Ron DeSaster: the man they fear
Perhaps the worst mistake presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis made was trusting his campaign launch to Elon Musk's Twitter platform. Instead of instantly reaching millions, while looking edgy and tech-savvy, DeSantis looked incompetent and boomertech as the launch was bedevilled by so-called "technical problems."
As reported by the Guardian:
The eccentric billionaire had invited Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, to the somewhat niche Twitter Spaces – a dedicated audio streaming feature on the social media platform – to announce his run for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. [...]Once people had got beyond the “What is Twitter Spaces?” stage, they were greeted with blank windows, broken snatches of conversation and other technical glitches.The site creaked and buckled under the demand of more than half a million users.Moderator David Sacks, a Republican donor and friend of Musk, tried to find a silver lining: “We’ve got so many people here we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign.”The debacle was a fresh blow to the credibility of Musk, whose Tesla brand has lost its shine of late and who, having laid off dozens of Twitter staff, seemed to be on the end of divine retribution from the tech gods.
Believe that simplistic explanation and I have a couple of bridges in Brooklyn to sell you!
No this was something much more sinister.
The Trump campaign immediately took advantage of DeSantis's technical embarrassment, with a Trump campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, saying:
“Glitchy. Tech issues. Uncomfortable silences. A complete failure to launch. And that’s just the candidate!”
After nearly half an hour of malfunctions, DeSantis finally got going, at least long enough for him to declare:
“I am running for president of the United States to lead our great American comeback.”
But by then many people had tuned out and missed the points DeSantis made in support of his campaign.
Laughably the Leftist media, like the Guardian is running with the naïve narrative that incident proves that Musk should not be in charge of a social media platform:
The sorry experience did little to suggest that Musk knows how to run a social media platform...
It is completely far-fetched to suppose that something as simple as a Twitter Spaces stream, run by the head of Twitter, could encounter such "boomer tech" issues so easily. Much more compelling is the explanation that Elon Musk did this on purpose. But why would Musk do such a thing?
Simple! As is well known, Musk is a deeply compromised figure, who has pandered to warmonger Vladimir Putin and has considerable business interests in China, such as the Tesla "giga factory" in Shanghai.
This exposure makes Musk extremely susceptible to leverage from the Chinese government, who are just as keen as the Russians to interfere in the American electoral process.
While DeSantis is seen in both Moscow and Beijing as a conventional US politician, namely as someone who would follow the "uni-party" line on America's global empire and responsibilities, his rival Trump is still viewed as someone who would disengage America from the wider world, and thus allow the easy ascent of China and Russia.
YEAH SO DESANTIS TRIED ANNOUNCING HIS CAMPAIGN ON TWITTER SPACES BUT IT WAS A TOTAL DISASTER WITH DAVID SACKS RAMBLING ABOUT DOGECOIN AND IT CRASHED LIKE 5 TIMES—NOW TRUMP JUST DROPPED A PARODY OF IT WITH AN AI VERSION OF ADOLF HITLER AND DICK CHENEY pic.twitter.com/iwrIzmKYgx
— James (@GravitysRa1nbow) May 25, 2023
Trump is using every conspiracy theory going in this "response vid" to the DeSantis campaign launch on Twitter Spaces, LOL pic.twitter.com/I0G1XCZr8u
— Colin Liddell (@cbliddell) May 25, 2023
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