(I originally wrote the following as a reply to a comment made by Marie3 in Oui’s post Papadopoulos and Australian Spy Chief in a London Bar. I have been making the same general point…to little avail, unfortunately…on this site since mid-summer, 2015, when Donald Trump first poked his head over the neocentrist, bipartisan, uniparty, corporate-owned Permanent Government media fence and stated quite clearly that he was going to be the next president. [Examples of this effort? Sure. The Trump Problem. You Cannot Laugh A Clown Offstage., Trump-You Cannot Laugh A Clown Offstage. Pt. II and You Cannot Laugh A Clown Offstage, Pt. III. ESPECIALLY When The Stage Is Presidential.]
The point of all of this? Easy. Trump is a dangerous opponent. Do not fall for his dumb act. His real aim is to take over the entire government. Read on.)
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Marie…you write:
…low level bullshitters trying to making themselves sound important…
“Low level bullshitters.” This is where all high level bullshitters begin, Trump included. The ones with talent and luck (plus maybe a small nest egg as well…one definition of “luck”) rise to the top of the bullshitter ranks…also known worldwide as politicians and/or corporate types/bosses.
For example…let’s look at Trump.
Much has been written about his privileged upbringing. I’ve got news for all of the people who think that he was born with a silver spoon up his royal ass. He was the son of a second-rate Brooklyn/Queens real estate hustler, a man who made his money in the post-WW II boom years building garages for new G.I. Bill-funded suburbanites, and his father was the son of an immigrant who ran saloons (also known as brothels) during the West Coast Gold Rush. I cannot imagine how many sons of the nouveau riche got substantial amounts of start-up money in the post-WW II NYC area. Hundreds? Thousands, maybe. They had no seat at the tables of the truly wealthy. None of them. Trump out-worked, out-hustled, out-cheated and out-self promoted them all.
The above is not an “appreciation” of Trump; it is simply a clear-eyed assessment of his talents. In The Art of War, Sun Tzu states “Know your enemy.” Why? Because if you do not know…and accurately assess…your enemy, you are bound to get your ass kicked. Ass-kicking is what Trump has been doing all of his life. Deal wid it. He is really good at it. People have dismissed him as just another cheap hustler during his entire career, including the so-called “smart” progressive left. He is not. He is a brilliant hustler who possesses in his arsenal of hustles perhaps the best dumb act that the U.S. has ever seen from a national politician. Maybe Lincoln was his only rival in that department. Early Lincoln, anyway.
Underestimate him at your own risk…at the risk of the rest of us as well. And while I am at it…do not over-estimate the talents of his pursuers. There is not a soul amongst them who can match Trump’s lifelong won/lost record. Not Mueller, not anyone in the F.B.I. and probably no one in the intelligence services as well.
Game on.
Still!!!
Bet on it.
Later…
AG
