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Ann Coulter is back to promoting Donald Trump. This can only mean she saw dollar signs as she has no morality or conscience.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-06-03T00:48:10.489Z
3catwoman3
(29,910 posts)For many reasons.
pat_k
(14,121 posts)How the hell would a person have more than four grandparents? (given that they are so into strict nuclear families and biological parentage and all).
applegrove
(133,350 posts)But I know what you mean.
Wednesdays
(23,280 posts)applegrove
(133,350 posts)Chemical Bill
(3,227 posts)use the word logic when talking about Ann Coulter.
applegrove
(133,350 posts)sop
(19,569 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(15,215 posts)Bluetus
(3,174 posts)But I finally figured it out.
pat_k
(14,121 posts)GiqueCee
(4,905 posts)I've never forgotten about it, and I've mentioned I've many times, but I had forgotten that Willie performed it. I recall reading that it was first performed by some comedy duo in 1947, which, incidentally, was the year I was born!
mwmisses4289
(4,880 posts)had grandparents born in the in the late 1800s. And mortality rates being what they were, it's not impossible for one or more of the grandparents to have married more than once.
pat_k
(14,121 posts)They are obsessed with proofs; obsessed with biological heritage. God forbid you change a last name. For them, these theoretical voters would have to produce proof of four grandparents having been born in the United States. Specifically:
Person X's birth certificate with both father and mother named.
X's father's birth certificate, with their father (X's paternal grandfather) and mother (X's paternal grandmother) named.
X's mother's birth certificate, with their father (X's maternal grandfather) and mother (X's maternal grandmother) named.
Birth certificates for each of the following to prove they were born here:
X's named paternal grandfather
X's named paternal grandmother
X's named maternal grandfather
X's named maternal grandmother
Of the 56% of American's who self-identify as third-generation U.S. Citizens I would guess that at most, 10% could produce proofs that would satisfy Ms. Coulter and her ilk.
But that is apparently her dream nation, one where only third-generation people who can prove it can vote.
mwmisses4289
(4,880 posts)and logic to a nonsensical comment by a rwnj. I wonder, if she looked at her family tree, would she find all her grandparents had been born here in America? And how loudly would she screech if she found they hadn't?
oldsoldierfadingfast
(428 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 4, 2026, 03:35 PM - Edit history (1)
was born in 1858 (per 1870 census) and I was born in 1940. Grandma was second ( and younger) wife. There are some grandkids younger than I, still living. Almost all of my grand-parents going back to late 1700s were born here.
haele
(15,653 posts)Married twice, the second to a much, much younger woman in the 1844 - with whom he had 7 kids, including a daughter the year before he died when he was 70 (the old traitorous Confederate bastard).
His 11th or so child Lyon Gardner Tyler (born 1852, died 1935) and he also married twice - a second time in 1923, and had amongst his 8 kids, a son while in his mid 60's - Harrison Ruffin Tyler, (born 1968, died 2025), the oldest grandchild of a President.
Harrison might have barely known his father, likewise his father probably barely knew the former President, but that definitely is one longest 3 generational spans out there.
Progressive dog
(7,626 posts)would make sense, or just four grandparents. She probably gets paid for each word.
pat_k
(14,121 posts)They are obsessed with proofs; obsessed with "bloodline" and biological heritage. God forbid you change a last name.
Just imagine how far they could limit the franchise if they decided you had to produce birth certificates proving your status as a third-generation 'Merican?
Person X's birth certificate with both father and mother named.
Matching birth certificate for X's father, with their father (X's paternal grandfather) and mother (X's paternal grandmother) named.
Matching birth certificate for X's mother, with their father (X's maternal grandfather) and mother (X's maternal grandmother) named.
Matching birth certificates for each of the following to prove they were born here:
X's named paternal grandfather
X's named paternal grandmother
X's named maternal grandfather
X's named maternal grandmother
Of the 56% of American's who self-identify as third-generation U.S. Citizens I would guess that at most -- and this is probably a stretch -- 20% (or about 11% of adult citizens) could produce proofs that would satisfy Ms. Coulter and her ilk.
It's my understanding that the federal government and Native American tribes have extensive and accurate record-keeping, so, presumably they'd have no trouble providing proofs (unless the "this is a White Christian homeland" wingnuts somehow disallowed).
Of course, as usual, African Americans would be disproportionately disenfranchised by Jim Crow segregation and discriminatory hospital policies that left many with no "official" certificate for home births.
Trueblue1968
(19,346 posts)Solly Mack
(97,332 posts)I have 4 grandparents (great grandparents, great-great grandparents, great-great-great-grandparents, etc.) born in America or on the soil that would become America and I wouldn't vote for him.
wnylib
(26,635 posts)One was born in Germany and came here with her parents and siblings when she was 4 years old. But since she came from the same country as 2 of the orange snowflake's grandparents, maybe that makes me American enough to vote. One grandparent made it just under the wire. He was born here two weeks after his parents arrived.
But my other two grandparents trace back to colonial MA and CT, with Revolutionary War vets among their ancestors, so maybe that gives me extra American points? In fact, those two also trace back to Indigenous people already here when Europeans arrived. Can't get much more American than that.
But I would never vote for the orange snowfkake and I am sure that none of my grandparents would have either.
Solly Mack
(97,332 posts)so jealous. Still didn't qualify.
The white ancestors came from Ireland and England early on. The black ancestors came as slaves.
I've always felt more like a citizen of the world.
wnylib
(26,635 posts)who I I have long suspected were born in Canada, but never found records to verify it. Now that Canada has opened up its citizenship to descendants, I am researching that line very closely again.
Solly Mack
(97,332 posts)Thanks!
wnylib
(26,635 posts)UpInArms
(55,502 posts)go back to the Revolutionary War.
TFG is a carpetbagger
Maeve
(43,510 posts)Neither of us have or would vote for that thing infesting the White House
lonely bird
(3,068 posts)Dads side was 1700s. Moms was supposedly second boat at Plymouth.
Solly Mack
(97,332 posts)grandparents. Doesn't make anyone more American. I don't feel more American than a person who was naturalized. I probably take it more for granted than they ever will.
But she wasn't going for logic, she was going for the anti-immigrant sentiment. Her "logic" does exactly what was stated - stops Trump and all of his kids from voting because none of them have 4 American-born grandparents. Neither does Ted Cruz nor Marco Rubio.
Trump is full of shit and hate. So is Coulter.
lonely bird
(3,068 posts)The damage done by the Offal in the Oval (credit to Shower Caps Blog) to the country may never be undone.
I knew not to vote for him because he was a piece of excrement before he ran.
Solly Mack
(97,332 posts)Even in death. They'll just be burying a pile of shit. A cat could do it.
Wednesdays
(23,280 posts)"If black people didn't vote, Dubya would have won in a landslide."
yardwork
(69,778 posts)And so could my Latina wife, and so could most African Americans.
This is probably objectively incorrect, in addition to being bigoted.
pat_k
(14,121 posts)I imagine I could cook up all sorts of interesting -- and FAR MORE ATTRACTIVE -- outcomes that would result from targeting and disappearing this or that 45% of the citizens of the United States.
Cause that's what she's doing. Declaring "gee, it would be great if 45% of the citizens of this nation just f-ing disappeared."
Evil, bizarre, deranged thinking.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/4621/majority-americans-identify-themselves-third-generation-americans.aspx
eppur_se_muova
(42,680 posts)pat_k
(14,121 posts)Figarosmom
(13,963 posts)Maybe it's a slur?
Ol Janx Spirit
(1,101 posts)...were born in America and how abjectly stupid you are.
We should probably add that question to job applications or something.
BadgerMom
(3,445 posts)sop
(19,569 posts)DFW
(60,551 posts)Four of my grandparents were indeed born in the USA.
The other four were born in Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Belize and Zambia at the end of the 19th century.
Extra points to anyone who can find the borders of any of those four countries on any 19th century map.
Maraya1969
(23,600 posts)Skittles
(173,279 posts)Emile
(43,649 posts)sunflowerseed
(526 posts)Heck let's make it 10 born here grandparents!!
spanone
(142,123 posts)GiqueCee
(4,905 posts)... always find a way to plumb new depths of assholery.
ms liberty
(11,406 posts)I hate stupidity.
sop
(19,569 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(182,946 posts)sop
(19,569 posts)Joinfortmill
(21,786 posts)popsdenver
(2,709 posts)to celebrate the group of people, and their ancestors, that were responsible for the extreme GENOCIDE of the Native Americans in the U.S..................historians estimated that these "immigrants" AND THEIR GOVERNMENT, were directly responsible for murdering 30-60 MILLION of the TRUE American Indigenous Native Americans, and stealing their land......
Not something I would brag about................
Martin68
(28,133 posts)For those who are not familiar with irony, I am responding to her wording "at least" 4 grandparents.
blue_jay
(299 posts)would not be approved of, especially anyone who may have left Europe sensing the incoming fascistic tendencies perhaps? This would mean their parents wouldn't be approved of either because they clearly came from somewhere else too.
MustLoveBeagles
(17,753 posts)I never trusted her supposed "conversion". I don't think she apologized to the 911 widows she slandered on the Today Show. It'll be the twentyeth anniversary of that on Saturday. I'm sure the clip is on YouTube. F her.
mdbl
(8,830 posts)She has to get her brain dirty again.