I love how the media keeps pretending the GOP base might actually choose somebody other than Trump. Recently Christie has been floated as a possible Trump alternative. He's at a stupendous 2.3%. That's 0.3% above Scott who already dropped out.

RealClearPolitics - Election 2024 - 2024 Republican Presidential Nomination

I put a very bad Halley/Meatball joke in the title but I removed it. [CW: sexist]

Halley coming for Meatball.

  • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    It's mind-blowing how many old people thought someone like Christie was viable and could "talk tough" on Trump because the TV told them so. They all forgot the last time he ran against Trump and had to humiliate himself only to be rebuffed from being attorney general by Jared Kushner.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      The media really wants there to be a horserace because that gets page views and clicks. But there isn't one. An argument could be made that in January-February even though the 2024 election was a million years away - a minor discussion about DeSantis's chances was merited. But the media "forgot" about Trump's unstoppable ~40% base of support that I think he's been at since ~2016. They pushed their silly horserace narrative. I have to admit - I fell for it like an idiot.

      Then Trump started to rise and DeSantis started to fall and the media ignored him as they do anybody who isn't Trump.

      • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I believed in the horserace too for a second. Especially when I met people IRL that supported DeSantis. I actually thought he was going to ride persecuting queer people all the way to the White House for a second and make it a national policy. Then I heard his voice and realized he was a carb-obsessed Republican version of mayo Pete.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          10 months ago

          Then I heard his voice...

          I had that too. What a moment. That's what the mother fucker sounds like? He's dead in the water!

          • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            I know right. I was saying that about his voice like a couple of weeks before Chapo did. Also saying "It's sugar man" in that voice has become my new diabetic slogan for carb cutting. At least he was a bit entertaining.

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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              10 months ago

              I'll never understand what's going on in the brains of political publishers, editors, and some reporters. When people didn't know who DeSantis - they published long "think pieces". And they never thought about the elephant in the room - his fucking voice? Yeah, it would be better if people focused on the issues, etc. But we don't. Some reporters must have wanted to share the wonders of his voice with the world but got overruled.

              I read one of the "think pieces". It must have been ~3,000 words. What a waste of my time. He sounds like a Hanna-Barbera character villain with his own show that was so hated and ridiculed the series was cancelled on the third episode. Besides DeSantis's voice - he's creepy. When he smiles - he looks like a lizard creature man. There's no way Mr. Off-putting Whiny Voice is going to become president. Spare me the fucking "think pieces".

              Maybe voters in Florida are strange or he got lucky or both. The state has to be at least a bit strange. Hello, Rick Scott.