Posted on 04/18/2016 7:43:25 AM PDT by GilGil
This is the strongest position Trump has been in since he announced. The chess board is all set for him to win the nomination and then go on to a landslide in the general.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.dilbert.com ...
shhh, the rope-a-dope game is still ongoing....
Well Adams the Dilbert guru knows business and Trump is a businessman. Adams seems to have some good points that Trump could uncork a lot more power than we’ve seen so far.
Trump is coming to a focus.
I love it when Cruz says he is the most experienced for the job but has zero business experience. The same holds for Hillary.
They have never created tens of thousands of jobs. they have never created wealth on a massive scale like Trump; yet, they seem to pass over this lack of experience. That is the most important aspect of a president.
Amazing!
Adams has been doing in my opinion the best writing on Trump since the beginning. He’s been right a lot more than he’s been wrong so far.
Thanks, always fascinating to catch up on what Scott is seeing while most of the rest are on a different level.
The “Crooked Hillary” brand is pretty good IMHO, as it snaps people right back to Rose Law, cattle futures, and Whitewater as a reminder that she has always been engaged in shady deals that were never quite enough to take her/Bill down. It’s the death of a thousand paper cuts that will get her, not some crashing blow that she’s very good at ducking.
And of course Trump knows more than he puts forth, and he uses it to his advantage. For example, after hiring former Cruz spokesperson/possible mistress Katrina PIerson Trump knew full well that Cruz has been lying about some very important things for a long time, in addition to the lies he tells constantly in the course of his campaign rhetoric. He knew that by calling him “Lyin’ Ted” people would think of the latter, while knowing full well Cruz would never dare challenge him on the nickname for fear that Trump might expose the darker stuff.
“Master Persuader”! It’s the art of the deal, man!
I’m not sure it is more important in the abstract, but it certainly could come in handy now in an America that is suffering self inflicted business woes due to governmental folly. Trump would be credible when calling for an end to such folly.
Ah, the chessboard!
Man’s invention to supercede the David vs Goliath scene.
Wars have been waged and lost, with the loser-who represents the opposing force-forfeiting their life.
A good chess player can run gambits moves ahead of the competitor. He can also set the game’s motion, depending on the inattentiveness of the opponent.
He can also, on a caprice, seem to know nothing of the game, making bizarre board moves, but all the while, inching towards the opponent’s capitulation.
Cruz and Congress play checkers.
Kasich thinks he is playing backgammon.
Trump is playing Kasparov moves.
“Adams has been doing in my opinion the best writing on Trump since the beginning.”
Agree. He sees and notes the obvious on an understandable level, while the pundits wax eloquent about ideology, etc., and their bafflegab is just noise.
Kasich is a comical sideshow and everybody knows it. If Kasich fails to finish a strong second next week in Pennsylvania, he's done. Oh, his ego is big enough that he may stay in the race in hopes of a brokered convention. But such a scenario means Rubio jumps back in as well. Maybe even others.
Trump is on track to sew up a majority by California, if not before. Cruz will get behind him as well. Ted can't leave the race now, because he has to be the only viable Trump alternative and suck all the oxygen out of the room.
"Trump depends on a slow drip of future news that reinforces the label. Trump knows Cruz will say some things that are not true (as all candidates do) and it will reinforce his “lyin’” label. Likewise, Clinton will endure a slow drip of allegations about crooked dealings in the past, taking money from banks for speaking fees, and the email server situation. Every time another sketchy detail emerges, you will think “crooked.” The new name is sticky. And it is engineered with a timer so it worsens all year until the election."
(Emphasis mine.)
Trump understands the Tao. Make a small tweak and let nature take its course.
So a maximum of forty percent of the public can stand his vulgarity, his boorishness, his bullying, his ignorance, and what not. So what? They really, really, REALLY want him elected and that, rather than the OTHER 60% of the vote is all that counts in their fertile imaginations.
So what if he is Manhattan lifelong liberal? Doesn't all that complicated stuff about actual principles just make their heads hurt. He is on autoinsult towards those they despise. He tickles their ears. He is the secular messiah, at least according to his sycophants.
Imhotep! Imhotep! Imhotep!
Someone is going to lynch Trump?
To paraphrase H. L. Mencken (ever hear of him, Trump acolytes?), no one ever went broke underestimating the gullibility of the American public especially when afflicted with nearly eight years of the Islamofascist Comrade Obozo.
And as Gilbert K. Chesterton famously observed: Those who do not believe the Truth, will believe anything.
Americans, REAL Americans, are so mad they could just spit which is what many of them are doing and it's a lot easier than, well, thinking.
If you are right, that makes Trump an extortionist. If you are wrong, it makes him an unprincipled hustler for power perfectly willing to relentlessly destroy the reputation of one of our finest senators while being himself Lyin’ Donald.
What other American political figure was associated with the word "crook" or "crooked"? Like an epitaph.
I don't think that Adams has missed a significant moment or prediction this cycle.
He's not a Trump supporter; he is taking a "purely academic" view of the Trump phenomenon, and he has been right consistently.
Scott Adams would say that we live in an irrational world. Trying to reason with a Cruzlim is pointless.
Kasparov would be quite offended by your using him in Trump’s cause. Read his Op-Ed in the New York Daily News about what he thinks of Trump for hiring Paul Manafort (whose efforts temporarily overcame the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and returned that country to communist rule briefly). Kasparov knows whereof he speaks as a former subject of soviet totalitarianism, however honored as a chess champion before he defected. Kasparov speaks from principle and does not worship the unprincipled Manhattan god of ignorance with plaster feet. So not only can Kasparov’s actual beliefs be safely ignored but they can be distorted in service to Trump Almighty whose salivating supporters simply do not care about moral distinctions or conservative principles.
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