Trump is Category 4 Legal Shitstorm

 The New Evidence Against Donald Trump In The MAL Case Is BRUTAL

With reporters clustered at the DC federal courthouse awaiting a possible Trump indictment in the Jan. 6 case, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team dropped a new bombshell in Florida in the Mar-a-Lago case: a superseding indictment that adds new charges against Trump himself, co-defendant Walt Nauta, and a new third defendant.

Let’s run through the top points quickly:

• The number of counts in the indictment swelled from 38 to 42.
• Trump was hit with an additional charge of willful retention of national defense information (now 32 counts on that charge, up from 31) for the Iran war plan document he allegedly flaunted at Bedminster.
• The new defendant, a MAL worker named Carlos De Oliveira was added to the existing conspiracy to obstruct justice count, so now all three defendants are charged in this count. In addition, De Oliveira gets his own false statements count.
• All three men were charged under a new count of altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object.
• All three men were charged under a new count of corruptly altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object.

The additional charges mostly have to do with a brazen alleged attempt to delete security camera footage at MAL after it was subpoenaed by a DC federal grand jury – and wow! The feds have the goods on Trump.

It's an extremely interesting strategy to nominate a candidate that's in the midst of a plethora of legal investigations and upcoming indictments and then claim that the DOJ is purposefully attacking their party by continuing those investigations and indictments.

Like, what if next they nominate a death row inmate and then claim that the state is trying to murder their candidate?

He looks so guilty because there is so much evidence reveled in the indictments but i'm sure that's just a fraction of the total evidence and when you couple that with Trump's many public admissions, lies and changing contradictory excuses the it seems like the government has a lay down hand. Most unfortunately for Trump the government is playing the game like they don't have all the cards and keeps seeking and piling up more evidence and more charges.

Ex-Trump lawyer says evidence against him ‘overwhelming’ in Mar-a-Lago case

A former Trump White House lawyer said the evidence against the former president over his handling of classified documents was now “overwhelming” and would “last an antiquity”, after new charges were filed in the case on Thursday.

What’s insane is seeing and hearing how air tight this case is and people are still defending him and claiming it’s all a witch hunt. They can’t really believe it. They can’t.

The irony of Trump's baseless accusation of Hillary destroying her servers while he films his crimes and tries to destroy his servers is antiquital!

His supporters will never realise they are being conned by a man and a party doing their best to make their lives miserable.

t’s that sunk cost fallacy thing. These people have invested their lives and created entire “personalities” around loving Trump. Many of them have destroyed relationships with friends and family over Trump. Some of them will never see their kids or grandkids again because of their toxic cult behavior.

Imagine spending 7 years investing all of your free energy into something, then trying to cope with the fact you’ve actually wasted your time. They just can’t do it. 

“So much worse”: Legal experts say new Trump indictment “reads just like organized crime activity”

Former President Donald Trump and two of his aides were hit with new charges in the Mar-a-Lago documents case on Thursday.

A grand jury in South Florida returned a superseding indictment adding four charges to the prior indictment against Trump and aide Walt Nauta. Another aide, Carlos De Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago head of maintenance, was also added to the obstruction conspiracy charged in the original indictment.

The indictment alleges that De Oliveira told another employee that "the boss" wanted the server with Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage deleted and asked how long the footage was stored.

Oliveira's involvement and the IT guy (Trump employee 4) add SO much substance to Trump's criminality, it's insane. I'm sure people have read it by now, but I wanted to sum it up as shortly as I could, because just a few days of actions are basically a Scooby-Doo villain story and everyone involved is dead to rights:

• June 22nd, 2022: DOJ emails Trump attorney draft subpoena for camera footage.
• June 23rd: Trump calls Oliveira
• June 24th: DOJ sends final subpoena
• June 24th(Later that same day): Trump contacts Nauta, Nauta changes his travel plans to return to Florida. Nauta gives inconsistent explanations, explaining a "family emergency" and uses "shushing emojis" (lol)
• June 24th(still the same day): Nauta and Oliveira contact IT guy
• June 25th: Oliveira tells another employee to keep Nauta's trip a secret, and that they were trying to get security footage from IT guy.
• June 25th: Nauta and Oliveira methodically walk around Mar-A-Lago with flashlights looking at various security locations, including the storage room (this is presumably caught on... security footage.)
• June 27th: Oliveira tells IT guy to keep the conversation between them, asks how long security footage is held, and says Trump ("the boss") wants it deleted. IT guy resists.
• June 27th(later that day): Oliveira walks "through the bushes" to go speak with Nauta, then back to IT guy, then back through the bushes to speak with Nauta.
• June 27th(later that day): Trump calls Oliveria.
• July: DOJ obtains surveillance footage.
• August 8th: FBI searches Mar-A-Lago

And then an element that hasn't been described in the indictments yet is Oliveria FLOODED the server room with the swimming pool a few months later. It's just so over-the-top and ridiculous. 

Donald Trump Is In a Category 4 Legal S--tstorm—That Could Soon Become Category 5

Donald Trump’s legal woes worsened Thursday as special counsel Jack Smith hit him with additional felony charges in the classified documents case—two for obstruction of justice and one additional violation of the Espionage Act for sharing a classified war plan with people who did not have security clearance. Among the explosive allegations in the superseding indictment: that Trump and two employees tried to “delete” Mar-a-Lago security camera footage that the Justice Department had requested. “The boss” wanted the server erased, maintenance worker Carlos De Oliveira allegedly told a fellow employee in June 2022. “What are we gonna do?”

He now has 74 felony incitements and counting. It’s on its way above 80 soon.

The federal indictments have him looking at almost 500 years in jail and the state indictments have him looking at about 50 years in jail.

When the other indictments come out he’s going to be looking at probably another 100+ years and a state RICO proceeding.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s because he just keeps breaking laws. Maybe he wouldn’t be in such legal jeopardy if he didn’t commit dozens and dozens of felonies.

If any one of us was charged with all the crimes Trump is charged with, we would be sitting in jail in pretrial detention. Trump is a much bigger flight risk than any of us. He has his own plane ffs. He has friends in Russia. He has connections inside the US government. The motherfucker even has mob connections. He is threatening prosecutors and judges. Trump needs to be imprisoned until trial. He is too dangerous to be left outside.

 

DeSantis thinks slavery was a skill program

Dear Ron DeSantis, slavery was not a job skills program 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign is floundering, but his neofascist Orwellian thought crime campaign against teaching the real history of Black Americans – and America's real history more generally – is having great success nonetheless, as historian Keisha N. Blain outlines at MSNBC: 

For example, according to the state's new guidelines, instructors will be expected to teach students that enslaved Black people "developed skills" that "could be applied for their personal benefit." Instructors are also expected to discuss "acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans" when teaching students about mob violence….Rather than offer its students courses that provide a full and honest accounting of the past, Florida is choosing to dishonestly keep its students ignorant of this country's (and that state's) history.

These new "educational standards" are actually using the Black freedom struggle to advance a project of white supremacy. DeSantis' administration and its agents are censoring books they deem to be anti-American, "woke" or contaminated with the "critical race theory mind virus". Florida is now targeting educators for harassment and intimidation, rewriting school curriculums and threatening to defund departments and courses if they cover subjects that "make white people uncomfortable" or "feel guilty." They are banning diversity, inclusion, and equity programs, and are attempting to end academic and intellectual freedom at Florida's universities and colleges as part of a larger plan to destroy liberal arts education (i.e. courses that teach critical thinking). Several weeks ago, for example, the Florida legislature passed a law that makes it illegal for Florida's colleges and universities to teach the fact that systemic and structural racism exists in American society.

 Has anyone tried asking Ronnie, who owned the value created by the slaves skills? If a slave learns black smithing, who owns the horseshoes he makes? If a slave learns farming, who owns the crops? If a slave learns domestic work, whose house do they work in? If slaves were taught skills, it was only so that the owners could further exploit them.

So, let’s run with Meatball’s logic for a second. Some slaves were (forcibly) taught skills like blacksmithing or leather working or something else. Cool, okay, so how exactly is that a benefit, Ron? Could they quit their “job” and go find a new one that offers better pay? Oh, no? Hm. Turns out maybe they could use these skills a little bit on the side, if their literal owner allowed them to. Which wasn’t very often.

So where exactly does the benefit come from, Ron? Wtf is the point of job skills if you have zero agency? Pride in knowing you get to make horseshoes all day for the rest of your life, while worrying your family could get sold down the river without you at any moment? Cool, cool.

So, what about all the other enslaved people, millions of them, that only ever picked cotton? What about them? What sweet job skills did they learn? Arthritis? Bodily disfigurement from doing the same unnatural tasks day after day, forever? I suppose they don’t count in your little tale of uplift.

It’s a fucking stupid claim, backed up by stupid logic, crafted by hateful idiots.

Fuck this guy. And fuck Florida voters as well. Don’t let them off the hook. They foisted this mother fucker on us.

Ron DeSantis Snaps Back at Reporter Over Slavery Question in Tense Exchange

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis snapped at a reporter after being asked a question about slavery in a tense exchange during a campaign stop in Iowa on Thursday.

DeSantis, who is running for president, defended changes to Florida's newly passed school curriculum on how students will be taught Black history and slavery in particular.

The Florida Board of Education's new set of standards on how Black history is taught in public schools has faced criticism from both education and civil rights advocates.

The new standards require instruction for middle school students to include "how slaves developed skills, which in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit," according to a document listing the standards. Critics have argued that this statement suggests there were positives to being enslaved and have called for students to be allowed to learn the full truth of American history and the atrocities of slavery.

Imagine making "slavery was good" the hill you die on. 

He’s not important enough to have that kind of attitude. If you want to be president then a majority of the voters have to not hate your guts.

Every time DeSantis opens his mouth he proves everything’s bigger in Florida- especially the assholes.

Slavery should be taught as nothing more than the brutal and inhumane use of human beings as farm equipment against their will.

Supreme Ethics paid via Venmo

Clarence Thomas’ ethics mess goes from bad to worse 

By any fair measure, Justice Clarence Thomas was already one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most controversial members, even before this year got underway. But in recent months, the far-right jurist has faced a series of ethics questions that he and his allies have struggled to answer.

Over the last three months, ProPublica has taken the lead on exposing Thomas’ unusual and previously undisclosed ties to a Republican megadonor. Over the weekend, The New York Times took the story considerably further.

Let’s just call him “Clearance Thomas”, because he’s for sale cheap!

He won't be removed. But he needs to be impeached/censured and ethics rules and term limits need to be imposed. All Article III judges (and all federal employees) should be forced into senior status at 30 years of service, with an ad hoc ability to retire.

If you enforce those limits, he's off the SCOTUS. And Alito will be behind him shortly. 

Impeachment with Republicans is a non-starter.

At this point we are dependent on election outcomes that change the majorities in the House and Senate to be overwhelmingly Democrat. Manchin and Sinema need to have no power in this either.

This country is beholden to a tiny amount of egotistical assholes.

There’s nothing anyone can do to him so why should he resign. He knows republicans don’t care as long as he’s for their agenda. With a dem president and senate nothing short of a Supreme Court judge passing will remove a republican appointee from the court.

The fact that people like Clarence Thomas still sit in their positions shows how imperfect the entire system is in the US.

No ethical oversight, no real rules and very little accountability for those who overstep the boundaries of their offices.

In a sane country, Trump would be detained pending trial, half the Supreme Court would be removed from their seats, and every member of the “Freedom” Caucus would be expelled from Congress. But nooooooo…

Investigation Uncovers More of Clarence Thomas’ Undisclosed Freebies from Wealthy Pals

CLARENCE THOMAS’ CONNECTIONS to wealth and expensive vacations run deeper than billionaire businessman and Nazi-enthusiast Harlan Crow. The New York Times reports that Thomas has milked relationships with the rich he made through the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, a scholarship association, to benefit himself and his wife.

Because of their Horatio Alger connections, Thomas and his spouse, Virginia, have been invited to join luxurious vacations and parties in addition being granted V.I.P. access to sports events. Thanks to the association, Thomas also rubbed elbows with the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Ed McMahon during a lavish three-day Montana birthday party for billionaire industrialist Dennis Washington.

Each time the Court denies they need an ethics code, we find out more reasons why they do need one.

They'll either have to act to implement one themselves or they'll have to bend to accept external oversight. This issue has become far too salient to get swept under the rug. 

Thomas has zero shame, so he won't be pressured into anything.

And I'll believe Thomas retires when I see it. I would wager quite a bit of money that he dies an active SCOTUS Justice.

Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo

Several lawyers who have had business before the supreme court, including one who successfully argued to end race-conscious admissions at universities, paid money to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas, according to the aide’s Venmo transactions. The payments appear to have been made in connection to Thomas’s 2019 Christmas party.

The payments to Rajan Vasisht, who served as Thomas’s aide from July 2019 to July 2021, seem to underscore the close ties between Thomas, who is embroiled in ethics scandals following a series of revelations about his relationship with a wealthy billionaire donor, and certain senior Washington lawyers who argue cases and have other business in front of the justice.

The Constitution has been amended 27 times. Of our 3 branches of govt only the Judicial Branch hasn't been changed. We changed the Executive Branch by instituting term limits not originally in the Constitution. We changed the Legislative Branch by capping the House of Representatives at 435 members.

Yet when it comes to a SCOTUS some attempt to the constitution as a cudgel. Demand that because the constitution does not explicitly prohibit things like the Federalist Society and Justices mingling with Billionaires who have business before the court there is nothing that can be done.

In my opinion the two biggest problems with the court at the moment are that it (SCOTUS) selects which cases they will hear and there are no official rules of ethics with an enforcement component.

Edward Blum is a Republican activist who specializes in overturning portions of the civil rights act through the Supreme Court. He is responsible for 2013's Shelby County v Holder supreme court case and the recent Harvard Affirmative Action case. Blum has been before SCOTUS with cases several times.

SCOTUS chooses which cases to hear and magically always chooses to hear Blum's cases. Even when Blum has repeatedly lost in all lower court rulings as was the case in Shelby County and Harvard.

SCOTUS is petitioned to hear over 7,000 cases per year and only accepts about 100 cases or 1.5% of requests. Yet somehow people like Blum get repeatedly before the court. It is ridiculous. There should be a separate panel of circuit court justices that recommend cases to the Supreme Court. Justices shouldn't control which cases they want to hear.

There are already ethical standards and rules with enforceable components for Federal Justices. Those rules just don't apply to the Supreme Court. This is clearly an oversight and not some useful thing the all knowing Founding Father's purposefully did for some virtuous reason. Simply change the law so those ethics cover SCOTUS.

These are not hard lifts. These are not changes that are partisan and by design favor a political party. These are changes which would simply make the system hard to corrupt..

 

That didn't take long

 TEXANS DIE FROM HEAT EXHAUSTION AFTER GOVERNOR BANS WATER BREAKS

s a part of a bill critics have dubbed the “Death Star” bill—an expansive law that preempts legislation in eight key areas of local government—the Legislature has overridden local ordinances that require giving workers water breaks. Otherwise known as House Bill 2127, it was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott on June 6.

I realize that OSHA and labor laws in general have become an absolute joke over the past few years, but there's absolutely no way that banning employees from having access to water at work is actually legal.

Do Texans realize their politicians have basically put their population up for sale? Because that's what's happening.

They don’t care as long as they gets lots of guns and no libruls. This is especially true when it comes to the blue collar workers who are impacted by this law. Maybe next time vote on issues other than “don’t California my Texas!” and things might start to improve. 

The irony being that if we california'd their texas, they'd have higher wages, more breaks, union protections, and better schools. they'd be safer, too. You're 25% less likely to be in a mass shooting in CA than in TX.

Republicans want Americans dead. Change my mind.

Republicans want slaves. Death is a byproduct. It'd be a bonus for them if the slaves didn't die due to hazardous and miserable conditions, but it is an acceptable loss - you can always get a new slave.

There's actually only a couple of Texas cities that have the ten minute water break every four hours law. It's not a state-wide rule.

This is the GOP taking away cities' ability to set thier own policies (like a town refusing to prosecute women who have had an abortion, like removing Harris County's ability to oversee thier elections).

But Abbott deserves every bit of bad press he gets.

Before this bill passed, cities could create ordinances/laws that said construction companies with workers working under high heat would have to allow the workers to stop working periodically so they can drink water.

This bill strips the right of the city to make those ordinances.

Lawsuit seeks to end new law signed by Greg Abbott banning water breaks after Texas heat wave deaths

Officials in Houston, Texas, filed a lawsuit on Monday looking to keep the state from enforcing an oppressive law critics have dubbed the "Death Star" bill.

House Bill 2127 is set to go into effect on Sept. 1 after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed it into law on June 6, according to MSNBC's "The ReidOut" blog. The new law restricts local governments by preventing them from passing certain ordinances if they contradict state laws in eight key areas: agriculture, finance, business and commerce, insurance, local government, labor, natural resources, property or occupations. 

"Because of HB 2127's vagueness, Houston will not know with any certainty what laws it may enforce, and its residents and businesses will not know with certainty what laws they must obey," the suit reads.

Yes, that is the intent.

The purpose of this is make sure Democratic leaning areas have to check with thier Republican overlords and get thier approval before they can proceed. 

The GOP: We want you to die. No really. Die of overheating, thirst, lack of medical care, and zero work place protections. We’ll replace you with child labor!

The Democrats: Let’s make healthcare slightly more affordable! We don’t hate gays. Women are people.

And yet there is a substantial portion of the population that is convinced the Democratic Party is the demonic one.

Biggest crybaby snowflake Trump

 Trump Reacts to Being Called a 'Loser' by Fox News Analyst

Former President Donald Trump said that Fox News analyst Brit Hume got it "wrong" when the political commentator said on air that "the case can be made that [Trump's] a loser."

Hume appeared on Fox News' Special Report on Wednesday to discuss the current lineup for the 2024 GOP presidential primary, with host Rich Edson. Preliminary polling has largely given Trump a double-digit lead in the race for the GOP nomination, ahead of Republican leaders like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Poor baby! Somebody called him what he calls literally everybody else in the world and he snowflakes out.

Maybe Trump could manage to make the conversation about something more than "Grievances against Trump" for once in his East Coast Elitist life? What a tedious POS. 

It's getting to the point that even his base is getting annoyed at it. Every rally you here them saying it's not the same anymore and it's because all he does is rant about his own problems.

And the fact is he IS a LOSER. Lost the popular vote 2 times, failed at a coup, lost the 2022 senate for the GOP, and has lost support continuously for the last 5-8 years depending how you look at it.

But best of all, it throws Trump down in a single TRUE insult instead of wasting all the attention on poor beleaguered Mr billionaire. We can move on from him with no more time than he earnestly deserves. LOSER.

This is why he'll probably be a no-show for the Republican debates. Imagine Trump having to share a stage with 4-6 direct competitors, who know exactly what to say to make him emotional and insecure. He wouldn't want to take the risk to his ego. Of course this presents a problem, for him and the party at large.

If he does go, then the general conservative public for the first time since 2016 sees that they have actual options other than Trump. If he doesn't go, then he looks weaker and even more polarizing to people already iffy on him for not acknowledging that he has to compete for and earn the nomination.

If even one other candidate can manage to present themselves as "like Trump but better" (i.e. more competent) while on the same stage as him, or while calling him too afraid to be on stage with them, then his status as the golden calf of the party will start to crumble.

It’s nice to see that his biggest fear is coming true, people are seeing him and calling out this con man. He’s been a cocktail party joke since the 80’s. It should have stayed that way.

Trump is sure bet to losing money

 Republicans Are Losing Money Because of Trump

Six top GOP donors stopped giving money to the Michigan or Arizona Republican parties because of their perceived support for the discredited claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump, according to a new report.

One former Michigan donor, real estate tycoon Ron Weiser, told Reuters it is "ludicrous" to claim Trump won the state in 2020, as supporters of the former president are continuing to do.

The USA lost money because of Trump. The Trump Foundation lost money because of Trump. Trump's hotels and shitty golf courses lost money because of Trump. Shit, even bottled water - a nearly free product requiring minimal effort to sell - lost money because of Trump.

This guy lost money selling steaks to Americans...

Think the GOP will recognize the reality of the situation? Don't hold your breath. 

Between 1985 and 1994 trump single-handedly destroyed wealth amounting to 1.700.000.000 USD.

Adjusted for inflation that’s pretty much a worldwide record. No other human has ever destroyed so much of private wealth. Some other actors come close but these are usually dictators and warlords where it is difficult to differentiate between private and state wealth and some ponzi scheme stuff comes too (the irony).

I’m pretty sure trump will go into the history books as the worst business man to have lived in the 20th century, perhaps eben the post modern era as a whole.

Students lost money because of Trump.

Trump's airline went belly up too. He is such a stable genius.

USFL was pretty popular at the time because it was played in the off-season. It would be a perpetual money maker for him because fans always wanted more football.

His decision? Lets make it compete with the NFL. Brain dead. The guy hasnt made the right business decision in his life.

That's fine. GOP decided to ride that train, despite all evidence that the end of the line was at the bottom of a cliff. I have no sympathy for any of them.

The crazy thing is they had so many off-ramps. Jan 6th especially - the rest of the GOP could have cut ties with Trump then and there and no one would have blamed them. Sure, the die-hard cult would be upset but those people are insane anyway. The GOP should give up on the cult and start trying to build a bigger base. They should moderate their extreme fringe positions and move to the center-right, but they can't because most of the Democratic party occupies that position. So they keep moving right to run away from them, and now the Rs are just slightly to the left of that guy in Germany that off'd himself in his bunker. Trump himself might not even be to the left of that.

That said, I suspect that if Trump wins the nomination (as seems increasingly likely each day) and loses in 2024, then you may finally see a shift in the GOP. They don't care about the morality of what Trump has done or plans to do, but if he loses twice in a row, he's not useful to them anymore. They won't care as much about alienating his base if that base can't win elections anyway. Additionally, Trump would be 81 in 2028 so I can't imagine he would be in fighting form (assuming he even makes it that long). Even on the campaign trail now he sounds like a shadow of his 2016 self. Guess that battery has finally run out.

Lack of education is showing on Marjorie Taylor Greene

 Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at Pride chant after failing to realize it’s sarcastic

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) shared video footage of a chant from New York City’s Pride celebrations over the weekend as proof – for her – that LGBTQ+ people want to sexually abuse children.

The short clip from Friday night’s Drag March in Manhattan shows people chanting, “We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re coming for your children,” a sarcastic response to the rise in anti-drag, anti-trans, and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric accusing LGBTQ+ people of sexually abusing children.

Just wait until she finds out about Biden's executive order next week to make all children in the US have gender reassignment surgery before starting school.

I get the fact its a joke, but can people exercise even an ounce of critical thought before doing shit like this?

The lbgt community is literally fighting to have their existence recognized and be treated as equals - maybe dont give the people who want to eliminate you direct ammunition that furthers their deranged arguments against you?

Its the same shit with that idiot trans activist who flashed her chest at the White House party.

Its fucking stupid, just stop.

Marjorie Taylor Greene implies she thinks she’s being spied on via her TV 

The far-right US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared to say she thinks she is being spied on through her television, possibly by the US government, and that someone may soon try to kill her.

In a tweet on Sunday, the Republican from Georgia said: “Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV.”

Greene also linked to a CBS News story entitled “Your smart TV might be spying on you, FBI warns”, a piece that linked to a 2019 warning about hacking and cybercriminals reported by TechCrunch.

To be fair, her smart tv is probably the smartest thing in her home.

I love how she felt she needed to explain how healthy and not crazy she is.

That’s what crazy people tend to do. 

Countdown For Ron DeSantis

 Ron DeSantis Campaign 'Close to Being Over'—Ex-GOP Governor

Former Maryland GOP Governor Larry Hogan has poured cold water on Ron DeSantis' hopes of being president, saying his campaign is one of the "worst he has ever seen" and predicting a swift end to his bid.

Hogan spoke with CBS News' Major Garrett on Wednesday and commented on DeSantis' campaign so far, and how he has handled the pressure of taking on Republican front-runner, former President Donald Trump.

Hogan said he believes DeSantis has underperformed and has essentially "dropped like a rock" in the Republican leadership race.

Dude’s entire electoral career is close to being over.

Dude has zero charisma and terrible political instincts. 

That's because his whole M.O. is to pander to the right. All he does is pay attention to what the Christo-Fascists are whining about and uses his position to amplify it. He has no original position. Even his first and most prominent commercial when he ran for governor was literally, "copy / paste what Trump says."

I've been following his battle with the Walt Disney Company very closely for a long time and watching him fail more and more tragically at every turn has been sweeter than honey to watch. It's like the state of Florida was sick and its white blood cells turned against it to attack things that are vital for its own survival.

Disney accounts for such a large portion of the state's economy and here's a man with presidential aspirations waging war with the company at the expense of the state's taxpayers.

Who's gonna watch that kind of colossal self-sabotage and see presidential material?

Federal court halts Florida’s drag ban, calling it attempt to ‘suppress the speech’ rights of performers

A federal court temporarily haltedFlorida’s controversial restrictions on drag performances, warning the law was overbroad and could risk infringing on free speech rights.

The SB1438 law, signed in May by Republican governor Ron DeSantis, is “dangerously susceptible to standardless, overbroad enforcement which could sweep up substantial protected speech,” US judge Gregory Presnell wrote in his ruling.

The people who support things like drag bans also say the Constitution was written with religious intent to protect the religious, implying that if you don’t believe in god you somehow forfeit Constitutionally protected rights.

These people missed the bus decades ago. 

DeSantis asks federal judge to dismiss Disney suit, claiming broad immunity

Attorneys for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday asked a federal court to dismiss Disney

’s lawsuit that alleges political retaliation against the company, arguing that he and at least one other defendant are “immune” and that Disney lacks standing to sue them.

The attorneys also argued that Disney’s complaint — that DeSantis targeted the company after it denounced the controversial state classroom bill derided as “Don’t Say Gay” by critics — “fails to state a claim on which relief can be granted.”

Realize that when the media writes things about Desantis like "he's weaponizing freedom to punish his enemies" they are describing fascism.

DeSantis is a fascist, just like Trump. 

Gonna be hard to argue Disneys suit is political retaliation when he openly bragged about how him fucking with them was political retaliation for exercising their first amendment right criticizing law he was passing.

DeSantis’ GOP support declining in new NBC poll

If it’s MONDAY… Russia’s mercenary rebels back down, but Vladimir Putin’s rule appears more uncertain than ever… President Biden makes announcement on nation’s high-speed internet infrastructure at 11:45 am ET… Prosecutors ask to delay Donald Trump’s classified documents trial until December… And Ron DeSantis, in Texas, releases his plan to secure the border, per NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez and Bianca Seward.

But FIRST… Yes, the headline from our new NBC News poll is how former President Donald Trump has increased his lead in the national GOP horserace since his federal indictment in the classified documents probe.  

It’s because even republicans don’t like Republicans.

If DeSantis wants to win this, he needs to go on the attack. Make fun of Chris Christie’s weight, call Mike Pence a traitor

The Republican Party exists for the sake of money and power in its own right. As long as you’re a winner and facilitate their economic priorities, you can’t actually burn any bridges. Treat them like shit, they deserve it, and the voters will reward you