It was only a few weeks ago when Casey DeSantis whiffed on her charm offensive during a softball interview with Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt.
So naturally, “America’s Karen” tried her hand again at being likable with another Fox News anchor.
But unsurprisingly, she couldn’t resist taking hateful jabs at transgender people.
In a sit-down chat with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner, Casey talked about how her parents pushed her to play sports at a young age. A talented horseback rider, she competed on the College of Charleston’s equestrian team, where she was a three-time national champion.
“I’m glad my parents pushed me to do athletics,” she said. “Not only was it good to get out there and make friendships, but also the competition. And not only winning and victory, but learning how to lose. That’s one of the hardest things you have to go through, and then pick yourself up and become resilient.”
That answer seems normal enough. And she could’ve left it at that. But never one to shy away from our never-ending culture wars, Casey took the bait when Faulkner asked her about transgender participation in sports.
“I think there are lot of Republicans, independents and Democrats who don’t believe that biological men should be taking opportunities from women,” she said.
That response isn’t surprising, given Casey’s devotion towards spreading anti-LGBTQ+ hate. Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis has made attacking LGBTQ+ people a central focus of his flailing presidential campaign, and Casey is more than happy to follow suit.
Last month, she cut her own virulently homophobic ad, and shared a video of Ron ejecting an LGBTQ+ activist from one of his (sparsely attended) events.
Time and time again, the DeSantis’ have made an effort to come across as kind and normal people, and they keep failing. For example: when talking about their children, Casey weirdly keeps referring to them as “my kids,” making Ron come across as some sort of… babysitter?
I didn’t know robots could have kids.
— Mark Anthony (@MarkAnthonyLopz) August 22, 2023
That means he does nothing!
— Linda Schoenberg (@LindaSchoenberg) August 22, 2023
They say the most obvious answer is always the answer…So…The kids aren’t his!
— Paeris Whitlow (@PaerisWhitlow) August 22, 2023
On the heels of the first Republican debate, DeSantis’ numbers keep slipping.
A new poll shows his support among GOP voters dropped from 23% in July to 12% in August. That’s the first time this cycle there are more undecided voters (14%) than DeSantis supporters.
Right now, the gay-hating governor only leads entrepreneur and 9/11 conspiracy theorist Vivek Ramaswamy by four points.
With declining fortunes like that, no wonder why DeSantis can’t keep it together.
Oof. If I didn’t despise him so much I may feel slightly sorry for him. But I don’t. At all.
— Brian Rundle (@BRun13) August 20, 2023
He’s done for
— Ryan Bute (@RyanBute) August 20, 2023
Grinning through the pain makes that smile look even worse.https://t.co/hVQdr6Zxx6
— Michael VanDeMar (@mvandemar) August 20, 2023
Months ago, politicos thought Casey Desantis could humanize her awkward husband to voters. But if her Fox News interviews are any indication, that’s an impossible task. (It doesn’t help that she’s almost as awkward and off-putting as him.)
On Tuesday, Casey kept repeating that Ron is a “great guy” and “very, very smart,” as if she was selling herself on his supposed positive attributes.
“I knew very quickly after meeting him that he was the one,” she said. “You can tell he is funny, he is a great guy to be around, he is very, very smart. He has good moral compass.”
Could’ve fooled us! Judging by Ron’s sagging polling numbers, nobody else is fooled, either.
Kangol2
Like her hubby Casey DeFascist is full of hate and can’t hide it. Every time she’s given an opportunity she lets the world know who she and he are. Anybody who misses this or thinks either one is going to change is asking for disaster. Vote blue and say NO WAY to these two hateful grifters!
abfab
Her KIDS should start therapy now before they run away from home. The parents will divorce and she’ll start riding horses again. Bareback.
abfab
How come she doesn’t call them KIDDOS like many other annoying parents do?
decrans
What does it say to you that a large contingent of Democrats RIGHT HERE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY attended the Protect Our Kids protest yesterday in Downtown LA? Could it be that your message isn’t even resonating with sizable segments of your own party? I’ve said this before. It’s easier to lambast conservatives. Maybe y’all should start trying to convince the people in your own f—ing party. Yeah? That would be the smart thing to do up until Election Day.
correctio
@decrans were those people Democrats? citation please
decrans
Well, for starters, you can check out my Twitter handle (tvonthefritz) and look at all the Democrats who follow me and are concerned with the far-left propaganda being shoved down their children’s throats in public schools. I mean, you can start there. I see it every day in my X feed. But to pretend that it’s just those god-awful conservatives is a convenient excuse from the likes of Kangol, Dave Matthews, etc.
correctio
@decrans lmao I’m not gonna look at your twitter, nice try.
I have a lot of complaints with the Democrats, but I’m into facts, not ranting and raving. from what I’ve read, those protesters are mostly either conservative Latinos or conservative Armenians. they seem to vote Republican or are being politically engaged for the first time in their lives. they have no real political power in the LA area
decrans
You don’t have to look at my Twitter. A lot of those same Democrats were in attendance. My bad that I forgot to cite notes for you! Next time I’ll take a notepad with names and dates.
decrans
Or you can watch the Wise Nuts interview with Burbank mayor, Konstantine Anthony. During the call-in portion, there are Democrat parents cited. It’s not all Republicans. It’s just a convenient narrative. Much like the narrative Donald Trump Republicans spew.
correctio
@decrans who cares tho? most people don’t, including Republicans. just look at Ron DeSantis. he made his whole campaign about these issues and is currently tanking in the polls (he’s also an extremely off-putting person).
I support more funding for public schools. do you?
decrans
Sixty three percent of Americans care. Ron DeSantis is tanking in the polls for multiple reasons. Chiefly, the Republicans are obsessed with Donald Trump. I know Queerty commenters don’t like dealing with nuance. We live in a nuanced world, though. What does it say that Trump shares most of his views? That completely obliterates your argument.
decrans
Being a former homeless person in LA, I don’t know if I support more funding in schools. Here’s the thing about Democrats. Like the Republicans, they love to stuff their coffers and claim they’re solving problems with the other hand. Meanwhile, the problems just keep recurring and recurring. We’ve had these same debates for most of my adult life. The minute I crawled out of the womb. And if pumping money out of the spigot just magically solved our societal problems like a golden unicorn, they would have been solved a long time ago.
correctio
@decrans you suck and are not fun to listen to. at least @abfab is a hot mess. bye!
decrans
Bye!
Kangol2
DeKranz, if you think your X feed approximates reality, you really need therapy more than I thought. What you also seem incapable of grasping is that this ARTICLE focuses on the DeFascists, Casey and Ron. The article is not about parents whipped up into a hysteria by right-wing anti-LGBTQ propaganda, but let’s just see what Democrats do come 2024. Your X feed friends may be as deluded as you, and there’s little to do or say about that. YOU admitted that YOU, as an adult, made a terrible choice, which you blame on liberals, instead of taking responsibility for it, and now you are aligned with people who actively want to torment and strip away rights from women, LGBTQ people, Black Americans, immigrants, Latinos, etc. So I get it, you’re on the side of hate. It’s easier. Pathetic and typical, but not unsurprising.
decrans
Not saying it approximates reality. I’ve been followed by hundreds of ex-Democratic mothers concerned by their kids. Are some of them bots? Debatable. I also go out into the real-world and talk to people at protests. There’s my ex-life coach. She was concerened about the push in schools. Liberal. College professor. Same story. Weedbro. Storytelling? Sure. As I also mentioned below, there’s a sizable fissure of feminists. That’s where the TERF label emanates. At a certain point, you can’t deny a fraction of the left that has an issue with the current LGBTQ ideology. You can’t deny that reality. It’s why TERF exists.
decrans
I do blame the LGBTQ left. Yes. They claim ‘all trans lives matter.’ Where do their organizations place homeless trans women in LA? In a house chock-full of ex-cons. So, it’s this: your cutesy sayings are meaningless. Or No. 2, as liberals, you need to do a better job at bolstering your case for the American public. It’s as simple as that.
decrans
As it stands now, your party is going to do their typical cajoling and whining into getting people to vote for another do-nothing candidate controlled by the same money levers as the Republicans. To quote Angie Stone, “We heard it all before (in 2016, 2002, 2020). So cue the waterworks, Kangol. Try to get people to the polls by whining for the next year. That’s the Democratic Party. Has been the brand for the past 20 years. If your party had actual solutions for working people, you wouldn’t be in the same predicament 20 years straight.
decrans
And get this, Kangol. I am taking ownership of my life choices. In a major career pivot, I got in touch with prominent evangelical ex-trans and ex-gay figures and talking heads this week. And from my perspective, these individuals have a healthier outlook on life than most of the people I encountered in the LGBTQ community. And why is that? Well, I get that LGBTQ people have family dynamic issues, but it leads to cycles of rampant substance abuse. There are things this community refuses to address. And in my personal life, I am starting to seek out people who abstain. Guess what? I’m not finding that in the LGBTQ community in Los Angeles. Most people here are on meth. How did I wallpaper over getting brutally beaten in an LGBTQ-approved halfway house for ex-cons and homeless trans women? With what I had available. I certainly wasn’t getting help from Gavin Newsom’s trans shelter government.
decrans
To conclude, at a certain point, one must awaken to the reality of empty progressive jingoism: “It Takes a Village,” “Trans Shelter safe harbor states,” AOC’s green world utopia, etc. That’s the work I did in my political evolution. As Michelle Obama said, “It is what it is.” And yet, you’re trying to get the conservatives to go along with this. And yet, on the ground, it’s messy, and a lot of the left-wing phraseology is seen for the vapidity it really is. Hello, conservatives milking those blind spots! As demonstrated here on Queerty, y’all would rather namecall than get down to the brass nuts of why you ain’t getting your way at this moment in American history.
decrans
“Black Lives Matter,” but let’s skim 2 million off the top. “Occupy Wall Street,” but have no idea how to make sure people have their needs met. Time and time again, the actions of the left mimic the greedy money-hungry Republicans. I eventually realized that both parties are the same. Capitalism is here to stay. It’s not going anywhere. And in my social circle of older millennials disillusioned by the local unionists, we began to see the structural problems as they really were. So, my advice to you is this: Do better at having your phrases prove to be meaningful. Stop voting for Republican-lite candidates. I’m a tried-and-true independent. I just happen to agree with Republicans on this issue because of the loopholes y’all refuse to address in lieu of simplistic messaging points.
correctio
i ain’t reading all that
i’m happy for u tho
or sorry that happened
Kangol2
DeKranz, you’re babbling now. Just a reminder: reality has a liberal bias. The Democrats have the popular vote in 7 of the last 9 elections. Democratic representatives and US Senators represent a far larger percentage of the US than Republicans. You mention a “do-nothing” candidate, by whom I assume you mean Joe Biden, but love him or hate or be indifferent, but he has been anything BUT do nothing. Lastly, you talk in circles about yourself, your life, what you want, etc. You clearly are still not taking responsibility for your choices. You blame liberal LGBTQ people and have now fled into the arms of right-wing conservatives like DeFascist, but you seem to be missing the fundamental principle that conservatives hold, or held–and this especially goes for libertarians–which is that YOU are responsible for your actions and choices. YOU. Not liberals, not conservatives, but you. This flies in the face of history, any basic sense of sociology, psychology, anthropology, etc., but this is what right-wing conservatives believe and YOU keep praising them and have admitted you are canvassing for one, while still blaming the LGBTQ left. So get back to us when you truly accept responsibility for your actions, and when you realize and admit how dangerous the people you are flirting with are.
decrans
I am responsible for my choices. That’s why I became conservative-leaning. You’re exactly right. That’s basically what I admitted. Liberalism as an ideology wants you to believe in the nanny state. It takes a village. It doesn’t work that way. Reality has a conservative bias. That’s why liberalism is constantly playing defense. Not to mention the fact that Gen-Z and Americans in general have inched more toward conservativism in the last several years. You are the one playing defense, Kangol. That denotes a conservative bias in reality. If that weren’t the case, you’d be getting your way much easier. But it’s not.
Mister P
They have no ideas for solving real problems so they revert back to trans women in sports. Because there was that one swimmer they can point to but that’s the extent of the problem. So make that seem like a huge problem that is prohibiting every girl in America from competing in sports.
decrans
Nope.
These events include:
— Downhill mountain biking Canadian National Championships in 2003.
— Long Drivers of America women’s competition in 2008.
— Trofee Maarten Wynants cycling race in 2015.
— 2018 and 2019 UCI World Masters Track Cycling Championships.
— 2019 national championship for bench press.
— Two Commonwealth Championships (2017 and 2019) and one Pacific Games championship (2019) in weightlifting.
— Division II NCAA championship 400-meter hurdles in 2019.
— 100- and 200-meter high school Connecticut state championships in 2018.
— 100- and 200-meter high school New England regional championships in 2018.
— Two mountain bike New Zealand national championships in 2018 and 2019.
— 100-, 200-, and 400-meter races at the Italian Paralympic national championships in 2020.
— Volleyball Brazilian Cup in 2022.
— Six Ivy League swimming championship titles in 2022.
— 500-yard Division I NCAA swimming championship in 2022.
decrans
And if Joe Biden and the corporate Democrats had REAL solutions to solving America’s problems, y’all wouldn’t be wetting your pants at Cornel West and other independent candidates right now. But here we go again with the same hysterical waterworks we saw in 2016 and 2002. Try coming up with some SOLUTIONS instead of vacuous politicians and whining like overgrown children up until election day. We’ve seen it all before, Democrats.
Brian
What can the Republican Party do about cyclists in New Zealand?
Why do you have this list handy? That kind of obsession just makes you look like a freak, a creep, a weirdo. I’m too exhausted to fact-check it, but I do notice that a bunch of them involve adults, professionals, and foreigners. That’s a stretch.
decrans
It’s called fact-checking. I used to fact-check for professional magazines. But hey, if you want to invent some kind of narrative, knock yourself out.
decrans
It’s called looking it up on the Internet. It’s called Google.
cc423
Decrans gets their “facts” from right wing blogs. Ignore them… after all, they are the ones sexualizing gay and trans kids and making their argument all about sex… as if kids could somehow be talked into turning gay. Decrans and those they quote are sick individuals.
PubisHairus
Decrans, The Transformer is a terminally online, mentally ill person.
dbmcvey
Usually the spouses are supposed to humanize the candidate…
Gabby
I don’t follow politics anymore and had no idea who she was until right now but she is right – biological men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports. The fact that this is happening is so mind blowing.
abfab
Which is why you should be following politcs. Have you been talking to Madonna again?
dbmcvey
I love that you admit you don’t know what you’re talking about, but you say it anyway.
decrans
Why does this person need to follow politics to accept a biological truth that human beings have accepted for millennia? Men and women have different bodies. Lung capacity, shoulder width, bone structure. As trans-conservative Blaire White said in a recent YouTube video, “Maybe that could change in the future. We live in the present, though.” And y’all pretending otherwise doesn’t change these biological realities. No matter how hard you believe and tap your heels together, Dorothy.
correctio
i dunno what a “biological truth” is, but it’s also true that there have long been limit cases of people and animals who don’t fit squarely into culturally recognized categories.
the main reason people seem to care so much about high school sports, is that college is WAY too expensive and sports scholarships are good way to pay for tuition/housing/etc.
and so, the real issue is: COLLEGE IS TOO DAMN EXPENSIVE. maybe focus your anger there?
decrans
The biological truth is that men have broad shoulders and stronger lung capacity. That’s basic biology. Surgery ain’t changing that. Biology.
Brian
How many people in this thread here are biologists? Am I the only one? Some of you need to go back to school for *several* years before you claim that science is on your side. “decrans,” especially, you’re a conspiracy theory whacko — on this topic and others.
decrans
So men don’t have broad shoulders and an increased wingspan? Sure. Notice how you automatically tried to shoot the messenger as opposed to debating the facts on the table. But hey, you’re an Internet biologist!
ScottOnEarth
@Brian – right on!! Nice to hear from some who knows what he’s talking about. decrans is oddly obsessed with trans athletes and spreading intolerance and ignorance.
decrans
If this alleged biologist offered facts to refute, that would be one thing. Funny thing. This Internet biologist has presented zilch.
dbmcvey
Notice how no one calls it “X”.
correctio
@dbmcvey this comment made me chuckle.
from what I’ve gathered, you’re a mainstream Biden/Harris democrat. I’m much more to the left, go Bernie. I think healthcare should be nationalized, for example. but I am not anti-trans.
abfab
And you’re a mainstream FOXNEWS idiot.
decrans
Here comes Abcrabs with his tired Fox News lines. Dude just said he’s a Bernie supporter. You must have that line handy to copy-and-paste with anyone who slightly disagrees with you. I’m convinced you have some form of mental illness.
dbmcvey
@correctio,
No, I’m more Bernie. Bernie’s not anti-trans like you are.
dbmcvey
correctio,
I may be confusing you with someone else but I seem to remember you going off on how trans people disrespect feminists, I might be wrong, if so, I apologize, but this all seems pretty vivid.
dbmcvey
But actually, correctio, after you calling Shaver a “voice of reason,” I’m thinking I’m not wrong.
It’s weird all the anti-trans trolls on this site suddenly trying to act like they’re not.
Fahd
I would not have expected DeSantis’ wife to be anything other than the ill-equiped caricature that she is. Not likeable; not going to be a factor in the 2024 election. Ron and she are going to work on it though, so let’s remain vigilant for 2028. I just don’t think Ron’s got the right stuff though. More’s the pity, not.
abfab
You don’t THINK he’s got the right stuff? Oh, please, Fahd.
montegutdude
I wouldn’t ever vote for Ron DeSantis and think this era of dogwhistle politics is a stain on democracy. These guys prey on disinformation and trumped-up fake problems they can then “solve” which can’t be difficult since there was no problem to begin with. I have yet to be attacked by a drag queen.
I’ve been liberal all my life.
And yet, this issue has me questioning whether I might be transphobic.
Because I agree with those guys that persons born biologically male probably shouldn’t be competing on women’s sports teams breaking records held over 100 years. I agree that there are biological differences between the sexes and if someone has recently transitioned, on a competitive level, it may be unfair. Strength, lean body mass and muscle have to be disproportionate for years.
What am I missing? I just want everyone to be respected and treated fairly.
decrans
You’re not missing anything. Like the Trump supporters, these people are immune to factual information. And that’s part of the reason why I vacated liberalism.
dbmcvey
@montegutdude,
I saw a woman on tv complaining how she didn’t win because of trans athletes when, in reality, she tied for 5th behind 4 women who were not trans. The whole thing has been overblown and politicized. These issues are just being used by demagogues who are lying about the effect.
decrans
Not to mention the fact that Paula Scanlon (a PTSD rape survivor) had to undress in front of Lia Thomas in the locker rooms. But nope, just toss feminism right out of the window! And that’s why you’re seeing a fissure on the left at this point in American political discourse. But according to Dbmvaney, it just ain’t happening! I feel like most of these LGBT progressives just pretend it isn’t happening. Which again, that’s similar to the cognitive dissonance the evangelical Trump voters pulled several years ago.
inbama
Besides being unlikeable, DeSantis made one severe miscalculation: his policies regarding the medical transition of children, queer theory in schools and DEI are being enacted in all the red states while blue states do the opposite. It makes his election superfluous.
Unless the Supremes intervene, red and blue states are going to be living in these different realities for the foreseeable future. Republicans will continue to see Trump as the Great White Hope – even viewing the prosecution of his criminal behavior as the suffering of Christ. Meanwhile, Democrats who once laughed at ignorant evolution-denying evangelicals, now deny the the teachings of evolutionary biology ourselves and believe the nonsense hatched by crackpots like Judith Butler in Gender Studies.
We’ve had a summer of wildfire smoke, torrential rain and floods, and where I am on the Gulf Coast, daily temperatures just shy of 100 degrees for two straight months. We need actual unfettered science now. And it needs to be shaping policy – not shaped BY policy.
Kangol2
Last night NONE of the GOP candidates admitted that climate change and global warming were real, or that we are in a climate emergency. NOT. ONE. Vivek Ramaswamy, who holds a bachelors degree summa cum laude in biology from Harvard and a JD from Yale, said climate change was a “hoax.” A “hoax”! This is utter insanity!!!!
The Democrats have not been great on this issue, but are, in multiple ways, doing various things to address it, though they are still too cautious and beholden to the fossil fuel industry (cf. Joe Manchin, Obama and Biden and drilling leases and fracking, etc.). But they are doing something and it needs to accelerate now!
The GOP candidates to a person–including that psychopath Don the Con–do NOT believe what is happening before their and our eyes. The earth is burning up, flooding, baking, etc. They refuse to admit it. It was mass sociopathy on that FoxNews stage last night!
VOTE BLUE, VOTE THE GOP OUT!
decrans
Nope. Nikki Haley said it was real, but China and India need to be held accountable for emissions. See here’s the thing with Democratic policy: It’s not factually based. When you have populous countries belching out emissions at warp speed, that issue needs to be addressed as opposed to the typical Dem tactic of sweeping it under the rug, Kangol.
decrans
And again, this goes to the heart of liberalism’s failed “It Takes a Village’ ideology. How do you propose millions of people switch over to Tesla? How does that work exactly? As I mentioned above, this is why I found myself agreeing more with the conservatives. Y’all believe in nanny state and people beholden to Big Government. Free-market capitalism dictates that individuals make individual choices and exercise responsibility. That’s the way reality works, babe. Therefore, it’s up to you to make this practicial and not some half-a$$ed progressive pipe dream. Those are the facts in capitalism, Kangol.