtyOne]

It was my take, that Florida was much too important to have
DeSantis take the VP slot.

I say this because, if Trump wins with another VP candidate,
Florida has both Trump and DeSantis to care for it. If Trump
had another person on the ticket, at least DeSantis could defend
Florida. If DeSantis joins the ticket and they lose, Florida
would have neither of them left to defend it.

After DeSantis leaves the governor’s position, he can run
in 2028, and he would not be able to help Florida from the
state house anyway.

[DoughtyOne]

Whenever I hear folks say that, I suggest they read up on
his accomplishments again. If they are honest in their
desire to help this nation, I think they’ll find value in it.

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/trump-administration-accomplishments/

We are showered with negatives about Trump, and they know
right where to hit us. Yeah, sure, Trump isn’t perfect.
I agree with that, but when I look back at others who have
been on our side, and how much they did that pleased us,
I have to admit that Trump stayed far truer to his promises
than just about any of them.

So yes, I’ll take Trump over any of them.

If it’s another GOPe, RNC, good ole boy that goes along to
get along, I’ll be in the Trump camp ever time.