I think I've got a better analogy. We're not fighting a Cathedral, but a Star Fortress.
Trump becoming president is like seizing one entire point on the star. However, without continued support, that point can be cut off, the other points can fire on the reinforcements, and even on the point occupied by attacking forces.
Truth is, Trump got contained because the swept to power at the top with no real logistical support. Remember that when Trump announced in 2016, basically nobody was there for his announcement. He didn't have a structure, so a lot of people in that structure were naive, inexperienced, and untested.
He got persuaded to take people with more experience, and all of them were basically containment and subverters. I don't think he really believed how far they would go to fucking disrupt him. The fact that his own commanders lied to his face about troop movements in Syria is fucking galling. Barr looked like he was good. Mattis looked like he was good. Pence looked like he was good. Republicans were prepared to support those people, and they all fucking tried to cut his throat. The most reliable members of his cabinet turned out to be Betsy DeVos and Ben Carson?!!
Truth is, I think his inexperience with politics got the better of him. Despite what he managed to do: start up wall building, enact mass deportations, deregulate the economy, end the Title IX Tribunals. In reality, he didn't even have election interference legal challenges ready.
When we look at how many people were undermining him, and you consider the QAnon disinfo campaign, and you consider that the distraction on Dominion that pulled attorneys away from his the actual fucking election problems with invalid vote counts, when you consider the Chamber Of Commerce sided with Antifa. There's no way he was ready for what they did to him.
He got fucking played. The question is, what is Trump's history when people absolutely fuck him over. How does he respond?
I'm gonna bet money he's not the type of person to take it on the chin with a smile. I feel like Trump is exactly the kind of person who's going to be viscous to his enemies.
If you remember the Trump Golf Course that was built in Scotland, there was a guy who refused to sell his land, and it turned into a big scandal. I remember bringing it up to people in 2016 as a comparison of what he would be like as President (I wasn't in favor of him at the time). He did his normal Trump thing of basically belittling him in the press and in public. But the government of Scotland also changed laws to completely fuck the guy over. The guy was so zealous he was going to try and confront bulldozers. It turned into a complete shit show, but it showed Trump was more than prepared to play fucking hard ball if you pissed him off.
Remember when why that Iranian general was killed? The Iranians had been funding the war in Yemen. Their political puppet Hezbollah had been making major attacks on US aligned Syrian forces. Iranian proxies had attacked a US consulate, and scrawled the generals name on the building. The Iraqi government in Baghdad had basically succumbed to the Iranians due to diplomatic and strategic failures by Bush and Obama, it was acting as an Iranian puppet state (which would eventually lead to major protests and a near collapse of the government). The general had gone to Iraq to bribe the proxies with more money to commit more violence against the Americans. They had been increasing their attacks on shipping including seizing ships. All while both the Ayatollah, and a series of sycophants had been talking absolutely mad shit on Twitter.
So he fucking smoked the general in Iraq, and posted an American flag on Twitter. Fucking Christ.
Remember when the Taliban backed out of a peace accord? Trump's response was to drop a fucking 25,000 lbs bomb on one of their facilities.
The fact that Trump's biggest supporters on Jan. 6 were Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, tells me that I think he's starting to realize just how many people were actually fucking over him. I honestly feel like this is a guy who might not hold big grudges, but you get his attention enough to piss him off, he might just decide to fucking smash you.
That "Schedule F" thing was absolutely real, and he enacted it. All we've basically seen is that he plans to expand it. I don't doubt he's prepared to start chopping away at the establishment after they fucked him over this bad.
Guys like Trump, the guys who make it their business to look powerful, they take being made a fool of very personally.
I don't know why he's so friendly with Lindsay Graham then. Not to mention he keeps sitting down with MSM journalists who have trashed him in the past.
I don't think you're wrong. But you still need to consider that he has no political experience. I think he's learning, and he's also the type to seek revenge.
Consider that he fired Steve Bannon, but Bannon is still one of the biggest driving forces for Trump's logistics. That seems like an indication that he's learned something.
He is a paper tiger who was even afraid to fire Fauci.
You make him sound like a badass when in reality he is a man completely out of his depth.
He got played bigly and he didn't even learn anything from his mistakes.
He refuses to even acknowledge he made mistakes in the first place and he surrounds himself with the same incompetent staff that was responsible for failing at preventing the election fraud.
Nominating him again in 2024 is a terrible mistake that the right needs to be smart enough to avoid.
I don't agree with your assessment of him not learning from his mistakes as he's keeping rightists much closer (including Bannon), has claimed to use pardon powers to free Jan 6-ers (aggressive pardoning is a good executive weapon against federal courts), his "Schedule F" federal order will give him the power to remove thousands of federal employees, and I'm very confident he's the type of person to want to get revenge on those who cross him.
I think I've got a better analogy. We're not fighting a Cathedral, but a Star Fortress.
Trump becoming president is like seizing one entire point on the star. However, without continued support, that point can be cut off, the other points can fire on the reinforcements, and even on the point occupied by attacking forces.
Truth is, Trump got contained because the swept to power at the top with no real logistical support. Remember that when Trump announced in 2016, basically nobody was there for his announcement. He didn't have a structure, so a lot of people in that structure were naive, inexperienced, and untested.
He got persuaded to take people with more experience, and all of them were basically containment and subverters. I don't think he really believed how far they would go to fucking disrupt him. The fact that his own commanders lied to his face about troop movements in Syria is fucking galling. Barr looked like he was good. Mattis looked like he was good. Pence looked like he was good. Republicans were prepared to support those people, and they all fucking tried to cut his throat. The most reliable members of his cabinet turned out to be Betsy DeVos and Ben Carson?!!
Truth is, I think his inexperience with politics got the better of him. Despite what he managed to do: start up wall building, enact mass deportations, deregulate the economy, end the Title IX Tribunals. In reality, he didn't even have election interference legal challenges ready.
When we look at how many people were undermining him, and you consider the QAnon disinfo campaign, and you consider that the distraction on Dominion that pulled attorneys away from his the actual fucking election problems with invalid vote counts, when you consider the Chamber Of Commerce sided with Antifa. There's no way he was ready for what they did to him.
He got fucking played. The question is, what is Trump's history when people absolutely fuck him over. How does he respond?
I'm gonna bet money he's not the type of person to take it on the chin with a smile. I feel like Trump is exactly the kind of person who's going to be viscous to his enemies.
If you remember the Trump Golf Course that was built in Scotland, there was a guy who refused to sell his land, and it turned into a big scandal. I remember bringing it up to people in 2016 as a comparison of what he would be like as President (I wasn't in favor of him at the time). He did his normal Trump thing of basically belittling him in the press and in public. But the government of Scotland also changed laws to completely fuck the guy over. The guy was so zealous he was going to try and confront bulldozers. It turned into a complete shit show, but it showed Trump was more than prepared to play fucking hard ball if you pissed him off.
Remember when why that Iranian general was killed? The Iranians had been funding the war in Yemen. Their political puppet Hezbollah had been making major attacks on US aligned Syrian forces. Iranian proxies had attacked a US consulate, and scrawled the generals name on the building. The Iraqi government in Baghdad had basically succumbed to the Iranians due to diplomatic and strategic failures by Bush and Obama, it was acting as an Iranian puppet state (which would eventually lead to major protests and a near collapse of the government). The general had gone to Iraq to bribe the proxies with more money to commit more violence against the Americans. They had been increasing their attacks on shipping including seizing ships. All while both the Ayatollah, and a series of sycophants had been talking absolutely mad shit on Twitter.
So he fucking smoked the general in Iraq, and posted an American flag on Twitter. Fucking Christ.
Remember when the Taliban backed out of a peace accord? Trump's response was to drop a fucking 25,000 lbs bomb on one of their facilities.
The fact that Trump's biggest supporters on Jan. 6 were Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, tells me that I think he's starting to realize just how many people were actually fucking over him. I honestly feel like this is a guy who might not hold big grudges, but you get his attention enough to piss him off, he might just decide to fucking smash you.
That "Schedule F" thing was absolutely real, and he enacted it. All we've basically seen is that he plans to expand it. I don't doubt he's prepared to start chopping away at the establishment after they fucked him over this bad.
Guys like Trump, the guys who make it their business to look powerful, they take being made a fool of very personally.
I don't know why he's so friendly with Lindsay Graham then. Not to mention he keeps sitting down with MSM journalists who have trashed him in the past.
I don't think you're wrong. But you still need to consider that he has no political experience. I think he's learning, and he's also the type to seek revenge.
Consider that he fired Steve Bannon, but Bannon is still one of the biggest driving forces for Trump's logistics. That seems like an indication that he's learned something.
He is a paper tiger who was even afraid to fire Fauci.
You make him sound like a badass when in reality he is a man completely out of his depth.
He got played bigly and he didn't even learn anything from his mistakes.
He refuses to even acknowledge he made mistakes in the first place and he surrounds himself with the same incompetent staff that was responsible for failing at preventing the election fraud.
Nominating him again in 2024 is a terrible mistake that the right needs to be smart enough to avoid.
I don't agree with your assessment of him not learning from his mistakes as he's keeping rightists much closer (including Bannon), has claimed to use pardon powers to free Jan 6-ers (aggressive pardoning is a good executive weapon against federal courts), his "Schedule F" federal order will give him the power to remove thousands of federal employees, and I'm very confident he's the type of person to want to get revenge on those who cross him.