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I like and respect these guys, but I simply can't understand the inability to grasp @realDonaldTrump.
It's so EASY to figure out why Trump is the way he is.

Trump is a student of General Wáng Jìngzé, author of The Thirty-six Stratagems.
Chapter 5: Proximate Stratagems
Feign madness but keep your balance.

Hide behind the mask of a fool, a drunk, or a madman to create confusion about your intentions and motivations. Lure your opponent into underestimating your ability until, overconfident, he drops his guard. Then you may attack.
This goes hand in hand with another stratagem.

Chapter 4: Chaos Stratagems
Disturb the water and catch a fish.

Create confusion and use this confusion to further your own goals.
Trump has been a wartime president SINCE HE WAS SWORN IN.

Why must Trump "show decorum" when all his enemies have become poo-flinging chimps?

How did George W. Bush's decorum work out?
What almost nobody understands is that Trump has gamed it out to the final subatomic particle.

He needs only 49.6 percent to win IN ALL SITUATIONS.

One-tenth of 1 percent.

So he wastes no time or energy going for a percentage that he doesn't need.
Even before COVID-19, he had the election in the bag.

NOW?

He'll win by a greater margin than before.

We're seeing mass sedition by the Democrats and the press. Even MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS are letting politics influence their decisions.
My eye doctor HATES Trump.

He said to me, "You're a Biden supporter. I can tell."

SO I LIED.

But.

I was going to keep him after I moved to another state.

Now I won't.
All of my doctors hate Trump.

I have several medical conditions that require specialized care. Finding new doctors is going to be hard.

But I can't risk being treated by insane people.

They DROOL when they rave about Trump.
I don't expect insane people to be sane.

But I truly have no patience for people who absolutely refuse to accept that Trump's persona is DELIBERATE and UTTERLY EFFECTIVE.

Trump is gaming the polls, knowing that people will vote for him without personally liking him.
It happened before.

Harry S. Truman had an even lower approval rating than Trump.

Newspapers published front-page articles that Truman had lost.

Truman ground their faces in it after he won.
It was a polling catastrophe that was surpassed by the 2016 election.

And it'll happen again in November.

Here's what I don't get:

TRUMP ALREADY PROVED HIMSELF IN 2016.

Hillary didn't lose; Trump WON.
You think he can't do it again?

COME ON.

Every day there are radio ads announcing that major supermarket and supply chains need 100,000 or more new employees.

WE'RE GOING TO BE FINE.
I guess what it all comes down to is a need to be part of an "elite."

Going on television is addictive, apparently. I did it once.

HATED it. Makeup. Microphones. And an idiot asking me questions.

ALL elites think that Trump is "uncouth."
The funny thing is, he's NOT.

What's happened is mass self-hypnosis. The world gave itself amnesia as wiped Trump's entire history from the ol' memory banks.

But I didn't.

I actually didn't know anything about Trump. He hid himself well.
When I saw him begin to dismantle all the GOP nominees, I frantically read everything by and about him.

"Can it be? Can it really be?" I kept asking myself.

And finally I knew--KNEW--that yes, it was.

Here's the closest I can come to explaining my process.
I collect vintage military postcards. Long ago, I discovered that military historians are full of crap.

They're extremely dismissive and contemptuous of even QUESTIONS.

So I figured out that the only way to learn is to find the evidence myself.
Most postcard sellers don't know what they're selling. They put up a tiny thumbnail on auction sites and write, "Soldier. European? World War I?"

And they don't put specific keywords in the description.

As a result, I've been able to buy hugely important images for a pittance.
These are men from the assault company of the 1st "Sofia" Infantry Regiment, Bulgarian army.

They painted black skulls on their helmets.

Nobody knows this except for me. Not even one helmet collector in the world.
Trump is like my most important vintage postcards.

Discovering that he's the real thing was like finding an amazing treasure that was always there.

And nobody else could see it.
COVID-19 made me give up for good on people who can't grasp Trump.

They're too limited for me.

It's eerie to see them struggle.
But Trump is a touchstone.

Either you get him or you don't.

And if you don't get him, that's not my problem.

He's not a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, to quote Churchill.

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