Anne Coulter Humiliates Trump

[_Kevin Graham]

She and Rush Limbaugh are the people most responsible for the current shutdown, because Trump agreed to government funding without a wall, and then suddenly Anne Coulter attacks him because of it and then like a scared little puppy dog, Trump suddenly changes his mind and puts these idiots before 800,000 Americans. Now he wants us to believe he's doing it over a national emergency? Yeah, quelling the insane bitchiness of Anne Coulter is hardly a national emergency.

It is worth noting that the cost to the economy is soon going to far exceed the $5.7 billion he was hoping to get for a wall, and he is effectively making it much easier for terrorists and illegal aliens to enter our country with a government shutdown. Jobless claims are going up, food stamp applications on the rise, etc. But you know, Republican Economics at work here.

This is the article Coulter unleashed on Trump. Have to say I agree with much of it.

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GUTLESS PRESIDENT IN WALL-LESS COUNTRY
December 19, 2018

If you were elected president after decades of politicians doing nothing about the millions of illegals pouring into our country every year, committing crimes, dealing drugs, driving drunk, molesting children and killing Americans like Kate Steinle, and your central campaign promise -- repeated every day -- was to build a wall, wouldn't you have spent the entirety of your transition period working on getting it done?

Wouldn't you have been building prototypes, developing relationships with key congressional allies and talking to military leaders about using the Seabees or the Army Corps of Engineers to build the wall?

Wouldn't you skip the inauguration and take the oath of office in San Diego so you could get started on supervising wall construction immediately after putting your hand on the Bible and being sworn in as the leader of the free world?

You would if you meant it.

Well, Donald Trump didn't do that.

OK, sure he could have taken the oath in D.C., gone to a few balls, then started the wall on day two of his presidency. But he didn't do that either.

Maybe I'm a literalist. A zealot. When people kept telling me to be patient -- the wall is coming! -- I nursed a private hope that I was wrong, and they were right.

It is now crystal clear that one of two things is true: Either Trump never intended to build the wall and was scamming voters all along, or he has no idea how to get it done and zero interest in finding out.

He sacrifices every opportunity to make the wall happen.

For two years, Trump pretended to believe the president of the United States needs express authorization from Congress to defend the nation's borders and blamed the Republican majority for not "funding" the wall.

In a few weeks, he'll start blaming the Democratic House.

Last week -- several whole days ago -- Trump said over and over again that he would shut down the government if he didn't get funding for the wall -- the precise thing he claims he needs. "We need border security. The wall is a part of border security," he said. "If we don't have border security, we'll shut down the government."

Trump wore the shutdown over the wall as a badge of honor: "You want to know something? OK, you want to put that on me. I'll take it. You know what I'll say? Yes, if we don't get what we want ... I will shut down the government. Absolutely."

One week later, The Drudge Report:

WALL FUNDING OFF TABLE

In other words, Trump is doing exactly what I feared he would do in the worst conceivable way. He's not building the wall, while making ridiculous promises right up until the second before he folds.

The Washington Post loves to find the one crazy, trailer park lady who supports Trump because she's had religious ecstasies about him, but most people who voted for him did so with a boatload of qualms.

The basic factory setting on the perception of Trump is: gigantic douchebag. This is a man who manufactured fake Time magazine covers featuring himself with the headline, "Donald Trump: The 'Apprentice' is a television smash!" so that he could put framed copies of it on the walls of his clubs.

His business is convincing people with lowbrow taste to give him their money.

He's a vulgar publicity hound who used to call reporters in a fake voice and pretend to be his own PR agent, "John Miller" or "John Barron," so he could brag that actresses wanted to date him.

On one "Apprentice" episode, the reward for the winning team was: to see Trump's apartment. Not to eat there or spend the night. They got to see it. "As a little treat," he said, "you're gonna see the nicest apartment in New York City." He added: "I show this apartment to very few people. Presidents, kings ..."

It's not as if a majority of his voters weren't clear-eyed about what kind of man he is. If anything, Trump's vulgar narcissism made his vow to build a wall more believable. Respectable politicians had made similar promises over the years -- and they always betrayed the voters. Maybe it took a sociopath to ignore elite opinion and keep his word.

On the basis of his self-interest alone, he must know that if he doesn't build the wall, he has zero chance of being re-elected and a 100 percent chance of being utterly humiliated.

But when Trump is alone with Ivanka, they seem to agree that the wall has nothing to do with it. The people just love him for who he is! In a country of 320 million people, I'm sure there are some, but I have yet to meet a person who said, Yeah, I don't really care about immigration or trade, I just love his personality!

What else were we going to do? He was the only one talking sense. Unfortunately, that's all he does: talk. He's not interested in doing anything that would require the tiniest bit of effort.

In the end, we'll probably find out "wall" was Trump's "safe word" with Stormy Daniels. It's just something he blurts out whenever he's in trouble.

He's in trouble now. As absurd as the Russia nonsense is, the details about Trump's sleazy associates, the porn star, the Playboy playmate and his seedy business practices leave his supporters feeling queasy, even if he hasn't committed any crimes.

Instead of joining a fight that will make his most ardent supporters cringe no matter how it comes out, why not choose a battleground where he's guaranteed a win? If Trump used the military to build the wall -- actually build it, not keep telling us he's going to build it -- the Democrats will go mad.

They'll hold impeachment hearings, file a million lawsuits, produce weeping children reading from phony scripts written by immigrant rights groups -- and Trump will win. The public will support Trump overwhelmingly, and the left will be forced to keep reminding voters why they hate Democrats.

Instead, what he's doing now absolutely guarantees that the next president will be a Democrat and, given today's Democratic Party, that president will be Kamala Harris.

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This is probably the first time in history Trump doesn't attack a female who goes after him. He didn't even respond to her tweets, instead he just deleted her.

[_Chap]

Have to say I agree with much of it.

For instance ...

It is now crystal clear that one of two things is true: Either Trump never intended to build the wall and was scamming voters all along, or he has no idea how to get it done and zero interest in finding out.

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His business is convincing people with lowbrow taste to give him their money.

[...]

It's not as if a majority of his voters weren't clear-eyed about what kind of man he is. If anything, Trump's vulgar narcissism made his vow to build a wall more believable. Respectable politicians had made similar promises over the years -- and they always betrayed the voters. Maybe it took a sociopath to ignore elite opinion and keep his word.

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She puts it all so clearly.

But, you know, I am not at all sure that the people who write like this really saw through Trump as clearly as they now say they did right from the beginning. It's just that the rats like Coulter who once thought he was the man of their dreams are now anxious to be heard sneering at him, because it has become clear that he is not only a vulgar ignorant narcissistic whose main asset is sheer shamelessness, but that he is a person who is all that, and (surprise!) is likely to turn out to be a disappointment, and a disappointment who is increasingly likely to be exposed as (shall we say) not entirely legal and entirely cool in all his doings.

That's how the German moneyed classes would have treated poor old Adolf if he had not come up to snuff in the 1930s. They're a ruthless bunch.

[_Kevin Graham]

Yes, and Ann is deluded if she thinks there is just ONE redneck who blindly worships Trump out of a slew of critically thinking skeptics who just happened to vote for him. The vast majority of Trump supporters I come across do not fall into the category of those who accept him "with a boatload of qualms." Far from it actually.

[_Fence Sitter]

I loved this line!

In the end, we'll probably find out "wall" was Trump's "safe word" with Stormy Daniels. It's just something he blurts out whenever he's in trouble.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Does Ann Coulter believe we could build a wall (or whatever they're calling a barrier these days) literally on the southern border all the way from CA through Texas?

- Doc

[_canpakes]

Does Ann Coulter believe we could build a wall (or whatever they're calling a barrier these days) literally on the southern border all the way from CA through Texas?

- Doc

We really need to start with some smaller-scale prototypes. Say, like around active Trump rallies. Just to be sure that the walls are capable of containment.

[_subgenius]

Does Ann Coulter believe we could build a wall (or whatever they're calling a barrier these days) literally on the southern border all the way from CA through Texas?

- Doc

Yes, because that is how Coulter has sold so many books and published so many articles...her stupidity has resulted in so many lucky Bill Maher appearances and paychecks....why do you work so hard at not making a difference for pennies on her dollar?

https://www.famousbirthsdeaths.com/ann- ... rth-facts/

[_honorentheos]

I started picking up copies of Anne Coulter books from the library starting around the year after the Iraq invasion. Initially it was part of a broader reading excursion out of curiosity as to how the conservative supporters of GWB and his administration saw the world, but it soon turned to curiosity about WHY it seemed there was an element of the journalistic elite who wanted to see the world burn. She is one of the strangest figures in American politics, in my opinion, because I don't get the sense of a true believer in her comments so much as someone who is profoundly aware they have figured out how to manipulate certain dials attached to the public's outrage temperature and gets off turning them. It seems like an adult version of the main antagonist from Mean Girls who enjoys being a sadistic bitch who enjoys a certain popularity among the supposed right kind of people.

Frankly, the closest analog I can think of is from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and the main villain, Ellsworth Monkton Toohey. While Toohey is supposedly a socialist and a man of the people, his behavior is of a sadistic tastemaker. I get the impression from Coulter that she gets off on power and manipulating people out of their money, and in the case of Donald Trump he found out what happens when you piss off The Plastics. I don't give two craps about anything she says, for or against anyone. She's a rattlesnake and the best thing to do is keep one's distance even when you think she's about to bite someone you kinda hope gets bit.

[_Gunnar]

Ann Coulter, IMHO, is so dangerous to American democracy and values and so divisive that I don't think it is much of a stretch to suggest that she may be actively working on the behalf of the Russian government to destroy or seriously weaken the USA and its influence in the world and whatever good reputation it still enjoys. Like Trump himself, she is either an advantageously useful idiot for Russia or a covert Russian agent or both.

[_Maksutov]

Ann Coulter is a one trick skank who has nothing to sell but the hatred of liberals. She'll throw anybody under the bus to sell her "books".