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We need immigration, not Trump, at the debate

August 24, 2023/10 Comments/in Featured Articles/by Ann Coulter

WE NEED IMMIGRATION, NOT TRUMP, AT THE DEBATE

Donald Trump, the least self-aware person in the country, at least seems to know that he’s a terrible debater. He has the vocabulary of a kindergartener, strings words together in combinations that aren’t recognizable as English and has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about most of the time. His sole objective when he begins a sentence is to get to the end of the sentence.

      So why did he crush all the debate insta-polls in 2016?

First of all, Jeb! needed a billion more exclamation points. But more important, Trump had something no other candidate had: He took the popular position on immigration.

You forget this now because — post Trump — nearly all Republicans pretend to take America’s side on immigration. Even Trump pretends to take America’s side! (Luckily, he didn’t keep any of his immigration promises, so he’s free to reissue them.)

Even Mr. Open Borders, Gov. Chris Christie, who gave in-state tuition to illegals and directed his Senate appointee, Jeff Chiesa, to vote for amnesty, now resignedly says of Trump’s nonexistent wall: “Look, at this point, I think we’ve started to build it; let’s finish it.”

Gee, thanks.

Until Trump’s 2016 campaign, the standard Republican mantra on immigration required these four points and no others:

1. Cite your immigrant relatives.

TED CRUZ: “I am the son of an Irish-Italian mom and a Cuban immigrant dad.” (And a feral badger.)

MARCO RUBIO: “My family’s immigrants. My neighbors are all immigrants. My in-laws are all immigrants.”

2. Claim you will “secure the border.”

SCOTT WALKER: “I believe we need to secure the border. I’ve been to the border!”

CHRIS CHRISTIE: “What we need to do is to secure our border.”

3. Say walls don’t work.

JEB BUSH: “To build a wall, and to deport people … it would destroy community life, it would tear families apart.”

RUBIO: “I also believe we need a fence. The problem is if El Chapo builds a tunnel under the fence …”

4. Propose a bunch of B.S. solutions that definitely won’t work.

CARLY FIORINA: “Look, we know what it takes to secure a border. We’ve heard a lot of great ideas here: money, manpower, technology …”

CHRISTIE: “We need to use electronics, we need to use drones, we need to use FBI, DEA and ATF …”

What would any of those accomplish, exactly? These politicians say a wall is cruel, but they’re going to direct troops to shoot illegals? Have the drones drop bombs them? Will we use “electronics” to amuse ourselves with videos of illegals as they pour across our border?

The media try to dismiss Gov. Ron DeSantis as another Scott Walker, but I distinctly recall breaking things during Walker’s presidential announcement because he didn’t say one word about immigration. (On the other hand, he did propose a slew of new military interventions!)

Jeb!’s presidential announcement also had nothing about immigration (unless you include a boring digression about his wife being Mexican). A year earlier, he’d said on Fox News that illegal immigrants had not committed a felony, but “an act of love.” (The roar of applause from The Wall Street Journal could be heard for miles.)

Rubio only glancingly mentioned immigration in his announcement, buried in a list of other needed reforms. His main point was that “Cuban exiles … former slaves and refugees … together built the freest and most prosperous nation ever!” (What British and Dutch settlers? Never heard of ’em.)

This was a striking omission inasmuch as Rubio had won his Senate race vowing never to support amnesty, then spent his first two years in office pushing amnesty, which won him a pat on the head from Fox magnate Rupert Murdoch. Fox News rewarded him at the first GOP debate in 2015 by not asking him a single question about immigration, despite this massive betrayal.

After the debate, Murdoch tweeted: “Bush [and] others did well, perhaps Rubio best of all,” while Trump spoke “nonsense” on immigration.

As you will recall, Jeb! dropped out after the second primary, having won only four more delegates than I did; Rubio lost his own state, and Trump went on to win more primary votes than any Republican in history. (Totally upsetting my worldview. If an Australian billionaire doesn’t have his finger on the pulse of the American voter, nothing makes sense anymore — up is down, cold is hot, liquid is solid, black is white …)

The crucial point is Trump wasn’t a dazzling debater — the man can barely talk. His ace in the hole was to take America’s side on immigration — something voters had been politely requesting for 50 years. He said he’d build a wall, end anchor babies, deport all illegals and on and on.

His immigration positions were steroids in a race where all his competitors had vowed to be steroid-free. And then, like every other politician who’s ever promised to “secure the border,” Trump betrayed us. Now, he’s just another lying politician.

I guess we’re about to find out which of the current candidates are smart enough to take the steroids this time.

     COPYRIGHT 2023 ANN COULTE

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10 replies
  1. James Clayton
    James Clayton says:
    August 24, 2023 at 10:14 am

    Ann Coulter is excellent comic relief except on Trump which is depressing. Our Democracy is a dark reflection of the quality of the electorate. James Edwards at the AmRen conference is at least a good happy pill on the present.

    https://www.amren.com/news/2023/08/biden-quietly-sells-off-border-wall-parts-to-thwart-gop-push-to-use-them/

    Biden Quietly Sells Off Border Wall Parts to Thwart GOP Push to Use ThemNew York Post
    “Leaving the border open to terrorists while selling border security materials at a loss is Bidenomics in a nutshell.”

    https://www.amren.com/news/2023/08/biden-quietly-sells-off-border-wall-parts-to-thwart-gop-push-to-use-them/
    New York Post re-posted by AmRen August 22, 2023
    Biden Quietly Sells Off Border Wall Parts to Thwart GOP Push to Use Them
    “Leaving the border open to terrorists while selling border security materials at a loss is Bidenomics in a nutshell.”

  2. WCH
    WCH says:
    August 24, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    It doesn’t matter who the President is because the politicians don’t represent the citizens. The oligarchs own and operate the US. Blackrock, Vanguard, Statestreet give orders to the CIA and the state department, ie Nuland etc. The banksters legalized corruption a long time ago.

  3. Captainchaos
    Captainchaos says:
    August 24, 2023 at 2:32 pm

    Tucker Calrson and Ann Coulter despise Trump because he destabilizes the system and thus makes their seats on the controlled-opposition gravy train less secure. They don’t say “Red State secession,” they say “vote Republican.” If you are reading this blog in the first place you’ve probably already come to the conclusion that voting Republican is about as effective as trying to get boomers to give a shit about anything but muh pension. That is to say, not effective at all. If you want something effective for a change you should voice your support for Red State secession. Otherwise you should just go watch Fox News.

  4. Some Visitor
    Some Visitor says:
    August 24, 2023 at 3:36 pm

    As a German, one stands by in amazement, this multicompatible artificial language called “English”, which is named after a German peninsula in Schleswig Holstein, enables a Congolese to “communicate” with a Taiwanese without any problems, while a Frisian cannot understand a Swabian. A particularly aberrant legacy of world history shows here its pitiless grimace.

  5. Some Visitor
    Some Visitor says:
    August 24, 2023 at 3:50 pm

    If only we had bombed the perverted pig Churchill and his Jewish backers into the ground, Europe would have remained white for the next 1000 years. But the backwoods Austrian Hitler was an anglophile moron. A mistake, which one commits as a race in the world history only once.

    • Some Visitor
      Some Visitor says:
      August 25, 2023 at 2:00 pm

      Some interesting stuff

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2857524/Does-Richard-III-s-DNA-question-Queen-s-right-throne-Analysis-reveals-relative-monarch-conceived-wedlock.html

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3220982/Royal-connection-Donald-Trump-distant-cousin-notorious-Richard-III-revealed-s-related-Hillary-Clinton.html

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9384607/Why-does-dislike-Britain-much.html

      https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/30/aristocratic-ineptitude-ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-europe-vaccines-pandemic-response/

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2726735/REVEALED-Penniless-German-immigrant-great-great-grandfather-Nigel-Farage-He-famously-no-nonsense-stance-migrants-Ukip-chief-no-idea-ancestor.html

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2611172/Who-Mrs-Farage-How-German-born-Kirsten-kept-low-profile-despite-claims-husbands-womanising.html

      http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/was-baldur-von-schirach-a-spy.86637/

      https://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=WallStHitler&C=8.0

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly5hNFgJvUQ
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqI2M4jBliM

  6. Marcus Baskett
    Marcus Baskett says:
    August 24, 2023 at 4:35 pm

    Bad can be So bad that one doesn’t even have to know the results or purpose of the intentions and/or contention to see that it is indeed Bad. Ann Coulters attempts to pass for clever writing is embarrassingly subpar. I can’t even get through the whole thing bc of it’s woeful lack of texture and it’s awkward fakery. Go do something else Ann. You’re way off base.

  7. Some Visitor
    Some Visitor says:
    August 24, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    One must imagine, what cursed pigs these isle apes are! The Americans bombed Germany (that is, the civilian homeland abandoned by all men in the war) during the day, the island monkeys, cowardly pigs as they are and always have been, only at night. “Count” Zuckerman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solly_Zuckerman,_Baron_Zuckerman

    Then they drop their incendiary bombs on the civilian cityscape. Everything destroyed. People, houses, books. And now these bastards boast of being “heroes”! They should fucking die on their colonial negroism! And woe betide them if they turn to our “Aryan brotherhood” once again in world history! No, “buddies”, you will now get your damn deserved punishment for all this! Ihr sollt verrecken allesamt! And we clap and laugh our heads off!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVunLG9UpA

    • Some Visitor
      Some Visitor says:
      August 25, 2023 at 11:56 am

      This young man is right with the suggestion that the British wanted to get rid of the annoying German competition on the European mainland once and for all with their underhanded bombing terror. Consider not only the irreplaceable loss of all the beautiful and unique architecture, but also its entire contents.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqp7XJoQxjs

      If, for example, 60 or 80 percent of a city was destroyed, then all the art objects, valuables, oil paintings, etc. would also be destroyed. The fact that any of it still exists is no real consolation, but creates even more wistfulness and bitterness. It also meant the erasure of the collective memory.

  8. jay
    jay says:
    August 29, 2023 at 1:28 pm

    Well Ann, good luck trying to make these retarded morons in the red state i live in see that

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