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‘Top Gun’ Ad From Ron DeSantis Goes Viral, But Not In The Way He Intended

It probably sounded like such a good idea when it was pitched: We’ll dress Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis up in fighter pilot gear, put him into a fighter jet, and call it “Top Gov.” Genius! Can’t fail!

Oh, but it has, and the fallout is making DeSantis look even more pathetic than he already was.

HuffPost reports:

“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is your governor speaking. Today’s training evolution — dogfighting, taking on the corporate media,” DeSantis said while wearing a Tom Cruise-style leather jacket.

He then discusses how people should deal with those dreaded journalists who keep asking questions he doesn’t want to answer.

“The rules of engagement are as follows. No. 1: Don’t fire unless fired upon, but when they fire, you fire back with overwhelming force. … No. 2: Never, ever back down from a fight. … No. 3: Don’t accept their narrative.”

Throughout, the ad features clips of him refusing to answer media questions ― as though this were a positive thing.

The video has gone viral, but probably not in the way that DeSantis intended, because reaction on social media has been overwhelmingly negative, resulting in lots of mockery aimed directly at the Sunshine State governor.

https://twitter.com/ilyseh/status/1562080221309927424?s=20&t=idWdvHn4012ynpyt1KPfcQ
https://twitter.com/jimstinson/status/1561876888200613889?s=20&t=WVy4S8ZJTW4e79xJhgdReg

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GOP Polls Social Media

Lauren Boebert Has An Online Hissy Fit Over A Poll About College Student’s Political Preferences

Right-wing Republicans (especially those who support disgraced, one-term former president Donald Trump) love to say that Democrats and progressives are too sensitive, so they call them “snowflakes” and dismiss them as being irrelevant.

And yet, a new poll from NBC News and Generation Lab has some of those same Trumpers whining because 62% of college students surveyed said they would not share a dorm room or apartment with someone who voted for Trump.

According to Mediaite:

A whopping 62 percent of college Democrats would not room with a Trump voter — more than double the number of Republicans who would refuse to share living space with a Biden voter.

A new NBC News/Generation Lab poll of the class of 2025 shows Democrats in that group really shun people who voted for former President Donald Trump. Like, a lot, and much more than Republicans avoid supporters of President Joe Biden — to the tune of a 34-point difference. Only 28 percent of Republicans  said they’d “probably” or “definitely” refuse a Biden voter.

Here are some of the quotes from students who participated in the NBC poll:

“I could never live with someone who supported a racist, homophobic, xenophobic and sexist person,” said September Mostransky, 18, of Siena College in Loudonville, New York, referring to former President Donald Trump.

“I could possibly room with somebody who is Republican. But when it comes down to it, Donald Trump is not the average Republican candidate,” Mostransky added.

Ethan Strohmetz, 19, a Republican who attends Catholic University in Washington, D.C., has a different opinion.

“A person’s political views do not affect whether or not I would have a friendship or relationship with them,” he said. “Many of my friends have vastly different political views than I do, but I do not let that affect our friendship.”

Perhaps no one was more upset by the poll than Rep. Lauren Boebert, who took to Twitter (rather than do the job she was elected to do) and posted this:

Here’s something Lauren needs to keep in mind: When it comes to “tolerance” most of us who are Democrats can tolerate just about anything except intolerance, and we won’t agree to be around bigoted assholes who hate people for the color of their skin, their sexual orientation, or their native language.

Sorry, Bobo, but almost no one likes you, and the only person to blame is YOU.

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Joe Biden Social Media The Biden Administration Viral Video

VIRAL VIDEO: ‘Joe Biden’ Dances To Celebrate Recent Victories

President Joe Biden has been on a roll recently, chalking up major legislative victories, watching as each monthly jobs report shows record gains, and carefully steering the American economy through inflation, which seems to be abating.

All of the good news for the Biden administration has translated into higher approval ratings for him and new polling that shows Democrats may well keep control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.

How should the president celebrate so much good news? Well, how about by dancing?

Newsweek notes that Biden is indeed dancing (sort of), and a video of his face superimposed on that of the actor Christopher Walken has quickly gone viral:

The video, posted on Twitter by a user called “CHUNK”, parodies the famous 2000 Fatboy Slim “Weapon Of Choice” music video.

In the original Christopher Walken is seen dancing around an empty hotel to music from British singer Norman Quentin Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim.

For the parody video Walken’s head has been replaced by Biden’s, while text pops up during the video listing what its maker perceives as the president’s successes in office.

Many social media users were delighted to see the Biden video, while right-wingers were probably losing their tiny minds in response.

https://twitter.com/GlynnisI/status/1560726818407477248?s=20&t=NoqTwc8ByakzMFclJ0UA4Q

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Twitter Smacks Down Jim Jordan After He Says Donald Trump Is The Victim For Hoarding Secret Documents

There are few Republicans who are more disgustingly sycophantic toward failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump than Rep. Jim Jordan.

So it should come as no surprise that ever since the FBI served a search warrant at the disgraced ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago golf resort on Aug. 8, Jordan has been saying and tweeting out all sorts of specious allegations, suggesting that the Justice Department is out to get Trump, the FBI is targeting the Donald, and somehow all of this is an extension of the Russia investigation which was looked at by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

But a tweet Jordan sent out today is getting him pelted with enormous social media blowback, mainly because he’s asserting that Donald Trump is the victim despite the fact that he’s the one who was hoarding top secret documents in violation of federal law.

Here’s the tweet:

Read that again and see if you can follow Jordan’s twisted logic. If there was someone at Mar-a-Lago who told the FBI Trump had thousands of classified documents, then “they” spied on Donald before he was president, while he was president, and after he left office. Does that make sense to anyone other than a mindless MAGA minion who thinks Trump is the reincarnation of Jesus?

Also, why is it a bad thing that someone decided to inform the feds about the fact that Trump had secretive papers he should have turned over before he left the White House? Isn’t that actually a very good thing because those files are now under wraps instead of floating around for a hostile foreign power to get ahold of and use against the United States?

Not to Jim Jordan. To him, it confirms his paranoid theory that “they” are out to get Trump. That, of course, completely overlooks the fact that if Trump hasn’t done anything wrong, he has nothing to worry about.

Let’s see what Twitter has to say about the matter.

Jim Jordan never runs out of ways to plant his foot right in his mouth, does he?

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Donald Trump Jr. Justice Department Social Media

Don Jr. Makes A Fool Of Himself By Saying The FBI Isn’t Part Of The Justice Department

There’s a constant debate that goes on when it comes to discussing the three eldest children of failed, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump: Which is the dumbest?

For many, the answer is Eric. But then Don Jr. will tweet out something that proves he, much like the man he’s named for, is perpetually dense.

Once again today, Don Jr. is taking the prize with a tweet in which he proves he doesn’t know that the FBI is part of the Justice Department. Check this out:

So the FBI was not acting alone as everyone was told… As usual allies never had up and the “conspiracy theorists” were right yet again. You can’t trust a single thing these people tell you!!!

Damn! Does Junior have any idea that there’s a thing called Google he can do an instant fact check on? If he did, maybe he wouldn’t be so perpetually clueless.

Here’s what you find when you Google FBI:

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, the FBI is also a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence.”

The FBI is part of the DOJ. Who doesn’t know this?

Let the mockery begin!