Trump-backed Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s for his BDE on Sunday.
BDE is an initialization for “Big Dick Energy”. It’s usually applied to someone who conducts themselves with the quiet confidence and self-assuredness … or someone who knows they have a big dick but doesn’t need to brag about it. It is not necessarily a comment on someone’s actual dick size.
Lake made the comments on Sunday at a Turning Point USA conference, aimed at young conservatives, in Phoenix, Arizona.
“Love the guy, fantastic,” Lake said of DeSantis. “He is gutsy. The guy has bigger…wait, let me think about how I want to word this.”
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“That guy has a backbone made of steel,” she continued. “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. 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.”
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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
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“Grossly inappropriate”
The comment has been criticized by many. In an opinion piece in the Arizona Republic, writer Laurie Roberts said, “This is a candidate who decries the sexualization of our children then goes on the campaign trail to talk about the penis size of her idols.”
Even someone close to former President Trump was unimpressed. His former legal advisor, Jenna Ellis, tweeted, “Am I the only young conservative who thinks this kind of rhetoric at a TPUSA event is grossly inappropriate?”
Am I the only young conservative who thinks this kind of rhetoric at a TPUSA event is grossly inappropriate? https://t.co/EYEaTkLQL8
— Jenna Ellis 🍊 (@JennaEllisEsq) August 15, 2022
The “anti-groomer” party that clutched its pearls over Beto O’Rourke using profanity last week said at a rally in Arizona this morning that it loves leaders with “BDE” (Big Dick Energy) and instructed the audience to “ask your kids what it means later if you don’t know.”
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) August 16, 2022
Lake was unrepentant. She took to Twitter yesterday to say, “Uh-oh! Twitter is on fire because I said President Trump & Gov @RonDeSantisFL both have “BDE” I stand by what I said.”
Uh-oh! Twitter is on fire because I said President Trump & Gov @RonDeSantisFL both have “BDE”
I stand by what I said. 🤷♀️ pic.twitter.com/eaJ1PhYAhA
— Kari Lake for AZ Governor (@KariLake) August 15, 2022
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Governor DeSantis appeared at the same Turning Point USA event on Sunday. If he was bothered by Lake’s comment, he hasn’t said so. Yesterday, he tweeted an endorsement of Lake in her bid for election.
Arizona needs @KariLake as Governor and @bgmasters in the U.S. Senate.
We must stop Biden’s destructive policies and that starts with leaders like Kari and Blake.
Support their fight here:https://t.co/mONeKs142Qhttps://t.co/KZZVxFxTXe pic.twitter.com/Kb1IBDZj2p
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) August 15, 2022
Mister P
God forbid anyone on the right have any ideas for progress.
kish
The far right love to make inappropriate jokes during speeches but then talk about how teachers are grooming children.
Also, Desantis has the opposite of BDE. A man that screams at children for wearing a face mask during a pandemic is the personification of LDE.
Chrisk
Trump has a small mushroom Dick so no wonder she compared the two. I’d say OCE. Over compensation energy.
Ronbo
BDE is also a component of toxic masculinity. Although politicians are usually dicks, having one is not required. Lake needs to have her words repeated loudly back at her until women start to understand how her thinking is warped.
She should be mocked as pushing ‘Ron Jeremy for President’. BDE and prison often go together.
Mister P
Yes they are both big dicks. I mean that in a derogatory sense.
Diplomat
Diplomat
When Garland starts cuffing these all American Nazis, then we’ll see who’s really packin the BDE.
Rambeaux
No one is going to be cuffed.
You don’t understand the game, do you?
Jeremiah
Kari Lake is nothing more than a waste of oxygen.
Fname Optional Lname
Seems like her penis is bigger than both of theirs put together.
Brian
What about their message of “traditional values” and putting families first? DeSantis and Trump are both married men with kids. Some random woman shouldn’t be shouting into crowds about their dicks. Just remember this the next time you hear them talk about their “sincerely held religious beliefs.” These people aren’t sincere in the slightest.
Toofie
Just gross. If a democrat said that they would be pearl clutching. Republican voters love scraping the bottom of the barrel for candidates.
johncp56
I want to be oh so snarky, but honestly i,m frighten, look whos getting voted into offices, pure hate, white-hot hate, homophones bigots some almost blatantly KKK , as an older gay man going backward is so very sad,