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DeSantis on Elon Musk saying he would vote for DeSantis if he ran for president: “I welcome support from African Americans. What can I say?”
- Thread starter GK86
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He's crass just like Trump, he gives the audience what they want. He's seen the Trump playbook and does it all better than him. It's nothing about celebrity, it's the attitude and all. And yes I'm from FL, the people here LOVE Desantis. Desantis is becoming a golden boy of the GOP that other extreme right in the GOP point to and go "oh yea that's our guy, I wish he was my governor!"
It is the distinction. I was born in North Africa, have American citizenship, and I would never in a million years call myself African American (nor do I checkmark it on various forms even when the only other option is "white"). Anyone who does or who describes people without black ancestry in Africa as such immediately goes on my shitlist.
And it isn't just a right-wing thing either. Plenty of assholes on the left do the same thing. They think they're fucking clever. Maybe 1% are genuinely ignorant and take the term overtly literally without knowing any better but the vast majority know exactly what they're doing. There are potentially nuanced arguments about the term as a whole but they're never interested in actually making them, preferring instead to be pedantic morons.
I mean, we'll see. But I'm not seeing the ability of DeSantis appeal to move beyond the hard right, and that's what got Trump elected.
And I sure as hell did forget that just as I was typing the post.
Still, as a figure... I'd look out for the American version of a Musk.
I think royalans point is more that trump got sone independents/non voters
That is true. I'd agree DeSantis doesn't have that level of reach.
The proper thing would also be South African- American. He has the luxury of knowing where he came from with certainty.
Many other black Africans were sold, kidnapped, beaten, raped, and enslaved coming to the colonies and other parts of the world with our origins and identities robbed. So it becomes extra difficult to trace exact countries and tribes within the continent.
I can easily get pissed because DeSantis and plenty of other racist assed white people are playing cute with that terminology when they know full well what they're doing.
To the right leaning people, it doesn't really matter. They will push the bar back to, "well, your liberal science books say we all came from Africa so I am an African American too!"
Part of Trump's appeal to moderates/non-voters is that he was an "political outsider" who would "shake up Washington". DeSantis doesn't bring that same appeal in the slightest.
I think it's more likely that the right
- Wants friends who are "African American"
- Does not want to be personally perceived as "African American"
DeSantis has a high approval rating despite red tide increasing under him, approving to dump toxic waste water, restricting abortion even further, the don't say gay bill and threaten Disney by increasing property tax on Central Floridians. That's just the surface of the problem
Joe Rogan.
And you best believe I'll be caping for The Rock against him as he's probably the only person that has as much recognition and a similarly following. Disgusting what politics have come to.
DeSantis is probably winning 2028 though.
Nah...I don't think so.
The more extreme these people become the less of them there will actually be.
Yeah you definitely have the right (read: wrong lol) idea tho!
I feel like this has been said throughout history and is never shown to be true.
And Trump is NEVER going to let an obvious social climber be his number 2. He picked Pence for a reason.
He checks every box for "traditional" conservatives as well. Elite education, stable family life, military service. He is very electable and very dangerous.
Nah, Elon Musk will be Labour Secretary. So somehow even worse.