Posted on 10/03/2016 7:58:46 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
I have had several recent conversation with a close relative concerning Donald Trump's periodic drifts off message and into the tall grass of issues about which, to use my relative's colorful phrase in those calls, "Nobody gives a shit", the rotund Miss Universe contestant being the most recent. During our "chat", she asked me a number of times "Does Trump listen to ANYBODY?"
We had another very animated conversation today during which she informed me that a number of her friends who had not been crazy about Trump but had come to hate Hillary to the point where they WILL vote for Trump. But his recent trips into the weeds -- and the 3am Tweets -- has got them reconsidering their support. While they are mostly well educated and thinking people of long-standing conservative persuasion, they are "uncomfortable" with his recent activities. Several of them -- clearly not sufficiently mindful of the existential nature of the Hillary threat, are thinking about either not voting or -- HORRORS -- voting for HER!
I AM -- and you on this list are -- fully aware of the threat. 4 or 8 years of Clinton will end with 30 to 40 MILLION ILLEGAL DEMOCRATS on the voter rolls and America -- the IDEA and the country we knew and loved -- will either be gone forever or will require a bloody revolution that will make the events begun on Lexington Green in 1775 look like a walk in the park to TRY to get her back!
OK, cutting to the chase: Yesterday, presumptuous me posted this to the monitored "Trump for President" FB page. The admin posted it, probably indicating that he/she shared my concerns:
"Dear Donald, We LOVE you, man. But PLEASE do us ALL a favor and PLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE stow your EGO in these next public appearances. We have a country to save and we desperately need you --our LAST HOPE to turn this thing around -- to NOT allow Clinton to get under your skin. Settle down...PLEASE!!!!!"
Why this vanity post? The concept of "6 degrees of separation" MAY allow us to reach someone who knows someone who....you get the idea...who knows Trump and to whom The Donald WILL listen! And if enough of us hit the social media sites with our concerns it might get to our guy.
Please pass it along. Who knows? Hey, it could happen!
He’s got a giant ego. Everyone who runs for president has a giant ego. Most politicians pretend to be humble. Trump is not a politician.
Shut up Dick, you’re out of line.
Are you squirming on behalf of the snow flakes?
They confuse and confound the enemy, but apparent it does the same to some friendly, such as yourself.
These are tactical plays while he moves forward. He did the same to blow away all the other GOPe players.
ROFL....really, where’s the faith in Trump? I have worked on his campaign for over a year now, and I can tell you there isn’t ANYONE more ready to take America and her people and turn this ‘sewer’ as it is right now, into the Country that it once was!!!
He has earned respect from the American People, and he doesn’t care if your white, black, yellow or brown, you are all Americans....when have you ever felt that before???
If your so worried, get active in his campaign, go deliver material door to door, do phone calls, listen and talk to the ‘people’ like I do, and you will find out people around American cannot wait until Nov. 8th to cast their votes for this man...
The whole reason we love this guy is his MOUTH...he isn’t afraid to use it, he doesn’t believe in P.C. crap!!!
No. Trump is Brilliant. From a citizen patriot to patriot President and knocking out the Bushes and Clintons in one cycle.
HOORAY Trump
Dick, please relax and take a deep breath! I AM is behind Donald Trump, so you don’t have to worry about anything. It will be as it will be. Right now it looks as if enough Americans want to make America Good Again to let us have one last Good King, before the End of the Age. Do your part to spread the word! Look up! Your redemption draws near!
BAM!!!
That’s it.
Crud, I need to double check prior to posting from my smartphone.
To be an artist or a politician requires an ego,
yet having an ego doesn’t make one an artist or politician,
there is more involved.
Hillary! has a tremendous ego but she’s been winging it
so successfully for so many years that she doesn’t realize
she is such a failure at every thing she touches.
Imreally have no idea what the hell your point is or was.
Sorry don’t agree.
If Trump stays quiet then the lies become the truth. Notice Machado has no credibilty now? If Trump stays quiet the media keeps going on about it.
We have a massively popular nominee who draws sellout crowds every single place he goes and smoked almost an entire NHL roster’s worth of competitors in the primary going against a nominee who had to rig her own party to win and whose voters hate her guts. Don’t sweat the minutiae.
Have them read this good Scott Adams article. Remember that 99% of the time he is responding to an attack with some words. Hillary has destabilized the middle east with her policies.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151288850856/presidential-temperament
Do you remember the time someone insulted Donald Trump and then Trump punched him in the nose?
Neither do I. Because nothing like that has ever happened.
Instead, people attack Donald Trump with words (often) and he attacks them back with words. See if the following pattern looks familiar:
1. Person A insults Trump with words. Trump insults back with words.
2. Person B mentions some sort of scandal about Trump. Trump mentions some sort of scandal about Person B.
3. Person C endorses Trump (even if they publicly feuded before) and Trump immediately says something nice about Person C. The feud is instantly over.
See the pattern?
Consider how many times you have seen the pattern repeat with Trump. It seems endless. And consistent. Trump replies to critics with proportional force. His reaction is as predictable as night following day.
The exceptions are his jokey comments about roughing up protesters at his rallies. The rally-goers recognize it as entertainment. I won’t defend his jokes at rallies except to say that it isn’t a temperament problem when you say something as a joke and people recognize it as such. (We see his rally joke-comments out of context on news coverage so they look worse.)
What we have in Trump is the world’s most consistent pattern of behavior. For starters, he only responds to the professional critics, such as the media and other politicians. When Trump responded to the Khan family and to Miss Universe’s attacks, they had entered the political arena. As far as I know, private citizens – even those critical of Trump – have never experienced a personal counter-attack. Trump limits his attacks to the folks in the cage fight with him.
And when Trump counter-attacks, he always responds with equal measure. Words are met with words and scandal mentions are met with scandal mentions. (And maybe a few words.) But always proportionate and immediate.
Does any of that sound dangerous?
What if Trump acted this way to our allies and our adversaries? What then?
Answer: Nothing
Our allies won’t insult Trump, and they won’t publicly mention any his alleged scandals. They will respect the office of the President of the United States no matter what they think of Trump. If Trump’s past behavior predicts his future, he will get along great with allies. Our allies have been fine with every president so far, and they haven’t all been perfect humans. The worst case scenario is that Trump calls some prime minister goofy. We’ll all be used to it by then, including the prime minister in question.
But what about our adversaries? It seems that Trump will get along fine with Putin. And Trump says North Korea is China’s problem. Compare that to Hillary Clinton trying to publicly emasculate Putin (with words) while talking tough about North Korea and forcing them to act tough in response. Clinton seems like the dangerous one here.
Clinton and Trump both talk tough about Iran. That feels like a tie. Trump might talk tougher, but he has a pattern of doing just that to begin any negotiation. Iranians understand negotiating. Clinton has the extra risk of being influenced into military action by lobbyist for the defense industry. That risk is hard to measure, if it exists at all.
China’s ruling party is a bunch of trained engineers who couldn’t be goaded into an over-reaction if you tried. China would expect Trump to be a tough negotiator, but that’s not a cause for war.
From the viewpoint of foreign leaders, Trump is 100% predictable. He responds with proportional force, every time, and right away. The safest situation for the world is when everyone can predict what the United States will do. You can criticize Trump for a lot of things, but he is completely predictable in this particular way.
That’s why it was easy to goad Trump into counter-attacking the Khans. That’s why it was easy to goad him into counter-attacking Miss Universe. But you know what no foreign leader will ever do to Trump?
That sort of bullshit.
That stuff only happens in campaigns and in our internal politics.
And if a foreign leader tried something so classless, Trump would respond proportionately. And every American would cheer when he did. It would be a headline for one day.
The riskiest situation for the world is when our adversaries can’t predict our response. That encourages them to be adventurous. With a President Trump, foreign leaders will know that every action creates an equal and measured reaction. Every time, and right away. That’s his unbroken pattern.
With a President Clinton, foreign leaders won’t always know what they will get. For one thing, they won’t know where her allegiances are. Is she serving the people, the Democratic Party, or lobbyists? Will she react with equal force or try to be diplomatic? Uncertainty is risky. Clinton offers more uncertainty. She is complicated. Trump is simple.
I’ll wrap this up by summarizing the alleged risks of each candidate so you can see how they compare on the “scariness” dimension.
Alleged Clinton Risks
Dementia risk (because of age)
Low energy (maybe can’t perform the job)
Temperament (alleged to yell and throw things)
Might allow more terrorists into country via immigration
Influenced by lobbyists to start wars (Eisenhower warned of this)
Drinks alcohol (We don’t know how much or how often)
General brain health is questionable lately
Adversaries won’t know who she serves or how she will react.
Alleged Trump Risks
Dementia risk (because of age)
Trump is “literally Hitler” (This risk is cognitive dissonance, not real)
Con man (Sure, but we’ll be watching him closely)
Temperament (responds proportionately every time)
Race riots (Clinton’s side created this risk by framing Trump as a racist)
Inexperience (But Trump routinely succeeds where he has no experience)
If you think Trump is risky because of his “temperament” or because he is “literally Hitler” you are experiencing cognitive dissonance caused by Clinton’s persuasion game. I mean that literally. And remember that I’m a trained hypnotist. That doesn’t mean I’m always right, but it does mean I’m trained to spot cognitive dissonance and you probably aren’t.
I don’t think any of us is smart enough to evaluate the relative risk of either candidate. And that’s my point. If you think Trump is the dangerous one, that isn’t supported by his history, his patterns, or the facts. It is literally an illusion created by his opponents.
One thing we can know for sure is dangerous is doing more of the same. Obama has been a successful president in part because the United States was strong enough to take on massive new debt. But that situation can’t last forever. Debt is a good idea until it reaches a point where it is deadly. At the current rate of debt growth, we’re doomed in the long run. That makes the candidate of change the lowest risk, even if you think he might call a few foreign leaders dopey.
Too close to the end for that. I would go the opposite direction and suck all the oxygen away from Clinton.
We finally get someone who stands up to the MSM and ‘rats... and so many want him to shut up...Go Donald, Go!!!
Well, there's the example from his show, which I have posted before, but which is quite apropos, I believe.
This was from YOU'RE FIRED, of course, and in this case a female intern complained that a male intern had provided awkwardly large water bottles for a meeting. Trump listened to her, and immediately agreed, and pronounced the fatal words to the hapless male intern. Just a show, of course, but I don't think this was scripted!
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