 All right, great. So let's see Yeah, I think we've got a Just a massive number of people online. So it's Service restraining somewhat Well, it's official governor Rhonda Santis of Florida is running for presidents and to say that his campaign is off to a rocky start Would be quite the understatement because his campaign launch was a complete fucking Disaster and it was absolutely Hilarious to watch so there were reports yesterday that were almost surreal that he was going to announce his 2024 presidential campaign with Elon Musk live in a Twitter Spaces event now for those of you who don't know what that is Twitter spaces is basically zoom Without the video. So this was an audio call where he was going to be making this announcement and And Twitter is known for its glitches. It is a platform with notorious bugs So it's a bad idea to begin with but even if everything was copacetic and it went smoothly Think about how bad of an idea this is just from a marketing perspective Like the reason why these presidential candidates make these announcements to crowds of people is so that way there's people cheering there You feel the energy you get excited But instead Rhonda Santis chose to hold this announcement with him and a couple of other middle-aged men Breathing into the microphone with their mouths using shitty phone mics And it just was a bizarre decision, but as bad as it sounded on paper in practice. It was Exponentially worse. It was a complete disaster So as the Washington Post reports for the first time a presidential candidate would use the site's premier audio feature to announce a run for the White House and he'd do so in an exclusive interview with new CEO Elon Musk But just minutes into the Twitter spaces with Florida governor Ron DeSantis The site was breaking because of technical glitches as more than 600,000 people tuned in users were dropping off including DeSantis himself a Flustered musk scrambled to get the conversation on track only to be thwarted by his own website Eventually they launched a new spaces on a separate account Siding Musk's account as the problem although it drew a fraction of the traffic as DeSantis eventually made his announcement Roughly a half hour late. I love it so much couldn't have happened to a more miserable piece of shit But I take it that Elon Musk probably regrets firing all those engineers now But as the article stated DeSantis did eventually make the announcement and we're gonna listen to that Because it was very anticlimatic But the best part was them scrambling to get it together They start talking and then there's silence and then they start talking again There's an echo It's just beautiful So I made a bunch of cuts because this was long so we can't listen to all of it But any of like the white flashes that means I put a cut in there But I just wanted to give you a little bit of a taste as to how Unbearable this was like imagine being excited for DeSantis's campaign announcement and you have to put up with this So without further ado enjoy This is something All right, we're just reallocating more sort of a capability to be able to handle load here It's really going going crazy. So, um, yeah, um, I'm super excited to Have Governor DeSantis Make this up Good afternoon. Good evening or good morning everyone depending on wherever in the world you're joining us from I'm broadcasting live from David from Twitter headquarters It's David Sachs here Elon is sitting next to me and we want and we want to welcome you to this historic twitter spaces event and more broadly at first in the history of social media Tonight I'm pleased to introduce two individuals who've done more to loosen the grid. All right. Sorry about that We we've got so many people here that I think we are We are kind of melting the servers Which is a good sign All right, I'd like to just introduce the the folks in in the room here So it's safe to say we wouldn't be making history without the man sitting next to me Elon Musk his decision to purchase this platform last year to restore to its original mission as a beacon for free speech And even to expose twitter's past complicity with a government sensitive regime Might have surprised many but not those of us who've known and worked with Elon for nearly a quarter century His commitment to freedom and his will to put his money well his mouth is upset the narrative And plays on us by our government elite institutions and corporate media. Yeah Well, let's see. So yeah governor, there's been a lot of speculation over the last couple of months about your your plans I understand that you may have an announcement to make. We've got I think a record audience assembled here You know, that's probably the biggest Room that's probably ever been assembled online. What would you like to tell them? Well, I am running for president of the united states to lead our great american combat Look, we know our country's going in the wrong direction We see it with our eyes and we feel it in our bones our southern borders collapse drugs are pouring into the country Our cities are being hollowed out by spiking crime The federal government's making it harder for the average family to make ends meet and to attain and maintain A middle-class lifestyle and our president Well, he lacks vigor flounders in the face of our nation's challenges and he takes his cues from the woke mob I don't think it has to be this way american decline is not inevitable It is a choice and we should choose a new direction a path that will lead to american revitalization We must restore sanity to our nation I'm pumped That was Very exciting I think that more funny to me than the silence periods were when he started talking In the center there was an echo I just I love this I love that this happened now to give you additional context if you missed the event As this is happening you have people immediately shitposting making fun of ronda santis the meme started rolling in almost immediately And as this is happening trump is attacking ronda santis with multiple videos He's also sharing his 2024 campaign announcement with the crowd cheering probably to juxtapose His successful launch which was arguable with desantis's objectively bad launch and on top of that trump shared this post in response to desantis's announcement and i'm sorry even though i hate donald trump This was objectively hilarious That is quality shitposting my friends quality shitposting Now to make matters worse for desantis if you look at the headlines none of them were talking about The excitement or his comeback plan or any policies Rather they were mostly reporting on how disastrous his announcement was Now with that being said ronda santis ultimately posted a video his first campaign ad on twitter Which he probably just should have done to begin with rather than hold holding this live space But after watching this i honestly i don't know Who this man is supposed to appeal to like i get that he appeals to Tradcons because of the attack on woke bullshit But he has negative charisma and he chose perhaps the only person on the planet with less charisma than him To help him with this announcement i'm of course talking about elan musk, but let's watch and then we'll discuss Our border is a disaster Crime infests our cities The federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet and the president flounders But decline is a choice success is attainable And freedom is worth fighting for Writing the ship requires restoring sanity to our society Normalcy to our communities and integrity to our institutions Truth must be our foundation and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue In florida we prove that it can be done We chose facts over fear Education over indoctrination Law and order over rioting and disorder. We held the line when freedom hung in the balance We showed that we can and must Revitalize america. We need the courage to lead and the strength to win I'm ron g santas, and i'm running for president to lead our great american comeback Listen, i'm not the target demographic for that ad But even by other republican standards, that was just boring. That was just boring and i'm sorry, but ron g santas He as somebody with an annoying nasally voice myself not necessarily nasally, but i don't have like the best voice objectively speaking Right, it's just it's facts, but like as somebody with a bad voice You need to know your strengths and your weaknesses and desantis should not have narrated his own ad he should have hired a narrator, right because What you were saying like even if he were talking about this in a substantive way when you're sitting there with this nasally fucking voice It's just a turnoff. So look he is launching with a huge huge Deficit to make up between him and donald trump and there were some moments after the 2022 election when he was Getting pretty close to trump, but that time has passed and now he Is looking to be the laughing stock of this election cycle not necessarily only because of his own doing but because donald trump Is going to rip him to shreds and i honestly can't wait to watch so This is only the beginning though. So um, the memes are gonna be fire the uh disasters are gonna continue And i'm going to grab the popcorn because i love watching the universe just uh Give back to these fascists what they put out so Yeah, the santas 2024 folks. It's uh, it's off to a pretty rough start