With regard to “hustler” being a less-than-honest term (above August 1, 3:31 pm), I just ran across this today. From a book review of Salena Zito and Brad Todd’s book The Great Revolt

Perhaps the deepest common groove between Zito’s interviewees is work ethic. These Trump voters hustle, and come from families of hustlers. . . . they know and believe strongly in both sides of the equation of a day’s wages for a day’s work.

So is Trump both a tactical “Fast Eddie” Felsen hustler as well as a results-driven Salena Zito hustler?

Link to Joy Pullman’s review:

http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/03/8-insights-from-salena-zitos-book-about-trumps-america?

Furthermore, just some rhetorical questions for this discussion: If Trump sees business dealings as essentially a war between opposing forces (military academy), then isn’t he wise to not tip his hand (a Fast Eddie Felsen hustle)? Isn’t this what diplomats do all of the time (a la Kissinger’s comment about diplomacy being a chess game played simultaneously on the table and under it)?

I disagree. I learned in a decision theory course I took as part of a health policy MS that you never offer more than one choice to a customer. Car salesmen know this and, if you notice, they show you one car and avoid choices. There are actually a couple of medical journal articles showing that offering patients a choice of NSAID drugs for arthritis increases the probability that they will not buy any,

Trump is doing all sorts of things at once, unlike a car salesman. Taxes, border, the Norks, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, Obamacare. It’s hard to keep up, especially with the outrage of the week dominating the news.

“I saw very quickly that our seniors were primarily concerned with forms of drafting. Every memorandum had to be perfect, written in a concise, impersonal style, and conforming to a logical and faultless plan–but so abstract that it had to be read several times before one could find out what it was about…”I have the honour to inform you that I have decided…I envisage…I attach some importance to the fact that…” Actually no one decided more than the barest minimum, and what indeed was decided was pretty trivial.”

This placing of great importance on the form of what is said, to the point of deemphasis on what is done, is characteristic of way too much of American society today.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

President Trump is doing what is best for America and isn’t shy about saying so. Bully for the outsider showing the college how it’s done.

On the day in 1940 in which the Germans invaded France, Picasso met Matisse on the street: Matisse was on his way to his tailors. When Picasso reminded him that the Nazis might arrive in Paris any day, Matisse is said to have asked naively, “But what about our generals, what are they doing?” Picasso responded, “Oh they’re all from the College of Fine Arts.”

By which Picasso meant that the generals had been inculcated with a standardized and rigid style of thinking. It was a perceptive comment, entirely in line with what was observed by Andre Beaufre as a young Captain on the French General Staff.

I believe much of the hostility toward Trump stems from the fact that he is *not* from the “College”, and doesn’t pay it much regard, either.

Think also of the hostility–an actual riot, apparently–that greeted the first performance of Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Sprint’, due to its disregard of musical conventions.

Trum and Clinton goes in the same New York social circles and they have a good relationship. It’s why she isn’t in jail until she is dead at least. It is also why Clinton suggested to Trum that he go make trouble in the Republican primary instead of the Democrat one, and Trum agreed. When Trum won, then he had to get serious, as he isn’t the kind of person to throw a match this important.

Power, persona, attention seeking. Mars is in Magha nixshatra.

A lot of what Trum was doing in the 2015 campaign was due to his starry sky influences. His post victory speech was closer to his normal self.

All humans live under the creation of the starry skies and all are influenced by it, whether they know it or not. This is called Divine Plan or fate or coincidence.

Jesus of Nazareth was born with his ascendant as Virgo, with the Sun and Moon covering and conjuncting the constellation. This is detailed in Revelations and is also why the 3 Magi could look in the sky and know that what Daniel talked about was here.

Btw, there is a difference between using the Tropical system and the Sidereal system. For some odd reason, astronomically the Tropical system is off by more than 20 degrees. No wonder it is inaccurate.

Whatever my opinion of Trump is, he isn’t Mr. Trump. All us males are Mister, the President is addressed as either Mr. President or President XX. When we have our first woman President, we’ll have to sort out whether Madam is appropriate.

When I attack the man I use “Trump”, when I attack his presidency I use “Trump”, when I speak of the President of the United States it’s Mr. President.

So the Chinese told Glenn Reynolds that Trump was a master tactician and that he was doing ‘creative destruction’ that would so benefit the USA…I would just have to ask rhetorically why those oh so smart Chinese would think it was a good thing? Maybe they recognized it was only destructive for the USA but so creative for China? Maybe Glenn Reynolds is the best source cuz he spent like a week or a month?

And to Huxley, what Trump effectiveness? All of this is in flux, nothing is settled proving effectiveness. I did read that the Trump administration was giving 12 billion to farmers to make up for the losses caused by this mercantilist trade war, but that must be fake news cuz a trade war can only benefit America in the short or long term so no need.

An habitual liar.