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		By: sdferr		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sdferr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;Mars energy matrix&quot;: take 1/3 Musketeer + 1/4 MilkyWay + 1/5 Snickers bars combined, consume twice a day.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Mars energy matrix&#8221;: take 1/3 Musketeer + 1/4 MilkyWay + 1/5 Snickers bars combined, consume twice a day.</p>
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		By: Ymarsakar		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/10/10/trump-i-sort-of-thrive-on-it/#comment-2459211</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ymarsakar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;I think it’s just a personality trait of his, a rather unusual although hardly unique one.&lt;/b&gt;

No, it is just his Mars energy matrix.

It converts aggression back and he sort of uses it the way Ymar uses it online.

What is frightening funny is that when I apply the same energy matrix to people online, they get surprisingly mad at Ymar for tactics that Trum doesn&#039;t even use, because it is too &quot;soft&quot; and &quot;loser like&quot;.

I guess Trum supporters are over stimulated. They need the true s m techniques of the &quot;toughest&quot; guy there, haha.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>I think it’s just a personality trait of his, a rather unusual although hardly unique one.</b></p>
<p>No, it is just his Mars energy matrix.</p>
<p>It converts aggression back and he sort of uses it the way Ymar uses it online.</p>
<p>What is frightening funny is that when I apply the same energy matrix to people online, they get surprisingly mad at Ymar for tactics that Trum doesn&#8217;t even use, because it is too &#8220;soft&#8221; and &#8220;loser like&#8221;.</p>
<p>I guess Trum supporters are over stimulated. They need the true s m techniques of the &#8220;toughest&#8221; guy there, haha.</p>
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		By: Molly Brown		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Molly Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 05:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;Trump is the toughest politician of all time.&quot;
This.
We are so lucky to have this man.
To think I used to laugh at the guy!
Whatever the outcome, we are witnessing extraordinary times.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Trump is the toughest politician of all time.&#8221;<br />
This.<br />
We are so lucky to have this man.<br />
To think I used to laugh at the guy!<br />
Whatever the outcome, we are witnessing extraordinary times.</p>
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		By: miklos000rosza		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[miklos000rosza]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 02:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The biggest problem, by now, is the media.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The biggest problem, by now, is the media.</p>
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		By: Cornhead		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cornhead]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 02:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump is the toughest politician of all time. Only he could survive this onslaught for the last three years.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trump is the toughest politician of all time. Only he could survive this onslaught for the last three years.</p>
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		By: TommyJay		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[TommyJay]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kate&#039;s comment makes good points.  But I find the topic fascinating and I thought Dershowitz has previously expressed strong opinions on what is constitutionally required for impeachment in the House.  I was going to try to paraphrase what Dershowitz had been saying, but it turns out he wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wsj.com/articles/hamilton-wouldnt-impeach-trump-11570661260&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;an article on the topic in the WSJ.&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;b&gt;Title: Hamilton Wouldn&#039;t Impeach Trump&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;What is an impeachable offense? Rep. Maxine Waters, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says the definition is purely political: “whatever Congress says it is—there is no law.” She’s wrong.
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Hamilton didn’t say the process of impeachment is entirely political. He said the offense has to be political [with substantial impact to the nation].
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Hamilton was concerned that the decision to impeach and remove “the accused” be based not on “the comparative strength of parties,” but rather on “real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.” These words imply a quasi-legal process rather than an exclusively political one.
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The constitutional criteria are necessary for impeachment, but they do not necessitate it.
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That’s why they designed both procedural and substantive protections against misuse of this important legislative check on the executive.  ---  The substantive check is the list of offenses justifying impeachment.
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But if a president paid hush money out of personal funds to prevent his adultery from being disclosed—as Hamilton did when he was Treasury secretary—he wouldn’t be impeached. Adultery was a felony in Hamilton’s time, but nothing Hamilton did constituted a public crime. Perjury to cover up adultery—one of the offenses for which Mr. Clinton was impeached—is a closer call, although I believe it was not impeachable.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
It seems to me that if there is a necessary constitutional criterion for impeachment, then the SCOTUS has the ability to weigh in on it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kate&#8217;s comment makes good points.  But I find the topic fascinating and I thought Dershowitz has previously expressed strong opinions on what is constitutionally required for impeachment in the House.  I was going to try to paraphrase what Dershowitz had been saying, but it turns out he wrote <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/hamilton-wouldnt-impeach-trump-11570661260" rel="nofollow">an article on the topic in the WSJ.</a></p>
<p><b>Title: Hamilton Wouldn&#8217;t Impeach Trump</b></p>
<blockquote><p>What is an impeachable offense? Rep. Maxine Waters, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says the definition is purely political: “whatever Congress says it is—there is no law.” She’s wrong.<br />
  &#8212;<br />
Hamilton didn’t say the process of impeachment is entirely political. He said the offense has to be political [with substantial impact to the nation].<br />
  &#8212;<br />
Hamilton was concerned that the decision to impeach and remove “the accused” be based not on “the comparative strength of parties,” but rather on “real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.” These words imply a quasi-legal process rather than an exclusively political one.<br />
  &#8212;<br />
The constitutional criteria are necessary for impeachment, but they do not necessitate it.<br />
  &#8212;<br />
That’s why they designed both procedural and substantive protections against misuse of this important legislative check on the executive.  &#8212;  The substantive check is the list of offenses justifying impeachment.<br />
  &#8212;<br />
But if a president paid hush money out of personal funds to prevent his adultery from being disclosed—as Hamilton did when he was Treasury secretary—he wouldn’t be impeached. Adultery was a felony in Hamilton’s time, but nothing Hamilton did constituted a public crime. Perjury to cover up adultery—one of the offenses for which Mr. Clinton was impeached—is a closer call, although I believe it was not impeachable.</p></blockquote>
<p>It seems to me that if there is a necessary constitutional criterion for impeachment, then the SCOTUS has the ability to weigh in on it.</p>
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		By: Mrs Whatsit		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mrs Whatsit]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think the voters are the Constitutional check on the House&#039;s power to impeach -- not the Supreme Court.  Theoretically the voters would punish the House for a baseless impeachment -- and that&#039;s why we didn&#039;t see a House vote before Pelosi began the &quot;inquiry.&quot;  

But I&#039;m not confident that the voters WOULD punish the House, even if it did make up some ridiculous reason for an impeachment vote. The media would be right there all the way, dishing out misinformation to delude people into believing that the impeachment was justified.  The Constitution obviously doesn&#039;t have, and can&#039;t have, a mechanism for forcing the media to tell the truth.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the voters are the Constitutional check on the House&#8217;s power to impeach &#8212; not the Supreme Court.  Theoretically the voters would punish the House for a baseless impeachment &#8212; and that&#8217;s why we didn&#8217;t see a House vote before Pelosi began the &#8220;inquiry.&#8221;  </p>
<p>But I&#8217;m not confident that the voters WOULD punish the House, even if it did make up some ridiculous reason for an impeachment vote. The media would be right there all the way, dishing out misinformation to delude people into believing that the impeachment was justified.  The Constitution obviously doesn&#8217;t have, and can&#8217;t have, a mechanism for forcing the media to tell the truth.</p>
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		By: Julie near Chicago		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie near Chicago]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I never, ever psychoanalyze (psychologize!) at a distance, ahem.  

But I think Mike Bunge may have something there.  Also Aesop, in her quote.  

*Deleted by commenter -- suspected misreading confirmed*

Oh, I see, Aesop.  By &quot;lab rats&quot; you mean the rats in Berridge&#039;s lab, not the people in the labs.  OTOH, I don&#039;t know that the rats consider their lives &quot;humdrum,&quot; and obviously the human &quot;lab rats&quot; like Berridge and my physicist Honey don&#039;t (didn&#039;t) consider their lives humdrum.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never, ever psychoanalyze (psychologize!) at a distance, ahem.  </p>
<p>But I think Mike Bunge may have something there.  Also Aesop, in her quote.  </p>
<p>*Deleted by commenter &#8212; suspected misreading confirmed*</p>
<p>Oh, I see, Aesop.  By &#8220;lab rats&#8221; you mean the rats in Berridge&#8217;s lab, not the people in the labs.  OTOH, I don&#8217;t know that the rats consider their lives &#8220;humdrum,&#8221; and obviously the human &#8220;lab rats&#8221; like Berridge and my physicist Honey don&#8217;t (didn&#8217;t) consider their lives humdrum.</p>
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		By: AesopFan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AesopFan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I respectfully suggest that the Rock Climbing article in the next post may touch on this topic; some of it seemed quite descriptive of The Donald in action.

&lt;blockquote&gt;
Berridge thinks that experiencing this in-between state requires &lt;b&gt;the right personal balance of safety and comfort, &lt;/b&gt;much like the rush of riding a rollercoaster can be desirable—so long as you’re buckled in—or how a lot of people get a kick out of seeing horror unfold—so long as they’re watching it on a screen from the couch. In a sport like rock climbing, &lt;b&gt;we find that balance through practice and the development of confidence in our abilities. &lt;/b&gt;“If I were up there, I would be terrified,” Berridge says. “But your sense of control and confidence is much like the rats being in their homeroom.”

The in-between also has a tendency to focus you. &lt;b&gt;“The world kind of brightens up, and is inviting,”&lt;/b&gt; Berridge says. You alternate between experiencing fear itself and the possibility of fear. It’s one way to trigger what many athletes say they are really after: the experience of flow.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I suspect that the lab rats don&#039;t actually experience much of a psychological &quot;flow&quot; in their humdrum little lives.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I respectfully suggest that the Rock Climbing article in the next post may touch on this topic; some of it seemed quite descriptive of The Donald in action.</p>
<blockquote><p>
Berridge thinks that experiencing this in-between state requires <b>the right personal balance of safety and comfort, </b>much like the rush of riding a rollercoaster can be desirable—so long as you’re buckled in—or how a lot of people get a kick out of seeing horror unfold—so long as they’re watching it on a screen from the couch. In a sport like rock climbing, <b>we find that balance through practice and the development of confidence in our abilities. </b>“If I were up there, I would be terrified,” Berridge says. “But your sense of control and confidence is much like the rats being in their homeroom.”</p>
<p>The in-between also has a tendency to focus you. <b>“The world kind of brightens up, and is inviting,”</b> Berridge says. You alternate between experiencing fear itself and the possibility of fear. It’s one way to trigger what many athletes say they are really after: the experience of flow.</p></blockquote>
<p>I suspect that the lab rats don&#8217;t actually experience much of a psychological &#8220;flow&#8221; in their humdrum little lives.</p>
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		By: parker		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[parker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2019 21:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump is obviously a complex character. But he is exactly what we need at this crossroads. The left aka deep state must be exposed and punished or the war for America will go hot. I am hoping Barr and Durham will eventually place the spotlight on the darkness, and enough people will not go woke but awake.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trump is obviously a complex character. But he is exactly what we need at this crossroads. The left aka deep state must be exposed and punished or the war for America will go hot. I am hoping Barr and Durham will eventually place the spotlight on the darkness, and enough people will not go woke but awake.</p>
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