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Donald Trump's Sad, Lonely Life, by (((David Brooks))) at the (((NYT)))
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:05 AM Author: Startling Preventive Strike some good, objective reportage here
Donald Trump’s Sad, Lonely Life David Brooks David Brooks OCT. 11, 2016
The point of town hall debates is that regular voters get to ask questions. In every town hall I’ve seen, the candidate turns to the voter, listens attentively and directs the answer at least partially back to that person.
The candidates do that because it’s polite, because it looks good to be seen taking others seriously and because most of us instinctively want to make some connection with the people we are talking to.
Hillary Clinton, not exactly a paragon of intimacy, behaved in the normal manner on Sunday night. But Donald Trump did not. Trump treated his questioners as unrelatable automatons and delivered his answers to the void, even when he had the chance to seem sympathetic to an appealing young Islamic woman.
That underlines the essential loneliness of Donald Trump.
Politics is an effort to make human connection, but Trump seems incapable of that. He is essentially adviser-less, friendless. His campaign team is made up of cold mercenaries at best and Roger Ailes at worst. His party treats him as a stench it can’t yet remove.
He was a germophobe through most of his life and cut off contact with others, and now I just picture him alone in the middle of the night, tweeting out hatred.
Trump breaks his own world record for being appalling on a weekly basis, but as the campaign sinks to new low after new low, I find myself experiencing feelings of deep sadness and pity.
Imagine if you had to go through a single day without sharing kind little moments with strangers and friends.
Imagine if you had to endure a single week in a hate-filled world, crowded with enemies of your own making, the object of disgust and derision.
You would be a twisted, tortured shrivel, too, and maybe you’d lash out and try to take cruel revenge on the universe. For Trump this is his whole life.
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SEE SAMPLE PRIVACY POLICY Trump continues to display the symptoms of narcissistic alexithymia, the inability to understand or describe the emotions in the self. Unable to know themselves, sufferers are unable to understand, relate or attach to others.
To prove their own existence, they hunger for endless attention from outside. Lacking internal measures of their own worth, they rely on external but insecure criteria like wealth, beauty, fame and others’ submission.
In this way, Trump seems to be denied all the pleasures that go with friendship and cooperation. Women could be sources of love and affection, but in his disordered state he can only hate and demean them. His attempts at intimacy are gruesome parodies, lunging at women as if they were pieces of meat.
Most of us derive a warm satisfaction when we feel our lives are aligned with ultimate values. But Trump lives in an alternative, amoral Howard Stern universe where he cannot enjoy the sweetness that altruism and community service can occasionally bring.
Bullies only experience peace when they are cruel. Their blood pressure drops the moment they beat the kid on the playground.
Imagine you are Trump. You are trying to bluff your way through a debate. You’re running for an office you’re completely unqualified for. You are chasing some glimmer of validation that recedes ever further from view.
Your only rest comes when you are insulting somebody, when you are threatening to throw your opponent in jail, when you are looming over her menacingly like a mafioso thug on the precipice of a hit, when you are bellowing that she has “tremendous hate in her heart” when it is clear to everyone you are only projecting what is in your own.
Trump’s emotional makeup means he can hit only a few notes: fury and aggression. In some ways, his debate performances look like primate dominance displays — filled with chest beating and looming growls. But at least primates have bands to connect with, whereas Trump is so alone, if a tree fell in his emotional forest, it would not make a sound.
It’s all so pathetic.
On Monday, one of Trump’s conservative critics, Erick Erickson, published a moving essay called “If I Die Before You Wake… .” Erickson has been the object of vicious assaults by Trump supporters. He and his wife are both facing serious health ailments and may pass before their children are grown. Yet as the essay makes clear, both are living lives of love, faith, devotion and service. Both have an ultimate confidence in the goodness of creation and their grace-filled place in it.
WRITE A COMMENT You may share that faith or not, but Erickson is living an attached life — emotionally, spiritually, morally and communally. Donald Trump’s life, by contrast, looks superficially successful and profoundly miserable. None of us would want to live in the howling wilderness of his own solitude, no matter how thick the gilding.
On Nov. 9, the day after Trump loses, there won’t be solidarity and howls of outrage. Everyone will just walk away. |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:42 AM Author: Poppy Odious Cuckoldry Temple It's an op-ed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614772) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 8:10 AM Author: Startling Preventive Strike like all nyt content (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614850) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 1:55 PM Author: Slippery gas station turdskin hehe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31616746) |
Date: October 11th, 2016 7:09 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy rambunctious queen of the night heaven highly credited (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614695) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:24 AM Author: underhanded stage Reminds me of the chapter in Mein Kampf in which Hitler describes at great length the systematic dishonesty of the many dozens of liberal/Jewish Viennese newspapers. This is appalling. Also note that the NYT's largest stakeholder is an open borders Mexican. |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:31 AM Author: Domesticated frozen abode newt Jews are just too clever amd determined for Euros. It's unfair.
Now that the struggle is all but over, will they lose their cohesion and blend in with the masses or find a new cause? |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:33 AM Author: underhanded stage Ideally, they will all be gassed and cremated (in no particular order). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614743) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:35 AM Author: Domesticated frozen abode newt It's over for Euros. Time to move on. The only question is what will happen to the Jews. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614753) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:37 AM Author: underhanded stage stfu (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614761) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:34 AM Author: Irradiated Copper Trailer Park The Jews are pushing to expand Israel. They will literally start war w Iran. And people will see what the real Jews are doing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614745) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:35 AM Author: Cream Fighting New Version Menage Yes, Clinton is their 100% dependable and 100% enslaved tool. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614755) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:45 AM Author: bistre mood shrine "I came here to speak to you about where I stand on the future of American relations with our strategic ally, our unbreakable friendship and our cultural brother, the only democracy in the Middle East, the state of Israel."
http://time.com/4267058/donald-trump-aipac-speech-transcript/ |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:47 AM Author: Cream Fighting New Version Menage "cultural brother". lol, tragic and impossible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614786) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:48 AM Author: bistre mood shrine Indeed. Can you believe Donald said that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614788) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:37 AM Author: Domesticated frozen abode newt What will the target for lebensraum be? Jordan? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614759) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:34 AM Author: Cream Fighting New Version Menage NYT is Jewish, and Jewish sociopaths have an embarrassing, virtually exception-less and very boring, history of inventing quack diagnoses for anyone they did not like. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614747) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:35 AM Author: underhanded stage TRUMP IS A CASE STUDY IN 'THE AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY', MORTY (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614756) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:37 AM Author: bistre mood shrine Right. Did you know (((they))) even made up a story about Trump having Parkinson's and other health issues?
Oh, shit, wait, that was you guys. |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 8:01 AM Author: Wine bateful parlor CR it was a mere stumble hehe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614813) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 8:02 AM Author: bistre mood shrine She'll have to sit at the debates! She'll have to cancel the debates!
Etc. etc.
All proven untrue, of course, but that won't stop you guys will it? ljl at low IQ trumptards. |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 8:02 AM Author: Glassy jap space *bizarre metal contraption springs from pant leg* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614824) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 8:04 AM Author: bistre mood shrine ...and why that's a good thing (HuffPo) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614829) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:39 AM Author: Domesticated frozen abode newt How do you explains their Arab owner? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614765) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:40 AM Author: Irradiated Copper Trailer Park Carlos Slim doesn't own it entirely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614768) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:43 AM Author: Domesticated frozen abode newt Do you think he agrees with their line or bought it to try and influence it in a different direction? I'm sure it wasn't just another investment.
Or maybe Jews and Arabs can find common ground in weakening America while remaining bitter enemies in their own lands. |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:41 AM Author: Cream Fighting New Version Menage In the US they have common anti-white interests for the foreseeable future....
Slim is hardly an Arab
the editorial power is entirely Jewish |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:36 AM Author: Dashing sticky rigpig stage The supposed paragon of American news now resorts to personal insults. Bravo American media (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614758) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:37 AM Author: bistre mood shrine Yes, the personality of aspiring leaders of America should be off-limits ljl at you mouthbreathers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614762) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:39 AM Author: Dashing sticky rigpig stage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614766) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:43 AM Author: bistre mood shrine Nah. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614775) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 7:58 AM Author: Glassy jap space an "APPEALING" young Islamic woman????????????????? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614804) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 9:46 AM Author: Heady Plaza Pistol lol yeah why didn't trump make best friends with the obese purple-haired "Muslim" SJW asking a pointed question about "Islamophobia"??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31615210) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 8:22 AM Author: exhilarant plum toilet seat This thread is very xo 2016 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31614878) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 9:47 AM Author: Heady Plaza Pistol it's a deranged article (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31615211) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 9:44 AM Author: big-titted violent point when you are looming over her menacingly like a mafioso thug on the precipice of a hit, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31615202) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 9:45 AM Author: big-titted violent point Didn't David Brooks' marriage fall apart bc he's a weird faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31615205) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 10:11 AM Author: appetizing drab knife I'll just guess "yes." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31615281) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 10:16 AM Author: Fragrant azn "None of us would want to live in the howling wilderness of his own solitude, no matter how thick the gilding"
He clearly hasn't met me yet |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 10:16 AM Author: Razzle violet property background story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31615294) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 10:24 AM Author: Cracking hominid Kikes projecting their neuroses on healthy humans part 43643675, nothing to see here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31615319) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 10:30 AM Author: Heady Plaza Pistol "Imagine if you had to endure a single week in a hate-filled world, crowded with enemies of your own making, the object of disgust and derision," wrote David Brooks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31615349) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 12:57 PM Author: sepia razzmatazz trust fund "Imagine if you had to endure a single week in a hate-filled world, crowded with enemies of your own making, the object of disgust and derision."
But enough about this board. |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 1:55 PM Author: Slippery gas station turdskin I really like it here. How dare you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31616745) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 2:05 PM Author: Swashbuckling turquoise lay legend disgusting mediavermin with broken marriage tries to argue that a man with plenty of friends and a loving family is "essentially lonely".
lol, clown fucking world. burn the times office building down today! |
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Date: October 15th, 2016 9:40 PM Author: Wine bateful parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31651236) |
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Date: October 11th, 2016 2:57 PM Author: Hairraiser lilac ticket booth boistinker ^^^Basket of Deplorables (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31617216) |
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Date: October 12th, 2016 9:26 PM Author: underhanded stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31628072) |
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Date: November 24th, 2016 11:30 PM Author: Wine bateful parlor LMAO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3382622&forum_id=2#31987351) |