Trump Rising

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

Trump Rising

The polls, which I trust as far as I can throw Michael Moore, are showing something interesting beyond the fact that crusty President Badfinger has fallen and can’t get up. According to Rasmussen, in a head-to-empty-head contest between President Trump and that desiccated old weirdo, Trump has a 10-point edge. He’s 12-points over Kamala, who will probably run in 2024 since * is likely to be sent off to a farm upstate with Major the Dog.

So, does this mean Trump will run in 2024?

Well, it sure as heck makes it more likely.

The stars are aligning for a potential comeback story for the ages. We have a barely conscious pseudo-president botching everything he touches, an inept, razor-thin Dem Congress engaged in public autophagy over how many trillions we don’t have we will squander, and a population getting sicker and sicker of being lied to, manipulated, bossed around, ripped off, and lorded over.

The sight of the same jerks who insist that you have to gag your screaming toddler while partying down mask-free is galling. The vaxx mandates that the Kreepy Karen Korps is so proud of imposing are turning out to be aimed right at minority Americans who, understandably, are reluctant to trust government scientists bearing jabs. ID to vote – racist; ID and a passport to work or eat – great! And then there’s Afghanistan, the border, inflation, and CRT – it’s a veritable smorgasbord of disasters.

And where’s Trump? Off in the ether. He does some rallies once in a while, like the recent one in Georgia. Only aligned media covers them. He launches press releases, some of them silly, but no one cares. The geniuses of social media think they neutered Trump by banning him from their platforms. Nope, dopes. Trump is always his own worst enemy – you can both like the guy’s accomplishments and recognize his weaknesses – and these Silicon Valley goofs took that off the table.

There’s no a la carte Trump. He’s a prix fixe meal, not a buffet. You can’t pick and choose what you like about him – “Trump would be fine if he would only stop [insert something the speaker thinks Trump shouldn’t do here].” By deplatforming Trump, they managed to ensure that the guy hated for his mean tweets could not mean tweet anymore. Genius!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Trump’s exile lets people forget the things that irritated them. Of course, the minute he announces he pastes a big red bullseye on his back. And we’ll see how long the new-found goodwill lasts – whether social media insults again trump the devastation inflicted by his Democratic rivals.

Now, the word in the conservative circles around Trump’s potential 2024 gambit is mixed. You have guys who swear he’s running, and guys who doubt it. He’s holding his cards close, and why shouldn’t he? There’s no reason to make a decision now, or to announce one he has already made. If he is going to run, why become a big orange target? And if he’s not running, why give up the attention that comes from floating the tantalizing possibility that he’ll go full Grover Cleveland.

Trump did some amazing things in spite of the pinko headwinds, deep state conspiracies, and his own unforced errors. But 2024 is nine long years from his original escalator descent. Beyond whether he will run, should he run?

That’s not unanimous. The fact is that there are many prominent conservatives who deeply respect and appreciate what Trump managed to pull off against the odds yet who have grave doubts about whether he should be our candidate in 2024. This is not disloyalty – we owe no politician loyalty, including Trump. Gratitude for the abuse he took, certainly, but the loyalty must flow from politician to us, not vice versa. If Trump is not the very best candidate to both win and govern in 2024, then we must thank him and hand him a gold watch. And if he is the best, we must back him to the hilt.

We need to be ruthless and unsentimental in politics, like Trump was in business.

Here are the main concerns about Trump II: Revenge of the Orange Bad Man, and none are surprises.

The first is whether the Trump vibe will work in 2024. It worked in 2016, but a lot has changed. If Trump has not changed – and it’s unusual for people to change – then we need to assess whether America is ready for another all-consuming era of Trump.

Second, will this be about his justifiable anger over the last election or about future conservative victory? A lot of his press releases and statements relitigate 2020. I get that there were issues with the election – I worked in Nevada as a lawyer after the election and saw the corruption myself. The Arizona audit revealed shocking flaws – and that’s the most charitable characterization. Yes, Brian Kemp is an establishment hack, but on a 1 to 10 scale of importance to the big picture, Kemp is a -3. Right or wrong, fair or unfair, Trump lost, and I know that because he’s not president right now. We need to fix the election system, but 2024 is not about 2020. Making it so is to invite defeat.

Third, can he keep the establishment from taking him out? Now, he managed to defeat the deep state’s Russiagate gambit and the various impeachments and the non-stop media attacks (if Trump got only 10% of the toe-shrimping that President Asterisk receives, he’d be +75% in the polls), but they won’t stop. The media will back the Dem’s MUH INSURREKSHUN toobining to the hilt. He’ll likely be indicted by some lib state attorney general for something. It’ll be a lie and a scam, but do you think they would hesitate to frame him? They have already tried to. Remember, to them Trump’s literally Hitler, but then any Republican will be literally Hitler so maybe this doesn’t matter.

Fourth, has he figured out personnel? That was his greatest failure. He got a few right in the last year in office, but he hired a lot of hacks, failed to fire a lot of hacks, and generally got rolled by a lot of hacks. Remember, he hired Chris Wray and Mark Milley. It was well-known that loyal America First people regularly got sidelined in favor of cruise ship cons and establishment weenies. Will that happen again? Who is in his Rolodex this time around? We need to know.

Fifth, he needs to show he’s gotten woke to the fact that the establishment media is his enemy. He’s apparently given interviews to the NYT and Woodward and other people who hate him – and us. Where’s the love for the media people who actually support him? We need to see that he’s given up any idea of being accepted by the ruling caste. His regard for them was a constant obstacle to doing what needed to be done.

Sixth, what’s his plan? This is no time for playing it by ear. He needs a comprehensive strategy to undo the pinko paradigm. It’s starts with Inauguration Day also being Big Day O’ Firing. And Trump also needs to mend fences with Mitch McConnell and that wing of the party. Yeah, the Murder Turtle is a swamp creature who whined like a girl about January 6th, but he’s also the very best parliamentary strategist in Senate history. Can Trump forgo his vengeance in order to advance our interests?

These are tough questions, but Trump is a tough guy and he can take it. Furthermore, he owes us answers. He would be applying for a job and he needs to earn our votes. That’s not being anti-Trump – it’s always amusing when a guy who literally wrote a pro-Trump book gets called a “Never Trumper” because I expect high standards from him. It’s being realistic. If Trump is not the best, he needs to bow out. Here’s your watch, thanks for the memories.

And while Trump appears to be the 900-pound orange gorilla in the room, he will not just get handed the nomination. He will get primaried. It’s not clear by who, but it will be a real challenge, not merely a Beltway Cowgirl vanity run by Liz Cheney or some other loathsome member of the Ahoy crew. There are too many potential candidates who realize that it’s 2024 or never, and they may as well roll the dice. Conservatives, while they like Trump, are willing to consider alternatives if those alternatives look more likely to prevail.

Will Trump run? I don’t know. I kind of doubt it; that’s just a gut feeling and may well be totally wrong. But if he does run, it will be because he thinks he can win. And if he does run, and he does win, it will be glorious to surf the ocean of liberal tears when Trump goes Full Grover.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
September 27, 2021 7:56 am

Sure Biden is a disaster.

So is trump.

He hired and appointed hundreds of deep stater’s. How about Milley? Mattis? Bolton, Barr, Mnuchin, Sessions, all the supremes, the list goes on and on.

Name me one legitimate appointment? You can not.

How was the covid response? National debt?

Open your f’ing eyes people

NC Rob
NC Rob
  Anonymous
September 27, 2021 8:46 am

Our overlords will only let us “vote” (not that I am wasting my time on that anymore) on their selections (R/D doesn’t matter) so they won’t have to put in all that hard work cheating again like they did on 11/3/2020 (a day it seems almost all outside this place has forgotten).

Phantom lurking
Phantom lurking
  Anonymous
September 27, 2021 9:41 am

This is correct, says it all, listen up!

Warren
Warren
  Anonymous
September 27, 2021 10:24 am

Grinnell was pretty good

m
m
  Anonymous
September 27, 2021 10:50 am

“Name me one legitimate appointment [by Trump]? You can not.”

That’s kind of funny, because:
Name us one legitimate appointment he could have done, but didn’t.

Warthog
Warthog
  Anonymous
September 27, 2021 11:40 am

Trump tried to drain the swamp with more swamp.
Doing the same thing over and over again = Insanity.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
September 27, 2021 12:02 pm

Trump’s greatest accomplishment (IMHO) was bringing all the normies out and giving us the opportunity to look at the large segment of the population that shared the same views in general.

Quiet Mike
Quiet Mike
September 27, 2021 8:15 am

I’m. Done. Voting.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 27, 2021 8:57 am

I just see your stupidity is the only thing that rising here.

Stucky
Stucky
September 27, 2021 8:59 am

“The first is whether the Trump vibe will work in 2024.”

It all depends on how much Trump has evolved.

I’ll bet you didn’t know there are more Trump variants than Covid variants.

Bada boom!

Ken31
Ken31
  Stucky
September 27, 2021 11:30 am

He is not a very versatile actor. He can just do WWF and dumbass.

BL
BL
  Stucky
September 27, 2021 1:11 pm

Evolved and Trump should never be used in a sentence together, Ken pegged it…..now if a faction willing to clean up society and better the human race wanted to use DT for a benevolent purpose , well that is different.

Steve
Steve
  Stucky
September 27, 2021 5:56 pm

It all depends on how Dominion have evolved.

a9racer
a9racer
September 27, 2021 9:02 am

The time for voting is over. Your vote means nothing. We know the accepted method of Democrat cheating is mail-in-ballots and it just keeps on going. You really think Gov Newsom is MORE popular now than his election?
No, it is us vs. those who call themselves our “leaders”. R’s and D’s are 2 sides of the same coin. I hope never to see a replication of what Australia is going through here, but I am prepared. We(American patriots) just haven’t reached our “Falling Down” moment yet.
Which pisses me off because it means another day at my useless job waiting for the Fourth Turning so I can retire to my farm to lock and load.
Prepare and be aware, friends
2A

Stucky
Stucky
September 27, 2021 9:08 am

“And if he does run, and he does win, it will be glorious to surf the ocean of liberal tears when Trump goes Full Grover.”

Hell yes!! Even the most vocal anti-Trumper … (are you reading this, Mark?) …. must admit how GLORIOUS it will be to bathe in the Tears Of Libfuks.

Their exploding aneurysms in their teeny tiny reptilian brains might be more deadly than Covid.

Warren
Warren
  Stucky
September 27, 2021 10:26 am

That’s the one reason I want him to run and win.

NC Rob
NC Rob
  Warren
September 27, 2021 10:38 am

He will NOT win. They will NOT let him. Remember 11/3/2020? They will NEVER let anyone that they do not own in any kind of office again. How do you think Newsome won? I won’t ever waste my time voting again.

In an emergency, break 2a glass.

DS
DS
  NC Rob
September 27, 2021 2:54 pm

What if the TLPTB are setting him up to be the “savior” of dead ‘murica to dupe those that will get fooled again? Then they can rig anything anyway they want.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Stucky
September 27, 2021 4:18 pm

Trump will be 78 years old. The cabal will never let him in and who knows if the country will even exist in three years. I’m appalled at what is happening in Australia, the copfucks are literally gunning people down in the streets, attacking them and building concentration camps. Australia is turning into a communist dictatorship and it won’t be long before it is a completely conquered nation. Witness what happened when Mao took over and then compare it to Australia. Think they don’t have similar plans for here?

This talk of Trump and elections is just stupid so long as the ruling cabal has control and….they do and no one is going to take it from them
.
Try this on…

After losing an appeal to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Biden administration announced on Monday that it will simply create a new rule to circumvent the legal ruling.

Laws and rule of law matter not to Biden’s handlers. They ignored the Supreme Court’s ruling on the eviction moratorium and they ignore the ruling regarding Illegal kiddies and they will do whatever they damn well please and fuck you very much, now piss off. There is no rule of law except what they say the law is…go look at the Jan. 6 protesters.

So long as no one stops these assholes they will run roughshod over any and everything and focusing on Trump, elections and anything else is just a waste of time. Next on the agenda is going in and stealing your bank accounts along with cutting off the internet in choice spots.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-loses-daca-appeal-texas-so-theyre-just-making-new-rule

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 27, 2021 9:45 am

I see Kurt still doesn’t get it, VOTE MOAR is not a viable strategy for victory when the other party controls the count and the media. Very soon you and I will get to cast the only vote that the democrats can neither change nor ignore. VOTE 308 & FREEDOM

Steve
Steve
  Anonymous
September 27, 2021 5:57 pm

Schlichter is a dinosaur. He still thinks we’re playing under the same old rules.

Leobeer
Leobeer
September 27, 2021 9:58 am

Suppose the country wakes up one day and decides that the vaccine policies were wrong.

Biden — claims that COVID can’t be ended because of the unvaccinated
Trump — warp speeded the untested vaccines

Who is the press going to blame?

Biden will claim he inherited the problem and the MSM will go along with it and crucify Trump.

Warren
Warren
  Leobeer
September 27, 2021 10:27 am

Like how Obama spent 8 years blaming Bush for the bad economy.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
September 27, 2021 10:07 am

Trump will wait to see how his candidates do in CONgressional elections next year before making an announcement. If he is successful, expect an announcement shortly after the election. If his candidates get trounced, expect moar blustering, but no announcement.

Phithadelphia will still produce 1 million more ballots than they have voters, Detroilet & Milwaukee, 1/2 million and a few extra hundreds of thousands scattered in strategic dem controlled cities throughout the country.

brian
brian
September 27, 2021 11:09 am

I agree with TN Patriot that should conservatives take back some seats and win back the house and/or senate then trump runs. IMO, the Arizona audit is the domino to either get things rolling back towards transparent elections or gets buried and the same old same old corruption within the uni-party carries on.

My guts says trump runs because this guys narcissisms are at level 15 out of 10. His ego simply cannot allow him to not run. Looking at the messaging from conservatives they want trump to run and ‘SAVE’ the US from the commies. Even moderate demoncraps supporters are saying that their vote was a mistake and trump would be the better choice. Yuge gains in the independents as well. Will trump run… maybe the better question is will he sit out?? not likely… he sees himself as the savior the country is looking for.

I’ve stated many times, if Arizona started the domino dropping and a modicum of election integrity is achieved then its very possible that trump will route the communists. Should this happen it would neuter the turtle and most of the notorious rino’s. I think Arizona is key at and a tipping point for the country. Time will tell…

Stucky
Stucky
  brian
September 27, 2021 11:44 am

Grasshopper walks into a bar and orders a drink. Bartender says “Hey, we have a drink named after you!” And the grasshopper says, “You have a drink named brian?”

brian
brian
  Stucky
September 27, 2021 12:44 pm

Hey… Thats awesome… you managed to get that one lone brain cell fired up for a few seconds… Certainly hope you didn’t burn it out tho…

Stucky
Stucky
  brian
September 27, 2021 3:58 pm

C’mon man. That was a somewhat funny and harmless bit of humor.

Is it written somewhere that you have to jump all over my ass on every one of my posts? Can ya cut me some slack? You know … like when I REALLY say something stupid or offensive? You probably wouldn’t have to wait too long.

OriginalDan
OriginalDan
September 27, 2021 11:22 am

We have Trump to thank for the mess we are in today, So if TPTB need him to usher in some other form of mass destructive evil to trample personal freedom, he’s the perfect tool (figuratively and literally)

Remo
Remo
September 27, 2021 11:25 am

Kurt got 1 thing right. Personnel is President Trump’s achilles heel.
What he still has stunningly wrong is election fraud. President Trump won in a massive landslide but still “lost”. It doesn’t matter how well he’s polling if we don’t start stinging up people responsible for stealing our votes.

Ken31
Ken31
  Remo
September 27, 2021 11:31 am

You mean leadership is his problem – he has none. Integrity is another.

Ken31
Ken31
September 27, 2021 11:29 am

A lot of pearl clutching was going on about the Trump is a traitor article, but I didn’t see anyone address any of the points or arguments from the article.

motley
motley
September 27, 2021 12:21 pm

So are we going to go back to believing in B.S. again? How quickly we forget.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 27, 2021 1:57 pm

I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016, for many reasons that were later validated by his policies and some executive orders and bills. And, although there were matters concerning U.S. sovereignty and individual rights that troubled me about Trump, I did vote for him in 2020, because I saw what was coming under Biden, and there’s no way in hell I wanted that visited on America.

Trump is 1000 times better than Biden, but he still governed like a Liberal Republican or a Conservative Democrat too much to suit me, especially when one looks at his weak defense of the Second Amendment and the Fourth Amendment, and his miserable deal that replaced NAFTA.

His own “Budget Bill” was $4.8 trillion dollars, and it wasn’t structured to even come close to balancing until 2035; but now, it will never be balanced with Biden in control and pushing a $6 trillion dollar “Budget Bill”. However, it’s interesting to note that Trump was only $1.2 trillion under Biden’s budget during his own term, and virtually every bill Trump signed was a trillion or more.

Trump doesn’t have a good grasp of the Constitution, or if he does, he’s too willing to violate it in too many instances to suit me, as we saw in his willingness to compromise with Democrats on Red Flag gun “laws” before he stepped back from them; he also signed an Illegal Executive Order to ban bumpstocks in direct violation of the 2nd Amendment and his spending bills gave millions to the FBI and the ATF to “regulate” firearms in an Illegitimate and Illegal manner. Tie this with his signature on HR76 that allowed warrantless searches and the FISA Reauthorization Act that placed all Americans under surveillance, rather than just foreigners as originally intended, and one finds that in too many respects Trump doesn’t respect the Bill of Rights and our Inalienable God-given Rights, other than his positive positions on religious liberty.

It’s complicated, and yes, Trump did many fine things in attempting to halt illegal immigration and immigration from countries that hate America and mean her harm, but his own son-in-law, Jared Kushner, undermined him on immigration time and time again, to help his globalist crony-capitalist cronies, especially when it came to the H-1B1 programs. And as an aside, one should also note that Kushner and his wife, Ivanka, Trump’s daughter, are both socialists, and it was Ivanka who influenced Trump to sign another unsustainable Socialist-styled Big Govt program, the Family Leave and Child Care Act, into law.

It would take an incredibly long and detailed article to hit all the particulars, but suffice it to say, Trump’s administration was rife with traitors, Obama holdovers and RINOs and the very Swamp Creatures he swore to purge from the ranks of the federal government.

And when one looks at the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, it was FAR from the Greatest Deal Evah as Trump asserted, replacing NAFTA while it also undermined U.S. Sovereignty and ratified numerous past international treaties, previously rejected by other administrations, such as the Law of the Sea Treaty, and within its text one finds many articles that actually facilitate illegal immigration.

The USMCA https://federalobserver.com/…/the-worst-agreement-ever…/ is designed to merge the economies of these three countries into one. Think of it as similar to the authoritarian European Union on steroids, dashing madly along and trampling on each and every inalienable right and each item in our U.S. Bill of Rights along the way.

His economy was largely smoke and mirrors, and it was in trouble well before the Covid Outbreak, as we witnessed the Federal Reserve Bank pump One Billion Dollars a Day into the Repurchasing Market Bubble from September 2019 until the Massive Economic Collapse in March 2020.

Much of this was due to unresolved financial issues from the 2008 Economic Collapse and the Markets’ Refusal to stop the Same Bad and Criminal Actions that caused it; Big Business was bailed out and rewarded in 2008 and it was once again rewarded with trillions of dollars of Taxpayer Dollars in 2020.

With that said, I loved what Trump was doing with the China Trade Imbalance and NATO, as well as his strong support for America’s National Defense and putting America’s enemies on notice; and in the process, he also was working to make the world safer by reaching out to Putin, much to the chagrin of the Democrats and the Military Industrial Complex, as he also started the process to withdraw us from Afghanistan.

Overall, I’m a whole lot less worried about economic concerns, than I am over Protecting and Defending Our Inalienable God-Given Rights, since like many of you out there, I understand that anyone truly wanting to make a living will find a way, regardless of what the illusory paper finance markets, manufactured wealth supported by zero real assets, show or are doing. I’ve never been without work, not even during the terrible Carter years when interest rates floated between 16% to 24%.

More than worrying about the Government “creating jobs” — SINCE IT DOESN’T — You all should be more greatly concerned with preventing it from squashing the last vestiges of our freedom and liberty.

I love that Trump was full of fire and took the fight to the Democrats on many issues, but in the end, he couldn’t or wouldn’t properly defend the Republic. Knowing that Mail-In Ballots would serve the Democrats’ Theft of the Election, he should have had his people moving well in advance of the 2020 election to ensure safeguards were in every state to prevent just what we saw. Instead, he waited ’til the damage was done and tried to fight after he’d been kicked down and moved on out of the White House.

And You all know the rest of the story and the cowardice shown in Congress and from VP Pence, as they certified Illegally acquired Electoral College Votes.

In reality, Trump is still actually the only LEGITIMATE President of the United States of America.

However, in 2024 or whenever the next Presidential Election occurs — and if ELECTION REFORMS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED in the SWING STATES THAT AIDED IN THE THEFT OF THE ELECTION — I will be looking for that strong-willed, determined, intelligent, Constitutionally Astute American-Loving True Conservative Patriot WHO WILL STOP THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COMMUNISTS DEAD IN THEIR TRACKS.

But such a person won’t be elected in 2024, not so long as so large a segment of our society keep looking for Government Handouts and Government Care from Cradle to Grave at the Expense of Liberty.

I suspect, that as much as I hope and pray for such a strong leader who can sway a majority, in the end, we will be forced to fight a civil war, in order to remain free, simply because too many people in this country are mentally ill and in support of evil and immoral lifestyles that violate the rights of people trying to live a moral and righteous life, free and unrestrained from government intrusions.

The country is in a war — Good vs Evil, Capitalism & Freedom vs Communism & Tyranny and Life vs Death.

Pray for America’s Patriots and for This America We Love So Well. She’s in Dire Need of Our Help, of God’s Help.

Ken31
Ken31
  Anonymous
September 27, 2021 2:31 pm

I voted for him twice. Once from optimism, once from desperation.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
September 27, 2021 1:58 pm

Voted constitution party last time. Will vote constitution party next time.

Ken31
Ken31
  grace country pastor
September 27, 2021 2:31 pm

I should start my own Articles of Confederation party and see what happens.

Horseless Headsman
Horseless Headsman
September 27, 2021 7:07 pm

We don’t need a ‘president’ at this point. We need a general.

Yes, I know all the stuff about the ‘strongman who promises to fix the problems if we give him the power’. Sadly, that is what we have left at this point. If we choose one and he becomes a tyrant, at least he’ll be our tyrant and not some spawn of TPTB.

He would need to hit DC like a Cat5 hurricane and destroy wholesale the corrupt infrastructure centered there. Any elected president I can imagine fails in this, and most wouldn’t even make the attempt. We really are in the last inning.

Jdog
Jdog
September 27, 2021 8:10 pm

Trump had his turn, it is time for Desantis to step up. He is much more capable of fighting the swamp.