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Title: Dilbert Creator: Trump ‘Invulnerable’ If Beats Disability Flap
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... able-if-beats-disability-flap/
Published: Nov 27, 2015
Author: Joel B. Pollak
Post Date: 2015-11-27 18:37:01 by cranky
Keywords: None
Views: 12188
Comments: 74
“If he survives this one, he’s invulnerable,” Adams said. Adams took to Periscope on Friday afternoon to promote his new book, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, and answered questions from fans. Recently, Adams has written about his conviction that Donald Trump will win the presidency, based on his use of sophisticated techniques of public persuasion. Adams told Reason magazine that Trump uses perceived insults to beat back opponents: “What I [see] in Trump,” says Adams, is “someone who was highly trained. A lot of the things that the media were reporting as sort of random insults and bluster and just Trump being Trump, looked to me like a lot of deep technique that I recognized from the fields of hypnosis and persuasion.”… Similarly, where the media see random insults, Adams sees Trump creating a significant polling gap between those who attack him and those who compliment him, resulting in chilled aggression from his opponents. Trump, says Adams, uses “anchors,” which are big, visual thoughts that drown out any other argument. Think, for example, of the billionaire’s florid descriptions of a Mexican border wall. Trump stands accused of having mocked the Times‘ Serge Kovaleski, in a spat originating in a dispute over whether “thousands” of Muslims had cheered the Sep. 11, 2001 terror attacks from Jersey City. Trump maintains he did not mock the reporter and has demanded that the Times apologize to him rather than the other way around. None of the past controversies seems to have dented Trump’s lead in the polls, especially as broader news events, such as the Paris terror attacks, seem to be boosting his national lead in the Republican race. 
Dilbert creator Scott Adams said Friday afternoon that if Donald Trump survives the ongoing controversy about whether he made fun of New York Times reporter’s disability, he will be a lock to win the presidency.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Trump has to be better than the other, anti-Americans who are running.
I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice.
He may end up being their only choice. The establishment types will go to him if he takes NH, and SC. Face it, Trump is in this with his own money at least through the March primaries. I think he will be in the top two after the majority of the votes in the primary are counted. He's crazy if he goes third party. He knows that would be a waste of his money. If he truly wants to be president he has to do it through the GOP.
Not really. He's running it as a cost of doing business tax write-off,at least for the time being. For example,there was a report last week that he had charged his campaign 700 grand so far for the use of his private jet. Just because that is the only angle we have seen made public so far,doesn't mean it is the only angle. I'm betting he is billing his campaign for the hours he is away from Trump,Inc,too. Trump keeps talking about how the others need to be more creative,when the truth is he creates nothing but bankruptcies and tax write-offs,and the truth is he doesn't even really do that. His accountants and lawyers are the ones doing the heavy mental lifting.
That's not "the truth", it's a lie. Trump has created hundreds of buildings around the world, vast projects, and employed tens of thousands of people. Trump doesn't make his money busting up companies. He makes his money building things and renting them out, and licensing his corporate name and goodwill. He makes his money employing people, building properties and managing them. Thousands of them, each a separate thing. Of those thousands, four, just FOUR only, have failed sufficiently that they filed for bankruptcy. And the Trump did what any good leader does whether political or military: you plan failed and you cannot win the battle, but you can damned well win the retreat. In those business bankruptcies, which are not PERSONAL bankruptcies but simple business failures 4 among thousands, Donald Trump has won. He has fought the bankruptcies and obtained very favorable results. That is exactly what you want in a leader. Somebody who runs things, builds things, knows how to administer thousands of people, how to make deals of all sorts. One whose projects are almost always successful. And one whose failures are managed to reduce the losses to his own side to the minimum. Ronald Reagan, for example, failed terribly in Beirut. He sent in the Marines, acceded to terms of engagement that left them exposed in a war zone. Many of them paid the price of Reagan's error with their lives and limbs. The terrorists bombed the compound, and the Marines died. We were defeated that day. How Reagan reacted to the defeat was important. He reassessed the situation. He decided that no real American interest worth the risk existed. So Reagan "declared bankruptcy" - he cut his losses and pulled us out, rather than doubling down on a quagmire due to stubbornness, pride, stupidity and "not wanting to be seen as weak". Well, the pullout WAS weak, but it was EXACTLY the weakness that a leader needs to show, sometimes, for the overall good of the nation. Sometimes a business is bankrupt. Does the Trump empire have the money to recover that one business? Probably. But you don't sacrifice the body to the cancer. You cut out the cancer. A smart leader like Reagan knew that: sometimes it makes a whole lot more sense to lose some skirmish than to commit everything to a war that, even if you win, brings you nothing but more trouble. Trump was wise enough to know when to cut the thread on failing businesses, and savvy enough to get good settlements. That's Reagan in Beirut. The notion that "in truth" "he creates nothing but bankruptcies" is a lie. Trump is overwhelmingly successful. Sometimes, success includes knowing when to fold your hand on a business line that doesn't work out.
WTF do you know about the truth? You believe in miracles and worship spooks.
Because I've seen them. Spooks are real, and so are some miracles. Because I know that, I am more grounded in the totality of reality than you are, because you deny them. But miracles and angels have little to do with Donald Trump and the GOP establishment, so why go there?
Because I know that, I am more grounded in the totality of reality than you are, because you deny them. Uh,huh. But miracles and angels have little to do with Donald Trump and the GOP establishment,... On that we agree. so why go there? Because you went there first.
#47. To: sneakypete (#45)
I didn't go there first. I talked about bankruptcies. You went after me by saying that nothing I say can be listened to, because I believe in angels and miracles. You went there first in our exchange.
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#3. To: Don (#1)
Trump has to be better than the other, anti-Americans who are running.
#31. To: cranky (#3)
I just don't believe Trump will ever be the RNC's first choice.
#35. To: redleghunter (#31)
Face it, Trump is in this with his own money at least through the March primaries.
#42. To: sneakypete (#35)
the truth is he creates nothing but bankruptcies and tax write-offs
#43. To: Vicomte13 (#42)
That's not "the truth", it's a lie.
#44. To: sneakypete (#43)
(Edited)
WTF do you know about the truth? You believe in miracles and worship spooks.
#45. To: Vicomte13 (#44)
(Edited)
Because I've seen them. Spooks are real, and so are some miracles.
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