To Trump:
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) November 11, 2022
You had your chance, with a Republican House and Senate. You handed domestic policy to your son-in-law and Gary Cohn. You handed foreign policy to your son-in-law and a country that gave your son-in-law $2 billion.
Shut the fuck up, forever.
November 12, 2022
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I have given up on her for years but she does have a point. Trump could not take DeSantis path on Covid because of Kushner. It was all about the next election.
Yeah, because all the other Republicans have done such a bang up job. I am GLAD we have the Abraham Accords. I am GLAD Trump kept us from starting new wars. I am GLAD the Republicans are showing their cards. I know who NOT to listen to lecture us anymore. Shut up and go away Ann...nobody cares what you think.
Coulter has no sense of humor. A fake laugh, is all, to affirm that laughter is only a formality.
YES! Shut the fuck up forever.
ah - the soap opera male/ Fake Glitter Wrestling dudes are not going to be happy.
Trump's biggest mistakes in office were trusting his daughter and failing to clean house - top to bottom - from day one. Everyone can see how that turned out.
Thank you Ann. And Ann.
An excerpt from the Wikipedia article about Gary Cohn:
Under the Trump administration, Cohn was cited by the press as a supporter of globalism, and was given nicknames such as "Globalist Gary" and "Carbon Tax Cohn". Along with Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Dina Powell, they were referred to by opponents as the "Wall Street-wing" of the Trump administration. He was stated as being at odds with the populist faction that was led by Steve Bannon, when Bannon was White House Chief Strategist.
Cohn led the Trump administration's efforts to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In a 2019 article in The Wall Street Journal, Cohn pointed to an increase of $6,000 in real disposable personal income per household, as well as the creation of seven million jobs, as evidence of the success of tax reform.
Cohn reportedly considered resigning from the National Economic Council after the 2017 Charlottesville rally and criticized the Trump administration's response to the rally, stating "I believe this administration can and must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning," white supremacists.
In August 2020, Jim Sciutto published a book called The Madman Theory in which Cohn said in response to Donald Trump saying that there were very good people on both sides of the protests which included white supremacists, "Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK."
On March 6, 2018, Cohn announced his intention to resign; the announcement followed Trump's proposal to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum, and Trump's cancellation of a meeting with end-users of steel and aluminum that Cohn had arranged in an attempt to dissuade the president from the planned tariffs.
He was replaced by Larry Kudlow on April 2.
Bob Woodward's 2018 book, Fear: Trump in the White House relates two instances in which Cohn removed draft letters from President Trump's desk, so that the President would not see them. One of the letters would have canceled a key trade agreement with South Korea, and the other would have withdrawn the US unilaterally from the NAFTA trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
The post is silly. Unfortunately, Coulter, like Trump, is past her "use by" date.
Paul Ryan was the impediment to Trump's effective use of Congress. Despite being surrounded by backstabbers his results argue that there was nothing wrong with his domestic or foreign policy.
The $2 billion claim is right out of the DNC playbook. Has anyone ever seen proof of this?
Meade with the thread winner right off the bat.
I'd forgotten Ann Coulter...and there was no downside.
She has a point.
Trump's personnel decisions were his weakest area.
She sounds “Twitter poisoned.”
Human relationships resulted in Coulter putting her tongue on the monkey bars in the wintertime.
Twice.
I can understand her anger, but the fact is that Trump wasn't handed the Senate and the House, the Senate and House Republicans were handed control of Congress. If you want to blame the lack of any action from that control, you have to blame the right people.
This attacking of Trump is actually deeply counter-productive- as much so as Trump's flailing about after Tuesday night. I think, if DeSantis runs, he will defeat Trump easily in the primaries, and the battle won't weaken DeSantis- the most brutal primary fight I have witnessed in my lifetime was the Democratic primary season of 2008, and Obama came out of that stronger than before it started. Fire hardens the fighter.
I do think the Republican base voters are ready to move on, and we need to let Trump come to realize this truth at the ballot box come Winter of next year. What you absolutely don't want is for Trump to run as a third party candidate in 2024, which becomes more and more likely given the present environment.
Here is my point- Trump isn't damaging the Republican Party right now. His attacks on DeSantis aren't damaging DeSantis. For everyone of you demanding Trump shut up and go away, you are doing exactly what the Democrats in the media want you to do. The best we can do for ourselves and Trump is probably to just ignore him for a while.
"Trump's personnel decisions were his weakest area."
Personnel is policy. As with Wray at the FBI. Even with his managerial cluelessness, Trump still got a lot done. But apart from SCOTUS, none of it lasts, or was designed to last.
Coulter was an early Trump supporter and an early Trump abandoner. Not sure why this is trending when it's very much a dog bites man story.
Anyone going after Trump right now is trying to help the democrats. You already went down this path in the 2012 Republican primary.
This is the same group group of GOPe insiders that trashed Newt Gingrich during the 2012 midterms. Ann Coulter was a stupid ditz during that fiasco too.
You are all bashing Trump and then you get mad when he fires back.
The only people who should be shutting the fuck up are the hypocrites right now attacking Trump.
You need to look in the mirror. You are the people smearing a Republican.
You have been smearing republicans the whole time. You are the people that attacked the Tea Party. You are the people that cheered the IRS attacks on the Tea Party. You have been calling Republicans Un-electable. You are the ones that pull support from Republican candidates. You are the people that are attacking Tsibaka. You are the people that are supporting mail in voting.
We still have Obamacare because of the people that are attacking Trump right now.
He tried to do everything he promised.
He was betrayed by Republicans.
You hypocrites attacking him now have no ground to stand on.
I definitely wouldn't have worn that dress Ivanka wore...and not just because I couldn't afford it.
Trump's admin did a lot, but also missed on a lot that could have been accomplished, even with the Democrats' opposition. He made mistakes due to his personality that ended up hurting the GOP and the country. And, right or wrong, too many people will either not vote for him, or will vote against him, because of who he is. For the good of the country, he needs to accept that, and his supporters need to accept that, or the Repubs will lose in 2024.
Ann Coulter turned on Trump several years ago. Her disdain for him is not exactly new. She's been against him since at least 2019
Which country? I'm guessing Israel, but with Coulter you never know.
And, yes, Trump chose poorly on personnel- I wrote, I think, on Althouse's blog the day of the inauguration that his first executive order at 12:01 p.m. January 20, 2017 should be that every single Obama political appointee still on the job is immediately fired and escorted out of the office. And Trump compounded the problem by appointed people like Jeff Sessions and Christopher Wray among others along the way. Lots of poor choices.
Trump's personnel decisions were his weakest area.
Look what they did to some of his good picks, though, like Mike Flynn.
Also, in the swamp, it's very difficult to know who you can trust.
It's tough to attract good people when they know they're going to have to endure merciless character assassination from not only the media and the opposition, but from their own party. When they know their families and even their children will be socially ostracized and labeled for life.
And if they are effective at their job, even worse will follow, perhaps including becoming a target of a federal criminal investigation designed to ruin them financially. When they know their families and even their children will be socially ostracized and labeled for life. When they will be blacklisted for future professional opportunities after they leave office.
And in the end, it will be thankless.
'Personnel is policy.'
Depends.
If you can keep your employees in line then it's your policy being implemented, as it should be.
If you put in weak people like Sessions who won't do their job or your bidding, then everything goes off the rails.
The key is knowing whether someone will run through a brick wall for you, or whether they're more interested in getting invited to the right parties or writing a book...
With this and the MSNBC article, the theme of the day may be the hidden similarities between people who think they are deadly enemies. MSNBC bashes Trump for being a vulgarian and his supporters for being yokels, while they are vulgarians and yokels themselves. Bardella thinks his political views allow him to make comments that he would attack other men for making. He unwittingly outs himself as another porn-obsessed misogynist. Coulter hates Trump, but they're both egotists and unguided missiles, much more alike than different.
Coulter gets some satisfaction by going over the top, by losing control. So does Trump. It wasn't enough to come up with a reasoned criticism of environmental fanaticism. Ann had to say, "God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’" It was a joke, she said later, but like Trump's many jokes, people take it literally. Coulter and Trump are both comic exaggerators whose imagination and lack of impulse control gets them in trouble.
Coulter thought it was all going to be easy for Trump. She blames him for not quickly solving problems that have been around for years. Ann Coulter was bound to turn on just about any president she supported, and to do so in a spectacular way. Perhaps she also recognizes that writers can only take praise so far, while revilement is a bottomless well.
Trump's personnel choices, good or bad, were constrained by the DC Blob's dislike of the foreign object and need to eject it.
Career Blobists don't spring to attention for anyone, especially not that guy, and most of them are D's anyway and spend most of their time advancing D goals.
Barr proved to be a Blobist ultimately, by making it his priority to minimize the damage to the Blob rather than dig deeper. As a made man with the CIA-FBI he fulfilled his real mission while appearing to have corrected an injustice.
If Trump is still at large in '24 the only thing different will be his thirst for personal vengeance and the Blob's intensified hatred.
Not a promising scenario.
The $2 billion claim is right out of the DNC playbook. Has anyone ever seen proof of this?
Kushner created a company to handle 2b Saudi money that was earmarked for investment in Israeli business. Happened after the AA and there was some dissension as to who should handle the money, but the Prince insisted Kushner should. Kushner's firm has gotten an additional 1b from other ME countries not signed onto the AA. AA countries don't need the intermediary and are making direct investments in the "Silicon Valley of the MidEast". I have no follow up on how well the fund is performing it's stated function. The House Dems are investigating of course. No not Hunter, just Kushner just to be clear.
Take from it what you will. The Dem line is Kashogi(sp?) payback.
Ann Coulter and Bill Maher?
I just noticed that she is dropping F bombs on Twitter. Where did that come from? That is a bad word, Ann Coulter.
I've also noticed that her buddy, Mr. Maher, is hating on the Woke kids.
Unity!
And you know they would want to keep it secret like Romeo & Juliet.
A house divided, and shit like that.
My Good Frenemy.
I predict the Media and the Democrats do all they can to keep Trump talking... and "garnering" (sorry) attention.
Is Coulter upset that Trump didn't start more wars with Arab countries?
Trump is good for the Democrat Party.
I wonder sometimes if Hillary and Trump will ever kiss and make up?
So we are seeing a lot of these close races that Republicans are winning being dragged out to support this narrative that Trump needs to go. Obviously corrupt Maricopa county is just delaying the inevitable Lake victory.
When Lake wins she is going to come out and support Trump.
But the Regime is slow walking this.
And the Never-Trumper hypocrites just continue attacking Republicans the whole time just like they attacked the tea party.
Heyward at Powerline did a quick poll of whether Trump should run in 2024. It was surprisingly one-sided. You might consider the same.
Not sure why trending?
uh - Trump's out there doing all he can to destroy future GOP candidates - as if Trump can fill all the positions and live forever. Trump deserves all the scorn he can dish out.
wendybar said: "Shut up and go away Ann...nobody cares what you think."
Well, she has more than 2 million followers on Twitter, so there must be lot of people who care what she thinks. How many followers do you have, wendybar?
@ Yancey Ward - That sounds a little contradictory: Trump shouldn't "shut up and go away" but we should probably "just ignore him for a while".
I suppose the way to harmonize (as the lawyers say) those two ideas is to say that we should only pay attention to him some time in the future. After the Georgia run-off? After he announces for president? After the 2024 election? Twenty-five years?
Dems want Trump.
Dems and media drop all headlines re - Trump's impending arrest and indictment.
Just saying... watch.
Scott Atlas' book makes clear that Kushner was too powerful and may have succeeded in keeping Fauci and Birx in place. That was a big mistake. Trump wanted to open schools after Memorial Day and was argued out of it by somebody. If given his druthers, it sounds like he would have done what DeSantis did in Florida and the failure to do that may have put him in range of fraud. As it was, the Democrats had to scramble at the last minute to pull off the fraud.
Team GOPe is the problem here, Not Trump.
You Never Trumpers are just hypocrites. You are attacking Republicans.
Go look in a mirror and be honest about what you are doing.
Coulter should shut up too. I remember Paul “I’m not on board with Trump yet” Ryan very well. The most flaccid Speaker and majority ever. Worse than the orange drunk from PA who held it longer than Ryan. Would that we could have had a Republican Congress that cooperated with Trump instead of resisting him since it was an agenda to Make America Great Again. That was too conservative for the squishy livered GOPe. Trump was a threat to their sweet foreign income streams and they banded together with the opposition.
We’ll never forget and never forgive GOPe. Glad fucking McMuffin lost too.
Is there a more useless polemicist on “our” side than Ann Coulter?
I find Coulter clever and amusing but she falls in and out of love with Republican politicians like a middle schooler.
Mike: Coulter lost very substantial work and platforms BECAUSE of her early and vehement pro-Trump work.
She was right to criticize him for not following through on immigration, the issue that got him elected, and she is even more right now. You can support Trumperism while acknowledging that Trump himself squandered it.
To compare her with Ryan...really?
https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ
It would seem that only places with Blue Machines have a problem counting votes, and it would seem that the more trouble they have counting votes, the more likely they are to eventually find enough votes for their candidates to win by a razor-thin, just-enough margin. What a co-inky-dink.
Bill Harshaw said...
Heyward at Powerline did a quick poll of whether Trump should run in 2024. It was surprisingly one-sided. You might consider the same.
A lot of people are banned from Powerline.
Really they are no different than the democrats. They censor those they don't like. It is a very selective crowd.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
Dems want Trump.
Dems and media drop all headlines re - Trump's impending arrest and indictment.
Just saying... watch.
Your next stupid post will be about how Trump should stop attacking Desantis amrite?
ot: Everywhere the left slowed the vote counting - the democrat prevailed.
The left let the R win the NV Gov race- to cover their tracks.
change my mind.
I wonder sometimes if Hillary and Trump will ever kiss and make up?
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with/without Bill watching?
Trump is toast. He had his chance, but the bad that he did ended up outweighing the good.
Plus, he can't stop breaking Reagan's 11th Commandment.
The problem that we have is that this recent election had emboldened the Democrats to prop up MAGA candidates because they are easy to beat. The media will start to go soft on Trump and try to help to make him the GOP candidate. And Trump will eat it up.
I really hope that Trump is beaten in the primaries, because he will lose big in the general election.
Well, she has more than 2 million followers on Twitter, so there must be lot of people who care what she thinks. How many followers do you have, wendybar?
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how to find out / confirm if this is factable?
exhelodrvr1 said...
Trump's admin did a lot, but also missed on a lot that could have been accomplished, even with the Democrats' opposition. He made mistakes due to his personality that ended up hurting the GOP and the country. And, right or wrong, too many people will either not vote for him, or will vote against him, because of who he is. For the good of the country, he needs to accept that, and his supporters need to accept that, or the Repubs will lose in 2024.
Explain your path to victory without the Trump voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin where Desantis will have zero chance.
Do it for the good of the country.
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...
We’ll never forget and never forgive GOPe. Glad fucking McMuffin lost too.
These are the same people that supported Romney in 2012 when he took huge amounts of corporate cash and trashed Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and every other Republican that dared oppose the GOPe.
Then they played footsie with Obama in the general.
They attack Republicans. It is just what they do. They are hypocrites and they want to lose in 2024 the same way they lost in 2012.
And there are voters on this board who are happy to repeat history.
"@ Yancey Ward - That sounds a little contradictory: Trump shouldn't "shut up and go away" but we should probably "just ignore him for a while"."
That is only contradictory if you twist and misquote what I actually wrote. Here again is what I wrote:
For everyone of you demanding Trump shut up and go away, you are doing exactly what the Democrats in the media want you to do. The best we can do for ourselves and Trump is probably to just ignore him for a while.
I didn't write "Trump shouldn't shut up and go away". I wrote that people should ignore Trump rather than tell him to shut up and go away. See the difference?
Trump could not take DeSantis path on Covid because of Kushner.
Help me understand: Trump's leadership could have been really awesome but sadly it was thwarted by nepotism?
“Meade with the thread winner right off the bat.”
Did Meade delete himself?
If given his druthers, it sounds like he would have done what DeSantis did in Florida
The man with a childlike belief the virus would simply vanish could have done great things if only he hadn't been constrained.
“When Lake wins she is going to come out and support Trump.”
Kari Lake will let you traitors have what for, I tell ya!
Ans still they shout her down on campus.
The NeverTrumpers need to go away. The Anti-Trumpers need to go away. National Review, Weekly Standard, Bulwark, etc., need to go away. LLR Establishment enablers need to go away.
AND
Donald Trump needs to go away.
If given his druthers, it sounds like he would have done what DeSantis did in Florida
IOW, DeSantis did what Trump "wanted" to do but didn't.
That's the case for DeSantis in a single sentence.
Trump's domestic policy agenda seemed pretty good, especially in comparison to Biden's. Only mistake was handing domestic policy to CDC. As for foreign policy, all the lifers around DC hated it, yet no new wars were started, trade was working well until every government handed over their domestic policy to their versions of CDC, and we enjoyed 4 years of relative peace. For Coulter's comments to mean anything, she'll need to point out a problem or prove the $2 billion claim, which is the first I heard of this conspiracy (thank you, pacwest).
Also, what Bob Boyd said @ 9:48a
Coulter: "You had your chance with a Republican house and senate."
Is she in Oz? McConnell and Ryan hated the MAGA movement. Excepting Supreme Court judges, they fought Trump policies tooth and claw.
I thought Coulter retired to the trash heap of history. Oh, and clean your language up.
“ I can understand her anger, but the fact is that Trump wasn't handed the Senate and the House, the Senate and House Republicans were handed control of Congress. If you want to blame the lack of any action from that control, you have to blame the right people.”
I always find this argument so annoying, although I agree with the rest of the post. Nothing is ever Trump's fault, and everything good that happened could only have happened with Trump’s magic touch.
The man is toxic and we can do better. The Always Trump people have to realize the country is not with them and can’t be convinced otherwise. They can be convinced by a DeSantis or Youngkin. We need to persuade, not browbeat. The biggest problem we face, or at least top 3, is the debt and Trump’s instincts (as a lifelong Democrat) is to ignore it.
The only people who should be shutting the fuck up are the hypocrites right now attacking Trump.
You need to look in the mirror. You are the people smearing a Republican.
You have been smearing republicans the whole time.
Don't let Trump become your heal. It's not just the usual gang now. Wide sections of his supporters are beginning to be simply done with him. Many of them are already there -- too many for him to get them back given his prior history.
The little boy just will not learn discipline. Many supporters have excused their last tantrum and last loss and last blaming others. And also, the old man is too old. Aside from everything else, TRUMP IS TOO OLD for the job, even if he was able to control himself.
He had his time. Let him rest on his laurels and praises for a job well done rather than piss it all away. Let the last sounds he hears be applause, rather than "GO AWAY!" Time for Republicans and the country to grow up and stand on its own without him.
If 2020 was stolen, it was because Trump didn't just leave the door open, he tossed the election to the thieves and said, "Take it."
If he had tried a little adulting, Trump would have run away with 2020, such that no amount of cheating could catch him. But HE threw it away.
Althouse Blog Commissar (self-appointed): "Not sure why trending?
uh - Trump's out there doing all he can to destroy future GOP candidates - as if Trump can fill all the positions and live forever. Trump deserves all the scorn he can dish out."
We are coming off an election where the entire GOPe leadership worked hand in glove with democraticals and the media to destroy republican candidates across the nation in the hopes of destroying those candidates, but that didn't warrant any handwringing from the usual quarters. You know who you are. In fact, those GOPe-ers were praised and lauded.
SOP for certain parties.
And given how these parties have declared Trump completely done, history, no following, powerless, useless, incapable of doing anything, etc, it seems strange that this genius crew is simultaneously arguing Trump has some bizarre superhero power to destroy future republican candidates!
At some point I suspect Team Ryan/Romney/Bush/McConnell/McCarthy/Luntz will have to pick one side of that discussion. Or maybe not.
Yancey Ward said...
"I do think the Republican base voters are ready to move on, and we need to let Trump come to realize this truth at the ballot box come Winter of next year. What you absolutely don't want is for Trump to run as a third party candidate in 2024, which becomes more and more likely given the present environment."
The (D) Party had a hand in promoting Trump in 2016, along with the news media (but I repeat myself). What's to stop them from appealing to his massive ego to pull a Teddy Roosevelt in 2024?
Bill Harshaw: "Heyward at Powerline did a quick poll of whether Trump should run in 2024. It was surprisingly one-sided. You might consider the same."
The only thing surprising is that you would think a one-sided self-reported "poll" (LOL) at Powerlineblog is somehow dispositive of anything, especially the base of the republican party.
Something tells me powerline readers, of which I am one, is not exactly representative of what a future working class/middle class and very diverse populist majority party base thinks/believes/wants.
But then again, I get it. The GOPe-ers don't want anything to do with those icky and deplorable working class/middle class lowbrow types. You can probably smell them when they shop at Walmart....not that you might ever deign to walk into one.
McConnell is still quite proud of his role in using govt to attack and destroy the tea party movement and now this entire charade around Trump is designed to completely kill off the MAGA movement....all so "respectable" republicans can once again enjoy themselves at upper crust swanky cocktail parties without having to answer any difficult questions from their societal "betters" while reaching for the cocktail sauce for their jumbo shrimp.
Yes indeed, its time to get "back to business" and further empowering the DOJ/FBI/National Security State to teach those deplorables some lessons and let us not ever forget the legislative priorities of the incoming, and seemingly permanent, "republican" minority:
- Funding Ukraine
- Shipping more jobs/industries overseas and pocketing the kickbacks
- Increasing immigration (H1B's and illegals) so that the Chamber of Commerce will once again allow republican leaders to worship at their feet....as the CoC funds more democraticals
- Ensuring Big Tech and the Big Tech/Govt alliance remains untouchable (McCarthy's specialty)
- Tax cuts for large corporations
- And so much more!!
We are indeed fortunate, nay blessed, to have such a GOPe leadership.
Protein Wisdom has been reborn and Jeff Goldstein has a comment much along these lines. Always a good read.
loudogblog said...
Trump is toast. He had his chance, but the bad that he did ended up outweighing the good.
Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are toast. They had their chance with a Republican president and majorities in congress and they openly betrayed their voters.
Plus, he can't stop breaking Reagan's 11th Commandment.
The Romney hypocrites just keep putting this stupidity up. You bash Trump then you get mad when he fights back.
Go look in a mirror. You are going to see the person that started attacking Republicans first.
You are the defenition of a Hypocrite.
The problem that we have is that this recent election had emboldened the Democrats to prop up MAGA candidates because they are easy to beat. The media will start to go soft on Trump and try to help to make him the GOP candidate. And Trump will eat it up.
I really hope that Trump is beaten in the primaries, because he will lose big in the general election.
That's the 80 IQ take.
Trump showed you how to do something you Romney supporters couldn't do.
Now you are posting this absolute stupidity. Read your post again and tell me how Romney 2.0 wins without the Trump supporters.
The problem here is the mail in vote fraud and the Republicans that are helping democrats implement it.
People who are trying to take Trump out are not trying to beat the democrats. They are not doing the things that will actually make that happen.
Off topic, a bit, but there has been talk that one of Trump's foreign policy goals would be to pull out of NATO, which has been the cornerstone of Western security for generations. IF true, that would be almost disqualifying in and of itself (especially without buy-in from Congress, which he almost certainly would not get - not even close).
Bender said...
He had his time. Let him rest on his laurels and praises for a job well done rather than piss it all away. Let the last sounds he hears be applause, rather than "GO AWAY!" Time for Republicans and the country to grow up and stand on its own without him.
Trump got 75 million votes in 2020 and showed you how to win in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
You want the Republican party to go back to 62 million votes and absolutely no chance of victory. The party of Romney.
I am sure you GOPers who did this exact same thing in 2012 thought supporting the GOPe anointed candidate would work out well for you then. You bashed and attacked all the outsiders then too. You had reasons for smearing Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum and all the others too.
But anyone who does the same thing in the 2024 primary they did in the 2012 primary can just be classified as an idiot or on the other side.
Achilles,
"Explain your path to victory without the Trump voters in Pennsylvania"
A lot of you don't seem to realize how many voters Trump has turned off with his "me-me-me" antics. If the "Trump voters" would put down their Trump-colored glasses, they would see that. Hopefully they will not be childish enough to let their Trump-fandom keep them from voting for what is best for the country. And hopefully Trump will realize that, as well.
Coulter was an early Trump supporter and an early Trump abandoner.
Coulter's early support for Trump was based on "build the wall". She put out a list of the top 100 things Trump should do. Item 1 build the wall....item 100 build the wall. She withdrew that support early on because he hadn't built a wall timely enough nor to her specifications. Its like saying 'how come you haven't solved the NK problem yet? You've had two years!' Coulter is a bomb thrower. That's all she does. There's no thoughtful analysis. It's how she makes her living.
She rates right up there with the Daily Kos when I'm looking for information. Easily dismissed no matter who she supports or what she has to say.
IF all these supposed MAGA voters are changing their mind, will they be changing it enough to vote for a Democrat candidate then, in 2024? Is that how absolutely through they are, with the Donald? Interesting.
A lot of people seem to approach presidential politics as though the first question is along the lines of "who do I like most?" or "whose policies come closest to mirroring my own?"
I think the first question (but not the only question) should be "is there a reasonable likelihood that this individual can win more than 270 electoral votes?"
However much you love love love Mr. Trump, the fact that last week's election results demonstrate his unelectability should cause you to look elsewhere for 2024. He is on a trajectory of increasing desperation and nastiness that will push him out of the race and/or toward a futile third party effort that will inflict horrible damage on the country.
One of the smartest people I have ever known, worldly wise and cynical beyond belief, told me early in Trump's presidential campaign that Kushner was the reason Trump was running. The son in law was a successful businessman, but bored, and wanted to do something both stimulating and good for his country. He wasn't interested in legislating or government bureaucracy. So he got Trump to run and get elected president, and then Kushner did the Abraham Accords. Not too shabby, if you ask me.
That the Saudis thought his investment firm worth a fling of a couple billion isn't surprising. They Saudis are trying to become financially diversified, and a billion here, a billion there, is happening repeatedly as they seek security and growth for their riches if or when the oil money stops flowing. Eventually the Saudis will want to buy stuff from Israel themselves. Who better to have as a supporter than the guy who got several countries to start doing business with the Jewish state?
As for Coulter, even a great virtuoso has a bad performance once in a while.
LouDogBlog - you nailed it.
Everyone memory holes the fact that Coulter was Trump's biggest supporter. Then he got in and surrounded himself with insider knee-capping tools and other various morons.. who ended up - knee capping him or worse.
She watched in horror.
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How many billions did Hunter take, Ann Coulter? Your opposition helped elect the Biden crime family, so why don't you STFU forever.
No I didn’t compare Coulter to Ryan. LOL.
"I always find this argument so annoying, although I agree with the rest of the post. Nothing is ever Trump's fault, and everything good that happened could only have happened with Trump’s magic touch."
What exactly was wrong with what I wrote? That Congress didn't have to have Trump tell it what to do- all it had to do was to set policies by passing the bills the voters demanded in electing them and Trump to office in 2016. Sure, they needed Trump's signature on those bills, but here is the thing- they never passed anything after the tax cuts. They sat on their fucking hands for 2 years, and then got crushed at the ballot box for doing so. Two fucking years doing nothing to pass the legislation we the voters expected them to pass.
You watch what happens if the Democrats get to 51 Senators in the new Congress and keep the House after counting votes for the next 3 weeks in California. The Democrat will pass the bills their supporters wanted passed, and they won't need Joe Manchin any longer.
Blame Trump for the correct things that he had control of- he didn't have control of the legislative agenda from January 2017 until January 2019. The only thing we got out of control of Congress was the three SCOTUS justices- a success that will now be undone as the Democrats pack the court and the Senate.
Again- Calls to indict Trump? GONE.
Dems learn fast they need him to stay.
loudogblog: "Trump is toast. He had his chance, but the bad that he did ended up outweighing the good.
.........
I really hope that Trump is beaten in the primaries, because he will lose big in the general election."
If your first assertion is true then your last assertion will take care of itself.
Loudogblog: "Plus, he can't stop breaking Reagan's 11th Commandment."
Reagan's 11 Commandment has been systematically destroyed and rendered moot after 30 years of GOPe betrayal and undermining of the Republican base since the Tea Party days and culminating with ChiComCash McConnell literally coordinating with Schumer to bad mouth republican candidates, pull funding from those viable republican candidates and then spending that money to attack republican nominees.
That appeal to Reagan's 11th Commandment in support of the current utterly corrupted and failed GOPe/Dem-lite "leadership" rings so hollow its basically insulting.
Sell your 11th Commandment to the McFailures who are already working behind the scenes to give the democraticals even more policy wins.
Well, she has more than 2 million followers on Twitter, so there must be lot of people who care what she thinks. How many followers do you have, wendybar?
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Narayanan wrote: "how to find out / confirm if this is factable?"
First, I don't this "factable" is a real word, although maybe Prof. Althouse can check for us in the Old English Dictionary or something similar. Second, the numbers are tabulated by Twitter. Ann Coulter has no control over this.
We are indeed fortunate, nay blessed, to have such a GOPe leadership.
We are indeed fortunate, nay blessed, to have had Trump seize the attention and narrative the last two weeks before the election to rally people. With the state of the nation as it is today, I shudder to think how disastrous it would have been for Republicans if Trump had stayed quiet and out of the public eye. The GOP might have lost 30-40 seats in the House and 10 in the Senate but for Trump coming to the rescue as popular as the Dems are with the economy, foreign policy, and crime all in the toilet, not to mention the brain-dead Dem candidates and literally dead candidates running.
Drago wrote:
"We are coming off an election where the entire GOPe leadership worked hand in glove with democraticals and the media to destroy republican candidates across the nation in the hopes of destroying those candidates...At some point I suspect Team Ryan/Romney/Bush/McConnell/McCarthy/Luntz will have to pick one side of that discussion."
In case you missed it, Drago, Trump has endorsed McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House.
Blogger Earnest Prole said...
Trump could not take DeSantis path on Covid because of Kushner.
Help me understand: Trump's leadership could have been really awesome but sadly it was thwarted by nepotism?
Yes, Kushner did some good things like the Abraham Accords but Trump was stabbed in the back by all the rest of his appointments, his worst failure. He was the new guy in town and he finally relied on family as the only ones he could trust.
Kushner had too much power late in the term. Sort of like Hillary.
How did I know that I would be accused of supporting Weasel Romney?
Return to reality dude. Pro-Trumpers want him to enjoy his retirement. HE is the past. Time to look to the future.
Coulter should heed her own advice.
Never understood her appeal to conservatives.
Bender said...
Don't let Trump become your heal (sic).
I prefer the Homeric Achilles with the weak heel. As opposed to the more recent one whose weakness is at the other end.
Achilles said:
“ Team GOPe is the problem here, Not Trump.
You Never Trumpers are just hypocrites. You are attacking Republicans.
Go look in a mirror and be honest about what you are doing.”
You do see the irony of this statement don’t you?
The Fat Tub of Goo’s electoral problem is that independents detest him. This makes him completely and totally unelectable.
I would love the Trump Colon Cowboy brigade to map out a path to victory without independents.
I think there is going to be a cascade of supporters abandoning him. Winsome Sears yesterday and Scott Adams today.
in case you missed it, Drago, Trump has endorsed McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House.
MCCONNELL RYAN!
in case you missed it, Drago, Trump has endorsed McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House.
MCCONNELL RYAN!
The Fat Tub of Goo’s electoral problem is that independents detest him. This makes him completely and totally unelectable.
I would love the Trump Colon Cowboy brigade to map out a path to victory without independents.
I think there is going to be a cascade of supporters abandoning him as it dawns on them that he can’t win. Scott Adams renounced him today.
Trump has picked the wrong time to reveal himself to be a fat loser.
Trump and McConnell worked together to get the SCOTUS. But...
MCCONNELL RYAN!
Achilles wrote:
"Trump got 75 million votes in 2020 and showed you how to win in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan."
Yeah, and he lost the election and the popular vote to a senile, brain dead, drooling, left wing, sexual predator, socialist idiot. Congratulations Mr. Trump.
Isn't it possible that a lot of Independents and moderate Democrats who didn't like Joe Biden looked at their local Republicans and didn't like them either? Isn't it possible that many Republicans spent too much time talking about retaliation investigations and too little talking about how to restore energy independence? spent too much time hinting that the Ukraine while under assault by Russia with its citizens suffering from loss of heat and light from bombing was spending US aid on wine, women and song? spent too much time talking and too little time persuading?
Put aside Katie Hobbs validating her own election and Fetterman continuing the recent Dem innovation consisting of electing incompetents as a safeguard for sufficient subservience. Just look out generally. Put aside ballot harvesting. When citizens could see that a Governor like De Santis walked the walk they voted for him. When citizens in upstate New York heard promises to allow fracking which would enrich them they went red. When citizens heard empty talk, they thought the Dems could do that as well, if not much better.
What do people think will happen in GA. Will Trump manage to wrest defeat out the hands of Victory as he did in 2020 or will he help Walker? I suspect that he will be so busy in his penis length fight with DeSantis that he will do nothing for Walker.
Bender: "How did I know that I would be accused of supporting Weasel Romney?"
The only people left on the GOP side in leadership roles are Romney clones.
The ONLY guy pushing back on them were Trump and his icky supporters.
I never figured out what Coulter’s problem is. Is she an elitist who is dismayed that people down near the bottom of the economic ladder. Perhaps she reacts with irrational anger to the reality that beating Democrats cannot be done by the genteel WASP but needs instead someone who will descend into the gutter with them and go fist to fist.
Or is she, like Lizzie Cheney, upset at the end of the US involvement in forever wars?
Trump’s negatives are obvious and I cannot support him in 2024. But he realized two things. First, that while the Chamber of Commerce and the country club Republicans demanded an outsized role in setting party policy, they tended to give their financial support to the Democrats. Second, that working class men and women felt disenfranchised in a Democrat Psrty that cared more about college kids and corporate bosses than about them. Trump has remade the base of the GOP, and, to the dismay of Ann Coulter there is no going back.
lonejustice: "In case you missed it, Drago, Trump has endorsed McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House"
Trump often said what was necessary to present a united front in the heat of a campaign. This is not a revelation, nor should it surprise anyone.
And I dont have any problem with anyone saying they prefer a new standard bearer going forward. Thats what primaries are all about.
But right now there is no one on the GOP side, including DeSantis, that has indicated they are going to adopt a stronger economic nationalist position and really take on the ChiComs and the completely corrupted national security state and Davos crew outlook.
In fact, DeSantis' biggest backers are the most vocal proponents of those very things and DeSabtis said nothing about the Mar A Lago raid...and just wait until Garland/Biden/McConnell (yes, McConnell will give the greenlight) puts Trump in handcuffs and drags him before a Soviet DC "jury". DeSantis wont say boo about that either I'll wager.
Everyone is saying DeSantis will give us Trumpian policies without Trumpian drawbacks/weaknesses/downside.
Really?
DeSantis hasnt said a word about those jey issues....yet.
Until he does, its Trump (for better or worse) against all the rest, including DeSantis.
Bender: "We are indeed fortunate, nay blessed, to have had Trump seize the attention and narrative the last two weeks before the election to rally people."
The very time McConnell was pulling funding from republican candidates (a promise made to schumer), paying millions to Murkowski to attack Tshibaka, and having Rove run ads that helped Shapiro in PA against Mastriano.
So go ahead and reward McConnell for sticking a knife in the back of alot of our candidates. Along with the Luntz-directed McCarthy, I guess they've earned your support.
Just keep repeating: It's all Trump's fault and once he's gone all will be right with the world.
“We still have Obamacare because of the people that are attacking Trump right now.
He tried to do everything he promised. ”
Leaders lead… he insulted anybody that had the slightest difference with him. Not calculated to inspire a lot of loyalty.
Of course, the Trumper should have done what was best for the country. That is awesome advice…
Althouse blog Commissar (self-appointed):Again- Calls to indict Trump? GONE."
LOL
Who are you kidding? Once again, your complete obliviousness is a marvel! Run over to house organ National Review where Andy McCarthy is guaranteeing an indictment now, and naturally as an pure establishment apologist he remains very wired into Garlands DOJ.
Once again, even a minimal effort at trying to keep yourself informed would pay significant dividends.
Or dont. You didn't get to be you by accident.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
McConnell Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell Ryan McConnell RyanMcConnell Ryan
and... McConnell Ryan
This is your most cogent effort yet.
exhelodrvr1 said...
Achilles,
"Explain your path to victory without the Trump voters in Pennsylvania"
A lot of you don't seem to realize how many voters Trump has turned off with his "me-me-me" antics. If the "Trump voters" would put down their Trump-colored glasses, they would see that. Hopefully they will not be childish enough to let their Trump-fandom keep them from voting for what is best for the country. And hopefully Trump will realize that, as well.
Welp, I guess we just need to listen to the corporate moneybags and GOPe shitheads like Mitch.
We are the childish ones because we don't like Amnesty, Neocon wars, Free trade with China, Medicaid Part B and Romneycare.
We got all of that because of Republicans.
There is a reason Trump got 10 million more votes than any Republican in history in 2020.
You are the definition of a hypocrite. A childish boring hypocrite.
Well well well.
George W Bush (big DeSantis fanboy) and his very very good buddy Obama will appear together right after Trump's announcement on Tuesday to discuss "disinformation".
I'm certain that the Bush clan is very excited to be able to support DeSantis because they know we can get all those preferred Trump policies without the Trump baggage........(wink wink)
It's not hard to get around the 11th Commandment. You just have to do it right. It also helps if you delegate the job and don't get any fingerprints on it. What Trump's doing looks personal, petty, unprovoked and unprofessional. Trump, you have to build on your successes and give people a positive vision. You can't slag and dis your way to the nomination.
Ampersand said...
"He is on a trajectory of increasing desperation and nastiness that will push him out of the race and/or toward a futile third party effort that will inflict horrible damage on the country."
Yes, and he'll probably do it, because everything's about him. The Democratic candidate would get about 400 electoral votes. That'll show 'em!
Bender said...
How did I know that I would be accused of supporting Weasel Romney?
Wow total mystery. Let us think for 2 seconds why this might be?
In 2012 Mitt Romney sits back with a shit eating grin while millions of corporate dollars go into vicious smear campaigns in the media and ads against Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
In 2024 Ron Desanctimonious sits back with a shit eating grin while millions of corporate dollars and friendly Regime media attack Trump. The federal government sends the FBI to raid Trump's house and to harass dozens of his supporters and Ron says absolutely nothing about it.
I can't see any similarities at all.
Total mystery why people would think you are a raging hypocrite or a Romney 2.0 supporter.
I think the RED WAVE was just a myth propagated by the UNI-PARTY,Republicans and Democrats. It was designed to set-up Trump to be a loser, by the unholy alliance of
Red and Blue, when it didn't "happen".
However, more than 90% of the candidates Trump endorsed won their elections.
I believe DeSantis was approached by the Republican establishment thru his wife,who is very ambitious for her husband to become president,in an attempt to usurp Trump's position as leader of the party.
Nobody in the political establishment likes Trump.
He's nobody's boy, a free agent, who really believes in the Constitution and what it stands for. I could write more, who the rats are, Republican and Democrat, but why bother. You know who they are and what they are trying to do to our country. They have been doing it since FDR.
We're in a real pickle.
Aggie said...
IF all these supposed MAGA voters are changing their mind, will they be changing it enough to vote for a Democrat candidate then, in 2024? Is that how absolutely through they are, with the Donald? Interesting.
These are just Romney supporters sticking their heads up and bleating their stupidity again.
They are the same people that have been calling Zeldin and Walker and Oz terrible candidates and refusing to support them then blaming Trump for them losing.
They bitch and moan about low quality candidates and then they get mad when anything negative is pointed out about their heroes and bring up the 11th commandment as if it only applies to Trump supporters.
It is not just Romney and Mitch that act like democrats. Their supporters do too.
Inga said...
“Meade with the thread winner right off the bat.”
Did Meade delete himself?"
Apparently there are Meade posts that only the Know Nothings can see.
Trump was stabbed in the back by all the rest of his appointments, his worst failure.
So you’re saying Trump failed at his main job as President, selecting competent and loyal people to act on his behalf?
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
Again- Calls to indict Trump? GONE.
Dems learn fast they need him to stay.
Then there is what is actually happening.
The corporate media and the GOPe establishment are teaming up to trash Trump and blame him for Republicans winning the House and Senate.
This after the Republican party establishment openly stabbed candidates like Zeldin and Mastriano and Masters in the back.
You are just lying to yourself and trying to justify your stupidity.
If Trump is toxic but everyone loves his policies, then perhaps the GOPe/Establishment Republican crowd can seize the initiative by...I don't know...Stating clearly and unequivocally that they support the policies that Trump supporters want?
And actually working to advance those policies?
Is that so hard?
(Yes, it is. You take on the Establishment at your peril. Remember Newt Gingrich? He wasn't President. He put together a clear and unequivocal set of policies and told the American public that his congress would work to pass them. Quite successfully until the Establishment drove him out.)
So you’re saying Trump failed at his main job as President, selecting competent and loyal people to act on his behalf?
Prole, unlike you I think DC is a swamp full or snakes. Trump assumed the people he appointed were patriots. He was wrong. Competence has nothing to do with it. They were competent at what they wanted to do, which was not governing. Tillerson is an example. Like you, he hated Trump but did not disclose it in time.
She [Coulter] sounds “Twitter poisoned.”
Blogger lonejustice said...
Achilles wrote:
"Trump got 75 million votes in 2020 and showed you how to win in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan."
Yeah, and he lost the election and the popular vote to a senile, brain dead, drooling, left wing, sexual predator, socialist idiot. Congratulations Mr. Trump.
Yes, he lost the fraud race. Kari Lake seems to be losing a similar race with the fraudsters in Maricopa County AZ. Simply amazing that the voting machines in Republican suburbs of Phoenix quit election day morning while those in D districts near the universities worked perfectly.
What a mystery !
I started as a Trump skeptic, but once in office, he tuned me around. Trump accomplished more in his 1st term than any president in my lifetime (born 1951). Coulter seems bitter, mainly because Trump did not focus on the wall.
More from Ann Coulter
Trump assumed the people he appointed were patriots. He was wrong.
If he’s a bad judge of character he belongs in another line of work.
McConnell has been a known quantity for a long time.
If people staked things on him, that's on them. One thing he did not do is alienate voters and be a drag on the ballot. At worst, he was a non-entity. Maybe he didn't help, maybe he didn't give money to some weak candidates who didn't raise their own money and didn't have the appeal to voters to run a campaign on their own. But McConnell did not affirmatively hurt anyone.
Trump on Monday was all poised to claim credit for the outcome. Well, he gets it.
Earnest Prole: "So you’re saying Trump failed at his main job as President, selecting competent and loyal people to act on his behalf?"
I'll accept that....with this caveat: just how many knowledgeable and competent and experienced people were available to advance the policies the republican base and general election electorate selected in 2016?
5? 10? 15?
The few that Trump had that hit each of those marks was set up and removed by the deep staters with FULL and ENTHUSIASTIC support of the entire GOPe and GOP leadership....with no exceptions.
Bender - indeed.
Trump thinks he can win by name-calling. Oh look - Trump is flinging poo at actual winners.. Everyone is so impressed. Then send his shrinking fanbase of loyal minions to cast blame on anything that moves. 4-d chess with magical GOPeee be-evil blame sauce. Bad faith rear view mirror edition.
Hard to understand why Mastriano lost???
__________________________________________________
"On an otherwise disastrous night for Republicans, who were the biggest winners?
ANSWER: Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida and Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia -- the two Republicans Donald Trump hates with the hot, hot hate of a thousand suns.
Which Republicans most underperformed?
ANSWER: Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker in Georgia -- two nominees hand-picked by Trump.
The first horror of a long Tuesday night came soon after the polls closed in Pennsylvania, with the GOP gubernatorial nominee, Mastriano, getting clobbered. Some of the tipoffs that Mastriano might not have been the strongest candidate for the GOP were:
-- A week before the primary, he spoke at a QAnon rally, featuring a film claiming 9/11 was an inside job and that John F. Kennedy Jr. was assassinated because he “knew too much.”
-- He called abortion the “No. 1 issue” and promised to ban all abortions with no exceptions even for rape, incest or the life of the mother. He also said women who violated the ban should be charged with murder."
No worries- Trump will save us.
More reasons why Trump is a loser:
"In Georgia, we got both types of Trump’s electoral wizardry: the bad and the horrendously bad. First, after narrowly losing the state in 2020, he went on a jihad against the Republican governor, Brian Kemp, and secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger.
Still enraged with Kemp, he recruited and funded a primary opponent to the popular governor. Luckily, Trump’s designated candidate, former Sen. David Perdue, was available, having lost his own reelection to the Senate entirely because of Trump.
In case you’ve forgotten, Trump held rallies in Georgia leading up to the runoff between Perdue and Raphael Warnock, denouncing the popular Republican governor and telling people not to bother voting because the system was rigged. Warnock won and Perdue was unemployed, so Trump got him to run against Kemp.
Trump so hated Kemp that he finally dipped into his $100 million political PAC to fund something other than his own businesses and rallies, giving a half-million dollars to Perdue.
Primary election results: Kemp trounced Perdue 74% to 22%."
That is some serious F-uped ego trip. Trump will flush US down the crapper for his own ego.
more on the mighty super-smartz Captain Trumpie!
"On Tuesday night, Kemp and Raffensperger each won their elections by about 8 points. It’s reasonable to conclude that any other Republican would have beaten Warnock by the same healthy margin. Same state, same election, same political party.
Instead, the Georgia Senate race ended up being the most expensive in the country -- money that Republicans really could have used in other races. Walker, as of this writing, appears to be headed for a runoff. Trump is on track to screw that one up too, by announcing that he’s running for president, so Trump can make it all about himself again."
more...
When the Republican governor of the second-largest state wins his reelection by 55% and the Republican governor of the third-largest state wins by 60%, the GOP doesn’t need another one of its moronic “autopsies” of the party, promising to be just like the Democrats. The only thing we need now is an autopsy of Trump.
COPYRIGHT 2022 ANN COULTER
Bender: "If people staked things on him, that's on them. One thing he did not do is alienate voters and be a drag on the ballot."
LOL
Amazing.
McConnell literally spent millions of dollars Ttacking republicans, attacked them directly himself during the campaign, gave money to Rove to help dem Shapiro in PA, developed no national message for the republican candidates, and cut deals with Schumer to pull money from republicans.
Yeah, other than that McConnell was not a drag on the ticket.
I'll bet McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, Luntz, Ryan, Romney et al must be laughing their arses off at the republican base right now.
Anyone care to untangle this bit of "never heard before" cray cray?
The man baby at work:
@AnnCoulter
The BAD NEWS: Trump has made it clear that, if the Georgia GOP accepts help from Youngkin or DeSantis, he will refuse to support Walker in the runoff.
Or maybe that's good news.
Anyone telling Trump to shut up right now should shut up, never going to happen, Thank God!
Looks like the Nevada senate seat - and thus control of the Senate - has gone Dem.
So, now that the Senate is lost, and 218 GOP seats in the House are looking increasingly elusive, are you all looking forward to Tuesday when Trump announces that he's running for president again? Are you excited to hear him say, "Follow me to victory! Are you tired of winning yet?"
And the Fat Tub of Goo did it again.
In WA3, a district that was +14 GOP district the Trump endorsed primary challenger won the nomination. He is a vocal election denier and defender of J6.
The Democrat won the seat.
Not only has Trump’s Senate endorsement given the Senate to the Dems but come January Nancy Pelosi could be Speaker again.
Oh, and to all of you people getting on McConnell about funding Masters - Trump spent more money trying defeat Republican incumbents in Georgia primaries than he did to get his endorsees elected.
Oh, a post election poll came out today and Republicans now support DeSantis over Trump by a 42% to 30% margin.
The Fat Tub of Goo should consider using his big announcement on Tuesday to inform the world that he is stepping away from politics.
Phil 314 said...
Achilles said:
“ Team GOPe is the problem here, Not Trump.
You Never Trumpers are just hypocrites. You are attacking Republicans.
Go look in a mirror and be honest about what you are doing.”
You do see the irony of this statement don’t you?
Who attacked first Phil?
Be honest.
It is always the Romney/Bush GOPe that starts this shit. Just because Ron Desanctimonious is letting other people do the work for him just makes him a coward like Romney was in 2012.
Time to fire the coach.
Coulter is always too quick to endorse, quick to embrace and too quick to dismiss.
Wasn't she a big Christie fan for a hot minute?
Achilles tells us that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are 'toast'.
It's hilarious that he doesn't realize Ryan left office in 2019. Almost as good as when he told us now that Musk owns Twitter he would start watching their stock ticker.
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present you the Own-goal King of Althouse Blog, Achilles!
Ann Coulter became a "One-Note Annie" during DJT's term. "The Wall, the wall, the wall." STFU Ann.
Marcus B. THEOLDMAN
The GOP teamed up with the Democrats and media to destroy Trump. Now they are blaming him for THEIR failures. The mid-term results are not the fault of Trump. This is all on the GOP leadership. The voters made their selections in the primaries. It matters not whether Trump endorsed them or not. It was then the GOP's responsibility to support those candidates. They refused to do so and in some cases actively worked against them. They joined with the media in vilifying Herschel Walker and only now, when it's too late, are they giving him any support. There is no way he will win the run-off. Fulton County, Georgia cheat-machine will not allow it.
McConnell poured money into Alaska to support Murkowski instead of putting money into the Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Colorado, New York, or Pennsylvania senate races. His actions in the mid-terms may have just destroyed the GOP's chances for the Presidency in 2024. Conservatives are tired of voting and then having the GOP tell us "We didn't like your selection, so we will not put any support in that race". Conservatives are tired of watching the democrats use fraud in counting the ballots while the GOP leadership sits back and watches. (And yes, they was just as much fraud in this election as there was in 2020).
No. They can't blame Trump for their failures.
The GOP and Democrats teamed up to either harm each and everyone of those Trump hired or appointed, or enticed them into working against Trump. Remember what they did to General Flynn? And, when Covid came along Dr. Fauci gave him awful recommendations which at first everyone trusted because he was supposed to be a respected public health official with experience and knowledge in the field. Birx even admitted she lied to Trump and the people about the vaccine.
And of course, the biggest thing was the Obama administration, DOJ, FBI, and CIA working with Hillary Clinton to damage his presidency with the Russian collusion criminal conspiracy. All without repercussion.
After working to destroy Trump, the media, Democrats, and republicans are blaming him for the GOP's failures. It's much like a spouse-abuser blaming their victim for running into their fist.
"A lot of people are banned from Powerline."
I'm one of those. I was banned for appending the initials "FJB" at the end of a comment. Immediately permanently banned. Two days later, on "This Week in Pictures" one of the memes was a picture of a gas pump with the initials "F" "J" and "B" in the spots where "89, 94 or 96" octane designation is normally indicated.
Those writers are all those "principled conservatives" who think conserving conservatism was voting for Romney/Bush types. Prior to the 2020 election, they even believed Biden was "moderate". They also breathlessly repeated every single Trump/Russian collusion story as if it was the sworn truth and the accusation wouldn't be there if there was clear evidence. LOL
"If given his druthers, it sounds like he would have done what DeSantis did in Florida."
Trump didn't have any druthers left. His druthers were part of the Foxfonn deal. That's how much Trump loves you! Trump loves you to the very last druther! And now you will abandon him for Ron DeSanctimonious!
"Anyone care to untangle this bit of "never heard before" cray cray?"
Honestly, the simplest explanation is that he is on drugs. 🤷♂️. Or, maybe he is just Corn Pop Crazy like goofy Uncle Joe?
Know Nothings in disarray.
"In WA3, a district that was +14 GOP district the Trump endorsed primary challenger won the nomination. He is a vocal election denier and defender of J6."
He endorsed him because Jaime Herrera-Beutler voted to impeach Trump and got her ass rightfully primaried.
If you want to support members of Congress who vote to impeach - on the most dubious of charges - a past-President of his/her own party? That's on you.
Not me. Not Trump.
Not on anybody who's paying attention to what's going on.
If you want to make a point, AMDG?
Fat tub of Goo probably isn't your best starting point.
Two? Don't base your arguments against Trump on Washington state politics unless you've actually worked 'em.
Don't be Vicky from Pasadena.
lonejustice said...
wendybar said: "Shut up and go away Ann...nobody cares what you think."
Well, she has more than 2 million followers on Twitter, so there must be lot of people who care what she thinks. How many followers do you have, wendybar?
11/12/22, 11:10 AM
None, because I don't need followers and am not on any social media. I don't even have a cell phone. But I have heard and seen Ann Coulter dump on every single person she has ever endorsed, so there is that. If people are dumb enough to follow her, that's on THEM.
She supported him on one issue: Immigration. He didn't build the wall & she was done with him.
"...really believes in the Constitution and what it stands for."
We need to re-do the election! Yeah, real Constitutional scholar there.
Bender: "So, now that the Senate is lost, and 218 GOP seats in the House are looking increasingly elusive, are you all looking forward to Tuesday when Trump announces that he's running for president again? Are you excited to hear him say, "Follow me to victory! Are you tired of winning yet?"'
Show me the viable republican candidate who supports the economic nationalist policies that Trump fought for as President including direct economic engagement against the ChiComs, is willing to truly take on the entrenched establishment/deep state, calls out Biden/Garland for their weaponization of the entire federal bureaucracy against political opponents, calls for reshoring US businesses that are critical to our national security, energy independence, changing our military force focus to a potential ChiCom engagement instead of the Middle East/Eastern Europe Forever Grift Wars, complete the wall and get after the cartels and ChiCom fentanol you get the drift.
Go ahead Bender. Name them...and yes, I'm including DeSantis in my "hasn't done it at all" column.
You could almost say that the "more" DeSantis DOESN'T talk about those things, the more DeSantis emphasizes the culture war issues....which his funders don't much care for anyway.
But then again, you appear to be a defender of and supporter of the McFailures/Romney-clones running the party who in the last 2 years alone gave the republicans the following (democratical) wins:
- A Gun control bill(!)
- Biden's "infrastructure" bill
- Classic republican DC-beltway "failure theatre" in caving to Biden/Schumer on reconciliation (but you and I both know it wasn't a failure, it was what McConnell wanted)
- Sending Lindsay Graham out in September, gee that was curious timing wasn't it, to call for Federal legislation on abortion....right after the conservatives won a generational war to get the issue returned to the states (do you really think this wasn't done at the behest of McConnell to have the democraticals another weapon to purposely lose the Senate?)
- Funding democraticals (don't tell me Murkowski isn't one) with GOP money to attack republicans
I could go on, but you get the drift. Yes indeed, if only we get rid of Trump we can have "Trump's policies without the Trump problems!!".
Except no one out there is pushing for "Trump policies without the Trump problems". Including DeSantis who is being heavily funded and supported by ALL the folks who opposed Trump economic polices.
You want me to consider an alternative to Trump that can better fight for those policies I support?
Show me one.
Trump did what I thought he was going to do early on. While he did some good things around the margins - he ultimately aided the left's power to take more power.
If you cannot grasp that people hate this man - and why? I cannot help you. Enjoy the suck.
are you all looking forward to Tuesday when Trump announces that he's running for president again? Are you excited to hear him say, "Follow me to victory! Are you tired of winning yet?"
I notice Drago that in all of that long screed, you don't answer "yes."
By the way, about this Romney thing, I looked back at posts in 2011-12. Didn't see any comments from Achilles and you didn't jump out either. But if you look, you'll see Bender was repeatedly and constantly and heatedly urging people not to nominate Romney (so was Crack, but only a few others), that he was (and is) a complete weasel, that he was a disaster and a drag on the party -- and I was attacked for it. With arguments very similar to yours here now, that Romney was great and a leader, etc. "He's a successful businessman! He saved the Olympics!"
Save us your whining now.
Bender: "I notice Drago that in all of that long screed, you don't answer "yes.""
I am neutral on every potential candidate for 2024. If Trump declares then I know what he represents and I'll compare and contrast him against any others that declare as well.
What I know right now is what I wrote in my "long screed".
I noticed in your short screed that you failed to answer my question: which other candidate represents someone who will fight for those policies that Trump has pushed and can give us those without the Trump downside?
So go ahead: name someone and then tell my why you trust them to "deliver Trump policies without the Trump baggage".
Since no one has done that yet despite much urging, I'm going to assume there isn't anyone worth mentioning.
Althouse Blog Commissar (self-appointed): "If you cannot grasp that people hate this man - and why? I cannot help you. Enjoy the suck."
I certainly grasp that you hate Trump.
But that doesn't convince me that any other candidate can defeat Trump in a 2024 primary, and you've certainly provided no evidence on that front either. But then, you spend most of your time NOT knowing things.
It's kind of like your "super power".
Bender: "Save us your whining now."
No, I don't believe I will cease saying negative things about Romney now. Despite how much you might like for me to do just that.
Drago
(Trump) "calls out Biden/Garland for their weaponization (sic) of the entire federal bureaucracy against political opponents"
"Trump Wanted I.R.S. Investigations of Foes, Top Aide Says"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/politics/trump-irs-investigations.html
Drago -we all grasp why you LOVE Trump.
Mutaman: ""Trump Wanted I.R.S. Investigations of Foes, Top Aide Says"'
After 7 years of russia collusion and about 30 other debunked democratical/deep stater lies, I'm going to need to see some documentary proof of your latest smear.
Naturally, your link to the NYT, the biggest pusher of debunked hoaxes for decades all the way back to Walter Duranty and his Soviet-Suckiness, forgive me if I don't take your accusations at face value.
Now, what we DO have is the documentary evidence of the complete weaponization of the federal bureaucracy against political enemies by the New Soviet Democraticals going all the way back to the Tea Party being targeted by the IRS up to today with Team Dem going after parents at school boards.
Nice try though.
Althouse Blog Commissar (self-appointed): "Drago -we all grasp why you LOVE Trump."
It's a real sign of insecurity and general weakness that you keep using the royal "we" in a vain attempt to add some degree of legitimacy to your observations.
Have you always done that in life? Have you never ventured out on your own?
A good time to start would be right now.
Althouse Blog Commissar (self-appointed): "Drago -we all grasp why you LOVE Trump."
Oddly enough, I am fond of a politician who fought for most of the things I believe in.
Which explains your support for the McFailures of the republican party. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
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