Posted on 06/13/2016 8:17:19 AM PDT by usafa92
Long before Donald Trump made his first foray into Las Vegas real estate, I had an unsettling experience gambling in a downtown Vegas casino. The cards were falling my way until late at night, when I began making subtle mistakes. My stack of poker chips, once piled high, dwindled. Ahead a few thousand dollars at one point, I cashed out with little more than my original stake.
I slept fitfully, and in the morning called my father, who grew up in Nevada and is also a gambler, to relate the previous night’s turn of events. He asked me a single question. “Were you tired?”
“Yes,” I said. “I got up very early in the morning, traveled here, and played cards until after midnight.”
“That explains it,” he said. “You lost because you wanted to lose.”
“No,” I said. “I hated losing.”
“Of course you did, but your body needed sleep,” he said. “Your body knew that the only way it could get you to quit playing and go to bed is if you lost your money. You’re lucky you didn’t lose everything.”
That was how I learned how powerful our subconscious desires can be. All these years later, the episode puts me in mind of Donald Trump. I’ve only met the man once, and if one of my friends wrote this column, I’d tease him about going all Gail Sheehy -- I don’t usually cotton to journalists who psychoanalyze their subjects. But I believe that Donald Trump, the man who famously disparages “losers,” knows deep down he isn’t equipped to be president.
Let’s call this more reflective subconscious entity “Don Trump.”
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Desperation...just imagine the shrill cries that will be heard as Trump continues to shine the spotlight on the cockroaches.
“Wile E. Coyote, Mister Wile E. Coyote, please call you office.”
BS What a load of crap.
Trump for President.
Trump is being handed the election on a silver platter thanks to Obama, Hillary and the Liberal Media ignoring the fact that we are at war with ISIS on our own turf.
Carl....and when he wins and surprises everyone are you going to write another colunmnand admit you were wrong?....nah, didn’t think so
Carl Cameron? Carl Cannon? Both in denial...
Apparently DT is not tired yet. He just keeps winning.
Mrs. Clinton is going to get Schlonged in the election, regardless of what these sorts of characters will try to use against Trump...
Nobody is equipped to be president. What the hell is this guy talking about? Does he think hellery would be better? Good grief!
So many delusional (and educated) idiots out there. I just can’t believe how many of my friends think Hillary is the greatest and Trump is a complete fraud.
Hey Carl - you wanna play poker?
LOL
Put down the Hillary pipe.
*smiles*..probably
Ah come on...hey mr. gambler...all gamblers have a tell...some sort of facial expression ,tic, or something that gives away the fact when they have nothing and are bluffing...you sir have nothing so you make up some fantasy Trump want to lose.
Bull- loney...I have never seen a candidate work so tirelessly and go to as many events to speak as Trump does. He and I are the approximate same age and he tires me out just watching him
Go back to your cards...we have four aces in Trump and you need to fold because you have nothing..
Freegards
LEX
No first termer is up to the job. They’ve got no clue what they are in for. Only time will tell so shut your pie hole.
It sounds like you have your work cut out for you.
Trump is going to peak any time now.
The Donald, tired?
The guy is the Energizer Bunny, just keeps going and going.
Now, as far as somebody getting tired, and starting to make mistakes, I would look to Herself beginning to flag a little.
Herself once said, in another context, “Aaa’m in no wise taaared”, but even then that may have been an expression of allowing more and more mistakes to happen.
I see it happening with whatever campaign Herself is still keeping up. And I believe a huge rift has just opened up that may soon sink whatever is left, in light of what has happened so recently in Orlando.
Political Correctness, which is the cover Herself has been running under, was just blown wide open. Who is deserving of the definition of victim, there? Is it the crazed Muslim acting out on the part of ISIS, or is the LGBT community? And would ANY new “gun control measures” have ever have prevented the assailant from obtaining the weaponry he was carrying?
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