Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Biden 'criminal family' and says Oversight will hold Wray in contempt

Brady Knox reporting for Washington Examiner

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said the House Oversight Committee will be holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt over his refusal to assist in the investigation of the Biden family. 

Greene tweeted a denunciation of the "Biden crime family," followed by her backing of Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer's (R-KY) statement in which he announced he would take steps to hold Wray in contempt of Congress. 

"FBI Director Wray’s continuous attempts to protect Joe Biden and his entire criminal family to further our country’s two-tiered justice system must come to an end. That’s why @GOPOversight will be holding Chris Wray in contempt of Congress," Greene tweeted. 

Greene attached Comer's statement in her tweet. 

“Today, the FBI informed the Committee that it will not provide the unclassified documents subpoenaed by the Committee,” Comer wrote late Tuesday afternoon. “The FBI’s decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructionist and unacceptable.” 

Comer added, “While I have a call scheduled with FBI Director Wray tomorrow to discuss his response further, the Committee has been clear in its intent to protect Congressional oversight authorities and will now be taking steps to hold the FBI Director in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena.” 

The feud came after Comer unveiled evidence obtained through subpoenas that "the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $10 million” from companies belonging to foreign nationals. 

Comer listed the names of nine Biden family members he believes are implicated in the payments. The memo names Hunter Biden; James Biden; James Biden’s wife, Sara; Beau Biden’s widow and Hunter Biden’s ex-girlfriend, Hallie Biden; Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle; Hunter Biden’s wife, Melissa Cohen; and three children of Joe Biden or of James Biden as having received payments. 

The FBI has repeatedly refused to hand over a bureau form that Comer claims describes a “criminal scheme” involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and an unnamed “foreign national.” The agency argued that "as is clear from the name itself, confidentiality is definitional to the FBI’s Confidential Human Source program" and that "significant harm to investigative work — and to the program as a whole — could result from dissemination of FD-1023s or other similar documents."

X22, And we Know, and more- May 31

 

Well, this has certainly been an up and down month. The anxiety that came with waiting for that final episode, all to get stuck with a voiceover letter and wanting a sequel movie because you can't stand to give up on someone's happy ending.

But hey, at least I get to contend with the biggest marketing scam of the whole year for a whole month and a lot of trolling to come with it! (That's only half sarcasm)

America and the Future of Globalism

Instead of setting an attractive example, inviting other nations to join a global civilization, America’s elites are imposing a repugnant vision on the world. They must be stopped.

by Edward Ring for American Greatness

If globalization is the economic integration of nations in a world where technology has all but erased once formidable barriers to long-distance communication and transportation, globalism is its cultural and ideological counterpart. In theory, the same dynamics might apply. As economies merge, cultures merge as well. As we move deeper into the 21st century, a global melting pot blends everything and everyone together. A planetary civilization marches united into a future of peaceful coexistence, ecological restoration, human life extension, and galactic exploration.

If people were saints and reality utopia, this idealized version of globalism could be embraced without reservation. Globalism, like communism or neoliberalism, is beautiful when described in these abstract terms and not rooted in the real world. And there is a legitimate moral imperative for us to try to come to terms with what civilization will look like as technology continues to shrink the world. Technology makes globalization, in some ways, inevitable. But what ideology regulates globalization is a choice.

This is the lens through which to view the identity struggle that currently grips the United States and other Western nations. It clarifies what is at stake and points to the consequences of getting it wrong. Unfortunately, for reasons that are not hard to explain, people are not saints and reality is not utopian. Thus, the institutions currently defining policy in America are doing almost everything wrong. Their malpractice is pushing America into decline at the same time as it is alienating allies and empowering malevolent regimes. It must be corrected.

In two fundamental areas, the consensus of America’s elites, relentlessly escalated in policies imposed both by unelected administrators and elected officials, is horrifically wrong. The first of these concerns energy in particular, and more generally, environmentalism. These policies, which nations elsewhere on earth will not accept—to the point of being willing to go to war to stop them, if necessary—are going to strip Americans of freedom and prosperity if we continue to pursue them. That process is well underway.

In the name of saving the planet, Americans are being denied access to affordable energy, despite the fact that “renewables” are not only incapable of replacing oil, gas, coal, hydro, and nuclear power, but are even more destructive to the environment. In an attempt to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions, Americans are being driven out of rural areas and into cities. In turn, America’s cities are prevented from expanding outward in order to prevent “sprawl.” Instead, people evicted from rural areas, along with millions of migrants from foreign nations, are packed via “infill” into multifamily, high-density apartments.

To express the scope of this transformation would require volumes. It is designed to eliminate America’s middle class and destroy small businesses. It extends into every economic sector—energy, water, food, transportation, housing, media, medicine. It is regulatory tyranny that only billionaire individuals and multibillion-dollar corporations can navigate. It centralizes power and cannot be administered without monitoring and micromanaging individual behavior. It is a dystopian nightmare, and it is quietly and systematically smothering what remains of free and economically independent Americans.

The other fundamental mistake America’s elites are promoting is the destruction of the meritocracy that, perhaps more than anything else, made America great. In the name of eliminating racism, sexism, and disproportionate outcomes for people with other identifiable group characteristics, merit and qualifications are being replaced by identity quotas. This, too, is rolling its way through America’s institutions.

Meritocracy, in the broadest sense of the word, is closely related to normality. It is normal to want the best-qualified people to fill positions. It is normal for social organizations, including businesses and government agencies, to best cohere when everyone is not only chosen for their competence, but for their acceptance of shared values and behaviors. Replacing normality with a celebration of abnormality, and replacing competence with quotas, as America’s institutions are doing, undermines the efficiency and the happiness of everyone involved. What’s left are implacable bureaucracies, vast and empty organizations without souls.

These mistakes are going to kill America. Energy poverty, environmentalist tyranny, “equity” over competence; these choices are fatal. But these are merely surface phenomena. The bigger problem is that there is a collective soul that has defined western civilization, developed over millennia, and now warped and abandoned by America’s elites. It is dismissed as an anachronism and an impediment. But it is the source of America’s greatness and restoring it is the only solution to America’s current misdirection.

A recent essay by Cauf Skiviers—a provocative writer who was recently banned by Medium (you’ve been warned)—includes a paragraph that describes the foundations of Western civilization. For brevity, it’s as good as any. He writes:

The foundations of the West are anchored in the triad of Christianity, Greek philosophy, and Roman law. These pillars were not erected by a single, all-directing force, but rather were forged out of disagreement, wars, jealousy, and love. None of the elements necessitating any particular racial impetus. Much to the contrary. Christianity dispelled the notion of a ‘chosen people,’ extending salvation indiscriminately through faith. Rome, too, was built upon the bedrock of the Rule of Law, applicable to all. Greek philosophy was not concerned with the ‘lived experience’ of Athenians or the ‘spoken truth’ of Milesians, but rather with universal values.

The relevance of this paragraph is in its appeal to everyone, everywhere in the world. Salvation indiscriminately through faith. The rule of law applicable to all. Universal values. What this heritage gave rise to was a nation that even now remains an inspiration. A nation where individuals enjoy personal and economic freedom. A nation where the government does not intrude on where people live or how they develop their property. A nation where private enterprise and private ownership are respected and protected.

But our values—our piety, our idealism, our respect for individuality—have brought us to the present struggle to define our identity. We no longer agree on what’s normal. We no longer agree on what’s fair. Every right and every traditional value we cherish is threatened.

Fixing the surface phenomena—the orchestrated abolition of affordable energy and meritocracy—is conceptually easy. The most powerful coalition of special interests in American history must be opposed with equal resolve by an American people united against the tyranny that must govern a society that’s economically broken and indifferent to competence.

Fixing the foundations of the West, however, is a harder job. The goal, and the opposition, is harder to define. Will we settle on values that restore a healthy society? Can we overcome woke hysteria without overreacting our way into a version of repression that is just as dark as the tyranny it displaces? Can we recognize enough of the enlightened and evolving values of this century without succumbing to decadence and decay? If we can do this, we offer the foundations of a world civilization.

How America resolves its own identity struggle will largely determine what kind of culture we live in centuries from now. To say, probably accurately, that no nation on earth is trying with more integrity than America to figure out how we should live in a way that is sustainable and equitable while preserving individual freedom and economic independence is discouraging but also must be an inspiration. We have to get this right.

Whether nations eventually merge together or remain separate members of a community of sovereign states depends on how globalism is ultimately defined. America’s elites offer a future of green poverty and woke decadence. In doing so, they are squandering the greatness that other nations once admired and emulated. Instead of setting an attractive example, inviting other nations to join a global civilization, America’s elites are imposing a repugnant vision on the world. They must be stopped. There are alternatives. It is not too late.

Toward a Youthful Republican Party

The party’s failure to appeal to younger voters is not an unsolvable problem.

by Gabe Guidarini for American Greatness

The largest issue negatively impacting the Republican Party’s ability to win young people, and the electorate at large, is the GOP’s lack of a coherent, positive message.

The GOP’s current message amounts to vague, wildly incoherent (though not unwarranted) negativity directed toward the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party. The thought process driving this messaging is pretty simple as it was designed to capitalize on the widespread unpopularity of both the Democrats and the Biden presidency.  Younger voters disapprove of both Biden and his party, with 54 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 expressing disapproval at Biden’s job performance, and 55 percent expressing disapproval of the Democratic Party, according to Civiqs polling. Going on the attack, however, can only do so much for a Republican Party that happens to be even more unpopular than the Democrats among younger voters, scoring a 73 percent unfavorable rating among Americans aged 18 to 34.

Further contributing to the problem is that the common response from frustrated older Republicans when confronted with the overwhelmingly liberal voting tendencies of young voters is to lambast them for vague negative characteristics such as laziness and degenerate behavior or to simply blame their voting patterns on outside forces such as academic indoctrination. 

After research showed high youth turnout contributed to the liberal candidate Janet Protasiewicz’s victory over her conservative challenger in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who currently serves as the President of Young America’s Foundation, a conservative group targeting young people, went out on Twitter to do just this. “Younger voters may be behind the stinging loss for conservatives in WI this week”, he pointed out. “Digital ads. Student coalitions. None of these will do it. We have to undo years of liberal indoctrination.”

There’s a major problem with this type of response. It shoves away all responsibility for Republicans to make an effort to appeal to young people as they are and attributes their failures to the politicization of academia, a problem for which no solution has been outlined by the party.

This strategy of ignoring young voters and their interests has done the GOP no favors. Last year’s midterm elections, largely anticipated to result in major gains for the GOP, yielded very little outside of California, Florida, and New York. In many areas of the country—especially the Midwest which has been at the forefront of Republican expansion in the Trump era—Republicans failed to produce any wave whatsoever.

Many different scapegoats have been put forward by frustrated Republicans to explain the recent electoral stagnation, but the explanation that’s legitimately backed by data is the ever-prominent progressive slant among young voters. A 2021 poll conducted by Axios and Momentive showed that 54 percent of Gen Z (ages 18 to 24) hold negative views of capitalism, and just 42 percent of the young generation view capitalism favorably. Younger voters have always voted to the left, but they’re becoming an even greater thorn on the GOP’s side in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which is resulting in stronger turnout among pro-abortion voters, such as in the case with Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election.

The reality is that young people actually do have goals in life, and plenty have concerns about the direction the country is headed and how it will affect their livelihoods. Many are worried about being able to buy a home, have children, and raise a family without spending their life savings. Many are worried about being able to get by without requiring two full-time incomes. Many are worried about whether or not they’ll have to compete for work with foreign laborers or whether any job they obtain could one day be outsourced overseas entirely. For them, vague talk about the GDP or federal spending isn’t going to cut it.

To an extent, the GOP has begun talking about these issues in recent years. Increasingly, Republican talking points have taken some notice of problems, such as declining home ownership, marriage and birth rates, and the decline of the American workforce. The platform has grown to include protectionist measures on jobs and trade, and policies that incentivize family creation, but only in certain instances and by certain figures, mainly those who are in the “National Conservative” sphere of the party.

A strong example of this mindset comes from J. D. Vance, the recently elected U.S. senator from Ohio, who campaigned on (and is currently legislating for) a pro-family, pro-worker agenda that is forward-thinking and aims to hold true to the label of “conservatism” by seeking to actually conserve the American way of life. Vance recently talked about making childbirth free in America, a proposal that is not typical of the Republican Party’s historical inclination towards rugged individualism. A proposal like this, however, is not only an objectively strong solution for America’s family crisis but gives Republicans a lane to appeal to young people and women without having to back away from their convictions on issues like abortion.

Vance campaigned on this positive, forward-thinking message and ended up winning his Senate race by over six percentage points while at a massive financial disadvantage against a Tim Ryan campaign widely heralded by pundits as the gold standard for Democratic campaigns. Other Republican elected officials who have joined Vance in embracing this doctrine are Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Representatives Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) and Dan Bishop (R-N.C.). Republican governors such as Glenn Youngkin, currently holding a very positive approval rating in the blue state of Virginia, and Ron DeSantis, re-elected last year in the second largest landslide for the governor’s office in Florida history, have been rewarded for using their positions to achieve actual policy victories, including on controversial social issues, rather than by adhering to the typical restraint-driven GOP doctrine.

The Republican Party can find greater success among younger voters by joining Senator Vance and the “National Conservatives” in proposing and seriously adopting economic solutions to the issues that young people are facing. This approach requires Republicans to look beyond the “limited government” doctrine and ask themselves, as conservatives, what they are conserving. In order for traditionally progressive youth to overlook social issues like abortion and consider voting Republican, there needs to be an answer to the question, “What can the Republican Party do for me?” 

It’s time to start offering some real answers, or the GOP can kiss its electoral future goodbye.

Here's when GAF will start Christmas in July 🌲

 

Source: https://itsawonderfulmovie.blogspot.com/2023/05/when-great-american-christmas-in-july.html

I have spectacular news!

Great American Family's 2nd year of Great American Christmas in July is coming soon! You can expect to see lots of your favorite Christmas movie classics from the GAF holiday film library, including: A Christmas Miracle for Daisy, A Christmas... Present, Christmas on Candy Cane Lane, B&B Merry, A Lot Like Christmas, Jingle Bell Princess, Catering Christmas, and more! Plus, Great American Family will have the premiere of A Belgian Chocolate Christmas!

So... when can you set your calendar for this awesome event?

Great American Christmas in July 

on Great American Family 

begins June 30th!

And even greater news, if you love Christmas movies as much as I do...

During GAF's Christmas in July, movies will air 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!!!

Isn't that fantastic? Great American Family shared this bit of exciting news in response to a Facebook comment.

I screen-grabbed the comment and couldn't wait to share the good news with all of you!

Have a Merry last day of May, Everyone!

DeSantis 106 – The Thoughts of Others

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

One of the key aspects to noticing a controlled candidate is the speech, cadence and distinct linguistics used during prepared remarks.

When a candidate is authentic in delivery of advocacy points, their speech is a natural flow of thoughts and ideas they create in verbal delivery.  However, when a politician is delivering a speech constructed for them, using the thoughts of others, you will notice a cadence constructed around a series of soundbites that are strung together.

Ron DeSantis kicked-off his official Iowa campaign today literally reading prepared remarks that did not come from his own thought processes.  When delivering a speech from the thoughts of others, there is an emphasis on the reading of it; in the example we highlight today with DeSantis the reading is extreme.  You can see below.

This is not to say that speech writers are not useful, they are. Almost all politicians use speech writers to assist them in putting their thoughts into words to assist communication.  The key is to use the candidates’ thoughts. However, when the thoughts themselves are not from the candidate, there is a very different outcome in delivery.

This is what becomes very visible with Ron DeSantis.

As candidates, Dr. Ben Carson and Newt Gingrich wrote most of their speech scripts and delivered their own thoughts on points of policy and advocacy.  President Trump also communicates his own thoughts through speeches written from them.  When the thoughts are from the candidate, you will notice a tone of authenticity in the delivery. Speeches delivered by people like Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson also communicate with authenticity because the thoughts conveyed are their own.

Conversely, in traditional politics there are candidates who do not convey their own thoughts and end up reading speeches that are disjointed with emphasis misplaced, syllables in wrong context, and carrying an odd syntax and cadence.  The more disconnected from the thoughts of the reader, the odder the delivery.

The worst examples of reading other people’s thoughts to assist their own communication, come from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg.  Governor Nikki Haley also struggles with this, and to a lesser extent so does Mike Pence and other well-known republicans.

Three of the more noticeable political figures, somewhere in the middle of the extremes was Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush and George ‘Dubya’ Bush.  The best orator to transfer the thoughts of others into his own linguistic delivery was probably Barack Obama. One of the reasons for Obama’s success was due to his team all having the same ideological outlooks.  Obama delivered convincing words because his thoughts and the thoughts of his speech writers were in synergy.

The bottom line is that when a political operation is poll-testing, highly managed and heavily scripted, there is a noticeable lack of authenticity in the speeches of the candidate.  The reason is quite simple; the speeches are assembled from disconnected ‘talking points’ or ‘soundbites’ and then an effort is put toward sequencing them for candidate communication.

Once you notice the issue of reading the ‘thoughts of others‘ it is almost impossible not to see it when you watch the speech being delivered.  This issue is very clear today in the remarks from Ron DeSantis in Iowa.  Unbeknownst to most casual political observers, DeSantis has always been heavily influenced and managed by others throughout his career.  However, now it is starting to become more noticeable.

The venue is a mega-church in Des Moines.  Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds introduces Ron DeSantis to the church audience, and immediately the Florida governor starts reading the script.  Watch how much time he spends literally reading the words. WATCH for a minute and you will see:

Trump’s punches aren’t landing

Desperate, flailing, and missing the mark.

opinion by Dianny at Patriot Retort

Donald Trump has been throwing flailing punches at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis since just before the midterm election last November, and so far, none of those punches seem to be landing.

At first, Trump and his army of lickspittles hoped that by swarming DeSantis like a hive of meth-addled gnats, they could dissuade the popular Florida governor from daring to challenge Trump in the 2024 race.

When DeSantis won in a landslide and his coattails ushered in the reddest Florida in history, Team Trump doubled down, especially after Trump’s beloved New York Post featured a front-page headline about DeSantis’ victory reading, “DeFuture.” That certainly put a damper on Trump’s “Big Announcement” that was planned for the following week.

Trump’s fear of DeSantis’ rise was evident from his constant barrage of frantic, erratic, and unhinged attacks on Truth Social that were frequently IN ALL CAPS and entirely untethered from reality.

Despite six months of punches, Trump was unable to stop the inevitable, and last Wednesday, Ron DeSantis officially became a candidate for president.

I spent an hour Thursday morning listening to the Twitter Space discussion that was the source of so much mockery in the media (and Team Trump) due to the technical difficulties that hampered its start.

Of course, most of the mockery failed to point out that the main reason for the technical problems was the sheer volume of people trying to tune in to listen.

And having listened to it, I can tell you that it is well worth the hour.

I haven’t seen many interviews with Governor DeSantis, aside from the occasional clips featured on social media, so having the opportunity to sit and listen for an hour was helpful.

After delivering an opening statement about his campaign, DeSantis fielded questions from both Twitter CEO Elon Musk and moderator David Sacks, as well as from prominent conservatives like Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie, gun rights advocate Dana Loesch, school choice advocate Christopher Rufo, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford School of Medicine who, like DeSantis, was an outspoken critic of the federal government’s COVID response.

No matter the issue, DeSantis can speak intelligently in an off-the-cuff manner that has been sorely lacking lately. Honestly, after over two years of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden prattling on unintelligibly, it was refreshing listening to someone who could clearly articulate his positions while speaking extemporaneously.

If you haven’t heard the Twitter Space discussion, you can listen to it HERE.

Meanwhile, as DeSantis was sitting down with Elon Musk and doing several other interviews last Wednesday, Donald Trump was throwing punches at DeSantis on Truth Social in one flailing ALL CAPS rant after another.

He’s a RINO, said the candidate who is running to the Left of DeSantis.

He’s a Paul Ryan flunkie, said the candidate who, as president, endorsed Paul Ryan as Speaker.

He’s a Globalist! Because we all know how those globalists love it when you ban ESG investing and prohibit foreign countries like China from purchasing land in your state.

Trump has even taken to praising disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo as a way of attacking DeSantis on his handling of the COVID pandemic.

As a New Yorker who frequently excoriated my former asshole governor, I found that line of attack especially pathetic. I mean, I wasn’t even angry about it, that’s how pitiful Trump’s attack was. I suffered through the video Trump recorded and could only ruefully smile at just how desperate and grasping Trump’s arguments were.

Aside from his fan base on Twitter and those who religiously watch Steve Bannon’s podcast, Trump’s punches just aren’t landing. Not here in the real world, anyway.

Sure, the NeverTrump grifters from the Lincoln Project are taking delight in Trump’s attacks on DeSantis, mostly because the Lincoln Project wants Trump to be the nominee for two simple reasons: 1) he’s their meal ticket and 2) they want Biden to win reelection.

But no matter what lame punches Trump might throw at him, Ron DeSantis is more than capable of holding his own.

When asked by Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro about Trump’s attacks over COVID, DeSantis called them “very bizarre” and said if Trump does think Andrew Cuomo did a better job, it suggests that Trump would “double down” and do the same thing if this ever happened again.

When Trump accused DeSantis of voting against funding for the Wall when he was still in Congress, DeSantis pointed out that the bill in question, Goodlatte II, would have offered amnesty to 2 million illegal aliens in exchange for a tiny sliver of funding for the Wall.

What’s more, after spending weeks attacking DeSantis for going after Disney’s special privileges in Florida, Trump suddenly changed course, no doubt after learning that polling shows that Republican voters support DeSantis in his fight.

This is what happens when you spend your time reacting rather than leading.

In 2016, Trump was the candidate who set the tone and issues in the primary. Today, he’s the cornered, desperate old man who’s hiding at Mar-a-Lago, late-night anger posting to Truth Social.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, Trump’s army of “influencers” are lashing out like cornered hyenas, attacking everyone who expresses support for DeSantis while peddling easily provable lies about members of the DeSantis campaign, particularly Christina Pushaw, the campaign’s resident rapid response pit-bull.

They’re also super mad at Twitter CEO Elon Musk, mostly because he hosted the Twitter Spaces launch of DeSantis’ 2024 campaign.

This tweet really pissed them off as well:

That 7-word tweet from Musk was met with so much alternate-universe gibbering, I had to stop reading the replies because I was rolling my eyes too much.

Good grief, the Trump army of “influencers” even went after the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee after the Bee’s owner fired one of their number for his profanity-laced attacks on Christina Pushaw.

Then there are the campaign-adjacent deranged lunatics like that nutjob Laura Loomer who spends her time railing at Casey DeSantis for daring to go by her middle name while accusing the governor’s wife of faking her cancer diagnosis to get her husband reelected.

Whatever happened to the MAGA Happy Warriors of 2016?

Well, many of the more serious campaign people, including Steve Cortes, have hopped off of the Trump Trainwreck to support Ron DeSantis in 2024. That’s left the Trump campaign in the incapable hands of creeps like Roger Stone and a gaggle of 20-something scrawny boys who weren’t old enough to vote for Trump in 2016.

Mayoral campaigns in rural Idaho are better managed that this clown show.

This is not a campaign that screams “Presidential Material,” and, frankly, I’m a bit embarrassed.

I spent four years defending Trump when he was president. I defended him over the bogus RussiaGate investigation, the Ukraine phone call impeachment, and every false media claim that came over the transom.

When Trump lost to Biden in November 2020, I was more than happy to vote for him again if he ran in 2024. But then the Trump Train went off the rails with Krakens and Pillows. And by January 6, 2021, I just wanted Trump to shut the hell up and go away.

Trump spending the last two-plus years burning bridges and hurling childish attacks at everyone who doesn’t kiss his ass pretty much sealed the deal for me.

Team Trump fears Ron DeSantis. One only has to look at the frantic punches and outlandish lines of attack to know it.

Team Trump might strut around like Mick Jagger while boasting about how their guy has the nomination in the bag, but behind the scenes at Mar-a-Lago, they’re sweating bullets.

They’re sweating so much that it would probably take at least two dozen shop vacs to suck up all the flop sweat that’s soaked into the Mar-a-Lago carpets.

And while Team Trump is sweating, Donald isn’t out there campaigning. Instead, he’s holed up somewhere furiously pounding on the keyboard of his smartphone posting one angry ALL CAPS “Truth” after another. At this point, it’s only a matter of time before Trump is Howard Hughesing it at Mar-a-Lago, letting his nails and hair grow long while depositing his urine into plastic bottles and storing them in the room that used to house his classified documents.

That isn’t to say Trump doesn’t have time to turn things around. We’re still 9 months away from the Iowa Caucus and 4 months away from when voters start paying any attention to the primaries.

Trump can either continue his flailing, panic-stricken campaign “strategy” or he can smarten up and remember that he is running for President of the United States.

But if the last two and a half years are any indication, the odds that Trump can get off the pity pot and put on his big boy pants before voters are engaged aren’t particularly good.