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Evaluating the Political Chess Board (Trump is Godzilla, Hillary is Tokyo)
blog.dilbert.com ^ | May 19th, 2016 @ 10:38am | Scott Adams

Posted on 05/19/2016 10:44:39 AM PDT by Trumpinator

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To: Godzilla

Sorry Godzilla, I’d mean you when I said Hillary is Godzilla. I was talking about the other Godzilla.


41 posted on 05/19/2016 1:47:51 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: MrsEmmaPeel
Who’s Mothra?

I think that'd be Bernie, always flapping his wings.

42 posted on 05/19/2016 2:05:21 PM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: Trumpinator

“Clinton appears to be adopting an above the fray tack. Delegating the gutter work to surrogates.”

Actually, this is the conventional approach to Presidential politics: pretend you’re the good guy/gal and let the surrogates do the wet work which can then be plausibly denied if necessary.

Trump on the other hand is anything BUT conventional, and for all practical purposes has no surrogates; thus Trump is both his own good guy and own bad guy, pretty much like all the rest of us who don’t own legions of paid minions to do our dirty work. It’s one of the many reasons Trump is so appealing: despite being a billionaire, he’s actually pretty much like the rest of us in many ways.

Trump’s also going to get almost unlimited airtime (for free mind you), since he’ll go on almost any show at any time. On the other hand, we’re going to see mostly Hillary surrogates, and the few times Hillary appears, it’s going to be only in tightly controlled, friendly venues like “Ellen” where only wymen’s stuff is chatted up. Really, with that dichotomy alone, we pretty much already have game, set, match.

What we have is a match-up with the quintessential conventional political insider Hillary Clinton pitted against the quintessential unconventional political outsider Donald Trump, and things are not really going to go well for Ms. Clinton at all. The people of this country are fed up with conventional political insiders and are way past ready for an unconventional outsider, and Donald Trump fills that bill to a T.


43 posted on 05/19/2016 2:44:40 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Zeppelin

LOL!


44 posted on 05/19/2016 6:46:37 PM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: Trumpinator

Goodbye fivethirtyeight, hello dilbert!

American political analysis has advanced into the 21st Century.


45 posted on 05/19/2016 8:31:18 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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