Heh. Trump is all checkers. However, 98% of all human interaction especially at the presidential level is just straight ahead checkers and he really is the best at that. I say checkers because virtually all communication at that level is just negotiation. If you know what you have and what you want, and you know what the other person has and what they want it's easy to make a deal and decide what to do. Everyone paints the presidency as a complicated kind of thing where you have to go to law school or be incredibly smart and all that but it's all bullshit. It's not chess (complicated) it's checkers (it's just negotiation). This is why we have to get lawyers OUT of politics and get people in who know how to negotiation. This is why MGT is doing so amazing as a novice while ALL of the Republican men cannot get a single fucking thing done because they have no clue how to negotiate because they are lawyers and they deal with complexity and not negotiation. He really knew how to puncture through the layers of bullshit and get to the root of the other person which is important because most government is full of middle managers that failed upward into their position. This is actually my opinion about what actually happened (and what we are going through with the sjws now) is that when Trump got elected, he was an alpha negotiator that walked into a room of middle managers. Basically, what happened was, like all middle managers (the female version is a karen) they were simultaneously threatened by someone that could OUT-NEGOTIATE them on every level, a man who could read them as the shallow humans without any competence in the jobs they are doing (we have all been on either side of that equation my self included) and their insecurity got transferred to "being offended". This is what all the hate for Trump is, middle managers / karens being offended because he was better at them in every way. But I guess it isn't difficult to be honest. Anyone here ever see the Jordan Peterson interview where he explains the Nazi response to jews was NOT hatred, but actually disgust? This is true. No one in Germany at that point hated them, everyone was disgusted by them because jews were unclean (they did not bathe) and they were mentally unclean because they did nothing but lie and steall all the time. Much like today, some things never change. The same is true of the anti Trump hate, it isn't hate it is rooted in "being offended" and it is caused by them feeling threatened for being exposed for being talentless middle managers that could not perform. This is actually one of the BIGGEST problems of western civilization currently. We created a civilization so comfortable and so easy to eke out a living that we have ENTIRE generations of middle managers and karens at all levels of the bureaucracy in the private and public sector that are so utterly under the illusion that they know what they are doing that the literally CANNOT comprehend they are not only wrong, but creating harm in the world. This whole chyna virus thing? Most of this is this middle manager problem. Want to see real live proof of how this works? Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkAnRy-CAHU One politician LITERALLY READS THE VAXX SIDE EFFECTS FROM THE PFIZER DOCUMENTS CURRENTLY RELEASED AND THE MIDDLE MANAGERS JUST LAUGH AT HIM AS IF HE IS AN IDIOT. I started to formulate this categorization about a year ago when I noticed Robert Barnes using the classification of the "managerial class" and their war on the working class. He is roughly correct in my estimation, I just expanded the grouping to not only be in government but in public sector and even the regular public. It is this HUGE group of nobodies that literally know NOTHING AT ALL but their entire world view is built around them being absolutely convinced they are right about everything and being utterly oblivious to the fact that they know nothing. This post is a bit of a note to my self as well, someone asked me a question to which I need to write up an answer, so just writing down some notes. BUT! That video link I posted is the clinical definition of the middle managers / karen phenomenon. This is why we note that smart people always doubt everything they know because they are aware of how little they know about the world and stupid people who know nothing are absolutely sure of everything that they know. Sorry for the brain dump, again, a bunch of this is just notes for something else I have to answer.