Ann Coulter in charge
So apparently Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are running the country. Trump threatened a shutdown; he backed away; he flipped again.
So what caused Trump to flip back? Some have suggested that he bowed to backlash from high-profile conservative pundits — notably Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh — who lambasted the president for appearing to concede on the wall funding.
It may or may not be true, but it’s more plausible than it would be for any other president, even the most corrupt or dim-witted. (Isn’t it interesting that Trump is both crookeder than Nixon and dumber than Reagan and Bush 2? And meaner than anybody ever?)
Coulter, during a podcast on the Daily Caller, said Trump’s White House would become “a joke presidency who scammed the American people” if he didn’t build the wall, adding that “he’ll have no legacy whatsoever.” She also wrote a scathing column about the president and launched a flurry of criticisms on Twitter.
Limbaugh and Fox talkers were also in the chorus.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) on Friday expressed discontent with the apparent influence these commentators have on the president, stating that they “completely flipped” Trump.
“This is tyranny of talk radio hosts, right? And so, how do you deal with that?” Corker told reporters. “You have two talk radio hosts who completely flipped the president. And so, do we succumb to tyranny of talk radio hosts?”
If only we had a choice in the matter.
On Friday, CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin said Trump’s reversal on the shutdown was due to conservative commentators challenging Trump’s “manhood.” When asked what Republicans should do to learn exactly where Trump stands, Toobin took another jab at Coulter’s apparent influence on the president.
“What they should be doing, obviously, is checking with Ann Coulter,” Toobin said. “Because apparently she’s the president of the United States, as far as this is concerned.”
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1076390053880963072
Among Trump’s many, many character deficits, his rank cowardice is possibly one of the most immediately obvious to someone who hasn’t drunk the Kool-Aid. He flees confrontation more readily than Sir Robin. Even his primary means of ‘confrontation’ (ie, Twitter) is designed to allow him to make nasty, hostile comments about someone without actually facing consequences for it, even just being told off to his face.
Well, you and millions of other US citizens might not, OB, but the Congress and Senate certainly do. They could decide that party loyalty does not take precedence over the welfare of their nation and use their impeachment powers to send him the same way as ‘Tricky Dick’ Nixon.
Trump’s diehard supporters could still maintain that he is not the evil warmongering crook that Nixon was; just an egotist and a vacillating galah. (The galah is a medium-sized pink and grey Australian parrot, widely regarded as the clown of the bird world.)
But on second thoughts, that is definitely a gratuitous insult to all galahs. Sorry, galahs.
Of course, at the time of Nixon, the GOP had not yet lost all sense of integrity and dignity. Oh, they had a lot of faults, but they weren’t yet in the mode of doing absolutely nothing but looting the country. The problem is, the Rs in the Senate and the House are as greedy as Trump, and see him as a great distraction from their own less than stellar activities. He’s the shill that diverts attention while the con man picks your pocket with a con game.
Trump does seem to resemble the galah somewhat in the hairline, though:
http://www.birdlife.org.au/images/sized/images/uploads/bird_profiles/Galah-pair-di280-280×202.jpg
Those complaining of a ‘tyranny of talk radio hosts’ are really only complaining that they are not the ones in Trump’s confidence. But more accurate still would be to call this a ‘tyranny of a monumentally stupid and insecure brain’. But they’re Republicans, so of course they’ll complain about inane shit instead of the real problem.
Please explain: Why is she using a future tense for this sentence? Has she been in a coma and missed the last two years?
So caving in to this challenge restores that manhood of his how, exactly? Because folding like a wet noodle twice shows even more purpose and resolve than doing it only once? Is this that “New Math” people keep talking about?