NYT inside on Trump Campaign: Trump does not sleep, bottomless need for attention ( CAPS on head )

[factfinder_77]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Aboard his gold-plated jumbo jet, the Republican nominee does not like to rest or be alone with his thoughts, insisting that aides stay up and keep talking to him. He prefers the soothing, whispery voice of his son-in-law.

He requires constant assurance that his candidacy is on track. “Look at that crowd!” he exclaimed a few days ago as he flew across Florida, turning to his young press secretary as a TV tuned to Fox News showed images of what he claimed were thousands of people waiting for him on the ground below.

And he is struggling to suppress his bottomless need for attention. As he stood next to the breakfast buffet at his golf club in Doral, Fla., eyeing a tray of pork sausages, he sought to convey restraint when approached by a reporter for The New York Times.

“I’m on message,” Mr. Trump asserted, with effort. “I’m not playing around. In fact, I’m a little nervous standing here talking to you even for just a minute.”

[chillfactor]

2. t'rump certainly does live....

inside his own unreality bubble....thanks for the post....the article is a great read. I heard parts of it on Lawrence's show this evening but the entire article really delivers a punch at t'rump's disastrous campaign.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. He'll go all Captain Queeg before long.

This is the captain speaking. Some misguided sailors on this ship still think they can pull a fast one on me. Well, they're very much mistaken. Since you've taken this course, the innocent will be punished with the guilty. There will be no liberty for any member of this crew for three months. I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me?

Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action.

[Cha]

4. "Gold Plated Jumbo Jet.." yeah, the man of the

peopleSuckers!

Scary wannabe despot.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

5. Doesn't this part worry anyone else?

His aides acknowledge that their efforts to steer a straight course may falter.

And they (his staff) know that his chances of winning the election are iffy...But they maintain that there is unseen money and muscle behind Mr. Trump’s political operation — and a level of sophistication that outsiders, and people who have run traditional campaigns, cannot fully appreciate.

Especially knowing that all his claims against his opponents were obviously projections about the evils he and his campaign were in fact perpetrating.

I have very strong suspicions that all his talk about election rigging is the biggest projection of all. What else are we to make of the "money and muscle" and, if you can call grand theft a "level of sophistication," that too?

[Tactical Peek]

6. he is being eaten to bits by piranhas and his staff are standing on the river bank going, "It's ok,

This is a guy whose campaign is so far off the rails now that it almost defies description . . . right now he is being eaten to bits by piranhas and his staff are standing on the river bank going, "It's ok, it's fine - don't worry, we've got this thing."

- Rick Wilson, on MSNBC Sunday night

[barbtries]

7. he is a sick man.

this was clear forever ago. that millions of people will vote for him or already have baffles the shit out of me.

[Bozvotros]

10. Me too

That he is this close is a damning indictment of our political system and our citizenry. The Hillary Hate is just as astonishing to me too. What the hell did she ever do to earn the total disrespect and distrust she gets? Fucking Reagan sold missiles to the Ayatolla to illegally fund terrorists who were throwing nuns out of helicopters and he gets a new road or bridge named after him every week. Cheney, Bush, Powell, Rice and Rumsfield ginned up a 10 trillion dollar war and wiped their asses with the Bill of Rights and they get a pass but we have to hear about Hillary's cattle futures?

[Francis Booth]

11. That's why the Electoral College was created.

They were intended to be the last line of defense against a charming psychopath seizing power. It's why the Electors are not constitutionally bound to cast their state's choice when the Electors meet to vote. They can decide that their respective States sent them someone completely inappropriate for the job. Like a Trump, for example - a fragile, petty, vindictive narcissist.

At least that's my understanding of how the system was intended to work. To my knowledge, there have been only a handful of such 'faithless Electors', as they're called.

[Skittles]

9. jeez

I'd feel sorry for him if.....well, fuck no, I can't, I simply cannot

[Beacool]

12. I feel nothing but revulsion for Trump, and have felt so for years.

I can't find one redeeming quality in the man. He's a textbook narcissist who is intellectually lazy and an ignoramus (he hasn't read a book in years). He's a black hole in constant need of attention. He also epitomizes our nation's worst angels: he's racist, xenophobic, misogynist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-women's reproductive rights, etc. He has also offended disabled people, POWs by stating that a man who was captured and tortured for five years was not a hero (the coward wouldn't have lasted a week) and insulted a Gold Star family.

He is the least qualified and most unfit nominee of a major political party in modern times.

I can't wait to see him go down in flames on Tuesday, and at the hand of a woman, that will just double his humiliation.