Fire McMaster !

[Smitty-48]

The problem is not lieutenants anyways, blaming McMaster is a cop out of course, if Trump wants to exercise his authority as Commander-in-Chief, McMaster will of course salute and say "yessir", the only reason there could be, for the likes of McMaster to have disproportionate influence, would be that Trump himself is in fact a power vacuum, which, is clearly the case, and neither Mike Flynn, nor even Thomas J Jackson himself, would be able to do anything about it, although methinks Thomas J Jackson might have simply shot Donald Trump by now, as he was after all, a treasonous rebel, with a hard on for killing Yankee Carpetbaggers, who probably would have gone kinetic, just over Donald Trump using the phrase "pussing grabbing" in polite company.

I mean, shit, Thomas J Jackson had men hung, for a hell of lot less than grabbing pussies, if you actually went a grabbing pussies, in 19th century America? They'd burn you at the stake for that, even if you were President, as, they weren't actually all that impressed with the office of President back then. When it came to white women in 19th century America, there was no free pussy, all them pussies were under somebody's protection, and if you just hauled off and grabbed one, that would probably get you shot, even if the shooter had to hang for it, if that is, you could ever have found a jury, which would have convicted a man, for shooting a sex offender, who went and grabbed a white woman's pussy out of the blue.

In 19th century America, they didn't fight the Taliban, they were the Taliban, and Thomas J Jackson, was a Mullah, for whom "rebelling against the Washington Establishment", was no joke, as opposed to now, where it's just another memetic talking point on twiiter.

[clubgop]

"Russia! Russia! Russia!" is the only thing propping Trump up right now, that's keeping his base in a constant circle the wagons rally to the Trump mode, if "Russia! Russia! Russia!" goes away, then the only narrative left is; Trump is too politically weak to run the government and/or get the GOP congress to pass any meaningful legislation.

On the other hand, "Russia! Russia! Russia!" will probably persist all the way to 2020, saving Trump's bacon in the end.

Trump doesn't really have a clue what he would want to do about Afghanistan, Syria, China, yadda, yadda, yadda, but what he does know is, so long as his opponents just keep screaming "Russia! Russia! Russia!" to the exclusion of an actual alternative and/or critique which would actually resonate with the GOP base, it doesn't matter, Trump will just win by default, having done nothing, other than riding those wagons circled around him, all the way to 2020 and beyond.

I think your analysis is pretty on the spot. But you are missing something. There is a Russia, Russia, Russia cry for sure and once that dissipates something may be lost, but we are already seeing a pivot with the Miller v Acosta row. There is a cry of Racist, racist, racist! to the exclusion of an actual alternative and/or critique which would resonate with anyone not an open borders advocate.

[Smitty-48]

"Racist! Racist! Racist!" is gonna be the kiss of death for the Democrats, if they stick their necks in that noose, that's just giving Trump a free ride, "Russia! Russia! Russia!" does at least split the GOP to some degree, whereas "Racist! Racist! Racist!" would just unite them again, even the NeverTrumps will rally around the colours, if the Democrats go with "Racist! Racist! Racist!".

[Speaker to Animals]

Racist, racist, racist is coming right up, anyway. They can't help themselves.

[Smitty-48]

This is why I'm still bullish on Trump getting reelected, even if he does nothing, because he doesn't have to do that much, while the Democrats are alienating everybody outside of the big cities, the Coasts and Cities coalition, is not a winning hand, when it comes to the electoral college, which is all that matters.

[Smitty-48]

lol. I just watched that "Miller v. Acosta" thing for the first time, that is the Democrats downfall right there right thur, I mean, putting aside the fact that the New Colossus by Emma Lazarus is not actually in the constitution, just the way Acosta took it upon himself to start sermonizing from the media pulpit, in lieu of asking an actually cogent and relevant question; what was your question again, Jim? Why is there is no Statue of Liberty Law in America? I don't know, Jim, but since nobody ever wrote such a law, it doesn't exist, it's just a poem, JIm, it's not policy and never was, next question?

That pretty much says it all, because outside of Lefty Loonie Bluest of the Blue land, that whole narrative is just going to blow up in the liberals faces. They're just ridiculously presumptious, as to the will of the electorate, and they've got a tin ear about it to boot, they really do live in their own little Ivory Towers, insulated by the self reinforcing liberal media bubble, and seems to me, this was, and will contiunue to be, their electoral undoing, whether Trump get much passed or not, Trump doesn't even have to make a big splash, when the likes of Jim Acosta are the self appointing opposition.

[TheReal_ND]

Yeah well this racist racist etc shit is normally kept to within a certain discourse.

[Smitty-48]

Near as I can tell, the immigration policy which Trump is proposing, is basically just the policy we have here in Canada, and have had here in Canada, since the 1960's, although we don't call it "racist", we say "merit based".

Also, IIRC, being able to speak English and/or French, gets you 28 points in our merit based points system, which is the most amount of points you can get, for any single consideration. Can't speak English nor French? Go to the back of the line, that's how we roll here, you can make up any sob story you please, you can call it racist if you want, nobody cares, that's why we have the points system, you either have the points or you don't, if you don't, too bad so sad, you get no points for complaining about it.

[TheReal_ND]

Not what I meant. When they cry reycis it's usually because certain Hollywood liberal elite and people with New York values are starting to get paranoid.

That's why the racist racist shit is kept to the stupid arena it is here.

[Smitty-48]

But it has started to alter its basis, was a time, when American elites played the race card, they meant black people, yeah, Hispanics and Asians too, but really, it was all about Jim Crow & Co, but now they're going off the reservation, opening it up to mean immigrants from anywhere and everywhere, and I don't think they're noticing the part, where American don't view immigrants being denied citizenship, as being tantamount to Jim Crow, which is why I think this line of attack is backfiring.

The Blue Collars will say "Yeah, no Jim Crow, can't have that", but if you say "well then, you have to take these people from over here, Jim Crow says", then it changes completely, all of sudden the Blue Collars are like "whoa, that ain't Jim Crow, we never enslaved those people and brought them to America in chains, so we don't owe them jack shit, get in line, folks, Mexico was never paert of Dixieland, get real "