Kavanaugh confirmed: The party of Trump wins the street brawl (and these are the lessons)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
As I write this column on Saturday, the GOP has just won one of the most brutal political battles in history. Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to the Supreme Court. President Trump wins again.
Here are the lessons (and winners) of this epic, historic battle.
First, America always does the right thing…but only after exhausting every other option.
Second, the biggest winner is President Trump. Notch another victory on his belt. The score after about 21 months in office is Trump 100, Democrats 0. Against all odds, Trump just keeps winning.
Remember this week Trump also won the Mexico-Canada trade battle; unemployment dropped to the lowest level since 1969; Hispanic unemployment dropped to the lowest ever; manufacturing jobs growth was the best since 1995, and Trump’s approval rating soared to 51 percent in the latest Rasmussen survey. Polls show Republicans pulling away in Senate races across the country. Add in the Kavanaugh victory and this was the best week of the Trump presidency.
Trump continues to teach us all lessons about #WINNING. In Trump’s world, it’s all about the fight and your fighting spirit. It’s all about your ability to bare-knuckles brawl.
This battle for the Supreme Court played out exactly like my upcoming book, “Trump Rules.” My book isn’t about politics. It’s about the rules that have empowered President Trump to become one of the greatest achievers and winners in history. The “Trump Rules” are simple. Winning isn’t about brains, or IQ, or brilliant ideas, or unique strategy.
Winning is all about being a relentless fighter. Being a bulldog. Being a bull in a china shop. It’s about fighting spirit. It’s about believing in yourself and your goals. It’s about fighting so hard, so passionately, you never let go until victory is achieved.
It’s about who wants it more. Trump always wants it more.
That’s what Trump is all about -- the fight. Sure, you get bruised and battered and slandered. Sure, it hurts. But anything worth having is worth fighting for.
Trump proved it in the 2016 election. He was attacked, denigrated, slandered, and humiliated more than any politician in world history. But he never backed down. Instead, he doubled down. He came right back at his critics. Winston Churchill said, “When you find yourself in hell, just keep going.” Trump just kept going…and fighting.
And after being called all those bad names, and all that slander, for the rest of all-time, he’s called “President Donald J. Trump.” Was it worth it? You bet it was.
Churchill also said, “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never...” That rule is more important than anything else.
It’s the reason Trump keeps getting his brains beat in and yet always comes out ahead. He’s bloody, dizzy, staggering, but his arms are raised in victory. You can’t beat Trump, because you can’t outlast Trump.
The other big winner was Brett Kavanaugh. The vicious, soulless, American left tried to destroy him, ruin him, and eviscerate him. They never imagined a wimpy, middle-aged judge from Yale had it in him to fight back like a no-holds-barred, street brawler. But Kavanaugh studied Trump, he learned from Trump.
All his brilliance, eloquence and fancy Yale education didn’t win the Supreme Court for Kavanaugh.
He had to take off the suit, get down in the mud and fight for it. For the first time in history, we witnessed a judge fight like a no-holds-barred, bare-knuckles brawler. Like Trump.
Kavanaugh channeled the “Trump Rules.” If you want something in life you’ve got to fight for it. Just as Trump proved, once you’re on the other side of the battle, with your hands raised, it was all worth it. The ugliness, lies, and slander are all forgotten. All that matters is that they call you “Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”
The final winner was the entire GOP.Republicans have always been the party of wimps, cowards and “nice guys who finish last.” Trump changed all that.
This isn’t your father’s GOP. This is the party of Trump. The GOP has gone from a party of guys wearing green pants with a yellow shirt, going golfing at the country club with Muffie and Chip, to a party of brawlers, head-bangers and New York street fighters.
Now Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham and even (gulp) Susan Collins are all bar-room brawlers. They've all clearly learned from Trump.
Heck, even our judges are willing to get into the ring and go 12 rounds! Everything has changed because of the "Trump Rules."
I’m from the streets of New York. This is my kind of political party! Thank goodness the GOP is now Trump’s Party.
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Trump. "You will bow and kneel." The Omarosa.
And actually this Kavanaugh thing was most definitely not "The hardest won political battle in American history" by a long shot. The battle for equality and civil rights was and continues to be the 'slugfest of political history." And now, it will be settled once and for. It is way past time for 'some to know their place.'
But now, with the invincibility of the Trump Agenda and the setting stage for at least two more Supreme Court installations before the end of Trump's first term, America will indeed be remade. Trump is unstoppable. Perhaps the 'christian soothsayers' were correct when they claimed that Trump was sent to us by gawd.
Mueller is history. I suggest he apologize, beg forgiveness and politely ask President Donald J. Trump to NOT imprison him or his team.
If it is, the only way they will go to prison is by the preponderance of the evidence (aka the ingenious ideal of our Constitutional due process - see how that works? and for both sides), not merely what someone says or accuses someone of doing.
The evidence is already there. President Trump has been calling the Mueller Investigations a Witch Hunt for nearly two years. Now is the time for Trump to 'set things right?'
That's because it has been. 2 years and zero evidence that the Trump team "colluded" with Russia. He was absolutely right when he said his side had been wiretapped.
We have more evidence than Shill and the DNC did colluded with Russia than Trump ever did:
This is also interesting as the noose tightens around those who are the key players in the "witch hunt":
More will be coming out in the days ahead, the confirmation spectacle took the focus on just how corrupt some of the people at the top of the food chain at the DOJ and the FBI were/are.
You just made me really sad. I had faith that President Trump would be just a blip on our political history kind of like Obama.
No blip. America has undergone a 'new revolution.' A new day has dawned. Celebrate. Prepare.
there has been a shift in the paradigm... trump is just the harbinger.
progressives are no longer the cool kids and the liberal world order is dying (rapidly)
cheers
YOu may be correct, I look for it to become more of a might makes right country and world.
Take care of yourself in every way or O-Well.
Just like in third world countries.
Slow sure slippery slope....
Good job republicans. You won.
My condolences to the dems, ya gave it a god try.
it has always been that way. does iraq not ring any bells??
bush, clinton, bush, obama, no real difference at all. every one perpetuated the policy of the last.
same bs just different rhetoric while they did it.
what changed? the might of this country is no longer in criminal hands.
the new guard has taken over and the old guard is very scared right now. as they should be
I've been questioned before about this. and thought about it specifically, you are correct. I am more accepting of a gentler approach to how politicians operate.
In other words I did like how Obama was compared to how trump is. Yes.
I'm also much more financially conservative than liberal and slightly more liberal socially than conservative. That is ideology wise. politically I have belonged to both parties in the past and doubt I belong to either one ever again.
I truly believe that the parties themselves are much of the problem along with the financial way our election system has evolved that has lead us to the point the politicians (on both sides) use the division to gain power as the media uses it to gain viewership and profit.
These days I hate anything that further devided the American people as All Of this Ford Kavanagh incident did. It sickens me we have come to this and I do really try to be an independent observer I think that is the most patriotic stance to take at this time.
PS: When I vote and I do I research every option and vote for whom I believe is best qualified for the position they are running to fill, regardless of party. I dont take giving any power over me to anyone lightly.
I was talking about the way we govern ourselves to begin with, We have a hard nose leader who doesn’t listen to much of anyone and pushes ahead at any cost I doubt that attitude is contained in fact I’d say it isn’t. Watch the tone of America turn nastier and nastier as America is divided for power and profit, I still am not seeing how any of this is making this a greater country. Richer yeah but better, not really.
Might makes Right !!
Watch it get worse. Or try to LOL control it. Yeah right… IT WILL GET WORSE, I’ll bet ya !
When the grandkids start telling us to fuck off yu old used up asshole cause they’re gonna go grab some ass just because they can so get the hell out of the way gramps ...remember today. The good old days of civility !
People used to look up to our leaders for morality, justice and well... goodness.
NOT so much anymore.
That battle was won in 1965. I think you mean "special interests"
no
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry. I do wonder if a person like trump could actually do that, turn America into a full one man show… and how hard would it be to take us from where we now are to that.
Ya think trump may have a job for me ?
Lol
Na it appears filed
This was a historic moment for the soul of our country. A time when honor and courage stood tall and we reaffirmed the wonderful Constitutional idea of presumption of innocence and rejected the notion that you can accuse someone of something without due process. It is a great day for America!
I don't understand your point in posting that. Exactly what is it that went unreported involving the two Justices named? In those cases the women were heard. They had no supporting evidence. In the most recent case, there was even contradictions of claims and in the case of Avenatti's client a probable false claim.
Kavanaugh & Thomas are part of the 100% club...as in 100% INNOCENT of all the charges (which were most likely political).
I'm sure progressives will continue to try and deligitimize their decisions. It's in their nature.
Today was a day of victory for America [deleted]
There are statistically no Stalinist Americans.
There are however Americans who choose to live in the "heartland" with very limited human interaction and assume to know how the rest of the country should feel according to their religious
beliefs.
Thank the goodness of the vast Universe that the Founders took this into consideration when they wrote the inalienable" rules for governing this melting pot of immigrants and refugees.
Ie. no defeat, just the cyclical nature of our politics and government.
Get over yourself.
I'm more concerned with the elitists who live on the coasts and are determined to dictate how we will live.
Too bad, they have every right to vote as you do Vic.
Any disagreement?
Is there ANY argument that EVERY American, whether they be born in Hawaii or Puerto Rico or Alaska or Washington
or Washington DC is any less of an American then someone born in Philadelphia OH or Philadelphia PA or Philadelphia Mississippi or Indiana?
FFS
smh
as we have recently seen...
a majority of people in a minority of states does not mean much when it comes to federal elections
- the electoral college sure is a pain in the ass like that -
Not all elections are federal.
It's part of the genius of the Founding Fathers......
Sates Rights are still the heart of the Union even if it a less perfect Union...
the coastal elite have no influence on state elections in the heartland
which is the subject of this conversation.
the sliding/moving topic has been denied.
Too bad yourself!
Ask yourself that question. It was you who generalized about the feelings of the people who live in the middle of the country. Their feelings, ideas, concerns and votes are just as valid as the leftist elite who live on the coasts
who are these elites that the conservative minded keep referring to ? can anyone describe anything about them (ie. education, gender, age, names.... anything ?) or is this going to be another undefined boogey man for politics ?
You didn't ask who those "who choose to live in the "heartland" with very limited human interaction" are? Let's answer that one first before projecting
It would seem that States Rights are more so "the heart" when dems are out of power
what friend said that ? none of my friends are on this site - you seem to be confused. This is an anonymous public chat website forum - not everyone hanging out at someone's house chatting while having drinks. Regardless - you still didn't answer my question. so i will ask it again:
care to answer this time or just have the undefined boogey man for politics that apparently can't be explained but still used to encompass opposing views ?
p.s. if you want an explanation about the comment that you apparently took offense to - you should ask that commenter and not me since i didn't make that comment. Sound good ?
No, you answer the smear against the people of the heartland. You know the ones who were called "Clingers" and "Deplorables." That's what generated my comment. Try answering that
What a sweeping generalization!
Um-hum! That's the way I see it
not my comment - nor was my question about anyone from the heartland. Again.. i'll type this slower... if you are offended by a comment from a particular commenter ...... then.... you.... go.... to ... that.... commenter... and .... talk... to .... him/her...
it's not a hard concept. (unless you can point out where i called anyone a "clinger" or "deplorable" or made a comment about anyone in the "heartland") Now, back to my question that i asked:
care to answer this time or just have the undefined boogey man for politics that apparently can't be explained but still used to encompass opposing views ?
And let me answer you slowly.....If .. you .. don't .. care...about ... some ..people...why...should...I...care....about...others?
cheers
Yep.
if you can't actually answer the question - it's fine, just let me know and i'll ask someone else who can actually define the terms they use.
That sounds a little personal. Shall we go around again?
again:
so far i've gotten nothing from those who use the term unless you are telling me that conservative minded Trump voters in rural areas who refer to the heartland as fly-over country are actually elite and didn't know it ?
sure, if you can actually answer the question that was posed instead of whining to me about another posters comments. Let's see what you can do
That would let them define the argument. My statement was in response to what I consider a smear on millions of Americans.
ya said name something about them and I did.
only the first one is free... LOL
meet the coastal elite
west coast, mostly hollyweird folk, too much money and think they can tell us how to live.
east coast, mostly political folk, too much power and think they can tell us how to live.
and they all.... can simply fuk off
I understand that you didn't make the statement, but my comments were in response to it. If you want an answer, all you have to do is give me your opinion of what I was responding to and I'll be glad to answer your question.
thank you for actually answering the question ! it's nice to have an idea of whom people are referring to . I appreciate you answering the question and being civil about it .
they called that winning. it was part of their master plan.
they only made one mistake, alinsky was an idiot
your comments were a sad attempt at deflection and dodging the question that I asked.
I asked the question first - you answer first. You made the comment second - my opinion comes second. It's very simple. Or we can just do this all day long and avoid any kind of debate.
Half? The President has the duty of nominating Judges. It is in the Constitution
I know, it's such a stumper
I asked the question first
Oh you asked first!
Or we can just do this all day long and avoid any kind of debate.
No, I think I have other ways to spend the day. Have a good one.
well if you can't define the term as another poster did (and gave me his meaning of the term) then you just have to say so - not that hard.
i sure did @5.1.8 and then you accused me of projecting and deflected @5.1.9 - it's there for the world to see
no problem, you have a good day too.
it was a direct response to LFD
who posted elsewhere that he subsists on what he grows, hunts or catches fishing and that he hates cities and avoids them,( and presumably the Stalinists ) at all cost.
The majority of people who live on either coast are not elite or elitists. They are just Americans.
No labels required.
I live in an exurb and am surrounded by rural.
I grew up in an environment like that. Once I needed and wanted to support myself I moved to the city, now I prefer having whatever I need or want within a few miles of my home. I dont see the actually city from here and I dont allow it to infringe on me. I'm good right here.
I still have some family that have to drive 35 miles to even the grocery store. One day my sister in law found she had just left her wallet at the gas station 35 miles back, she returned got more gas and drive the 35 miles back home again... I laughed.
No thanks ya'll can keep that country life
now that the kavanaug thing is settled...
trump will be seeing RR next.
one goes up.. and then one goes down
RR ?
rod rosenstein
Ronald Reagan
I confess I am confused, my initial reaction was Ron Reagan
but then I thought he was dead so,
Ron Reagan Jr? ( most likely to annoy conservatives)
who would be much more "in the know"
but who fuggin knows any more?
I could help you out here. would ya like another hint?
I'm still batting 1000
Who cares other than yew...
yea, that's true enough... except one thing. I don't give a fuk either.
carry on
Rump Ranger?
I'd like to thank one of the people who most assisted the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh, Harry Reid. Thanks for deploying the nuclear option even after we told you what would happen.
Also the idiotic and pointless decision by Schumer to filibuster Gorsuch.
If they had saved the filibuster for Kavanaugh, it's likely Republicans wouldn't have had the votes to get rid of it.