Trump drained Christie of all dignity & filled space with a raked carcass of dignity loss.
Trump drained Christie of all dignity and filled the space he once occupied with a raked carcass of dignity loss..............
.........Coming into the orbit of Mr Trump, taking his yoke as it were, requires not only total submission, a total relaxation of every muscle and defense but a farewell to all independence and dignity.
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate ...
Look at Chris Christie, a once strong-arming figure now reduced to being the iconic symbol of a shudder-inducing, oddly voluntary and seemingly perpetual cycle of abject humiliation. In addition to all the 'hostage Christie' memes we saw over recent months, Trump forces made sure to tell numerous reporters that as recently as Thursday night - last night - Christie was literally pitching himself to Trump on the phone, again begging to be picked for Veep even after the decision for Pence had apparently already been made. As recently as Friday morning, according to the Times, Christie still thought he was still in the running. It seems quite likely Christie only finally learned his fate from Trump's twitter. As the Times put it with some understatement in a separate article dedicated entirely to Christie's public humiliation, "Mr. Trump appeared to relish poking fun at his effusive booster."
It is a genuine mystery what sort of hold Trump was able to take over Christie. But it seems to have been total. Like a vampire, Trump drained Christie of all dignity and filled the space he once occupied with a raked carcass of dignity loss.
Newt Gingrich didn't do quite as badly. But it was close. According to the Times Gingrich confirmed by email that he still hadn't heard from Trump about his final decision, only minutes before Trump tweeted it to almost 10 million followers around the world. The pattern was the same, a deepening cycle of greater submission and more abject humiliations.
And now we have Mike Pence.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dominance-and-humiliation-no-middle-ground
= new reply since forum marked as read
to a nicer guy! 
Last edited Sun Jul 17, 2016, 04:07 PM - Edit history (1)
Trump needed a running mate seen as the opposite of being a egotistical, short-tempered, inarticulate, bullying vulgarian. Joe Biden supplied the older-and-wiser image and foreign policy chops Obama lacked; Edwards supplied the appeal to non-Northeasterners and women that Kerry lacked. THAT'S how it's supposed to work, Donald!
For that reason alone, Christie should have known he'd reached the beginning of the end when Trump put him on the VP list (especially if it's true that Newt Gingrich was the other runner up), and that he could kiss a major Trump administration position goodbye as well (the federal charges against his mentor and one of his commissioners notwithstanding). Aside from that, would the town of Washington DC under President Trump have been big enough for the two of them?
rocktivity
Freaking perfect
Rec 
