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CLOUDY, WITH NO CHANCE OF MEATBALL

Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
5 min readJan 23, 2024

Ron “Meatball” DeSantis, whose PAC was titled “Never Back Down,” just gave up the ghost of his Presidential campaign and became one of the ‘ring-kissers” he denounced a week ago.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, not-so-affectionately nicknamed “Meatball,” “DeSatan,” or the Trump-tag, “DeSanctimonious,” recently became the last person in America to realize he is never going to be President of the United States. His disastrous performances showed the Republicans what the rest of us already knew: he’s a miserable and unpleasant toad with as one pundit stated, “the personality of burnt toast,” and an ideology that frightens even many “cultural conservatives.”

Meatball won a landslide victory in 2022, carrying with him for the GOP, all statewide offices and a supermajority in both branches of the state legislature. He faced a a weak and ineffective opponent, backed by a state party in utter disarray. He promptly used this new electoral authority to divide Florida, wreck our higher education system, pass a slew of unconstitutional laws stricken down by the courts, illegally remove a states attorney for what two federal courts called illegal First amendment violations, pick fights with the largest employers in Florida, and persuade other Republicans he was perhaps even crazier and more dangerous than Trump, his former mentor and political boss, who publicly humiliated and marginalized his young former acolyte.

POLITICALLY SPEAKING, MEATBALL DESANTIS IS ALL DRESSED UP WITH NOWHERE TO GO

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Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Written by Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Criminal lawyer now a writer. Author of a 6 novel thriller series set in Bangkok & one rock novel set in 1971 NYC. Loves guitar, yoga, travel, nature, politics.

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