Should it be Trump or DeSantis in 2024?

Should it be Trump or DeSantis in 2024? The answer lies in these four words: Form Always Follows Function. For example, if you’re shopping for a new vehicle, you must consider where the vehicle will typically be driven and for what purpose. If you would buy a new rifle, you must consider what you plan to shoot with it. The form must be matched to serve the function.

A classy Corvette wouldn’t be a good choice in the northern mountains. Given the likelihood of blizzards and rocky back roads, a four-wheel-drive pickup will suit you better. Sure, they aren’t as classy looking and don’t get good mileage, but they are many times over more likely to get you where you need to go.

In a story about elephant hunting, the hunter reported that the tracks he followed were two feet wide. Think of a large tree, two feet in diameter, thumping down every elephant step! That trusty deer rifle wouldn’t do if you’re planning to hunt elephants. Elephant-hunting merits the biggest caliber you can find. Sure, that ammunition is very expensive, and your shoulder will remember the kick. But an elephant at 30 feet dictates a powerful gun. Form always follows function.

Apply those two examples to managing a functional society. What do we mean by a functioning society? Instinctively, we know what that implies for us. It works smoothly and allows every individual citizen to pursue his happiness. These values are expressed in our Declaration of Independence (the sacredness of individual lives and the liberty that allows everyone to fulfill their potential), and the Bill of Rights in the Constitution (matching the laws of nature and of nature’s creator). A functional society rests on the individual family unit, which is the cornerstone and model of society. Individuals contribute responsibly what they

“The more Trump was visible, the more people hated him.”

Trump received more votes in 2020 than in 2016.
From memory....Trump rec’d more votes than ANYBODY to date, except....Biden.

Biden was sworn in due to the Soros, Facebook, Wall Street funded vote fraud in a dozen+/- counties in just 4-5 states...and complete control of DC and it’s apparatchiks.

It was a well thought out and well executed combined arms operation made possible by complete on-”air superiority” and a relentless propaganda campaign.

Biden is a total life loser. A vacuous spear carrying empty suit...never center stage....never an original thought..lies when his lips move...a punchline even among the Left.

He did not even campaign and received 81mm votes? Really?

Trump did not lose because he “was” hated by the voters.
He is loved. He turns out more people than a Beatles reunion....even if the two dead ones showed up.

He was not installed because the DC Imperium hate him.

Trump would not go to guns and they ran him out of town.

DeSantis is a handsome FL Quarterback. Quick. Fast. Loved. Decisive. Like a QB, he can win a fight verbal or physical in any college bar near a FL campus....BUT, he is not indestructible like the NYC cut-nut billionaire that never gives up and does not give a crap anymore.

Good bold management can no longer save us.

We need a ruthless pissed off head chopping war leader.

I would rather have someone more effective, but Trump at 76 is the best we got....a shame Musk is not natural born.

I just hope Trump learned that without dropping bridges and coms into DC and running the Reformation through a new Constantinople and not the old Rome....the Republic falls.

Small consolation that soon thereafter the rotted currency debased Empire that the Sodomites created, collapses as well.

But heck. What do I know? And I do not feel that strongly about anyway.

Thank you for referencing that article SoConPubbie. Please note that the following critique is directed at Edward Mike article and not at you.

Respectfully to Mr. Mike, he is evidently another journalist that was probably never taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.

From related thread...

Patriots are reminded that, regardless that pro-unconstitutionally big federal government FN wants everybody to believe that the Oval Office is the most powerful peacetime office in the land, the Founding States had intended for state governors offices to have the lion's share of government powers to serve the people, not the feds.

"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States [emphasis added] wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc." —Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1807.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation, which embrace every thing in the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government [emphasis added]. Inspection laws, quarantine laws, and health laws, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, and others, which respect roads, fences, &c. are component parts of state legislation, resulting from the residuary powers of state sovereignty. No direct power over these is given to congress, and consequently they remain subject to state legislation, though they may be controlled by congress, when they interfere with their acknowledged powers." —Justice Joseph Story, Article I, Section 10, Clause 2, 1833.
From the congressional record, clarification by Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

The bottom line about serving the needs of the people is this imo. The idea of DeSantis, or any governor who has proved up to the job of making a state thrive with vast 10th Amendment powers, then getting elected to Oval Office to make the nation thrive under constitutionally limited (think about that) federal government powers, is pure Hollywood escapism imo.

Again, governor's offices are the best place for anybody who is up to serving the most people that they can under the Constitution imo.

So DeSantis should be happy with governor's office imo.

In the meanwhile, "street fighter" Trump 47 needs to not only finish draining the swamp, but also make Congress surrender state powers that the feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.

Once unconstitutional, unaccountable federal taxes are stopped, many crook politicians will loose interest in getting elected to DC imo.

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