Posted on 01/26/2019 6:19:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Chill.
Just chill. The wailing and gnashing of teeth on the hardcore conservative side over Trump’s delaying action – really, a hudna – in the battle for the wall is way over the top and typically overdramatic.
Trump’s caved-in!
We’re doomed!
Pelosi annihilated him with her master stratagems and it’s all over for conservatism!
Oh please. Lighten up, Francises – and many of you are my pals. But you need this bucket of cold water. What happened Friday doesn’t matter.
Not at all.
Well, that’s not quite accurate. It could matter, if you decide to keep doing exactly what Nancy Pelosi wants you to do, freaking out. That’s why she employed her brilliant stratagem of just saying “No” – since you’re upset, let me point out that this is sarcasm.
It wasn’t brilliant – it was obvious. She was counting on you to set up as a do-or-die test for Trump over something where she and Chuck Schumer held a veto. Thanks to Paul Ryan and the Fredocons, the House belongs to the Democrats, and the Senate can’t pass anything without 60 votes and we have 52 plus Mitt. So Trump can’t build a wall without their OK, and the emergency power thing is no panacea – it will last about 30 seconds before some Obama judge enjoins it.
You were going to let your support for Trump be entirely contingent on the Democrats’ approval? What were you thinking?
You weren’t, and I get it. You’re emotional. No one has been used and abused worse than conservative voters. We’ve been lied to by decades by pseudo-conservatives who promised to do what we wanted but never did it even when they could. Sure, they could always manage to do the stuff the donors wanted – how about a new tax cut! – but the stuff we really wanted? Nah.
So I get that you have trust issues. You should – you’ve been burned so often you’re crispy. But now we crispycons have a guy in the White House who actually wants to do the stuff but can’t, as opposed to the establishment jerks who didn’t want to but could have. So spazzing out makes zero sense.
Get a hold of yourself. Let the “Ahoy!” crowd read from the Democrat narrative memo. You shouldn’t. You should chill.
So we lost this round? So what? We’ve lost before, and we’ll lose again. This is for the long-haul folks. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. There’s no magic wand where one term of Vitamin D cures a century of progressive pathology.
Trump’s instincts have been right all along. We doubted he could win. He did. We doubted he would actually remake the courts. He has. We doubted he’d fight for the wall, but he did, and he paid a price. Who else would have withstood the heat this long? Who would have even picked the fight?
Mitt? Jeb!? Chet the Unicorn?
Name the Republican you want to replace him with. Who’s the guy who is going to stand up to the cultural fascists like Trump? Who’s going to fight for you harder?
What’s his name?
***mumble mumble mumble***
I CAN’T HEAR YOU! WHAT’S HIS NAME!
Nobody.
I’m not ready to even accept that we’ve lost the battle – let’s see what happens in three weeks. But what was the better plan for the shutdown skirmish? Keep it going? Friday morning was bringing reports of airport shutdowns. That might have made it real to the Normals. See, we political types were watching and caring, while they weren’t. But it looked like they were about to start. Maybe Trump’s instincts, which you have to admit have been remarkable (Just ask Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit after you pump a few cups of joe into her lie-hole to sober her up), told him it was time to cut his losses. Remember Alinsky Rule No. 7?
“A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
Did any of you see any indication at all that the shutdown tactic was about to deliver us victory, that it was not becoming a drag? Me neither. Cut your losses. Pull back here, counter-attack there.
We’ve been attacking for two years, racking up conservative triumphs you’ve never experienced unless you were one of us who was of age during the Reagan years. Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh – what other GOP president would have held course and made them happen? Trump’s remaking the courts and rebuilding our military. He gutted Obamacare and Obama’s regulations. He’s pulling us out of useless wars, useless agreements with Iran, and useless climate change scams. He’s got clarity on Israel, on the garbage mainstream media, and America’s useless elite.
Remember that in the days before the shutdown truce, we had won a huge victory over the garbage mainstream media by exposing their lies about the Covington kids and the drum-banging Frigidaireborne ranger. Buzzfeed first had its lies about the president exposed and then had to make massive lay-offs. HuffPo Opinion died. Even the SWAT raid on Roger Stone turned out to have zilch to do with collusion, as usual.
We’re winning, politically and culturally. Yeah, they’re fighting back, except that’s what opponents do, and opponents sometimes score. But if this was baseball, we and Trump would be batting .900, yet some of you can’t accept net success. It’s like some of you are only comfortable losing, but that’s not your fault. Thanks to the useless GOP establishment, you’re just used to losing.
Think about it – what do Nancy and Chuck want you to do right now? They want you to say “Gosh, Trump didn’t get the wall yet so I’m going to stop supporting him” and to give up in despair.
Maybe you should do as I do, and make it a rule not to do what Chuck and Nancy want you to do.
So calm down. Don’t be manipulated. If you want the wall, keep backing the only possible politician who has any chance at all of delivering one. Will he? Maybe. Maybe not. But if you don’t support him, your chances drop to zero.
We lost a fight. We have not lost the war. We only lose if we do what Nancy and Chuck want and turn on the President.
Chill.
Now, if you want to see what will happen if we abandon Trump like the Democracts are trying to manipulate us into, check out my latest novel, Wildfire, and my earlier installments People’s Republic and Indian Country. We better get out heads right and look at the long-term fight instead of wetting ourselves every time stuff doesn’t go our way. We’re going to lose a lot of fights before we win this war.
I believe George Washington lost a lot of battles during the Revolution. The British were good at the art of war. But Washington stayed in the game and focused on strategy and he triumphed in the end.
More disgusted by the ‘Progressives’ behavior in this. The war on Trump and his supporters has just begun.
I was a Cruz supporter in the primaries. But Trump has done more than enough good for me to trust him even if he doesn’t win every round. I was slow to come around, but I won’t quit him early either!
How many things that you wanted done today would have been done by Hillary?
Today is a good day.
Thank you. It’s like people think he has the power to singlehandedly fund and build a wall. HE DOESN’T. He’s doing his part, people, so calm down. Yes, Ann Coulter, I’m talking to you.
Was this really about the wall or was this about Trump keeping Democrats from pursuing their objectives in the house? Lets assume Trump knew he would never get Pelosi to agree. Why then pursue a losing strategy?
From the outset I never expected Pelosi to agree. My belief is that Trump always knew he would have to use presidential powers to achieve wall and that the shutdown was for other purposes. Stall dem legislation, control narrative, delay impeachment, divide Democrats, ??
That’s because the demographic problem is THE biggest problem there is. If the majority of the population is replaced then all of these other victories will effortless by reversed, quite possibly permanently. Personally, I think it may be too far gone and it would require too harsh measures that even people here won’t be able to stomach.
If we don’t get immigration under control none of the rest of it will matter.
It’s amazing how one seeming defeat can make some people forget years of victories. Here’s some for the naysayers.
From Wikipedia: “As of January 23, 2019, the United States Senate has confirmed 85 Article III judges nominated by President Trump, including 2 Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 30 judges for the United States Courts of Appeals, 53 judges for the United States District Courts...”
We are only two years into his first term. He has a real chance to get a third SC justice. The economy is strong (in spite of “economists” and the media constantly talking it down). The tax bill passed. China is suffering under tariffs. Manufacturing here, that was thought to be gone forever, is spinning up.
Quit letting yourselves be manipulated and look at the long game.
President Trump has challenges not only from hostile democrats and turncoat GOP, but also from misplaced anger from his supporters.
“We lost a fight. We have not lost the war.”
We lost a fight, but we’re winning the war.
And President Trump will also be able to triumph, and so will we with him
There's really not much Trump could have done better. Even before winning he was surrounded by deep staters, FBI informants, GOPe, etc. After winning it was even worse. Comey turned out to be nothing but a sleezy FBI informant. But Trump kept his old friends and family close. One just got hauled away in a pre-dawn raid. When that happens you know that Trump chose well.
Some of these friends and family are not the best advisors (e.g. Jared) but they are way way better than the alternative which is more GOPe and deep staters.
I was a Cruz supporter also. Trump is a former democrat, and I didn't trust him. I didn't believe he could do everything he promised, and I didn't believe he would even try. So far I have been wrong on almost everything. Trump's fixation as President of the United States is keeping his word on his campaign promises. So far no Wall, but we still have two more years and probably six more years. I'd like to see that victory start on February 15, plus perhaps a month for the legal shenanigans from America's enemies and corrupt Obama judges. In any case, I'm not giving up, and I am admitting that Trump was a much better choice than Cruz would have been.
Trump gave it his all, but he failed to move public opinion. No deflection or distraction can change that fact. Trump’s greatest attribute is that he is a straight shooter. What he shot yesterday had ‘bull’ in front of it. It failed at both inspiring his base and winning new supporters. His face saving speech was insulting. In his next speech, he’d better wear the top hat and tails of a magician as it will be time to pull a rabbit out of a hat. I can’t ‘trust the plan’ based on yesterday’s ‘this time I really mean it’ threat.
The problem is the public is more concerned about Netflix raising their price 2 bucks a month than they are with the invasion.
He needs to declare the emergency at the first sign of this joint committee taking up “comprehensive” immigration reform (which I predict they will). If he doesn’t, 20 Pubbie Senators and 55 reps will side with the Dems and pass a veto-proof bill that will collapse Trump support.
We’re winning scrimmages left and right,
We’re losing the big games though.
Even Kavanaugh.. Gets in and starts agreeing with the left.
We’re getting great wins in the expo, but when it comes to things that really matter we’re not doing too good.
I’m not a never trumper, again - I have to say that I will support his re-election time and time again. I would go to war for our POTUS and he is, without bias, one of the best presidents we ever had. Better than Reagan .
I loved Reagan. But even he sold our gun rights up the river to the left and those who would love to see us disarmed, harmed and enslaved.
The border isn’t just “an issue”. Speed limits and land grabs are “an issue”. We are being invaded by hostile forces looking to parasite off us at best, at worst I do recall that 3 nuclear fissible materials have been stolen from Mexico and South America.
And my gun rights are not an issue. They are my hill that I am dying on.
The Trump has caved or Trump is toast people have retreated ..at least until the next time the media or Glenn Beck or Ann Coulter or whoever they are listening to.. starts talking their defeatist non-sense again.
Nah - he ain’t done yet and won’t quit unless too many snowflake concern trolls jump ship like the ‘Rats they resemble....
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