Guest Post by Ann Coulter
The media are so desperate for Republicans to nominate Donald Trump that they’ve turned over 96.7% of their programming to covering him, with brief interruptions for Emmett Till updates. Like dogs playing a game of fetch for eternity, they never tire of rehashing Trump’s legal troubles, his behavior on Jan. 6 (which has now been more investigated than the Kennedy assassination), his payment to a stripper, his call to election officials in Georgia and on and on and on.
It has become clear that the media also plan to make the GOP presidential primaries entirely about Trump. Every Republican running for president is required to spend half of any interview answering questions about the former president. Even when they’re not saying anything at all about him, somehow the media make it about Trump.
E.g.:
Ron DeSantis gives a speech in South Carolina not mentioning Trump.
Headline: “Ron DeSantis says little about Trump indictment; decries unequal justice and ‘weaponization‘” — USA Today
Mike Pence announces he’s running for president.
Headline: “Pence Delivers Strong Rebuke to Trump in Campaign Announcement” — New York Times
Nikki Haley attacks Trump.
Headline: “Nikki Haley accused of ‘MAGA agenda’ after supporting abortion restrictions in town hall” — The Guardian
Candidates who aren’t talking about Trump are attacked for “enabling” him. MSNBC’s totally objective, nonpartisan anchor (and former Biden press secretary) Jen Psaki denounced Republicans on Monday, complaining that, unless they’re constantly berating him, “they are effectively enabling a guy who led an attempted coup. And for what? To maybe win a handful of delegates?”
Republicans, forget the pledge to support the party’s nominee. It’s pointless, irrelevant, stupid and openly defied, as it was in 2016 by Jeb! and John Kasich. The pledge we need candidates to take is this: We jointly refuse to answer any more questions about Trump. All of you, except Chris Christie.
Do you really think the media are trying to help you with this endless focus on Trump? They’re putting Republicans in a no-win situation: Either the candidates are forced to take an utterly indefensible position by defending Trump, or they’re required to write off the votes of all Trump supporters.
Democrats will never be asked to criticize any part of their coalition — and they’ve got a much crazier base than Republicans do. Why are Republicans held responsible for every nut on the right, while Democrats are allowed to skate on the core beliefs of their base?
Here are some questions Democratic candidates ought to be asked but never will be.
— Do white lives matter? Why did Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley have to apologize for saying “All lives matter” in 2016?
— What percentage of white people do you believe are racist? Should teachers and college professors who indoctrinate students to believe that all whites are guilty of “systemic racism” keep their jobs?
— Did Joe Biden really believe that “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was nearly lynched by white guys shouting, “This is MAGA country!” in the most affluent part of Chicago during a polar vortex? Did Kamala Harris believe it? Nancy Pelosi? Cory Booker? They said they did. Do you think such psychotic paranoia is, as liberals like to say, “normal”?
— If one unionized teacher could stay home while still being paid, but 10 children would die, which would you choose? The American Federation of Teachers, a major Democratic donor, relentlessly fought to keep schools closed throughout the pandemic. A Reuters study later found that the school closures led to a 43% rise in drug-related 911 calls for people aged 20 and younger.
— Should the police be defunded? If not, will you denounce left-wing “philanthropist” George Soros? A major source of dark money for Democratic causes, this sinister figure gave $35 million to anti-police activists in 2021. Last year, as the murder rate continued to soar, he pledged to give more.
— How about ICE? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned on abolishing ICE. Other Democrats who support abolishing ICE include Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand. House Democrats have actually introduced legislation to abolish ICE.
— What is a woman? Do you think Biden’s Supreme Court pick, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was lying when she claimed under oath not to know the answer to that question, or is she stupid?
— Should men be allowed in girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms and prisons? Should they compete in women’s sports? Should children be allowed to poison and mutilate themselves under the belief that they can change genders? Are Republican governors who ban these practices guilty of “hate” — as claimed by almost all Democrats? Do you agree with Biden that such measures are “ugly” attacks from “hysterical” and “prejudiced” people?
— If blacks, Hispanics, whites and Asians are not disciplined, arrested and imprisoned at their exact proportions in the population, is that proof of racism?
— Is it OK to be white? If so, will you call on liberal “hate watch” groups and college administrators across the nation to stop treating that phrase as “hate speech”?
— Should Al Sharpton be required to pay income taxes? This Democratic kingmaker has been a guest of President Biden’s at the White House at least twice, the Obama White House more than 72 times and has his ring kissed by any Democrat running for president.
The last time The New York Times investigated, about 10 years ago, Sharpton owed more than $4 million in income taxes.
While we’re on the subject, he’s also responsible for the Tawana Brawley hate hoax in 1987, and in the 1990s he helped gin up angry mobs in Crown Heights and at Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem, which resulted in eight deaths.
True, that was a long time ago. Do you think if DeSantis had met with David Duke a really long time ago, the media would say, “no biggie”?
Democrats have won three national elections in a row by making them all about Trump. Unless the GOP is intent on committing suicide, their No. 1 objective has got to be preventing this from happening again. Every Republican candidate for president (except Chris Christie) has got to take this pledge. I promise not to answer any more questions about Trump.
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You can’t derail Providence no matter how hard you try.
At the Last trump.
The trump of God.
Trump is not Providence. He’s the Judgment of God against a self befouled nation. Trump is a punishment and a curse…and you are an idiot for not seeing it for yourself.
We have decided to lockdown because climate change , sorry no elections.
It does not need to be a plan-demic, any emergency will do.
Maybe that’s where all of these UFOs will come in handy …
That was the original plan, ( report from iron mountain ) they have moved on to climate crisis
Throw her on the pile of useless pundits who decry ” the media ” but never will talk about the monopoly that runs 95 % of it all.
Stifle yourself there now Edith.
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
John Swinton, former chief of staff, The New York Times, in a 1953 speech before the New York Press Club
twoday.net/static/omega/files/quotes_from_people_who_consider_us_subjects.htm
She’s got a thing Crisco Creosote.
“Bring me a bucket!”
There is no GOP without Trump. What these brain dead morons like Anne Coulter can’t grasp is the era of the duopoly of political corporations deciding our fate as a nation IS OVER. There is no right vs. left or republican vs. democrat anymore. The political dynasty that’s existed since the beginning of the 20th century is in its death rattle throes.
Our old political and civil society has rotted to the core. The GOP gave up the fight long ago and Trump was elected because he’s the leader they deserved. They left the latch on the hen house unlocked and now wanna cry foul when the wolf took over.
” There is no right vs. left or republican vs. democrat anymore. ”
John Carpenter tried to tell us. – They Live
TL’s bext line…”People with the gold make the rules” (or some approxnmation of that).
Methinks thou doth protest too much!
TDS is strong with this one,yet seemingly undiagnosed,hmmmmm……
The woman is not the message. Your hate has blinded you as surely as your lust.
You got bigger problems than politics there, pal.
Trump or Hildabeast, Trump was still the better option. Think if Hillary had been President during the scamdemic? We would be the United Soviet States of Red Amerika.
USSRA
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The same exact thing would have happened. Regardless of whatever puppet was in the white house. Trump and Hillary are really old friends. That is a fact.
I don’t think there is such a thing as “friends” at that level.
“They’re putting Republicans in a no-win situation”
Exactly where Republicans have positioned themselves for maximum grift as part of protecting us against the crazy Democrats.
Seriously. Trump is an actor. If you don’t know that, you’re a dumbass
Again with this witch?
It’s OK with me if they just stop talking, period.
What’s that Peter Parker Meme?
“I already said I’d vote for Trump. You don’t have to sell him to me!”