Rush Limbaugh says Trump is "acting like a dictator"

I've actually been reassured by how unlike a dictator Trump has been. The dictatorial template was set by Obama, who routinely circumvented Congress and the courts to enact his agenda. Trump has allowed himself to be limited by the other branches of Congress to a much greater extent than Obama did. His major achievements, great judicial nominees, undoing a lot of Obama's more noxious executive orders, and getting us out of the Paris climate agreement and Iran nuclear deal are all well within his purview.

I do think he has overreached with his NFL statements.

This part I enjoyed the most, as if Trump knows what he can and cannot do. He's only been "Limited" because what he's tried to pass is so horribly conceived that it's almost automatically rejected.
 
RUSH LIMBAUGH SUGGESTS TRUMP IS ACTING LIKE A DICTATOR AND IS MAKING HIM 'NERVOUS'

Damn, all kinds of people finally waking up to Trump. When I clicked the link I assumed Rush's reaction would have been to Trump's handling and rhetoric towards the press, but apparently it's the NFL issue that has him musing on the larger issue of Trump's inability to tolerate dissent from any corner.
I listen to Rush frequently, from way back in the late 1990s when he had his show on Fox , late at night.

I couldn't believe Rush said what he said. He must be scared of the precedent this sets, that when a Dem steps into the WH again, he/she can pull the same shit and the rightwing will be hypocrites for opposing.
 
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They can invite Ted Nugent to that party too
TRump: " Let me tell you about Vietnam, Rush. Dodging the draft was hell. I went through that hell 5 different times. I told them I had foot problems, all the while bragging about how I was all New York in High School Baseball. Thank God my daddy was rich"
Rush: " Foot, why did the fuck did I not think of foot problems. I told them I had anal fissures which even to this day I don't know what the fuck that means. My daddy was not rich so I went the anal problems route, because it would make everyone uncomfortable."

Trump: "Yeah fuck those NFL players. It is disrespectful to the men that served this country to kneel during the anthem"


Rush: Ha HA , good one Donny.
Trump: " Yeah the rubes will eat that shit up and never see the hypocrisy of me not serving my country when called. I love the Rubes"
Rush: "Hell yeah those Rubes have paid for barrels full of Oxy and Viagra.
 
LOL why would you admit that?


Well, to start, I could care less about what others think of me.

Second, I am a fan of the sport of politics. There is no doubt Rush is a master of spin and propaganda. He's been at the top of the game for decades.


While you were smugly laughing with Rachael maddow, he knew Trump had a shot.



To summarize,

Rush is smarter than whoever you are.
 
Sorry, we've been getting on better lately, but I have to ask you to consider this post to be a hot dog .gif.



Where is the hotdog.gif? I wanted to throw one at one of @HomerThompson's posts the other day and didn't see it in its usual spot. Did he use them all or something?
 
Does this mean that Rush will start supporting candidates from both sides of the aisle?

After all, if you don't want a dictator, you should want the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch to be lead by different parties.
 
Well, to start, I could care less about what others think of me.

Second, I am a fan of the sport of politics. There is no doubt Rush is a master of spin and propaganda. He's been at the top of the game for decades.


While you were smugly laughing with Rachael maddow, he knew Trump had a shot.



To summarize,

Rush is smarter than whoever you are.

"Muh Limbaugh sooo smart"

Politics isn't a sport. There are no scores. There are no teams. People like you that treat it like a sport are the problem.
 
People have lost faith in our courts for rendering obviously partisan judgments. Also, by "attacked" do you mean he criticized them?

Is this a criticism or an attack?

As an example he said that a judge of Mexican heritage but from Indiana can't give him a fair trial in the Trump University case because Trump wants to build the wall.

"Let me just tell you, I've had horrible rulings, I've been treated very unfairly by this judge. Now, this judge is of Mexican heritage. I'm building a wall, OK? I'm building a wall. I am going to do very well with the Hispanics, the Mexicans --"

And later,

"TRUMP: This judge is giving us unfair rulings. Now, I say why? Well, I'm building a wall, OK? And it's a wall between Mexico. Not another country."

Here is a link to the actual interview where he drives the point home repeatedly.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/donald-trump-gonzalo-curiel-jake-tapper-transcript/index.html

If that is not an unjustified attack on a specific judge and the courts in general, I don't know what is. Trump has promised to end Obamare. Should a judge hearing a Trump Hotel case recuse himself because a relative is on Obamacare? The fact is the judges Mexican heritage wasn't the issue, it was simply an attempt by Trump to delegitimize the judge and court.
 
"Muh Limbaugh sooo smart"

Politics isn't a sport. There are no scores. There are no teams. People like you that treat it like a sport are the problem.



Politics is the sport of lying to people's faces, and getting them to like you while doing it.


Sorry you haven't figured that out yet, but you'll grow up someday.
 
Libs will quote anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who says anything negative about Trump. The Liberal heroes for the day are Steve Bannon and Rush Limbaugh. Let that sink in.

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This part I enjoyed the most, as if Trump knows what he can and cannot do. He's only been "Limited" because what he's tried to pass is so horribly conceived that it's almost automatically rejected.

Lol, maybe true.

My point is that once his awful ideas are rejected, Trump doesn't try to skirt around Congress and get them enacted. Perhaps he simply isn't clever enough to do so. Either way, it's hardly dictatorial behavior to allow one's own party to constantly block your initiatives.
 
How is the relative number of executive orders an embarrassment to my point?

Executive orders do not require Congressional approval and are therefore considered demonstrative of a president extra-congressional activity.

You said Obama "opened the door" to dictatorship by acting outside of Congress more than previous presidents. In actuality, he did it less than any president in the preceding 120 years, and far, far less than comparatively dictatorial executives like FDR and Nixon.
 
Executive orders do not require Congressional approval and are therefore considered demonstrative of a president extra-congressional activity.

You said Obama "opened the door" to dictatorship by acting outside of Congress more than previous presidents. In actuality, he did it less than any president in the preceding 120 years, and far, far less than comparatively dictatorial executives like FDR and Nixon.

What Obama did with his executive orders was intended to get around Congress, as he himself intimated publicly. That doesn't mean that all executive orders inherently undercut the separation of powers.

In what ways do you think Trump has usurped Congressional or judicial authority? It seems like hysteria to me. If you think Trump is a dumbass or a cretin, we can find some common ground for discussion. But so far the best argument for dictatorial behavior has been his bombastic Twitter account.
 
It's good to see Conservatives offer critiques of a Republican President. It's not something we get out of Democrats.
 
Libs will quote anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who says anything negative about Trump. The Liberal heroes for the day are Steve Bannon and Rush Limbaugh. Let that sink in.
Or it's that even the people who've supported him and are important sources of information for the right, are starting to acknowledge Trump is a weak leader. The people who've supported war criminals through thick and thin, are starting to turn on this loser. And it's not even been a year. That's telling, whether you agree with these guys politically or not.
 
Or it's that even the people who've supported him and are important sources of information for the right, are starting to acknowledge Trump is a weak leader.

Right.

But when these same people were singing his praises, they were full of shit, right? Now they say a couple of things you like, and they're speaking the gospel and really know the score.

Give it a rest. You guys will just go along with anyone, as long as they tell you what you want to hear, and you don't care who it is. And you guys call Trump supporters lemmings.
 
What Obama did with his executive orders was intended to get around Congress, as he himself intimated publicly.

That's the chief utility of EO's. Any president who denies using EO's for that reason is lying.

In what ways do you think Trump has usurped Congressional or judicial authority? It seems like hysteria to me. If you think Trump is a dumbass or a cretin, we can find some common ground for discussion. But so far the best argument for dictatorial behavior has been his bombastic Twitter account.

That's not the only measure of a dictator. Consolidating and repressing news information, threatening political representatives to act against the interest of their constituents, encouraging loyalty to a person rather than an office or party, disregarding norms re transparency, disrespecting peaceful transition of power and the sovereignty of former and future administrations -- these are all telling.

As far as EO's, honestly, nothing too horribly drastic jumps out. But Obama's weren't either.

Off the top of my head, Trump's EO's on the EPA and regulatory slashing (which was also just moronic and simplistic) were dicey, but not egregious or anything.


Regardless, I'm not making the argument that Trump is dictatorial: only that Barack Obama objectively wasn't. I never understood how conservatives were able to further that message so successfully. Really, without an inference of racism in the electorate, it is hard to justify intellectually.
 
I remember how hilarious those radio shows were when the election was happening cause they had no idea whether to bail or not on Trump. Hue Hewitt (sp) changed his mind like three times and sounded like he was losing his soul being unsure what to do while on air.
 
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