Both have supported the former newscaster, so at a Turning Point Action event starring DeSantis speaking on behalf of Lake in Phoenix yesterday, she looked for the words to thank them for their political chutzpah.
Citing DeSantis, Lake said, “He is gutsy. The guy has bigger — wait, let me think about how I’m going to word this,” she told the crowd. “My staff always says, 'Whatever you do, do not say balls.' So I’m not going to say it,” she added to laughs.
First, she tried, “That guy has a backbone made of steel.”
Then, she took it to the street. “I’ll tell you what he’s got. I don’t know if you’ve heard of this, but he’s got ‘BDE.’ Does anybody know what that means?” she asked, referring to the phrase “big d*** energy” before advising, “Ask your kids about it later.”
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She changed it a bit to cheers and more laughter. “I call it ‘Big DeSantis Energy,’” she said before adding, “He’s got the same kind of BDE that President Trump has, and frankly, he has the kind of BDE that we want all of our elected leaders to have.”
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The Cut coined "BDE" in 2018 to describe Pete Davidson's charm with women. He had, as they put it, "big d**k energy," something that caught on and went viral as a synonym for "strong" and "confident" despite its sexist and size-ist implications.
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"BDE is a quiet confidence and ease with oneself that comes from knowing you have an enormous penis and you know what to do with it," author Allison Davis wrote in the original piece. "It's not cockiness; it's not a power trip—it's the opposite: a healthy, satisfied, low-key way you feel yourself."
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Davidson's most recent ex, Kim Kardashian, even said on her show The Kardashians that she was attracted to Pete because of his BDE, especially because she was, to cite another acronym, "DTF," or "down to f**k."
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Turning Point recognizes itself as an organization "whose mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote freedom" with a focus on free markets. Its beliefs, per its website, are that "the United States of America is the greatest country in the history of the world; the U.S. Constitution is the most exceptional political document ever written; [and] capitalism is the most moral and proven economic system ever discovered."
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