Posted on 09/29/2022 4:25:56 AM PDT by LRoggy
The only people who Donald Trump drives crazier than his enemies are his friends. We like Trump. We appreciate Trump’s largely remarkable record of achievements – remember how your 401k used to go up instead of plummeting into the earth? We even enjoy his mean tweets. But then he does something that is so obviously self-destructive and, moreover, something that has burned him before, and we want to rip our hair out and shriek like that tubby mutant in the raincoat who got on her knees as Trump’s inauguration was announced and howled “NOOOOOOOOO!”
Okay, why the hell does he still insist on talking to Maggie Haberman of the New York Times? She’s not his friend. She screws him over all the time. The regime newspaper hates him so much that it went beyond the full Walter Duranty to get him. And yet, there he is, giving long, luscious interviews to people who hate him. He did it with Bob Woodward too. Most people put their hands on a stove once and get burned and never do it again, but not Trump. No, by now his paw is figuratively charcoal.
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Haven’t been paying much attention to this, but she wrote a book, right?
Out of curiosity, has she offered to produce the video/audio, proving that he said all the things she alleges he said?
If she did, while I’ll still support him over anyone else in any Primary, he should probably rethink some things.
If she didn’t and she’s lying, maybe he’s set a trap for her. Let her run her mouth. Let Schlicter and everyone else talk about blah, blah, blah. Then let Pres Trump pull something from his sleeve showing that she’s lying. It’s happened before, hasn’t it?
Very true. Trump has brought over a lot of former Democrats. I don’t think that anyone can match Joe Biden on that front. Biden is making new Republicans at a rate unlike anything we have seen.
Trump “sat down with” Mark Zuckerberg, and he monitored the situation as his most vocal supporters were kicked off of social media. Part of that is a generational matter of believing that television is the be all and end all (which also likely led, at least in part, to his endorsement of Dr. Oz, the wisdom of which remains to be seen), another part is probably a blind spot with people; maybe he thought that Zuckerberg was a friend. He is not. At all.
If Trump gets another shot at power, he will have to hammer the leftists in the tech industry. While the modern Right might be uncomfortable with that, the ability to deplatform on the basis of ideology has to be stopped.
Nonsense! Giving interviews only to media like Fox does nothing for the rats who only desire to hear “the word” from the MSM. In this case, the rats only hear the twisted crap from the MSM, since they rarely tune-in to right-leaning stations. When Trump interviews with rat stations, he delivers his word directly to the MSM. The rats who only listen to the MSM can now see the ADULTERATED word clearly output by their own stations, while potentially other MSM stations output partial truth or even THE truth about what Trump said. It has the potential of throwing the rat media in disarray if they refuse to toe the demoncrat line.
trump has to be the one administering MAGA. trump is the lightning that is bringing the storm... yes it is difficult to find the people of the swamp with the backbone to fight the fight, but if we quit on trump, no one else will join the fight for fear of a fickle electorate.
stay the course. others that follow will be stronger.
Trump is a narcissist with a major ego. We need to move on from the guy. I appreciate what he’s done but his tragic flaw is going to be our undoing. I’ve been flamed on this site but morons who don’t understand how politics actually works. If Trump runs in ‘24 we lose...Biden may even run again and win.
This is a serious management deficiency which hampers materially implementing life, liberty, and property to a meaningful extent.
Betrayal is one thing. Even Reagan had his Judas' - everyone has a backstabber in their history. But Trump's penchant for picking losers more often than not, is a symptom that can't and shouldn't be chalked up to randomness. Indeed, I want a CEO who can shake hands, look into people's eyes, and smell a rat.
Obama and Clinton didn't have this deficiency. They surrounded themselves with loyalists and retinue that implemented a lot of hateful, destructive policies. It's painful to see Trump have the keys to the Executive, but fail in a most basic function of execution that those two losers were able to master.
True, we got good judges, we got good tax breaks, and other things. And his final two press secretaries were fearless. And Trump had heart and certainly revived the spirit of this nation. That is no small feat, and he remains the standard bearer. He'll likely get the votes of people like Col Schlichter.
But for crimminy sake, we gotta call balls and strikes and Trump keeps tripping over coffee tables on his hiring choices. Bad personnel have a ripple effect that transcends the headlines.
It's like Alice In Chains' singer Layne Staley...he had a voice and could write lyrics, but he was a junkie. He chose drugs, turned his back on the fans and the band, and OD'd. The band chose William Duvall to be their new frontman after Staley died. Duvall can sing, play guitar, he's not a junkie, and can walk and chew gum simultaneously. Since 2010 AIC has cranked out three solid albums and kept touring. Duvall for the win.
I love Trump. But ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.
But if not Trump, then who? Assuming that DeSantis isn’t even interested in the job in 2024.
Well put.
The Christian is called to forgive. Commanded to forgive.
No Christian is obliged habitually or dogmatically to play the part of a doormat.
There aren’t many possibilities out there. We will probably roll with Trump, but ‘24 is most likely lost unless Trump gets rid of his personality flaws...and that isnt going to happen.
You let the media define Trump. Whatever his “flaws” are, are miniscule compared to any other politician. In fact, they are mostly due to the fact that he isn’t a politician. I’ll take it.
the best president in my lifetime, had the foresight to toy with the idea of first strike nuclear policy knowing Russia would be a threat, now let’s use it.
They’re not miniscule when his tweets are out there for everyone to see. He has also made many a questionable statements to the public and picks fights with people constantly because his huge f-in ego is so damn fragile! I have actually read his tweets and seen/listened to some of his more controversial statements which people on here just ignore and quite frankly it’s a miracle he ever won the presidency. He is not presidential at all. I do appreciate what he did policy wise but he will never get back the white house...too many people hate him.
Love Legit President Trump, and still remember when he said before the 2016 elections that he'd be so Presidential, it would be boring.
Never happened.
Yes, President Trump did what he said he'd do. The thing is, he gave the lying liberal lamestream media all the negative talking points they wanted, and they deliberately left the truly important stuff on the edit room floor.
The lying liberal lamestream media will never allow legit President Trump to communicate directly with the American people.
He's banned on "social media", hardly anyone uses Truth Social (it's a giant echo chamber) and he has a fraction of the following he had on Twatter.
How is he to get his Make America Great Again message out when he keeps giving the lying liberal lamestream media so much crap to go negative on him with?
Well they're getting what they deserve now.
The problem with trying to get your message out through the MSM is that unless it is a live interview streamed full and uncut, they’re going to edit the hell out of everything you say. The stuff you want to have get out, won’t.
Politics is a popularity contest and personality matters. Trump never understood that. Also when the Dems mess up and people are turning against them, he opens his big mouth and makes it all about him and undoes it all. He has never understood Politics 101!!!
... and that's a BIG "if". For all his street-smarts and his vast talents, Trump clearly has a problem with filling positions within his inner circle with people he can trust.
There’s a shocking amount of people who prefer Biden over Trump still. Biden is actually winning in head to head matchups vs Trump as we speak!!! They feel that putting up with Biden was worth getting rid of Trump. I was with two such people at a conference recently and both revealed that they would support DeSantis. If DeSantis doesn’t run, we will be waiting until 2028 for the white house.
Like I say, never underestimate the stupidity of the American People.
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