Posted on 01/08/2020 6:16:29 PM PST by bitt
If you have played poker, you have played against a guy like my friend Woody.
Woody talks a big game, makes big bets, relentlessly raises the stakes at all kinds of inappropriate times and usually walks away with the biggest pot at the end of the night.
President Trump is like Woody.
He would be a nightmare to play poker against.
He is always on offense. He is always making a big show of his big bets. When he does fold, he does it so quietly, nobody really notices, because he is on with his next big bet.
Predictability used to be the hallmark of America’s international policy. But Trump has changed that equation.
He is unpredictable, unconventional, and he makes foreign leaders, our allies and the Washington establishment exceedingly uncomfortable.
When he folds, like he did on a huge spending package that included some but not all of his requested money for the border wall, he does it so quietly, that nobody really even reported on it.
He folded, but he won anyway.
That’s how good Trump is at playing poker in this modern political moment.
The president has plenty of trump cards up his sleeve as he moves forward on his campaign to reelection this year.
He pulled one of them when he authorized the assassination of one of America’s toughest foes, Qassem Soleimani.
Sure, it was a gamble, and we don’t know how exactly it will play out.
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We can always predict that Trump will act in America’s best interest. Seems predictable to me!
Trump swam w/ the sharks in the dog eat dog worlds of gaming, real estate development and reality TV......
.......and succeeded at all three.......
He’s dealt w/ people that make deep staters look like mental midgets.......same goes for these intl thugs.
President Trump sides with the citizens and the rule of law, such a novel concept.
Now, the Oriental mind will play the long game of waiting him out because it is highly unlikely Americans will choose another winner to be POTUS. We had a long list of idiots after Reagan. They will get their nuclear weapons in time.
I hate to say it, but we missed our chance to KO Tehran. Ollie North was right. We could have had a STRONG ally in the Persian Gulf in short order.
And Obama was perfectly predictable, too.
Have to disagree, if for no other reason than Soleimani was scragged on Iraqi turf — the same territory he was planning terror attacks against.
Attacking the Iranian homeland would raise a whole ‘nother set of problems.
One also has to think that Trump (in both the hotel and gaming industries) has had to deal with, and beat, organized crime figures.
Iran will never be an ally or partner as long as the mullahs are in. Containment strategy doesn't work because you have to contain at every junction. We failed, see Reagan's legacy. The entire USG would have to contain with each successive administration-- and it doesn't work.
Iran is an enemy. A much more sensible American doctrine is to plan for and seek his demise. We missed our chance, particularly with an Iranian population that wants a chance to rid themselves of the mullahs.
241 dead Marines and sailors is a bill that has yet to be paid.
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LOL .... right.
There is a three part documentary about Trump and his family which goes into some detail explaining "how" he was able to continue to get concrete for Trump Plaza when no one else in NY could get it.
Pretty funny segment.
I just watched it. Thought I would drop out after a few minutes, but I watched the whole thing as I ate my lunch.
Trump is an amazing guy, and thank God he is our president!
Expect the RAT vote fraud machine to be in high gear, though.
This is the age we live in where a politician is unpredictable if he actually follows through on his campaign promises...
“Pretty funny segment.”
Is ‘the pretty funny segment” on an objective network or is it on a network that invents hit pieces?
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