DeSantis vows to ‘start slitting throats on day one’

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4135422-desantis-vows-to-start-slitting-throats-on-day-one/

Hyperbole is one thing, statements like this are something else altogether.

DeSantis, for President of the United States, directing this language toward folks that serve either as civilians or military within the US DoD:

This language apparently has its appeal to his party's base. Makes for a nice double entendre doesn't it, the base - eager for a very firm, very strong, throat slitting SecDef?

 

Sounds to me like he plans to appoint somebody who has no experience with the DoD. Probably a big donor. Ron is auctioning jobs.

 

Ironic that he’s using “slitting some throats” metaphorically in this statement when in reality he’s completely slitting the throat of his own campaign

 

Desantis wants to be the ultra Trump. I might vote for him if he settled on being the intelligent, well educated Trump without the embarrassing characteristics.

 

DeSantis vows to ‘start slitting throats on day one’

An unfortunate way saying he would fire people. I think it is easy to understand that the words were not to be taken literally. Politics.

 

Is he doing well with the base?

 

It wouldn’t be the first time a secretary of defense had no military background

 

Other politicians have made a call to arms and other outlandish remarks as well. He isn’t the first and he won’t be the last.

 

It is probably better that the position is held by a good manager than by a military career man. The generals can and should deal with the military strategy. The secretary's role is to see that the president's orders for the military are implemented and to manage the department.

 

Does anybody really care what the now "second-loser" to Trump has to say? DeSaster has already self-imploded his campaign six ways to Sunday, as well as any future position in political office.

 

Ron! is doing whatever his rich donors tell him to do.

 

He's already slit the throat of his own campaign multiple times... At this point, it's continuing to slit the throat of a dead horse. Ron! no longer has any political future. Lefties hate him, and now MAGA hates him (maybe even more atm than lefties do). All he has left now are establishment "professional Republicans".

 

He was being falsely advertised as "Trump without the baggage" in order to fool MAGA. It didn't work. It's now very clear who he represents and takes his orders from (professional Republicans and their donors). Meanwhile, Trump continues to represent We The People.

I'll take Trump, embarrassing characteristics and all, above any bought and paid for hack, whether than be a hack with a D after his name or a hack with an R after his name.

 

Right. It's a stupid way to say that he would fire people... but he wouldn't actually fire them because the rich professionally Republican donors who he takes his orders from wouldn't approve of it.

 

No, he's not. He's managed to get MAGA to mostly despise him after riding their support to a 20 point victory for "Governor" (quotes because he never intended to actively serve a second term as governor). Ergo, MAGA is now pissed off at him for being a backstabber.

 

How do you know that?

 

How do I know what?

 

"but he wouldn't actually fire them because the rich professionally Republican donors who he takes his orders from wouldn't approve of it."

 

DeSantis wouldn't actually fire them because he takes his orders from his managers and rich donors, and those people want the corrupt status quo to remain in place.

I also know that he wouldn't do so because during the debate, when the candidates were asked about whether they'd support Trump if he were convicted, DeSantis spent what felt like forever looking around the room to see what the other candidates were doing before finally tepidly raising his hand. That's a beta, not an alpha. Ramaswamy, on the other hand, immediately and proudly raised his hand.

I also know because of how corrupt, dishonest, and inauthentic DeSantis's entire campaign (from his social media influencers to his managers to himself) has been from the very beginning.

 

so DeSantis wants to fire people that were in the military on day one

 

Of course he is. Isn't like he has a choice. He is broke.

 

He's not really very smart, now is he.

A perfect fit for the MAGA people thingy, I would say.

Which is very good news for the vast majority of Americans who actually possess some decency and common sense.

 

I don't see very good news in any of this. There are several positions that I agree with that are now held hostage by these dickheads.

 

And there lies the rub:

I have no problem in the world with other people having even completely diametrically opposing views to my views, as long as they do no harm to me or others and I would expect that my view will neither do them nor others any harm.

However, we are seeing the most childish clown-car of GOP candidates I have ever seen and I will postulate that a REAL Conservative must ask himself if those people are really representing their views, or not. And that says something, because in 2012 it was also a clown-car. Remember Mr. "Moonbase in my second term" Newt Gingrich? Or "I don't trust the blaa.....s" Rick Santorum??

Just one example:

Trump enacted taritfs. That was NEVER a Conservative view, ever. That was a Progressive view. See: Teddy Roosevelt.

Trump also added 8 trillion to the debt and never even took the time to address the nation about it. Not even once.

Adding 25% to the national debt is surely not a Conservative issue.

And then there's the abortion issue.

Small towns in Texas want to forbid women from using roads and freeways to leave the state in order to get an abortion elsewhere and plan to punish them with roadside stops and perhaps even pregnancy tests on the side of the road. This is about as clear a violation of the interstate commerce clause (as well as a number of amendments) as anyone can see, clearly NOT a Conservative position.

And worse yet, most of those candidates (excluding Chris Christie and Asa Hutchinson) are doubling down on the double-down, trying to out-Trump Trump, as if that is going to win them Trumpy-votes. It won't. Trump has successfully built a cult of Trump worshippers who will ONLY vote for him. They will vote for him if he is in jail, on a a hospital bed, or even were he to die (which no one wishes anyone, just to be absolutely clear). Trumpys are not going to vote for liar Raswamy or Mr. Fake Smile De Santis or possible closet case Scott.

Trump has snookered the batshit crazy, end-times loving. grifting, snake-oil selling Evangelical elites into thinking he is a Christian (he clearly is not), and piggybacked onto their movement until he got to a place where he could take them hostage, which he of course did. Remember Jerry Fallwell Jr, who hated Trump but suddenly loved him after Michael Cohen visited him and showed him the pics Trump had of Fallwell watching the pool-boy **** his wife like a dirty rag while Fallwell Jr. whacked off to it??? Yeah, just gotta love those Evangelical family values. LOL.

The good news is that the Republican Party is quite obviously shrinking, which means that when polls are saying that 80% of "Republicans" support Trump, we are talking about 80% of maybe 26% (at best), and not 80% of 37% of the electorate, which means that his true worshippers are by far in the minority, which means that the VAST majority of our great Republic, Liberals, Moderate and Conservatives alike, are clearly fed up with this **** and just want to get the 2024 election over with.

And then there is the final issue of abortion, which I tipped on vis-a-vis Texas.

Women.

Women will save America.

With the undoing or Roe-v-Wade via the Supreme Court and the many draconian restrictions being placed on women by state legislatures where men are the majority in said legislatures, women are going to show up at the ballot box in 2024 and let the world know what they think of this. The Roe decision awakened a sleeping giant, the proportions of which not even one of us can begin to guage.

And if that's not incentive enough, then there are all the dead schoolchildren from mass-shootings at the hand of extremists. Hell, even in Tennessee, REPUBLICAN women are turning against the TN House for what it did, or better put, what it it did not do. And those women are going to vote in 2024.

It's going to be an electoral bloodbath. Biden is going to make a play for TX, AL, SC, UT and KS on top of the usual candidates. He is likely to pick up NC as of right now.