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Author dies after diagnosing himself with ‘Post-Trump Stress Disorder’
The Washington Times ^ | November 25, 2016 | Andrew Blake

Posted on 11/25/2016 10:29:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Acclaimed author Jeff Gillenkirk died of a heart attack this week, two days after publication of his final article, “The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder.”

Gillenkirk, 67, suffered the heart attack Tuesday while teaching a class of third-graders in San Francisco, Alternet reported.

Mr. Gillenkirk, an Alternet contributor and onetime speechwriter for former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, wrote in his final article of the severe anxiety he and others have experienced in the aftermath of Donald Trump being elected president — “a painful, sad irony,” said Alternet’s executive editor, Don Hazen.

“Anguishing yet again over election results in the middle of the night, I finally realized I’m experiencing something similar to PTSD,” reads Mr. Gillenkirk’s article, which was published Sunday. “Triggered by the election, to the most powerful office in the world, of a man who’s espoused wholesale exclusion of Muslim immigrants, deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, repealing Roe v. Wade, abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency and encouraging Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons, among other polarizing proposals....

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Health/Medicine; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alternet; democrats; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Toodle-oo.


21 posted on 11/25/2016 10:45:26 AM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

22 posted on 11/25/2016 10:46:31 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Moltke

I like the way you’ve already called the 2020 election for Trump.


23 posted on 11/25/2016 10:46:41 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lie then die. That’s a shame.


24 posted on 11/25/2016 10:46:58 AM PST by Lent
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Those poor 3rd graders having to listen to his last rant.

Pray America woke


25 posted on 11/25/2016 10:48:55 AM PST by bray (The Silent Majority ROARED)
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To: Texas Eagle

No-brainer!

(OK, early days, let’s see how the first 100 days go, and take it from there. Nah, make that the first 10 days...)


26 posted on 11/25/2016 10:52:59 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

exactly. and if he worried himself to death, well, too bad for him. Sad.


27 posted on 11/25/2016 10:53:22 AM PST by visualops (WooHoo Trump Train! Get on board or get out of the way!)
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To: bray

Know what I find funny about this? If Carson won they would be saying the same thing about him.


28 posted on 11/25/2016 10:54:42 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Best election ever.)
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To: Mears

Very Naughty,yes indeedy!


29 posted on 11/25/2016 10:55:33 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That was my first thought also, lots of ‘good’ people die everyday, much less this deceived man,

He witnessed the equivalent of his ‘god’ that ‘power and principality’ the demonic obamastate being cast down to the Earth, that’s what is really causing their angst,

Like how those North Koreans reacted falling in the streets and prostrate on the statute of the dear leader some years back,

This kind of reaction is also just one more fulfillment of Bible prophecy,

“Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” Luke 21:26


30 posted on 11/25/2016 10:55:54 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: bigbob

You give me too much credit.


31 posted on 11/25/2016 10:58:52 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Still not tired of winning....


32 posted on 11/25/2016 11:00:39 AM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Donald J Trump 45th President of the United States !MAGA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The left has created for itself a false image of Trump, and forced itself to believe it. The left was never very much in touch with reality anyway.
Will Trump be accused of murder?


33 posted on 11/25/2016 11:00:58 AM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
a class of third-graders

I.e., his peers.

34 posted on 11/25/2016 11:09:50 AM PST by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Gillenkirk, 67, suffered the heart attack Tuesday while teaching a class of third-graders in San Francisco"

Sounds like the third-graders did him in. Maybe he should have used a teleprompter like Obama to ease the stress of speaking to grammar school kids.

35 posted on 11/25/2016 11:15:57 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: rlmorel
This guy was teaching elementary school kids? How sad is that?

How great it is that he isn't teaching elementary kids anymore. The world will be just a little better place without him.

36 posted on 11/25/2016 11:16:00 AM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One down.


37 posted on 11/25/2016 11:22:40 AM PST by Pravious
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Zig Ziglar died in 2012 - some blamed it on Obama winning a 2nd term.

Who knows how many deranged fools on the left will die over their inability to accept reality?


38 posted on 11/25/2016 11:25:17 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I say with complete confidence that anyone who worked for Mario Cuomo, a lying, murdering blasphemer, improved the world by dying.


39 posted on 11/25/2016 11:25:52 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He was being oh, so, clever diagnosing his “PTSD” he failed to et his butt to an ER. Joke’s on you, butthead.


40 posted on 11/25/2016 11:27:09 AM PST by EDINVA
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