General Discussion

In the mid 90s or so, I was driving in the fast lane on Highway 101 in Silicon Valley. Somewhat out of nowhere, I became a little disoriented, I was having trouble breathing, light-headed...

...I pulled the car to the shoulder of the road. There wasn't really any option as the next off-ramp was a couple of miles down the road and I was convinced that I was going to pass out. It wasn't the safest thing to do, but God Bless California's infrastructure. The shoulder was wide enough that I wouldn't want to set up a picnic there, but I could take a time out.

I'll cut to the chase. That was the day my doctor welcomed me to the world of Panic / Anxiety Attacks.

Symptoms are pretty close to a heart attack. But the INTERESTING THING is that (for me, anyway) they aren't triggered by an immediately identifiable event. An apt metaphor is a glass that is filled one drop of water at a time. Eventually, there will be one drop too many that causes the glass to spill. That's how anxiety attacks happen...residual stress and anxiety build up until you physically shut down.

Trump's pathology is such that let's say "TACO" runs its course in another month. A month after that, he could be sitting there. WITHOUT AN IMMEDIATE TRIGGER IN THE MOMENT, he could just find himself angered because he never punished America (and the world) for "TACO." And, he could do something dangerous.

Sometimes Trump telegraphs his punches. Sometimes, being a toddler with no "off" switch, he just does something dangerous and stupid. And we never know which Trump we're going to get on any day of the week.