MAGA Super Pac Releases Ad Focused On Ron DeSantis' 'Pudding Fingers,' Leading Many To Believe He's Toast For 2024
Regardless of how you feel about Donald Trump's presidency, myriad scandals or overall vibe, one must concede that he has time and again proven incredibly effective at neutering the presidential ambitions of his political rivals. The 2016 race was a veritable bloodbath of politicians done in by simple nicknames, from "Crooked Hillary," to "Lyin' Ted" to "Low-energy Jeb."
Since stumbling out of the gate in the 2024 race against presumed rival Ron DeSantis with the clunky nickname "Ron DeSanctimonious," he has since pivoted to what many critics agree is the much more devastating "Meatball Ron."
With polls putting Trump at nearly double the support of DeSantis at this point in the race, his campaign may have just hammered the nail in DeSantis' coffin by releasing an ad recalling a micro-scandal that alleged DeSantis once ate pudding out of a cup with his fingers.
Released by the MAGA Inc. Super PAC, the ad leads with the "DeSantis/Pudding" headline and then shows a faceless man dipping his fingers in cups of chocolate pudding.
Over bizarrely sensual shots of the man sucking pudding off his fingers, complete with slurping sounds, the voiceover attempts to build a metaphor by claiming DeSantis has his "dirty fingers all over senior entitlements" like social security and Medicare, which the Florida governor has tried to cut in the past.
Of course, the political content of the ad wasn't nearly as important as the "pudding fingers" to many self-styled political "analysts" on Twitter, who were quick to hyperbolically claim that the ad had killed the DeSantis campaign — which, technically, has yet to begin.
Of course, some online also found the ad juvenile and hypothesized it would be ineffective, but a quick perusal of such complaints indicate that many of these critics are already DeSantis supporters.
Whether or not the ad sticks will only be proven through time, but if and when DeSantis decides to run, it seems certain that the race between him and Trump will lead to bizarre comedy.
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SardonicRainboom
Since when do they care about those things?
Görktürks are furries
this is not helping your chances at re-election.
Hootanic
It probably goes without saying, but the portion of the GOP primary-goer who will be voting for Trump are likely set in stone. The real question is what does this do for everyone else in the GOP – does this convince people that Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, or Vivek Ramaswamy are somehow now superior alternatives to Trump? That the audience the MAGA Pac is trying to persuade to divide the non-Trump vote in the primaries and those folks are not moved by ads like this.
Geigh Science
and what's infuriating is a lot of the "always trump" crowd will turn around in the same breath and say with an overly serious expression and voice "I'm only voting for Trump because there's no other option, believe me there's a lot of things I don't like about him too" (but they'll never actually enumerate any of those things)
Nox Lucis
The line between politics and shitposting becomes more and more of a phantasm every year.
Jon the Wizard
Man, the Republican party's so fucked. Democrats are no better, sure, but they're not "burn it all down and initiate a wholesale purge" fucked.
SardonicRainboom
That by definition makes the Democrats better.
Jon the Wizard
If nothing else they're preferable to the alternative.
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This kind of shit was mildly amusing in 2016, it's completely insufferable now.
Geigh Science
that's how I feel whenever someone describes Trump putting his foot so far up his mouth that it ends up coming out his ass as "trolling teh libs"
"I live in the public eye and need the support of the masses, I should pretend to be retarded and try to offend everyone in order to 'troll teh libs'" -Trump apparently
Rynjin
Political careers have been destroyed by lesser "scandals", but this doesn't feel optimally timed.