How has Former President Trump pissed you off today?

[bobot]

What do you think?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@BeenJammin

Did Sun Tzu mention a few things about leadership with potentially applicable parallels in Trumpian behavior?

A leader leads by example, not by force.

You have to believe in yourself.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.

Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.

If his forces are united, separate them.

If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Way? No-Way? Total coincidence? Nothing to it? I mean yesterday’s performance was on it’s face a literally stunning display of incompetence, even for him. Could he actually be playing Putin?

…asks the Russian troll.

[Budget_Player_Cadet]

@BeenJammin

Way? No-Way? Total coincidence? Nothing to it? I mean yesterday’s performance was on it’s face a literally stunning display of incompetence, even for him. Could he actually be playing Putin?

I mean, if we throw out everything we know about Trump, his methods of negotiating, how inept he is at his job, Trump’s constant genuflections towards Putin and other dictators, et cetera…

…What the hell. Care to outline a scenario where this logic makes any sense? Like, actually walk us through it?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Donald Trump couldn’t pronounce Sun Tzu, let alone have his teachings guide foreign policy.

[SingleMalt]

I’d guess that Putin is probably well acquainted with Sun Tzu. I don’t think Trump could get through the first two pages of the comic book version.

[Ann_Hedonia]

@BeenJammin

Did Sun Tzu mention a few things about leadership with potentially applicable parallels in Trumpian behavior?

A leader leads by example, not by force.

You have to believe in yourself.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.

Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.

If his forces are united, separate them.

If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Way? No-Way? Total coincidence? Nothing to it? I mean yesterday’s performance was on it’s face a literally stunning display of incompetence, even for him. Could he actually be playing Putin?

So, the best rebuttal the conservatives can come up with is “On its face, yesterday’s press conference was something between totally incompetence and treason but Trump is a genius so he must be playing some sort of multi-dimensional chess.

Face it dude, you fell for a con artist.

[RickJay]

@BeenJammin

Did Sun Tzu mention a few things about leadership with potentially applicable parallels in Trumpian behavior?

Most of these vague maxims have parallels in Vladimir Putin’s behaviour.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@BeenJammin

Did Sun Tzu mention a few things about leadership with potentially applicable parallels in Trumpian behavior?

A leader leads by example, not by force.

You have to believe in yourself.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.

Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.

If his forces are united, separate them.

If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Way? No-Way? Total coincidence? Nothing to it? I mean yesterday’s performance was on it’s face a literally stunning display of incompetence, even for him. Could he actually be playing Putin?

Well, he seems to be doing a pretty bad job with this one, since he’s kissing his sovereign’s arse in press conferences:

If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them.

[jsc1953]

@Ann_Hedonia

So, the best rebuttal the conservatives can come up with is “On its face, yesterday’s press conference was something between totally incompetence and treason but Trump is a genius so he must be playing some sort of multi-dimensional chess.

Face it dude, you fell for a con artist.

This is the guy who didn’t know that England and the U.K. were 2 different things. I think we can rule out 3-D chess.

[Jack_Batty]

Ask Trump about Sun Tzu and he’d most likely tell you he doesn’t like Chinese food.

[pulykamell]

@BeenJammin

Did Sun Tzu mention a few things about leadership with potentially applicable parallels in Trumpian behavior?

A leader leads by example, not by force.

You have to believe in yourself.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.

Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.

If his forces are united, separate them.

If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Way? No-Way? Total coincidence? Nothing to it? I mean yesterday’s performance was on it’s face a literally stunning display of incompetence, even for him. Could he actually be playing Putin?

Ha ha. No. But whatever helps you sleep at night.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@jsc1953

This is the guy who didn’t know that England and the U.K. were 2 different things. I think we can rule out 3-D chess.

He also reportedly didn’t know what the U.S. nuclear triad is, was surprised that healthcare reform is complicated, and mentioned an article of the Constitution that doesn’t even exist. So… agreed.

[BeepKillBeep]

@BeenJammin

Did Sun Tzu mention a few things about leadership with potentially applicable parallels in Trumpian behavior?

A leader leads by example, not by force.

You have to believe in yourself.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.

Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.

If his forces are united, separate them.

If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them.

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Way? No-Way? Total coincidence? Nothing to it? I mean yesterday’s performance was on it’s face a literally stunning display of incompetence, even for him. Could he actually be playing Putin?

What this tells me is that you don’t understand Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

But don’t you fret, we’ll just add it to the very long list of things you don’t understand very well.

[wolfpup]

@Jack_Batty

Ask Trump about Sun Tzu and he’d most likely tell you he doesn’t like Chinese food.

But he’ll try it as long as the Sun Tzu is well done and there’s lots of ketchup.

[CurtC]

@Elendil_s_Heir

He also reportedly didn’t know what the U.S. nuclear triad is, was surprised that healthcare reform is complicated…

Surely he knows those things by now - the Catheter Cowboy explained them to him.

[glowacks]

I failed to read particularly closely the remarks surrounding the Sun Tzu quotes or who they were from, and all I could think of was how well some of them were describing how Putin was acting.

[BeepKillBeep]

@wolfpup

But he’ll try it as long as the Sun Tzu is well done and there’s lots of ketchup.

Literal LOL. You scared my cat.

[Blue_Blistering_Barnacle]

Trump says deep-throating Putin was even more fun than butt-fucking Europe.

Trump says Putin meeting went better than NATO summit | CNN Politics

[Sherrerd]

@Ann_Hedonia

So, the best rebuttal the conservatives can come up with is “On its face, yesterday’s press conference was something between totally incompetence and treason but Trump is a genius so he must be playing some sort of multi-dimensional chess. …

Yes, the 'Trump is actually only pretending to be an idiot as a brilliant 4th-dimensional chess move’ excuse has been trotted out so often in the past two years that those spouting it cannot manage to do so with anything approaching coherence.

But it is, quite literally, all they have.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

One word! He only got one word wrong in the press conference with his KGBFF, and of course that makes all the difference. Color me relieved: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/politics/white-house-mood-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-news-conference/index.html