Trump’s Worst Mistake – by Tom Kratman

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Trump’s Worst Mistake – by Tom Kratman

So where did Trump really screw up?

I am reminded of something Bill Buckley once wrote, “I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.” Just keep that in the back of your mind for the nonce.

Trump’s not an eloquent man. That’s not the problem, although it does tend to explain some of his addiction to Twitter, where no one is eloquent. He’s said some stupid things, here and there, which have cost him some support he could and should have had. But then weigh those factors against some of his undoubted successes.

We had a gangbuster economy for four years. Even COVID and lockdowns couldn’t kill it.

We were energy independent, as much as we cared to be, and were for about two years. Did you imagine the eco-nazis near and at the core of the Democratic Party were going to let that continue? (If so, I have this bridge…) We didn’t open any new campaigns in either the unwinnable, because we refuse to win it, war against radical Islam nor any more silly-assed interventions on behalf of the goodfeelz of ICOTESCAS, the International Community Of The Ever So Caring And Sensitive.

Illegal immigration had near enough stopped. No, he didn’t get a wall built from sea to shining sea, but he got enough of it built and, as he promised, he got Mexico to pay for a more effective wall…right on their southern border. And the Mexican La Migra, boys and girls, does not fuck around.

His trade rep, Robert Lighthizer, had browbeaten the rest of the world, such of it as matters, into submission. NAFTA is effectively dead, replaced by the more favorable USMCA.
In short, he did what he promised to do, or as much of it as political realities allowed, and then some.

I know a lot of people – some of them close friends – don’t want to see any good or any effectiveness in Trump, largely over any number of the dumb things he’s said, but I’ll ask them to consider just how cogent and eloquent they would be, in Washington, not just friendless but with everyone but your wife and kids turning on you like rabid dogs, where your every word, movement, everything becomes fodder for what is perhaps the most concentrated and concerted efforts at libel and slander ever launched at an American political figure. Sure, terrible things were said and made up about Jefferson and Jackson, Adams, Lincoln, and many others. But it wasn’t from everyone, nor all the time.
I don’t think Trump ever understood, going into this, that he would be quite so alone and abandoned as he was going to be.

And that leads us to the one consistent, horrible, repetitive failing of which Trump truly is guilty; he has perhaps the worst record of anyone but the early Lincoln for picking shithead subordinates, incompetent, unreliable, arrogant, stupid, cowardly, ungrateful, entitled, and treacherous.

Why is that? Well, one thing stands out; again and again Trump went with establishment figures who were – generally quite mildly – seen as something other than pure mainstream. Well…if they weren’t quite mainstream establishment, they were STILL establishment. So of course they turned on him; he was attacking their establishment.

Now go back to that second paragraph, above, the quote from Bill Buckley. You see, Trump did have friends, tens of millions of them. They were the common people, the workers, the natural allies of a revolutionary executive against the aristocratic robber barons, plutocrats, and their running dogs in the establishment.

And that was Trump’s huge mistake; he kept going to those 2000 names of the Harvard faculty…or Yale…or Columbia…or Annapolis…or West Point, when those should have been bars to even slight consideration for his cabinet. Instead, here’s Buckley, again, he should have been looking for the 2000 common folk of talent. No, not me; I want nothing to do with DC. Others.

They could hardly have served him or the country worse.

*For those interested in Colonel Kratman’s fiction, he has a substack, here. – SAH*

193 thoughts on “Trump’s Worst Mistake – by Tom Kratman”

    1. He doesn’t have the heart for it.

      Some sort of medical condition, that he would consider disqualifying, regardless of other factors.

      IIRC, and if there hasn’t been a really excellent new treatment.

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      1. It’s not that. It’s that I consider the job undoable in less than fifteen years and with a large shipping container full of signed but undated pardons.

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        2. When the Soviet Air Force kept building IRBMs instead of the ICBMs that Khrushchev wanted (because everyone knew that Germany was the real enemy), he created an entirely new branch of the military (Strategic Rocket Forces) and took the mission away from the obstructive ones. Variants of this is what Trump needs to do. DC is more poisonous than Moscow so it will take a lot of this.

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          1. Variants of this is what Trump needs to do. 

            The problem is that Congress appropriated no funds for variant agencies. The current employees could and would call any attempt to start one a criminal violation and unlawful order, which would justify a coup. Whether or not it succeeds is another matter, but they certainly can try.

            It’s why the colonel needs all those undated pardons. Any Republican President is going to have to have people who will act for him outside the “law” which has been rigged in favor of the “elites”.

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  3. Saw an interview with Trump where he talked about how he didn’t know and was asking establishment RINOs for advice on whom to appoint. He’s well aware of that mistake and won’t repeat it this time.

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    2. The best answer he can make when one of the establishmentarians makes a manning suggestion is a polite, “Thanks; I’ll keep that in mind” while mentally (and later physically; can’t remember everything 😉) crossing the suggested party off his candidates list.

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      1. Like in Vexxarr where the humans (starting to expand into space) consulted James Cameron for advice on first contact protocol? They just changed their plans when it agreed w/Cameron’s ideas or simply did the opposite.

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        1. Not familiar with Vexxarr, but that sounds right: Whatever he/she/it suggests, do the opposite. At the very least, don’t do that particular thing or anything similar.

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    3. Was about to note that myself. However, I’ll add the rest of my note – avoiding that mistake does not mean that he won’t make a different, just as grievous mistake.

      Landmines to the right, landmines to the left, landmines in front… that’s the current state of affairs.

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  4. Saw a bit of a clip the other day. He admitted to some lady this failing was correct, and he was going to do his best to get better people than he picked the last time. Hopefully, we will see if that is so.

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  5. Well said. Also sorry to hear you won’t be SecDef but your strategy for winning as outlined in A Desert Called Peace probably wouldn’t go over well with much of the electorate, Congress, or the judicial system. Unfortunately. 😁

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    1. Well, clearly CNN would have had multiple cows re the prompt enforcement of field courts martial against j-skool collaborators-with-the-enemy, but the baseline strategy of “Win thoroughly, then pick one enemy General, declare him President, arm up his troops to do all of the COIN stuff and bring your troops home except for trainers, SOF, and possibly air” would have had the undoubtable advantage of removing the Foggy Bottom Boys from internal meddling positions where they did so much damage.

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      2. The foggy bottom boys made enough money smuggling heroin and opium they could retire if they didn’t fear getting caught.

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    2. Along these lines and to commemorate the late James Earl Jones most famous character, I think the next Disney+ Star Wars series should be “Darth Vader’s JAG”.

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  6. Rumor says that he has asked Elon Musk to do a full audit of the .gov and Elon has accepted.

    My first thought was that they’ve both signed their death warrants with that move.

    Second thought was an evil grin. If there’s any truth to that rumor, the bureaucrats are in panic mode.

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    1. Trump doesn’t need a billionaire entrepreneur, he needs an accountant. I wonder if Larry Correia, the International Lord Of Hate, would be willing to put his accountant hat back on for a couple of years? Even though it would interfere with his writing.

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      3. The idea is that Musk has already done that . He famously cut a huge percentage of Twitter’s payroll after acquiring it, with no apparent adverse effects on the site.

        On a more humorous note, I’ve seen it noted he could run the Department of Governmental Efficiency.

        Or DOGE. 😋

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        1. Existing civil service law says GS and SES employees can’t be fired, but existing law says nothing about opening new HQ offices on the North Slope in Alaska and transferring them there…

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          1. An honest Supreme Court would rule that an instance of Congress usurping the President’s authority over the executive branch.

            All of those government departments derive their authority from the President. He/she is their boss. Preventing the President from exercising authority over the bureaucracy is how we got where we are today. At the very least he/she needs to be able to fire the worthless pricks.

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            2. That actually sounds plausible. I have not read the civil service act nor all tech reams and reams of regulations.

              The GS people I have known could lose their job, that is, the working position and task that they were engaged in doing, if the project funding went away or was consolidated elsewhere, but they could not be fired per se, just moved to another job at that same GS level and general specialty (i.e. Programmers would not get switched to Park Rangers or Secret Service Investigators or Oil Rig Inspectors or whatever just because those available jobs were the same GS level).

              If the entire Department of Edumacation was eliminated, however, that would not be an individual action, but more of a RIF, so Vivek might be correct. probably be lots of lawsuits, though, so invest in Lawyer stocks.

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  7. Just saw yesterday that Big Lots is filing for bankruptcy. 3 1/2 years of Bidenomics has ‘worked’ all right — first they put the 99¢ store out of business, now Big Lots. Who can they drive out of business in the 5 months they’ve got left?

    I shudder to think what 4 years of Kackling Kamela would do to the economy. Although it’s not really about the puppets, it’s the puppeteers.

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    1. i will welcome a harris clown show by quitting my job, never paying another dime to government and filing for every single government handout possible even maybe say im an illegal immigrant.

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        1. hi Lauren, yes thats me, hope your little homestead is doing good, you had just gotten moved in last i heard. Been a while!

          hope all is good and that you are still writing.

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          1. Yep, still writing. Some archeologist thousands of years from now will open up my coffin and wonder about the writing on the inside.

            The homestead is not going as quickly as I had hoped, but it’s going. Priority paralysis at the moment. But hydroponics growing for the winter and chickens muttering outside–progress.

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      1. ‘Making Venezuela look good’ listed as an ‘accomplishment’ ?

        Yeah, that would be COMPLETELY consistent with her previous record.

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        2. I don’t think it was Que Mala, but one of the candidates in 2016 said that far from curbing spending, we have to spend as much as possible so the debt clock rolls back to 0.

          In her mind, the “debt” is apparently linked to the number of digits on the debt clock.

          If that was Que Mala, hilarity ensues.

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  8. My experience lies with computers, transportation, physical security, the USAF, ground launched cruise missiles, healthcare, hunting and fishing, and managing small offices of 20 or fewer people. SecAF or SecDef would be fine, I could do a far better job that Butthead as Secretary of Transportation. I’ve helped close down a couple of bases, so I’d love to be made Secretary of Education and given the job of dissolving that abortion.

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  9. Bad time to be a outdoor cat in the US.

    I don’t see the Establishment ceding the election or any power to Trump. They have already crossed the Rubicon and are funding the invasion/destruction of the nation.

    My fear is it may take a Lincoln/Franco level effort to push them out and get some relief for the actual citizens.

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    1. I am hoping we can avoid the Carerra option. (grin)

      Because part of me would be howling to drive the nails. Not sure that is a good thing, long term….

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    2. Damn, that reminds me…need to check to see if the progtard-infested college town I live in has started importing cat-eaters. Haven’t seen any signs of a large new population, but you maybe can’t be too careful.

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        1. FYI. Only has to happen once for it to be true. Other countries do eat cats, dogs, and ducks (heck even duck and goose are valid here, but generally not the “town park” ducks and geese, just saying).

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            1. It’s mentioned in “Dreams of My Father”, though there’s a suspicion that Obama’s ghost writer, Bill Ayers, slipped it in just to check and see whether Obama was paying attention.

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        2. There are an awful lot of people with Cat Derangement Syndrome who would look at that and say “Voting for Harris.” Probably better to use a puppy for the sake of the meme.

          Those who like cats tend to be far more tolerant.

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        1. Nothing like getting ahead of the game. :-P

          How many new memes will we see tomorrow, after the debate? :-o

          I won’t watch it; can’t stand to lose that many brain cells listening to Kackling Kamela. I’ll catch the lowlights on Fox tomorrow.

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    4. The whole “[immigrant group] eats housepets!” story goes back to the Boat People. The folklorist Jan Van Brunvald argues that it is linked to fears that there are not enough resources for both newcomers and current residents.

      That typed, things have changed since 1973-74. Haitians come from a very different culture from Vietnam, other groups likewise. Dog eating is more common (globally) than eating felines, but edible meat is edible meat to some groups. (Or look at the disappearance of critters in cities under siege.)

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      1. I’ve seen a number of posts on X today from people who claim that they saw felines being prepped as a meal in Haiti. Assuming that at least some of those people were telling the truth, then it appears that Haitians really do eat cats when the opportunity presents itself. There’s also at least one video floating around that purports to show a woman cooking a cat here in the US. The focus of much of the Dem claims right now seems to be “That wasn’t Springfield, OH!” Or in other words, they’re not disputing that Haitians have done it. They’re disputing that it was this particular group of Haitians.

        There’s also some “Don’t you far right MAGAs know where meat comes from?” types of arguments from the left – which attempts to sidestep the point.

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        2. ““Don’t you far right MAGAs know where meat comes from?” types of arguments from the left – which attempts to sidestep the point.”

          …………

          Isn’t that what they always do? Every. Single. Time.

          Proper response is “NOT Cats!”

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      2. The root of the problem:

        In this culture, property remains that of the owner, even if it is unguarded or wanders.

        In many others, if you walk away, or just fail to guard it sufficiently, it’s up for grabs and will be grabbed.

        Thus “park geese” and “outdoor cats” become “free groceries”.

        And the grabbers know they are heroes to their family, and that you are an annoying idiot.

        And our Leftroid overlords are OK with that, because they have the means to guard what they have, and prefer everyone else afraid and begging protection.

        Since Americans by and large reject that world view, the Leftroids seek to import enough like-minded grabber folks to tilt the balance in their favor.

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      3. My grandfather lived through the Depression. He called cats “roof rabbits”. Eating them is definitely a thing. Although, I don’t think SNAP or EBT help.

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  10. I would venture, just from what I see in the media, that The Donald’s only real mistake was underestimating the true depth of corruption in the US government.

    Like the big, tall tree that’s rotten an inch down from the bark, waiting for one good storm to blow it over.

    If Trump was a government guy he would know that. But if he was a government guy, he’d be in on it.

    Example, Occasional Cortex seems to have gone from bartender to $29 million net worth since she became a congress critter. A woman with the brain of a chicken is worth nearly $30 megabucks now. Gee, how did that happen? Are they all like that? Is one guy going to become President and break their iron rice bowl without them fighting him to their last ditch?

    So yeah, I think he understands them better now. That’s why he’s doing things like threaten to appoint Elon as a corruption hunter. After what that guy did to Twitter, they’ve got to be shaking in their boots.

    A cornered rat is a dangerous rat.

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    2. Are they all like that?

      Well, I’d assume a D side junior pol gets more incredibly lucrative chance encounters than an R side junior pol, but yeah, I bet they all get at least the choice to participate. I do think some few say no thanks due to personal ethics. It has always been thus, see Maverick and the Keating Five affair, where his personal ethics were on clear display, yet he retained his seat for life.

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  11. While probably not on the same level as the mistakes discussed here, big Trump mistakes I pointed out at the time is that he treated several “agreements” as if they were valid treaties rather than unratified meaningless bits of paper. So he withdrew from the Paris “accord” and the “JCPOA” according to the rules of each. What he should have done is either (a) say “this is meaningless paper, it is void effective immediately” and/or (b) hello Senate, here is an unratified treaty, please have a vote on it — and BTW, I recommend a NO vote”.

    That last option has the benefit of formally killing each of these things as well as forcing Senators to put their position on the record.

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  12. why does everyone think they can read Trumps mind … no one on Twitter is eloquent ??? thus explaining Trump addiction ??? good lord … just stop … (for an addict he seemed to fine NOT on Twitter …)

    any friend of yours that harbors hatred for Trump BECAUSE he said/tweeted something they consider dumb … is … well … whats the ELOQUENT phrase I’m looking for ??? … oh yeah … a MORON …

    Rest of article is spot on …

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    1. Remember he came originally from “the other side of the aisle” originally. His experience was with the more business oriented side of the Democrats in NYC and NY Legislature from the 80’s and 90’s. Somewhere in the Clinton Admin (or even late Bush the Elder) the Dem party started ejecting their moderate wing Blue Dog Democrats (and some Like Clinton pretended to be such but the insiders knew they weren’t). Similarly the republicans divided into the surrender wing and the Newt wing. The Newt wing came to power mid Clinton in his off year but was railroaded by the MSM (who had been in the tank since well forever). So Trump was pre these changes and trusted that folks MOSTLY meant what they said about the good of the country etc. I think he now realizes that most existing politicians are untrustworthy no matter what letter follows their name. Replacing those folks is why taking the presidency is a necessary but not sufficient condition. We need the Senate by a full majority perhaps of 2-3 seats to deal with the Susan Collins types. Luckily the idiot Democrats made it so you can’t use cloture on anything but Supreme Court nominees. Trump has to throw everyone out that he can and have folks to go in as fast as he can, he needs to do that before the end of February at the latest. He should also put in the EO that he added before Biden came in and let folks start cleaning house. To be honest his circuit court judges seem to have been overall pretty good. His Supreme Court nominees are slightly better than a pointy stick in the eye most days but given the cloture rules apply there the ones he got in are way better than Obama or Biden nominees.

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      2. When those folks spoke about the good of the country, they were technically being truthful. They were loyal and patriotic citizens of the Deep State of America, the nation they considered to be the true America, and they adhered to their oaths to support their country against “all enemies, foreign and domestic” – of which the greatest was Enemy Deplorable America, a defeated, occupied, but still unrepentant nation full of bitter clingers, ultra-MAGA semi-fascists, and flyover-country kulaks who needed to be liquidated as a class.

        They still want to impose a 21st century Morgenthau Plan on their occupied enemy, only this time they’re determined to push it through. This time, they’re determined not to flinch due to the humanitarian concerns about millions of people starving – in fact, they’re looking forward to seeing that.

        We’ve been in a Cold Civil War for three decades now, and it can only end when one side or the other is defenestrated from the Overton Window.

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    2. Note, carefully, the difference between mind reading and observing “Tends to explain some of.” Yes, these are different things.

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  13. I suspect Trump is forcing folks to take off what masks remain. The scary part is he might not care what they actually are, or do. Because that path is… messy. He tried it once as “Outsider, excessively naive”. I very much doubt he will play that role again.

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  14. We all have the perfect in-electable candidate, so, we are forced by the dictates of fate to choose between a brash NYC Businessman and a moronic Insider Whore, who slept her way to power. Pay attention boys and girls when they tell you that you will get no respect for positions you did not earn, or earned by opening your legs and mouth, Cameltoe is who they mean. All the ignoring and lies by the media will do no good, Be a whore, and get treated like a Whore. That is reality.

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    1. 7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning

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  15. Trump is 78. Even if his enemies kill him, he’s lost nothing, and still won. More importantly, he’ll have left behind a family empire more pragmatic and ruthless than the Kennedys, with a large fund of money and with a burning desire to take on the Establishment.

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  16. Trump’s two biggest problems in his first term could be summed up as “for all the complaints, he is (mostly) an honest man of business.”

    The first is that he expects a deal to be a deal, and when he’s made a deal, it stays the way it is. If the current deal is a problem, time to negotiate.

    The second is that he expects the people that are working for him to be loyal to the job, despite any complaints they might have about him.

    He’s not going to make those mistakes in his second term. And he’s going to be in full revenge mode as well.

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    1. Which is why the Democrats absolutely can’t allow him to take office. What we’ve seen so far is nothing compared to what they’ll do if he wins the election and they’re looking at Trump 2.0 in January.

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      2. it’s like that Army commercial…

        Trump gets more done by 9am than other pols do all day.

        Trump terrifies the Leftroids because he actually gets conservative stuff done, and he is demonstrably anti-marxist.

        I wonder if he would actually fire everyone over O-5.

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    3. i dunno, hes not off to a good start with vance, IMHO.

      Tulsi or RFK would have been a more strategic choice as they have both been blackballed by their parties.

      the reality, as tough as it is to take, is he will not be allowed to win, the blob hates him,

      the question is, are there enough people sick and tired of this BS and who hate the blob enough to kill it and start from scratch, i doubt it, most everybody is too worried about losing stuff. So death by a thousand cuts it is!

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      1. want to add,

        personally i would go scorched earth on these schittheads if i got elected, make them regret their choices by bringing in a extremely high paid loyal crew and pissing in their cheerios once and for all.

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        1. @ Sarah > “Tulsi and RFK are both, let’s face it, communists.”

          True.

          But for the moment, they are OUR communists.

          (Allusions to FDR & Churchill allying with Stalin are completely intentional.)

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  17. Too bad. I really wanted Col. Kratman as SecDef. I also want Insty on the Supreme Court.

    Though I cannot prove it, I have the background for both DOEs, NRC, and EPA. Doing all four would be easy. Everyone who agrees to leave gets a full pension immediately provided they never ever work for any government in any capacity including subcontractor…and they have to move 500 miles away from DC.

    Then I would hire Larry to audit all the books.

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  19. I hope I’m wrong but I doubt that Trump will get chance to hire anyone.

    If he wins, the commie imported armies around the country will be unleashed. We will will look back next year with nostalgia on the days when they were merely eating our pets and town pond ducks.

    The fiends behind the coming horror show don’t mess around.

    Then again, God watches out for the USA, so maybe not. Maybe we are just being shaken awake before it’s too late.

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    2. If he wins, the armies eill riot in protest. If he loses, they will riot in celebration. Same riots. Same people rioting. Just as much damage.

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      1. People keep referring to them as “armies”; they’re not. To be effective, armies have discipline and (usually) competent leaders, and aren’t composed of groups who are undisciplined at best, and who at most tolerate the other groups. These are a mob of mobs. Take away the leaders and they’re a herd. Dangerous, but chaotic; look at some of the BLM riot videos.

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        2. also easy to deal with if you really want to. They telegraph their positions and movement, and a Tsaernev event would probably sow so much panic that the initial stroke gets dwarfed by trampling…

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        3. And once you understand that their mob “leaders” hide out as “medics”, “water bottle people”, and “press”, then targeting the threat leadership becomes much easier.

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      2. 10 seconds against whom? Military? Veterans? Sarah and Dan Hoyt at 3 am? Steve and Em at 3 am?

        And they don’t HAVE to work together. They just have to inflict attrition (both lives and logistics), and unmask who’s willing and able to resist for follow up by the regime forces who will sit back and let it happen, and then follow up as needed.

        I refuse to assume that the opposition are ALL morons, and also that they can’t use the morons as cannon fodder.

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        1. The opposition is hampered by thinking people who tan are magical.
          I DID say there will be a lot of damage (most of it human) and the butcher’s bill will be horrific. But the moment they activate their “army of illegals” is the moment they get hunted with dogs.
          TBF America will change completely after, in ways we’ll hate. But they will be eradicated from the Earth.

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          1. “…thinking people who tan are magical.”

            THIS

            Along with their delusion that it’s a volume control rather than a locking switch, the delusion that everyone “who tans” are identical widgets who will all do exactly as the Left assumes, and will always join together against anyone who doesn’t tan, will be their downfall. They’d almost certainly put Hutus and Tutsis together and expect everything to be just hunky-dory, because “but they’re all black!”.

            Idiots. Often highly intelligent idiots, but idiots nevertheless.

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              1. They can be intelligent even if “educated” (i.e., credentialed). That’ doesn’t affect’s unrelated to their lack of common sense and their complete intolerance for any dissent from their “received wisdom”. IOW, they can have the ability to learn (the usual definition of intelligence) while lacking any desire to do so. Smugly self-satisfied, vindictive and intolerant pretty much defines them.

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                1. WPDE.

                  I changed “That doesn’t affect” to “That’s unrelated to”; somehow the deleted part was reinserted in the middle by WP.

                  I’ve made a couple of similar deletions/changes here; let’s see what WP decides to do with them…

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          2. But the moment they activate their “army of illegals”

            Activate? Springfield shows they don’t have to “activate”. Just bring them in, dump them, and let them do what they do. Take advantage of the chaos.

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  21. Interesting that the only debate will be on 10 September.

    I have to wonder what the “news” will be covering tomorrow.

    What “totally unexpected” 9/11 idiocy might bump any QueMala pulled train-wreck off the news?

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          1. I am now unsure if literal or figurative chopping would be more satisfying to observe. The more BS they press the more appealing literal sounds.

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        3. sigh. It would really mess up the writing. However the accent should make it fun.
          OTOH I am really out of patience at this point so the chance of just saying “Are you an idiot? You can’t be as stupid as you’re pretending to be.” is high.

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          1. EXACTLY. This is what we need. We need somebody who will treat the Treason Media like Gordon Ramsay treats an unsanitary incompetent chef. I have no doubt of your qualifications for the role because you, like your readers, have Pretty Much Had It With This Shit.

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          3. Actually, I suspect most of them are at least as stupid as they seem. They’ve been taught stupidity from the cradle on. They’ve learned not to think. And then they’re selected for their ability to repeat the stupid shit they’ve been indoctrinated with.

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          4. Erm. If offered the position, PLEASE make it a condition that all press conferences will henceforth be conducted by Zoom.

            Over the years, I have found your tales of relocation to be fascinating – in a horror movie plot kind of way. No mas, por favor.

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            1. Don’t even have to go as far as axes. If the press secretary sat there before the meeting started, sharpening a dagger, that would get their attention.

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        4. Anyone else remember when BlackFive had the on-going series about Uncle Jimbo as Press Secretary? Those were delightful, in a warped sort of way. *Beatific kitty smile*

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      1. K already pounded on 2025 project. Idiot.

        K already pounded ‘on worse recession and job loss’ from the pandemic.

        DJT said 2025 project he has no idea what it is in it. Does not want to know.

        DJT on job increases were due job bounces.

        Be interesting on when they actually get to the next question.

        1st instance of K copying Biden’s plan.

        Now pounding on Tariffs. (‘if tariffs are so bad why haven’t tariffs been removed?’)

        Not sure I can listen to that voice for 90 minutes. Agggggg

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        1. Fox did.

          Already calling ABC out for letting K slide on taking any responsibility for the last 3 1/2 years, as well as ignoring any and all facts. Hannity “3 on 1 is frustrating!”

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  26. It didn’t help that the Democrats and their operatives in the DOJ, CIA. media, etc., made it very clear, even before inauguration, that they were going to destroy anyone that Trump brought into his administration who was not part of the uniparty statist establishment, and even those got targeted as well. They did everything they could to destroy the lives of anyone who even considered working in Trump’s administration, and the lives of their families.

    Expect them to double down on doing so if Trump beats the margin of fraud and isn’t otherwise prevented from taking office by the current cabal.

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  27. Debate opening statement. Harris is already flailing away at strawman and badly. My time is better spent interacting with Miz Kitty, and sleeping. Goodnight.

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    1. We went to dinner about the time K got to “I’m a prosecutor and you are a felon”. Have not heard Trump’s response, yet. But debate was still going when we got home (on mute). We have it saved. Will see if I can stomach watching or just will go with the resulting summaries. Before we left K was trying to do a lot of “got cha’s” nothing landed. But nothing on Trump’s part getting back at her other than implied “you deliberately do not listen to what is being said, you liar”. Now I was yelling at the TV to K “liar, liar, pants on fire”, not that it did any good for even my blood preasure. Dang she’s an air head bimbo (and I’m insulting air head bimbos).

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  28. A big part of Trump’s problem in 2016 was parallel to Ned Stark in A Song of Ice and Fire/A Game of Thrones. He came into town not knowing the players and thinking the rules were like what they were where he came from. The permanent government has metastasized into a malignant cancer, and will cling tenaciously to life by every means in its power.

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  29. none of it will matter soon enough, just think of the chaos revolving around the election combined with everything else.

    oh well, stuff we got no control over, can definitely become un governable though.

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  30. I’m trying to watch RazorFist’s ‘Streaming For Vengeance’ commentary on the debate, but every time that broad opens her yap the sheer concentrated stupid makes my ears hurt.

    Kackling Kamela claimed Trump’s economic plans would ‘cut taxes for the rich, explode the deficit and invite a recession’. Trump’s epic comeback that should have been:

    “We’re in a recession right now, as you would know if you were paying attention. Started about 3 years ago when you took a strong economy with low inflation and high employment, and flushed it down the toilet. Now we’ve got high inflation, high unemployment, high taxes and unaffordable housing. All you have to offer the American people is more of the same.”

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    1. “Trump’s epic comeback that should have been”

      Nothing Trump said gained him any support he didn’t already have. K-mala’s answers were empty-headed and/or substantively scary, of course, but she delivered them as if they meant something, and the Moderators reacted as if she were actually saying reasonable things (but “fact-checked” Trump). She might have gained a few percent of the on-the-fence viewers.

      Disappointing, like every other “debate” I’ve seen him do.

      The main reason to vote for him remains: He *doesn’t* think the US deserves to be punished, and the brainwashed Democrat base does.

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  32. Apparently the moderators teaming up with Harris to go after Trump, the blatant mid-debate change of basic debate rules like muted mikes, and Harris spending the entire time attacking Trump, including with use of debunked lies like the “very fine people” slander that even Snopes debunked, made more undecideds favor Trump than Harris:

    https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/09/11/abc-news-debate-causes-undecided-voters-vote-or-lean-trump/

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