I’m waiting for a driver’s permit test taker and I’ve seen the same TSN hockey highlight 5 times. Not so insta today. 🤣 I must say the comedic part of Twitter is A+++
The physical part of being an elite athlete in sport is nothing compared to the psychological component. Anyone who doesn’t know this has never trained 30+ hours a week, sacrificing diet, education, social activities, and career for years to compete with the upper echelon.
The strive for perfection is exhausting. The lows are far more numerous than the highs.
My own personal experience, and that with young elite athletes I coached and parented, is that absolutely no one can put more pressure on them than they put on themselves. They need support.
It’s complete lunacy to expect the best in the world to stay on their A game for extended periods of time without falter. Sure a few do it but it’s much more the exception than the rule. For every star there are millions who trained just as hard as the best but never “made it.”
“Months before the election... “We could see the disinformation really taking hold, this idea that the only way President Trump could lose is if the election were rigged””
While I warned it was happening in a ‘20 thread, given access we could have warned about the extensive grooming that takes place before a narcissistic psychopath discards. Like any target/victim, in this case the election, they are discredited as unreliable, unworthy and unstable
Grooming is essential to get enablers/bystanders to buy into the magnitude of the subversion/wrongdoing. The previous relationship (here with democracy) is to be ignored. It was unfaithful, unworthy, and the exploiter treated “unfairly” so any compensatory behavior is justified.
In Biden’s first press conference will he make a mistake, misspeak, misrepresent or God forbid stumble? Maybe.
What Biden won’t do because he’s not a narcissistic psychopath:
• Deliberately and serially lie
•Fabricate
• Hiss like a reptilian creature.
• Call reporters “fake news” “enemies of the people” “losers” “nasty”
• Mock a disabled reporter
• Tell female journalists of color they ask stupid questions when he’s held to account
• Revoke press credentials as retribution for tough questions
• Discredit his experts
• Demean world leaders
• Discredit international organizations
• Use racial epithets like “Kung flu” or “Pocahontas”
• Threaten to destroy Canada’s economy
• Suggest injecting bleach as a Covid treatment
• play self congratulatory propaganda videos
• Walk out abruptly
After Hurricane Katrina, an O’Reilly Fox News fill-in tried to say the quick response by the “leftist” Canadian government to send supplies by ship was done just to embarrass the US/Bush. What kind of depraved manipulators think providing humanitarian aid is done to embarrass?
This is the low to which narcissistic/psychopathic manipulators go to deflect from accountability for their incompetence/wrongdoing. For decades Fox News has exhibited attitudes, traits & psychological manipulative tactics for power & control, consistent with exploitive pathology
Texas is paying for the GOP lies, manipulations, & exploitation through pain, suffering & lives of another catastrophe where preventable measures were ignored. Then we’re all supposed to pay for the exploitation of the GOP through taxes, insurance premiums and charitable giving?
Fascinating
Captivating
Insulting
Maneuvering
Insulting
Threatening
Outrageous
Attention-seeking
Divisive
Abusive
Co-dependent
Baiting
Unhinged
These traits listed in a single article represent narcissistic-antisocial-psychopathic pathology that were ignored and enabled...
for 5 years.
Mental health care we were talking about Trump’s pathology well before the 2016 primaries. Where was the discussion of his aberrant behavior then?
Interviews with psychiatrists and psychologists?
Many people are dead now because of Trump’s psychopathology.
Every day feels like this dystopian game of Russian Roulette that we never wanted to play. I want to stop asking my husband, “How many Covid patients did you treat today?” like our lives are a constant gamble of chance against the brainwashed spread of disinformation and death.
We trained at one of the top transplant centers in the nation so I’m well aware how easily, despite everyone’s best intentions and precautions, sometimes an opportunistic infection can’t be stopped.
I want to stop calculating the odds he/we at least outlast the narcissism and ignorance of this administration and Trumpers going to bars, restaurants, and parties, until the competency and humanity of Biden and Harris, until a vaccine?