'President Trump said Tuesday he was appointing Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte currently serves as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, which supports mortgage markets. His biography on the FHFA site lists career experience in housing and philanthropy, but none in intelligence.
'Trump made the announcement in a social media post, listing Pulte's qualifications for the role as someone with "deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago."'
And that has anything to do with the duties of the DNI... how?!?
Fuck Polis with a barbed wire politically correct butt plug
’cuz copying the operational codes of election software and giving it to people willing to alter that code in order to engage in and facilitate election tabulation manipulation isn’t poisonous to democracy, rather it is simply a matter of free speech.
An overthrown democracy is an overthrown democracy.
It is fucking irrelevant if it was done by a first time offender or a lifetime serial criminal.
Polis is indicative, symbolic of, representative of a Traditional blue dog Dem Party mindset of capitulation, appeasement, and insipidness.
When CEPN was active, advocating for electronic election security, we ran into this thinking from blue dawgs a lot.
It's quite normal for Judges to consider an offenders expression of remorse and/or acceptance of responsibility in sentencing. Not least of all because an appropriate sentence is supposed to discourage re-offending.
I wish I could say I was surprised at what Polis did, but honestly, I'm not. This is what centrist Democrats *do*. Polis is merely the latest in a long line of centrist Democrats that turned victories into defeats in their self-appointed role of dictating to America just how far it is allowed to progress and how many wealthy, powerful people's feathers are allowed to be ruffled.
At worst, I'm just galled by the inevitable smugness from them, in their surety that *they* are the smartest people in the room and the rest of us peasants don't actually know what we want.
It used to be that, back in the '70s say, my main source for dramatic, scripted fake displays of stupidity on TV was the WWF wrestling nonsense I watched on Saturday mornings. We'd get thoroughly baked, and laugh at those clowns, and then get bored, and wander off to listen to or play music.
It seems to me that the same crowd that's into WWF (or whatever it is now) is also into the online nuts like Bannon, Hannity, etc etc. Same scripted overdone drama. I just found this, about the WWF:
"In the 1980s, Vince McMahon began discretely lobbying various state governments to recognize professional wrestling as a non-sport so that his promotion, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), could be exempted from sports licensing fees and health-and-safety oversight. In 1985, McMahon rebranded the World Wrestling Federation as a "sports entertainment" company. In 1985, he testified in a lawsuit that professional wrestling is rigged."
Huh. "sports entertainment" company....he testified in a lawsuit that professional wrestling is rigged."
Sounds like FOX. "News entertainment"
Nothing profound, I suppose. Just interesting similarities.
So this, from Jared's Substack, is intended to help explain his decision to release the Peters:
>>The hardest clemency decision I ever made wasn’t Tina Peters. It was commuting the sentences of Colorado’s remaining death row inmates to life without parole after I signed legislation abolishing the death penalty. One conversation in particular has stayed with me. I sat across from a mother whose son had been murdered and listened as she shared her grief, her memories, and her belief that the person responsible should remain on death row.
And then I had to tell her that I was going to commute his sentence.<<
Yes, Jared. You were going to commute his sentence to LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. That to me is a distinction without a difference. Yay for you for abolishing the death penalty, but why was the decision to tell the mother that you were commuting the sentence such a hard one? The aforementioned person responsible will still remain on death row and will die in prison (hence, "life without parole"). You ultimately decided that, in spite of what you rationalized when releasing Tina Peters that, in this case, the punishment still fit the crime. That's not clemency; that's just rearranging the deck chairs.
“i’m sorry, ma’am, but the state will not be murdering your son’s murderer right back. instead we’ll be confining him in frankly shocking conditions until such time as nature, howsoever accelerated by those conditions, does it for us”
but the election interferer can just go home, sure
The "best" part of this will be when Drumpf fucks over Colorado *anyway*, the first chance he gets (well, second, if you include the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act). But why should Polis care? He can Scrooge McDuck swim in his half a billion while Fettermanchima-ing Democrats for the rest of his life.
Not shown in the hed image is Bugs Bunny standing and holding a cue card with picture of a screw and a ball on it.
It's strongly implied though.
India three down in the T20 at Taunton but Jemimah* and Harmanpreet are rebuilding. 94-3 after ten.
*Bonus point for anyone who can pronounce it correctly.
Jem Emma
"Political prisoner?"
More like a political poisoner.
Political parasite can do in a pinch.
"Just a little pin-prick."
She's a prisoner of her own politics.
I'm sure centrist Democrats are generally In favor of democracy, but this shows how they're not truly committed to it.
OT: What the what?!?
'Trump appoints housing official as acting director of national intelligence'
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844221/trump-appoints-housing-official-as-acting-director-of-national-intelligence
'President Trump said Tuesday he was appointing Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte currently serves as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, which supports mortgage markets. His biography on the FHFA site lists career experience in housing and philanthropy, but none in intelligence.
'Trump made the announcement in a social media post, listing Pulte's qualifications for the role as someone with "deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago."'
And that has anything to do with the duties of the DNI... how?!?
He’s screwed over so many people that he’s running out of people to screw.
The weaponization continues apace.
He must be pretty good at golf.
𝐃o
𝐍ot
𝐈nvestigate
Director of National Idiocy
Better.
Expertise is going out of style. And we wonder why so many things are turning to shite.
^^^^^^^^^^
We're talking about a class of people who never experience the consequences of failure and so end up thinking anyone can do any job.
"And that has anything to do with the duties of the DNI... how?!?"
Pulte is a sycophant of the highest order. And consolidating things among a few people gives them more control.
Yay.
What is the filter they're using called, Uncanny Valley?
Rancid Mayo.
Is she still eligible to run again for Mesa County Clerk?
Oh Hell no.
Fuck Polis with a barbed wire politically correct butt plug
’cuz copying the operational codes of election software and giving it to people willing to alter that code in order to engage in and facilitate election tabulation manipulation isn’t poisonous to democracy, rather it is simply a matter of free speech.
An overthrown democracy is an overthrown democracy.
It is fucking irrelevant if it was done by a first time offender or a lifetime serial criminal.
Polis is indicative, symbolic of, representative of a Traditional blue dog Dem Party mindset of capitulation, appeasement, and insipidness.
When CEPN was active, advocating for electronic election security, we ran into this thinking from blue dawgs a lot.
So they bring out THE OZHOLE to answer questions about Pulte
Jeremy Schulman at Mother Jones had his own look at the matter:
"Jared Polis Did the Right Thing"
Election denier Tina Peters committed serious crimes, but her prison sentence was too harsh.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/jared-polis-tina-peters-commutation-clemency-trump/
“𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 [𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭] 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴,” 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 [𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭] 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 ‘𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨.’”
𝘐𝘯 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴, 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘧𝘴.
He is, of course, getting ripped in the comments there.
(It should be kept in mind that Peters was NOT pardoned; her sentence was just commuted - it was reduced and she was released ON PAROLE.)
She's a violent felon; she will be back in jail soon. She's assaulted police prior to her trial and at least one inmate while she was incarcerated.
I strongly suspect anyone confronting her on the street about her shit will get assaulted.
Counterpoint (to him).
It's quite normal for Judges to consider an offenders expression of remorse and/or acceptance of responsibility in sentencing. Not least of all because an appropriate sentence is supposed to discourage re-offending.
I wish I could say I was surprised at what Polis did, but honestly, I'm not. This is what centrist Democrats *do*. Polis is merely the latest in a long line of centrist Democrats that turned victories into defeats in their self-appointed role of dictating to America just how far it is allowed to progress and how many wealthy, powerful people's feathers are allowed to be ruffled.
At worst, I'm just galled by the inevitable smugness from them, in their surety that *they* are the smartest people in the room and the rest of us peasants don't actually know what we want.
They just encourage more from these cretins. How bad will it have to get before they wake up? How much worse can we stand as a nation?
Their smarminess is REALLY annoying, though.
In most democratic countries, convicted felons are allowed to vote, in some countries even while they're still in prison.
The one exception they make are conviction for crimes involving attempting to overthrow the democratic will of the people.
Just thought I'd mention that.
I saw a case -- I think it was in Norway -- where a politician even made a campaign stop at a prison to try to win support.
That's a good idea
It used to be that, back in the '70s say, my main source for dramatic, scripted fake displays of stupidity on TV was the WWF wrestling nonsense I watched on Saturday mornings. We'd get thoroughly baked, and laugh at those clowns, and then get bored, and wander off to listen to or play music.
It seems to me that the same crowd that's into WWF (or whatever it is now) is also into the online nuts like Bannon, Hannity, etc etc. Same scripted overdone drama. I just found this, about the WWF:
"In the 1980s, Vince McMahon began discretely lobbying various state governments to recognize professional wrestling as a non-sport so that his promotion, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), could be exempted from sports licensing fees and health-and-safety oversight. In 1985, McMahon rebranded the World Wrestling Federation as a "sports entertainment" company. In 1985, he testified in a lawsuit that professional wrestling is rigged."
Huh. "sports entertainment" company....he testified in a lawsuit that professional wrestling is rigged."
Sounds like FOX. "News entertainment"
Nothing profound, I suppose. Just interesting similarities.
Uh, I am a pro wrestling aficionado
That is not a problem.
I thought if you were a real MAGA, you got a tear tat every time you tried to overthrow democracy.
Yeah, where is her tear drop tat?
I mean , Peter eater Navarro got one
Nah, botox injection for every coup attempt
So this, from Jared's Substack, is intended to help explain his decision to release the Peters:
>>The hardest clemency decision I ever made wasn’t Tina Peters. It was commuting the sentences of Colorado’s remaining death row inmates to life without parole after I signed legislation abolishing the death penalty. One conversation in particular has stayed with me. I sat across from a mother whose son had been murdered and listened as she shared her grief, her memories, and her belief that the person responsible should remain on death row.
And then I had to tell her that I was going to commute his sentence.<<
Yes, Jared. You were going to commute his sentence to LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE. That to me is a distinction without a difference. Yay for you for abolishing the death penalty, but why was the decision to tell the mother that you were commuting the sentence such a hard one? The aforementioned person responsible will still remain on death row and will die in prison (hence, "life without parole"). You ultimately decided that, in spite of what you rationalized when releasing Tina Peters that, in this case, the punishment still fit the crime. That's not clemency; that's just rearranging the deck chairs.
A judicial system which allows the victim’s family to decide sentences is not a good system.
Tina Peters arguably committed a worse crime than the murderer did.
She tried to murder an entire nation.
“i’m sorry, ma’am, but the state will not be murdering your son’s murderer right back. instead we’ll be confining him in frankly shocking conditions until such time as nature, howsoever accelerated by those conditions, does it for us”
but the election interferer can just go home, sure
The "best" part of this will be when Drumpf fucks over Colorado *anyway*, the first chance he gets (well, second, if you include the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act). But why should Polis care? He can Scrooge McDuck swim in his half a billion while Fettermanchima-ing Democrats for the rest of his life.