Mark Elevate

Colorado dad, elite athlete, real estate, and intelligent politics.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@BillBrasky_SOB @HugoTheCat3 @jangelooff "sunny or cloudy" is the same as "the reporter had to leave her stuff because she was injured by violent leftists"

Yeah you're the smart one.

I'm pointing out that AP, as always, downplays the leftist violence even when their own people are hurt.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

Getting away from a narcissist is extremely difficult.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

Anyone who has ever extracted themselves from a relationship with a narcissistic abuser knows it isn’t clean or easy.

I cringe remembering how many times I tried to play the “cool girl” or fawn in response to what was clearly abusive, coercively controlling behavior by Graham.

I also know how dangerous it is to become the target of a narcissist — so even long after our relationship ended I continued to be upbeat any time he reached out, though I would also immediately shut down any attempts on his part to initiate flirting or romanticizing of the past.

Yes, the day I saw him announce he was running I wanted to make sure people knew he had a Nazi tattoo — and I was terrified he would find out it was me.

But of course he knew it was me.

What’s ironic is I absolutely never would have shared my story if he hadn’t been relentlessly attacking my character behind the scenes for months once the tattoo story came out.

I tried to signal that I wasn’t the source and stayed completely silent about him on social media even as most of my friends posted regularly about what a bad person he is.

But then in early April the New York Times came to me. I asked how they got my number. I said I was not interested in sharing my story. They said but wait—there are other women. Women terrified to tell their stories, too, and you need to band together. WE will help you. We will protect you. Men can’t keep getting away with this.

Hours before their first call to me I saw Eric Swalwell’s name plate get removed from his office door in Cannon. It felt like fate.

I welcomed the two journalists into my home days later, nervous and overwhelmed. Justin Fairfax had just murdered his wife and himself the previous day and even conservative pundits were conjecturing that “if only those women hadn’t accused him of abuse, this never would have happened…”

But I told them my story. I let them take pictures of my diary pages. I sent them screenshots of messages and gave them phone numbers and contacts. It was excruciating. I was surprised by what details I remembered, and as I poured through old messages I was horrified by how much I had forgotten.

I explained very clearly that, like many women abused by their partners, I had not told anyone about his violence at the time—I had covered for and defended it. I accepted his earnest apologies. They said that’s fine because the diary entries and my on the record story was enough.

They connected me to two of the other victims so we wouldn’t feel so alone. I insisted to each of them that I trusted the NYT journalists and that we were doing the right thing despite their (sadly very accurate) sense that something was wrong.

One of the victims and I realized our relationships with Graham overlapped completely - he had been cheating on both of us the entire time we were together.

I should note here that my life is just… beautiful. These are the best years of my life. Raising two young girls in a safe, beautiful neighborhood where I work from home and shuffle my children from dance classes and soccer to church events — I am blessed far beyond what I deserve with wonderful friends and family and the most loving, brilliant husband in the world. Why would I blow my life up like this? Why would I risk the psychotic doxxing from violent leftist activists?

Because while I have been terrified to come forward I decided this was the “hard right thing” to do. The guilt of staying silent has nagged me.

Most therapists recommend a “gray rock” approach to extracting yourself from narcissistic abuse — it works really well, but it is a gift to the abuser, allowing them to persist in their delusion that they’ve done nothing wrong.

I couldn’t stay silent as he continued to lie and lie and lie. I want my daughters to boldly speak out if they’re ever abused as I was.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@jarvis_best But not in a cannibalistic way

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@HugoTheCat3 @jangelooff The bag was unattended because she got injured by leftist violence.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@HugoTheCat3 @jangelooff Two things can be bad at once.

Cops shouldn't steal. This cop should be punished.

The AP shouldn't gloss over leftist violence.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@Mark___Taylor Because when you deliver, then you show up and he wants to haggle again, and you've already spent the time and hassle to get there, so this time you give in and give him a reduced price.

Or you don't, and you leave, and you wasted all that time. He doesn't care either way.

[Chief Steven Sund @ChiefSund]

I made 13 separate requests for outside support, beginning on January 3. Every request was denied until 2:09 p.m. on 1/6, when then-@SpeakerPelosi’s Sergeant at Arms finally approved assistance.
Two minutes later, the first Capitol window was broken.
The next day, Speaker Pelosi went on national television, singled me out by name, and forced me from my position.😡

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@matthew_gream @DarkfireCapital You're the good guy here for sure.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@badboy4739 @ExxAlerts When I find him, I'm gonna make sure they get those 5,000 gold coins back too

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨 do you understand what happened to Chutou..

A border collie with 1.5 million followers was stolen off his family's farmland while his owner was traveling abroad.

He was sold to a dog meat restaurant for $27, killed, and eaten before anyone could find him.

- Chutou was an 8-year-old border collie famous for joining his owner on years of journeys across China
- Security footage caught two strangers hauling him away on an electric bike
- He was wearing both a collar and a GPS tracker when he was taken
- The owner offered $1,500 to get him back - the thief had already sold him for $27

One man's most loyal companion became a $27 meal, and in China that broke no law.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@ClayinVA @JfkPascalNajadX I considered that and it makes sense.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@MichaelGuimarin @jayrowens Well, other than that it's too good of a story to be true, for a pre nup to hold up, both parties must be fully informed.

Her not disclosing assets could lead to a judge tossing the agreement.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

This is justice in a blue state (New York).

State Trooper Christopher Baldner pulls over a family SUV for speeding on the Thruway.

Driver Tristin Goods refuses to show ID and escalates the stop. Trooper uses pepper spray.

Driver floors it and flees at high speed.
Trooper follows training and uses pit maneuver to ram the vehicle and stop the threat.

The SUV crashes. Goods’ own 11-year-old daughter Monica is tragically killed.

Result?

Trooper Baldner was just sentenced to ~7 years in prison for manslaughter.

The father - who caused the deadly chase - walks free after claiming he was “scared for his life.”

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

Wishing a Joyous Killdozer Day to those who celebrate.

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

We made a huge mistake by not funding ICE and CBP in January.

We NEVER should have funded the Democrats’ thousands of earmarks without funding ALL of homeland security.

It is time to fund ICE and CBP NOW!

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@DaLonelySkeptic @WarMonitor3 So quick to jump to accusations of terrorism!

It could have been climate change

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@LeeMerrittesq You forgot to call him Melo.

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@erocnomeDehT @Grunt2A Aim high

[Mark Elevate @mark_elevate]

@therealdvincent @RedWavePress That would be clean but unlikely.

But there is no way they let Spencer Pratt hammer her for months.