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What Did He Do to Chris Christie?
Seriously, no sarcasm. Watch this with only your emotional antennae, take the words and the context out of it, and just look at his face.
This is how he usually looks, just to compare.
He looks as if he’s aged ten years overnight. He looks broken and frightened. Look at his eyes, his skin. His voice is flat and emotionless. I get it if he’s feeling buyer’s remorse. In his shoes, I’d sure be thinking, “What on earth have I done?” But he’s a professional politician. He’s used to giving ten speeches a day that he doesn’t really mean and he’s not in the mood to give. If you’ve been in the public light for as long as he’s been, you’re an old pro: You know that the show must go on.
Seems like the Dementors got him. Soul sucked right out of him. Do you see that?
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No rational conservative can endorse trump. Period.
A lot of people had that reaction. I did.
Claire,
I must inform you that nothing has happened to Chris Christy. He was always a very limited local NJ politician. His demeanor resonated with a crude streak in the NJ electorate and was interesting only in contrast to the totally corrupt incompetence of the NJ democrats. Christy showed how shallow and childish he is when Obama used him like a pawn one week before the 2012 very very close election. Anyone with a real national vision and real loyalty to the conservative cause would have found a way to get what was needed for NJ without giving BHO a major multi-day photo op.
Christy acted as an adolescent in the presence of BHO’s celebrity. He still moans about Bruce Springsteen like a 14 year old. He is in awe of Trump’s trumpiness, that which nauseates the adult in the rest of us. That Ann Coulter had some kind of school girl crush on Christie doesn’t exactly speak well of her emotional maturity either and that she transferred her crush to Trump is another nauseating experience for the adult in the rest of us.
Not talented but famous. Not good but influential. Not right but threatening. The cult of personality is hitting it big for those childish enough to be impressed
Regards,
Jim
Well don’t tell anyone else but the rumor I keep hearing is that there’s a particular M word that connects Trump-Christie-Giuliani. Think Sopranos.
And as for Mary Pat leaving the Guv, it wouldn’t surprise me if she already has, whether or not it’s forever. There wouldn’t be enough Xanax or duct tape to keep me on Casino Donny’s plantation.
Its very strange … Christie is nothing if not 3-dimensional. Yet he managed to look like a cardboard cutout of himself.
And there WAS this … Six NJ newspapers last night called on Christie to resign.
Yeah -the image is very show-trial-like. “A man who has been so thoroughly broken, his personality has been evacuated.”
Please read: Trump Lost Big on Super Tuesday
In our house, I got to have a talk about how important it is who you choose for friends with my kids. All that fun and attention in the moment comes at a steep cost later; thought to be honest, with Trump, how do you NOT see that coming? Hopefully the family conversation’s influence will last far beyond this train wreck of an election season.
I think Donald Trump gets away with more “nutty” sayings than anyone else in political history. And forget about the media, leftist or otherwise, pointing out his numerous, and substantial, lies in any sort of effective way.
Even when an attempt is made to get straight answers from Trump, as with the latter half of Chris Wallace’s pathetic interview the other day, Trump’s diversionary tactics, evasions, and bluster refocus the interview onto whatever he is saying and away from the question, and all the interviewer can do is try to interrupt, ruefully shake his head and chuckle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyyLIkH9Nlg
Watch it at your peril. It’s fifteen minutes of your life you’ll never get back.
The undead.
Regards,
Jim
It makes me think of Nadine Cross and Randall Flagg from The Stand.
(1) Christie’s dog died and (2) it can’t be fun being blackmailed by Trump. Also, imagine (3) the worry that Donald will inadvertently blurt it out on national television. Given all that, I’d say he’s holding up pretty well.
Okay, okay, you said it first. We don’t permit conspiracy theories on Ricochet, but what is it about Christie’s face that’s making us all make that joke? Because I didn’t know a face could convey that, but somehow we’re all thinking it.
Add this to the mix. It’s written by Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert series. Apparently this is his special area of expertise and holy cannoli is it ever persuasive—pardon the pun. Every word rings true. Here’s an excerpt:
So maybe we need an army of finger-snappers to run around breaking the spell?
I am not a fan of projecting thoughts onto someone based upon the look on their face. Momentary looks can be more telling for an instant reaction, but a sustained look, much less so.
I think Christie is just this week getting the unpaid bills for his campaign, and he is in shock.
That would explain it too. Holy cow.
Adams has had Trump figured out perfectly from day 1.
Other editors, I’d like it noted that I didn’t introduce a conspiracy theory. My point was just a psychological extrapolation of what Claire was thinking.
You’re not on the hook for introducing it. I think we all looked at him and had that thought. Doesn’t mean any of us think that’s evidence, just that he’s got a blackmailed/kidnapped/tortured expression on his face, and it’s weird that there’s such a thing as “that expression.”
I wonder if we might be actually witnessing the Zombie Apocalypse we’ve all been fearing.
No matter, I was just trying to be funny. His expression reminds of the overweight kid that really doesn’t trust the popular jock, a guy that always mocked him, trying to befriend him. ‘He’s not going to bring up the time I bent over and split my gym shorts, is he?!’
Don’t worry, demented Trump will resurface. Trump tricked me a few times… he is a very very good liar, better than either Clinton.
But this calm act is hard for him to maintain.
I genuinely believe Trump is either a sociopath or he’s just plain scam artist or he’s a lunatic.
In any case, remember him making fun of the disabled reporter he had been on first name basis with for 25 years! That is the real Trump.
Contrast and compare. I see a lunatic. Sociopath? Not a President.
So you should have shared that on twitter last night.
FreeChrisChristie was trending. It was hilarious.
No I don’t feel sorry for him, and yes he does deserve just what he is getting. He will be left in a shell of a GOP if Trump wins… more power for him in an organization going no where.
Christie cost us two elections now, no sympathy.
I was unimpressed.
And the twitter trend was great! So I was not alone.
I’ve been reading Adams’ posts on Trump this week. It’s been nice to read clear-headed analyses of the Trump phenomenon, rather than the usual freakouts.
Yes. I can’t see how he could look any other way in that situation. He knows he’s lost his chance at the presidency for good.
It reminds me of that famous scene in Citizen Kane when Kane is signing away a substantial portion of his empire. He walks into the background and becomes smaller and smaller, eventually being dwarfed beneath the lower sills of huge windows.
Chris Christie has sold his soul.
Remember how Christy hammered Rubio for not voting in the senate? Turns out the hypocrite was only in NJ 100 days last year.
He is the worst thing to happen to the GOP in 2012 and 2016. I hope he slinks away to political oblivion.