Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 6: 24 & 25 "24) Weakness stems from preparing against attack. 25) Strength from obliging the enemy to prepare against an attack."

Today's focus is #SunTzu 6: 25.

Whenever I think of actual attack, I can't help but return to Master Sun's vision of the falcon, in #SunTzu 5: 12 "A swooping falcon breaks the back of its prey; such is the precision of its timing." This vision will help us master today's verse, greatly.

From 2003 until 2016, I was a staunch supporter of George W Bush and his Iraq war. I know why I did, and I now know why I was wrong. But when my memories return 2001, I can feel the rage rising all over again, and I understand, again, my reaction to the shock and awe campaign.

Those who watched the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones saw a similar thing, The Dragon Mother reigning down implacable fire from above. How futile were all the battle preparations in advance of that unstoppable force? Like me, do you remember Bush's shock and awe?

In the GOT scene, a moment was given, emphasized, when the Dragon Mother makes her choice to swoop down and break the back of the city below. As I watched I was instantly thrown back in my own time frame to 2003. I remember that emotion. I can easily still muster it.

This is what the ninefold heavens means to me. The ability to swoop from above and attack at will with no defense capable of withstanding my force. The full release of all my inner destructive rage, drunk on the joy of destruction, revenge, recompense and pure power unhindered.

While I recoil from the destructive and raging evil I can feel within myself, I understand its power at war. What second city would do anything but instantly surrender had the Dragon Queen approached? Sherman's March had the same affect. Truman's bombs as well.

@realDonaldTrump holds exactly this power over the entire Democrat primary season. During the contentious jostling, his branding of any rising contender is likely the greatest threat faced. A candidate can suffer many attacks, but to be a laughing stock is fatal.

What Democrat contender could withstand the force of Low Energy Jeb!, or Liddle Marco? @realDonaldTrump didn't merely defeat those two, he destroyed their futures, utterly. Neither ever has any chance to rise again toward the Presidency. Wipe out. And then, there's HRC.

Consider the utterly corrupt cabal within which she lived her entire life, from broke to Billionaire. Yet today she quivers with fear every morning upon awakening for her possible coming perp walk. It may never come. Yet her fear is palpable. Her political life is over.

As you watch the House Democrats with their unbridgeable split between Pelosi and AOC, you know they're investing all their efforts preparing for the rise of us, the #MAGA movement in 2020, when we will reclaim the House. We are obliging them to prepare against our attack.

Have you noticed you don't hear anything about the Green New Deal anymore? Have you noticed that the Democrats avoid the topic of late term abortions now? And that their minions in the media fall in lock step avoiding mentions of such? They are preparing against our attack.

@POTUS is a far better leader than he is a teacher. He is the greatest warrior for America of our lifetimes. He sees the world through the lens of battle, and never takes his eye off the mandate of victory. He takes the world on, personally. Yet, we may learn from him, anyway.

@realDonaldTrump created, in 2016, a new Fortress America. He built a great conceptual wall within which the sacred principles of America Herself were made safe. Where he built a tower, the Democrats are weak. He did this 10 times, a circular wall of might. Here is his fortress:

1. Remember The Forgotten Americans
2. Rule Of Law
3. American Jobs
4. Quality Of Life For Every American
5. Heal Our Cities
6. Build The Wall
7. Make America Wealthy Again
8. Make America Strong Again
9. Make America Safe Again
10. Make America Great Again

Imagine you're a Trump-supporting candidate in 2020. You should show up to every debate with your opponent, prepared with all ten of these principles. Your opponent will be weak where you are strong, in all ten places. Your opponent will never know where you're going to attack.

Oh, the media commentators will ask, so how did that work out for you in 2018? Well, I respond, in the #MAGA world we tend to learn slow. We needed 40 new mini-Trumps in the House, and we had no capability to create them, so we lost. We haven't yet learned what we must.

No contender for the Presidency in American history has ever created to mighty a conceptual fortress. Ten powers of might, each facing a gap of weakness in the enemy. We can sally forth from any one of those ten points, knowing we will win. We have the aggressor's advantage.

The way we’ll lose is if we allow the enemy, far weaker than we are, to persuade us to prepare for their attack, rather than to employ our power to cause them to prepare for ours. Let's go tactical on this. I wish to point you toward my friend, @ShariWassell's work.

Sharri is working methodically through every coming contest, finding the @POTUS supporters and vetting them. When I finish today's commentary, I'll reach out to Shari and ask her to add next action steps for you. We must turn now, in conclusion, to a strange vision.

Every two years, all 435 House seats are up for election. Every two years, either 33 or 34 of the 100 Senate seats are up. So, every two years, there is a minimum total of 468 seats. That is a pure, tactical statement. What @realDonaldTrump created for us is pure strategic power.

@POTUS created a national Conceptual Fortress America. We have the opportunity to recreate 468 or 469 local Fortress Americas every two years, from here on out. Let's dive deeper. There are 50 states, and 50 governor's races. Can Fortress America apply to each state?

For example:
1. Remember The Forgotten Ohioans.
2. Rule Of Law
3. Ohio Jobs
4. Quality Of Life For Every Ohioan.
5. Heal Our Cities
6. Build The Wall
7. Make America Wealthy Again
8. Make America Strong Again
9. Make America Safe Again
10. Make America Great Again

Wait, why would Ohio want to build the wall? Does Ohio suffer from drugs? Does it suffer from illegal aliens? Are there gangs and cartel affiliates in Ohio? Building the wall is an Ohio issue, not merely a national issue. The same is true for every other state.

Do illegal aliens take work away from Ohio citizens? Do they mow lawns without the protections that any Ohioan lawn mower would otherwise have? Do they lower the cost of labor, and therefore the living wage by which Ohioans pay their bills? Do you see? National = local.

If we are to live up to our mission of making America great again, we must make America's internal enemies fear us everywhere, from above, below, around the corner and within their own ranks. We must force them to prepare against our certain and unstoppable attack.

A last point. If you're tempted to prepare for any of your enemy's attacks, just step back and walk away. Stop. Rather, find the way to switch the moment. Find the way to attack your enemy, and even better, to make your enemy fear your coming attack unpredictably!

135 verses completed, 287 to go.

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An improvement follows...

For example:
1. Remember The Forgotten Ohioans.
2. Rule Of Law
3. Ohio Jobs
4. Quality Of Life For Every Ohioan.
5. Heal Our Cities
6. Build The Wall
7. Make Ohio Wealthy Again
8. Make Ohio Strong Again
9. Make Ohio Safe Again
10. Make Ohio Great Again

That set of Ten Towers should be repeated 49 more times.