There's debate about how much fear is enough fear - and whether my appearance of relative calm is good, bad or otherwise.
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Here's why:
I understand severe narcissism like Trump's like the back of my hand. Trump is like an old familiar movie.
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I do this daily and have been doing it for ten years. Trump ain't new or unpredictable or erratic to me. At all.
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If they are controlling your emotions, you're losing.
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So, I don't get pushed entirely off my moorings by even very stressful days like yest... That took ten years and $10k to get halfway decent at. It ain't easy.
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Looking past the headlines. Not catastrophizing abt things not yet known or certain. Seeking first to understand. One hand clapping. Zen something something.
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If I were FBI Director Chris Wray, I would have pushed Andrew McCabe aside too. His baggage is distracting and can be used to undermine the FBI.
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It robs Trump of a distraction. It sends a message to insiders that the place is not being taken over. It puts a poster-boy in a key position.
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You don't defeat a narcissist by punching them in the face. You beat them by cutting them off at the knees.
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Instead, you engineer around them. You set the traps that they are absolutely clinically incapable of not stepping right into. You give them rope. Lots of rope.
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You deprive them of talking points... while letting them pile up more evidence against them.
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My lunch-pail is packed to go to work on protecting Mueller and Rosenstein... and yest's events did nothing to change that.
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A calm, mercenary focus is even better.
The news cycle ain't gonna tip me over. I plan my work and work my plan and no headline is gonna change that.
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