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Ages
Feb 20, 2005

Its just half the puffin juice and the puffin lives and doesnt mind. I promise!
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1661516624199929857?s=20

Ron better abort the campaign before it reaches six weeks

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Ages
Feb 20, 2005

Its just half the puffin juice and the puffin lives and doesnt mind. I promise!
Fun Shoe
e: nvm

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

some pretty good stuff here: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/twitter-glitches-plague-desantis-presidential-announcement.html

quote:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement plans were derailed Wednesday evening by massive technical glitches on Twitter that temporarily kept him from declaring his candidacy.

“Servers are straining somewhat,” Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner, was heard saying on the app’s live audio stream where he and DeSantis were supposed to have a conversation that included the governor’s first verbal announcement of his White House bid.

Musk’s comment came in between crashes, feedback glitches and audio failures that prevented the conversation on Twitter’s Spaces feature from beginning for around 25 minutes past its scheduled 6 p.m. ET start time.

Musk and investor David Sacks, an ally of both men, started a new Twitter Spaces webcast after the original one failed. But technical issues popped in that stream, too, including in the middle of DeSantis’ remarks.

quote:

The aborted first Spaces event listed more than half a million listeners before it was abandoned completely.

When he was eventually able to speak without interruption, DeSantis began by echoing some of the remarks he made in the pre-recorded video his campaign had released shortly beforehand.

quote:

The botched event came as Musk pushes to boost Twitter’s revenue. Earlier this month, he hired NBCUniversal’s former ad chief Linda Yaccarino to replace him as the social media platform’s CEO.

A DeSantis campaign official tried to spin the sputtering event into a positive, telling NBC News, “Governor DeSantis broke the internet — that should tell you everything you need to know about the strength of his candidacy….!”

But DeSantis’ critics and his top political opponents pounced on the glitch fest.

“His collar is too big!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, his own Twitter-like social platform.

lol

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014

lmao

speng31b
May 8, 2010

Lol good stuff

Mean Baby
May 28, 2005

we need a DeSanctimonious thread. Apple is already auto filling for me

Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown

Mean Baby posted:

we need a DeSanctimonious thread. Apple is already auto filling for me

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

you can tell desantis has never even been in the same room as the sword of chang, let alone wielded its incredible power

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
a friend compared desantis announcement to this, and hell i agree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnCZT5R8Ss

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

Al! posted:

a friend compared desantis announcement to this, and hell i agree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnCZT5R8Ss

airplane ftw

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

https://twitter.com/realGulDukat/status/1661884895638040578

Ramrod Hotshot
May 30, 2003

DeSantis can't lose with a genius like this in his ear

quote:

“We don’t believe it’s 2016 again,” Ryan Tyson, a senior adviser to Mr. DeSantis, said in an interview.


And in a private briefing for donors this week, Mr. Tyson described a Republican electorate split into three parts: 35 percent as “only Trump” voters, 20 percent as “never Trump” and the remaining 45 percent as the DeSantis sweet spot.


Mr. Tyson told donors, in audio that was leaked and published online, that every entrant besides the two front-runners were isolated in the “never Trump” segment. “If your name is not Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump, you are splitting up this share of the electorate,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/us/politics/trump-republican-presidential-candidates.html

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1664046312407326720

speng31b posted:

Lol good stuff

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

really queer Christmas posted:

God the JEB! campaign owned so loving much and I hope we get something like it again.

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1664048650887081985

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

we need a forumwide ik who 6ers anyone who posts tweets

croup coughfield
Apr 8, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 58 days!

Azathoth posted:

we need a forumwide ik who 6ers anyone who posts tweets

help get vyelkin to approve my project in the feedback thread and this can happen

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014


You loving suck

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Doesn't hamlet become king for a minute near the end, just before be dies? Please post idiotic tweets by people who aren't illiterate buffoons.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/gldivittorio/status/1667253266730610688

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
its just incredible that hans never tires of these tweets. maybe hes the guy actually doing em....

Grognan
Jan 23, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Xaris posted:

that’s right and I’ll vote for him a 3rd time

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Homeless Friend posted:

its just incredible that hans never tires of these tweets. maybe hes the guy actually doing em....

He definitely is. He can write original ones in the same style perfectly.

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Homeless Friend posted:

its just incredible that hans never tires of these tweets. maybe hes the guy actually doing em....

I never tire of people overreacting to them

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!
https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1668007785924272128

I guess if you're asking for life advice from Charlie Kirk you kinda deserve to get lovely advice.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/populismupdates/status/1669101342659575808
https://twitter.com/seamus_malek/status/1669095431974928389

Filthy Hans
Jun 27, 2008

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 10 years!)

https://twitter.com/NewSovietPoster/status/1669777979398914081

:sad:

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

That looks like an entirely different face

The man is wearing a silicon mask and I won't be convinced otherwise

He's a deep state experiment

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

lol it tracks that he'd be sheepish about it, a significant percentage of the evangelicals he's relying on to win the nomination hate catholics as much as they do nonchristians (they rather emphatically don't consider catholics christian) so lmao. i figured he was a part of some big megachurch but this is even funnier

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
ron depapist

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


the fundies i know think catholics are all idol worshipping pedophiles so lol desantis is hosed

Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

from a few days ago but lol

https://twitter.com/JesseFFerguson/status/1669326966707683332

ron desantis is the only man in america more ted cruzlike than ted cruz himself. lost ~20 points with his primary voters for doing stuff like: going on tv, announcing his candidacy

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

Azathoth posted:

lol it tracks that he'd be sheepish about it, a significant percentage of the evangelicals he's relying on to win the nomination hate catholics as much as they do nonchristians (they rather emphatically don't consider catholics christian) so lmao. i figured he was a part of some big megachurch but this is even funnier

made his whole life about getting the perfect conservative resume but forgot to convert to mega church protestantism. humiliating oversight

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Not sure who thought he should run against Trump when he ain't got even one iota of charisma. Lil meatball Ron next to big ole whole hog Don

UKJeff
May 17, 2023

by vyelkin

SorePotato posted:

Not sure who thought he should run against Trump when he ain't got even one iota of charisma. Lil meatball Ron next to big ole whole hog Don

Lol cmon the media has been hyping him up since 2021. He was one of the first big “open er up” governors and his gamble paid off in terms of popularity. He won re-election by double digits after eking it out the first time and I think his constituency still loves him. Hell, even the moderate conservatives I know still think he’d have a better chance of beating Biden even though they acknowledge he’s gonna get wrecked by El Trumpo

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
foridamens got their fascist governor hes just such a huge dork he wont beat trump

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

UKJeff posted:

Lol cmon the media has been hyping him up since 2021. He was one of the first big “open er up” governors and his gamble paid off in terms of popularity. He won re-election by double digits after eking it out the first time and I think his constituency still loves him. Hell, even the moderate conservatives I know still think he’d have a better chance of beating Biden even though they acknowledge he’s gonna get wrecked by El Trumpo

Ok but they should've waited until Trump wasn't running, now he's just a loser

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


trump's funny, rich, famous and entertaining. desantis came out of the post trump factory and is a pale imitation of the glamorous orange man. He also hasn't given me a bunch of money

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

UKJeff posted:

Lol cmon the media has been hyping him up since 2021. He was one of the first big “open er up” governors and his gamble paid off in terms of popularity. He won re-election by double digits after eking it out the first time and I think his constituency still loves him. Hell, even the moderate conservatives I know still think he’d have a better chance of beating Biden even though they acknowledge he’s gonna get wrecked by El Trumpo

It's the disconnect between the guy the media shows to the public, which is maybe a sentence or two in text or video, along with a long description of his policy, and the reality of seeing someone in person for an hour. He doesn't come off terribly in soundbites and he's certainly adept at throwing the base exactly what they want policy wise.

But when people see him over any significant time, he comes incredibly inauthentic. Like, he's not even particularly good at it for a state politician, let alone one operating on a national stage. Never Trump conservatives I know like him mostly because he's the only one who has any traction against Trump, so they're basically with him until someone better comes along, which remains doubtful.

Turtle Sandbox
Dec 31, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Azathoth posted:

lol it tracks that he'd be sheepish about it, a significant percentage of the evangelicals he's relying on to win the nomination hate catholics as much as they do nonchristians (they rather emphatically don't consider catholics christian) so lmao. i figured he was a part of some big megachurch but this is even funnier

Catholics will absolutely backstop the people who hate them because the enemy of the gays is my friend.

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Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Turtle Sandbox posted:

Catholics will absolutely backstop the people who hate them because the enemy of the gays is my friend.

Oh yeah, they're absolutely cool with it and it's a non-issue in a general election but the crazyass protestants who hate catholics represent a significant enough chunk of the GOP primary electorate that it's a legit problem for him.

Azathoth has issued a correction as of 21:17 on Jun 19, 2023

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