Quote: (11-16-2016 09:42 PM)Canopus Wrote:
![[Image: SjLiT42.png]](http://i.imgur.com/SjLiT42.png)
Someone who cannot control their emotions is eventually going to be consumed by them. I mean that quite literally. This photo is as much an advertisement for Cernovich's mindset insights as any of his writing on Trump's campaign.
Part of this look is certainly recovery from extreme exhaustion on what was, for her, a demanding campaign. We can jeer about the fact she went home every night to take naps in comparison to Trump pulling out five rallies in a day, but she's a woman in her late sixties at the end of the day. Even the Don was sounding tired on his acceptance speech. There are limits, and as you get older it gets harder to recover from a major incident of stress.
But the other part of this look, I think, is
continuing stress on Clinton's part. Clinton is being eaten alive by fear of an indictment. Even in that speech, she has been quoted as saying:
Quote:Quote:
In her first public speech since last week’s shocking presidential loss, Clinton told the audience; “Coming here tonight wasn’t the easiest thing for me to do.”
She said has had times since the election loss when she wanted to “just curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again”.
That's not the shame of defeat. Shame doesn't last ten days straight, and shame doesn't turn you into a recluse. Not for people like Clinton. No, that sort of reaction -- literally curling up into a ball, hiding away in the house -- is the classic response of paralysis, a fairly common third stage in the misnamed fight/flight response. The paralysis response happens when you perceive there is a threat from which there is no escape and which cannot be physically countered ("Can't fight; can't flee; so I'll just try and lie motionless and hope the threat doesn't perceive me as prey or perceive me at all"). In Clinton's case, that threat has to be the fear of an indictment.
This sort of threat is like a Damoclean sword, as I've said before, like being told you're going to be killed but not knowing when the bullet is coming. It's one reason long waits on death row are sometimes considered cruel and unusual punishment. It's a horrible, high-stress situation to live in or live through.
(In passing, the Presidency itself is a high-stress situation to live through. Take a look at what every modern President looked like on inaguration versus what they looked like when they left: every single one of them is exsanguinated by the office, except maybe Nixon who seemed to thrive on the job. I'm going to knock on wood here, and I'm happy to be accused of concern trolling on this, but: strong as Trump's mindset clearly is, I think we need to be prepared for the possibility of him being the first President since FDR to die of natural causes while in office. The man is 70 years old, and this is a hell of a burden for him to assume this late in life; even Reagan was starting to lose his marbles by the time he was done.)
Anyway, what makes it worse for Clinton is that she doesn't appear to have an appropriate or adult method of dealing with that stress.
Her coping mechanisms for high stress seem to come down to:
(1) alcohol, which is fairly common for lawyers and former lawyers; or
(2) when alcohol is not available, putting a lid on it and then getting a catharsis out in private -- i.e. the emotional rages. This, too, is fairly common for lawyers or former lawyers. You cannot afford to lose your shit in front of a judge or jury (unless your name is Gerry Spence, in which case you're in complete control the whole time), so you just push the emotions down and wait until the trial is over to let it all out...not untypically over a glass of wine.
The problem is that neither of these mechanisms are too healthy for an older person or for a woman in general. Men often bottle their shit up so long as they then go take it out on a punching bag or on that fucking bench press some time afterward. We're better at emotional control in that way. But even then it's not optimal in cases of very high stress, as veterans' PTSD often shows us, and even with that course available an awful lot of guys still turn to alcohol or drugs to deal with the problem. (In passing, a short shill from me: Mike Cernovich's Gorilla Mindset program is about the best, actionable, practical set of methods for dealing with stress and emotion that I've ever seen. Leave aside the benefits it has for general success in life, it's an enormously powerful set of techniques for surfing on emotional waves - yours and other people's.)
Clinton's tricks -- alcohol abuse and cathartic rages -- work less and less as you get older, chiefly because the heart muscle and the major blood vessels are not as flexible as they were when you were young, meaning it can't as easily shift up or down in pace and it's much less efficient at getting blood around the body. There's also a raft of other hormonal changes that happen to the body as it ages, too. But if you keep doing this, sooner or later your body
will pay you back, and there are always, always, outward signs or outward warnings for when it's about to happen.
Consider this: Clinton looks appalling, and that's for a woman who is in the upper echelons of the government and has more personal resources than large African towns put together. She looks this way with the best medical advice in the world available to her.
This is the best modern medicine has been able to do for her. Compare her with a picture of Trump, who likewise has massive personal resources, and it's no contest: mindset, teetotalling, and gender win out.
Scott Adams predicted a major health issue for Clinton within 12 months if she won the Presidency. I'd be willing to guess that now even if we didn't have footage of her "dehydration" issues. She is not in good health and impending Congressional investigations alone are in my view likely to catalyse the underlying issues she has.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm