Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist scumbags declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets.
That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam their cheesy plan down their throats.
The libs’ plan to win in November corresponds to Trump’s plan to crush them yet again. Skeptical? Consider this. In the five years since he rode down that escalator bringin’ hell with him, how many times have they come at Trump and won? Zero. He’s spent half a decade on the edge of doom and he’s still here. Why would you think that the walls are suddenly closing in now? You shouldn’t.
Let’s understand the strategic scenario. The long-term strategic objective of the leftists is to turn the United States into Venezuela, and they want to be Maduro. The major strategic objective that will put them in position to do so is victory in the November elections. Everything happening right now is part of their overall strategy to achieve that objective. But what kind of operation are they using to achieve that objective?
There are two types of operations relevant here – kinetic and information. A kinetic operation is actual warfare. It’s violence designed to defeat the enemy and cause his surrender by either physically destroying him or occupying his territory and compelling surrender. An information operation is designed to affect the perceptions, and thereby the actions, of the target. Kinetic ops tend to do something to the enemy; and info op tends to get the target to do something to himself.
Elections are usually information operations. They attempt to build a narrative and play on perceptions and cause the target to take the action that will lead to victory. That is, get the target (the electorate) vote for the candidate the info operator wants elected.
Okay, so what is the 2020 elections, with the rioting, vandalism, violence and occupations?
This still an information operation, not a kinetic one.
They want to convince us we are powerless, that everyone else supports their commie agenda, that we cannot win. Their tactics are designed to create that impression and crush our morale. These include the 24/7 media hype, the outright media lies, the movie stars with their dumb PSAs, the staged statue attacks, the corporate solidarity proclamations, the social media cancellations, and the craven kneeling by people who are supposed to stand up for us. But another tactic, familiar to any student of insurgencies, is to provoke an overreaction by those in power in order to undermine its moral authority.
They want is to make us (including the president) think this is a kinetic operation, and get our side to make fundamental strategic errors by failing to recognize the true nature of the threat. They hope that such a mismatch between perception and reality will then lead to gravely damaging blunders. One of those would be Trump succumbing to his legit frustration and sending in a bunch of federal troops to crack skulls in Seattle.
Defining this insurgency as a kinetic operation supports the leftists’ information operation goal of making Americans perceive the situation as out of control, of there being chaos, and of making the election of Grandpa Badfinger being the only thing that will resolve the situation. But there is no kinetic situation to resolve – at least none that is strategically significant in a kinetic sense. Despite the hype, the protests may have involved a peak of 2 million people across the country – out of 330 million.
That’s nothing kinetically; it’s significant informationally because it is pushed by so many cultural influencers. The scurvy scumbags of Antifa hold essentially no ground except the turf they are physically standing on at the moment, and that is minuscule. Even the hilarious Road Warrior Republic of Seattle is not even a rounding error of a rounding error in terms of US territory. It’s significant only in the context of an information operation.
Many of us cons are furious that Trump is “doing nothing.” This is the wrong thing to think. Trump is only doing nothing if this is a kinetic operation; because this is an information operation, not going kinetic (sending in the troops) is doing something. And in fact, Trump is employing the law enforcement component of his kinetic assets by having the feds wait and arrest Antifa types after the protests end, and hitting them with hardcore federal rioting-related charges. Previously, they would get ticketed and released; now, looking at a five-to-ten stretch, the lawyers their daddies hired to get these sunshine anarchists out of their beefs are going to be advising them to roll over so they can start back up at Cornell in September and not at Leavenworth.
Trump can and should let Seattle’s problem be Seattle’s problem. A small-scale riot in a peripheral city known for coffee, drizzle, and droning, garbage music is the very definition of a local problem. Why would Trump interject himself into it and relieve the mayor and governor of the consequences of their failure to keep order? Why would he stop them from showing the electorate exactly what the reeking cesspool they could expect after Gropey Joe defunds the police looks like?
Scumbagistan is a giant zit on the face of liberalism, and why should Trump pop it? He’s letting it fester for all of us to see – and winning the information war.
Understand that the leftist establishment would like nothing better than for Trump to go kinetic. That’s why it is baiting him, and hoping that those of us who are sick of these Lil’ Red Guards will pressure him into dropping in the paratroopers to bust some heads and – oh please, oh please, oh please – get caught on video Kent Stating up a batch of fresh new martyrs. Trump’s too smart for that, and frankly the establishment is too dumb and undisciplined to carry it out.
The media shot its wad on the hyperbolic reaction to clearing out the park in front of the White House, demonstrating that even the most gentle and restrained of kinetic actions was going to get transmogrified into Hitler’s blitz across the Low Countries. And those generals screwed-up too, bad. They should have waited to wring their hands over Trump’s violent and dangerous employment of the military until he actually violently and dangerously employed the military.
A bunch of allegedly (but not actually) neutral and nonpartisan military figures with heaps of establishment street cred coming down on POTUS in the wake of a bloodbath could have had a devastating political effect, but they pulled the trigger too early. Mattis and Milley and the rest of the medal men we’re supposed to think are superb strategic operators, but who still haven’t won the war against a pack of turbaned banditos after about 20 years, screwed-up yet again. They were supposed to deliver an info op kill shot to define Trump to the masses as a bloody tyrant and instead got just one news cycle of play with the Twitter blue checks. The only casualty was not Trump’s rep, but their own credibility with anyone outside of the Beltway.
Right now, the American people are seeing chaos. But chaos does not necessarily play against Trump in the long term. Biden is trapped, trying to nuance his unsteady carcass through the conflict between the Democrats’ “’Defund the Police’ means ‘Reform the Police’” faction and the “No, ‘Defund the Police’ really means ‘Defund the Police’” faction. All the while, Trump is tweeting “LAW AND ORDER!”
Do you think this is all helping the Dems? If you do, stop watching MSNBCNN. Except among Hollywood jerks, urban hipsters and whiny woke wine women from Westchester, the attack on order means “Advantage: Trump.” You can see the results if you look behind the media curtain. Remember how the media had a collective panty-wetting over the meaningless Georgia primary and the GOP’s alleged voter suppression? Did you wonder why the media felt it was such a big deal? The answer is in the actual results, which you did not hear about if you listen to the garbage mainstream media. Trump, who had the nomination sewn up, crushed Biden and the rest of the Dems combined in votes. Wait, didn’t all the smart people tell us that Georgia, under the carb-curious leadership of Governor Stacy Abrams, was turning blue?
Yeah, right.
Trump is winning this information battle. Conservative Americans – and moderate Americans who want law and order – can’t wait to vote against defunding the police, rioting and appeasement. The Silent Majority is being roused again.
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Meanwhile, the Supreme LBGTQXYZ Court has just struck down Trump’s “challenge” to Obama’s DACA and opened the legal floodgates for the Homosexual Mafia.
Whatever goes down in November and January is of little consequence at this stage.
Game, set, match.
The court’s ruling cannot be enforced if the executive refuses to do so and charges them all with freaking treason. This country is so fools of fools it will indeed implode.
Traitors and imbecile scumbags will cause an explosion.
So Trump being a useless pantywaist who has broken every campaign promise made in 2016 is actually intentionally, repeatedly and completely capitulating to the left as part of a brilliant strategy? Trust the plan, I guess?
I see the opposite. He has delivered on ALMOST every campaign promise he made. I admit he ain’t perfect. I do get a good laugh at all the people signing on to support Joe Biden. The poles showing him way ahead of Trump are funny also.
Built the wall? nope
Locked her up? nope
Drained the swamp? LOL, nope
Bring the troops home? nope
Cut the deficit? big fucking nope
Eliminate the debt? LOLOL, nope
end trade imbalances? nope
end DACA? nope
end birthright citizenship? nope
end H1B? nope
protect gun rights? (I guess if you don’t count bumpstock bans and red flag laws and pistol AR ban coming soon) – half point
address the opioid epidemic – nope
repeal obamacare – nope
fix outrageous healthcare costs – nope
fix prescription drug prices – nope
end censorship of conservatives – nope
audit the fed, release Kennedy assn papers, investigate 9/11 – LOL
what other big campaign promises were there that you think he’s delivered?
The best argument Trump supporters have now is that he’s merely incompetent or completely impotent against the big bad deep state critters who Trump himself nominates rather than just a corrupt con-man who lied his way into office.
Here Here.
You are so right.
Amazing how many downvotes and yet not one person, not even Yashure here, will state what list of campaign promises Trump has kept. The truth hurts. We all got hustled in 2016, and many are still being hustled.
Delusional much?
Look at facts and logic much?
What would you know about facts and logic?
Greetings,
I distinctly remember that Roosevelt goaded the Japanese into attacking the United States. That mistake cost the Axis powers the war.
Alex Jones may be mostly crazy but he is right in that this is an Info War and in this information war the leftists in Seattle have handed the president his biggest victory yet. It is the gift that keeps on giving.
goood to see you back black box…
I want to believe that Kurt is correct in his analysis…
The Anarchists, Communists and Negroists are itching for a kinetic war; they might just get it and then woe unto them.
Woe unto them. You got that right.
you can be sure that the ATT/Verizon folks, are passing along all the location data, of all the cellphones brought to all these riots, the data it self is incriminating, and will be used as leverage on those with more to loose, to testify against the real trouble makers.
These events, where there is lots of property damage, the insurers will not be paying out, unless someone is held accountable. there is no “oops terrorism” clause in the policy. it may take time, but eventually all these idiot kids who keep there cellphones with them everywhere they go, will be singing a very different tune.
“BLM really let us down, we took a knee for them, but they only bailed out the colored people”
it will be an interesting winter, when the retribution phase begins.
“In the five years since he rode down that escalator bringin’ hell with him, how many times have they come at Trump and won?”
Maybe 75% of the time.
If I was President the Army would have rolled those morons up days ago. No discussion no media.
Well said OWG, no good reason given why we can’t have law and order. DT is letting the Bolshies run wild.
When the government is paralyzed the Bolshies will strike.