Ron DeSantis Will Never Be President
Ron DeSantis Will Never Be President
He has a following, but his aura falls to pieces when you see him in person.
This is Part II of The Rooster’s coverage of Ron DeSantis and J.D. Vance’s rally in Gerard, Ohio, last Friday.
Part I can be found over here.
The Well-Coifed Man had asked me earlier in the night what outlet I represented.
“Myself,” I said.
“Which outlet is that again?”
“The Rooster News,” I said as if that were an organization he should know. “Independent conservative media out of Columbus, Ohio.”
“Ah,” he said. Having nothing else to question me about, he walked away.
Now, White Watson had alerted him that I was a saboteur in their midst. I had ducked into a bathroom outside the convention room and changed out of the Hawaiian shirt.
As soon as I came out of the bathroom, the well-coifed man was talking to a security team member in the hallway. He saw me and pointed me out.
It was then I realized Turning Point had sent an unlisted YouTube stream of the event to listed media. I could watch the speeches at the Motel 6. If I stayed, an altercation over my phone and its contents might ensue. And I was vastly outnumbered.
I pretended not to see the well-coifed man pointing me out. I turned into the stream of attendees walking into the attendance room, back through the metal detectors and out the door. I returned to my hotel and uploaded all my pictures, videos and audio.
While watching the stream, a Turning Point Flunky and even DeSantis kept talking about “Western Pennsylvania” and mentioning Granite State Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano.
After about 20 minutes of thinking I had unknowingly relapsed into blind, Tito’s Handmade Vodka-induced stupor, I realized that those goofs at TPUSA had sent a link to a previous rally in Pittsburgh hours earlier.
Thinking I was about to miss Vance and DeSantis, I changed clothes again, threw on an Ohio State hat, and sprinted back across the stroad into the convention hall.
I told the workers at the metal detector that I was a press member and had forgotten my boss’ phone charger. I flashed my press badge and was waved right back into the event.
I sat down near the back just as notorious plagiarist Benny Johnson got done fluffing the crowd of geriatrics, incels, and retired, sunbaked mafiosos and mistresses.
J.D. Vance’s speech isn’t even worth mentioning. The OAN reporter agreed with me—nobody in attendance was there to see Vance. Turning Point gave the first two rows to VIP guests.
The next two rows went to Turning Point volunteers and Vance campaign flunkies, as seen in this photo I wasn’t allowed to take:
Turning Point uses the famed campaign tactic adapted by the Trump campaign, where it packs stooges into one area among the crowd to start chants that seem organic.
The best effort this group of geniuses could muster was a “Let’s Go Brandon” chant that attendees adopted out of a sense of duty rather than zeal.
As you can see from the video, this group is much older than you would expect from an event organized by Turning Point, which ostensibly targets Millennials and Gen-Z voters. The level of whiteness goes without saying.
Vance’s most visceral reaction from the crowd came when he mentioned his opponent, Tim Ryan. Vance said that meant a lot since they were in his district. Frankly, I’m impressed Vance has familiarized himself with Ohio geography to know that.
Despite his lackluster speech, Vance got a standing ovation at the end of his speech. That might have looked organic if you didn’t realize it was started by the VIPs and the chorus of stooges in the first couple of rows.
Even Vance, the Senate candidate standing in his own state, conceded that Florida governor Ron DeSantis was the main event.
As a member of President Xi Jinping’s fabled Patriots Caucus, you’re probably familiar with DeSantis enough to know that he’s widely seen as the GOP favorite should Trump decide not to run.
Yes, DeSantis could serve as Trump’s VP, but that’d be an untenable position due to the swollen egos of those involved. But don’t get it twisted. Trump put DeSantis through a trap door on the debate stage with one of his dumb albeit hilarious nicknames for his political opponents.
DeSantis, meanwhile, is cutting cheap ads trying to get the tough man aura that Trump was only able to accumulate after The Apprentice brainwashed tens of millions of Americans.
Look at these new ads:
It reeks of a Yale-educated lawyer cosplaying as a brave troop. Because that’s what it is. DeSantis sees himself as a fighter pilot when in actuality, he’s a powerful bully picking on transgender people for cheap political points.
He’s also started mimicking Trump’s body language, which is something you can’t unsee during his speeches once you learn about it:
Say what you want about Trump; the man understands that Americans are a hog people and has spent a lifetime manipulating them for his gain. DeSantis is arrogant enough to think he shouldn’t have to manipulate anyone; they should already be bowing down to his intellect.
Trump has his followers eating out of his hand. He can get up there and ramble for three hours about the most batshit insane stuff possible, and those hogs will honk and cheer until their throats are sore.
DeSantis got up there with prepared notes in front of a couple of hundred people freaky enough to attend a political rally on a beautiful Friday night. In Pittsburgh and Girard, he pandered to the crowd about family connections to the Steel City and Youngstown State and then launched into his list of white grievance politics.
His audience didn’t understand terms like “biomedical security state” but knew they were supposed to boo the phrase “vaccine passport.”
Because that’s DeSantis at his core: A man whose ambition outstrips his talents. Somebody who is good at covering the band but not enough juice to perform in it. His COVID response is only a motivating factor for people that would vote for him anyway, and we get further away from that every day.
This won’t stop Beltway media from crowning DeSantis as the heir apparent. But don’t be surprised when his political talent can’t cash that check.
THOSE WMDs. Over 1,000 guns and ammo seized from brothers killed in Knox County standoff… Emails show Omaha police planned a deal with a thinly veiled Nazi den… The productivity panopticon… What parents should say to teachers (according to teachers)… Trump had more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.