{"id":5505,"date":"2024-01-15T04:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T04:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2024-01-15T05:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T05:01:20","slug":"ann-coulter-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/ann-coulter-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Coulter As Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling better and better about having gotten rid of my Coulter books.  I had several, and now I have none.  This is an improvement.  Without simply guessing at paydays, I cannot fathom how she makes up her mind whom to support from day to day.  She was big on &#8220;severely conservative&#8221; Romney and has tried to sell us Christie several times.  I think she supported Trump for about three minutes at one point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not even her disdain for a particular candidate that I find so off-putting.  It&#8217;s her contempt for the conservative base.  It&#8217;s a pretty well-established point that if the Democrats are allowed to pick our candidates by blowing up the ones they don&#8217;t like, then all we will get are Democrat-approved candidates.  Trump is a symptom not a cause, and is a tool for the job, not a cult leader.  So when Coulter comes off the top rope against Trump supporters like this, using only half a straw-man and then torching it with her increasingly off-kilter histrionics, well, it just makes me feel better about not having any of her stuff in the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump voters are morons cont&#39;<br><br>NYT: &lt;&lt;\u201cI prefer Trump because Democrats are trying to find any way they can to jail him,\u201d she said.&gt;&gt;<br><br>Dems lie about Trump, THEREFORE he\u2019d make a great president! \u00a0<br><br>There aren\u2019t enough drugs in the world that could make me that stupid.<\/p>&mdash; Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnCoulter\/status\/1746651520458706985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And note that she is using the New York Times to source a quote from a &#8216;Trump voter.&#8221;  Is that the closest she gets to Trump voters?  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I had several, and now I have none. This is an improvement. Without simply guessing at paydays, I cannot fathom how she makes up her mind whom to support from day to day. She was big on &#8220;severely conservative&#8221; Romney and has tried to sell us Christie several times. I think she supported Trump for about three minutes at one point.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not even her disdain for a particular candidate that I find so off-putting. It&#8217;s her contempt for the conservative base. It&#8217;s a pretty well-established point that if the Democrats are allowed to pick our candidates by blowing up the ones they don&#8217;t like, then all we will get are Democrat-approved candidates. Trump is &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/ann-coulter-as-usual\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5507,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}