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Too bad for him that he will refuse to see a therapist or psychiatrist because he thinks it's a sign of weakness.
I'd certainly be fucked up if it had happened to me.
It's so so sad that he's bound for a nervous breakdown and potentially Harris slamming her hand on the podium with the right force and angle could potentially be a trigger for it.
please let us have a real life ace attorney moment
Dude is Redd White but somehow even more of a cartoonish parody of a rich man.
Who would be a better female clown murderer, Boebert or MTG?
Not unprecedented. Even doing so intentionally isn’t new. Just look at Admiral James Stockdale in the 1992 election. Dude was a decorated Vietnam vet and former POW, but before a debate, someone thought it’d be a great idea to jingle some keys. Apparently, that was something his captors did to mess with him in Vietnam. Cue the PTSD flashback, and suddenly Stockdale’s looking disoriented on stage. So yeah, a well-placed podium slam? Could totally set off a meltdown.
I hope she brutally takes advantage of that.
He might get counseling from some evangelical pastor though, and come out of it even more terrible than he already is.
Isn’t Trump a little old to be sexually assaulted by a pastor?
I don't know man......he still wears a diaper.
Well....would you have spent the last 8 years of your life spreading views of hate and racism?
Because I think thats what got him shot at.
There is zero fucking chance he's having an "am I the baddie?" Moment while watching this clip. He's probably thinking how bad ass his hair looks or something about manliness blah blah.
Trump is a one trick pony.
Or he's finally been confronted with his own mortality and its fucking with him in ways a life empty of any kind of introspection would.
Yeah I'm not giving him credit at all but there's definitely a very real undeniable difference between talking smack and being threatened and all that and actually getting shot at, hit (even if barely) and nearly killed. Trump is an ego inflated asshole, but the sight of your own blood, especially at his age when death is already a daily thought I'm sure, can seriously fuck you up mentally.
Its funny right. If he could have just shut the fuck up and let the convention happen around him, and then not been a total fucking cunt, he probably could have coasted on that into November. He could have been a "changed man" like they were trying to set him up as and just stepped a bit back, been a bit more reserved and honestly, he would be much harder to beat.
Idk man. I have PTSD from my time in military service where I get woken up at night and have to do something. And that shit was a long ass time ago. It doesn't really get better. I mean you can do drugs about it. Finding the company of others with a shared experience helps. But it doesn't go away.
Completely unqualified suggestion here but,
have you tried going for a run when you wake up at the middle of the night?
I was having the problem of waking up at 3am and unable to fall sleep, I started to embrace it, prepare some coffee, stretch a bit and then get out to run to a completely deserted city.
Running is very therapeutic, when you get intrusive thoughts, you just squeeze further running until your brain cannot focus on other thing than breathing.
I found a time-frame of therapy that only belongs to me and it has also helped me with the sleeping problems.
I am not qualified or anything and I don't want to diminish your problem, but if it could help I just wanted to let it out.
Cheers.
Sorry to hear that. I have PTSD as well (but from other causes). For me EMDR, imagery rescripting and psychosomatic physiotherapy helped. It did not completely solve it, but it made it much better. Maybe some things to try if you have not done so, and you want to.
He was a draft dodger, so I suppose in some capacity you could view this as that cowardice catching up with him.
A conservative, especially a sociopathic narcissistic one, is incapable of introspection.
I think that's irrelevant. Nearly getting your brains blown out will fuck with your head regardless of anybody's judgement of whether you deserved it.
I'm not sure the mindset of the person getting shot at is "irrelevant"
It sounded like, from the shooter's web searches, that if it had been Biden holding a rally hear the shooter's house, Biden would have been shot at. It was less anything about Trump and more that the shooter wanted to shoot someone famous/important, from what I've seen.
No, he'll think he knows how to handle it better than a trained licensed therapist