{"id":551,"date":"2019-01-20T21:14:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=551"},"modified":"2019-01-20T21:14:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T21:14:02","slug":"down-0-63-after-one-quarter-for-trump-only-losing-six-yards-on-a-play-is-doing-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Down 0-63 After One Quarter &#8211; For Trump, only losing six yards on a play is doing good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\"><i>January 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1916, there was a football game between a powerhouse team coached by John Heisman, and a college that had actually already disbanded its football program, but was contractually obliged to play this particular game. So, lacking an actual team, they sent a pack of frat boys, lambs to the slaughter.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"firstHeading\"><\/a> There wasn\u2019t much doubt about who would win: it was the score that made history. <span lang=\"en-US\">Cumberland <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">0,<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> Georgia Tech <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">222. It was the most lopsided game in history, and observers suspected Tech wanted revenge for a 22-0 baseball drubbing <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">by Cumberland <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">earlier that year. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Tech took a 63-0 lead in the first quarter, and built on it for a 126-0 lead at the half. Heisman solemnly warned his squad during the break to be wary of a possible comeback, but the fact was Cumberland was deader than Queen Victoria. Grantland Rice, <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">the sportswriter,<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> noted that Cumberland\u2019s moment of glory came in the second half, when they had a running play in which they only lost six yards. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The stats were cringeworthy: Tech outran Cumberland by a net 564 yards, capitalizing on 15 turnovers. Oddly enough, Cumberland had the better passing game. They went 2-18 for 14 yards, while Tech never even attempted one pass. The score actually fails to show just how lopsided the game was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">So why am I talking about a football game from over a century ago? I mean, I\u2019m not even a football fan!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Well, I was watching Pelosi and Trump this week, and that ancient rogering came to mind. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Trump has been reeling from one self-inflicted catastrophe to the next, and on his best days, he only suffers an embarrassment, and every so often, he has a <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">great <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">day that is merely disappointing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">I watched the televised meeting between Trump and Pence (who knew what as coming and simply went tharn) and Pelosi and Schumer, and my first thought was \u201cIt\u2019s Boris and Natasha versus Moose and Squirrel.\u201d Those Russian agents never had a chance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">When Trump crowed that \u201c<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck.\u201d <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">I knew he had lost this one, no matter what he did. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">At the time, I figured he would back down. His silly burst of <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>braggadocio<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> had seemingly ensured that he couldn\u2019t shut the government down and evade blame for it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">But I actually underestimate<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">d<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> Trump\u2019s craven and easily-manipulated personality. He managed to publicly fold in the face of disapproval from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">A fringe pair. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">A has-been and a sociopath. Even most Republicans dismiss them as a pair of dips. Outside of the GOP\u2014which is to say among the other 72% of Americans\u2014they are regarded as two of the more loathsome examples of what crawls around under damp <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">American <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">rocks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">D<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">epending on the approval of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter to stiffen public support is a bit like plotting to win the Indy 500 by entering a Yugo. Or getting a pickup squad of 19 guys\u2014three of whom subsequently get lost en route to the game\u2014to play Georgia Tech. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Pelosi must have looked at the political dynamics at play and resolved to not show the pity Trump seemed to demand, since Trump would never show her any pity. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Pelosi, after all, is human. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">On the other hand, Trump was hurting a lot of people and actually endangering the country in order to suck up to a pair of fringe loons who represent the worst America has to offer. Knowing that probably helped Pelosi to decide that she really didn\u2019t have to play nice with the vicious fool in the Oval Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Everyone knows about the subsequent interplay: Pelosi told Donald he wasn\u2019t going to give the S<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">tate of the <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">U<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">nion<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> in front of a J<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">oint <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">S<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ession of <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">C<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ongress<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> until he reopened the government, citing security concerns. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">I\u2019ll bet any amount of money Trump immediately turned to Miller and screeched, \u201cShe can\u2019t DO that! Can she?\u201d No constitutional scholar, he. She can. She did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Trump responded by canceling her planned trip to NATO allies and Afghanistan via military plane, citing security concerns. It was a pretty feeble <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>riposte<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">, petty tit-for-tat, but it might have actually held water had Melania used a military plane to travel\u2014alone\u2014to Mir-a-Lago <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">that afternoon<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">. OK, granted, Trump probably wouldn\u2019t care much if she died in a plane crash. But then two days later, he exposed and scuppered plans by Pelosi to go ahead with her planned trip via private plane. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Then he announced a big, important announcement for noon yesterday. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Now, Trump has taken us all to that particular rodeo many times before, to the point where when he gave a \u201cbig announcement\u201d a few weeks ago, the Chuck-and-Nancy rebuttal actually got higher ratings. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">I wasn\u2019t going to bother watching, simply because the Trump sideshow has gotten so tiresome. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Pelosi felt the same way, I guess. She rejected his offer before he even made it. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Oddly enough, I didn\u2019t hear any Republicans accusing her of jumping the gun. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Trump did offer to provide a temporary respite to Dreamers\u2014there\u2019s already court orders telling him he must do so by law\u2014and that was it. The offer didn\u2019t fool any sane Americans, and pissed off the haters on the fascist\/Nazi right. So aside from <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">getting <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">a <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">very <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">public slap-down, all he did was harden resolve against him, while chipping away at his loathsome base. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Now there\u2019s open talk among Democrats of impeachment, and outside Washington, talk of a national general strike. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Last night I mentioned on one blog that once Nancy Pelosi gets her fur up, she can be quite formidable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The same, of course, could be said of the American people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Donald came into this quarter trailing 63-0. Things don\u2019t look to improve. It\u2019s unlikely that even Heisman is going to be warning anyone of a Trump comeback on this one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 20th, 2019 Back in 1916, there was a football game between a powerhouse team coached by John Heisman, and a college that had actually already disbanded its football program, but was contractually obliged to play this particular game. 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