Buttigieg slams DeSantis over LGBTQ-focused ad

So, the position that DeSantis takes in this ad is that Trump is too kind to gay people?

Got a feeling this is going to backfire, bad. I mean, pretty much everyone has a gay relative, friend, coworker, and --except for the most bigoted and homophobic among us-- can see they are regular people and not evil demons that should never be allowed to take a piss ...

 

This was in the DeSantis thread. As I said there, I really find it bizarre, along with distasteful. It is just more evidence to me he isn’t a terribly good politician. He has decided that going to the right of Trump on absolutely everything is the keys to the kingdom to the point of doing really dumb stuff life this. He just seems like an unpleasant person and is totally alienating himself from pretty much everybody except the hard right.

 

When I say to the right, it is largely to the cultural right.

You may be right, perhaps it is desperation. But as I have said previously I also think it is a function of not really being ready for prime time. It is possible to be perceived as a hit shot governor and completely lay an egg on the national stage. Rick Perry, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush come to mind.

 

Desantis is doubling down

"And ultimately when you talk about some of the gender ideology that’s being unleashed in this country, in the state of Florida, we are fighting back against that.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...s-down-amid-criticism-over-trump-lgbtq-video/

 

I think Desantis path to the White House was to be aggressively anti-Trump, like a “cut out the bullshit” Republican that goes after the MTG, Boebert’s, Trump, Gaetz, Gosar, moron wing of the party.

Instead, he went hard after the culture war, not even a coded culture war like CRT fear that worked on the rubes in ‘22. But next level hate. A bizarre strategy, as the Evangelicals aren’t leaving Trump for him regardless, and the normal chamber of commerce republicans want no part of that trash. But hey, guess he wrapped up that Nazi vote.

 

When Wokey drops out he might not even be in 2nd place. He may also have the legacy of turning Fla blue.

 

How dreadfully uninspiring for America on both sides of this election. Makes me physically ill to think their combined ages will be 160 next year. Good grief.

Funny thing about DeSantis, who fashions himself as very politically savvy-his campaign was toast before he even knew it was in the toaster. His “mandate” in Florida certainly does not appear to be traveling well.

Terrible ad. Shows how out of touch he is with the middle he needs to win.

 

A reliable test for certain types of autism used I think mostly in the UK was to show a person a box of smarties & ask them what was inside. Smarties of course was the ans. The box was opened to reveal pencils. They were then asked, “if we ask another person what’s in the box what will they say?” Non autistics say smarties; autistics say pencils. This is Bootsie, he thinks everyone has the same priorities as him. He can’t see things from others’ perspective. Mix in arrogance & boom you have faceplant

 

Is it against the law to wipe your ass with your ballot & then put it in the mail?

 

Mail-in voting is fraudulent. You should wipe your ass at the polls.

 

The only thing dumber than voting is waiting in line to vote

 

Is Jerry Brown still alive? It might not be too late for him. 81 million marking their ballots with Brown!

 

it’s comical that one of his early attempts at a slogan was “Make America Florida”… The other 49 states and half of Florida don’t want that…

 

The conservatives certainly have winning issues when they focus on minors changing genders and trans competing in women's sports. But when they broaden that not just to all trans, but to all gays, which DeSantis appears to be doing ... I think they lose badly.

Not to mention DeSantis's thing for gladiators and body builders.

 

This is a really important point IMO.

Trump won a lot of evangelicals and social conservatives by saying the right things, but I doubt most really think Trump reads the Bible or cares what consenting adults are doing with each other. We're talking about a guy who went on national tv and wondered how big his daughter's breasts might get and bragged about how many women he slept with over the years. Trump lies all of the time, but people still perceive him as authentic, much like Tony Montana said in Scarface - that he tells the truth even when he lies.

I'm not sure what DeSantis actually believes. I feel like he has a little bit of a Hillary issue in that he's clearly book smart, not a natural politician, and appears to be willing to say almost anything to be president. I think he may believe GOP primary voters care more about the broader culture wars and Twitter fights than they do about how the candidates make them feel. Trump could move half the party on most issues if he wanted except for guns and abortion, and to a lesser extent, something like the Covid vaccine. I feel like DeSantis is trying to figure out what the GOP base wants to hear and reverse engineering his campaign.

 

Not a good Politician? It shows he’s not a good human. This is who he is - an unabashed, hateful bigot.