Donald Trump has been blowing up the traditional GOP certainties left and right, and this week he overturned another one. In what seemed like an embarrassing rebuke, on February 1, Adele told the Republican front-runner that he didn’t have her permission to use her songs at his massive campaign events. Adele might just be the world’s most popular singer at the moment, and any normal candidate would have folded his tent, chastened. Not Trump.
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An excellent piece by Tucker Carlson;
All of which explains why almost nobody in Washington caught the significance of Trump’s finest moment in the first debate. One of the moderators asked, in effect: if you’re so opposed to Hillary Clinton, why did she come to your last wedding? It seemed like a revealing, even devastating question.
Trump’s response, delivered without pause or embarrassment: Because I paid her to be there. As if she was the wedding singer, or in charge of the catering.
Even then, I’ll confess, I didn’t get it. (Why would you pay someone to come to your wedding?) But the audience did.
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Yup.
This is what I was looking for when I checked here;
What is the one best thing he can do to separate himself from the Republican machine and show that he can be a deal-maker for everyone? Answer: Punch FOX News in the mouth. Right in front of you.
Democrats are watching. Trump is framing himself as an enemy of their enemy. (Democrats hate FOX News.)
That’s what I was thinking. Forget what Republicans are saying. Millions of Democrats just sat up and cheered for Donald Trump.
(I haven’t linked to the Dilbert blog more than once or twice, but I’ve been reading it every day.)
OH. And if I may add: these talking heads asking “is he going to walk out on Putin?” as though it’s a rhetorical question?
YES, you MORONS. That’s what the art of the deal is based on. The ultimate leverage is knowing that your opponent knows that you can walk away from the table and give him nothing.
If you can’t fold your cards, if you’re not prepared to walk away, you’re not a deal maker.
You’re a hostage.
You know what just happened?
Trump just fired the air traffic controllers of the Republican party.
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This is the best thing you’ll read all week. I’ve tried to excerpt it, but it’s too good. Go read it.
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Others are starting to catch on;
“It troubles me that there can’t be a serious discussion about immigration issues because people are afraid of being called racist. People are afraid of being called a bigot. And I think one of the things that people like about Donald Trump — those who like him — is that he’s going ahead and saying it, and it’s creating a kind of inoculation against something people have feared so much, which is being called a bigot. It’s just too effective to call people bigots, and a lot of people are very intimidated and silenced and don’t even want to talk about certain issues because they don’t want to be called that. So I think part of his popularity is: He goes there, he says it, he takes the hit, and it still works for him. So that’s a kind of a liberating change in the discourse.”
Bingo.
Related: All the right people are “haunted”.