On so many issues. It’s obvious he’s bought and paid for.

Agree it has to be payoff, because he committed career suicide.

We need to keep fighting the magats as best we can and not let up! No more going high when they go low.

... "When they go low, we go high" was not her best moment. But then, that was probably her speech writer's contribution. If we're talking lofty principles of statecraft, sure, but when we're in a do-or-die battle with psychopaths, and trying to survive in a blood puddle, as we are now, sound bites won't save us.

I love and admire her too, but that's one line in her speech she should have crossed out.

And she did not cost us anything.

I would imagine in the smoke-filled back rooms of the Reich Wing strategists, they were laughing their collective asses off at us for, ONCE AGAIN, bringing a butter knife to a gun fight. They knew they could get away with almost anything. The current level of corruption proves that point.

I think that comment costed us A LOT. But most of it, like Doturds corruption, remained unseen.
I'm only speculating, of course, but I don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine what the fascists thought and how they proceeded.

That was the day "we lost", to be honest.

... was disappointed with the decision not to at least pursue investigating Dubya's and Cheney's crimes. "Backwards" is the only way you can look when assessing whether or not something that has already happened is, in fact, a crime.
But, as I recall, that issue arose early in his first term, and going up against the monolithic Republican establishment might have been one of those "choose your battles wisely" moments. But we are still living with the consequences of letting those fuckers strut off into the sunset without being held to account for their blatant transgressions.
That can't be allowed to happen this time, no matter how much the senior citizens in Congress might waffle. And, being a senior citizen myself, I'm entitled to make that observation. So there.

do you immediately create a fight with your own Speaker of the House, during an economic meltdown?

Look, we agree on the fact that W and Cheney should have been fully investigated, same with Reagan/Bush I team.

We can't make that mistake again. But if Jeffries comes out in November of '26 and states we need to look forward, then the problem originates with Jeffries.

I'm done.

A perfect example of the risks is the Republicans Southern Strategy and we are now seeing how much it's transformed them into an almost cult like party.

Oh, they're mad like we are. Polis would rather appease PEDO than be Honored by Dems.

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters.

Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events.

90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

— Kyle Clark (@kylec.bsky.social) 2026-05-21T02:29:49.469Z

Peters was an operative in a campaign to reverse engineer voting systems. This happened in multiple jurisdictions as a highly coordinated effort and it culminated in August 2024 with Trump declaring that Musk knows more about the "vote counting computers" than anybody else alive. And in particular, the ESS DS300 which is used in thousands of polling places in the 7 swing states. Perhaps she was just a cog, a very stupid cog, in the big wheel. But what she did was treasonous. And pardoning her is equally treasonous.

The Verdict was Not "too severe"...

Are they kidding us, right now! JHC.

Freaking Gaslighting.

for pointing out these facts.

There is only one plausible reason for getting access to those election machines, and that is to reverse engineer.

And there is only one plausible reason for reverse engineering the election systems, and that is because of desire to tamper with them.

That much is obvious, that Trump wanted to tamper with the machines, that he organized people to break laws to get reverse engineering information, and did so in a persistent multi-location campaign. The only thing we don't know for sure is whether they were successful. Analysis of extreme variances in certain precincts in ALL SEVEN SWING STATES AND NOWHERE ELSE suggests very strongly that they WERE successful in this effort. Yet, given all of that, some people here remain in deep denial.

Can't? Then that's why Polis deserves this.

Investigate his ass for quid pro quo.

Good for the Dems to do this now before it goes one step further.

S

bad choice. He also was a centrist No Labels Problem Solvers Caucus member in the US House. Being a member of that bi-partisan group is always a huge red flag for me.

That group (No Labels was led for years by woeful Joe Lieberman) is far too often a force for bad outcomes/votes/stances/blockage against the vast majority of other Democrats, whether they are in the House or, in some cases, have moved on to higher office, like Polis or Sinema (ex US Senate) or now, far too often, Jacky Rosen (NV US Senator who has had multiple bad bad votes), etc.

Manchin and Sinema from the Senate worked/coordinated with the Problem Solvers (led for years by the oh-so-problematic Josh Gottheimer in the House) to block all but $987 billion out of $6.1 trillion of new spend in President Biden's 2 giant infrastructure bill frameworks during the first 2 years of Biden's first term. An 84 per cent destructive reduction in new spend.

So many vital programmes were either completely torn out or massively gutted. The already profoundly reduced human infrastructure BBB bill was then completely destroyed by Manchin in the Senate (the IRA that passed later was a pale imitation). Those wrecker/slash-and-burn actions played a major role in us losing the POTUS election in 2024.

I mean we finally had one behind bar's for voter fraud...the one thing they yell and scream about...
Proof that it was not us committing fraud...but just more projection from the acolytes of DFT(donald fucking t-rump).
And my Gov. let's her go. This is the kind of self defeating shit that Dem=s have got to stop.

Polis was always a libertarian and used the party to win his position. He is very wealthy and kind of exposed himself during the pandemic. It seems like the wildfire relief funds from FEMA were finally approved but the price is extremely high and not what I voted for. Polis doesn’t care about anyone. I keep saying that if he truly believes what he was saying why did he wait to do this during the legislative session? We all know the answer which speaks to his grift and cowardice.

This was pretty swift. Openly condemning this and censuring a governor of the same party shows how fed up the party is with him.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he just becomes an independent at this point. Either that or he stays as a Dem and basically acts like Fetterman bashing the party the entire time for hurting his fee fees.

We always end up with these sell out grifters right when we need unity the most.

Jena went before the Supreme Court arguing to keep Trump off the ballot because of January 6. She is now fighting to keep our mail ballots! She is a champion and amazing, brilliant and well-spoken with a steel spine! She fought to keep Peters in prison.

The governor had plenty of time to come up with a defense for his decision. The fact that he pitched transparent nonsense points to an awkward conclusion.

Colorado’s Jared Polis had plenty of time to come up with a coherent defense for his Tina Peters decision.

The fact that he pitched transparent nonsense suggests that he really did succumb to Trump’s extortion efforts, but he’s reluctant to say so.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-05-18T19:41:34.610Z

Not the type of leadership that inspires Democratic voters. Very enervating.

Fuck Tina Peters and fuck Trump!