Florida Governor Ron DeSantis faced widespread criticism for a campaign advert he released earlier this week. The video, packed with homoerotic images, aimed to portray former President Donald Trump as pro-LGBTQ+, and DeSantis as hardline anti-gay.
The video earned condemnation from gay right-wingers, including the Log Cabin Republicans and Rep. George Santos. It was extreme, homophobic, and, frankly, bizarre.
Just days later, DeSantis’ wife, Casey, released the first video from her campaign group, Mamas for DeSantis. It is similarly extreme and lacks the bizarre elements that made her husband’s so jaw-dropping and odd. In short, it’s just plain bad.
The video’s main focus is protecting kids from evil Liberals and gays.
“In America, we’ve witnessed a lot and put up with enough,” Casey says. “We’ve been forced into silence, into compliance, told that we must trust the science. We have been told that we must deny truth, back down, and look the other way.”
“But enough is enough,” she continues. “When you come after our kids, we fight back. Because there’s nothing we won’t do to protect our children.”
Watch below.
“We’re coming for your children”
Casey says that if elected, her husband will prohibit Critical Race Theory being taught in schools, and ban funding for diversity and inclusion initiatives.
The video includes images from Pride parades. One features a little girl with some leather pups. Another shows Pride-goers chanting “We’re coming for your children.”
The latter clip was from the recent New York City Drag March. Attendees sarcastically chanted “We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re coming for your children” in response to the rise in anti-drag, anti-trans, and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric accusing LGBTQ+ people of “grooming” children for abuse.
Of course, many on the right have taken the chant as gospel and missed the sarcasm.
Rep. Lauren Boebert was among them, tweeting her disgust.
Now it seems Casey DeSantis has done the same.
Casey launched her Mamas For DeSantis group in Florida in the run-up to the 2022 Gubernatorial election. This week, she formally announced she was expanding the group nationwide to help campaign for her husband to win the Presidency.
Online, Casey’s video had plenty of supporters. However, many others were unimpressed.
My son is gay.
— RealHousewifeOfMichigan (@RealHousewifeMi) July 6, 2023
You’re damn right.
Come for my child, I’m fighting back.
"Exploit the innocence of our children," says Lady DeSantis. Let kids be kids, Casey! I haven’t seen a politician use their kids like props like this since Sarah Palin in 2008. She dragged her offspring around like they were handbags. Also: This gay-baiting s**t won't work. pic.twitter.com/rtMB0mOnuu
— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) July 6, 2023
Damn @CaseyDeSantis is about to take the fight against the Catholic Church hardcore.
— The Mad Scientist (@MadSciCrypto) July 6, 2023
Your bigotry has No place in America 🖕
— Gary 🏳️🌈🌊 (@GayresisterGary) July 7, 2023
This is the most delusional piece of propaganda I have seen. How dare you use children to push your agenda to destroy public schools and public health. Desantis will be as woeful as Trump was protecting us from the next pandemic. Trans kids in sports has been overblown to incite…
— #RandyResistING Authoritarianism🟧 (@RandyResist) July 7, 2023
And this will be just as successful as your fascist husband's presidential campaign.🤣🤣🤣
— Tim Williams (@timwilliamsart) July 6, 2023
DeSantis slips in poll
Ron DeSantis’s campaign to secure the Republican Presidential nomination has not, as yet, gone to plan. He continues to trail Trump in the polls by a considerable margin and even appears to be losing ground.
A poll released by Echelonin Insights this week showed Trump as the frontrunner at 49% and DeSantis on 16%. Vivek Ramaswamy was third on 10%. A similar poll in May put DeSantis at 19% and Ramaswamy at 8%, meaning some of those polled have likely switched from the Florida Governor to the biotech entrepreneur.
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And Pete Buttigieg had a few choice words about it, too.
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still_onthemark
I’ve heard the story of how Ron used to ask his dates if they liked “Thigh” (Thai) food and if they said “I think it’s pronounced Tie,” he ended the date immediately. Too smart for him!
So I’m dubious all the talk about how Casey is supposedly so smart.
dbmcvey
You beat me to it. This is the mindset of the Republican savior.
Kangol2
True, except he’s a Yale (BA magna cum laude) and Harvard Law graduate, so I wonder if this story isn’t apocryphal. Also, shades of George W. Bush (Yale BA, Harvard MBA), though without the multigenerational elite Nepo baby cred.
dbmcvey
Kangol, he’s a fragile man baby. The story has been told widely. If it’s not true you would think he would have said so.
Mister P
I think most people and republicans think there are more important issues than culture wars and trying to cancel everything and everyone.
Kangol2
If so the Republicans need to tell their politicians. The “culture wars” are their ongoing obsession and chief focus, along with debt-increasing, budget-busting tax cuts!
abfab
P. You could not be any further from the truth.
Richpontone
So Casey D. “will be fighting for the Children”.
While Raunchy Ronny “will be toe dancing on Muscle Beach with the Lubed up Lads”.
Ronny will be “getting the Dee-Lite as long as they are White”.
jcool
this ad will probably get him an extra 50 million votes. (that, too, was sarcasm, ms. boebert)
1898
can we all agree that it was extremely unwise for drag performers to chant “we’re coming for your children” in this day and age when LGBTQ folks are literally being murdered by rightwing nutjobs who think we’re all sexual predators?
an incredibly dangerous and ill conceived “joke” that most people will not perceive as sarcasm or humor, and will put members of our community in even more danger than they’re already in
jcool
i 100% disagree. when they make up stupid and unwarranted accusations about us we should come at them, mock them, make them uncomfortable as possible. not hide. if boebert’s g e d didn’t cover sarcasm that doesn’t make me uneducated.
jcool
and by your estimation, stonewall shouldn’t have happened because the police would have been “meaner” to us. throw a few bricks.
dbmcvey
Can we all agree that conservatives are too stupid to understand sarcasm.
abfab
Your comment was unwise madam 1898. Protest take all kinds of forms and shapes and characters. These moments we find in our very Gay parades are fun and provacative, as they should be.
Next year, go to one of our many Gay parades. You might actually enjoy yourself. Warning! It might open your eyes!
Diplomat
Totally agree. LGBTQrstuv has been shooting themselves in the foot for eons with bad publicity moves. If we lose gay marriage we have only our pathetic PR department to blame. The vid only highlights our rediculousness called bad behavior. The list is long.
Bosch
So unapologetically racist, and gets away with it too. How is this allowed in your country?
abfab
Where do we begin.
abfab
Who does this bitch think she is? Anita Bryant?
Those poor offspring, getting dragged around like that. Talk about child abuse.
decrans
The parade is already doing wonders turning liberal moderates against the LGBTQ+ community. Last night, my weedbro lamented about grown men gyrating in front of kids in a thong. I told him about the DeSantis campaign, instead. It’s not just conservatives not understanding ‘sarcasm.’ Keep shooting yourselves in the foot and calling it ‘equality,’ gang. Ya’ll are your own worst enemies. It’s a hoot-and-a-half to watch.
dbmcvey
Oh look, Jarod is confusing his dreamworld with reality again!
decrans
Oh look. A liberal who worked with me on a progressive campaign is starting to doubt the LGBTQ+ community’s overt sexualization and is looking into other options. Happened with my liberal life coach and a radio personality who follows me on Facebook, too. It’s not just conservatives. Except in y’all’s brains. And hey, statistics reflect that. Look at the percentages climbing of people who think gender is decided at birth in the last couple of years. The numbers back it up, sweet thang.
dbmcvey
Hey Jarod, how’s your NAZI roommate?
Brian
“a radio personality who follows me on Facebook”
Nobody cares.
decrans
You sure did enough to comment, genius.
dbmcvey
And you, Jarod, will always comment no matter how disgusting your comment is.
How’s your NAZI roommate?
Mister P
Oh? So whoever gets the most votes about gender is correct?
Mister P
Gender is not a popularity contest!
decrans
You must be new here. That’s how it works in America. Don’t like it? Change the system as opposed to whining incessantly about it. Which again, that’s what progressives love to do. It’s happened most of my adult life. Y’all whine, piss, and moan about how the world works. You never change it.
dbmcvey
As if you’re not the biggest whiner posting on this site.
You keep whining about unemployment and homelessness among trans people while you and your NAZI roommate are supporting politicians who are making it worse.
What a whiny hypocrite you are.
decrans
Nazi without any background just because she’s Hispanic. That’s outright racism. I can’t say I’m surprised, though.
decrans
And honestly, before your rant chockful of racist assumptions, my roommate is an ex-Bernie voter who believes that Susan Sarandon had the right idea back in 2016. And judging by the current state of California and America, I can’t say I don’t blame her.
dbmcvey
NAZI because she belongs to “Latinos for Trump” which is affiliated with the Proud Boys who are NAZIS. Really Jarod, people are going to judge you by the company you keep.
decrans
She doesn’t belong to Latinos for Trump. That’s your own narrative. Jesus, seek help. I realize that in California mental health care is help is few and far between. But Jesus Christ, seek help.
dbmcvey
Jardo, you think Latinos can’t be NAZIS? That’s racist.
dbmcvey
Jardo, you said she’s the President of Latinos for Trump. You need to keep your lies straight.
decrans
Are you smoking marijuana, bro? I said she’s Latino and voting for Trump. A former seamstress socialist Bernie lover who believes in tearing down the two-party duopoly that never addresses the needs of the working-class and panders for votes every four years. Her trans son (also an anarchist) moved out of California after receiving a taste of Gavin Newsom’s policies for ten years. Susan Sarandon-type voters exist in America. (Ask Susan Sarandon.) And quite frankly, that label aptly describes me. For most of my adult life, I’ve seen the same recurring problems and little movement toward actualization. This morning, I realized that I probably won’t vote. Ultimately, I do like Cornel West. Like other canvasser co-workers, I’m removed from the political process and just view it as a moneymaking endeavor.
dbmcvey
You said she’s the President of Latinos For Trump, which is a Proud Boy (NAZI) Organization.
Were you lying Jarod?
It wouldn’t be the first time.
decrans
Never said she was President. You are free to dig up the Oprah transcripts and keep saying the same sh!t, Dave Matthews. You look like a fool.
dbmcvey
And Jarod’s story keeps changing. Kind of makes you think it’s all lies.
decrans
Since you’re too lazy to dig up the quote, I found it. “By the way, my roommate is a Latina for Trump. She welcomes the homeless in her apartment. Drive to WeHo. Poll the white moneyed liberal gays on this issue. Let me know how it works out for you.”
Notice how I didn’t say President for Latinas for Trump. That’s all in your delusional brain, Dave Matthews. You invented a rabbit hole narrative and looked like a fool in the process.
dbmcvey
I don’t need to dig up the quote where you told us your roommate is a NAZI, Jarod. You prove you’re a NAZI sympathizer with every comment. You would have been sewing the pink triangles on the uniforms.
Fahd
On account of his staging a coup attempt and getting criminally indicted (twice) and a few other things, the “educated” suburban woman Republican/Independent voter reportedly has decided that she won’t vote for the Count of Monte Crisco again. As poorly as DeSantis is doing in the polls, I can see he and wifie going after that group of voters – It will probably work in a few states, but there’s no indication that DeSantis can take the Republican nomination away from Tr mp unless all the other candidates unite behind him (DeSantis). Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
abfab
POLITICS
Gay and trans Republicans shocked DeSantis now targeting them-
Fla. governor’s War Room released new ad
Published 1 day ago on July 6, 2023By Special to the Washington Blade
(here’s an excerpt-the enitre piece is recommended)
Even the Log Cabin Republicans, the principal LGBTQ Republican organization, chimed in, denouncing the ad as “divisive and desperate” and labeling DeSantis’ policies as “naive” and “politically stupid.” Intriguingly, the organization had previously lauded Governor DeSantis for some of the very anti-LGBTQ policies featured in the ad.
For instance, Log Cabin Republicans have participated in anti-drag protests and support bathroom bans. The official account has in the past accused “LGBTQ leftists” of attempting to “censor Ron DeSantis’ speech,” and commended him for the “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law.
abfab
Oh, I forgot something. GOP TROLLS DO NOT READ THE ARTICLE! You won’t get it.
decrans
Oh, ab. There are more white suburban women concerned about flopping genitals in public than Log Cabin Republicans. What is it exactly that you’re trying desperately to prove?
dbmcvey
Hey Jarod. You don’t know what white suburban women think because you’re completely ensconced in the NAZI world of “Latinos For Trump” Proud Boys roommate’s world.
decrans
Yeah, I do know what white suburban women think. I lived in suburban Nashville most of my life. Seeing images of a little girl with men in fetish gear? These women will align with the conservatives again. That’s another demographic that’s gone both ways in the past decade. Black Democrats who do not support Pete Buttigieg. That’s another troublesome area for you. Working-class Bernie voters (my roommate) who are willing to welcome the anarchy of another Trump administration as opposed to do-nothing Biden neoliberalism? Another demo you had trouble reaching in 2016 and 2020. Hillary called them deplorables. These are the stats on the table, Dave Matthews. You can ask Frank Luntz or James Carville. These are the voting trends we’ve been seeing for a decade.
dbmcvey
Wow, new narrative. Jarod just keeps spinning. And pretending to know any black people at all!
Go back to trying to get DeSantis elected.
decrans
I probably know more Black people than Mayo Pete’s zero percent of the Black vote in the 2020 elections, Dave Matthews.
dbmcvey
Jarod, you know as many black people as any NAZI.
decrans
I wonder if Mayo Pete should join the Nazis. After all, he got ZERO percent of the Black vote.
Bosch
I’m beginning to think you’re very, very young.
dbmcvey
@Bosch
I think that not only is decreps young, he’s also a liar. None of his story scans.
Brian
“We’ve been told to trust the science” is such a ridiculous complaint. If you think the science is wrong, then go do the research and prove it.
I’m glad that Georgia’s voters didn’t choose Walker. He thought he could debunk 200 years of biology and tens of thousands of expert biologists by asking, “If evolution is real, then why are there still apes?” He thinks that the existence of modern gorillas means that evolution is a hoax. These morons spend no time doing the work, but they think they’re smarter than the experts.
Bosch
Decrans, your personality disorder is showing.
decrans
Bosch, your lack of cohesive arguments is showing yet again. You never fail to amaze me with it.
Bosch
It’s not an argument, snarky, it’s an observation.
decrans
Nothing to say on gay flapping genitals in public in front of children, Bosch? It’s a helluva way to win over the flyover states. If bland white conservative Pete Buttigieg ever attempted a run for president, the right-wing would just broadcast flapping gay genitals in public in front of children nonstop. That’s what the extreme left wants. Hell, they said it themselves and the flyover deplorables can’t understand sarcasm. Good luck with that, Bosch.
Bosch
Ha. Of course you would bring up flapping genitals in front of children, unprompted.
All you’re showing us is what your inner world looks like.
decrans
My weedbro (straight, liberal-leaning) showed me the Australian Sky News video. It’s what parents with kids are concerned about. It could continue to backfire in the LGBTQ+ left’s face. But as I’ve said, y’all are your own worst enemy. Again, very much like Donald Trump in that regard. This thread’s lack of concern is very telling.
Bosch
If you’re gonna pretend to be an adult, you shouldn’t use words like “weedbro”.
You brought up waving genitals in children’s faces, unprompted. That video has nothing to do with children. You’re a creep.
decrans
It’s what goes down at Pride Parades. Megyn Kelly showed blurry clips, too. All the conservatives need to do is press play. But you know, according to abfab, the parades are just free expression and an excuse for frivolity. Nothing to see here. Yeah, right. Good luck, gang. More LGBTQ+ rights will be chipped away. To a degree, you brought this on yourselves.
Bosch
Oh no! People dancing in public! The horror!
People wearing almost nothing in a beach city! Unimaginable!
And who’s bringing these children, snarky? That’s right, their straight parents.
dbmcvey
yeah, decrans is a puritan as well as a NAZI.
decrans
Then why are you idiots so concerned about Blueface? Shut the fu-k up with your phony faux outrage. You look like idiots.
decrans
And Bosch, as usual, you make broad statements without backing it up with evidence or statistics. Go get the stats for that. Otherwise, you look like an old man yelling at clouds. In the real-world, it requires evidence and stats. That’s how laws are passed. That’s how democratic systems work. Be an adult and back up your blatherings.
dbmcvey
Hey Jarod, Blueface is an actual groomer. You’re just showing how messed up your morals are. Not surprising considering you live with NAZIS.
Den
“But you know, according to abfab, the parades are just free expression and an excuse for frivolity.”
And he is correct. Nobody forces anyone to go watch the parade. Last I looked, kids that were there were brought by their parents, and you idiot regressives are ALWAYS screaming about “parental rights”: though apparently you mean the right of regressive “christian” parents to force their desires down everyone’s throats.
There are these things called data and statistics. There are surprisingly things right wingers like you have never heard of. They are more descriptive of the real world than your use of anecdotes (any you should probably look up all these big words). What they tell us is that the ones who are “flapping their genitals in front of children” are most likely to be breeders like you. And the children they groom are their own, their nieces and nephews, and those of their good friends. Don’t want your kids (if you have had the opportunity to procreate, which I doubt) exposed to sexual things, take responsibility for that yourself!
The entire country grows tired of your kind and their shrill insistence that you have some right to shackle others. Why do you think DeSantis numbers began to fall as soon as the recent ad came out? Why do you think Trump has never managed to win the popular vote? Why do you think all his important endorsements lost in the mid terms? You folks are a minority, and a significant percentage of this country finds you repellant. A majority supports marriage equality, a majority supports reproductive choice, a majority supports a living wage. Considerably less than half the country worships the fascists, racists and anti-Semites whose asses you lick with such gusto.
You make ethical and socially engaged people nauseous.
decrans
Well then, post the stats instead of talking about them. Again, I ask: “Where are the stats that show that straight parents are taking the kids to the parades.” Dig them up. Only 63 percent believe gender is fixed at birth. And also, the gay marriage support has decreased by 5 points within the last year. These are stats. I post stats. You want to accuse me of telling stories and then you subsequently spin a yarn. The stats are nuanced.
decrans
In fact, according to a new Gallup poll, the percentage of Americans who are self-identifying as both fiscally and socially conservative is at its highest point since 2012. This includes younger generations.
Between May 1 and 24, Gallup interviewed 1,011 American adults across all 50 states. The poll asked adults to characterize their views on “social issues” at large — not specific issues like abortion or LGBTQ+ rights — as very conservative, conservative, moderate, liberal or very liberal.
The number of American adults self-identifying as liberal has decreased slightly from 2022. In 2023, 29% of Americans said they are liberal or very liberal. Last year, 34% fell into that category. The sampling error is plus or minus 4 percentage points, which is a slight shift.
Culture is introducing “an entire new ideology” that most adults haven’t agreed to, Kay Hymowitz, William E. Simon fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told the Deseret News. She believes the shift in self-identification is “backlash against the excesses of progressive gender and racial identity politics.”
When it comes to LGBTQ+ policies, Cox said there may be “something of a blowback from all the advocacy on trans issues.” Some, “particularly those on the right,” could think businesses and policies are shifting too quickly. They could be reacting to those shifts.
“There’s additional Gallup data that just came out that shows views on the morality of same-sex relations has ticked down a bit for Democrats and dropped a lot for Republicans,” he said. But on other issues like abortion, data points a different direction. Cox said there’s increasing support for legal abortion, including when it comes to third-trimester abortion.
decrans
And here’s another poll for you. Data from the Pew Research Center shows millennials are changing their affiliation from Democrats to Republicans and getting closer to levels of Baby Boomers. At 42 percent Republican support, what does this say about the adage of ‘conservative dinosaurs are dying out?” That’s almost half. Maybe instead of haranguing me, y’all should start to examine ‘why’ this is the case. I know gnashing your teeth is easier to do. The data doesn’t lie. Y’all have work to do.
Richard_N
This ad by Casey DeSantis looks like a very effective Republican primary campaign video.
It targets the basest instincts of both the privileged and the intolerant – exploiting the outrage, anger, and fear of those who can’t accept that their view of the world is not shared by all, and that the world is changing despite their best efforts to prevent it.
Unfortunately, my praise for the effectiveness of this propaganda video is not sarcasm. I truly wish it were.
johncp56
Married to a creep their wedding vowes
Gay Press
Did the people chanting “we’re coming for your children” really that was a good idea? It was destined to end up in an anti-LGBTQ ad. Don’t give them fodder to attack us with!
cuteguy
She truly is America’s Karen