The President Better Pick His Battles To Win The DC Game of Thrones

President Trump has done remarkably well so far, considering the hatred, contempt, and subversion he faces from members of his own party – much less the garbage he endures from the astonishingly inept and newly Russophobic Democrats. These nimrods’ bright idea for appealing to the deplorable people we call “normal Americans” is to take the New Deal and replace the adjective with “Better.” It has yet to occur to them to try not calling us “Jesus-loving gun freak racists who aren’t afraid enough of the weather and don’t believe women can have penises too.”

But it’s bad strategy to rely upon the lameness of your opposition. Instead, the president should be focused on launching a disciplined and overwhelming attack against the establishment to force his agenda through. But he’s not doing that. He’s messing up by going off on emotional tangents, and it will catch up with him.

I’ve taken a lot of whiny grief for defending the president, and I even got booted off CNN by a fussy Don Lemon when I refused to diss him over something dumb. I’ve supported him since he was nominated because he’s not a giant sack of leftist corruption and malice like Felonia von Pantsuit. It’s cost me the acquaintance of some acquaintances, but I’ll live. I usually avoid criticizing him because there are plenty of folks eager to do that. Fort Benning taught me that you win by beating the enemy, not your own side, and I have zero intention of fretting because Trump’s personality musses the feathers of conservatism’s Margret Dumont contingent.

But sometimes you need to lay down some real talk, and this comes from someone who supports the president’s efforts to defeat the enemies of normal Americans. So let me say it clearly.

Stop this nonsense about Jeff Sessions.

Stop it.

Have some discipline and focus. The day you decided to start pummeling Sessions was supposed to be about health care. The fact that our cunning, turtlesque majority leader managed to drag the first vote over the finish line notwithstanding, all you did was annoy your allies. When pretty much every Twitter pundit and senator and Rush and Hewitt and Tucker and Breitbart and a bunch of other alt-righties are all on the same sheet of music, that’s an indicator that you’re stepping all over your Schumer.

And Sessions is your friend – you can’t diss a friend, or you won’t have any friends left. And you need friends, because the enemy is coming.

Yeah, I get it that Sessions is a disappointment. The civil forfeiture stuff is stupid and his focus on pot-puffing stoners is almost as boring as the pot-puffing stoners themselves. He hasn’t picked the low-hanging fruit of Democrat duplicity. His ridiculous nod to the establishment by pretending this Russian idiocy wasn’t just a soft coup by deep state dorks and recusing himself was simply a sign that he’s not fully woke to the reality of this struggle. This isn’t a collegial, gentlemanly disagreement – homie should have gotten a clue when he was nominated and all his Distinguished Colleagues and Dear Friends across the aisle started calling him a klansman. This is a struggle to the death, and he should have told those braying morons demanding recusal to take their collusion and stuff it up their Harry Reids.

Okay, so Sessions is weak and a sucker, and that weakness and suckerness led to the unleashing of that Bob “Mr. Integrity™” Mueller and his team of foam-mouthed Hillary donors. The real threat is clear – Mueller needs to be neutered even beyond what a post-Vietnam life sniffing the seats of power have done to him.

And that neutering imagery leads us to a helpful analogy to the president’s current short-sighted failure to marshal his considerable power and use it decisively instead of squandering it. It’s the hit TV show Game of Thrones, the entertainingly bloody-and-breasty elf opera that has the distinction of showcasing almost as many manhood-challenged personalities as a Weekly Standard cruise.

Spoilers follow, so stop reading if you care.

Here’s the problem. The president has some huge challenges. He has limited combat power – yeah, he has a lot, and while it is still superior to his enemies, it is not unlimited. There’s a basic military rule of thumb that you break at your own peril. You do not split a superior force.

When you split a superior force, the enemy can then move to defeat you piecemeal. A superior force nearly guarantees a win. Take the guaranteed win. Grind out the victories. Don’t split your army.

They did in a recent Game of Thrones episode. The hot girl with the dragons met with the sort-of-hot woman with the three hard-six daughters, the bi-curious pirate chick, the sassy old lady who used to be Emma Peel, and the differently-abled person of shortness, and they came up with a war plan. It was a terrible war plan. They split their vastly superior force in two instead on focusing on the castle with the hot woman who was getting it on with her brother before she became a big enough star not to have to do nudity.

Terrible plan. Naturally, the enemy destroyed their fleet because they split their forces and ditched their dragon air cover like morons. I expect the producers thought it was super progressive to have the generals be all either women-identifying women or dwarves, but then they got thoroughly beaten by a cis-vertical phallo-person of pallor.

I’m not sure that’s the girl/midgetpower message they meant to convey, but whatev. The point is that when you lose focus and try to fight every battle, you risk losing every battle. The Sessions fight wasn’t strategically necessary – hell, “winning” would mean someone even worse because there’s no way the Senate will confirm anyone as AG that Trump actually wants.

Focus. Discipline. No one enemy can compete with the president, but a bunch of enemies can. Using the superior force at hand in a cunning, targeted way can bring back the winning. But uncoordinated, quixotic, emotion-driven lashing out? No, that’s what the Democrats and the Fredocons want from the president – mostly because they know from their own bitter experience how it leads to losing.

Good take...so then he needlessly engages the trannies which brings into full battle mode the gays, lesbos, LGBTQXYZ’s, for what? Distraction?

Then Scaramucci’s entire financial records are :lkeaked” in the face of his vow to slay the leakers.

And Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz’s brother it turns out is the US Attorney in charge of the Jeff Rich murder coverup and the US House Pakistani IT hackers case being covered up by his sister.

One reason I voted for Trump is that I knew it would be a heck of a lot more fun than listening to harangues from the dour stumbler for 4 long years. In contrast our time with Trump has flown by.

In the big picture the voters can't and won't stop voting for politicians who only say yes to socialism, yes to spending enough to destroy the dollar, and yes to their deep state swamp-masters. Levin is absolutely right when he says there is a binary choice between Americanism (freedom, capitalism, etc) and progressivism (where the state runs the economy). There is nothing in between except a very small transition period. Levin is a teacher and an optimist but I believe Americans are brainwashed beyond hope.

So far I have learned to Trust Trumps instincts instead of listening to pundits who were so wrong over the last 2 years. Carry on President.

I have been puzzled about this since it started. It's quite possibly a put on by Trump, but I honestly don't know.

Another possibility (other than it's a distraction show by Trump and Sessions), is Trump needed to put a fire under Sessions, and did so. It's fairly certain he can't terminate Sessions as AG without riling the RINO senate, and the dems are determined to make sure he can't make a recess appointment.

Which would leave him with a de facto Rosenstein AG. It's called the horns of a dilemma.

So he does what he needs to in the best way he can. Light a fire under an employee who he can't get rid of. Make Sessions know he isn't doing what he should be doing, and keep doing so until he changes, or quits on his own. Strange enough, that seems to have worked a little bit in the past days. The AG is changing course in some ways.

One thing for sure, Trump is neither stupid, nor as half cocked in his responses as the media portrays. He's pretty dang good. Not that he can't make mistakes, but so far he's simply out fought his opposition and tied them in more knots than they can handle.

We'll eventually know what this is about, but it's certainly entertaining if nothing else.....

If this was just a Twitter rant I'd be the first to admit that he could have just impulsively vented without putting a lot of thought into it. We all remember how the term "covfefe" became a hilarious cult fixture among Trump's supporters (and even grudgingly among many of his detractors, I'm sure).

This wasn't the case at all.

1. This all started with a lengthy interview ...

2. ... with the New York Times, of all media outlets! ...

3. ... which is a newspaper that has been working incessantly to undermine President Trump ever since he was nominated last year ...

4. ... and which President Trump repeatedly refers to as "the Failing @NYTimes" in his Twitter posts (including several times since the interview was published).

The whole thing sounds contrived from top to bottom to me. LOL.

“When your “friends” take a top level position and produce NOTHING in six months, you have to build a fire under them one way or another”

I hope he’s holding a proverbial knife to Session’s throat.

Trump should never have appointed anyone from our irredeemably corrupt and depraved political class.

Yes, even Elmer Fudd Sessions is irredeemably corrupt and depraved, underneath that marshmallow exterior.

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