UP TO HIS ASS IN DIRTY MONEY

We lead with our strengths – all of us. When you take on a challenge, you enlist your go-to strengths. You don’t have to think about which strengths to enlist because your hard-wired, survival motivated reptile brain does it for you.

Muhammad Ali’s long, powerful left jab kept his opponents at a distance where they could inflict the least amount of damage, while he waited for his opportunity to strike like a cobra. When age took its toll, robbing him of his famous foot speed, the left jab needed to be more impenetrable than ever.

His survival depended on it, and well past his prime, his core weapon kept him in the ring and allowed him to continue saying: “I am the greatest!”

We can all see in “high def” that whatever skills the businessman−turned reality tv star—turned candidate may have once possessed, they have eroded. This aging fighter appears to be down to only one trusted weapon − the Big Insult.

The Big Insult: Low-Energy Jeb, Lyin’ Ted, and Little Marco proved to be a devastating punch when landed squarely on the chins of Republican rivals. They not only landed, they stuck. He successfully branded them with simplistic, easy to grasp, bumper sticker messages, paving the way for his championship-winning Big Insult – Crooked Hillary.

But for Trump, those were the good old days. He had nothing to lose. Hillary wins the election and he wins the opportunity to build his crown jewel, Trump Tower Moscow, and take his newly expanded fan base to his next lucrative tv venture.

Now his days are dark. Impeachment is closing in. Despite the protection of his loyal, corrupt attorney general, the Southern District of New York is closing in. The Manhattan D.A., Cyrus Vance is relentlessly closing in. Last week the courts began ruling against him.

With his very survival at stake, he is a desperate man, and it shows. He has taken the Big Insult to a new level – a much lower level.

His latest Big Insult bumper sticker messages:

“Democrats are running a BULLSHIT IMPEACHMENT.”

“Biden understood how to KISS BARACK OBAMA’S ASS.”

If you happen to be a remaining Trump supporter, these messages are meant for you. He wants to excite you as only he can. He wants to remind you that when it comes to offending normal Americans, nobody does it better – the influence on your children and grandchildren be damned!

So, I have a recommendation for the presidential candidates.

When the question is asked: Why did we abandon the Kurds and help restore ISIS to please the despot in Turkey?

Simply answer: Because Trump is up to his ass in dirty money.

When the question is asked: Why are we making it easier for our enemy leader of Russia to reclaim Ukraine?

Just answer: Because Trump is up to his ass in dirty money.

And when the question is asked: Why are we sending our men and women to defend Saudi Arabia?

Just answer: Because Trump is up to his ass in dirty money.

Dear Joe, Bernie, Liz, Kamala, Pete, Beto, Amy, Cory, Julian, Andrew, Tulsi, and Tom, I strongly urge you to drop the delicate, long winded approach and adopt this very Trumpish bumper sticker message that will successfully brand him as the Criminal President.

Of course, each of you should do it your way, in your voice – your own personal version of the Ali jab.

Nancy Pelosi will thank you for the support, and the American people will thank for your courage and clarity.

One of you will win the prize, and by virtue of your election, will begin the process of truly Making America Great Again. Being delicate won’t get you there.

Bruce Coltin

Ex-Marketing Guy

Surviving Trump Two Minutes at a Time

BACK ON THE ROAD TO 1776!

A lot of you are discouraged, disheartened, and may I say scared?

I get it.

The tyrant has engineered a bloodless coup on our checks and balances democracy. He began by demonizing the free press. He has silenced Congress and enlisted their leaders in his takeover. He continues his move on the Supreme Court, putting settled law in jeopardy. He has alienated our allies and given shelter to our number one sworn enemy.

There is nothing he will not do or say.

And every day he begins to appear more unstoppable.

There is something I would like tell you before I go any further. I am an optimist. But I am not a foolish optimist. I will not tell you that Democrats will take the Senate in November. I believe it is possible, but unlikely. The map to victory favors the Republicans. There is no polling that I can find which suggests that the Senate might go Democratic.

But polling told us that Hilary would win the election. Polls are not infallible. We are learning that people are less likely to tell pollsters who they plan to vote for, but they will answer general questions that give us strong clues as to what kind of a candidate they are inclined to vote for.

So it might be worth reminding ourselves that just because 43% of all registered voters tell us that they approve of Donald Trump, that response does not mean that all of those 43% approve of him so much that they will dutifully vote for a Republican this November.

When pollsters asked:

Do you prefer that this year’s congressional candidates be MORE or LESS like Donald Trump? Only 32% answered: MORE like Donald Trump.

When pollsters asked:

Are you proud of having Donald Trump as your president? Only 31% answered YES.

So, the reasonable optimist in me believes that Donald Trump has a hardcore base of about 30% that will stay with him no matter what. These include some of our friends and neighbors. We may still like them, but not nearly as much as we used to.

And that reasonable optimist in me believes that the remaining 10% to 15% of Trump supporters have become kind of squishy about riding his wagon into the insane asylum of history.

But let’s not argue numbers, which can be questioned and manipulated to support opposite sides of any debate. Instead let’s focus on what we witness, but may not believe what our eyes are telling us.

Please do not feel insulted by the simplistic bumper sticker messages that I am about to offer you. This president has created an alternative reality based completely on bumper sticker messages that are taken as gospel by his hardcore followers.

Here are a few of the classics:

Without strong borders, we don’t have a country!

Our allies have been treating us like a piggy bank!

The mainstream media is Fake News!

Democrats are soft on crime!

There is no collusion!

They are simple, strong, easily parroted, and slightly nauseating.

So for us – the 52% of registered voters who tell pollsters that they view this president “unfavorably,” and for that 10% to 15% of the “favorable” group, who sound squishy, I hereby offer you these GREAT LAWS OF REALITY, HUMANITY, and PLAIN OLD HUMAN NATURE to reassure us that Democrats will at least take back the House of Representatives in November.

I hope you are okay with my heavy handed alliteration.

Drum roll:

Marches magnify messages and messengers!

Tariffs turn terrified tycoons!

Chainlinking children chills cheerleaders!

Cool candidates clobber the clueless, comfortable, and corrupt!

Pissing-off prosecutors puts pals in prison!

These two minutes will not allow for elaboration, but my next two minutes will. Today is the Fourth of July. I will not tell you to enjoy the day. Instead I will ask you to feel the revolution, and help someone else feel it too.