By Steve Candidus (Steve C.)
“It is more important to outthink your enemy, than to outfight him.” – Sun Tzu, ‘The Art of War’
One of the things that I’ve learned in over four decades in the world of competitive technical sales is to try and think the way my competitor thinks.
How will they bid on the same project that I am bidding on?
What can I offer that will make me the preferred bid?
How will my competitors react to my winning the job?
How could I still lose it after appearing to be the winning bidder?
When I apply this to what I see in the current state of politics regarding the presidential race in 2020, I come to a different conclusion than any of the one’s that I see and hear.
If I were the head of the Democratic Party, I would have to conclude that none of the lunatics that are vying for the nomination would be able to beat Trump one-on-one.
So what to do?
I would let the nominations go where they will go, but be very careful to let Bernie Sanders get enough support that when the DNC screws him over again that there is wide-spread support for him to run as a third party candidate.
Having Tulsi Gabbard resign from the Democratic Party to run as his VP would be a bonus. In fact, it would be important to get her to do so.
I would support their third party effort from behind the scenes and pretty much leave the Democrat candidate to get whatever votes they get.
Yes, Bernie will pull from the Democrats extreme socialist voters, but Tulsi will draw from the Trump supporters that are unhappy about the wars for regime change that he promised to end and didn’t.
BUT
I would put ALL of my efforts into keeping and possibly even increasing my majority in the House of Representatives.
The goal being to make sure that none of the three contestants gets the required 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
Constitutional law then leaves the decision to the newly elected House of Representatives to choose the next president. With a clear Democrat majority in the House and a solid consensus to conform, they would then select the Democrats candidate as the new president. As a bonus, they could even point out that they wanted to eliminate the Electoral College, but it was Republicans who opposed it.
In other words, if they cannot win the presidency legitimately they will simply steal it…
Thinking the way my competitors do, that is what I would do if I knew that I was running a losing candidate…
Steve Candidus is a writer and history buff that works as a product and application specialist of large AC electric motors in Spring, Texas.
Dammit Steve, quit giving the Dims such ideas.
You obviousl do not understand how the President is chosen by Congress, if one candidate does not get 270 electoral votes.
FYI, when the election is passed to the Congress, each STATE gets ONE VOTE. The vote for each state is determined by polling the Representitives AND the Senators from that state. So, just because there may be more Democrats in the House, does not mean they will be able to elect the Democrat Candidate.
The big liberal states have majority Democrat reps and senators, so will have ONE VOTE PER STATE for President. States, like Idaho, with 2 Republican Reps and 2 Republican Senators gets ONE VOTE for President. Idaho then has the same voting power, with only 4 elected officials, as does Calif with 59 elected officials.
The Congres can chose from the top 3 candidates, thus could even elect a candidate that did not get a single electoral vote.
Fewer people to target with smear/exposure campaigns.
Even if true, try to execute that scenario and implement that on the fly.
Good fucking luck.
Israel is in that depth of uncharted political waters as we speak RIGHT NOW.
Actually, the House will be the only ones to cast a vote for President in the case of a tie or or no candidate getting a majority of electoral votes, and it would be 1 vote per state, as you mentioned. In the case of a tie for Vice President, the Senate makes the choice. We could get a President and a Vice President of different parties.
This all happens after the election, but before the new House and Senate are seated.
The new House members and Senators are sworn in on Jan 3. The Electroal college votes are counted 3 days later. The Inauguration is Jan 20th.
You are correct. I was thinking of the date they voted in Dec.
It’s all a show to have Clinton be the nominee.
The sooner she enters, the longer time the sheep have to get over their whining.
It’s going to be a classic battle between Les Deplorables and the NPCs.
Maybe this is why they wanted to impeach Trump so badly- so they could get themselves off the hook. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/468644-gop-senators-prepared-to-acknowledge-quid-pro-quo-plan-to-argue-it-was-legal
Someone understands strategy.
Right now we live in a purely tactical political environment. When people rarely ever lose, they come to rely on tactics alone since the always (appear to) deliver a victory, but any campaign that fails to identify a coherent strategy- once it runs into trouble- cannot hope to prevail.
Outside of the free shit, open borders and hate Trump, the dems have no strategy. They have an agenda (Marxist) and they have the media and the propaganda machine churning away 24/7. The repubs are all there to collect a paycheck, back whoever preserves that paycheck and not upset the gravy cart. The PTB, the Swamp denizens are all of them in Congress, along with the bureaucrats and government drones. There are some exceptions but that number is small.
We are all victims of one huge psy-op, a never ending cycle of ‘We have always been at war with Oceana” and ten minutes of hate. Divide and conquer, the goal is power.
Yes, purely tactical and highly reactionary.
We are in the post campaign era in my opinion.
A good campaign *and even a good strategy* is no longer necessary, given the Recoats and AIPAC conspire to dump the votes in the river or some rental car in Florida.
A third party run of Sanders/Gabbard would draw almost all of its support from the Democrat candidate. Such a third party run would lead to Trump winning 40 states instead of the 30 he won in 2016. No Democratic Party leader would be stupid enough to go with this plan.
The point of the article is to try to think the way that they think. Not the way that you think or the way that I think. The way that they think.
The election is an all win or all lose deal. If the Democrats don’t think that they have the electoral votes to win, and I don’t think that they do, then they end up with nothing.
I agree that a Sanders/Gabbard ticket would take the extreme socialist vote from the socialist vote for the Democrats, but if they don’t have the votes anyway how else can they accomplish their mission? Perhaps enough voters from all parties are so disgusted with our foreign policy that never changes that they will be willing to send a message that they’ve had enough. I would push that angle if I were Sanders/Gabbard.
I think that it’s safe to assume that the DNC is never going to let Bernie Sanders be their nominee. He is only a registered Democrat when he’s running for the presidency. Otherwise, he reverts back to being an independent. That’s not the sort of loyalty that endears him to the DNC.
Tulsi Gabbard speaks truths about our foreign policy that she is not supposed to speak. She also torpedoed who was probably their first choice – knee-pads Kammie. Warren will do, but heels up Harris was likely their first choice. Tulsi is already toast in the Democratic Party.
I think that a Sanders/Gabbard ticket will happen regardless of the DNC’s intentions. Bernie will get screwed again and Tulsi marginalized and smeared they will get pissed off and run on a third party ticket – the American Socialist Party or possible the Green Party or both.
So trying to think like them, how do you make something good out of that?
Pack the House and go for a no win for anyone in electoral votes.
Deals will be made with the Never-Trumpers and RINOS in the state legislatures as well as in the House of Representatives.
They might as well. Their field of candidates is the road to defeat…
Just trying to think outside of the box here…
On another note, have you ever studied just how hard it is to get any third party on all 50 state ballots? It is nigh near to impossible without tons o’money and I do mean tons! The last two parties to get on all 50 state ballots was the Libertarian and Reform party in 1996. Harry Browne was a billionaire and so was Ross Perot. They had the necessary funds to get on the ballot in all 50 states. However, many states will only list third party candidates as independent. So with no tell as to who is running for what party such as the Demoncraps and the Rethugugans enjoy, a voter may not know who the Green party, the Libertarian party or the Reform party candidate is. Recently, the Libertarian party won a court battle in Tennessee to have a letter placed behind the candidate’s name. However, they are all lumped together in the independent column on the ballot. Under the conditions that currently exist, a 3rd party run for the “Bern” may not be possible.
I was the chairman of the Western NY Libertarian Party prior to moving to Texas 30+ years ago. I was a delegate at the convention where we nominated Ron Paul in 1987. His running mate, Andre Marrou, stayed at my house in Buffalo when I had interviews set up for him with local media.
I’m well aware of how hard the two-party system makes it for any interlopers to their power.
The Green Party would only have to target the few states where they think a Sanders/Gabbard ticket would do well and put all of their resources there.
In the scenario that I wrote, it would likely be backed from behind the scenes by the Democrats and possibly George Soros.
I don’t disagree with a lot of this, but the “first past the post” method of allotting electoral votes is the only thing that matters. In a threeway race, a plurality of the vote in a state of 33.34% is enough, theoretically, to win all of the electoral votes. In the race you propose, Trump will simply win all the state he won before, and if Sanders/Gabbard ran and got, lets say 5% of the vote, then Trump would then win VA, NM, CO, NH, ME, MN, NV for certain, and would be within striking distance of winning NJ, DE, WA, and OR since that 5% would be overweighted in all the blue states.
Such a strategy is better if, instead of Sanders/Gabbard, the Democrats tried to arrange a third party run with Romney/Weld, but then they couldn’t do it in the open. I do think this strategy was tried in 2016 by the Clintons with Trump- the media built him up with the plan that he would run 3rd party when he lost the nomination, but Trump foiled it by actually winning the nomination and then the presidency.
I don’t think that the Democrats will have enough electoral votes to win in 2020. If they don’t think so either they will have to find some other way to win.
I do think that Sanders/Gabbard will run on a third party regardless of what they are saying now and that will make things even worse for the Democrats. So how could they turn that problem into an advantage?
My essay is regarding what they ‘might’ try to do. It’s Hail Mary pass, but given their current field of mental midgets they will have to come up with something.
I’m just trying to think like the DNC must be thinking right about now. What do we do when we know that we are playing a losing hand?
Okay when was the last time any party other than the R’s and D’s that actually earned an elector to the college? I think the L party did but only received 1. I do not think the reform party earned any electors. The “Bern” still would have an up hill battle on a 3rd party ticket. Many states are winner take all elector states. I doubt any third party would garner more than 1 or 2 electors, if that!
Maine and Nebraska apportion their electoral votes according to which person won each Congressional district and the overall winner getting the 2 other votes, representing the senators.
To me, this is a much more fair way of distributing the electoral votes
That is the way it was originally envisioned. Corruption of the system is what is evident now. I believe it was the states with the most electors pushed the winner take all scenario.
Each state makes their own rules for selection of electors.
Found this on another site, and I thought I’d drop it in here:
I’d like to see the existing R and D parties merge, and face off against a new party for sane people.
The Democrat party is about dead. I think The new Socialist party would at least be honest.
Misdirection, Stanley.
I’d like to see the existing R and D parties merge, and face off against a new party for *poor* people.
Sad to imagine Bernie as a winning candidate. I wouldn’t want any of the Democrats running making decisions that would affect me. I vote on issues and after looking at various candidates web sites I was afraid for the future of our Republic.
Are you saying they don’t already make decisions that affect you?
Are you counting Clinton in that pool of candidates?
Do yourself and us a favor and stop voting.
The author lays out a very plausible [civil war?] scenario given the present actors on stage.
This made up about half of my CW conversation from last night! The electoral college is going to shit it’s pants next year and hopefully be exposed for the sham it is.
If y’all don’t know my position on the matter, it’s essentially that votes get dumped in the river or the car crusher, the higher up the chain you go, until the nation arrived here in late 2016:
http://mileswmathis.com/trump2.pdf
But Miles is a Psyop, so that can’t possibly true in whole or in part? No, it’s a short and concise paper that’s open to attack, so get busy. Please attack the ideas presented and not the author, whoever he may be.
Hillary nominally won 2016 but was not installed.
Nominally nom·i·nal·ly /ˈnämənlē,ˈnämənəlē/ (adverb): in name only; officially though perhaps not in reality
Ponder that thought really hard. Officially, though perhaps not in reality- or is it in reality, though perhaps not officially?
Doesn’t matter.
I wholeheartedly believe Hillary won 2016 by a not-small margin and that she was simply not installed.
The great disconnect here is a shitload of people believe Trump won 2016 by a huge margin and was rightfully installed.
Yes, I believe all PRETENDER PRESIDENTS since ’45 have had to kiss Kennedy rings, in secret, right up to present day, making them nominal subjects of the Crown, aka The Redcoats.
So what? I also believe slappingtons.com because it’s public record. You know, the MERS Comey-Holder mortgage scandal that gave the Brits title back to America.
Like Obama, those assholes are British subjects if I’m standing here.
Genealogy makes my want to take a nap, but you just might want to try this for starters. It’s short and concise and no need to shoot the messenger.
http://mileswmathis.com/colbert.pdf (genealogy not a f’ing conspiracy)
Anyway, like Steve C. the author of this article, my friend has 25+ years in high level tech sales. He’s around 50, mid-Gen X like me and grew up with TRS-80s and early IBMs, DECs, modems, and cellular in the 80s.
Some further qualifications, in short, he has genius-level polymath intelligence particularly with raw logic. I used to work in headhunting and headhunting sales at high levels both the corporate tech and MIC arenas, with and without TSSCIs. My friend is not the J-word, as I am by blood, although we touched on that for sure.
We roleplayed and war-gamed 2020 and 2021 last night, not just the rigged-to-explode election, but really wide ranging shit. I’m not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree and feel I was beaten up pretty badly, but I asked for it. The insights his superior logic allowed me to run with were just wow. Maybe I’ll write about it sometime.
“Yes, I believe all PRETENDER PRESIDENTS since ’45 have had to kiss Kennedy rings, in secret, right up to present day, making them nominal subjects of the Crown, aka The Redcoats.”
Yes .22, we know you do, you remind us many times…daily…on thread after thread after thread.
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While it is true that other psychiatric issues (unrelated to TBP .22 Mathis Fatigue) may be the reason for Mathis fatigue, it is reasonable to make certain that there is not an underlying physical illness that is the root cause…like accidently actually clicking on Mathis links.
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While Mathis fatigue can last for a prolonged period of time while scanning threads on TBP as the site can be ‘carpet bombed’ with them by .22, the presence of chronic Mathis fatigue is different than chronic Mathis fatigue syndrome, which has specific set of two criteria set for by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as follows:
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2. Concurrently have four or more of the following symptoms:
• post-exertional 1/3rd Jew 3/4s anti Jew malaise
• impaired memory or concentration on anything else but Mathis
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• tender cervical or axillary lymph nodes
• sore throat
• headaches thinking about Dead Kennedys and Custer’s Last Stand
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From Mygirl on another thread, who I agree with:
“Miles and other web sites like Sorcha Fal are controlled disinfo sites, generally there’s a spook agency like the CIA or MI6 running the site, using it as a phishing site and a means to spread rumors and lies. Look to Operation Gladio and Mockingbird for some insights there.
There are also disinfo agents posing as legitimate commenters on websites and blogs, their goal and purpose is to throw comments off center, to push an agenda and distort facts to suit said agenda, especially if the commenters are getting too close to a truth best left unexamined or else getting too close to a common consensus. Another role the disinfo agent plays is as destroyer of the website/blog.
They jam up the comment section, take it over at times, post the same items over and over and make it difficult to post or else make other commenters so disgusted with the process that they avoid writing anything.”
They dropped my then girlfriend into Kuwait on a parachute, in the dark, back in 1990 long before any shooting started to get the Psyops rolling.
She was overseas military intelligence and told me what I needed to know.
I carried a a rifle and a howitzer, she carried a rifle and a computer.
Today people like her are parachuting into America.
Ask HSF about the finer points of parachuting. He’s no dummy either when it comes to the ultimate worst-case implications of military psychological operations.
I’m not talking about what you post as much as I am the redundancy of what you post…the same links, pictures, charts. Like you saying the same thing every single thread is going make what you say truer? Or wear everyone down?
Come on do you think your old girlfriend is the first one dropped by parachute (in the gasp…dark) on a mission?
“Today people like her are parachuting into America.”
Look .22 I liked Red Dawn too…but they don’t need to parachute in. They already run most of the government. The 5th column has been running the show for generations! Most of us here already know that. Hell, half the treads are about that.
Mygirl has a point whether it’s true or not as far as your intent…you soak up a lot of oxygen. Either Miles Mathis is going to have you selling flowers in an airport one day or you are another Mocking (Mathis) Bird?
Flea has a point you would be a good guy to share a fighting hole with, so there is that.
PS: Man…That howitzer musta been heavy on the hump?
PSS: As far as psychological operations I believe you have been duped by one…or you’re on their ‘four generations of dead Kennedys’ running the world from their secret HQ in Hyannis Port, internet committee?
You never really took THEY LIVE seriously even for a moment, did you?
Drop some acid and watch it again.
I don’t do drugs or Mathis.
Who smeared acid by calling it a “drug”?
Timothy Leary spread the psychedelic gospel by presenting a multi-media performance called: “The Death of the Mind” which attempted to artistically replicate the LSD experience.
From what I can tell from everyone I personally knew who used it regularly…Leary aptly named it.
LSD is a drug, aspirin is a drug, they’re both chemical compounds that affect the body. Unlike LSD, aspirin doesn’t alter brain chemicals to the point of hallucination.
This is like thinking that you’ve outsmarted the grocer by choosing which of the two brands of peanut butter he has placed on the shelf. No matter which candidate “wins”, the deep state gets “their guy.” At this point it’s all about maximizing humiliation – and that’s why the Democrat ticket will likely include butt plug Pete.
+1 as usual
If brevity is the soul of wit, I don’t have it. Beto and Pete were never candidates, they are legalized vomit campaigns, wholly intended to fail, utterly fraudulent and in violation of the spirit if not the letter of every fair election law ever imagined.
No political ads on Twitter AND YET you get something like 20 walking, talking Psyops propped up as real people and legitimate candidates who are blowing it up on Twitter 24/7/365!
There are only 3 viable candidates in the dem field, so far. All the others are auditioning for the VP slot. Beta sank his chances when he told the truth about their gun agenda.
My money for VP is Castro – hispanic from TX, a demographic they need and a state that will sink the rep.
Castro couldn’t deliver a pizza, much less Texas.
You know that and I know it, but do the democrats know it? VP’s are always picked for a reason. W picked Big Dick for his knowledge of the bureaucracy and his war chops; The Kenyan picked Creepy Old Joe for his foreign policy chops; The Donald picked Pence for his pull with the Evangelicals.
Dems need someone who will pull the hispanic vote and they are still dreaming of turning TX blue and wiping out the republicants.
never forget why aoc won,hispanic name in a hispanic district–
Pushing impeachment will cost them the House. They are ignoring their jobs and have become nothing but Never Trumpers, to the point of making stuff up out of thin air. Independents do not like what they are doing and indies are the swing voters in toss-up districts
In unrelated news, Charlie Cuck and Sebastian Gorka have found a new conservative champion:
https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/11/02/gay-rights-activist-and-massive-obama-donor-busted-for-having-gang-sex-with-a-15-year-old/
Too bad I can’t post my infographics until next week.
Gorka = part of the Trumpscam network Euro branch
Gorka is as obnoxious as Beto. People calling him “Dr. Sebastian Gorka” reminds me of The Maestro on Seinfeld insisting on being called Maestro.