I had no idea how scary Ann Coulter is

[srobertss]

I heard her for the first time on the Skullduggery podcast that got all the recent headlines about her calling Trump a lunatic. https://news.yahoo.com/ann-coulter-lunatic-trump-challenged-2020-right-165049018.html

Wow! She’s worse than Kelly Ann. But it was scary too. I understand why she has such a following. And when I googled her book Adios Amigos I found an average of 4+ stars on Amazon and Goodreads. Of course, most people who read her books are fans. Then I read a smattering of those positive reviews and suddenly I was down a rabbit hole. I felt alone and overwhelmed. I know I’m not properly immune to this stuff, living in a blue college town. The polarization today is just amazing and scary.

It made me reflect on the difference between me and these people (I should mention I’m white). One thing is that my grandparents on one side were immigrants and my grandparents on the other side lived in ethnic enclaves. And I went to school where whites were in a minority. So I’m more comfortable around hyphenated Americans. They’re more interesting, nuanced, layered. Coulter fans probably have very little experience with immigrants or ethnic minorities or they kept themselves apart by virtue of their class or religious affiliations.

Coulter’s vision of America sounds like a true hell to me. I know much of what she’s doing is performative and attention getting. But she is way too good at it.

[Glamrock]

1. Agree with everything you said

But what you have to realize is that her anger comes from her sister being crushed by a house....

[srobertss]

2. That helps me shake her off! Thanks.

[Grasswire2]

3. hahahahaha!

well played, well played

[Glamrock]

4. Gtassy ass!

[TalenaGor]

7. wait...what?

[alwaysinasnit]

9. I think he is refering to the "Wizard of Oz" wicked witch of the East....

[SunSeeker]

10. This...

[TalenaGor]

11. omg rofl Okies ty both lol

[Grasswire2]

23. It is from this exchange on Twitter

Ann Coulter Tweets ‘Kansas Is Dead to Me’ and Matt Oswalt Responds: ‘Did It Drop another house on your sister?"

It has been a "thing".

[Grasswire2]

24. And that's what Glamrock referenced.

Cleverly.

[Glamrock]

38. Actually, I don't do twitter.

But, I'll admit, it's an easy shot. I'm just not that original. I'm guessing many made the same connection.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Beauty, Glam! (nt)

[ooky]

28. LOL. And I had been thinking that was Conway's sister who was crushed by the house

simply because of their resemblance.

[Glamrock]

37. Ahahahaha!

Good point!

[AlexSFCA]

5. she is an entertainer

that’s all it is to it. She found her shtick and makes a living out of it.

[jmowreader]

12. Hold it right there, Hoss

The reason we just had a month-plus long shutdown was because Ann Coulter bullied Trump into doing it. She is not "just" an entertainer, but a very dangerous person.

[Sherman A1]

15. She is an entertainer as described

that the "Esteemed" Mr Trump and others buy into her schtick does not change what it is. It is their acceptance of it as reality that created the shutdown along with considerable other aspects of their belief system.

[Docreed2003]

16. Well

[Sherman A1]

14. Precisely

and one laughing all the way to the bank.

[Hortensis]

6. "True hell." Yes! :) She's a nut case who appeals to partisan extremists.

Unlike you, I live surrounded by conservatives, but I know almost no one who respects her or reads her books. Their crime is that they have been loyally voting for Republican candidates, who must first and last sell themselves to those who soak in Coulter's poison and who must serve the new ultrawealthy classes. Our friends are not extremists (demonstrated by their willingness to be friends instead of giving us hate stares). Most of them did long ago swallow the Kool-Aid that turned their fairly mild hostility toward Democrats and liberal policies into knee-jerk opposition. Democrats are the ones who became extremists and are destroying America, and they must save it from us.

In any case, we need to always keep in mind that most conservatives want to be and are capable of being decent and sensible -- when they're not being lead the wrong way by bad leaders. Our democracy depends on a return to a workable degree of unity, and most of the people we know think so too and want that.

[srobertss]

27. That's helpful

After traveling down her rabbit hole, I got a feeling of a stark us against them, which is obviously silly. Probably many are just as you say. Not publicly disowning her to include her fans as a buttress against the “assault” by liberals.

[rampartc]

8. she is a snake

[trusty elf]

13. anagrams for "Ann Coulter"

Unclean Rot

Rectal Noun


There's another one that I won't post here.

[oberliner]

17. It's an act she puts on to sell books

[ProfessorGAC]

19. In Bulk Buys

Return rates on those books are notoriously high.
But, I completely agree she's a professional self-promoter. It's a bit.

[oberliner]

20. Yep - that's why she keeps churning out new ones

One a year pretty much.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Then They Hit Best Seller Lists

And it looks like millions are reading that tripe!

[BannonsLiver]

29. ...

[NurseJackie]

31. That poster has left the building.

[Squinch]

34. .

[marble falls]

41. Good news.

[LanternWaste]

42. That's the polite way to put it.

I s'pose it was only a matter of time.

[JI7]

43. i was just thinking how it seemed much more nicer to come on this site in recent days

that one troll did nothing but cause problems on purpose.

[lapucelle]

36. Coulter crossed the Rubicon long ago.

[RandiFan1290]

40. Buh Bye!!!

[Eyeball_Kid]

26. "Conservative" orgs buy her books in bulk

and give them away as a membership bonus. She lives off her brand. Her books are shit.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Absolutely!

Fake best sellers.

[Gothmog]

30. I am not sure that it is an act

[EndGOPPropaganda]

21. Coulter benefits from rightwing media dollars

Yes, we all need to be more aware of the lies the rightwing press pushes. It’s not just Coulter. It is scary and people in blue states ignore it. You can’t undetsand American politics until you listen to at least 8 hours of Limbuagh.

[FakeNoose]

32. Her Amazon and Goodreads stars don't mean a thing

Anybody can beef up their own ratings or that of their buddy. There's no control over how many times a person can vote. There isn't even a control over who has bought or read their books. The RWNJs know this and they go on Amazon and vote 4 stars for all the rightwingers regardless of what the book is about - as long as the author is a rightwinger.

By the same token, they vote down any book by a liberal/progressive/Democrat for the same reason. It's all political BS, none of them even know or care what the book actually says.

[srobertss]

35. I wondered about that

And filtered it by verified purchaser. But I suppose they are able to manipulate that as well?

[FakeNoose]

39. I'm not sure about the verified purchaser designation

I think that's given only when the book has been purchased from Amazon.

Personally I've given very view ratings on Amazon books myself but I have gone on there and flagged some of the rightwingers' crazy comments. I've gotten several of the comments removed by saying they obviously haven't read the book. When Hillary's book "What Happened" was listed, people were giving her one-star comments a week before the book was even released, and it was so obvious they hadn't read her book.