The DeSantis Withdrawal Effect and Trump's Path to the White House

When the political landscape shifts, it's worth paying attention—Ron DeSantis's sudden exit from the presidential race and subsequent endorsement of Donald Trump is a thunderclap in the tumultuous skies of American politics. Our latest episode unpacks this turn of events, analyzing DeSantis's accomplishments as Governor of Florida and the potential factors that may have stymied his national appeal. We don't just stop there; we sink our teeth into Trump's reaction to this newfound support, his pointed critiques of Joe Biden, and the ever-intriguing perception within certain minority communities that sees the establishment as decidedly anti-Trump.

Strap in for a thorough exploration of the GOP's current state, where allegiance seems to be rallying behind Trump, overshadowing other contenders like Nikki Haley. We decipher the cryptic endorsements from pivotal party figures and dissect the legal challenges Trump faces, weighing the skepticism about their merit against the gravity of charges. Moreover, we contrast media narratives against the raw footage of events like the Capitol riot—no echoes of pundits, just the footage and our thoughts. The possibility of Michelle Obama stepping into the campaign spotlight adds yet another layer to our discussion, as we consider the broader implications for democracy if Trump indeed makes his way back into the Oval Office. Listen and join us on this deep-dive into the strategic moves and counter-moves on the political chessboard.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. You don't know what that all is, mr Trash. I'd show you. But I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too fucking blind. If I were a man I was five years ago I'd take a flamethrower to this place.

Speaker 2: 0:46

Do you understand the words that are coming out of?

Speaker 1: 0:49

my mouth. You want answers. I think I'm entitled to it. You want answers. I want the truth.

Speaker 2: 0:57

You can't handle the truth In this strange topsy-turvy world. We've said it once, we've said it twice, we've said it a million times the truth Shut up, we're 63. This is Tim. That's getting off my lawn.

Speaker 2: 1:07

The mad ramblings of a Gen Xer want to talk about Virus X and it's not Donald Trump, because we're going to talk about Donald Trump in his march now to the White House. I mean, you can literally hate Trump. You can love Trump. You could be a Mago Republican. You could be a closet conservative. Hell, you could be an independent. I even know some Democrats now that are kind of coming over to the Trump side of the ball right now. But the thing is this I mean you can't deny his momentum. With all the lawsuits, with everything that's going on, it's just amazing to me how he just keeps trucking along.

Speaker 2: 1:46

And the reason we're talking about this today is because the Venerable Ron DeSantis has suspended his presidential campaign and he has come out and endorsed Donald Trump. Now, desantis, after that huge win in Florida it wasn't really a huge win because the guy he was running against was a moron, but that huge win for the governorship in Florida he had this momentum, he had this oh, je ne sais quoi. He had this buildup that he was going to march towards the White House and he just really couldn't connect with the voters. He really couldn't connect with the independents. And you wanted to root for DeSantis because he's done a lot for Florida. He kept the state open when everyone else shut their states down. He kept their kids in school. He kept his economy rolling. So you felt that he had this cachet, this movement, when he first came into the race. And then he started losing ground in Nikki Haley and then it just kind of gotten worse and worse and worse. So he has suspended his campaign and he's come out and endorsed Trump. And Trump has come out and said he's very honored.

Speaker 2: 2:50

Now this is Trump has gone after DeSantis ad nauseam. I mean it's not even funny. I mean you think Trump can be vicious against his opponents on the left? I mean hell, he's vicious with the people on the right. And he said that he's looking forward to working together with DeSantis to beat Joe Biden. He goes. We're very honored to have his endorsement, trump told Fox Digital I look forward to working together with him to beat Joe Biden, who was the worst and most corrupt president in the history of our country. You can't. I mean that's that's always not open for debate, because he kind of is. I mean he's making Jimmy Carter look good and his weaponizing of the, the DOJ and the FBI and everything else is just to go after Trump is just kind of incredible and I think a lot of things.

Speaker 2: 3:38

What's going on with Trump is you got a lot of people and a lot of minorities and I've actually spoken to to some people and and they happen to be minorities and one of the things they say they like about Trump is that the establishment is out to get them and they're mentioning the fact that you could see that they are going out to get them, that this, this, this, this isn't something that is just a misconception. They are literally out to get him and do everything they possibly can to stop his march to the White House. I don't know if Trump's going to win, but I do find it interesting that the last president that was that that states tried to keep off the ballot was Abraham Lincoln, and I'm not comparing Trump to Lincoln, not in any regards. I just find it interesting that Lincoln was such. Lincoln stands for slavery really just made him public enemy number one against certain states and it was their thought process was to keep him off the ballot, was the way that they could stop his presidency. And we're seeing the same thing over and over again and you have to worry about that and it just kind of makes you cringe. I'm not saying there's going to be a civil war. I always love it because people are like, well, the Maga Republicans are going to go out on the offensive. Well, really, because I don't really ever see the Maga Republicans really going out and going to the White House and trying to rip down the or scale the non-scalable fences oh wait, that's the Palestinian protesters. I don't see them out there going, you know, f the police and kill the pigs. Oh, no, wait, that's, that's the left. And then they come out and say, well, you know, we were never against defunding the police. That's just crazy talk.

Speaker 2: 5:22

Now, trump, of course, won the Iowa caucus on Monday and it looks like he I mean he's got a pretty much a they're saying right now, he's got a double digit lead over Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley, I like some of the things she's saying. I like some of the things she's doing. I don't like this fact that she's 50 plus years old and she's like well, I'm for the younger generation, well, you're 50 plus years old. Sorry, nikki, I'm 50 plus years old and I'm not for the younger generation.

Speaker 2: 5:46

Trump I mean to say this also basically came out, said he endorsed Trump, because we can't get back to the old Republican guards of yesterday, the repackage form of warmed over corporate corporatism, and that represents Nikki Haley, which I find interesting that Nikki Haley is now corporatism. Trump is going to run away with this. And I love it, because you got to remember, back in the day, trump basically nicknamed or dubbed as Santa's Ron DeSancdomonius, which was great, I mean. I mean it was one of, it was one of those nicknames that you just stuck with you when you heard it. But, like I said, it's very interesting that that DeSantis would literally come out and just say you know what I'm going with the, I'm going with Trump, I'm not going with Haley. And it's interesting because even Ted Cruz came out and said hey, listen, you know what I'm going, I'm going with Trump as well. All these people that you kind of thought would have maybe gone against Trump have just, you know, have just swung that way Tim Scott, who was appointed to his position initially by Nikki Haley when she was the governor of South Carolina, has come out and said that he is backing Trump. So the march towards the, at least the, at least you know the nomination for the Republican party. It looks like it's going to be Trump and it's just.

Speaker 2: 7:13

It's just terrifying in regards to what they're seriously trying to do to get Trump. I mean, the get Trump ism is pretty crazy. And I love it because you have the one civil suit going on in by Leticia James in New York and the judge has already basically come out and said he, trump, is guilty. I don't even know why there's a trial. And I love it because you speak to all these scholars and you speak to all these people that that you know, that were judges or or professors at Harvard University and all these law schools, schools and all everything else, and they keeps coming out and they keep saying the same thing.

Speaker 2: 7:49

I don't even know how this case is proceeding against Trump, against his overestimation of his real estate, because there's no victim. You know you, you have a crime, but you have no victim to the crime. The banks who lent them the money got the money back, plus interest there, there, this isn't like a burning made-off pyramid scheme. There's nothing, there's done nothing there and it's just kind of crazy that these lawsuits just continue. And you know these lawsuits I mean leticia James, she came out in and basically ran her entire campaign on getting Trump.

Speaker 2: 8:31

I Don't get it. I mean I really I really don't get it. I mean the whole thing is about just convicting Trump, just going after Trump, and a lot of people don't, a lot of people don't remember that there's. A lot of these cases are our civil cases, you know, except for the, the, the, the alleged improper retention of classified records from his time at the White House over at Mar-a-Lago, and they had four federal charges related to the capital city.

Speaker 2: 8:57

Right, but I don't understand, because they don't ever want to play what he said on Twitter. They don't ever want to play his message, at no point in time that they told him. You know, did he ever tell people, go down the way to go down to the Capitol and take it over? And I tell you, for people that were insurrectionists, they were the most polite insurrectionists I've ever seen. You heard all the stories, you saw the doctored footage by the Democrats and Then you see the actual raw footage and you see them walking Through the Capitol with reverence and looking and looking at everything and walking between the velvet ropes. I've never seen protesters at the site. Hey, you know I'm gonna walk between the velvet ropes because we don't want to step outside. It's just kind of crazy.

Speaker 2: 9:39

But what's going on now? Like I said, you could love Trump, you could hate Trump, you could, you could do whatever you, you can say whatever you want, but he's got something. He's got something in this election and he's got something that that is really helping him get over a little bit. And, like I said, the the the Biden campaign is just floundering. The Biden campaign is floundering so much. They're already talking about rolling out Michelle Obama, which I really don't get Because she has come out repealing, saying how much she hates this country and she said that when her husband was president how she can't stand this country and how she hates this country. But she's going to come out and save the country because she's afraid what's going to happen to democracy if Trump wins. But no one can explain to me what's going to happen to democracy, because I can't remember who was it that colluded with social media to basically put out disinformation to help one of the candidates whose son was in a lot of trouble for a whole bunch of things by taking money from foreign entities, basically being a foreign actor gun possession, drugs.

Speaker 2: 10:47

But they colluded with and so did what was it? 50 plus former intelligence agency officers. They concluded as well. I can't remember who did that. Who was it that tried to basically run a banana republic and sit there and try to control the narrative? I don't remember. I don't remember who it was. I can't recall, I don't know. It'll come to me as we continue this podcast.

Speaker 2: 11:13

And then you also have, like I said, then you keep going on and on about the civil trial against the rape allegations, where the judge has basically come out and said listen, he's already guilty of rape, trump that is. We already know this, he's guilty. Well, you know, this is the same woman and I'm not going to say her name and give her any credibility, and I'm not saying nothing happened. I'm saying something happened. I'm not saying nothing happened, but I'm just saying this If you talk to people who have experienced some type of sexual assault, they'll tell you they know the date, the time, they know where they were, they knew what they were wearing. They usually have extremely vivid memories. She can't even remember the month.

Speaker 2: 11:54

And it's amazing that you could go back to the 1990s and all of a sudden lay this claim against somebody but not even have any factual evidence or have any evidence. It's just he said, she said, and if it was anyone but Trump, this wouldn't be going anywhere. It's weird that you could do these things in this country now to someone who you just don't like politically and then turn around and basically, I'm not saying the claims are not true, I'm not saying they are true, I'm just saying this. I just find it really weird that this is happening, that you are allowed to file these types of civil charges where you basically have no evidence and you can't even remember the day, the time or the month. That's just weird to me.

Speaker 2: 12:49

And, like I said, if you want to roll out Michelle Obama, that's fine. I don't think she would win because I think there's a lot of people and I think a lot of people on the right would rise up and go against her because of her thoughts and reference to how much she hates America, has come out and said that. She basically came out and said how she despises America when her husband was president. So you know, let it be and, like I said, I voted for Trump. I mentioned this before I voted for Trump the first time around in 2016. I didn't vote for him or anyone in 2020 because I felt both candidates were stale.

Speaker 2: 13:23

But there is something different about this candidate to see a Trump right now and hopefully he keeps on record. He keeps on point. He doesn't bring up the stolen elections, he talks about what's important to America. Joe Biden can go out and buy the economics all he wants, but the problem is this you go out and buy the grocery store, you do see Bidenomics, because it's 30, 40% more you're paying. You go out and buy a car, it's going to be more because of the fact of the interest rates and, especially if you buy a new car, it's the fact of the parts. You see, I mean they talk about, oh, go out and buy electric vehicles, but don't mention the fact that it's $70,000,. Even if you give me $7,000, I'm still paying $63,000 for an electric car which I can't charge in the winter. That's just weird. It's just kind of strange.

Speaker 2: 14:10

I want to talk about briefly that the World Health Organization Director has called for the World's Pandemic Treaty to prepare for disease X. Now disease X is going to be 20 times more deadly than the coronavirus. The only problem is, disease X does not exist. It's basically a placeholder for a disease that they are anticipating coming down the pike, and then I always laugh well, do they know something? You have these gentlemen in China hopefully not in Wuhan that have created a coronavirus that basically has a 100% kill ratio in humanized rats. I don't know what humanized rats are. Did they go to college? Did they have jobs? Did they sign up for this? Is that what a humanized rat is? But they're saying this disease could be 20 times deadlier than COVID-19, and it was added to the who's who are you? Who, who, who? Shortlist of pathogens for research in 2017. That could cause serious international epidemic, according to the World Health Organization press release, but there is no disease right now. They're just putting the disease X as a placeholder.

Speaker 2: 15:17

It's kind of like what they're saying we're just going to wait to see what this disease is and we're going to kind of go from there and it basically comes out that we lost many people during COVID. This is the gentleman that runs the World Health Organization. Again, he's another one I'm not even going to give any credence to. There are things that are unknown and may have happened, and anything that happened is a matter of when, not if. So we have to have a placeholder for that and diseases. That's why we call it disease X. We lost many people during the COVID because we couldn't manage them. No, that's actually not true. It's because of your misinformation about what was coming out of China, and the delay in reference to getting information from China was one of the bigger reasons why this happened. But we don't want to talk about that. They could have been saved, but there was no space. There's not enough oxygen, so you could have a system that could expand with the need comes.

Speaker 2: 16:09

The pandemic agreement will bring us all the experience, all the challenges that we have faced and all the solutions into one. The agreement can help us prepare for the future in a better way. So you're basically asking for money. I understand that. So who's going to get all this money? Oh, it's the World Health Organization. Oh, that's right, that's right. They're going to get all the money and they're going to be responsible for it. It's like why don't we give all the money to NATO? Nato is a necessary evil, a necessary need. I shouldn't call it an evil because it served as purpose against the axis of evil, but at some importance and at certain points in time. It's interesting that the United States is the one that controls our pennies most of the money for NATO, except when the Donald Trump came in and decided to have people pay their fair share. But now you have the World Health Organization coming out with this very vague and very ambiguous disease and they want to have this treaty together. That includes greatly enhancing international cooperation to provide, for example, alert systems, data sharing, research for local, regional, global production, distribution of medicine and the public health countermeasures such as vaccine, medicine, diagnosis, personal protective equipment. So again, where is this? So we had to dole out this money, but who's going to be responsible for this money? Oh, the World Health Organization. Oh, I don't know. Sometimes I don't know what the hell I'm thinking. Sometimes I don't know what the hell I'm thinking.

Speaker 2: 17:41

I wanted to talk about John Federman, but I think I'm going to save that, because John Federman, for all his wackiness, has literally been coming out to be the voice of reason for the left and, like I said, I'm in Pennsylvania and I thought he was a whack job. But then you listen to what some of the things that he actually talks about and actually says. It's crazy because, as Federman says, american Dream is threatened by 300,000 illegal immigrants, southern to southern border. I honestly don't understand why it's a conversation to say we need a secure border. He basically told them. Because it's not a conversation. He's right. He's right. He's the kind of people that are coming in for the American Dream and pushing out the people that are actually there for the American Dream. He goes. I don't know. Like I said, I don't understand. I don't understand why it's conversation. And let's see here I don't understand why it's controversial for anyone to decide that you're going to stand with Israel in this situation. I honestly don't. I don't understand why it's controversial to say we need a secure border when John Federman is the voice of logic. You know we're all fucking doomed.

Speaker 2: 18:43

We got a big show also coming up on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week, so make sure you stay tuned for that. And again, as always, this is Tim. Let's get off my lawn. Bad Rammys on the agenda. See you next Monday.