Hey, remember when Kari Lake was running for governor in Arizona and couldn’t stop talking about Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis’ BDE? Well, apparently she’s not feeling his energy anymore.
In case you need a refresher… Lake made the comments last August at a Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
“That guy has a backbone made of steel,” Lake said of DeSantis. “I’ll tell you what he’s got, I don’t know if anybody’s heard about this, but he’s got BDE. Anybody know what this means? Ask your kids about it later.”
She continued, “I call it ‘Big DeSantis Energy.’ Right? He’s got the same kind of BDE that President Trump has. And frankly he has the same kind of BDE that we want all of our elected leaders to have.”
Kari Lake says Desantis has ‘BDE,’ (Big Dick Energy), the same kind of BDE that Trump has. “He has the same BDE that we want all of our leaders to have.” pic.twitter.com/hcFlNiRrCn
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2022
But after DeSantis, who’s now running against Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination for president, told NBC this week that he believes the ex-president lost the 2020 election, Lake’s love for the gay-hating Florida governor died.
“I saw a little bit of [DeSantis’ NBC interview],” Lake said on Steve Bannon’s podcast this week. “Disgusting!”
“I’ll tell you what, the people of Iowa don’t like backstabbers,” she continued. “I’m from Iowa, I grew up there. They can smell a phony from a mile away. They’ve determined that Ron’s a phony.”
But Lake, who has been reportedly been angling hard for a spot on the GOP ticket alongside Trump, didn’t stop there.
“He’s got to buy endorsements, spending all that big donor money, wasting it,” she carried on. “When he really should be supporting [former] President Trump … this is about saving our country.”
Desantis today said Trump’s own incompetence was to blame for his loss in 2020, and Bannon and Lake went nuts, calling Desantis a “phony” “disgusting” and “backstabber.”https://t.co/kkyPJ1oFsV
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 7, 2023
DeSantis is currently trailing Trump in the polls.
Per Forbes:
15.1%. That’s DeSantis’ average national polling result in the GOP presidential primaries as of August 8, according to FiveThirtyEight. DeSantis falls in second place behind former Trump, who is averaging 53.2% and maintains a lead in most polls. The gap has widened in recent months: DeSantis averaged 23.4% three months ago, and 34.4% six months ago.
To make matters worse, he recently let go of a third of his campaign staff, and just this morning he announced he had hired a new campaign manager, too… a mere three months after announcing candidacy.
James Uthmeier, who previously worked as DeSantis’ gubernatorial office’s chief of staff, will replace outgoing campaign manager and longtime DeSantis aide Generra Peck, who will reportedly stay on as a chief strategist for the flailing campaign.
In addition to calling DeSantis “disgusting”, a “backstabber”, and a “phony”, Lake recently issued a statement calling on all GOP presidential candidates to suspend their campaigns immediately and rally behind Trump or “we will lose this country forever.”
This latest SHAM indictment is the line in the sand.
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) August 1, 2023
That’s why I’m calling on all Republican primary candidates to suspend their campaigns & rally around President Donald J. Trump.
READ my full statement ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/4VhQWLhghj
So far, none of the candidates have heeded her call.
DeeAnnCA
Lake: You need to go home, stay there and sleep it off.
abfab
Really. She’s the republican mess of the month.
mildredspierce
Her mouth isn’t the only part of her that flip-flops when it runs. Bet Marge finds her even more disgusting.
abfab
”otherwise we will lose this country forever” Uh. oh.
Mack
Lake is doing pretty much everything to be Trump’s running mate. But in Trump’s eyes she’s not the pu**y he wants to grab.
abfab
Her pu s s y is falling so god damn fast her gynocologist wears a hard hat!
-Joan Rivers
dbmcvey
These lunatics are the Republican Party.
abfab
They be party people! Stiffs.
abfab
His mouth is wide open…..I won’t finish that thought…Best left to his GOPTROLL supporters.
bachy
When your ideology becomes a mental illness.
dwick
I don’t want to hear anyone say BDE and DeSantis in the same sentence
Kangol2
I guess her alleged dismissal from Mar-a-Lago forced her to choose something new to waste her own and other human beings’ time and energy on. No thanks, Kareesha.
Meanwhile, Democrat Ruben Gallego is leading all challengers in current polling. Please donate to and support his victory in November 2024.
Louis
I just don’t understand how so many Republicans are still supporting Trump with all of his court cases going on. It befuddles me.
I might be wrong (I’m not exactly au fait with politics prior to reaching voting age) but I FEEL like whether one is a lefty or righty in the UK, we wouldn’t support someone running to be prime minister if they had numerous active court cases going through.
I don’t even think our politicians would try to lead a party with them going on. Even Boris, probably our most right wing PM of recent times eventually stood down as PM when half of his cabinet quit. Then the devil that was Truss had the sense to quite after less than 7 weeks.
I know political ideologies run deep (in the US and the UK), so I’m not naive enough to think that a Republican would switch to being a Democrat due to it/him, but I have to ask the Republicans on here: HOW/WHY would you support Trump (if indeed you do) given his active court cases?
nebskram
its called “projection” and “cult of personality” after years of calling dems “cheaters” its was a set up so he could cheat after all if the dems cheat i should cheat better/more than them so the dems don’t win after all if the dems cheat why can’t i?
justifying, minimizing & rationaling if the Dems do it i will too. but come to find out Dems are not the cheaters
if you do a google search for “signs i might be in a cult” you will find it fits tRump perfectly as a cult leader
abfab
The Profumo affair is an interesting bit of your history. And that poor, sweet Mandy RIce Davies being exploited like that. Makes what the POS (donald trump) did, and still does, look like a May Pole Dance.
dbmcvey
It’s a cult.
Kangol2
A number of Republicans have either left the party or refuse to vote for the Don the Con, which is one reason Dark Brandon Biden won in 2020. (He won by 7 million votes, and won Republican-leaning states like Arizona and Florida, and came close in North Carolina).
The current Republican base, however, is essentially a cult, and worships Don the Con as if he is Jesus. This is the case despite the fact that he lies incessantly, has committed multiple crimes while in office, left the country in an economic and social shambles (millions of jobs lost, mass death from Covid-19, a failed trade war with China, etc.) and topped it off with a failed coup against the US government and Congress.
He continues to lie, grift, scam, project, foment hatred and violence, etc., and has been indicted in multiple venues (federal, state, etc.), but his cult cannot get enough of him. It’s like Jim Jones, only stronger, if you can imagine that. The UK has not had a political figure like this in some time, though Oswald Mosley or Enoch Powell, both extreme racists, might come close, but neither was elected PM, correct? As horrible as some prior Republican presidents have been, Don the Con makes them all look like sane angels by comparison.
Louis
*Addition*
Whilst I am always in favour of “innocent until proven guilty”, please don’t use that as your basis for still supporting Trump when responding to my question, because although it could be used for his currently criminal trials, he has previously been found guilty in civil court(s) which, in my opinion, should still factor in to whether a politician is supported.
Kangol2
I’m telling you this without qualification: Don the Con could be found guilty of every crime he is currently charged with. He also could be found guilty, say, of that child rape charge lodged against him back in 2015 or so. He even could be found guilty of shooting someone in the face on Mar-a-Lago’s grounds or on Fifth Avenue in New York City. And his cult would STILL support him to his last breath. I really think it’s hard to grasp the hold this man has on a significant (not majority, but still) group of mostly White Americans, mostly Gen X, Boomers and what remains of the “Greatest Generation.” He won a majority of the White vote in 2016 and 2020, despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton and Dark Brandon Biden. There is almost nothing he could do to lose many of these voters, which is one reason he is polling almost neck-and-neck with Biden. Our media seem incapable of grasping this, but thankfully a sizable (majority?) of Americans who aren’t in his cult do not want him or his misrule back in charge. But given what we’ve endured since 2015-16, and I guess we all will see what happens.
Winsocki
I bet Trump has banged miss thirsty Lake …… Melania just puts on her coat “I don’t care”….it always comes in handy.
abfab
trump bangs with his tiiny litte didgets he calls fingers. First he grabs them by the pu ssy. His children were concieved in test tubes. Who the hell would want that thing on top of you…besides DIPLOMAT and a few other TROLLS who insist on blatantly spreading their bigotry and ignorance…
Diplomat
I’m glad to see Florida outlawing gender ideology especially the whole pronoun piss bag, call me a woman dammit tho I’m a man bs, no cross dressing rooms showers bathrooms garbage etc in schools. I want to see this go nation wide. Trans could have had it all if they weren’t such a toxic bunch of rude ass psycho thugs.
abfab
You must feel so good about yourself. Especially since you just got that out of your system FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME!!!!!
We get it dipshit—you’re a loser and an ugly old GOPTROLL.
Diplomat
TransTroll Abcrabs…LoL you’re so cute when there’s foam drueling down your chin. But you need correction: I can’t stand the GOP: Trump should be hung for treason, this Friday, And Biden will take the presidency. I’m as dem as it gets, and I’m totally against all trans thugery and pushy behavior in schools as are lots of Dems. Now shut up and eat your spaghetti ya dimwitted hooligan. As I said, you could have had it all if you had one ounce of manners.
And could you please stop eating with your fingers? Geesh. You trans trolls gotta go.
PubisHairus
@Diplomat: “A trans was mean to me, so I think they should be exterminated.”
Diplomat
No. Just blocked.
dbmcvey
Yes. Of course it’s the place of government to legislate people’s personal decisions. That’s the dream of conservatism.
abfab
And dippo, the GOP can’t stand you either. And you can forget about having any friends or god for bid, relations, with anyone from the DNC..
You are about as Democratic as POL POT was. Spaghetti?
You’re a loser and a bigot—fuk off.
Diplomat
As long as I repel trans ideology being shoved down kids/our throats and the hating of women like you all do in spades, I’m juzzz fine. Bring on the law against the lawless.
Sorry you’re so upset being stuck with a dick. Don’t blame it on the public. That’s your problem. Grl.
PubisHairus
Is that a passage from THE DIPLOMAT MANIFESTO? Will you promise to publish the full rantings online before your grand finale?
abfab
It’s a small pamphlet and every page reads the same as the one before. So it was easy to print. Find him on Any Street Corner, USA. Dippy will be standing with the Lyndon LaRouche coalition.
Diplomat
With your trans troll rhetoric: You mame the binary. You mame women. You mame children. You mame the family. You should be gagged like your copy hero bilge mouth Trump. He’s just like you. This movie’s about to end.
abfab
GOPTROLL…..Q Anon is waiting for your return. Dippy, you’re a mess.
Tombear
And to think I thought BDE means big dick energy. Who is right? Lake or me?
abfab
The Lincoln Project. It is quite good, isn’t it. They should do one just on The Log Cabin Queers and the GOPTROLLS who want to rule the world, but can’t.
How big is your dick, Dip? Got energy? Tired old fag.
Diplomat
You got it right. It’s big dick energy.
abfab
Brilliance.