At this point anyone in Trump’s camp is hopelessly delusional. The man did NOTHING except hire his kids and make every possible mistake in building his cabinet (bankers!), move the embassy to Jerusalem, “tax cuts”, and whine about wall funding while signing every pork-laden omnibus spending bill and betraying us on DACA, yet his sycophants act like he was St. George fighting the dragon. (At least we got no more wars except that occasional, light bombing of Syria in 2017-2020.) We got a good economy for a few years that has all but evaporated, with nothing to show for it except a porous border that proves our economy is better than Mexico’s. Great. Thank you, Ann, for pointing out that Trump did nothing to stop the swell of insane cultural battles (transgenderism, BLM, antifa, etc.) and let the country burn in 2020 before his ignominious defeat. The only question now is, how can we get rid of him and how do we HAMMER these truths into the heads of his lobotomized groupies? DeSantis does, Trump says. How is this even a choice for some people? Florida is a paradise compared to every other state right now.
LIKE NO OTHER, Donald Trump exposed the Deep State, especially the DoJ, FBI and CIA, the agenda-driven Media and the UniParty of Globalist Free Traders (particularly with China) and Open Borders/Amnesty and he did NOT get us into any new wars and set the stage for the Afghanistan withdrawal.
At the same time, LIKE NO OTHER, he withstood the tornado of false charges including the FBI-DoJ -CIA conspiracy to frame him falsely for NON-EXISTENT conspiracy with hostile foreign power with fabricated evidence hammered for three years by a lying Media.
"LIKE NO OTHER?" You mean you've never heard of Andrew Breitbart who worked himself to death, dying in 2012 at age 43 while trying to save this country from the Establishment? You mean you've never heard of the Tea Party which was about millions of Americans, unwanted by both political parties, giving time and money they often didn't have to try to save this country from the Establishment, or Deep State at the 11th hour, in fact giving the GOP House a massive landslide victory in Nov. 2010? Trump even spoke to Tea Party groups in 2011 when he was thinking about running for Pres. He knew very well that Tea Party was about removing the Establishment/bureaucracy/admin. state.
We need presidents (politicians) to do what the electorate ELECTED them to DO. Trump’s exposing the extent of the deep state/liberal media was merely a side effect of electing someone who said they would BUILD A WALL to keep illegal immigrants out forever and let our own workforce prosper. (Yes, that is controversial with the establishment.) He didn’t do that, and LIKE NO OTHER, he failed spectacularly (if you read the Bible, kind of like the way King Saul failed and met a miserable end, and left David to pick up the pieces). End of. DeSantis has proven himself as governor alone and that in itself is more presidential than the windbag who fumbled his presidency into the hands of the fools in power who are busy eating this country from the inside out. I’m done with Trump forever. It’s DeSantis or the country is actually over and we’d better all start learning Chinese while Democrats and Republicans argue about transgender bathrooms and female VPs.
And this is precisely the problem with Trumpism. He provides entertainment to his fans, who think he's "punching up." Real knee-slapping stuff. They love it. Neither Trump nor his fans have the slightest idea what governance involves.
Because Ron DeSantis is a skilled politician which is a good thing and Trump is NOT a skilled politician which is, also, a good thing. Ron DeSantis adopted the MAGA/America First Agenda which Pres. Trump inspired and energized.
Prior to 2018, Ron DeSantis had NOT articulated this agenda and, in fact, supported many of Club for Growth and voted withSpeaker Paul Ryan policies
My point about insults was directed at you although it could have been directed at Trump. I am puzzled that for someone so hostile to Trump that you would use his tactics. Is this an implicit admission that Trump rhetoric works?
I am active with the Palm Beach County Republican Party which supported Ron DeSantis 100% for Governor, not as a presidential candidate.
Gov. DeSantis will damage his career if he engages in a primary contest with Pres. Trump will likely lose Palm Beach County which is 100% Trump and which is necessary to winning Florida which is necessary to winning the Republican nomination.
Respectfully, no one cares about what the Palm Beach Republican Party thinks, does or supports. It’s not “As Palm Beach goes, so goes the country.” In DeSantis we actually have a skilled politician doing what the electorate elected him to do, regardless of how it looks. In Trump, we had promises coupled with a huge ego, embarrassing vanity and total ineptness for the job. (Trump could have had Ann Coulter as an advisor like she suggested. You know, someone with actual legal and political understanding and the one who spurred his campaign with her book about illegal immigration, but he chose to insult her when she pointed out that he was doing the opposite of what he’d promised.). Can’t wait to see Trump crushed like fresh-squeezed Florida orange juice, and I voted for him. He paved the way for Biden and let the country go up in smoke in 2020 with Covid and BLM, and that will always be unforgivable in my eyes.
Whenever I see a (legitimate) news story about Ron DeSantis, it's about him doing something constructive that will help the decent people of Florida. Today he held a press conference to raise awareness of the poison being pushed onto children in public schools and of the tangible steps he's taking to bring sanity back to academia:
"Ron DeSantis exposes the pornography in school books: Florida Governor details sexually explicit scenes available to kids - and vows to fight teachers and ban them from the classrooms"
Fighting the Teachers' Unions...or any Labor Union for that matter...is one of the "third rails" of politics that can serve as an indicator of how much of a spine, if any, a politician has. If DeSantis follows through with this and continues cleaning up Florida schools, I predict that this will endear him to decent parents everywhere and will be a huge boost to his name recognition as well as his clout in the next Presidential election.
After decades of Presidents who have delivered mainly empty promises and policies that ended up doing far more harm than good, I believe that Americans are LONGING for a President who has a proven track record in doing what's right for this country and has the energy to put his love for America into into tangible, functional policy that reverses the spiral into madness and decay that we're currently experiencing. If DeSantis can show major policy successes that's something that will resonate with voters a whole lot more than a lot of loud talk.
What Trump’s candidacy and presidency did and not necessarily his ‘presence’, was to bring our enemies out, where they could be seen and wanted to be seen. The hate was and is so intense that ‘our friends on the left’ could not but help but openly embrace the rage they live with. ‘Death to America’ is their destination. We should all know the enemy by now and the traitors among us. That’s what Trump’s legacy is. What separates us from them is far more than the tread that binds us.
Ronny DeSantis had the statue of Confederate general Edmund Kirby removed from Florida's display in the U.S. Capitol and replaced with black civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune:
So DeSantis isn't above the typical Republican virtue signaling when it comes to the confederacy.
Ann's in love now but everyone she supported and promoted has stabbed us in the back. Dubya, Romney, Trump and soon DeSantis if he wins. All Republican presidents turn in to centrist pushovers once elected. Every Republican president moves left on the core issues that got them elected.
"Ann's in love now but everyone she supported and promoted has stabbed us in the back. "
This explains Ann's burning contempt / hatred for Trump; I wish she would shred Romney with equal fury, for I remember the episode of Cavuto in which she went nuclear on McCain for meeting with Schwarzenegger at a solar panel plant. "Why not an abortion clinic?!" (much to the delight of the floor crew who burst out laughing).
She went on to say how Romney was a nice guy with a fantastic family even though he wasn't a rock ribbed conservative in governing Massachusetts, 'which is like running in North Korea.'
It always pissed me off when critics of Ann would dismiss her for having supported Romney or Trump. She didn't change her position, THEY did. No wonder she is pissed off at Trump; she wanted him to save her country and he didn't.
Why is it that no one who when explaining Trump’s first term failures and blames it on Democratic intransigence, mentions that his party was crushed in the 2018 midterms? The GOP, of which Trump as President was the titular leader, lost their majorities in the House and the Senate.
And why are people who are touting the campaign promises he is currently making (including at CPAC) not wondering why he made nothing like them when he was actually running for re-election in 2020? No flying cars, no new cities, no mass deportations -- nothing, except a $500 billion Platinum Plan for Blacks, which I think could fairly be called REPARATIONS. He didn’t even write a new platform at the 2020 Republican convention.
Fair point, I’d like to know why that is. E-verify should have happened years ago. But I also wanna know why there is no wall, and Trump kind of ran on that very promise.
So you're saying a guy who's been dead for twenty years inspired people to vote in 2016 and 2020, not the guy who was alive and running for president in 2016 and 2020. also, Trump got at least 75 million votes. How many people read Adios America?
Trump will never be president again. He won in 2016 first because he unconditionally promised the wall every day to desperate Americans, never once saying he'd have to ask congress for it. If Hillary or anyone had asked him if he'd be going thru congress for the wall, he would've had to say yes, and I'd never have listened to another word he said, never wd've voted for him. I knew the entire political class has been rabidly open borders for decades--would never allow a wall. The 2nd reason he won in 2016 is because he won Michigan, Penn. & Wisconsin. He'll never win those states again. His 2022 choice for US Senator from Penn was so bad voters instead chose Fetterman, currently in hospital for depression. Trump won with 63 million in 2016, lost with more in 2020. He nullified his 2016 election almost immediately. He earned 2016 votes by promising to reduce US foreign aggression and to normalize relations w. Russia, but in Jan. 2017 he sent tanks and heavy weapons to Estonia-Russia border "to reassure NATO allies." You may claim poor Trump was powerless to stop the shipment, that it had been booked "before he took office" (as we're told about many subsequent shipments as well). If he was "forced" to do the opposite of what he was elected to do, fine, let him go on tv, apologize to his voters, announce his resignation, and let the world know US presidents are powerless. In 2017 he also ordered lethal weapons shipped to Ukraine to kill Russians--which even Obama didn't do. In any case, Jared was de facto president and remains in charge of Trump's political life. Jared of course accepted a $250 million credit line from Soros in 2015.
At least he had a chance (which he blew) to get some substantial forward progress on the Wall during his first two years because he had both a Republican House and Senate but he wasn’t a very good cowboy and could never round them up...would have made a terrible trail boss on a cattle drive but one hell of a story teller. In all fairness to Trump’s first couple of years with Congressional Republicans, Paul Ryan is a rancid self-seeking little prick without an ounce of patriot in his putrid body or mind.
75 million votes. Trump was here not Reagan. whatever. I believe we need to come together and focus on the real problem: democrats. If DeSantis gets the nomination in '24 I'll not only vote for him, I'll donate to his campaign. You should do the same for Trump.
No statues fell in Florida because DeSantis didn't have every democrat in congress, the all powerful left wing propaganda media machine and 3/4 of the republicans in Washington fighting against him. You don't think Trump tried to secure the border, deport illegal immigrants, and outlaw birthright citizenship? What makes you think DeSantis can walk into the Washington meatgrinder in '24 and get these things done in his first term? Trump doesn't care about our heritage and beautiful artwork? Are you serious? Hey, Craig Roland from Rome, Georga! Your vote most certainly won't count if you don't vote, you moron. I know Trump can be a jackass. He struts around with his stupid haircut calling people names. I get it. The bottom line is this: if he gets the nomination, you damn well better vote for him or we're finished.
"You don't think Trump tried?" This is utterly pathetic, but I see it everywhere. Of all human beings in the world, the last one who deserves anyone's sympathy is Trump. He was elected in 2016, because he assured us repeatedly that he was the one person strong enough to bring the bureaucracy to its knees, that he'd already proven he could overcome obstacles like no one else, that he was the only one without "outside interests." He certainly did have massive outside interests named Jared and Ivanka, both of whom wanted the opposite of 2016 Trump voters. Jared was the most powerful person in the White House, had the last word. The excuse that Trump had "no way of knowing" how bad the Deep State was is also laughable. He'd been interested and informed about politics for decades, spoke to many Tea Party groups when he was thinking of running for pres. in 2011. He knew very well that Tea Party was about beating the Establishment. Trump has already been granted immortality he doesn't deserve.
Trump's achillies heel is his desire / motivation to negotiate, make deals, try to persuade people to his point of view. Indeed, I think the more hopeless the negotiation, the more invested in the negotiation he became.
As Rush pointed out early on, perhaps even before the election, Trump isn't ideological and he didn't see Schumersteinberg as ideological, either; he thought that he could enter good faith negotiations with Schumer and have it work out like any real estate deal....you give a little and you get a little.
Trump's Administration was really over the moment he accepted Mike Flynn's resignation (at the behest of the POS Pence). Flynn had been with him from Day One and Trump should have known that if anyone could help drain the swamp it would by Flynn, who knew where all the bodies were buried and how the bureaucracy really worked. Flynn could have unravelled it all, all the way up to the Simian 44.
It's not pathetic, Susan. Do you think the red sea will part for DeSantis and allow him to do all the things Trump tried to do but couldn't? Jared and Ivanka ran the country for four years? Do you honestly believe Trump went into the oval office and hid under his desk? The deep state did everything but assassinate this guy and they'll do the same to DeSantis. The third world is relocating into our country, and they don't care about the things we care about. We need to put a conservative in the white house in '24. I'll gladly vote for DeSantis if he gets the nomination and you should do the same for Trump. Maybe he'll do better next time. I hope so.
" Gov. DeSantis signed a bill prohibiting biological males (according to their birth certificates) from competing in women’s sports in any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural or club athletic teams or sports that are sponsored by a public secondary school, high school, public college or university institution in the state of Florida." Ron DeSantis is a man of real Conservative action! And Donald Trump is a man of useless tweets, such as, LAW AND ORDER, the only thing he did during the George Floyd riots starting in May, 2020. He made absolutely no Presidential moves to stop the carnage. Go DeSantis!
"Trump is a man of useless tweets, such as, LAW AND ORDER, the only thing he did during the George Floyd riots starting in May, 2020. He made absolutely no Presidential moves to stop the carnage."
Please explain to this Canadian what Trump could have and should have done to quell the riots. I'm no expert but I think Posse Commitattus prevents the use of US military on US soil....? Shouldthe individual States should have done their own prevention, given that States have plenary police power over criminal law...?
Another thing that is quite galling about Trump is something Ann brought up immediately after the election, namely that he had spent the entire summer telling everyone that the election is rigged and there is going to be voter fraud everywhere but, in her estimation, he didn't DO anything about it. What could / should he have done at the Federal level, given that voting laws are the exclusive domain of States....?
It bears pondering that the Founding Father's greatest mistake might ironically have been to put voting laws in the hands of the States. Despite their contempt for government and attempt to strangle government power as much as possible, I think they underestimated the kinds of scumbags that inhabit the Deep State, Dem Party and media. It might have been a good idea to include the Right to honest elections, held on one day....
Oh Ann, stop throwing shade at some of these poor old presidents.
Other than a few cognizant souls, how many people really know that when when they thought they were electing a President Trump, they really got a President Ivanka.
And just to show the bi-partisan nature of this phenomena, many poor Democrats likewise thought they were electing Jor Biden and ended up with President Doctor Jill.
So I guess we should all hope and pray that if we elect a President Ron DeSantis we actually get a President Ron DeSantis...or, we should all start Prince Harry's mushroom-based therapy to treat slight of hand and head for the hallucinogens.
OK, so I have a couple questions. Really--questions, not critcisms!
If memory serves, Trump was always pushing for wall funding, but didn't the Dem's threw up blocks every step of the way? Wall was being built.
With regards to the things DeSantis accomplished in FL, doesn't that mean that other states could have done the same things? Could the federal government have forced other states to copy FL? ~Thanks
For the first two years, the Republicans had Congress and the Presidency. What political capital Trump had within his own party, he spent on tax cuts, not the Wall. In what planet should the *opposition party* save him from the consequences of that decision?
I will support Trump over DeSantis in the primary but we need to stop acting like everything is someone else's fault. The man was President. He had to do better than he did. It's not the Democrats' fault that he wasted his first two years and spent the next two on idiocy like 'criminal justice reform'.
I appreciate the input. Thanks! At this point I am not sure which one I prefer. No doubt, Trump has his faults. That said, I am sure he learned a lot from the first term and I believe he would do a better job the second time around. The libs sure hate him which tells me he must be doing something right. OTOH, I would not be dissapointed of DeSantis got the nomination.
I'm in pretty much the same boat. I stand by Trump and his instincts, even though he's a capricious baby who can't govern. DeSantis is doing a good job at state level, but he dresses like a Boardwalk Empire character, he'd roll over for the neocons.
"after 35 days of USG shutdown trying to get funding for the only thing anyone voting for him cared about.. he caved"
If I understand you correctly, that was during the debt ceiling negotiation, no...? I was disgusted when he didn't get the wall funding, falling for the usual BS about poor bureaucrats not getting their money and welfare scumbags getting their handouts.
He never caved to the barrage of criminal lies from the lDoJ CIA FBI and the Media. Anyone else would have caved. LIKE NO OTHER, Donald Trump is a man of courage, the indispensable virtue of any leader.
He should have built the wall on DAY ONE. Birthright citizenship should've ended immediately. No podium grandstanding, just behind the scenes hard work.
Agreed - maybe a guest spot on Tucker Carlson's show . . . or Hannity or Ingrahm . . . as they are ALWAYS touting they are #1 in the news. But the message needs to be a cogent presentation (which is tough to accomplish when Hannity constantly interrupts his guests).
It is highly unlikely that Gov. DeSantis can win the Republican nomination. Like every Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committee member (committeeperson) and activist, like every donor, like everyone in leadership, we campaigned not only for Ron DeSantis but for the DeSantis endorsed candidates for a term of FOUR years. Had Gov. DeSantis said he intended to be governor for only TWO years, I think enthusiasm would have waned significantly.
Ron DeSantis could not have won the 2018 Republican primary against the then Commissioner of Agriculture who was the choice of the Florida Republican opportunistic Establishment. Trump had won Florida in 2016 and then endorsed Ron DeSantis over Adam Putnam. Then DeSantis squeaked a 30,000 general election win over Soros funded, depraved degenerate drug addicted Andrew Gillum
Ron DeSantis was re-elected by a 20% margin to be governor of Florida NOT to run for President. There is no one in the Florida government who is positioned to take Gov. DeSantis' place so he will have abandoned the people who voted for him.
Not only ungrateful to Trump but also to the voters of Florida who voted for him to be their governor. DeSantis will have shown himself to have played us and to be the kind of political opportunist we have come to despise, the kind of politician that the independent of donors and the Establishment Trump is NOT.
Donald Trump inspired and energizes the MAGA/America First Movement and LIKE NO OTHER has withstood the full fury of the Administrative State (the aptly name The Swamp) and the Establishment Media, both Democrat and Republican.
Courage “ He has the indispensable attribute of a leader: courage. “
Independence “Because no secret puppeteer operating from the shadows owns him, …”
Accentuate the Positive. It is not uncommon to be dejected by all that is going wrong." Never Give Up; the Best is Yet to Come" as President Trump iterates and reiterates. This is world view that energizes. It is not easy to see the meaning and purpose in all that happens.
I am a rank and file activist with the Palm Beach County Republican Party.
It would be useful if a reporter actually reported on what the Palm Beach County Republican Party leadership, donors, rank and file committee people like me, activists and Palm Beach County voters actually think and do rather than commenting from a helicopter.
The Republican Party of Palm Beach County (PBC) , donors, leadership, activists, committee people and Republican voters are 100% Trump.
If DeSantis can't win Palm Beach County, how can he win Florida?
If DeSantis can't win Florida, how can he win the Republican nomination for President 2024?
You can ask Chairman Barnett who was re-elected chair with endorsement from Pres. Trump. The annual Lincoln Day dinner will be held at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home, and has exceeded fundraising goals with sold out attendance.
Club 47 is aligned with the Republican Party of Palm Beach County and is hosting Kellyanne Conway on Monday night. I expect attendance will be over a 1000 Republican voters and activists.
Thank you for your bullet-pointed-draft-perspectives Ann. Slow and steady can win the race. Current events prove events can be rationally addressed in the moment and we can have a US future of not always looking backwards.
At this point anyone in Trump’s camp is hopelessly delusional. The man did NOTHING except hire his kids and make every possible mistake in building his cabinet (bankers!), move the embassy to Jerusalem, “tax cuts”, and whine about wall funding while signing every pork-laden omnibus spending bill and betraying us on DACA, yet his sycophants act like he was St. George fighting the dragon. (At least we got no more wars except that occasional, light bombing of Syria in 2017-2020.) We got a good economy for a few years that has all but evaporated, with nothing to show for it except a porous border that proves our economy is better than Mexico’s. Great. Thank you, Ann, for pointing out that Trump did nothing to stop the swell of insane cultural battles (transgenderism, BLM, antifa, etc.) and let the country burn in 2020 before his ignominious defeat. The only question now is, how can we get rid of him and how do we HAMMER these truths into the heads of his lobotomized groupies? DeSantis does, Trump says. How is this even a choice for some people? Florida is a paradise compared to every other state right now.
LIKE NO OTHER, Donald Trump exposed the Deep State, especially the DoJ, FBI and CIA, the agenda-driven Media and the UniParty of Globalist Free Traders (particularly with China) and Open Borders/Amnesty and he did NOT get us into any new wars and set the stage for the Afghanistan withdrawal.
At the same time, LIKE NO OTHER, he withstood the tornado of false charges including the FBI-DoJ -CIA conspiracy to frame him falsely for NON-EXISTENT conspiracy with hostile foreign power with fabricated evidence hammered for three years by a lying Media.
"LIKE NO OTHER?" You mean you've never heard of Andrew Breitbart who worked himself to death, dying in 2012 at age 43 while trying to save this country from the Establishment? You mean you've never heard of the Tea Party which was about millions of Americans, unwanted by both political parties, giving time and money they often didn't have to try to save this country from the Establishment, or Deep State at the 11th hour, in fact giving the GOP House a massive landslide victory in Nov. 2010? Trump even spoke to Tea Party groups in 2011 when he was thinking about running for Pres. He knew very well that Tea Party was about removing the Establishment/bureaucracy/admin. state.
We need presidents (politicians) to do what the electorate ELECTED them to DO. Trump’s exposing the extent of the deep state/liberal media was merely a side effect of electing someone who said they would BUILD A WALL to keep illegal immigrants out forever and let our own workforce prosper. (Yes, that is controversial with the establishment.) He didn’t do that, and LIKE NO OTHER, he failed spectacularly (if you read the Bible, kind of like the way King Saul failed and met a miserable end, and left David to pick up the pieces). End of. DeSantis has proven himself as governor alone and that in itself is more presidential than the windbag who fumbled his presidency into the hands of the fools in power who are busy eating this country from the inside out. I’m done with Trump forever. It’s DeSantis or the country is actually over and we’d better all start learning Chinese while Democrats and Republicans argue about transgender bathrooms and female VPs.
None of which qualifies him to be president.
In my view, this is exactly what qualifies him to be President. He has upset the UniParty Deep State applecart which is to our good.
And this is precisely the problem with Trumpism. He provides entertainment to his fans, who think he's "punching up." Real knee-slapping stuff. They love it. Neither Trump nor his fans have the slightest idea what governance involves.
DeSantis does.
Because Ron DeSantis is a skilled politician which is a good thing and Trump is NOT a skilled politician which is, also, a good thing. Ron DeSantis adopted the MAGA/America First Agenda which Pres. Trump inspired and energized.
Prior to 2018, Ron DeSantis had NOT articulated this agenda and, in fact, supported many of Club for Growth and voted withSpeaker Paul Ryan policies
My point about insults was directed at you although it could have been directed at Trump. I am puzzled that for someone so hostile to Trump that you would use his tactics. Is this an implicit admission that Trump rhetoric works?
I am active with the Palm Beach County Republican Party which supported Ron DeSantis 100% for Governor, not as a presidential candidate.
Gov. DeSantis will damage his career if he engages in a primary contest with Pres. Trump will likely lose Palm Beach County which is 100% Trump and which is necessary to winning Florida which is necessary to winning the Republican nomination.
Respectfully, no one cares about what the Palm Beach Republican Party thinks, does or supports. It’s not “As Palm Beach goes, so goes the country.” In DeSantis we actually have a skilled politician doing what the electorate elected him to do, regardless of how it looks. In Trump, we had promises coupled with a huge ego, embarrassing vanity and total ineptness for the job. (Trump could have had Ann Coulter as an advisor like she suggested. You know, someone with actual legal and political understanding and the one who spurred his campaign with her book about illegal immigration, but he chose to insult her when she pointed out that he was doing the opposite of what he’d promised.). Can’t wait to see Trump crushed like fresh-squeezed Florida orange juice, and I voted for him. He paved the way for Biden and let the country go up in smoke in 2020 with Covid and BLM, and that will always be unforgivable in my eyes.
Whenever I see a (legitimate) news story about Ron DeSantis, it's about him doing something constructive that will help the decent people of Florida. Today he held a press conference to raise awareness of the poison being pushed onto children in public schools and of the tangible steps he's taking to bring sanity back to academia:
"Ron DeSantis exposes the pornography in school books: Florida Governor details sexually explicit scenes available to kids - and vows to fight teachers and ban them from the classrooms"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11835973/Ron-DeSantis-airs-video-containing-sexually-explicit-content-childrens-books.html
Fighting the Teachers' Unions...or any Labor Union for that matter...is one of the "third rails" of politics that can serve as an indicator of how much of a spine, if any, a politician has. If DeSantis follows through with this and continues cleaning up Florida schools, I predict that this will endear him to decent parents everywhere and will be a huge boost to his name recognition as well as his clout in the next Presidential election.
After decades of Presidents who have delivered mainly empty promises and policies that ended up doing far more harm than good, I believe that Americans are LONGING for a President who has a proven track record in doing what's right for this country and has the energy to put his love for America into into tangible, functional policy that reverses the spiral into madness and decay that we're currently experiencing. If DeSantis can show major policy successes that's something that will resonate with voters a whole lot more than a lot of loud talk.
What Trump’s candidacy and presidency did and not necessarily his ‘presence’, was to bring our enemies out, where they could be seen and wanted to be seen. The hate was and is so intense that ‘our friends on the left’ could not but help but openly embrace the rage they live with. ‘Death to America’ is their destination. We should all know the enemy by now and the traitors among us. That’s what Trump’s legacy is. What separates us from them is far more than the tread that binds us.
Ronny DeSantis had the statue of Confederate general Edmund Kirby removed from Florida's display in the U.S. Capitol and replaced with black civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune:
https://www.dailycommercial.com/story/news/local/tavares/2019/07/11/desantis-asks-capitol-officials-to-remove-smiths-statue/4715793007/
So DeSantis isn't above the typical Republican virtue signaling when it comes to the confederacy.
Ann's in love now but everyone she supported and promoted has stabbed us in the back. Dubya, Romney, Trump and soon DeSantis if he wins. All Republican presidents turn in to centrist pushovers once elected. Every Republican president moves left on the core issues that got them elected.
"Ann's in love now but everyone she supported and promoted has stabbed us in the back. "
This explains Ann's burning contempt / hatred for Trump; I wish she would shred Romney with equal fury, for I remember the episode of Cavuto in which she went nuclear on McCain for meeting with Schwarzenegger at a solar panel plant. "Why not an abortion clinic?!" (much to the delight of the floor crew who burst out laughing).
She went on to say how Romney was a nice guy with a fantastic family even though he wasn't a rock ribbed conservative in governing Massachusetts, 'which is like running in North Korea.'
It always pissed me off when critics of Ann would dismiss her for having supported Romney or Trump. She didn't change her position, THEY did. No wonder she is pissed off at Trump; she wanted him to save her country and he didn't.
https://youtu.be/t_1Yz2IRfSo?t=133
Why is it that no one who when explaining Trump’s first term failures and blames it on Democratic intransigence, mentions that his party was crushed in the 2018 midterms? The GOP, of which Trump as President was the titular leader, lost their majorities in the House and the Senate.
And why are people who are touting the campaign promises he is currently making (including at CPAC) not wondering why he made nothing like them when he was actually running for re-election in 2020? No flying cars, no new cities, no mass deportations -- nothing, except a $500 billion Platinum Plan for Blacks, which I think could fairly be called REPARATIONS. He didn’t even write a new platform at the 2020 Republican convention.
As of today, Florida does NOT have E-Verify.
Please take a look at Gov. DeSantis record while a US Representative. He voted WITH Speaker Ryan.
His connection to very Libertarian Club for Growth is problematic.
Fair point, I’d like to know why that is. E-verify should have happened years ago. But I also wanna know why there is no wall, and Trump kind of ran on that very promise.
The Club for growth has does much to defend conservative ideas. They are the opposite of statists.
E-verify is a voluntary, federal program.
Ann Coulter's points are, as usual, valid and well taken. Nevertheless, I will stay with the man who inspired the MAGA/America First Movement.
So you're saying a guy who's been dead for twenty years inspired people to vote in 2016 and 2020, not the guy who was alive and running for president in 2016 and 2020. also, Trump got at least 75 million votes. How many people read Adios America?
Trump will never be president again. He won in 2016 first because he unconditionally promised the wall every day to desperate Americans, never once saying he'd have to ask congress for it. If Hillary or anyone had asked him if he'd be going thru congress for the wall, he would've had to say yes, and I'd never have listened to another word he said, never wd've voted for him. I knew the entire political class has been rabidly open borders for decades--would never allow a wall. The 2nd reason he won in 2016 is because he won Michigan, Penn. & Wisconsin. He'll never win those states again. His 2022 choice for US Senator from Penn was so bad voters instead chose Fetterman, currently in hospital for depression. Trump won with 63 million in 2016, lost with more in 2020. He nullified his 2016 election almost immediately. He earned 2016 votes by promising to reduce US foreign aggression and to normalize relations w. Russia, but in Jan. 2017 he sent tanks and heavy weapons to Estonia-Russia border "to reassure NATO allies." You may claim poor Trump was powerless to stop the shipment, that it had been booked "before he took office" (as we're told about many subsequent shipments as well). If he was "forced" to do the opposite of what he was elected to do, fine, let him go on tv, apologize to his voters, announce his resignation, and let the world know US presidents are powerless. In 2017 he also ordered lethal weapons shipped to Ukraine to kill Russians--which even Obama didn't do. In any case, Jared was de facto president and remains in charge of Trump's political life. Jared of course accepted a $250 million credit line from Soros in 2015.
At least he had a chance (which he blew) to get some substantial forward progress on the Wall during his first two years because he had both a Republican House and Senate but he wasn’t a very good cowboy and could never round them up...would have made a terrible trail boss on a cattle drive but one hell of a story teller. In all fairness to Trump’s first couple of years with Congressional Republicans, Paul Ryan is a rancid self-seeking little prick without an ounce of patriot in his putrid body or mind.
75 million votes. Trump was here not Reagan. whatever. I believe we need to come together and focus on the real problem: democrats. If DeSantis gets the nomination in '24 I'll not only vote for him, I'll donate to his campaign. You should do the same for Trump.
No statues fell in Florida because DeSantis didn't have every democrat in congress, the all powerful left wing propaganda media machine and 3/4 of the republicans in Washington fighting against him. You don't think Trump tried to secure the border, deport illegal immigrants, and outlaw birthright citizenship? What makes you think DeSantis can walk into the Washington meatgrinder in '24 and get these things done in his first term? Trump doesn't care about our heritage and beautiful artwork? Are you serious? Hey, Craig Roland from Rome, Georga! Your vote most certainly won't count if you don't vote, you moron. I know Trump can be a jackass. He struts around with his stupid haircut calling people names. I get it. The bottom line is this: if he gets the nomination, you damn well better vote for him or we're finished.
"You don't think Trump tried?" This is utterly pathetic, but I see it everywhere. Of all human beings in the world, the last one who deserves anyone's sympathy is Trump. He was elected in 2016, because he assured us repeatedly that he was the one person strong enough to bring the bureaucracy to its knees, that he'd already proven he could overcome obstacles like no one else, that he was the only one without "outside interests." He certainly did have massive outside interests named Jared and Ivanka, both of whom wanted the opposite of 2016 Trump voters. Jared was the most powerful person in the White House, had the last word. The excuse that Trump had "no way of knowing" how bad the Deep State was is also laughable. He'd been interested and informed about politics for decades, spoke to many Tea Party groups when he was thinking of running for pres. in 2011. He knew very well that Tea Party was about beating the Establishment. Trump has already been granted immortality he doesn't deserve.
Trump's achillies heel is his desire / motivation to negotiate, make deals, try to persuade people to his point of view. Indeed, I think the more hopeless the negotiation, the more invested in the negotiation he became.
As Rush pointed out early on, perhaps even before the election, Trump isn't ideological and he didn't see Schumersteinberg as ideological, either; he thought that he could enter good faith negotiations with Schumer and have it work out like any real estate deal....you give a little and you get a little.
Trump's Administration was really over the moment he accepted Mike Flynn's resignation (at the behest of the POS Pence). Flynn had been with him from Day One and Trump should have known that if anyone could help drain the swamp it would by Flynn, who knew where all the bodies were buried and how the bureaucracy really worked. Flynn could have unravelled it all, all the way up to the Simian 44.
Once they rolled him on Flynn, the rest was easy.
It's not pathetic, Susan. Do you think the red sea will part for DeSantis and allow him to do all the things Trump tried to do but couldn't? Jared and Ivanka ran the country for four years? Do you honestly believe Trump went into the oval office and hid under his desk? The deep state did everything but assassinate this guy and they'll do the same to DeSantis. The third world is relocating into our country, and they don't care about the things we care about. We need to put a conservative in the white house in '24. I'll gladly vote for DeSantis if he gets the nomination and you should do the same for Trump. Maybe he'll do better next time. I hope so.
" Gov. DeSantis signed a bill prohibiting biological males (according to their birth certificates) from competing in women’s sports in any interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural or club athletic teams or sports that are sponsored by a public secondary school, high school, public college or university institution in the state of Florida." Ron DeSantis is a man of real Conservative action! And Donald Trump is a man of useless tweets, such as, LAW AND ORDER, the only thing he did during the George Floyd riots starting in May, 2020. He made absolutely no Presidential moves to stop the carnage. Go DeSantis!
"Trump is a man of useless tweets, such as, LAW AND ORDER, the only thing he did during the George Floyd riots starting in May, 2020. He made absolutely no Presidential moves to stop the carnage."
Please explain to this Canadian what Trump could have and should have done to quell the riots. I'm no expert but I think Posse Commitattus prevents the use of US military on US soil....? Shouldthe individual States should have done their own prevention, given that States have plenary police power over criminal law...?
Another thing that is quite galling about Trump is something Ann brought up immediately after the election, namely that he had spent the entire summer telling everyone that the election is rigged and there is going to be voter fraud everywhere but, in her estimation, he didn't DO anything about it. What could / should he have done at the Federal level, given that voting laws are the exclusive domain of States....?
It bears pondering that the Founding Father's greatest mistake might ironically have been to put voting laws in the hands of the States. Despite their contempt for government and attempt to strangle government power as much as possible, I think they underestimated the kinds of scumbags that inhabit the Deep State, Dem Party and media. It might have been a good idea to include the Right to honest elections, held on one day....
Oh Ann, stop throwing shade at some of these poor old presidents.
Other than a few cognizant souls, how many people really know that when when they thought they were electing a President Trump, they really got a President Ivanka.
And just to show the bi-partisan nature of this phenomena, many poor Democrats likewise thought they were electing Jor Biden and ended up with President Doctor Jill.
So I guess we should all hope and pray that if we elect a President Ron DeSantis we actually get a President Ron DeSantis...or, we should all start Prince Harry's mushroom-based therapy to treat slight of hand and head for the hallucinogens.
OK, so I have a couple questions. Really--questions, not critcisms!
If memory serves, Trump was always pushing for wall funding, but didn't the Dem's threw up blocks every step of the way? Wall was being built.
With regards to the things DeSantis accomplished in FL, doesn't that mean that other states could have done the same things? Could the federal government have forced other states to copy FL? ~Thanks
For the first two years, the Republicans had Congress and the Presidency. What political capital Trump had within his own party, he spent on tax cuts, not the Wall. In what planet should the *opposition party* save him from the consequences of that decision?
I will support Trump over DeSantis in the primary but we need to stop acting like everything is someone else's fault. The man was President. He had to do better than he did. It's not the Democrats' fault that he wasted his first two years and spent the next two on idiocy like 'criminal justice reform'.
I appreciate the input. Thanks! At this point I am not sure which one I prefer. No doubt, Trump has his faults. That said, I am sure he learned a lot from the first term and I believe he would do a better job the second time around. The libs sure hate him which tells me he must be doing something right. OTOH, I would not be dissapointed of DeSantis got the nomination.
I'm in pretty much the same boat. I stand by Trump and his instincts, even though he's a capricious baby who can't govern. DeSantis is doing a good job at state level, but he dresses like a Boardwalk Empire character, he'd roll over for the neocons.
35 days
after 35 days of USG shutdown trying to get funding for the only thing anyone voting for him cared about.. he caved
I call him Spelunker in Chief
Caving was what he did best
"after 35 days of USG shutdown trying to get funding for the only thing anyone voting for him cared about.. he caved"
If I understand you correctly, that was during the debt ceiling negotiation, no...? I was disgusted when he didn't get the wall funding, falling for the usual BS about poor bureaucrats not getting their money and welfare scumbags getting their handouts.
He never caved to the barrage of criminal lies from the lDoJ CIA FBI and the Media. Anyone else would have caved. LIKE NO OTHER, Donald Trump is a man of courage, the indispensable virtue of any leader.
caved on the wall
caved on bringing the troops home
caved on shutting the country down
caved on bombing syria
caved on massive spending ( $7T in new debt )
he's a vile lying inept narcisstic buffoon
He should have built the wall on DAY ONE. Birthright citizenship should've ended immediately. No podium grandstanding, just behind the scenes hard work.
Ann, get your message out pronto not with the your choir which I’m a part of.
Agreed - maybe a guest spot on Tucker Carlson's show . . . or Hannity or Ingrahm . . . as they are ALWAYS touting they are #1 in the news. But the message needs to be a cogent presentation (which is tough to accomplish when Hannity constantly interrupts his guests).
It is highly unlikely that Gov. DeSantis can win the Republican nomination. Like every Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committee member (committeeperson) and activist, like every donor, like everyone in leadership, we campaigned not only for Ron DeSantis but for the DeSantis endorsed candidates for a term of FOUR years. Had Gov. DeSantis said he intended to be governor for only TWO years, I think enthusiasm would have waned significantly.
Ron DeSantis could not have won the 2018 Republican primary against the then Commissioner of Agriculture who was the choice of the Florida Republican opportunistic Establishment. Trump had won Florida in 2016 and then endorsed Ron DeSantis over Adam Putnam. Then DeSantis squeaked a 30,000 general election win over Soros funded, depraved degenerate drug addicted Andrew Gillum
Ron DeSantis was re-elected by a 20% margin to be governor of Florida NOT to run for President. There is no one in the Florida government who is positioned to take Gov. DeSantis' place so he will have abandoned the people who voted for him.
Not only ungrateful to Trump but also to the voters of Florida who voted for him to be their governor. DeSantis will have shown himself to have played us and to be the kind of political opportunist we have come to despise, the kind of politician that the independent of donors and the Establishment Trump is NOT.
Donald Trump inspired and energizes the MAGA/America First Movement and LIKE NO OTHER has withstood the full fury of the Administrative State (the aptly name The Swamp) and the Establishment Media, both Democrat and Republican.
Courage “ He has the indispensable attribute of a leader: courage. “
Independence “Because no secret puppeteer operating from the shadows owns him, …”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-GAw1lLWJA
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Trump's Virtues - Tom Klingenstein
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Accentuate the Positive. It is not uncommon to be dejected by all that is going wrong." Never Give Up; the Best is Yet to Come" as President Trump iterates and reiterates. This is world view that energizes. It is not easy to see the meaning and purpose in all that happens.
I am a rank and file activist with the Palm Beach County Republican Party.
It would be useful if a reporter actually reported on what the Palm Beach County Republican Party leadership, donors, rank and file committee people like me, activists and Palm Beach County voters actually think and do rather than commenting from a helicopter.
The Republican Party of Palm Beach County (PBC) , donors, leadership, activists, committee people and Republican voters are 100% Trump.
If DeSantis can't win Palm Beach County, how can he win Florida?
If DeSantis can't win Florida, how can he win the Republican nomination for President 2024?
You can ask Chairman Barnett who was re-elected chair with endorsement from Pres. Trump. The annual Lincoln Day dinner will be held at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home, and has exceeded fundraising goals with sold out attendance.
Club 47 is aligned with the Republican Party of Palm Beach County and is hosting Kellyanne Conway on Monday night. I expect attendance will be over a 1000 Republican voters and activists.
Thank you for your bullet-pointed-draft-perspectives Ann. Slow and steady can win the race. Current events prove events can be rationally addressed in the moment and we can have a US future of not always looking backwards.