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Rhiannon12866

(258,648 posts)
Sun May 17, 2026, 04:55 AM 1 hr ago

'A dangerous precedent': CO Gov. Polis grants clemency to convicted 2020 election denier - The Weekend - MS NOW



Colorado Governor Jared Polis is cutting the prison sentence of 2020 election denier Tina Peters, a former county clerk and Trump ally who was convicted of helping breach her own county’s voting machines.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold joins The Weekend to discuss. - Aired on 05/16/2026.

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'A dangerous precedent': CO Gov. Polis grants clemency to convicted 2020 election denier - The Weekend - MS NOW (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 1 hr ago OP
K&R jfz9580m 1 hr ago #1
Yikes! I sure hope not! Rhiannon12866 1 hr ago #2
I have a sense of how DUers "sound" jfz9580m 19 min ago #3
Thanks so much for the detailed explanation. Rhiannon12866 3 min ago #4

jfz9580m

(17,808 posts)
1. K&R
Sun May 17, 2026, 05:00 AM
1 hr ago

I think that is okay. You are a cool woman Rhiannon12866 . Though I think bots are in the feed between you and I.

Rhiannon12866

(258,648 posts)
2. Yikes! I sure hope not!
Sun May 17, 2026, 05:03 AM
1 hr ago

And I'm very careful what I post, I tend to stick with the same sources, those that are newsworthy or those that offer humor which we certainly need right now!

jfz9580m

(17,808 posts)
3. I have a sense of how DUers "sound"
Sun May 17, 2026, 05:45 AM
19 min ago

Many of you whom I have read over the years feel a certain way in my head. As a recluse who rarely meets people irl I suppose I automatically flag (I only just realized it recently) it when someone feels different.

I am a fan of text based verification. Just handing more and more over to those greedy and inept tech turds. Bah.

But I am changing with age and information. I don’t sound the same all the time these days.

I have good days and bad days - but on both I hope good science and sanity prevail. Ms. Thunberg kept is simple “Trust Science”.

I use this forum because I trust specifically EarlG and elad. But sometimes I get annoyed thinking the type of person I am gearing up to file allegations pf professional misconduct against is in between. What is this bullshit hatting when that is causing half the crises.

I think way too much about a field called cryptography and I am furious because these guys cause all these crises with their sleazy ways and then one has to run around trying to work out the perspective on security by these guys who keep wanting to monetize things.


You seem camouflaged as a peacemaker . I thought Snowden was a dirtbag and Trump’s idiotic war on the SPLC is so sleazy.


I am a warmonger! No..I am joking because I could not pull off full out war. But grim unmonetizable humor is my purview.

I was never very good at communication or deception. But the truth and reality will work out in the end. Not herding and brute force.

Did you ever watch Unbreakable Kimmy. Good show.
Lol..

I have no idea if that translated. Anyway in my generally deranged trail I rant a lot and delete it.
I rarely talk to people I would dislike. But my compass got broken in repeatedly doing this hell math with more and more people all with their own insecurities, bullshit non priorities that evade ecological crises and war or address them in ways I think will probably not help war victims or the planet.
And I am not all sensible or centrist

But I tune out people who are awful to me personally so..yeah..
You are nice. I like that
it is not as if I am in the market for more common compunction and civility and I have no patience anymore. They can all suck it up as I did.
I carefully select who I talk to now. After making one final mistake yesterday.

Eugenics (the real not imaginary) kind seems to select for the asshole gene.

Rhiannon12866

(258,648 posts)
4. Thanks so much for the detailed explanation.
Sun May 17, 2026, 06:00 AM
3 min ago

And of course I'm nice, otherwise I wouldn't still be here. I learned an important lesson back in 2004, I think. I told off what I later found out was a disrupter and though he was banned, I got my first and only deleted post. Obviously that stuck with me.

Then I became an LBN mod (back when mods were responsible for different forums, though the GD mods sometimes asked for help). Then I became a general DU.2 mod until we moved to DU.3 where we had both hosts and MIRT like we do now and I've done both.

So I try to set an example, like anyone pays attention to me. But I try to post both important news and whatever humor I can find. We sure need it now more than ever and fortunately Saturday Night Live was on tonight.

And of course I'm aware of Jimmy Kimmel. Until this week my fellow host, TexasTowelie, posted Jimmy Kimmel and I posted Colbert. I'm sure going to miss them both... And I like to think I've made friends here, including you.

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