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Booze? Pills? LOL.

tmccarthy0 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:02:19 +0000

In reply to I hear you develop tolerance.

Booze? Pills? LOL.

That sefl-delusion is what

jollyroger — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:46:47 +0000

In reply to Yes. What if he think he's

That sefl-delusion is what made possible his perpetual re-invention of reality.

Actually, he IS retroactively editing the "tests", only in "real time", like the stories of seeing five miles down Manhattan in the wrong direction to pierce smoke and dust and perceive World Trade Center "jumpers".

BTW , and just ICYMI,

Fred spent his last 6 years living post Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Yes. What if he think he's

Michael Maiello — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:18:47 +0000

In reply to Parenthetically, I put to you

Yes. What if he think he's engaging in an elaborate piece of performance art and doesn't realize it's all real? What if he's doing this with such conviction that the people around him are buying into it?

Parenthetically, I put to you

jollyroger — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:48:18 +0000

In reply to I forgot my PT Barnum,

Parenthetically, I put to you the following, from what is actually a totally uninformed position vis-a-vis the WWF, save only that my nephew is a lifelong WWF fan,

(and, to my shame, a Trump voter, albeit I hasten to add,an innocent one cuz he votes in NJ)

Anyway:

May we perhaps take some comfort(or not...) in the proposition that 90% of the posturing is understood (and intended to be understood) as "puffery" (cf. Trump Steaks, etc) and any disparagement inflicted is no bar to being on a tag team (eg, Chris Christie)next week, BECAUSE IT'S ALL SCRIPTED AND MEANT TO BE UNDERSTOOD AS SCRIPTED?

Thus no real insult has been delivered to the seeming victim. (cf shaving Vince) And each despised primary opponent becomes an esteemed and hard fighting (almost) equal as soon as he rolls over and presents his throat. (The HRC comments in his victory speech were paradigmatic.

Add to this the retroactive editing that Burnett brought to Survivor and it's demon child, The Apprentice, with the wrinkle that whereas Survivor was edited and the games fixed to please the viewers, the outcomes in The Apprentice were rigged (pace, Deadbeat Donald...) to please Trump.

Bottom line, Strawberry Fields Forever.

Except that he has segued to a sequence where he is in a reality show where none of the other wrestlers are in on the secret and he doesn't have the power to retroactively edit how the "tests" come out.

So whereas on one hand, I raise the possibility that he is not as totally deranged by end stage Munchausen Testosterone Poisoning Syndrome as would have appeared, (a plus) but the indications (and implications) of a profoundly defective epistemology are terrifying.

The delusional issues worry me...

Worse still, as I plumb the

jollyroger — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:19:52 +0000

In reply to I forgot my PT Barnum,

Worse still, as I plumb the synaptic residua of the many intervening months of thc modulated neurochemical transactions, I fear that I may have read the article but missed your byline!

I forgot my PT Barnum,

Michael Maiello — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:42:58 +0000

In reply to Exactly--dunno how i missed

I forgot my PT Barnum, apparently.

Exactly--dunno how i missed

jollyroger — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 17:29:26 +0000

In reply to Yeah, he did. I made this

Exactly--dunno how i missed the first iteration, (but I'm pretty sure no one linked to it from Dagblog...).

Flawed analysis,however...

Trump will likely go down in history as a joke candidate, his pro wrestling persona the evidence that he was never serious. But his early successes shouldn’t be dismissed.

Yeah, he did. I made this

Michael Maiello — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:14:33 +0000

In reply to Destor, I'm gonna come right

Yeah, he did. I made this same argument back during the primaries. Pro wrestling is one of the most enduring, and most American, forms of conflict storytelling. Trump played both roles (face and heel) and did it very well. His long involvement with the WWE only helped him. There's a reason people watch this stuff. It pushes the right buttons. Also, for Beth Phoenix.

LOL...

trkingmomoe — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:56:19 +0000

In reply to Speaking of "juiced",...this

LOL...

I hear you develop tolerance.

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:54:40 +0000

In reply to ha, well at least we have pot

I hear you develop tolerance. And then what?