Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 3:16 "When an army is confused and perplexed, the feudal princes will cause trouble; this creates chaos in the ranks and gives away victory."

Well there are those nasty feudal princes again. One of my guys, Roger Ames, calls them neighboring rulers. I love the feudal age, it's hard for me to have them be the bad guys. The king is always being hunted though, that’s for sure.

So the king had better not interfere as we discussed in the previous verse. The king had better have a fine general and give him his mission properly, preventing chaos in the ranks and giving victories away.

Here’s something I just learned while studying Mao Tse Tung’s Sun Tzu writings and the stories of his use of them in the 25-year revolution he led and won. I knew we supported the other side. I didn’t know that, before WWII, we gave the other side billions of dollars. Did you?

I didn’t know we gave anyone billions of dollars prior to WWII. The Red Army had no money and hardly any men. They won by winning the hearts of the people. It’s a phenomenal story. But we gave billions to the side that lost. Talk about giving away victory. Wow.

Sometimes I wonder how we are even still here, we've given so many victories away. Our leaders do so much meddling, interfering where they shouldn't, and we lose and lose. It appears so simple, but @realDonaldTrump knows what he's doing in talking about winning again.

I have a confession. I often wish I could become a Republican. I might as well, you'd think, wouldn't you? I simply can't, and this verse is the reason why. Republicans give away their victories so much that I have to assess it's due to corruption.

I try to avoid too much timely news talk, as there's so much out there already. But consider the anti-hate legislation passed yesterday (7 March 2019) with overwhelming support. Why? Why would Republicans sign on for this vile show and vote for it? They just give away everything.

Maybe it's hiding there in plain sight here, inside the word "interfering." That's the opposite of leading. Also, when you know your principles, have your sight on clear targets, you don't merely interfere and cause chaos. They have no real principles, the Republicans don't.

Stick with me on this. When have you seen the Republicans when they weren't confused and perplexed? Think the #NeverTrump movement. Think of the Benghazi investigation. Who can ever forget Romney giving victory away over Benghazi in the second debate?

Who are the bad guys here? Well obviously the high and mighty and corrupt from every part of government. But, tighter to Sun Tzu's point, it's the leaders of the Democrats. And no, I'm not piling onto the socialist loony wing right now. I'm talking Nancy Pelosi and team.

Giving victories away? How many Republicans chose not to run in the mid-terms? It was over 40, wasn't it? We gave the House to the Democrats. Just gave it away. How many districts do we not even contend? How many of our candidates are just flat out, stone cold losers? Roy Moore?

In our book, @KateScopelliti and I lay out the principles, and we place #MAGA into its historic perspective. I'll give you the link again right now, and then talk about victories thrown away a little more!

amazon.com/America-First-…

I couldn't count the number of politicians I've spoken to who could not see the principles of MAGA itself as meaningful to their elections. They didn't disagree with MAGA. They didn't agree. They didn't so much as understand. And don't let me get started on strategy and tactics.

Actually, there's no need to do that right now, that is discuss our politicians' lack of strategy and tactics. Here's why. Master Sun will lead us there, verse by verse. He will give us everything we need. We won't be confused and perplexed anymore, and can stop causing chaos.

Wait, I have to rant about losing the House again. I forgot to tie that defeat to all the committees we gave them, all their strategies and tactics against us, and their newly empowered push, not only to the left, but to distress, discomfort, shrill, shrieking perpetual attack.

Here's another thing we stupidly give away. We say things like "we can't afford the New Green Deal." That's positively idiotic, I'm sorry. It is a BAD THING. No one should even think about a word like "afford." We should say it is bad, and we'll never consider it, at all.

When we give up the high ground of founding principles, we give up the three greatest treasures any nation has ever embodied: the rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. This hard left push will utterly destroy these rights. No, it won't, we'll just give them away.

I also have to return to education, our children, the future. The date I have, where we gave them away, is roughly 1980 when the left took over the teachers' unions, completely. Our children. We gave them away, we gave away any chance at winning the future until we take it back.

Yes, I am furiously angry, spitting mad. I work hard to control it, suppress it, not let it make me sad. So I stoke my inner fire in the direction of cool rage, iron resolve, determined dedication. We must stop giving away victories. That's why we elected our President.

That's why Kate and I wrote our book, and why I've committed to all 442 verses where Master Sun teaches us. I have no action to urge from this verse. We will get to that, I promise. But we must find our will, our fighting spirit, even if we are not in fighting trim, yet.

I can tell you this. If you're even tempted to give up your vision of ultimate victory for our children and future generations, then stop that right now. Hold onto your vision and never let it go. You have victory within you, and we need you to keep it there. Okay?

To return to previous sections in our #WarForAmerica2020 and #SunTzuForMAGA series, don't forget to head over to @WarForAmerica21.

57 verses completed, 385 to go.

And also, be sure to purchase John Minford's translation, here:

amazon.com/Art-War-Pengui…