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There is a lesson to be learned here about how the world really works.
"President Trump is far smarter and the powers that be far stupider and weaker than current consensus estimates. Trump’s primary motivation is power. The nonstop vilification campaign against him has little to do with policy differences and instead reflects establishment fears that Trump will investigate, expose, and punish its criminality. The upshot of these hypotheses: Trump is winning and has consolidated his power."
"President Trump is far smarter and the powers that be far stupider and weaker than current consensus estimates. Trump’s primary motivation is power. The nonstop vilification campaign against him has little to do with policy differences and instead reflects establishment fears that Trump will investigate, expose, and punish its criminality. The upshot of these hypotheses: Trump is winning and has consolidated his power."
Is Trump Winning? by Robert Gore
Posted from straightlinelogic.com
Office of the President (POTUS)
Hillary Clinton
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Posted 7 y ago
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Interesting article SSG Diane R. - What a cost for our country though - Congress (all of Congress) is wasting time trying to combat against Trump and the result is - the American people aren't getting what they voted for out of Congress in my opinion. Millions of taxpayer dollars wasted in my opinion on crap, when they should be working to fix this country (all of them Republican, Democrat, Independent, and whatever we have there in Congress). Just wasted time and money - not getting things done! Disappointing in my opinion! That is my 2 cents for today!
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SSG Diane R.
I share your sentiments sir, I believe that Trump knew that was going to be an uphill battle, as he had to fight the GOP even harder than the DNC to gain his office.
It is still uncertain how all this will play out but the article has many links in bedded and all of them are a good read and present and alternative narrative as to what is really happening.
I try to keep an open mind with every new Administration and give them a little time to get grounded, and moving on the people's business. Lord knows I have issues with Trump, but he is our president and commander and chief.
A year from now things may be quite different then we could ever have expected, only time will tell.
It is still uncertain how all this will play out but the article has many links in bedded and all of them are a good read and present and alternative narrative as to what is really happening.
I try to keep an open mind with every new Administration and give them a little time to get grounded, and moving on the people's business. Lord knows I have issues with Trump, but he is our president and commander and chief.
A year from now things may be quite different then we could ever have expected, only time will tell.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SSG Diane R. - All valids thoughts Diane - let's wait and see - that is all we can do at this point!
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CPT Jack Durish
Disappointing? When were you not disappointed in our government, Congress especially? Were you not disappointed when they implemented LBJs master plan to destroy the integrity of black families and buy their votes for the next 200 years? Were you disappointed when they reneged on our promises to South Vietnam, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory that we won? Were you not disappointed when they surrendered legislative power to the bureaucracy? Were you not disappointed with the legerdemain used to pass the ACA instead of following proper legislative processes? Were you not disappointed when they held multiple sham hearings to clear Hillary of wrong doing? Were you not disappointed when the GOP took over and broke their promise to rescind the ACA?
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
CPT Jack Durish - All great points Jack - I think we can agree that our government is very disappointing and they will not disappoint us by getting any better soon!
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Trump is playing chess while his detractors are playing checkers. He is not the buffoon people would like to believe him to be. Nor is a vile creature as some on the website advocate. He is the master of misdirection and the MSM are playing into his hands.
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LTC Orlando Illi
PO1 Henry Jackson - yeah that's it. He was dumb enough to take that money and create a fortune in real estate. The NERVE of that guy
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SSgt Gary Andrews
LTC Orlando Illi - They say that had he just taken his father's money and invested it in the stock market......and done nothing else.......his wealth would be considerably more than what it is now. His business decisions haven't all been winners.....he just had enough money to ride out the bad ones.......and stiffed a lot of investors and contractors along the way. Doesn't take a genius to do that.....
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I agree that Trump is far smarter than his opposition gives him credit for and this may be why they are, in fact, losing. We here on RP should know better than anyone else the dangers of underestimating or overestimating your opposition. Still, Trump is ignorant, very ignorant, of politics. He has much to learn before his Art of the Deal translates to log rolling (that's how deals are made in Washington). There is much more I could comment on here but I'm going to stop with "Draining the Swamp". I wish him well in that chore, but sincerely doubt that he will get far. That is a mighty large and deep swamp. Reagan attempted the same and got nowhere. And Trump will fail for the same reason: Congress has decayed amid the the swamp and is inseparable from it. Only We the People can drain that swamp and that will only begin when we replace its members en mass. And no, I don't mean as in how California replaced Barbara Boxer with Kamala Harris. We need to replace them with citizen legislators, people we have to drag kicking and screaming into their seats in the way we fill jury boxes.
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SSgt Gary Andrews
I think most people that go to Washington D.C. go there with good intentions. But the culture, or swamp, eats them alive and they become that which they went there to change. Trump is not immune from this......in fact he is already showing signs of swamp immersion.
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CPT Jack Durish
SSgt Gary Andrews - That is a fair observation. My professor of torts in law school rose rapidly in politics and came to an ill end despite being a fundamentally decent person. His name was Spiro Agnew.
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