DeSantis is officially in

[George K]

@Mik said in DeSantis is officially in:

It does seem like Trump has lost Fox.

One can hope. Fox still remains #1 in the evening cable shows. Hopefully the erosion of Trump support on the platform will trickle down to its viewers.

[Mik]

Indeed.

[LuFins Dad]

Yeah, but let’s not ignore the fact that Lame Donald’s response was incoherent….

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in DeSantis is officially in:

Yup. All these media outlets criticizing the rollout because the servers were overwhelmed.

It sounds a bit like the complaints about all those people abandoning Disney/New York/etc. because it's over-crowded. As with Obama, the servers were over-whelmed because so many people are interested.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in DeSantis is officially in:

the servers were over-whelmed because so many people are interested.

That's sort of what I meant. If the rollout were a yawn-inducing event, this would not have happened.

People are interested, and with the "botched" hashtag getting traction, he's going to have even more eyes. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a Streisand effect (probably not), or a "no such thing..."

[George K]

Gowdy interviewed him yesterday. DeSantis said he'd fire Wray on day one.

[George K]

[Mik]

The problem with all this is that it is almost impossible to find a link to the actual chat. I found one downstairs, but cnnot find it again. Will post when I get back down there.

[Mik]

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaJbrAlZjjJX

[Mik]

You really should listen. He's saying a lot of what we have discussed for years.

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

[Horace]

@Mik said in DeSantis is officially in:

You really should listen. He's saying a lot of what we have discussed for years.

Thanks for the link. It was good stuff.

I am curious what some of our resident DeSantis haters think of the conversation.

[Mik]

Here’s a guy who is coherent, disciplined and has thought this through. He can thoroughly articulate his positions. I like him a whole lot more today.

[George K]

The Lincoln Project sends an open letter.

https://lincolnproject.us/an-open-letter-to-ron-desantis-from-the-lincoln-project/

It's signed "Your Friends..."

[George K]

@Mik said in DeSantis is officially in:

I like him a whole lot more today.

I didn't listen (yet), but I watched his interview with Gowdy. It was good.

[Horace]

@George-K said in DeSantis is officially in:

The Lincoln Project sends an open letter.

https://lincolnproject.us/an-open-letter-to-ron-desantis-from-the-lincoln-project/

It's signed "Your Friends..."

Wow. It would be one thing if the lincoln project presented itself as entertainment punditry. But they want people to believe they are serious historians and thinkers. And millions think of them in exactly that way.

I noticed they included my favorite bit of gaslighting from the left. The one where they accuse the right of pushing some bizarre culture war that comes out of nowhere.

[Mik]

I don't think he's afraid of Trump. Judging from what I heard today I also think they are flat wrong, and frankly irrelevant.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in DeSantis is officially in:

The Lincoln Project sends an open letter.

https://lincolnproject.us/an-open-letter-to-ron-desantis-from-the-lincoln-project/

It's signed "Your Friends..."

That ought to be a nice boost for Ron.

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in DeSantis is officially in:

@George-K said in DeSantis is officially in:

The Lincoln Project sends an open letter.
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That ought to be a nice boost for Ron.

You overestimate the influence of the Lincoln Project.