A Twitter-storm was unleashed after conservative pundit Ann Coulter posted a bizarre tweet about being single.
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is no stranger to mockery.
- Back in 2012, then CNN host Piers Morgan totally set her up for humiliation in one of the most epic moments in the history of full-frontal shaming.
- In 2013, she was booed after calling a room full of libertarian students p*ssies during a live interview aired on the Fox Business network after host John Stossel brought up the topic of legalizing marijuana.
- In 2014, the internet taught Coulter a much needed lesson after she posted a tweet mocking First Lady Michelle Obama who had posted a picture of herself holding up a sign reading #BringBackOurGirls to express her outrage of the kidnapping of 300 girls from a Nigerian school on 14 April 2014.
- In 2015 she was booed and heckled by an angry crowd during a heated debate between her and Cenk Uygur, the founder and CEO of The Young Turks, at the inaugural Politicon Conference, a two-day event in Los Angeles billed as a nonpartisan fan fest for politics and entertainment – in short, the Comic-Con of politics.
- Finally fed up, several noted conservatives turned on Coulter in 2016 after a slew of bigoted remarks peaking with an attack on then-governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, who had just delivered the official GOP response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech.
Never one to shy away from an opportunity to publicly embarrass herself, Coulter stepped back into the fray last Friday in a rather strange rash of tweets initially directed at Marco Rubio, who had thrown a wrench into the Republican effort to pass their beloved tax break for the rich the day before.
As The Atlantic reported at the time, “For weeks, Marco Rubio has been prodding Republican leaders to tilt the party’s tax overhaul ever-so-slightly away from corporations and the wealthy and more toward working families.” Rubio had been supporting the bill even though Republicans were resisting his efforts, “But on Thursday afternoon, Rubio took his campaign an important step forward: He told top Republicans he’d vote against the final tax bill next week if they did not agree to his demands.”
Coulter started out sanely enough, posting a couple of tweets taunting Rubio:
Liddle Marco getting liddler.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 15, 2017
Govt imposes taxes to raise revenue. Senators Rubio & Lee think the income tax should be jimmied to reward certain people and behaviors.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 15, 2017
However, it was her next tweet that set the internet on fire.
“We singles live empty lives of quiet desperation and will die alone. Now Rubio is demanding that we also fund happy families with children who fill their days with joy,” she tweeted.
We singles live empty lives of quiet desperation and will die alone. Now Rubio is demanding that we also fund happy families with children who fill their days with joy.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 15, 2017
As one might expect, Twitter was quick to respond. Below are a few examples:
I know it is your own brand, but you need to cut back ! pic.twitter.com/aFppq85pOe
— Bunneh/Usagi-San (@BunnehUsagichan) December 15, 2017
Girl bye. Pretty sure the point could have been made without single shaming. Speak for yourself. pic.twitter.com/mRSYxiSYHX
— SinOfBeingSingle (@YeahWeAreSingle) December 19, 2017
Being transgender doesn't mean you can't adopt, Ann! pic.twitter.com/fWFWdl6jO6
— Timothy Beauchamp (@cowboyneok) December 16, 2017
will you marry me?
I'm dead for real and your dead on the inside.
I think it would work.
— Frederick Douglass (@gettinnoticedmo) December 15, 2017
Ever think, "Maybe I'm single because I'm an awful sadist who's only capable of being aroused by the suffering of brown people."? Just a thought.
— (((Kyle Huckins))) (@KyleHuckins213) December 15, 2017
You're not going to die alone because you're single, you're going to die alone because you're a horrible, miserable, garbage person
— Patrick Lindsey (@HanFreakinSolo) December 16, 2017
Take solace in the knowledge that future generations will not speak your name, except perhaps as a cautionary tale.
— Ron Morgan (@rhyzome) December 16, 2017
Oh, lord. I am a 50-year-old single lesbian who lives alone with her cat and I am not this dramatic.
— Tracy E. Gilchrist (@TracyEGilchrist) December 15, 2017
it's ok ann one day you'll find another person that's a knockoff leather handbag full of scorpions and copies of mein kampf
— 🎄 Goth Ms. Krampus 👹 (@spookperson) December 15, 2017
RU OKAY? DO WE NEED TO CALL A MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST?
— Alt_Whitehouse IT (@AltWhitehouseIT) December 15, 2017
If being single is such an empty life, have you considered being less of a horrible person? That might attract a mate
— booger (@LilithAversa) December 16, 2017
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