Trump played us like a fiddle. He dangled birthright citizenship which I wanted as much as the wall. He talked a lot and got our hopes up and didn't deliver. I'll never want to see him on the ballot again. I'll be voting for Ron in the primary.
I'll never understand how Trump could've tapped into voter frustration over an incompetent/disinterested government when it came to immigration, won on that sole issue, and then thought not upholding those promises would be the best course of action. It's either laziness or stupidity.
As I have explained before, Trump lacks a DNA-level hatred of government and bureaucrats and agencies and programs.
He doesn't see Schumer as a gas chamber afficianado, a liberal jewish person who has no philosophical opposition to gas chambers as long as he is the one dropping in the tablets. Rush pointed out that Trump didn't see Schumer as an ideologue dedicated to Trump's destruction; Trump likes to make deals and he thought that Schumer would deal in good faith.
The FBI, CIA, NSA, DHS, TSA, EPA, Depts of Education and Commerce, for starters, should have been abolished on Trump's first day, kind of like how Clinton fired all 93 US Attorneys on his first day (and no one questioned his Right to do so). But Trump has respect for institutions........
As Ayn Rand put it, "I cannot believe that grown Americans do not understand, as adults, the evils of collectivism as clearly as I understood them at age nine."
way too complicated. lots of ppl "lack a DNA-level hatred of government and bureaucrats and agencies and programs" who could have figured out that if you run on building a wall, ending illegal immigration, dreamers, anchor babies and so on YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE.
It's quite simple, Trump surrounded himself with Neo-Cons who never gave a crap about conservative issues. There is no reason to believe that DeSantis will pick anyone else.
yes, and only a highly energetic and brilliant man would surround himself by ppl who opposed all the issues he ran on and turn over governance to his Dem son in law.! GENIUS! 3-D CHESS. sorry, but this observation is merely further evidence of what Jason Ferrer said: he is lazy or stupid. (Both, I'd say, but especially stoopid.).
Don’t you mean 4-D chess? 🤣 I also think there’s every reason to believe DeSantis will be better. Look at what he’s done! His record is a mile long vs Trump’s Jewish embassy and tax cuts as Ann likes to describe it lol. We know exactly what another Trump term will look like. And we have a good idea of what a DeSantis presidency would look like based on his record in now solidly red Florida.
Ann, I hope I am wrong, but the pool of potential cabinet workers with sufficient government experience and our views on immigration isn't big enough to fill out key positions in government. That's why the next GOP president will find the easy way out and opts for neocons.
We are the nerds who actually are paying attention now. It's obvious that the mainstream media doesn't want to discuss Ron Desantis' speech yesterday because they are afraid of him. They fear him more than Trump. They covered him as the Florida Governor because they hated him and wanted to make him look like a fascist but they want Trump to win the nomination so their strategy will be to mute him.
I don't believe polls. I have no idea who will win the Republican nomination or the presidency but I hope Ron fights like hell every step of the way.
I think Ron will do better than current polling suggests, and I believe the media's dishonesty will come back to bite them. When they cover Trump, they will have no choice but to at minimum cause oblique references to be made to DeSantis, which will encourage thoughtful voters to wonder "Who is this DeSantis guy? He sounds quite reasonable and appears to be offering Trumpism Without Trump. I think I'll look into him a little more closely before I vote." That's my hope, anyway.
The only solution is mass deportations. Take the money for the 87000 IRS agents hire hire 87000 immigration cops instead. Round em up and boot em out!!!! Many will leave on their own. Still though, I have an issue with children who know no other country and no other language. It seems unfair to them, they had no choice. But that's not for me to figure out, it's well above my pay grade.
I think it's important to remember that deporting families with children is not condemning them to execution,; it's merely giving them an understanding of how backward their own country is and providing for them the motivation to fix their own countries rather than to be a part of the destruction of a better country. If they have honest and decent parents, these parents will impress upon them the need to work hard and make things better in their ancestral homelands.
Meanwhile, for the next year and 4 months+, the invasion will continue. It really is sad what Trump did to the country. Talk about a mess to clean up, if DeSantis can somehow win in 2024. Here's hoping and praying!
Great column. The immigration plank of Trump’s 2016 campaign was magnificent, but once elected Trump always seemed to have other things to do -- until he needed to rouse the voters by speaking about the issue again.
We can and must do better. Think of all the lives and treasure that this country would have saved since January 2017 if Trump had only kept his immigration platform promises.
Good luck with that. The Supremes just fucked over State legislatures' ability to follow their Constitutional role of setting election laws; the same Supreme Court (minus the new monkey that can't define what is a woman) that refused to hear Texas' case against Pennsylvania, thereby nullifying the entire rationale for the Supreme Court in the first place (settling disputes between States).
Multiply the theft of 2020 and that of Arizona in 2022 by about a hundred, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it.
How about if Trump or another candidate announce that their first Act as President will be to re establish the dollar-gold link, that the Fed can go fuck itself because now its hands are tied by the market price of gold, not the opinion of some jerk off Keynesian, and therefore a digital currency has just been evaporated?
Allowing third world countries to tie their currency to the Dollar would also stabilize their own nations and give them one less reason to go halfway around the world for a free lunch.
Not really. Liberal boasting about the S. Ct state legislature case was nonsense. it was a VERY narrow ruling, rejecting a pretty extreme position by NC. state legislatures still determine fed elections -- and probably take precedence over state courts -- but they can't ignore the state constitution, the fed constitution etc.
On a side note, it's shocking how used we've become to the numbers showing the scale of the invasion. 5 million anchor babies in the last 15 or so years. God knows how many adults just waltzed across the border and now have broods in communities across the country.
We add more illiterate peasants in a year than most countries grow naturally over a decade. We all know where this is going to end and it ain't good.
Ann made short work of the oft repeated "11 million" figure. It was bad enough when she wrote Adios America, it was probably a minimum of 30. There is no reason to not believe that there are a minimum of 60 million border jumpers crawling around what used to be a civilized country.
and the warren harding administration had the teapot dome scandal so HOW DO WE KNOW DESANTIS WON'T HAVE A TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL, TOO???
All we can do is judge the candidates by all available evidence. D has stood up to powerful corporate interests to take a hardline on immigration in the 3d largest state in the union, over and over again. he also has twice Trump's I.Q.
I urge Ron DeSantis to announce that no one will receive a nomination or promotion to the federal bench during his Presidency unless they agree in advance that they oppose birthright citizenship.
Yes, that’s a litmus test. You got a problem with that? The Democrats have dozens of them, which is why their judicial appointments never fail them, unlike judges nominated by the GOP. (See Souter, Blackmun, O’Connor, Kennedy, etc.)
Not a bad idea but WE DON'T NEED THE COURTS TO DO THIS. I guess it would be nice but congress could pass a law tomorrow clarifying that the kids of illegals aren't citizens (and retroactively revoking their ersatz "citizenship.")
also, technically, we're talking about "birthright citizenship for illegals" -- or "anchor babies." birthright citizenship also includes kids born to legal immigrants, who are citizens. (I would have ruled otherwise, but that's what the s. ct said about 100 yrs ago.). NO COURT has held that the kids of illegals are citizens.
40 years of ‘anchor babies’ being dropped in our midst, DACA and we’re still hoping Congress will end either? No they will not. We have a Congress that looks and behaves like the 3rd world. They want this.
I haven’t seen anything from DeSantis that shows he is anything other than a politician, and a boring one at that. Politicians on both sides don’t want to solve the illegals issue as it is a huge fund-raiser for them, and a gets them huge applause at rallies. When Republicans controlled the Legislature for Trump they did nothing on this. American businesses, want, and may need in some cases, this labor pool. The fact that we subsidize the health and welfare of this labor pool for these businesses with our tax dollars is all the better for their productivity and profit margins. Which is good for us as consumers, negative for us as tax-payers. When a politician actually comes to the table with a plan not just aimed at removing the illegals, but also has a solution to the economic impact of a wall/birth-right citizenship/dreamers set of laws I will actually have some interest in what is said.
Ann really wants Trump to lose, because he failed to execute, so I understand her aim here to be her own marketing department for Ron. Unless he can show more personality and create a connection with the diverse group of voters he will need, including independents, he ain’t winning a thing. Probably better to align with Trump now, and motivate the best and brightest to join his cabinet and help him deliver this time around than side with the most boring candidate in the field.
If bucking the MASSIVE agriculture and hospitality interests in FL to push through a state-wide e-verify, prosecute those who aid illegals, refuse to recognize DLs from other states given to illegals, demand an accounting of what illegals are costing state hospitals AND sending a busload of illegals to martha's vineyard leads you to believe Desantis is a "politician" who doesn't "want to solve the illegals issue as it is a huge fund-raiser for [him]" I'd suggest you put down the bottle and sober up for a few days.
Thanks for the response Ann! Like Trump I do not drink, but that doesn’t mean I claim to be perfect. Also, like Trump I have a place in Palm Beach County. Whenever you get tired of dreary, old Manhattan you’re always welcome. Let me disabuse of the idea that DeSantis has actually enacted legislation that is tough on illegal immigrants or the people and businesses that support them. None of the above that you list out will ever be enforced or actually change the fact that Florida has one of the largest “illegal” populations in the country. A population growth that has increased under DeSantis. He quietly moon-walked away from the Cuban illegal invasion that has occurred during his tenure to appease the Cuban vote. That’s politics, not problem solving. Now you know as well as I that the flights to Martha’s Vineyard and California where a political stunt not a solution that helped Florida in anyway. At worst Florida’s economy would crater without undocumented workers, at best our lawns would be over grown, our houses a mess, our restaurants and hotels unstaffed, our nursing homes and in-home care givers would disappear. When would we have time to golf, laze on the beach, or take the boat out? I say those laws were a stunt that won’t be enforced or make a difference. I also say time may prove me wrong about the legislation’s efficacy, and time may prove you right about DeSantis as a viable national candidate. With a brain like his I would love to hear his solution for supplying the economy’s need for workers, who businesses need to show up tomorrow morning to keep the lights on, without having a massive immigrant workforce. We have our lowest unemployment under Trump and Biden, and still the undocumented workforce grows.
"Most boring candidate in the field" meaning he doesn't rile up all the wrong people, call everyone names when criticized, obsess over himself, and constantly waffle between victim and savior depending on what's convenient? Yeah I'll take boring. Boring with a record of doing instead of tweeting. I fail to see how that's a poor choice here lol.
He may be all the things Trump isn't, and that's why he's down 30+ points. Zero charisma, no energy or excitement. He has the brains just not street hustle to win at a national level. That's why I say he's a poor choice.
Does zero charisma and energy mean he doesn’t brag about himself enough? Doesn’t lie and exaggerate enough? Doesn’t call people names instead of engaging in substantive debates enough? Charisma and energy are not the same as egomaniacal chaos.
Zero energy, excitement and charisma means he’s in the Hillary/Mayor Pete model of national political hopeful who is highly intelligent but doesn’t have and never will hav the “IT” that fires people up and rallies them to a cause. He’s an awkward nerd who could do the job well, but unfortunately can’t pass the interview to get the job. The issues you describe about Trump’s character misses the point that DeSantis couldn’t create any sustained buzz at a national level, and has been tanking since he peaked at 30%.
But do you willingly ignore the results in Florida to arrive at that conclusion? And the issues about Trump’s character directly correlate to voter fatigue over someone who may have the right policy positions but gets too distracted with himself to accomplish anything significant. And then just lies about it and calls people names. That’s not good for the country or the party. And it’s useless as far as a movement goes if you can’t deliver.
DeSantis is actually a guy who got a huge Trump bump that took him into office, and you are correct he built on that to win the second term. Seems like you are willingly ignoring the fact Trump has a massive lead, and it’s only growing. Saying Trump did nothing significant is wrong. No wall okay, no massive undocumented and illegal legislation true. Jobs, economic growth, Supreme Court, stock market, consumer prices, energy policy to name the big ones important in the voting booth. You have to have more than 20% in the polls to win the office, and be able to do what Trump did. If DeSantis some how finds a way to halt his slide and sparks interest during the debates that move his numbers in a meaningful way you’ll be proven correct, and I’ll be the first to admit it. I just don’t see how he changes his personality to compete and win.
He very well could win the primary. Let’s see what happens in a general with a candidate who’s down between 15 to 40 percent in unfavorables with independents in those polls plus 24 percent of Republicans who say they’ll never vote for him. I have no idea if DeSantis can win but I’d like to see.
Another term of Trump will result in the public discourse on Islam being stagnant for another four years.
There is one candidate whom might be knowledgeable enough on Islam to pull it off, with expert help. He has yet to show any islamic knowledge on the campaign trail. That candidate is not 44 year old DeSantis.
I have been aware of Ann's garish personality for a long time, but after her criticisms of Trump, I paid attention to her, and I have been surprised by her intelligence. If she really has the intelligence, she could pull off a run as an intelligent islamophobe.
Ann became disappointed in Romney, and Trump, and she'll probably become disappointed in DeSantis. She could back the person who will not let her down: herself.
When I voted for Trump, I did so because he was the better of two evils---a billionaire president who was a major Clinton donor in the 90s was better than another Clinton. I knew Trump would be....a billionaire businessman first, and being a president would only make that....worse.
However this proves what low place in an earthly hell the USA has sunk to. As bad as Trump was and is, there is no way the next president will do anything but a Trump 2.0, even if it turns out to be DeSantis. But since the leftist have figured out a method to take any election away from their political opposition legally, all of this won't matter. In fact, Now that I think about it, I'm going back to drinking my Bucaramanga coffee and smoking my Montecristo 1935 Anniversary cigar. Time better spent.
I'm glad you weren't around for the Battle of Lexington. "Screw it, we can't win. I'm not even going on to Concord. I'm just going to drink Bucaramanga coffee and smoke my Montecristo cigar."
I am no expert on American history, but I think the patriots who fought the British had guns and training and an enemy at which to shoot, and a willingness to shoot.
I would be all in favor of that sort of thing taking place in DC (or in my case, Ottawa) and expanding into the bureaucrat-rich suburbs. It is going on 60 years since the CIA killed JFK, Rush was #1 for 32 years, your columns and tv appearances have made all the right points, not to mention if not for Adios America all of this current J6 gulag stuff would have started in 2017 and whatever positive policies Trump created would never have happened.... and through all of that the Leftists' have done nothing but advance with their march through the Institutions.
I've changed that line to, "I'm just going to drink Bucaramanga coffee and smoke my Montecristo cigar. with dreams of Ann Coulter admonishing me, over and over and over." In a sane world, as I see it, there would be an entire army of Ann Coulters which I would join without hesitation hoping to earn the right to be Your Knight in Shining Armour.
Now, now Ann, fighting a fight where your own side is corrupt to the core, and probably worse than we could know, makes your comparison incorrect. You're viewing the current situation as just one battle in the war, and I'm asserting that the current political conflict is nothing more than an appearance of a war, but in reality, is not a war, if my belief that elections are corrupted to the point of no return. and is in fact true then the current situation is just a well-designed deception, by both parties. DeSantis as president would be my dream, but the so called 'swamp' is not a swamp at all, but in fact an ocean filled with sea monsters from both political sides waiting to consume anyone who doesn't swim along in compliance.
The Battle of Lexington did not have the element of traitors did it. Nope, but today's war is all about traitors, rogue stealth traitors who will never be held accountable. I wish your comparison were true, and if it was, I would not have posted my initial statement.
Thank you Ann for opening up my eyes on Trump. Now I understand that he is no different than Ronald Reagan. The latter gave us class A lip service on conservative values, but when it came to actual policies, Reagan amnestied three million illegal aliens (bye bye California), signed a ban on automatic weapons, and created social security tax. Reagan also failed on his promise to eliminate Department of Education and continued to fund welfare for social parasites. In reality the president is only as good as the men who're behind him. Both Reagan and Trump surrounded themselves with Neo-Con advisers, that's why they never fulfilled on their promises to conservative base. As for DeSantis, it's quite likely that if elected president he will pick the same neo-Con advisers as his predecessors did, than from the likes of Jared Taylor.
Once I saw Ann actually responds to some of these posts, I had to say something…Ann, we don’t agree on everything, but I have i’ve been a fan since I first saw you on Hannity & Colmes many moons ago…My question is, do you think ANYONE running for POTUS within the 2 major parties, even if they are 100% sincere in their beliefs, can become president if he/she is not deeply corrupt? And if the answer is yes , wouldn’t he/she just be impeached the second they don’t do exactly what big business wants them to do?
Trump played us like a fiddle. He dangled birthright citizenship which I wanted as much as the wall. He talked a lot and got our hopes up and didn't deliver. I'll never want to see him on the ballot again. I'll be voting for Ron in the primary.
I'll never understand how Trump could've tapped into voter frustration over an incompetent/disinterested government when it came to immigration, won on that sole issue, and then thought not upholding those promises would be the best course of action. It's either laziness or stupidity.
As I have explained before, Trump lacks a DNA-level hatred of government and bureaucrats and agencies and programs.
He doesn't see Schumer as a gas chamber afficianado, a liberal jewish person who has no philosophical opposition to gas chambers as long as he is the one dropping in the tablets. Rush pointed out that Trump didn't see Schumer as an ideologue dedicated to Trump's destruction; Trump likes to make deals and he thought that Schumer would deal in good faith.
The FBI, CIA, NSA, DHS, TSA, EPA, Depts of Education and Commerce, for starters, should have been abolished on Trump's first day, kind of like how Clinton fired all 93 US Attorneys on his first day (and no one questioned his Right to do so). But Trump has respect for institutions........
As Ayn Rand put it, "I cannot believe that grown Americans do not understand, as adults, the evils of collectivism as clearly as I understood them at age nine."
way too complicated. lots of ppl "lack a DNA-level hatred of government and bureaucrats and agencies and programs" who could have figured out that if you run on building a wall, ending illegal immigration, dreamers, anchor babies and so on YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE.
stick w/ jason: lazy or stupid. (or both!)
It's quite simple, Trump surrounded himself with Neo-Cons who never gave a crap about conservative issues. There is no reason to believe that DeSantis will pick anyone else.
yes, and only a highly energetic and brilliant man would surround himself by ppl who opposed all the issues he ran on and turn over governance to his Dem son in law.! GENIUS! 3-D CHESS. sorry, but this observation is merely further evidence of what Jason Ferrer said: he is lazy or stupid. (Both, I'd say, but especially stoopid.).
Don’t you mean 4-D chess? 🤣 I also think there’s every reason to believe DeSantis will be better. Look at what he’s done! His record is a mile long vs Trump’s Jewish embassy and tax cuts as Ann likes to describe it lol. We know exactly what another Trump term will look like. And we have a good idea of what a DeSantis presidency would look like based on his record in now solidly red Florida.
Ann, I hope I am wrong, but the pool of potential cabinet workers with sufficient government experience and our views on immigration isn't big enough to fill out key positions in government. That's why the next GOP president will find the easy way out and opts for neocons.
Therefore what?
We are the nerds who actually are paying attention now. It's obvious that the mainstream media doesn't want to discuss Ron Desantis' speech yesterday because they are afraid of him. They fear him more than Trump. They covered him as the Florida Governor because they hated him and wanted to make him look like a fascist but they want Trump to win the nomination so their strategy will be to mute him.
I don't believe polls. I have no idea who will win the Republican nomination or the presidency but I hope Ron fights like hell every step of the way.
I think Ron will do better than current polling suggests, and I believe the media's dishonesty will come back to bite them. When they cover Trump, they will have no choice but to at minimum cause oblique references to be made to DeSantis, which will encourage thoughtful voters to wonder "Who is this DeSantis guy? He sounds quite reasonable and appears to be offering Trumpism Without Trump. I think I'll look into him a little more closely before I vote." That's my hope, anyway.
From your mouth to God's ears Stoat.
The only solution is mass deportations. Take the money for the 87000 IRS agents hire hire 87000 immigration cops instead. Round em up and boot em out!!!! Many will leave on their own. Still though, I have an issue with children who know no other country and no other language. It seems unfair to them, they had no choice. But that's not for me to figure out, it's well above my pay grade.
I think it's important to remember that deporting families with children is not condemning them to execution,; it's merely giving them an understanding of how backward their own country is and providing for them the motivation to fix their own countries rather than to be a part of the destruction of a better country. If they have honest and decent parents, these parents will impress upon them the need to work hard and make things better in their ancestral homelands.
Meanwhile, for the next year and 4 months+, the invasion will continue. It really is sad what Trump did to the country. Talk about a mess to clean up, if DeSantis can somehow win in 2024. Here's hoping and praying!
Great column. The immigration plank of Trump’s 2016 campaign was magnificent, but once elected Trump always seemed to have other things to do -- until he needed to rouse the voters by speaking about the issue again.
We can and must do better. Think of all the lives and treasure that this country would have saved since January 2017 if Trump had only kept his immigration platform promises.
Instead of making fool excuses for not doing so.
"We can and must do better."
Good luck with that. The Supremes just fucked over State legislatures' ability to follow their Constitutional role of setting election laws; the same Supreme Court (minus the new monkey that can't define what is a woman) that refused to hear Texas' case against Pennsylvania, thereby nullifying the entire rationale for the Supreme Court in the first place (settling disputes between States).
Multiply the theft of 2020 and that of Arizona in 2022 by about a hundred, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it.
How about if Trump or another candidate announce that their first Act as President will be to re establish the dollar-gold link, that the Fed can go fuck itself because now its hands are tied by the market price of gold, not the opinion of some jerk off Keynesian, and therefore a digital currency has just been evaporated?
Allowing third world countries to tie their currency to the Dollar would also stabilize their own nations and give them one less reason to go halfway around the world for a free lunch.
Not really. Liberal boasting about the S. Ct state legislature case was nonsense. it was a VERY narrow ruling, rejecting a pretty extreme position by NC. state legislatures still determine fed elections -- and probably take precedence over state courts -- but they can't ignore the state constitution, the fed constitution etc.
Which held sway in Pa, the state Supreme Court or the legislature?
Trump did all his "fighting" on Twitter.
BONUS ANN CONTENT: Her appearance on today’s Mark Simone radio show.
https://youtu.be/1fi8v9iw5lM
Ann and Mark discuss NYC’s “congestion pricing,” their local so-called pride parade, Jeffrey Epstein and Covid masks.
On a side note, it's shocking how used we've become to the numbers showing the scale of the invasion. 5 million anchor babies in the last 15 or so years. God knows how many adults just waltzed across the border and now have broods in communities across the country.
We add more illiterate peasants in a year than most countries grow naturally over a decade. We all know where this is going to end and it ain't good.
Ann made short work of the oft repeated "11 million" figure. It was bad enough when she wrote Adios America, it was probably a minimum of 30. There is no reason to not believe that there are a minimum of 60 million border jumpers crawling around what used to be a civilized country.
absolutely right.
Great article, I suppose very accurate.
So the question unanswered is would DeSantis
Do better ? How much RINO money is guiding him?
Assume he wins will you all be writing similar memos 4 or 6 years from today?
We must win the election and control both houses
If we do not America ceases to exist.
Clearly the mass of America now sees Biden as a Criminal.
Do they understand his actions are 100% learned
From Clinton And Obama. All taught by Lewinsky
They compose the DC Swamp are pure Communist intellectuals focused on Destroying America.
So vote for who has the biggest support of the populace.
Spend your dollars and time working to make elections honest. They are today under control of our enemy.
Focus on the real issue. With Whom how do we
Win.
and the warren harding administration had the teapot dome scandal so HOW DO WE KNOW DESANTIS WON'T HAVE A TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL, TOO???
All we can do is judge the candidates by all available evidence. D has stood up to powerful corporate interests to take a hardline on immigration in the 3d largest state in the union, over and over again. he also has twice Trump's I.Q.
I urge Ron DeSantis to announce that no one will receive a nomination or promotion to the federal bench during his Presidency unless they agree in advance that they oppose birthright citizenship.
Yes, that’s a litmus test. You got a problem with that? The Democrats have dozens of them, which is why their judicial appointments never fail them, unlike judges nominated by the GOP. (See Souter, Blackmun, O’Connor, Kennedy, etc.)
Not a bad idea but WE DON'T NEED THE COURTS TO DO THIS. I guess it would be nice but congress could pass a law tomorrow clarifying that the kids of illegals aren't citizens (and retroactively revoking their ersatz "citizenship.")
also, technically, we're talking about "birthright citizenship for illegals" -- or "anchor babies." birthright citizenship also includes kids born to legal immigrants, who are citizens. (I would have ruled otherwise, but that's what the s. ct said about 100 yrs ago.). NO COURT has held that the kids of illegals are citizens.
40 years of ‘anchor babies’ being dropped in our midst, DACA and we’re still hoping Congress will end either? No they will not. We have a Congress that looks and behaves like the 3rd world. They want this.
I haven’t seen anything from DeSantis that shows he is anything other than a politician, and a boring one at that. Politicians on both sides don’t want to solve the illegals issue as it is a huge fund-raiser for them, and a gets them huge applause at rallies. When Republicans controlled the Legislature for Trump they did nothing on this. American businesses, want, and may need in some cases, this labor pool. The fact that we subsidize the health and welfare of this labor pool for these businesses with our tax dollars is all the better for their productivity and profit margins. Which is good for us as consumers, negative for us as tax-payers. When a politician actually comes to the table with a plan not just aimed at removing the illegals, but also has a solution to the economic impact of a wall/birth-right citizenship/dreamers set of laws I will actually have some interest in what is said.
Ann really wants Trump to lose, because he failed to execute, so I understand her aim here to be her own marketing department for Ron. Unless he can show more personality and create a connection with the diverse group of voters he will need, including independents, he ain’t winning a thing. Probably better to align with Trump now, and motivate the best and brightest to join his cabinet and help him deliver this time around than side with the most boring candidate in the field.
If bucking the MASSIVE agriculture and hospitality interests in FL to push through a state-wide e-verify, prosecute those who aid illegals, refuse to recognize DLs from other states given to illegals, demand an accounting of what illegals are costing state hospitals AND sending a busload of illegals to martha's vineyard leads you to believe Desantis is a "politician" who doesn't "want to solve the illegals issue as it is a huge fund-raiser for [him]" I'd suggest you put down the bottle and sober up for a few days.
Prosecute those who aid ‘illegals’. They are criminals.
Thanks for the response Ann! Like Trump I do not drink, but that doesn’t mean I claim to be perfect. Also, like Trump I have a place in Palm Beach County. Whenever you get tired of dreary, old Manhattan you’re always welcome. Let me disabuse of the idea that DeSantis has actually enacted legislation that is tough on illegal immigrants or the people and businesses that support them. None of the above that you list out will ever be enforced or actually change the fact that Florida has one of the largest “illegal” populations in the country. A population growth that has increased under DeSantis. He quietly moon-walked away from the Cuban illegal invasion that has occurred during his tenure to appease the Cuban vote. That’s politics, not problem solving. Now you know as well as I that the flights to Martha’s Vineyard and California where a political stunt not a solution that helped Florida in anyway. At worst Florida’s economy would crater without undocumented workers, at best our lawns would be over grown, our houses a mess, our restaurants and hotels unstaffed, our nursing homes and in-home care givers would disappear. When would we have time to golf, laze on the beach, or take the boat out? I say those laws were a stunt that won’t be enforced or make a difference. I also say time may prove me wrong about the legislation’s efficacy, and time may prove you right about DeSantis as a viable national candidate. With a brain like his I would love to hear his solution for supplying the economy’s need for workers, who businesses need to show up tomorrow morning to keep the lights on, without having a massive immigrant workforce. We have our lowest unemployment under Trump and Biden, and still the undocumented workforce grows.
"Most boring candidate in the field" meaning he doesn't rile up all the wrong people, call everyone names when criticized, obsess over himself, and constantly waffle between victim and savior depending on what's convenient? Yeah I'll take boring. Boring with a record of doing instead of tweeting. I fail to see how that's a poor choice here lol.
1 million "likes"!
He may be all the things Trump isn't, and that's why he's down 30+ points. Zero charisma, no energy or excitement. He has the brains just not street hustle to win at a national level. That's why I say he's a poor choice.
Does zero charisma and energy mean he doesn’t brag about himself enough? Doesn’t lie and exaggerate enough? Doesn’t call people names instead of engaging in substantive debates enough? Charisma and energy are not the same as egomaniacal chaos.
Zero energy, excitement and charisma means he’s in the Hillary/Mayor Pete model of national political hopeful who is highly intelligent but doesn’t have and never will hav the “IT” that fires people up and rallies them to a cause. He’s an awkward nerd who could do the job well, but unfortunately can’t pass the interview to get the job. The issues you describe about Trump’s character misses the point that DeSantis couldn’t create any sustained buzz at a national level, and has been tanking since he peaked at 30%.
But do you willingly ignore the results in Florida to arrive at that conclusion? And the issues about Trump’s character directly correlate to voter fatigue over someone who may have the right policy positions but gets too distracted with himself to accomplish anything significant. And then just lies about it and calls people names. That’s not good for the country or the party. And it’s useless as far as a movement goes if you can’t deliver.
DeSantis is actually a guy who got a huge Trump bump that took him into office, and you are correct he built on that to win the second term. Seems like you are willingly ignoring the fact Trump has a massive lead, and it’s only growing. Saying Trump did nothing significant is wrong. No wall okay, no massive undocumented and illegal legislation true. Jobs, economic growth, Supreme Court, stock market, consumer prices, energy policy to name the big ones important in the voting booth. You have to have more than 20% in the polls to win the office, and be able to do what Trump did. If DeSantis some how finds a way to halt his slide and sparks interest during the debates that move his numbers in a meaningful way you’ll be proven correct, and I’ll be the first to admit it. I just don’t see how he changes his personality to compete and win.
He very well could win the primary. Let’s see what happens in a general with a candidate who’s down between 15 to 40 percent in unfavorables with independents in those polls plus 24 percent of Republicans who say they’ll never vote for him. I have no idea if DeSantis can win but I’d like to see.
DeSantis opposed tariffs on China, at a private fundraiser https://twitter.com/NationalFile/status/1671577617013645322
and he flip flopped on Ukraine. And he's only 44.
Another term of Trump will result in the public discourse on Islam being stagnant for another four years.
There is one candidate whom might be knowledgeable enough on Islam to pull it off, with expert help. He has yet to show any islamic knowledge on the campaign trail. That candidate is not 44 year old DeSantis.
I have been aware of Ann's garish personality for a long time, but after her criticisms of Trump, I paid attention to her, and I have been surprised by her intelligence. If she really has the intelligence, she could pull off a run as an intelligent islamophobe.
Ann became disappointed in Romney, and Trump, and she'll probably become disappointed in DeSantis. She could back the person who will not let her down: herself.
When I voted for Trump, I did so because he was the better of two evils---a billionaire president who was a major Clinton donor in the 90s was better than another Clinton. I knew Trump would be....a billionaire businessman first, and being a president would only make that....worse.
However this proves what low place in an earthly hell the USA has sunk to. As bad as Trump was and is, there is no way the next president will do anything but a Trump 2.0, even if it turns out to be DeSantis. But since the leftist have figured out a method to take any election away from their political opposition legally, all of this won't matter. In fact, Now that I think about it, I'm going back to drinking my Bucaramanga coffee and smoking my Montecristo 1935 Anniversary cigar. Time better spent.
I'm glad you weren't around for the Battle of Lexington. "Screw it, we can't win. I'm not even going on to Concord. I'm just going to drink Bucaramanga coffee and smoke my Montecristo cigar."
I am no expert on American history, but I think the patriots who fought the British had guns and training and an enemy at which to shoot, and a willingness to shoot.
I would be all in favor of that sort of thing taking place in DC (or in my case, Ottawa) and expanding into the bureaucrat-rich suburbs. It is going on 60 years since the CIA killed JFK, Rush was #1 for 32 years, your columns and tv appearances have made all the right points, not to mention if not for Adios America all of this current J6 gulag stuff would have started in 2017 and whatever positive policies Trump created would never have happened.... and through all of that the Leftists' have done nothing but advance with their march through the Institutions.
Clearly a different approach is needed. :-)
I've changed that line to, "I'm just going to drink Bucaramanga coffee and smoke my Montecristo cigar. with dreams of Ann Coulter admonishing me, over and over and over." In a sane world, as I see it, there would be an entire army of Ann Coulters which I would join without hesitation hoping to earn the right to be Your Knight in Shining Armour.
Now, now Ann, fighting a fight where your own side is corrupt to the core, and probably worse than we could know, makes your comparison incorrect. You're viewing the current situation as just one battle in the war, and I'm asserting that the current political conflict is nothing more than an appearance of a war, but in reality, is not a war, if my belief that elections are corrupted to the point of no return. and is in fact true then the current situation is just a well-designed deception, by both parties. DeSantis as president would be my dream, but the so called 'swamp' is not a swamp at all, but in fact an ocean filled with sea monsters from both political sides waiting to consume anyone who doesn't swim along in compliance.
The Battle of Lexington did not have the element of traitors did it. Nope, but today's war is all about traitors, rogue stealth traitors who will never be held accountable. I wish your comparison were true, and if it was, I would not have posted my initial statement.
Thank you Ann for opening up my eyes on Trump. Now I understand that he is no different than Ronald Reagan. The latter gave us class A lip service on conservative values, but when it came to actual policies, Reagan amnestied three million illegal aliens (bye bye California), signed a ban on automatic weapons, and created social security tax. Reagan also failed on his promise to eliminate Department of Education and continued to fund welfare for social parasites. In reality the president is only as good as the men who're behind him. Both Reagan and Trump surrounded themselves with Neo-Con advisers, that's why they never fulfilled on their promises to conservative base. As for DeSantis, it's quite likely that if elected president he will pick the same neo-Con advisers as his predecessors did, than from the likes of Jared Taylor.
This short 30 second video explains Trump’s problems with immigration hawks (and with the classified documents).
https://youtu.be/YnvgWYm8B84
Classic!
Once I saw Ann actually responds to some of these posts, I had to say something…Ann, we don’t agree on everything, but I have i’ve been a fan since I first saw you on Hannity & Colmes many moons ago…My question is, do you think ANYONE running for POTUS within the 2 major parties, even if they are 100% sincere in their beliefs, can become president if he/she is not deeply corrupt? And if the answer is yes , wouldn’t he/she just be impeached the second they don’t do exactly what big business wants them to do?
This was great!