Monday, June 18, 2018

How wrong you are, and 5 rules by which Trump rules the world

About everything.

And that's why we don't listen to you anymore. Why we don't give you the time of day. Why we don't give you any time in our day. None. Not even this video. We try, we start the video, hear your stupid voices saying ridiculously stupid things about other people smarter than you being stupid and we go, oh, that's right, this is why we don't watch anymore *click* And you're gone. Because you are 100% useless.

Worse than useless, you're dangerous.

And not just about politics either. We don't suffer the Murray Gell-Mann amnesia affect. We know that you're wrong about everything.

Posted on the Gateway Pundit where commenters are delightful and surprisingly restrained. They're reminding this happened three years ago. They made it to the Drudge Report.

I betcha um, this pretzel, that you cannot watch these crackpots all the way through without becoming a little bit sick by their smirking undeserved arrogance.



Much better than all these dopes put together is Daniel Greenfield by himself writing this time for Front Page; Trump's 5 rules for ruling the world.

Earlier we had Caroline Glick's comprehension of how Trump negotiates by doing the opposite of what professional negotiators (losers) expect.  

Now we have Daniel Greenfield explain the same thing by his comprehension. It's a very good read.

1) Act, don't react. Trump takes the initiative and forces his attackers to react to him thus becoming the driving force in an escalating conflict leaving his opponents sputtering. That's how he campaigned and it's what he is doing internationally.

2) Try everything. Political professionals insist on the importance of posture and position but Trump is comfortable with failure. Critics poked fun at Trump's failed business ventures but you don't succeed without trying and failing. Trump's approach to politics is trying a lot of things to get a win.

Greenfield says a lot of interesting things to support this, such as comparing Trump's style with Obama. When Obama expressed willingness to meet with dictators and terrorists it's because he was already sympathetic to them. The seeds of the Iran deal were always in him and the negotiations took Obama where he already wanted to be. Trump isn't meeting with Kim Jong-un because Trump likes Kim. He's negotiating because it might pay off. Or maybe it won't and he'll try something else.

3) Chaos is Power. This is perhaps Greenfield's best insight. Most people want to minimize chaos. Leaders and companies spend quite a lot of energy reducing chaos. But Trump thrives in chaos. Trump generates chaos causing uncertainty then offers a sense of security in exchange for a good deal. Trump's trade deals show this impulse. It's what he did to China and to North Korea and what he is doing with Europe, with Canada and with Mexico. Trump escalates confrontations so his opponents have no way to counter except by escalating the confrontation to more chaos and to their greater discomfort. Trump forces them to negotiate by proving he can function in chaos better than they can. China, Europe, Canada and Mexico do not want a trade war with nothing to gain and a lot to lose. So Trump became the only man on earth who can end the chaos and restore security. 

4) Never show your hand. Conventional politicians have narrow objectives. They're clear on what they want and don't want and what they are willing to do and to cede to get it, while Trump has always been ambiguous. Everything he says can be read multiple ways, each assertion uncovers a contradiction. He creates tactical confusion. He's said so, he loves being unpredictable. Trump is the only president in our lifetimes who can go into negotiations with completely unpredictable outcome. To create chaos you must be unpredictable and that creates insecurity and that forces your opponents to read things into your every move and be frustrated by the futility. It leaves the other side unable to assess what the U.S. would actually settle for and ends up offering more than we would settle for just to restore a sense of security. 

5) Don't be afraid to be the bad guy. Greenfield says Americas have a fatal flaw of wanting to be liked. Commenters to the article disagree with this, saying only Democrats care about that. "Do you even think about what the rest of the world thinks about us?" As if that's even relevant. No country's leader will base their decisions on that. It's childish. It's foolish to even try. Greenfield fleshes this out more completely at the link with examples of Trump's observable behavior.

Then comments are very good. Greenfield's readers are ace. He has a few trolls, but they're not paid very well, they do not do a very good job of trolling. They're squashed like bugs immediately.




* BRILLIANT ARTICLE!!!
The fact that Trump "doesn't seek people loving him" means he projects an image as a "wild card" - and this type of profile is what threatens the "in-the-box" thinkers - those who are too insecure to tolerate someone who challenges their pre-defined and deeply ingrained "herd mentality" expectations of social and "business' etiquette, and leadership qualities for example. For them it is really anathema considering their "follow the leader of their herd" mentality. The conflict that this creates in their minds drives them mad. Trump is an "out-of-the-box" person of a genius caliber - and having him in the same room with the other tired and predictable world leaders at the recent G7 summit would have been like putting Einstein in a room with some lamebrain Berkeley professors
TRUMP IS A BOLD AND FEARLESS TRENDSETTER AND TRAILBLAZER - STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NOWHERE-LAND POLITICAL SWAMP AND THE LEFTIST-PROGRESSIVE RELIGION OF CONFORMISM (aka pro-totalitarian mindset)...

** He is what McCain pretended to be.

*** He is what McCain wishes he could have been. Deep down, I am sure McCain hates him because he sees a guy who is capable of being all of the things John McCain wanted to be, namely POTUS. But also a maverick risk taker and successful negotiator with one goal: put America first and Make Her Great Again.

John McCain (I spit on that traitor's name) knows in his heart that his father Admiral McCain, were he to still be alive today, would be shamed and dishonored by his son's actions. And would be proud if his son's actions were more like Donald Trump's.

You think the brain cancer is eating that jerk up inside? It ain't nothing compared to the way his shame and self-loathing and guilt and regret and abject fear at meeting his Maker is eating him up.

* A very good run down on how Trump runs a business, and runs the government of the USA. Trump gave Canada and Mexico the chance to sit down and re-negotiate NAFTA and they hemmed and hawed, and wasted time. So, Trump hit them with tariffs, just so they know who's running the show. Now Canada and Mexico are whining and complaining about the tariffs. Well, sit down and re-negotiate NAFTA and the tariffs will go away. Get It!
Trump is doing the same thing with the EU and everyone else, and if they actually listen and belly up to the bar, it'll all work out, and the tariffs will go away, but the free ride will be going away too. The gravy train has made its last stop, which was January 20, 2017.

* One has to remember the environment Trump is steeped in, high-level business negotiations with two-legged sharks in NYC. In the end, everyone may win, but they all exit a bit battered and bloodied. Politics with the gloves off.

** He may very well have read Musashi's 'Book of Five Rings' too. Musashi was a champion duelist samurai that kept his opponents off balance often through breaches of ettiquette that enraged them. Just to keep things interesting for himself, he showed up to duels with a wooden practice sword. While his opponent was sputtering with indignation, Musashi beat them to death with the wooden sword. I think of Musashi when I read about Trump's unpresidential tweets.

* It's really justt the foreign policy our Founding Fathers wanted us to have. Allies when needed but never fools to a global order and aristocracy.

* As much as Greenfield is usually on point and the best analyst/writer out there, I strongly disagree that Americans need to be liked. LEFTISTS need to be liked and require approval by the international community. Conservatives and libertarians couldn't care less what the international community thinks. In fact, we disdain the international community and take it as a source of pride when they disapprove. It shows we must be doing something righteous when they disapprove, since they are depraved, mentally ill, and are generally wrong about everything as history indicates. Moreover, this article is somewhat off; the bottom line can be summed up that Trump isn't afraid to leverage ALL of American power and doesn't care about ridiculous protocol and tradition, putting America's interests first. He knows right from wrong, good from evil. He also knows the other nations need America for trade more than any other nation and fear our greatest military. Unlike former presidents, he knows he can tell them to screw off, and they have to deal with us or suffer. Clowns like Trudeau just make a phony show for the camera's, but will ultimately bend to the will of Trump. Trump has amazing intuition (other than his personnel decisions) and is fearless with an amazingly short learning curve, willing to do whatever it takes to win, protocol be damned. With the power of the U.S. behind him, there isn't much he can't accomplish, and he will probably be the best president we have ever had.

And so on. Much more at the link. You'll enjoy it.

7 comments:

edutcher said...

I had no idea Sultan Knish (Greenfield) was so young.

And I'll bet if you look, all that is encapsulated in Sun Tzu.

Amartel said...

The best thing about Trump is he's not needy.

It's just such a relief.

ricpic said...

Trump never became a sophisticate, thank God.

Amartel said...

Not meaning to pick but why do we persist in calling these establishment hacks "elite" and "sophisticates", etc. when they're so clearly not? I'm sure it's meant with irony but seriously, their big achievement is grifting off working Americans.
That's it.
When anyone points out their grift and graft and stupidity and corruption they lay a big guilt trip, cry and scream, and call people names and otherwise deflect and project, all of which is cooperatively conveyed by the media parrots like it's a real policy dispute between serious well-meaning people. This weekend's big deflect efforts were the babies in cages thing and the Trump Cult thing. Transparently desperate, lame, and unsophisticated. Lefty policies led directly to baby importing/caging and no one in the cult complained when the Hero of the Stupid was separating children from their "families." I guess all that hypocrisy requires a massive, needy, greedy support system. We're so much better off without it all.

edutcher said...

Am, you are so right.

Elite may come from the idea that high society types were because most were self-made, but this crowd is all theory, no application.

You want elite, try Rangers, SEAL Team EOD, Troop.

MamaM said...

Life is too curious. Today, Althouse announced her desire to write a book with a title very similar if not almost identical to a fictional title chickelit used here in a post on Jan 25, 2016. Lem's Levity is the blog that virtually sprang from the loins if not the womb of the Althouse Blog as the result of a Splooge Explosion that took place in the comments section over there in July 2013. Although this blog child was treated as non-existent and gone unmentioned by her, while some of its commenters were publicly scorned by her husband during the blog's early years of existence and growth, attention appears to have been paid to it all along, with an idea shared here now crossing the barrier of estrangement to once again stir the pot and create new life elsewhere.

I find it oddly satisfying when things that are not as they seem end up providing reconition of value and inviting new growth.

XRay said...

Nice way to look at it, MamaM. Hard to believe its been 5 years.