He isn’t playing chess, but he is managing to direct the conversation to topics of his choosing. Instead of talking about his criminality, business fraud, insurrectionist behavior, traitorous document stealing, rapes, Epstein sex parties, NATO bashing, ending Roe, sex with Stormy when Melania had a baby, Covid deaths, deficit creating tax policies, fascist tendencies, project 2025, etc. we are talking about Harris being black or not.
He might not be very smart, but how smart are we if we let him steer the conversation.
I bet if he says Hannibal Lecter prefers white meat to dark meat, we’ll take that bait and talk about that for a news cycle
Today he’ll blame the stock market bust on Harris. Our reply should be, “don’t change the subject you traitorous rapist….”
Trump is so petty. That's why he attacks Kemp, because the Georgia governor hasn't sufficiently sucked up to Trump like the rest of the cultists have. If Trump somehow wins, he's going to have a long list of people to go after for not being loyal enough to him....or at all. It will be a revenge tour.
He’s been on the receiving end of a revenge tour for the past four years.
Turnabout is fair play, and there are certainly a few reprobates out there that need a comeuppance, but I do hope he sticks to closing the border, helping those who crossed find their way back home, cutting federal the alphabet agencies in half, at least and stopping the war in Ukraine while there are still a few Ukrainians left.
Yes, it was so unfair how those juries listened to the testimony and came to the unanimous conclusion that Trump had committed fraud and sexual assault. So apparently you believe that not only the judges and the prosecutors were simply out to get Trump, but that the juries were also in on it. I suppose George Soros paid them off, huh?
Good use of the word "reprobate", though. I had to look that one up.
Trump is a narcissist. And he didn’t have much respect for marital vows. I don’t count that as reprobate characteristics, but if you do, Harris is just as much a reprobate.
She started her political career by sleeping with a married man (Willy Brown), and married a man whose first wife divorced him after he got his kids nanny pregnant. L
I just asked a question that had nothing to do with Kamala, but Ok. If you want to compare them, that's fine. Trump cheated on his wife and so did Willie Brown. Was Kamala married at the time? And you're really going to bash her for what her husband did before she met him? How is that her fault? By that logic, Trump should be crucified for those sketchy photos of Melania on the internet. Whatever. You're in the cult. I'm done.
trump is absolutely livid at the mere fact he has to face competition from a black woman.
Let's call it what it is.
50 years ago he and pop were determined to keep them out of their buildings.
In 2024, he has to be publicly humiliated into running against one of them.
He is just itching to call her the N-word. He still has 90+ days to let it out.
If you thought he was mad at losing to Sleepy Joe making videos from his basement, you can't even imagine how mad he'll be if he loses to Kamala.
That is all the chess playing he needs to know. The only thing between him and a jail cell is a black woman. He's not going down without the dirtiest fight America has ever seen.
tightening race in GA ... Trump scapegoats Georgia Republicans for his 2020 loss (not "fixing" the election for him)... his refusal to accept responsibility for his loss there... all of this keeps him stuck in the past, nursing grudges and less likely to make a correction to achieve his goal of winning the state ... he's more interested in self-justification than winning, this is the flaw of his narcissism
Trump supporters don't care about ANYTHING that he says or does - they are beyond reaching. The only people that matter in this race (especially GA) are independent voters and persuadable Republicans - and they don't seemed to be all that worked up about the phone call either.
Being the daughter of one, the ex-wife of one, and the ex-MIL of one, I can speak with some authority on malignant narcissists. They are reactive and transactional. They aren't particularly smart, but they are experts at yammering until you'll do pretty much anything to shut them up.
That's as deep as it goes, and that's all anyone needs to understand about Trump. He will say and do anything he thinks will keep him on top. Sadly, as you can see from my quick bio, they have a certain appeal FOR A WHILE. I'm hoping his is wearing off.
So we spent months talking about how smart Chris LaCivita and Susan Wiles were and how disciplined this campaign was, but were they smart or were they just lucky to run against an 81 year old man who no one thought should still be president?
I also thought Trump's 2016 campaign was better than given credit for. He understood the mood of the electorate and the forgotten man perfectly and knew how to stoke those passions and appeal to them.
And I thought he had the perfect KO of Hillary's campaign at the 2016 convention when he said? I'm with her? No, I'm for you.
I agree that Trump is playing zero dimensional chess. You have to have some smarts and depth to be able to play three dimensional chess which he ( Trump) obviously lacks
Trunp’s general strategy to attract more votes by using division and hate has reached its limit. But he has nowhere to go because a softening of his approach will also undermine him.
The problem is that his meathead followers think that he IS playing 3-dimensional chess - and they LOVE it..... Trump's attacks on Brian Kemp are going to end up as a "win" for him unless the Dems can figure out how to use it against him to win Georgia.
We keep talking with the assumption that trump cares about winning in Georgia and the other "swing" states. That he doesn't seem to should tell us all something about his plans for the day after the election. If he wins the election there will be political violence. If he loses to a black woman? Open warfare on the streets of America....
Lol. None of the leftist chattering class wants to talk about Harris, or the upcoming DNC freakshow. Everyone wants to see how many conjugations of “fascist” they can hang on Trump.
And it’s no mystery why. The Democrats got nothing. Their chosen candidate had to bow out to take a nice, long nap and the replacement they got saddled with is, my any measure, a literally blithering idiot who, with the exception of Willy Brown, has never succeeded at anything she put her hand to.
So sure. Slag Trump and the 65% who, according to Nate Silver, are going to put Trump back in the drivers seat.
Good points Chris! I like JVL's analogy published in his column, "The Triad" within the Bulwark. Donald Trump is a creature of professional wrestling, where everything is about making a show, or generating attention. During his attendance at the Black Journalist's event, he went with the idea of generating "cheap heat". In wrestling parlance, this when someone does something outrageous to bring negative attention or "heat" to himself. The same way that spitting on the crowd, or calling the crowd stupid might cause., cheap heat. HIs narcissism makes him do things to attract attention. He cannot stand to NOT be in the limelight. Even though it hurts him with swing voters, his pathological narcissism makes him do stuff to command attention.
He isn’t playing chess, but he is managing to direct the conversation to topics of his choosing. Instead of talking about his criminality, business fraud, insurrectionist behavior, traitorous document stealing, rapes, Epstein sex parties, NATO bashing, ending Roe, sex with Stormy when Melania had a baby, Covid deaths, deficit creating tax policies, fascist tendencies, project 2025, etc. we are talking about Harris being black or not.
He might not be very smart, but how smart are we if we let him steer the conversation.
I bet if he says Hannibal Lecter prefers white meat to dark meat, we’ll take that bait and talk about that for a news cycle
Today he’ll blame the stock market bust on Harris. Our reply should be, “don’t change the subject you traitorous rapist….”
BINGO!! Well said!!
Excellent post!
"NATO bashing" lol
Trump is so petty. That's why he attacks Kemp, because the Georgia governor hasn't sufficiently sucked up to Trump like the rest of the cultists have. If Trump somehow wins, he's going to have a long list of people to go after for not being loyal enough to him....or at all. It will be a revenge tour.
Just the type of guy you want in charge -
He’s been on the receiving end of a revenge tour for the past four years.
Turnabout is fair play, and there are certainly a few reprobates out there that need a comeuppance, but I do hope he sticks to closing the border, helping those who crossed find their way back home, cutting federal the alphabet agencies in half, at least and stopping the war in Ukraine while there are still a few Ukrainians left.
You are a delusional magot.
I’m here to help. I have a soft spot for low IQ individuals; y’all have a tough row to hoe just getting the shoes on the right feet in the morning.
Ty
You are welcome magot.
That's “maggot”, nitwit.
Lol
thanks for the correction, maggot. at least you know who you are.
Yes, it was so unfair how those juries listened to the testimony and came to the unanimous conclusion that Trump had committed fraud and sexual assault. So apparently you believe that not only the judges and the prosecutors were simply out to get Trump, but that the juries were also in on it. I suppose George Soros paid them off, huh?
Good use of the word "reprobate", though. I had to look that one up.
It is NYC. 9/10 reprobates and degenerates.
Those “felonies” are headed for the trash can as soon as an appeals court gets them. It will be a crushing defeat for the crooked court.
Is Trump a "reprobate"? Does sleeping with a porn star while your wife is pregnant qualify as an unprincipled person?
Trump is a narcissist. And he didn’t have much respect for marital vows. I don’t count that as reprobate characteristics, but if you do, Harris is just as much a reprobate.
She started her political career by sleeping with a married man (Willy Brown), and married a man whose first wife divorced him after he got his kids nanny pregnant. L
I just asked a question that had nothing to do with Kamala, but Ok. If you want to compare them, that's fine. Trump cheated on his wife and so did Willie Brown. Was Kamala married at the time? And you're really going to bash her for what her husband did before she met him? How is that her fault? By that logic, Trump should be crucified for those sketchy photos of Melania on the internet. Whatever. You're in the cult. I'm done.
trump is absolutely livid at the mere fact he has to face competition from a black woman.
Let's call it what it is.
50 years ago he and pop were determined to keep them out of their buildings.
In 2024, he has to be publicly humiliated into running against one of them.
He is just itching to call her the N-word. He still has 90+ days to let it out.
If you thought he was mad at losing to Sleepy Joe making videos from his basement, you can't even imagine how mad he'll be if he loses to Kamala.
That is all the chess playing he needs to know. The only thing between him and a jail cell is a black woman. He's not going down without the dirtiest fight America has ever seen.
He's playing marbles. You just flick your big ol' marble out there and hope it hits something.
At least this metaphor is witty and has logic...0 dimensional test is ridiculous!
Yes!!
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tightening race in GA ... Trump scapegoats Georgia Republicans for his 2020 loss (not "fixing" the election for him)... his refusal to accept responsibility for his loss there... all of this keeps him stuck in the past, nursing grudges and less likely to make a correction to achieve his goal of winning the state ... he's more interested in self-justification than winning, this is the flaw of his narcissism
I don't understand how he can be leading in Georgia after his infamous phone call. Do Georgians not care that he tried to steal their votes?
I think that as with cars, brand loyalty is a powerful force, especially for low information voters
Trump supporters don't care about ANYTHING that he says or does - they are beyond reaching. The only people that matter in this race (especially GA) are independent voters and persuadable Republicans - and they don't seemed to be all that worked up about the phone call either.
Being the daughter of one, the ex-wife of one, and the ex-MIL of one, I can speak with some authority on malignant narcissists. They are reactive and transactional. They aren't particularly smart, but they are experts at yammering until you'll do pretty much anything to shut them up.
That's as deep as it goes, and that's all anyone needs to understand about Trump. He will say and do anything he thinks will keep him on top. Sadly, as you can see from my quick bio, they have a certain appeal FOR A WHILE. I'm hoping his is wearing off.
So we spent months talking about how smart Chris LaCivita and Susan Wiles were and how disciplined this campaign was, but were they smart or were they just lucky to run against an 81 year old man who no one thought should still be president?
I also thought Trump's 2016 campaign was better than given credit for. He understood the mood of the electorate and the forgotten man perfectly and knew how to stoke those passions and appeal to them.
And I thought he had the perfect KO of Hillary's campaign at the 2016 convention when he said? I'm with her? No, I'm for you.
Trump cannot even read a teleprompter let alone playing checkers or chess! He just spouts off on anything his demented brain comes up with!!!
I agree that Trump is playing zero dimensional chess. You have to have some smarts and depth to be able to play three dimensional chess which he ( Trump) obviously lacks
Trunp’s general strategy to attract more votes by using division and hate has reached its limit. But he has nowhere to go because a softening of his approach will also undermine him.
The problem is that his meathead followers think that he IS playing 3-dimensional chess - and they LOVE it..... Trump's attacks on Brian Kemp are going to end up as a "win" for him unless the Dems can figure out how to use it against him to win Georgia.
We keep talking with the assumption that trump cares about winning in Georgia and the other "swing" states. That he doesn't seem to should tell us all something about his plans for the day after the election. If he wins the election there will be political violence. If he loses to a black woman? Open warfare on the streets of America....
Lol. None of the leftist chattering class wants to talk about Harris, or the upcoming DNC freakshow. Everyone wants to see how many conjugations of “fascist” they can hang on Trump.
And it’s no mystery why. The Democrats got nothing. Their chosen candidate had to bow out to take a nice, long nap and the replacement they got saddled with is, my any measure, a literally blithering idiot who, with the exception of Willy Brown, has never succeeded at anything she put her hand to.
So sure. Slag Trump and the 65% who, according to Nate Silver, are going to put Trump back in the drivers seat.
We will just sit back and enjoy the show 🍿
Good points Chris! I like JVL's analogy published in his column, "The Triad" within the Bulwark. Donald Trump is a creature of professional wrestling, where everything is about making a show, or generating attention. During his attendance at the Black Journalist's event, he went with the idea of generating "cheap heat". In wrestling parlance, this when someone does something outrageous to bring negative attention or "heat" to himself. The same way that spitting on the crowd, or calling the crowd stupid might cause., cheap heat. HIs narcissism makes him do things to attract attention. He cannot stand to NOT be in the limelight. Even though it hurts him with swing voters, his pathological narcissism makes him do stuff to command attention.
Zero dimensional chess is a ridiculous comment.
I think it’s perfect irony.😆
Perfectly appropriate in describing a ridiculous candidate.
Excellent post! I always enjoy your insights in politics, Chris. Even though I subscribe to the Bulwark - I look forward to reading your posts.