5/25/23: DeSantis launch event collapses, global humiliation

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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-- On the Show: -- David Auerbach, writer, technologist, and author of the book "Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities," joins David to discuss the problematic structure of online networks. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3IGcTeZ -- Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launches his 2024 Republican presidential campaign on Twitter alongside Elon Musk, and it goes so horribly wrong from a technical standpoint that it immediately becomes a meme-worthy global humiliation -- Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' campaign launch event was so bad, Donald Trump was able to brutally troll him -- Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis enters a talking point coma during a Fox News interview with Trey Gowdy in the immediate aftermath of his presidential campaign announcement -- Donald Trump is wildly triggered by Ron DeSantis' campaign launch and publishes a wacky attack ad against DeSantis -- Fox & Friends hosts make fun of Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announcing his presidential campaign on Twitter Spaces -- Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes the latest attack dog for Donald Trump against Ron DeSantis -- A desperate Nikki Haley, ignored by everyone, decides to go fully anti-transgender to try to get attention -- Fox News propagandist Maria Bartiromo becomes the latest anchor to casually and quickly admit that their entire story about undocumented immigrants and hotel rooms was fake news -- On the Bonus Show: Life-threatening heat could impact 2 billion people buy 2100, unlicensed religious chaplains may counsel students in Texas public schools, US colleges consider an end to race-conscious student admissions, much more... ♨️ Bon Charge Sauna Blanket: Use code PAKMAN for 15% OFF at https://boncharge.com/pakman 🌱 Ounce of Hope: Get 25% OFF with code PAKMAN at https://www.ounceofhope.com/ 💰 Public.com: Start getting a 5% yield on your cash at https://public.com/pakman 🩳 SHEATH Underwear: Code PAKMAN for 20% OFF at https://sheathunderwear.com/pakman -- Become a Supporter: http://www.davidpakman.com/membership -- Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/thedavidpakmanshow -- Subscribe to Pakman Live: https://www.youtube.com/pakmanlive -- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/davidpakmanshow -- Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow -- Leave us a message at The David Pakman Show Voicemail Line (219)-2DAVIDP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We start today with the humiliatingly abortive presidential campaign announcement of Republican
0:23.2	Florida governor Ron DeSantis. This event was a global humiliation. And if DeSantis's presidential
0:30.8	campaign is going to follow the theme and tone and competence of yesterday's Twitter
0:36.1	space's announcement, it is going to be a very, very short-lived campaign. Now, well,
0:41.6	it's not judge at all by the first 24 hours, but it was really bad. For those of you who don't know,
0:47.2	there was an announcement made two days ago that Florida governor Ron DeSantis, after much speculation,
0:52.7	would indeed announce that he is running for president in the Republican party against Donald
0:58.0	Trump and Tim Scott and Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswami. And he would be making this announcement
1:04.5	alongside Elon Musk on Twitter spaces. Twitter spaces is a very rudimentary. I mean, we're talking
1:11.2	about audio over the internet. This isn't the most advanced, you know, 4K live streaming video.
1:17.2	You could imagine so low energy, nearly a dozen technical disasters. I'm starting to think
1:24.0	prayer may work because I was willing technical disasters into existence all day yesterday.
1:30.7	And they happen. So I have to reconsider. Maybe thoughts and prayers actually do have an impact.
1:35.6	I'm kidding. Of course, this was the worst and most embarrassing presidential campaign launch
1:42.2	that I can remember in the modern political era, minutes of silence, random throat clearing,
1:50.6	muffled commentary from Elon Musk about how the servers are melting down. DeSantis himself getting
1:58.6	booted off of the event. Let's just listen to a little bit of and again, I'm there. There are going
2:04.0	to be extended silences here. I'm trying to get everybody back in the mode of understanding the
2:10.5	environment yesterday, which we live streamed and just everything going wrong. Let's jump into it.
2:18.8	It is now live. Okay. So it's starting about eight minutes late. And this is the sort of thing
2:23.7	that we experienced. There's three and eight two thousand people on. All right. Great. So let's see.
2:33.3	It's a just a question. Yeah, I think we've got just a massive number of people online. So it's
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