8 January 2020 #MAGAanalysis #ItAintOverYet

Friends, The Fat Lady Has Not Sung

As we'll contemplate, it is very possible that this message is layered. It may have more than just its surface level meaning. We'll look at the possibilities below.

2) @KateScopelliti is a little upset with me. After I watched the video message, I conveyed to her that I thought this to be a concession speech. I shouldn't have said that, and I'm sorry. Here's why. Kate didn't watch it for about 10 or 12 hours. She just couldn't bear to.

3) But when she finally did watch it, she told me, emphatically, "That is NO concession speech!"

I apologized and told her that that was what everyone was saying to me at Twitter. Everybody disagreed with me when I posted my reaction.

"They were right," she said.

4) I have to share something about Kate's character. She takes zero joy in telling me when I'm wrong. She does so without hesitation and does not second guess herself. You'll never meet a stronger woman, period. But she corrects me due to her beliefs, not out of opposition.

5) It took me many years to learn that. Like most modern men, and especially in the beautiful face of my irritated gal, my ego turns naturally weak. I have always found her flashing eyes and aggressive tones to be, well, she's a very attractive woman. Especially when angered.

6) Here's what she told me. There's something more going on. She mandated that I watch the video again, paying special attention to Trump's head movements. Maybe even turning down the sound so as to just observe the motions and expressions. And by gosh, she's right.

7) There is definitely more to the video than the surface message. And that's what we must discuss now. I do believe that in form and surface level message, it was designed to be taken as I did, as a concession speech. I'll speculate as to a possible why, shortly.

8) I suspect, though, that Trump's genius of messaging is on full display in this video. The "tricky" moment is at just before 1:30. He states a fact. Congress has certified the election results. Next fact...

9) A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20. The term "new administration," following the fact that congress has certified is without doubt intended to convey - WITHOUT SAYING SO - that the new administration will be Biden's. That this is implied cannot be doubted.

10) Following instantly next, his focus is now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power. And there's the cellar door, leading down to a message layer beneath the surface.

It's the word "seamless."

11) Many pointed out to me that no transition of power could be more seamless than his own administration's from his 1st term to his 2nd. There is for me, under all of yours and especially Kate's guidance that I can deny that at least this 2nd layer beneath exists in the message.

12) A 3rd layer has been posited extensively also. Animating Trump's every motivation is the RETURN of power FROM The Swamp BACK to the people. The ONLY way that might occur is in his absolutely mandatory 2nd term in office. One term could not achieve that. There's more.

13) I have to jump into time machine back to 2016. If you check today's trends you'll see that #LyingTed is running. Well, back in 2016, after Trump defeated all other Republican contenders I stated this to Kate. I'm all in, unless he choses Ted as his running mate.

14) I found Ted, during the primaries, nothing but despicable. I will never forget, and never forgive what Ted did to Ben Carson in Iowa. Drats, I have to linger a bit more back in 2016. Oh well. I detested what Trump did when attacking Ted's wife. Bad form. Seriously.

15) Along with, not so much the Access Hollywood tape, but far more the Howard Stern tapes, and even more what Trump himself is on the record in print over, relative to his sexual prowess, that set of issues almost made me reject Trump. It was a close call.

16) Seriously, the very worst thing for me, as a gigantic Trump supporter, was having that conversation with my voting aged granddaughters. The way Trump and Stern spoke about Ivanka made me want to puke. And there I was, having to defend him to my granddaughters.

17) I got through all that in this way. Remembering Jumping Jack Flash Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, et al; and Bumping Bill Clinton and his string of sexual exploits, I had to explain that men in power are not made more moral by that ascension. Powerful men behave that way.

18) There's even Chappaquiddick Ted, the Lion of the Senate. Who remembers Gary Hart? The list goes on and on. To support Trump - and any later in life reformations might easily be explained on the basis of political aspirations, I had to refocus myself. Here's where and how...

19) Three things:

1) Ego - the need and passion to win
2) Skill - a lifetime of capabilities honed beyond measure
3) Policy(ies) - all summed up by the term America First

After reading his 4 political books, I determined that Trump was the most well prepared candidate ever.

20) That extraordinary preparation included his larger than life skyscraper developer in the most competitive location on earth. You don't just build a skyscraper with its materials and construction. A skyscraper is also built out of political maneuver, and press positioning.

21) You don't just build a building on its land footprint, or even air rights - something Trump invented. You build it out of political will, fought for at Town Hall and in the hostile press. That is political preparation. But more also...

22) There are TV ratings and public persona to account for. The Don built one of the greatest reality TV franchises in history in The Apprentice. What is the presidency if NOT reality TV, for real though. Trump's power of persona was one of his greatest assets in real politics.

23) I wasn't able, of course, to cover all of that with my granddaughters, their vehement opposition was both too great, and too shallow to swallow all that information. But I was able to convey two things to sum all that up.

24) Trump was a man capable of changing up the old guard and replacing it with the new guard, and doing so on the basis of what is best for America. That is a professional and NOT a personal, or even personality thing. He had the ability to fight America's fight.

25) And second, I was not hiring him to be my personal role model. I was hiring him to fight to save America. I believed he had the strength and ability to do so as no other candidate of my lifetime.

26) My granddaughters never accepted my arguments, as I never expected them to. What the did do was give me a pass on it, for two reasons also. The first was that I acknowledged the problem and truly understood and shared their repulsion over Trump's past behaviors.

27) Accepting that I respected their emotions and judgments, and the very values that we inculcate in our family, they understood that I did NOT stand for such behavior and judged and rejected that kind of behavior. They were, you see, looking out for the Grandmother, of course.

28) Giving me that pass, they followed my case for America, and agreed with me at the policy level, America First. They understood that I separated the man from the candidate and future POTUS. So that's how I got that pass, too.

29) And that brings me back to both 2016's #LyingTed - why I rejected him so vehemently; and to today's return to that role for him. Here are his own words, unedited: https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1347409343306723328?s=20

30) I rejected Ted, as I said, over the Carson Iowa cheat. And I rejected Ted for all the things he said about Trump. Thus, if Trump had selected Ted as his running mate, I'd have judged Trump as just another politician dressed up in a businessman's skin. I'd have called foul.

31) {Note: remember Twitter often breaks threads after 30 or 31. This thread continues...}

So why the long way back machine work? For this reason, today. It took this to bring the true reality of #LyingTed back out into the open again.

32) This? It took Ted believing Trump has lost in order for his true lying self nature to once again be revealed. Imagine that. There's only one way to out a fair weather lying cheater. And that is to let the cold winds blow, to let the storm arrive. The rats jump ship instantly.

33) Getting the fair weather friends who require the belief in a defeated Trump to trigger the surfacing of the inner rat nature is, without doubt, another layer beneath the surface of Trump's video, the layer I'm naming 3rd. In a parking garage, it would basement level 2.

34) Let's review:

1) Ground floor = appearance of concession i.e. Congress has certified

2) Basement Level One = the equally plausible implication of seamless transition from 1st term to 2nd

3) Basement Level Two = projecting image of defeat in order to OUT traitors

35) Also frequently noted by others since Trump released this video is the fact of his Sun Tzu mastery. In the case of my posited 3 levels of possible meaning, I agree, and do so like this.

ANY ONE EACH, ANY TWO OF THEM, OR ALL THREE MAY BE REALIZED IN FACT