Ahh, Clever, welcome to the fold. I’ve always liked your perspective and comments except the part where you define yourself as “I’m no Trumpist.” You just weren’t there yet, in that you didn’t see it yet. Trump has always been about “the people,” but they stained him mightily in 1st term & 20-24. Now they get their just desserts. You don…
Ahh, Clever, welcome to the fold. I’ve always liked your perspective and comments except the part where you define yourself as “I’m no Trumpist.” You just weren’t there yet, in that you didn’t see it yet. Trump has always been about “the people,” but they stained him mightily in 1st term & 20-24. Now they get their just desserts. You don’t have to be a “ Trumpist” (I emphatically am if that means I think he’s the best president in at least 50 years) to see what he’s accomplishing in a short period. And biggie-big-time Obama set this off in 2015. I wonder if he looks back on that as his biggest among many failures. He & all the other Dem politicians are being crushed in a tight vise from which there’s likely no return.
I don't love the Don, but I don't hate him either.
I understand why people support him (much of my family does) and I certainly cheer for him when he guts some bureaucrats, mocks some sanctimonious journalists and sends the SJW Thought Police scurrying like roaches...
I worked at a Trump property in NYC in the 80s, so I have some personal reasons why I could never vote for or actively support him, but as you can see, I do get him and enjoy watching him play Groucho to the liberal Margaret Dumonts.
Love or hate him or otherwise, there's no denying that the man is hilarious. He reminds me of that other famous Don, Rickles, who was also a killer insult comic.
I hadn’t thought of Don Rickles, but there’s definitely a comparison there!! I think the difference this time is after the intense lawfare and then the double attempted assassinations, I think his mind focused and by a large margin. As did other people, maybe like you, who were sort of on the margins. And now his team is fierce and I freaking love it. I probably am so certain about him because my sister is a hard-core dumbass leftist, wrong about everything, like all the climate/gender/DEI/ESG/social justice Warriors (warriors=losers). One of the wailers now. So I feel like it’s also just desserts for me.
I think Trump was focused well before that time. He got there in Jan of 2017 with a rosy view of government and how he would make it work. He discovered the reality was much different. When they stole the 2020 election I think he went to work surrounding himself with people he could trust to wargame out so to speak what he would do next time to really drain the swamp. The democrats then did the silliest of things by making Trump a sympathetic character with the lawfare and eventually two assassination attempts.
We now know why they feared him so much, as Clever so eloquently summarized up above. I remind people who think Trump is dumb or a goofball to be very careful making flippant assessments of your adversaries' capabilities.
He is most certainly not dumb, and in the space of two months has pretty much forced the democrats to take the 20/30 position on every 80/20 issue in the country.
YES JIM, yes to all. I always wonder why they think Trump could possibly be dumb when he constantly outfoxes all of them & they just keep losing & looking stupid. I guess they were lulled into a cozy cocoon when they had "Biden" in office & an outrageous censorship regime + corrupt media + a massive NGO cabal funding every globalist/leftist cause of the moment. Ahh, the reckoning is sweet!
Ahh, Clever, welcome to the fold. I’ve always liked your perspective and comments except the part where you define yourself as “I’m no Trumpist.” You just weren’t there yet, in that you didn’t see it yet. Trump has always been about “the people,” but they stained him mightily in 1st term & 20-24. Now they get their just desserts. You don’t have to be a “ Trumpist” (I emphatically am if that means I think he’s the best president in at least 50 years) to see what he’s accomplishing in a short period. And biggie-big-time Obama set this off in 2015. I wonder if he looks back on that as his biggest among many failures. He & all the other Dem politicians are being crushed in a tight vise from which there’s likely no return.
I don't love the Don, but I don't hate him either.
I understand why people support him (much of my family does) and I certainly cheer for him when he guts some bureaucrats, mocks some sanctimonious journalists and sends the SJW Thought Police scurrying like roaches...
I worked at a Trump property in NYC in the 80s, so I have some personal reasons why I could never vote for or actively support him, but as you can see, I do get him and enjoy watching him play Groucho to the liberal Margaret Dumonts.
Love or hate him or otherwise, there's no denying that the man is hilarious. He reminds me of that other famous Don, Rickles, who was also a killer insult comic.
I hadn’t thought of Don Rickles, but there’s definitely a comparison there!! I think the difference this time is after the intense lawfare and then the double attempted assassinations, I think his mind focused and by a large margin. As did other people, maybe like you, who were sort of on the margins. And now his team is fierce and I freaking love it. I probably am so certain about him because my sister is a hard-core dumbass leftist, wrong about everything, like all the climate/gender/DEI/ESG/social justice Warriors (warriors=losers). One of the wailers now. So I feel like it’s also just desserts for me.
I think Trump was focused well before that time. He got there in Jan of 2017 with a rosy view of government and how he would make it work. He discovered the reality was much different. When they stole the 2020 election I think he went to work surrounding himself with people he could trust to wargame out so to speak what he would do next time to really drain the swamp. The democrats then did the silliest of things by making Trump a sympathetic character with the lawfare and eventually two assassination attempts.
We now know why they feared him so much, as Clever so eloquently summarized up above. I remind people who think Trump is dumb or a goofball to be very careful making flippant assessments of your adversaries' capabilities.
He is most certainly not dumb, and in the space of two months has pretty much forced the democrats to take the 20/30 position on every 80/20 issue in the country.
YES JIM, yes to all. I always wonder why they think Trump could possibly be dumb when he constantly outfoxes all of them & they just keep losing & looking stupid. I guess they were lulled into a cozy cocoon when they had "Biden" in office & an outrageous censorship regime + corrupt media + a massive NGO cabal funding every globalist/leftist cause of the moment. Ahh, the reckoning is sweet!