Colleen Patricia

Trail running days are the best days. #runningtonotfrom

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

Run on trails! 😊 https://t.co/FhCBlNHZoH

[Mike Risley @DecideEveryDay]

@ankor_wat @SSUSAJoe May I ask your secret for running such high vol and staying injury free?

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

https://t.co/DGtGRjnPo8

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

⁦@HC_Richardson today is THE reason the media continues to act as though Trump is a regular, viable candidate. It’s CYA in case he wins. Please vote. ⁩ October 21, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson https://t.co/ackHfZsTbD

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

This

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

I’m hopeful for a day when I can run this run with my husband and my dog and not have to think about our democracy being at risk. #WeAreNotGoingBack #HarrisWalz2024

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

@HaskinsCarl @kiddstout69 @NickKnudsenUS Not that your statements are accurate, but none of that makes a difference when the republican candidate is a fascist traitor. A vote for him is a vote against democracy itself. Let’s argue about who should be president when we know we will continue to have a say in the matter!

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

My BIG TAKEAWAY from Trump's absurd press conference is that he is finally undergoing something called NARCISSISTIC MORTIFICATION. We dusted off this Freudian term back in April during his criminal trial, and it's extra-relevant today.
Narcissistic Mortification is when a narcissist like Trump crosses over to a place where he sees visions of his own demise. A malignant narcissist who once held the loftiest of titles, cannot cope with this. Trump's fears have become "dread." He is very unhinged, yet uncomfortable in the feeling itself, because he knows he's partly responsible. Reality is being forced upon him, that's not of his making. He can't have that!
To put it in more psychological terms, narcissistic mortification is EXTREME fear experienced when one with a rigidly grandiose pathology sees his sense of self as exposed, defective or inferior. It was coined by Freud in his book Moses and Monotheism. It's described there as deep injuries to ego/self, triggered by one's own compulsiveness (unforced errors -- like suggesting Putin would only release prisoners to him which set him up for embarrassment, or choosing Vance as his running mate against his better judgment, which drives him crazy daily, or repeatedly attacking the popular Georgia Governor Kemp against his own interests, because he can't control himself).
THIS is where I think he is. He's become his own worst enemy, and this conflicts with his pathology of being unable to admit fault. It's a very severe and very dissonant conflict.
Malignant narcissists need their grandiosity. For them to become exposed and weakened, is narcissistic injury - that happens. BUT - for them to become weakened to the extent of being able to visualize their own demise and know it's partly due to their own frailties - frailties they spend a lifetime avoiding and denying - this is irreconcilable. For a malignant narcissist like Trump, it's hell.
Bringing it back to the press conference, it causes him to become even more sensitized ("that was a stupid question"), to become more easily triggered (especially about "crowd size" - the symbol of his fading grandiosity - which he rambled about excessively), to use even more projection ("America" is failing, "America" is in danger means HE is failing and HE is in danger), and it has made him physically haggard (he looked gaunt and hunched over, with stiffness in his facial muscles), and finally - got disoriented (the Willie Brown/Jerry Brown helicopter story being the most pronounced example from yesterday).
Look for him to be carefully coddled by aides. They may not know the psychological terminology, but they know he's slipping away.
Narcissistic mortification is a precursor to narcissistic collapse.

[The Dangerous Ones @DangerousOnesHQ]

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We must elect Kamala Harris & Tim Walz to save democracy in America and across the globe.

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[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

Thank you @HC_Richardson for always breaking it down, in the context of history, so clearly:

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Tonight, I am proud to have earned the support needed to become our party’s nominee.

Over the next few months, I'll be traveling across the country talking to Americans about everything on the line. I fully intend to unite our party and our nation, and defeat Donald Trump.

[Kevin Bacon @kevinbacon]

Let your voice be heard. Use your vote. Check out the resources here: https://t.co/ctN4OTmTme

[David Simon @AoDespair]

I'm agnostic on whether Biden should step down. While he has clearly aged, he still seems discerning and in command of himself as a decision-maker. But that said, I will vote without hesitation for Harry Truman's head in a jar of formaldehyde over raw fascism. No problem.

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

If you are following me and not definitively voting for democracy, voting against MAGA/authoritarianism, you should unfollow me. In this election, democrat = democracy. We can talk about who should be president when we know we are still gonna have a say in it.

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

@BarrHillGin @ankor_wat Sitting on the front porch with Ruben in Lakewood, CO thinking about my home state of Vermont. Enjoying cherry tomatoes fresh from the garden, homemade poké and Barr Hill martinis. #beeskneesweek

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

I knew we’d be on our way back up by now. Not sure I would’ve guessed that it’d be led by the kids, but I love it!!!

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

@ankor_wat 😂

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

@ankor_wat In a good way, I hope. 😉

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

@AlanBaxter @jennycohn1

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

There are weeks of reading @HC_Richardson letters when I feel one day hopeful, the next day as though we are completely screwed. Moving forward, I’ll refer back to today’s letter to keep myself stable! “Building is slow, hard work.” Love it. Thank you. Read this one @ankor_wat !

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

@ankor_wat @HC_Richardson My concern is that a noisy minority can take over a country if the rational majority doesn’t take clear action to prevent it. We need a voting rights bill, or no other legislation the dems find important will last! Can someone please sign Biden up for @HC_Richardson letters?!?

[Colleen Patricia @runningtrailsCO]

When the road looks like this, does it matter which direction you go? #running