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My Critically Acclaimed Appearance on Fox News
Gretchen Carlson interviewed me today about the #NeverTrump movement. Unfortunately, Fox News doesn’t allow video embedding, but you can watch the magic here.
Across the board, the reviews of my appearance were glowing:
Thank you @GretchenCarlson for exposing this one, he was nothing but a closet lib/tard anyway, @exjon
— NPete (@NPete2) May 4, 2016
@Ricochet @exjon ? IM SURE THE SAFE SPACE ( NEVER TRUMP)?? HATE CREW…Are BLIND TO THE REVOLUTION IN BRITAIN & GERMANY.. TRUMP Revolution
— Coach Dubya (@HBackFullBack) May 4, 2016
@exjon you make me sick! Vote for Hillary, make your self feel good! So you think Hillary would pick the right judge for Supreme Court?
— Mary fisher (@Maryfis90730348) May 4, 2016
@exjon time to shut jon up the way he tried to shut up TRUMP we will find your sponsors and boycott OPPS MIGHT NOT WORK WITH SOROS
— Aharrin (@usn_lt) May 4, 2016
That kind of thoughtful engagement is why I do this.
Also, by popular request, here is my Friday appearance on OAN with host Liz Wheeler talking about women and the military draft.
Published in General
Kid gloves? Why? A fighter that takes a dive still throw punches. A ball player that throws a game still plays well, they just plays less well in some aspects. The elites that run the country are not stupid. They know how to play to get their way in most things. They know they have to give the plebs their bread and circuses. The conservatives always get stuck on the GOPe, overlooking that the GOPe is only a small part of the overall elites and a renegade part at that.
Kinda makes me want to use Twitter…
Nicely done. I assume those were the most flattering reactions.
You did a good job of getting your points out.
Please rehearse this until you have it right. Then go on Fox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxkGIpmrYJo#t=73.880438
What that appearance said to me was essentially ‘Ricochet comes out for Hillary’.
I tremble for my country, and for the conservative movement. If conservatives can’t see the existential threat that Hillary and continuation of Democrat leadership is to America, the struggle is lost.
I agree with Levin on his TV show last night. We need to hold Trumps feet to the fire and make him move towards conservatism to garner our support.
Instead we get petulance and surrender. It is a sad day indeed.
You keep missing the point. If he actually moved towards conservatism, he might get our support. He won’t. No Republican moves towards conservatism in the general. That is what the primary is for.
It will get worse from here for conservatives, not better. He has already pretended to move towards conservatism as much as he ever will. He has gotten from conservatives what he needed. We will now be discarded like last year’s wife. He can now fly his life-long liberalism with impunity.
The GOP voters did not want conservatism and Trump knows that and has no intention of delivering it or any incentive to do so.
Yeah — have all ExJon’s appearances on Fox been like this? Tawdry. No wonder we get such up-to-date coverage of David Brooks’ fluttering intestine on Ricochet. It’s the target demographic.
I guarantee, if conservatives persist with the #NeverTrump he will not move towards conservatism. If, instead, conservatives show him a path to victory if he garners their support, he would have incentive to do so.
Just keep reminding yourself, we KNOW what we will get with Hillary. Trump is a wild card, and in some ways a blank slate. Either we can try to get a seat at the table or we can sit back and watch Hillary and the Democrats win again. I tell you , the last vestiges of our constitutional republic will not survive that.
Trump is a sorry outcome, to be sure. But we have some chance of swaying him to some of our positions if we participate. We have no chance of swaying the Democrats. THEY are the enemy.
Instead, conservatives are taking their vote and going home, leaving them entirely irrelevant. If a significant number of conservatives skip voting for president, or vote third party, there is no doubt the outcome.
Any conservative who can’t admit to themselves that Hillary is the worst case scenario has been blinded by their disgust at the outcome of the primary. That blindness will be the last straw to end the dream of our founders. We owe future generations more than to just surrender to the Democrats.
Darn – I wasn’t critical enough of Jon – I was only critical of the background shot…
The GOP primary voters decided conservatives were irrelevant when they nominated Trump.
You think Trump will be better than Hillary, I think he will be worse. I respect your opinion, I simply disagree.
Trump voters wanted to blow up the GOP. They got their wish. One consequence of that is Hillary in the White House.
I agree that each of us must make that judgement for ourselves, and respect that you disagree. I just don’t understand how you can compare the two and come out thinking Hillary is better for the country.
I’ve read most of the anti Trump positions here for the last few months or so. I agree with the majority of them. But I have yet to hear one solid negative Trump has that Hillary does not have in equal or greater measure – save that Trump as Republican tarnishes the party. OK, I agree with that one, but that ship has sailed. He is the nominee, unless something very shady happens at the convention. And that will tarnish the party more than Trump ever could.
So, rather than just remind yourself of all the reasons you opposed, disliked, even hated Trump, try to put each of those reasons in contrast to Hillary on the same basis.
I respect that you may still find Hillary superior. But it escapes me how.
I just want to make clear that your Twitter “admirer” Coach Dubya is no relation to me.
No one’s said it yet, so it falls to me: “Sad.” There. How’s that for an incisive, on-point refutation?
For me it’s simple.
On domestic policy, they are equally bad. They are both economic central planners that think American people and corporations should kow-tow to the President.
Clinton wants the government to do more, Trump thinks the biggest problem in government is that he is not dictator.
On foreign policy, Clinton is at least competent and she understands how diplomacy works. She won’t go around insulting the leaders of most of the countries in the world. Trump is incompetent and doesn’t understand how diplomacy works and thinks the way to get what you want is insult everybody often.
On personal demeanor, Clinton has the personal demeanor to be President, Trump doesn’t.
Clinton won’t do anything that hasn’t been done for the last 8 years. Trump will screw up completely new and different things.
In other words, where Clinton is bad, Trump is equally bad. Where Clinton is good, Trump is worse than bad.
It’s simple and obvious to me.
But, again, the GOP wanted Trump, and this is absolutely their choice. They obviously don’t want people like me on their side. They want to blow up the GOP, Hillary is the collateral damage. No hard feelings. God speed.
Wow, did you see her fine record as SOS? I didn’t see how it could be worse, but then they gave us John Kerry. Yes, they understand diplomacy, all right. Apologize for America then lead from behind. And watch it burn.
One more Hillary voter! Enjoy your peoples republic.
Meh. She was Obama’s SOS. He set the foreign policy, she implemented it.
I get that you disagree.
I respect your difference of opinion, no hard feelings. God speed.
Perhaps but the one arrow in his quiver was his ability to command near-continuous free air time. The MSM can simply stop giving him unlimited access and everything becomes that much harder for him.