Earlier, Crabgrass posted about a Twitter video so reprehensible it was thought here to have been created and posted by some third party aiming to cast both Trump and DeSantis in unfavorable light.
In fact, DeSantis and his campaign people were behind a re-tweet of the thing. As if they liked it and thought it sound.
DeSantis, in an interview Wednesday on the podcast of conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, did not address accusations that the video was homophobic but said the intent was “identifying Donald Trump as really being a pioneer in injecting gender ideology into the mainstream where he was having men compete against women in his beauty pageants.”
A Twitter user, "DeSantis War Room," re-tweeted the thing. It turns out that user ID actually belongs to a DeSantis campaign front, and they indeed reposted, per this mid-video screen capture.
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Stormy Ron. Professional imagery? That simply is not depicting a person fit to occupy the White House. Posing their guy as a hothead shooting lightning from his eyes, (did he also shoot hail the size of baseballs out his ass one wonders), when even thinking about LGBTQ issues makes him look like quite an unbalanced individual, to say the least.
Mayor Pete gains the critique brass ring in characterizing the entire minute long production as to intent and impact:
“I’m going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up shirtless bodybuilders, and just get to a bigger issue that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space, which is, again, who are you trying to help? Who are you trying to make better off?” Buttigieg said.
In a nutshell, Mayor Pete wrapped up the problem with DeSantis hate - who are you trying to help? Who are you trying to make better off?
In effect, if you've nothing really positive to say for yourself you turn to bullshit; and that video screams: RON DESANTIS HAS NOTHING POSITIVE TO SAY FOR HIMSELF AND CAN ONLY SPEW VENOM.
As a first launch thing gaining widespread web attention -- not sound campaigning.
Not giving any reason to want this guy near the nuclear weapon launch button.
_________UPDATE__________
Putting this as an update vs. a new separate post was deliberated.
The Mayor Pete quote, in action.
While damned little beyond an almost cosmetic incremental thing where real and total reform is needed, there is Biden, at whitehouse.gov, posting this.
Clearly incremental and a studied small step, no Medicare For All size of things nor phrasing in that direction, as Bernie would want to do if in the Oval Office. Yet, it is at least something. Where the reality is Bernie in the Oval Office would have grave trouble delivering, while at least fighting the good fight sincerely.
It is tangible. It is not a policy from Trump. Nor from DeSantis. Not from Pence nor Chris Christy. Former South Carolina Governor Haley has no such aim. She wants to weaken Social Security, not build something beyond it.
It is Democrat-lite; emphasis on lite; but it is better than the "Suffer it alone Jack" attitude you get from those who prefer berating trans people over-and-over without even a bandaid offered anybody for a stab wound.
It is only Biden beating his chest over very little, but it tops DeSantis beating his chest over his hatreds of Disney and others, his voter suppression bent, and his lack of any comparable miniscule attention to medical care abuses in Florida.
Or prove me wrong. Has DeSantis done anything about skyrocketing hospital costs, medical bankruptcy or drug costs; first term, or so far in this second term where his main focus is shooting to get to DC.
Biden's efforts as set out at whitehouse.gov fit the Mayor Pete criterion, who are you trying to help. Having lost his eldest son to cancer Biden has been supportive of research. He appears sincere but embellishes his thinking small.
Cut Biden some slack. With the likes of nominal Democrats such as Josh Gottheimer in Congress, it is a push to get any reform passed, and that is a realistic limit to Biden which is not his fault.
It is a party defect, a consequence of having only two parties where one need be only marginally better than the other in some manner, to some degree. It is too many in both Houses of Congress liking donor good will from the healthcare industrial complex, including Big Pharma.
It is like waiting for Pelosi as House Speaker to have done jackshit for the medical bankruptcy problem. She didn't. She won't.
If Trump and DeSantis were to be issue oriented in running, instead of being hitmen against each other, things might be elevated to where citizens could have some positive reasons to vote one way or another.
Fat chance. This is the U.S. of A. in the twenty-first century, and how it is. Not how it should be. Two parties, each with a "You've no real alternative," embrace of one another to where the line between Joe Biden, his history and present state, and Donald Trump, his record, will again be the fodder fed us on the next November ballot.
Never mind DeSantis and the single-digit poll presences, it will be Trump v. Biden, with each party trying to tell you the other party's one is a bigger crook.
As already written in this post. How it is. Not how it should be.
Trump indicted is far, far, far from Trump convicted. A tiny possibility exists that he may fail to evade any/all conviction effort, but the compelling likelihood is that, via jury trials needing unanimity, he skates.
Reality is ugly, but we face it or delude ourselves.
__________FURTHER UPDATE_________
RT published a reasoned contention that Trump rather than DeSantis is the more broadly appealing Republican candidate, with the Trump lead in the polls mentioned.
The item did not reach into Trump vs. Biden, but held more to the most recent DeSantis turn as counterproductive to DeSantis chances, relative to Trump and otherwise.
Crabgrass readers should read the item.