The irony of excluding a thread complaining about non-inclusion is lost on them I'm sure.

I agree. I don’t think DeSantis is up to taking Trump head on. Trump is still alpha.

DeSantis would be great in 2028 however he can step in if anything happens to Trump medically in the next year and a half.

I don’t think DeSantis has announced he is running, has he?  Officially, he isn’t trying to take anyone on. Unofficially he has made some comments obliquely referring to Trump, like how his governors office doesn’t have daily drama, they just do the job.

However, trump stepped in it today when he said he would black ball anyone who works for DeSantis. The commentary on Fox is 100% negative toward him because of it. I’ve never seen anything even close to this before.

It was GUARANTEED he'd lose against Hillary.  Remember?

However, the Democrats have it so rigged now, no Republican can win.

Without the FBI saying something really late, he would have. His cumulative margin of victory in the bubble states was amazingly low, something 50,000 votes.

And 100% he was going to beat the brainless robot who had like 10 people at his rallies, right. 

In case there are actual replies, this will stop the joke thread from becoming a discussion of chocolate.

If you feel like spending money:

https://www.vosgeschocolate.com/

My wife has had both and prefers https://www.kateweiserchocolate.com/ from Dallas.  They're both good, but I'm not a big chocolate fan, so I'm not sure I'm a judge.

Looks like an insurrection to me.

Other than his demeanor and his mean Tweets, please tell us which policies of his you didn't like?

The point that broke the came's back - When he stole from the military housing deployment budget to build part of a border wall after refusing a bill that had 5 times as much for a wall. Net result, the military MWR suffered and we got a partial solution.

Lots of partial solutions.

Failed to repeal obamacare.  I don't care if McCain screwed him, that means Trump let himself get screwed.  Then he quit trying.

Bringing back manufacturing to the US in a meaningful way.  He did some token work, but never addressed the issues that drove it away in the first place.

Failed to get National Right to Carry in every state on the agenda.  Like he didn't try.

Failed to eliminate common core.

Failed to remove illegal aliens.  In fact, what he did made it worse.

Triple ICE enforcement.  Failed

Kicking China out of the WTO.  Failed.

Balance the budget.  Failed

Failed, failed, failed.

He ruined his capability to influence overseas.  If the US is to be a superpower, influence is mandatory. 

He cannot work with people, he dictates to them.  That works well as the head of an international real estate empire where he has all the power, but not so great as a national leader.

Shall I keep going?  I can name more campaign promises that he failed at than you can ones he kept.

And in doing all this, he did other things that infuriated Democrats and motivated them into crusading to defeat him. 

I refuse to support going through this again.