He’s very successful at fascism once he’s in power. He was able to do it in Florida, but the whole country is a different electorate. So he’s stuck with the inconvenience of having to win a national primary and then a general election with far less charisma (for certain values of the word) and con artistry than Biff has.
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The Qnuts have convinced me that if Trump isn’t the nominee, there will still be a few that back him. Trump hated Obama, but I think he hates DeSantis more than Biden, and won’t give any speeches saying “You’ve got to vote Republican” if he’s not the nominee. If Trump can peel off 3% (just moved to the nonvoting column) that’s going to be enough.
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Legally he can’t, or must immediately resign as Governor.
I mean, that’s if he obeyed the law. Currently the Florida congress is also considering both changing the law and also simply saying it doesn’t apply to him, which is just great.
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Totally. Thinking back on his past runs, he’s just dialing it in compared to when he had comprehensive platform proposals, and held extensive listening sessions to find out what was on the minds of the American populace…
Wait, I’m thinking of someone else. 
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Honestly surprised he hasn’t gone with “Tiny D” as he was trying that one out and it seems right on Trump’s level - reinforcing that Trump is taller (and therefore “more manly”) while also being a dick reference. Maybe Trump thought no one would know who he was talking about if DeSantis’ name wasn’t in there at all. Or maybe Trump’s just been doing his usual thing - saying something and refining based on the immediate crowd feedback, and it’s not working because the “loves Trump, hates DeSantis” demographic isn’t big enough to be useful.
It’s all relative - this feels half-assed compared to his previous runs, which themselves really weren’t even half-assed. So it’s like, 1/20th-assed, or something.
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… unless maybe “conservative” just means racist
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… it also affects which set of regulations they have to follow—the rules are different for “exploratory committees” vs “campaigns”
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Which is funny, since Ronna McDaniel pushed through a resolution within the party that everyone would support the nominee, and I’m betting that Trump was the one who pushed that through, thinking he’d just sail through the nomination process…
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Right wing: Fuck Socialism!
Also Right wing: Don’t fucking touch my Social Security!
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I just saw the campaign video where he talks about his vision - flying cars and “freedom cities” on federal land. Yeah, he’s just grasping at this point, his heart isn’t in it like it was with Mexican rapists and drug dealers.
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And of course he’d be the only one guaranteed to violate that agreement, too. I mean, what are they going to do to him if he doesn’t support the nominee, kick him out of the party?
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Granted trump has less honor than the worst pirate. As in none.
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Yeah, drop a new city on one of those sparsely populated red states, and watch what happens.
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Wasn’t he workshopping “Meatball”? Seemed perfect to me, though I’m not a connoisseur like Donnie.
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I doesn’t work as an insult for me. I get warm happy thoughts when you say “meatball”. I have lived in the Little Italy parts of town, and tasted things from recipes grandmothers refused to share.
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I’m assuming the thinking (if there is any at all) is that they’re going to be low/no- regulation cities (or at least cheap land for corporations to do what they want) that they think will attract conservative libertarian types*, but the whole thing is just nuts. Building new cities on federal park/military land? Intended to be “frontier towns” but “futuristic,” with flying cars (for individuals, no less)… I guess he saw Saudi Arabia’s incredibly stupid “Neom” line city and thought it was both a good idea and that he’d seem like a visionary as well if he also proposed something similar. I suppose it’s the perfect Trump proposal - it’d take so long to even plan, he’d be out of office before it fell apart in the early planning stages; he can propose it and then immediately ignore it, just to briefly seem like a man with a vision for the future.
*Leaving aside that the federal land is almost all in the West, with the red state areas either desert, military bases or being currently used for grazing land. So yeah, multiple issues, there.
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Mm, that’s a fair point. Maybe he could take a page from Aqua Teen Hunger Force and go with “Meat Wad”?
Or how do you feel about “Hamhock”?
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There’s no actual rule that POTUS and VPOTUS candidates can’t be from the same state, it’s just almost always a better campaign strategy to do that - ie: picking a VP candidate that has support from different areas and demographics that complement/add to the Presidential candidates’ base of support.
And like sqlrob said they ignored actual rules last time, so it not like they can’t ignore that.
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There is an old gotcha in the Electoral College.
There was one caveat. Electoral College voters, called electors, could not cast both of their votes for two people from their home state. In plainspeak, an Electoral College member from Maryland couldn’t cast his two votes for candidates from Maryland. Electors from any other state could still vote for two Maryland representatives, just not the electors from Maryland.
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