I haven't read the Time article, and I don't know why I should. I got the image from a Daily Mail article about it, "'Trump is NOT going to be happy!' Ron DeSantis' first Time cover depicts him eating an ORANGE in apparent dig at his GOP arch-rival - who's graced magazine's cover 35 times," and I haven't read that article, only the title.
The title is ridiculous. Why would this absurd image make Trump unhappy? If DeSantis has Time on his side (to coin a phrase), it's not going to help him with conservatives.
And "eating an ORANGE"... he's not eating an orange. He's peeling an orange.
But I've got to admit that idiotic headline helped me understand why he's peeling an orange. I was puzzled and had to force myself to think about it. I thought: Oranges ≈ Florida. The Governor of Florida, soundly cupping the orange with one hand and tearing into it with the other, is saying Florida is mine, I control Florida.
But seeing The Daily Mail say that he's "eating" the orange in an "apparent dig at" Trump, I remember that Trump has long been derided as the "orange man." For some reason Trump has colored himself orange — dyed his skin and hair orange — and no amount of pointing and mockery and caricature will dissuade him from his color choice. It's a trademark.
So I'm convinced that Time intends the orange to be seen as Trump's head. The Daily Mail calls it a painting, so I'm going to assume that this is an artist's illustration and they didn't get DeSantis to pose holding and tearing into an orange. Notice the juice dripping down all over his hands. Such brutal orange peeling! Brutal and messy. What man in a suit would handle an orange like that? The idea is that's Trump's head and the powerful, remorseless DeSantis will obliterate the orange man.
But, good for Time. You made me look. You made me write a much longer blog post than you deserve. I don't care what you've got to say about DeSantis. Your text is just filler to back this image.
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I haven’t read the article either, but my read is it’s about Florida, since the title is “What Ron DeSantis means for America”. He’s reshaped the state a bit, including nixing Disney’s exclusive property holdings. That could be what the messy peeling is about. It would be a tell for what he would do to America.
So it’s asking if the juice has been worth the squeeze wrt Florida.
Same trope, different day. The tastemakers are so out of juice it's unreal. No one has time for these clumsy glow-ups anymore.
But, good for Time. You made me look.
Yes, some of us are more vulnerable to media influence than others...and yes, that's quite the dance the left is doing with Florida Man DeSantis Disney Killer...
Of course, that's a painting. A painting to make DeSantis as menacing looking as possible. I won't bother with reading the article, I can be confident it is a sly knife in the ribs to DeSantis.
Sometimes an orange is just an orange.
Oh my, such big hands! Trump won’t like that either.
none of it matters.. You KNOW why; because we live in a fascist dictatorship
https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/fbi-dropped-probes-into-claims-clinton-accepted-foreign-bribes/
The FBI had at least four open criminal investigations into Hillary and Bill Clinton that were suddenly dropped in the months before the 2016 presidential election, special counsel John Durham’s recently released report shows.
Three of the FBI’s four investigations that were launched in early 2016 were looking into allegations that the Clinton Foundation has a hub of “criminal activity.”
All four probes were dropped ahead of the 2016 election — several of which at the direction of senior FBI officials who had close ties to the Clintons.
All you have to do is read the motto on the side on the FBI building: The Sword and Shield of the Party
I doubt TIME was given permission by DeSantis to photoshop that cover.
TIME(D) is democrat. Democrat is mob.
Is DeSantis really an "archrival to our president emeritus?
He is polling pretty small numbers.
I am convinced the rivalry is mainly invented by the press to sell papers and eyeballs.
I don't think pedjt or DeSantis do anything to discourage it. They need the coverage and if this is what it takes, so be it.
John Henry
Maybe you have fulfilled the purpose of the article, which was not to inform you, but to make you think 'DeSantis is somehow better than Trump' and repeat it.
Looks like an AI-generated image. "Tom DeSantis wearing a business suit and peeling an orange standing in a politician's office with an American flag in the background, unhappy sour expression, realistic painting, highly detailed, 4K"
I do believe that there is not one word -- not a single sentiment -- in this blog post with which I disagree.
I only wish that we could equip DeSantis and Trump with whatever political equipment was necessary to mutually kill each other's political careers. On video, of course; because I want to watch it.
It's a Mandarin orange. He's peeling Chy-na.
The media/left has no understanding of conservatives.
What Time does not understand is that a large number of American voters saw jovial, rude, rollicking Trump get attacked from every quarter for his entire candidacy and presidency, and might just want a serious, frowning, unhappy asskicker for their next White House occupant.
Goodness knows DeSantis would not take the attacks Trump took with the same equanimity, with the same lack of response.
Or is the article a question to a frowning DeSantis:
"Is the juice worth the squeeze?"
Althouse said,
"But, good for Time. You made me look. You made me write a much longer blog post than you deserve. I don't care what you've got to say about DeSantis. Your text is just filler to back this image."
Good read.
Saved me the trouble. Thank you.
"The Daily Mail say that he's "eating" the orange in an "apparent dig at" Trump ..."
This is why people LOATHE the media; not merely hate it but want it to literally die in a fire.
Ron DeSantis had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with that cover. That's not a photograph of Ron DeSantis. He did not pose for that cover. TIME Magazine drew/painted that cover. That's TIME taking a dig at Trump, not Ron Desantis.
Get this straight; the media are attempting to create the narrative of Ron DeSantis so they can destroy him later. If he's smart, he understands that the media ... ALL MEDIA ... is his mortal enemy. He needs a way to communicate DIRECTLY with voters.
The GOP is way behind the Democrats in identifying who the voters are, and using Big Tech to manipulate the news stories and messaging that each individual voter sees in the run-up to the election. What gets put in each individual voter's timelines. There is no broadcasting. Each individual voter is presented with a view of the Democrat candidate that is tailor-made for that voter's desires. The GOP is horribly behind in this technology.
I suspect the GOP doesn't even realize this is being done; much less HOW it's being done.
tcrosse said...
"Sometimes an orange is just an orange."
No. The metaphor works. The other suspects will arrive shortly. Chortling.
While I have a lot of respect for DeSantis what we need is a gardener who will prune back the swamp hard. Not just trim it. Leave it bleeding. Then DeSantis can come in.
The cover's not about the orange. It's about the scowl.
62-17 pedjt vs DeSantis in a recent Rasmussen poll.
Some archrival
Poll data Hat tip Don Surber highlights of the news today
John Henry
Trump did nothing to drain the swamp in his 4 years. Delusional to assume he will super-hero the corruption.
Trump is already calling Hillary "lovely Hillary." Ah - how nice.
The very creature who set loose the fake Russian collusion hoax - Is "Lovely" according to Trump.
"So it’s asking if the juice has been worth the squeeze wrt Florida."
More than worth it. DeSantis is the reason I moved from NC to Florida in July, 2020. During a visit with a friend in Florida one month earlier, we were sitting on the veranda of a restaurant in the Villages, maskless and drinking a cold beer while watching people golfers on the course when we realized all the Bull Shit Covid rules in NC were just that - Bull Shit. It was like escaping from a dystopian, arbitrary, repressive, fascist state to freedom. Over the last three years DeSantis proved most of the onerous Covid restrictions were not only unnecessary but foolish and harmful, and he correctly reasoned that keeping the economy alive and the schools open was so much more humane than needlessly turning the state into a prison without bars. I'll always be greatful to him for doing the right thing in the face of withering criticism from Covidiots, Democrats and the media.
Suck it Cuomo!!
Bill Zhang said:
"Ron DeSantis had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with that cover. That's not a photograph of Ron DeSantis. He did not pose for that cover. TIME Magazine drew/painted that cover. That's TIME taking a dig at Trump, not Ron Desantis."
Precisely.
The same hack press who lick Buttigig up and down, they AI and photoshop a negative and fake portrait of DeSantis. (The Trump fan club love it. Taking a dig at DeSantis is much approved by the fan bois. As Trump himself lets the left off the hook.)
"Here is a new cover illustration I did for Time. DeSanitis aims to clumsily tear at the nation the way he did in Florida."
- Tim O'Brien, the cover artist.
What evidence does our hostess have that Trump "dyed his skin and hair orange"? Publications have been caught photoshopping an orange tint on photographs of him. I've never seen his hair in particular to be orange rather than blond.
Bill Zhang at 9:53 has it right, but with one major caveat.
The GOPe does know how the dems do what they do. But for the GOP/RNC to replicate that capability would take quite alot of money that would then not be available for their insider consultant deals where they just pocket the cash.
The GOP GOTV apps and databases are all out of date, have the wrong info, dont work properly, etc. But the consultants that own those contracts are favored and the RNC forces GOP candidates to use them.
Because whereas the dems will spend whatever it takes to get power and win on policy, republicans only use their power to rake in cash and dont really care about policy losses.
Not surprising since probably 50% of these GOP/RNC types support most of the dem/uniparty agenda anyway.
These cats will never actually spend the several hundred million or so it would take to do this. Its too hard. Less cash on hand at the end, lets face it, that new beach home ain't gonna just build itself now, is it?
Gilbar,
It is always good to see the correct use of the word "fascist"
Not enough people do it but I am running across it more often. Jut today in Don Surber's column, for example. He, correctly, called out British subject Christian Amanpour as a fascist for wanting to restrict freedoms of press and speech.
It is way past time to start calling a spade a spade and fascists fascists.
Thank you Gilbar
John Henry
The leftmediaswine, social media and the Internet have turned us into a nation of simpletons waiting to be offended.
I'm surprised Time is still read at all.
For those who don't know what what fascism is, other than a pejorative to use against those yo disagree with I suggest reading mussolini's pamphlet "the doctrine of fascism"
https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf
Only a dozen or so pages. Easy to read and understand.
For those not willing to take the trouble, here's mussolini's elevator pitch on fascism:
"Everything in the State,
Nothing outside the State,
Nothing against the State."
then ask yourself whether Brandon's govt fits the definition of fascism or not.
President Trump's?
John Henry
The illustration makes him look like a mafia thug.
Anti-Italian anybody?
Why is DeSantis peeling an orange?
You’re sure that’s not a tangerine?
Time would not have DeSantis peeling a grape.
That is for Mayor Pete.
Time covers will do nothing but reinforce DeSantis' image as the GOPe candidate.
Well, at least it's a faithful likeness of DeSantis: he looks as much like a thug in the illustration as he does in life.
time is a trash publication, no one remember their hysterical covers during the trump era, pepperidge farm remembers
"I haven't read the Time article,"
Time is a photograph.
- Talking Heads
"Well, at least it's a faithful likeness of DeSantis: he looks as much like a thug in the illustration as he does in life."
Of all the times that I've been burned, by now, you'd think I'd have learned
That it's who you look like, not who you are
(Y'all keep that in mind)
- Jackson Brown (on the innate shallowness of human beings)
Joe Smith
Good catch on the anti-Italian
Maybe they are trying to portray him as an "anti-fascist" (not antifa, or spelled properly "antefa" )
Or perhaps that is too much of a stretch even for me.
John Henry
"Time is a photograph."
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Robert Cook -
How is DeSantis a thug - and the crook biden family - protected by the corrupt FBI - not thug?
Please explain.
I thought it was follow up to the pudding cup slam.
Why is DeSantis peeling an orange?
Big Mike: "You’re sure that’s not a tangerine?"
Good catch. That could easily be a good sized easy to peel "zipper" as we called them growing up in California.
Michael K: "Time covers will do nothing but reinforce DeSantis' image as the GOPe candidate."
I dont think a Time cover does anything at all in this case.
However, DeSantis shooting a Bud Light can right thru a picture of an orange would have been more impactful....and fun.
Time Magazine is not the publication we all remember that was published by Time Inc. Time Magazine was sold to Meredith Corp., which then sold it off to Marc Benioff, the owner of Salesforce. I’m not sure why anyone would care what the current Time Magazine publishes these days. It’s a shadow of its former self.
Flip-side Inga (Hunter Biden's Tax Payer Funded Hooker): "The same hack press who lick Buttigig up and down, they AI and photoshop a negative and fake portrait of DeSantis. (The Trump fan club love it. Taking a dig at DeSantis is much approved by the fan bois. As Trump himself lets the left off the hook.)"
The dem media have done this to every republican candidate since Reagan.
Welcome to the "Bigs" as the major leaguers say. Its only going to get harder from here on out and once DeSantis' GOPe/globalist allies remove Trump via lawfare to open the path up for DeSantis, its going to rain lefty fire onto DeSantis with no "Trump" excuse for the DeSantites to fall back on.
Better get a thicker skin.
The Left tell you who they are most afraid of.
it's not Trump.
I would not assume that simply appearing on the Time cover will be a negative for DeSantis. The illustration and likely the accompanying article seem to be a hit piece which indicates DeSantis is at least making the right enemies.
A cover photo of him in a positive to neutral mood and a similarly positive article would have been more problematic.
Chuck said...I only wish that we could equip DeSantis and Trump with whatever political equipment was necessary to mutually kill each other's political careers. On video, of course; because I want to watch it.
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Conserving Cuckservatism.
Have to wonder who Chuck! will vote for.
LLR-Democratical Chuck: "I only wish that we could equip DeSantis and Trump with whatever political equipment was necessary to mutually kill each other's political careers. On video, of course; because I want to watch it."
LOL
Based on your previous quite sexually disturbed posts, the only thing you clearly want to watch is violent homosexual rage rapes!
I'm afraid you're only going to get that from your fellow democraticals.
Speaking of which, have you let lonejustice (LOL) out of his cage today?
As Buttigieg might say and Trump shirley will say about that orange, 'What Me Worry?'.
I'm too lazy to look through the collection of Time covers to find the last time they had a portrait of a senior Republican official that made the person look appealing. If I had to guess, I'd go with Reagan. Ike?
Joe Smith said...
"The illustration makes him look like a mafia thug. Anti-Italian anybody?"
I agree that that's what they were probably going for.
But my initial impression is that the look on his face is the same (thankfully rare) look my dad would give us kids when we did something Really Incredibly Stupid. Not just stupid, but Really Incredibly Stupid.
To me, the look says "Don't mess with me; see what happened when they tried to put paedo porn or ahistorical agit-prop in our schools".
The orange is to associate him with Anita Bryant, also from Florida
Jeb Bush was leading by a lot at this point. The media is very scared of the Fla gov. Telling.
The orange is to associate him with Anita Bryant, also from Florida
Cici n'est pas une orange.
As Trump has said often to his MAGA crowd... I'm just in the way ...
So more than Trump is being torn up by RdS
Looks like a navel orange. They don't drip like that when you peel them, even the good ones from Florida.
The artist stinks at his profession.
Time still exists?
Michael: "Jeb Bush was leading by a lot at this point. The media is very scared of the Fla gov. Telling."
LOL
3rd or 4th time we've seen this talking point in the last week.
I'm afraid the Trump = Jeb! talking point is moronic and dead on arrival.
However, hope does spring eternal for the Early DeSantis supporters with the dem/GOPe/UniParty lawfare effort underway in multiple jurisdictions.
Blogger Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker: "Chuck -
So you're a democrat know. You've shed all your "conservative" principles. You're 100% with Biden.
Right?"
Given LLR-democratical and Violent Homosexual Rage Rape Fantasist Chuck's policy positions over the last 7 years, I believe it would be fair to say Biden is now far too "conservative" for LLR-democratical Chuck.
Chuck is now fully on board with BLM, the most radical trans-child-mutilation agenda (Chuck's years of disturbing politician child-obsessed posts making more sense now) along with completely open borders and weaponization of all levels of govt against republicans seals the deal on his clear leftism.
This is similar to how so many names from the FakeCon neocons have comfortably made their way back to their natural political home: the dems.
Ambrose said...
"Time still exists?"
Amazing, huh?. Guess what. Madona is still alive! I know. I couldn't believe it either.
Sad that DeSantis "Gave them the ammo" to make him look bad.
I'd vote for him, but he's always shooting himself the foot.
There was a time when Time really mattered. It's been a long time since then.
This is not a very elegant way to peel and serve an orange. Many people don't want to eat the rind, it's usually used as a flavoring. Professional chefs usually slice, then cut off the peel with a knife, that way you can grate the peel and rind for baking cookies, salads, etc.
Lots of Youtube videos on how to center and quarter an orange, but I guess they do things differently in Florida.
https://screenrant.com/godfather-oranges-important-symbol-why/
I think this is more of a reference to "The Godfather", giving De Santis a heavy, Don Corleone -type appearance.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
"Trump did nothing to drain the swamp in his 4 years. Delusional to assume he will super-hero the corruption.
Trump is already calling Hillary "lovely Hillary." Ah - how nice.
The very creature who set loose the fake Russian collusion hoax - Is "Lovely" according to Trump."
In any engagement you first identify the enemy. And if he had done nothing else we now know what we're up against.
Rusty - Exposing the corruption is separate from exposing and destroying the corruption.
Billionaire Trump has the luxury of ... wait I hear he has some new NQS cards coming out.
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