It's official - Ron DeSantis announces his bid for the 2024 Presidential Election

It's official as of today. DeSantis is in the GOP race for the presidential nomination.

Have a listen. "Our great American Comeback"
Ron DeSantis on Twitter: "I’m running for president to lead our Great American Comeback. https://t.co/YmkWkLaVDg" / Twitter

 

I found his comment “The President flounders” very interesting while listening to Ron DeSantis “Our Great America Comeback” announcement.

Made me think of the word flounder and it’s connection to the flounder fish.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/flounder

“A flounder is a flat fish with both eyes on one side of its head; and, as a verb, to flounder is to wobble around like a fish out of water.”

“To flounder is to be unsteady or uncertain. It's probably from the Dutch word flodderen, "to flop about," or it's a mix of founder ("to fail") and blunder ("do something clumsy"). If you flounder in the ocean, you need a surfer dude to scoop you up. You don't have to be in water, though; you can flounder any time you're a little wobbly — like after a long hike or during the last hour of the SATs. Either way, when you flounder, you wish you were a flat fish at the bottom of the sea.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flounder

“Larval flounder are born with one eye on each side of their head, but as they grow from the larval to juvenile stage through metamorphosis, one eye migrates to the other side of the body. As a result, both eyes are then on the side which faces up. The side to which the eyes migrate is dependent on the species type. As an adult, a flounder changes its habits and camouflages itself by lying on the bottom of the ocean floor as protection against predators.”

“Flounders ambush their prey, feeding at soft muddy areas of the sea bottom, near bridge piles, docks, and coral reefs.”

“A flounder's diet consists mainly of fish spawn, crustaceans, polychaetes and small fish.”

I find the pic of… “A flounder blending into its environment” very interesting. Reminded me of the days of basement Hidin’ Biden while running for President of The United States of America.

 

Lol
Just heard DeSantis say that our Flounder, (he called him our president) takes his cues from the woke mob.
Biden the Puppet Flounder.

 

At the Biden Puppet Flounder!!! Our President taking his cues from the woke mob is not a laughing matter it’s a disaster!

 

Founder or Flounder - you make the call. <-- link

 

Thanks for the link!

My call is to try and use both words to America’s advantage in the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election!

Our Fishy Flounder President who takes his cues from the woke mob will experience a “Major Political Founder” by failing miserably to win in 2024.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/founder
“Founder is also a verb meaning "fail miserably”

 

While he is more qualified, both in terms of experience and personality, to be president than Donald Trump ever was or will be, they are still cut from the same cloth and still rely purely on culture wars for attention. To be fair, that's all the other side has to offer too.

This is going to be a sad sad election in 2024.

 

Biden is a puppet that is controlled by the woke mob. "Taking cues" has nothing to do with it.

During one of Biden's rare lucid moments, he admitted that he's "taking orders" as president.

 

Yeah, that trend started right after he took office when dealing with the press.
On many occasions, he indicates he is not his own man.

"I’m not supposed to take any questions"

"Ladies and gentlemen, they gave me a list here," Biden said.

"The first person I was instructed to call on was Kelly O'Donnell from NBC."

"I’ll take your questions, and as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I’m going to call on," Biden told the press.

"I’m going to get in trouble"

I’m sorry, I’m going to get in trouble with staff if I don’t do this the right way,"

"This is the last question I'll take, and I'm really gonna be in trouble."

Truly, I wonder if Biden voters know or even care if they're voting for a bunch of unelected bureaucrats who are calling the shots.


Source for quotes above: Biden Repeatedly Suggests He's Taking Orders from ‘Them’ | Neon Nettle

 

Wish him well, by far the strongest candidate for both sides.

 

Announcement from Home | Ron DeSantis for President

I am running for President of the United States because I want to lead Our Great American Comeback.

Our country is going in the wrong direction. We see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones.

• Our southern border has collapsed and drugs are pouring into our country, killing tens of thousands of our fellow Americans
  
• Our cities are being hollowed out by spiking crime -- the result of weak, ideologically-driven policies
  
• Our federal government is making it harder for the average family to make ends meet and to attain and maintain a middle class lifestyle
  
• Our president lacks vigor, flounders in the face of our nation's challenges, and takes his cues from the woke mob
  

But it doesn't have to be this way.

American decline is not inevitable -- it is a choice. We should choose a new direction -- a path that will lead to American revitalization.

We must restore sanity to our nation.

• This means embracing Fiscal and economic sanity ... stop pricing hard-working Americans out of a good standard of living through inflationary borrow, print and spend policies. And embrace American energy independence.
  
• This also means Replacing the woke mind virus with reality, facts, and enduring principles. Merit must trump identity politics.
  

We must return normalcy to our communities.

• America is a sovereign country and our borders must be respected: we cannot have foreigners pouring into our country illegally by the millions, and we cannot allow drug cartels to poison our population with fentanyl.
  
• The public deserves safe communities and law and order must be maintained. We cannot permit the inmates to run the asylum -- and we must reject attacks on the men and women of law enforcement.
  

We must reestablish integrity in our institutions.

• This includes our military. US Navy and Iraq veteran. When revered institutions like our own military are more concerned with matters not central to the mission -- from global warming to gender ideology and pronouns, morale declines and recruiting suffers. We need to eliminate these distractions and get focused on the core mission.
  
• We cannot have true constitutional government if the most significant issues are decided by the whims of unelected bureaucrats, rather than the people's elected representatives. Reestablishing integrity to our institutions means we must reinvigorate our constitutional system by returning the government to its rightful owners: we the people. No social or economic transformation without representation.
  

Truth must be our foundation -- and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue.

In Florida, we proved that it could be done.

We chose facts over fear.

We chose Education over indoctrination.

We chose Law and order over rioting and disorder.

We held the line when freedom hung in the balance.

Florida is now thriving as a result -- the fastest growing state, #1 in net in-migration, #1 in new business formations, #1 in education, 50 year low crime rate, and one of the lowest tax and debt per capita rates in America.

Governing is not entertainment. Its not about building a brand or virtue signaling on social media. It is about results. Our results in Florida have been second to none.

We can and we must deliver big results for America.

I pledge to be an energetic executive that will take on the important issues head on:

• Biden has pursued inflationary policies that are hurting working people; we will reverse those policies and build an economy where working Americans can achieve a good standard of living.
  
• Biden has opened the southern border and allowed massive amounts of drugs to pour into the country; we will shut down the border, construct a border wall, and hold the drug cartels accountable.
  
• Biden has embraced medical authoritarianism, such as unconstitutional covid vax mandates; we will ensure that those violations of liberty can never happen again.
  
• Biden has allowed woke ideology to drive his agenda. We will never surrender to the woke mob and we will leave woke ideology in the dustbin of history.
  
• Biden has politicized the military and caused recruiting to plummet. We will eliminate ideological agendas from the military, focus on the military's core mission, and reverse the poor recruiting trends.
  
• Biden has weaponized the power of the administrative state to advance his left-wing agenda. We will re-constitutionalize the executive branch and bring the administrative state to heel.
  

You can't do any of this if you don't win.

There is no substitute for victory -- we must end the culture of losing that has infected the Republican party in recent years.

The tired dogmas of the past are inadequate for a vibrant future -- we must look forward, not backwards

The courage to lead. The strength to win.

To voters participating in this primary process I can promise this: If you nominate me, you can set your clock to January 20, 2025 at high noon because on the west side of the US Capitol I will be taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the United States.

No excuses. I will get it done.

The past few years have given me a new appreciation for the fragility of our freedoms. Founding Fathers were keenly aware of this, studied every republic in history of mankind...

We have a lot of work to do to ensure our country gets back on track. I ask you to join me on this mission.

Please invest in our campaign by making a donation.

Thank you, God bless.

 

Nice. He's certainly right about indoctrination. for ex: UConn to require students to pass ‘Anti-Black Racism’ course in order to graduate.

State your loyalty to this racist madness or don't graduate!

 

Time for Trump to unleash all those personal things he claims to know about DeSantis?


'Porn stars vs. parenthood: Ron DeSantis plays the family card against Trump'

'DeSantis is leaning into an image that projects wholesome family values to win over Iowa evangelicals who may be turned off by the drama around Trump.'

snip:

'The couple fires off all the indicators of wholesome family values to a conservative evangelical-heavy GOP audience. And even without mentioning Donald Trump's name, they set up an inescapable antithesis to the former president, who faces charges related to a porn star payoff and was found liable for sexual abuse and who, when he landed in Iowa on Thursday, wasn’t accompanied by his wife.'

cont:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-plays-family-card-trump-iowa-rcna86823

 

It's very likely that Trump will be indicted in his stolen documents case. I have no idea how the GOP will react to that. Will they change the rules about who will qualify as their nominee? I don't see Trump stepping out of the race no matter what happens.

 

How so?

IF he were to SOMEHOW win the nomination, then how is he going to make up for the AT LEAST 10+ million people who are not going to show up to vote for him? (IOW, the "only Trump" vote)

IF he were to SOMEHOW win the nomination, then which 'Rust Belt' State is he going to win and HOW will he win it? (WI? MI? PA?) Even WITH AZ, GA, NH, Maine 2, and Nebraska 2, he's still short of winning.

 

"Florida is where woke goes to die!"


"I sure as hell didn't retire to The Villages to get woke up!"


"Set the rising tide for the
Early Bird Special!"


"Will somebody tell that rodent exterminator
I'm trying to sleep!"​