Rehab for Trump-haters in 3 easy steps!
At the gym, Sunday morning, CNN was on, and that bald guy was struggling with ways to interpret Donald Trump's "moods."
It was fantastic and hilarious: talking about "moods" and interpreting jokes, once again, as serious pronouncements.
It was like watching someone trying to describe their drug trip -- but no one else took the same drug.
I get it: Trump worries, concerns and scares the media. But rather than step out of this hyperbolic world of pain, they continue to indulge their panic until they're left in comical exasperation.
So what's the remedy?
First of all, once you accept that Trump is unique (for better or worse - this is no judgment on greatness or incompetence - just that he's unique) -- then you have three options:
1. Spend a lot of time operating with anguished tone and posture, responding to every single thing Trump says as if it's proof of madness or meanness. I've been that guy. So I can see it in others.
2. Spend a lot of time explaining everything he does as a defensive yes-man. I know some of those folks (still do, and can feel the sympathetic pull when you see the president under regular attack by the media).
3. Step back and assess with bemusement this tug of war between both opinions. Give your emotions a rest, and note the unhelpful patterns on either side.
You can guess that this third group is the healthier option. I choose it, based on my own experience in the first set, and being around people in the second set. The third set can understand both the first and second, and find some reasonable healthy perspective that isn't going to leave you exasperated on either extreme. The first group makes you crazy, the second one simply exhausts you.
Headless-chicken dancing only helps the Russians, and others who wish to take advantage of emotional distractions.
Let’s choose an example that employs choosing one of three groups:
Recently, at a dinner, Trump said how great it is that the Chinese president can become president for life.
1. The first group would see Trump as seriously and dangerously complimenting a tyrant for cementing his power. Then this group will laud itself for predicting that Trump will no doubt pursue the same goals as his Chinese peer. It's just more proof for the anti-Trumpers, that they were right all along about Trump, the autocrat.
2. The second group would offer a two-step Trumpsplain about the comment:
- He's joking! Of course he's joking! Lighten up, Francis. It was at a lighthearted dinner -- where such things are said!
- And he's joking, also, just to rile up all those humorless folks in group one! And their hysterics prove his point!
(I found myself landing in this group, often, after breaking free from the first group).
3. The third group avoids the impulse of the first - because having been there before, an observer realizes it's too emotional and unnecessary (Much like that clichéd notion of swatting a fly with a sledgehammer). And he may view group 2 as closer to reality – however he notes that Trump's loose verbosity is "not helpful" to future discourse among quarreling groups. It creates more chaos, less order. In sum, because you can fart in church doesn't mean you should. But Trump might just keep farting, so hold your nose. And you know what: a lot of the stuff he's actually doing, as opposed to farting -- is pretty good for the country.
So, I find myself floating in and out of group 2 and group 3 -- and I think that's the healthiest way to preserve your sanity, and your country's strength. Headless-chicken dancing (group 1) only helps the Russians, and others who wish to take advantage of emotional distractions.
All of this is based on one key point: you don't need to – and shouldn't have to – sit so close to the political stage.
Do not turn your life into some interior play-by-play of political events.
There is a better way. It's called life. http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/05/greg-gutfeld-rehab-for-trump-haters-in-3-easy-steps.html
My Trump rehab would be 3 martini lunches with vicodin chasers.
Paula... As a Marine, I know that the USMC is a department of the Navy... What I posted on the other article was a joke. Just sayin..
No harm no foul.
We were, but the article was closed before I could reply.. LOL Hang in there Brother, get better.
I'll join you. I'll bring my own Klonepin
In this case "unique" is a euphemism for habitual liar, bully, crook , and diseased personality.
The seeded article is absurd.
Are you sure this ''article'' isn't from the Onion?
Sounds like it is.
But if anyone is interested in adding a bit of humor to NT-- these articles are-- we should seed some of them:
Onion articles about Trump
All of this is based on one key point: you don't need to – and shouldn't have to – sit so close to the political stage.
Maybe not so much in the past but certainly now. We all have to "sit close to the stage."
Stay woke.
In trumps case, I believe the term is, "shitshow". Honestly. How many of trumps, "A" team, those that he said were the greatest ever people, are still working for trump? One, of the 14 people he said were going to MAGA...the best ever, because trump only hires the best people....ONE, is left. The rest have either resigned or been fired. This administration is a joke....
Trump got elected on the backs of disgruntled Americans who not only don't know anything about American civics but they don't care, they simply wanted to set fire to the establishment. His being so bad isn't a bug, it's a feature to them. They see his out of tune politics as "fresh" and "new" and they cheer the faults, they applaud his affairs with porn stars, they giggle at his prostration towards Putin, they laugh as the status quo of Washington is smeared and reviled. Did the establishment deserve some of this punishment? Sure, you can argue they've been dragging their feet on changing things for decades and Trump certainly disrupts that, but you don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Electing Trump is like using a hand grenade to remodel your living room. Sure, it might make the demolition quick and easy, but you break a lot more things than you have to with that method.
The author states that the third group is the healthier option - yet you clearly choose the first set. Strange how you like to post articles which make you look bad. Not that you'd go for the third group - you'd have to admit that your idol has made bad decisions.
As to Trump's "joke" about being president for life, a rational person need only look at his attacks on our system of government - the judicial branch and the first amendment, in particular - before realizing it's not funny - it's what autocrats do to consolidate their power.
Once he takes away our guns, you might finally get it. He is quicksand - he has no position other than that of whomever flatters him most recently, or pays him the most. Tariffs? Gun control? He'll only get worse now that he's isolated from his enablers.
This article seems to have gotten the left riled up. It must hit too close to home.
Btw if anybody sees anybody who actually uses the third option let me know.
Since a vast majority of the world sees Trump and exactly what he is doing, we don't need that republican translation. Like what he does all you (plural) want, but don't try to re-explain his words and actions. We see the reality, republicans see what they want. And the hypocrisy! My God, remember when republicans didn't like Executive Orders and golfing? And went apeshit over missing emails? Can you imagine if Obama was making money off the office by getting over the top government payments to your BUSINESSES EVERY DAY? Or if Putin put Obama into office? This opinion piece from Putin, I mean Greg Gutfeld, is just another attempt at gaslighting.
GOP, always privatize the profits and make sure to socialize all the damages that result. It happens every fucking time. Not sure why any human being would want to ignore the ways we pay for them to make sure the wealth is distributed to the top, along with legislative protections that allow them to escape responsibility when they destroy (take your pick) the economy, environment, infrastructure.........Now we are about to reap inflation from those tax cuts if the economy overheats. Some might not remember, but forget any piddly gains you may have been lucky enough to (temporarily) get now with your crumbs. (Lets not forget the cuts they want to make in our programs like SS, Medicare and Medicaid - Ryan has a hard on for them) Bend over people.