I know this video has been covered earlier, but Congressman Joe Neguse is my representative. And let me tell you, it’s a relief on many levels because previously, before redistricting, it was the corrupt and criminal (allegedly) Ken Buck, who was replaced by Hand-Job Barbie last election.
This viral moment has not been the first moment he’s shone:
He knows how to stay on message.
Colorado peeps I do have a question. I’ve been pretty unplugged, but I am wondering if there are any efforts to sway Polis to take stands like CA, IL and others have done against ICE/CBP? Occasionally, something comes across my feed that sounds like his love affair with RFK, jr, and his appeasement to trump have soured and he’s making noises like he’s actually a Democrat. But if there is a group that is pushing him to do the right things, I’d sure like to know and support them. Email me or jump in the comments, I always come back and read the entire thread.
Anyway, besides bragging on my Rep, this is an open thread
Bonus pups waiting on Trick or Treaters last night:
jerryp
That dude is awesome, TaMara!
TaMara
If off to walk the dogs. Play nice
Jackie
Joe Neguse is bad ass, and I see a bright future for him!
TaMara, your pups always brighten the moment!
Steve Paradis
Video 1 omits ID of the arsecrawler who asked that loaded question.
Josie
I love the photo of your baby looking out the window for trick or treaters. So sweet. Also, very impressed with Rep. Neguse.
WaterGirl
@Josie: I have been so impressed with him since he was part of the Democratic impeachment team.
Right now? So incredibly impressive in these 3 clips.
FastEdD
I read a FB post by a NorCal republican (Calvert) about how the shutdown was all the dem’s fault. Normally I’d get angry and depressed, but my reply was simple and enjoyable. “Say goodbye to your job next Tuesday, Motherfucker!” That was fun. Prop 50 will kick him out.
Sister Golden Bear
Teen Vogue continues it’s outstanding political coverage: Zohran Mamdani’s Advice for Election-Results Anxiety? Go Talk to Your Neighbors
Jackie
Isn’t this a little late?
azlib
The reframing was excellent.
trollhattan
@FastEdD: It ain’t much in the grand scheme but Prop 50 will be an enjoyable FU to Republicans. Our neighboring foothills twit Kiley is due to get the ol’ boot and I’m here for it.
et tu McClintock? IDK if his is one of the susceptible seats, but a guy can dream. His carpet bag would take all the rolls they have down at Carpeteria.
Jackie
Sadly, no more Reagan anti tariffs ads coming from Canada
Maybe it already served the purpose by reaching Faux viewers who tuned into the MLB playoffs and WS.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jackie: We certainly hope so.
FastEdD
@trollhattan: True that. We are getting tired of being attacked. Tired of waving signs and speechifying at city council meetings. Tuesday we can DO something and it feels good, even if it isn’t much.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: I don’t understand why he would apologize.
Scout211
Tamara, I am so happy for you and everyone in your district! Rep. Neguse is really impressive.
But I have to confess, I’m very envious.
I’m happy to be living in California but my solid red district has been represented by the odious Tom McClintock for far too many terms. We won’t get any reprieve from the redistricting, either. The new district lines will only be making our district bigger and redder. Sigh.
We red district California Democrats are determined to suck it up for the benefit of more Democrats in Washington next term, though.
You’re welcome. ;-)
Jackie
@WaterGirl:
Attempting to get FFOTUS to taco the new 25% tariff increases on Canada?
trollhattan
JUST IN CASE there was any doubt they want you, me, our kids dead sooner, behold: the reemergence of “beautiful clean coal.”
Make it stop.
mappy!
To stroke Taco’s ego.
It was a clever bit of marketing. Brilliant actually. Carney’s fingerprints aren’t on the message, but the message was delivered. A subtext is that Rs now know that they can be hammered on the issue.
Scout211
With Trump, most world leaders know that international diplomacy is performative, stroking his ego to get better results. The number of people viewing the ad and the media and social media talking about it was probably enough for him to get his point across. Apologizing to Trump was just the ego stroking part of the negotiations.
FastEdD
@Scout211: But you do get to watch McClintock lose when he runs for statewide office. I’m in a formerly blue district, now red, and Prop 50 makes ours worse too. Still, we’re working for its passage and it looks like it will.
HeleninEire
Love the Doggie pics! ❤️
Scout211
What?! He’s running for a state-wide office? Which one and when?
RevRick
@WaterGirl: I just back from a meeting of our United Church of Christ Climate Hope Affiliate and we decided to invite people on our mailing list to take up petitions in their respective faith communities to present to our two Senators, Fetterman and McCormick, and our Representative MacKenzie, defending funding of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Trump administration has proposed a 55% cut, the House, a 25% cut, and the Senate, a 5% cut. We will be backing the Senate proposal as least harmful.
The petition opens by quoting Genesis 2:15: The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to till it and keep it. The petition adds an affirmation that as people of faith who care about the environment, we want to keep the world for future generations.
Greg
And this is my senator. I have given her some grief for some things, but she is right on in this.
youtu.be/4d4JvWIX42k?si=DiD5esU47D1IApf3
HeleninEire
@Sister Golden Bear: As everyone here knows, I’m a NY’r. As most of you know, I have a Masters degree in politics from Columbia, and I gotta say, I love Mamdani. Not since Obama, now almost 20 years ago, have I seen a better politician.
Mamdani is giving us hope. He is happy and he clearly loves NY. Other politicians should take heed. I am tired of politicians trying to get my vote through fear. Enough.
Now, let’s be clear. I don’t agree with lots of things he says. If he makes busses free (very unlikely) it will pull everyone off the subway. And that will be chaos. But I like the idea of public transportation being free. And that’s enough for my vote…most especially against those other 2 assholes.
Harvey Milk was the first politician who I heard say “you gotta give them hope.” He was absolutely correct.
gene108
One thing that hit me this morning is before the House skipped town they passed a seven week CR to fund the government from October 1.
Let’s say Dems cave and pass this CR, how much longer does the government stay open? Pay everything retroactively for the past month, there’s three weeks from today before we’re back to an impasse.
The media is treating this shutdown as a battle over an actual year long budget Republicans tried to pass.
RevRick
@trollhattan: How do you spell boondoggle, because this proposal to “bring back coal” certainly qualifies? While it may be an article of faith with President Stupid and his underlings that the Obama and Biden administrations conducted a war on coal, the fact is it was all about cheap natural gas that killed coal in generating electricity. Coal plants can never be as efficient or as nimble as natural gas ones. Coal requires mining, separating, crushing, transporting, storing and conveying to the furnaces. Moreover, coal furnaces cannot be easily turned on or off. Natural gas requires drilling and pipelines, and can be started or stopped in minutes.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
TaMara, you live here, I assume your question about our glibertarian, techbro governor was a rhetorical one. :)
I’ve listened to a few of our city council people who have been *really* active in various anti-ICE efforts at the Denver level who have a hard enough time with our Mayo Mikey’s addiction to surveillance cameras but get them talking about Polis and it’s one collective eye roll as he makes Mikey look positively left-wing when it comes to cooperation with ICE.
His latest:
denver7.com/news/state-news/a-judge-told-gov-jared-polis-not-to-comply-with-an-ice-subpoena-polis-at…
In their minds, there are no groups or people pushing for what you’re suggesting vis a vis Polis. He did offer a push back of sorts to an ICE raid in Durango a couple of days back:
coloradopolitics.com/2025/10/30/colorado-officials-launch-investigation-into-ice-encounter-during-du…
But it’s nothing like we’re seeing elsewhere and he (Polis) continues to try to find a way around a *state* law that prohibits cooperation.
We had ICE right down the street at City Park and the Zoo on Halloween sniffing around construction activities going on there. They approached the Park Rangers who in turn notified the City and others who then unofficially spread the word.
Professor Bigfoot
zhena gogolia
I’ve loved Neguse since the impeachment.
Great pups!
WTFGhost
@Jackie: I hope they learned apologies from Republicans, so they could say they were dreadfully sorry if Trump was offended.
@WaterGirl: Because Trump has repeatedly demonstrated he’ll retaliate for any personal slight, and Republicans have shown they’ll supercharge their applause for his next state-of-the-monarchy address, if, and when, he gets in trouble for extortion. That’s why a Republican-style, “it wasn’t my fault, but, if you were offended, I’m sorry,” apology would be ideal. I mean, any self-aware Republican would realize the trap was set: scorn the “if you were offended” apology, and no Republican will ever be able to apologize, ever again.
WTFGhost
@gene108: They’re also often framing the Democratic bill as an absolute demand by Democrats, which is stupid.
If your opponent is saying “Give us everything, and you get nothing,” then, your opening bid has to be “fine, give us everything, and you get nothing.” Why would you bid anything else?
Oh, sure, in the past, Dems were stupid, and they’d come halfway to the Republican side, and so, Republicans would demand they come all the way, finally setting on about 2/3rds of the way as a “compromise.” If you were a journalist, you’d want to give your consumers to have some sense of that history, plus, you know, common sense. “If your opponent refuses to offer you anything, don’t offer them anything.”
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Professor Bigfoot: Once again, I am learning a lot about the importance of Federal programs as they are threatened or destroyed by Prez POS. I had not known 1 out 8 Americans get food stamps! For all the racist talk about weaves, clearly there are a lot of non POC depending on them. Even POS seems to be catching on. And the factoid that 50% of food stamps are spent at Wal-Mart surprised me. I would think supermarket CEOs would be burning up the phone lines to their reps about this, given the billions of $ involved.
prostratedragon
@HeleninEire:
+1 ZKM. There have been too few mayors in recent decades who seem to.
prostratedragon
Oh, and though this be Caturday per the great pair in the side bar — more doggies!👋👋
iKropoclast
One simple discrete ask. Contrast that with years of Republicans forcing shut down with demands to completely reorder the government, until the relent after some self-defeating, costly cuts.
Not that we expect people to remember shit or reasonable explanations to flourish.
Chief Oshkosh
@Jackie: WTF was there to apologize about? The commercial shortened the full 5+ minute Reagan speech, but faithfully presented Reagan’s views on tariffs: They’re bad and don’t use them a lot.
Chief Oshkosh
@Jackie: I agree that that is probably why Ford apologized, but that will just reward the bully, who will just bully more now.
ETA: Carney, not Ford.
Starfish
Joe Neguse works his ass off. He has had so many town halls. Our experience at a giant town hall was bad because they did not expect a thousand people to show up so those of us who got stuck in an overflow room with bad audio were given the opportunity to go to another rain-check town hall.
I ran into him at one of the late summer festivals in our district with my family, and he asked my son where he went to school. When he mentioned the school, Neguse talked about a Haunted House that they do at the school. We went to the haunted house last night.
If you are not subscribed to his newsletter, you might want to subscribe. There is often some issue that I learn about just a little more deeply by being subscribed to his newsletter.
Chief Oshkosh
@RevRick: Agreed with all of that, but as the demand from data centers continues upwards, even expensive energy sources become palatable to the oligarchs.
Geminid
@WaterGirl: I thought Nancy Pelosi was very strategic in her selection of the House Impeachment Managers. She knew most Democrats did not know many members besides a couple “stars,” so she made the most of an opportunity to introduce some talent. That was the first time many people were exposed to Joe Neguse, Jaime Raskin, Madeleine Dean, Hakeem Jeffries and the others.
Pelosi did the same with the second impeachment and then with the J6 Committee, where Democrats saw Pete Aguilar and Elaine Luria in action.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t enough to carry Rep. Luria over the finish line the next year in the Virginia 2nd CD, where she lost to Jen Kiggans. Luria has stepped back from politics since then.
I can’t blame her for that. Luria entered the Naval Academy at age 17, and when she retired from the Navy 24 years later she jumped into the 2018 2nd CD election and flipped that seat. Luria has a couple kids in public school and I’m glad she gets some time with them.
And maybe Luria and her husband will develop another will come up with another cool business idea like their “Mermaids” shops. Customers buy bisque mermaids and decorate them with paint, shells, sequins etc. The shops provide the materials and work tables to apply them. Luria and her husband, another retired Navy officer, sold the two thriving shops in Norfolk and Virginia Beach a few years ago.
When the two ran the potential project by a business professor at Old Dominion University, the marketing expert expressed doubt as to whether there would be sufficient demand for clay mermaids. Then she said she wanted seven!
@zhena gogolia:
RevRick
@Chief Oshkosh: Our oligarchs are greedy, but not stupid, especially when $ are involved. Natural gas, solar and wind installations can be up and running more quickly and cheaply than coal, and they don’t have to deal with heavy metal emissions or coal ash, and all the attendant lawsuits that would follow. Coal is a loser, except for metallurgical purposes.
HeleninEire
@prostratedragon: Yes
Castor Canadensis
@Steve Paradis: Although the term has changed its meaning, he hit back at a begged question. You know, like “have you stopped beating your wife?”
His answer was also the typical 5th possible answer to a “yes-no” question:
yes
no
neither
both
not a valid question
Castor Canadensis
@Jackie: It did. It also made Mr Trump spend one of his “negotiating cards” on having a hissy-fit against something Republican voters like
Castor Canadensis
@WaterGirl: If he did, it was of the form “gee, I’m so sorry you feel bad”.
He’s quoted as saying “it’s not something I would have done.” Of course he wouldn’t: he’s playing Good Cop. He discussed the ad beforehand with Mr Ford, who is playing “Bad Cop” (;-))
FastEdD
@Scout211: He ran for governor in 2003 and for Gov Lite in 2006.
WaterGirl
@Castor Canadensis: Nice summary!
oldster
whoa — Neguse is really, really impressive. I am going to keep an eye out for him in the future.
Miss Bianca
@HeleninEire: win, lose or draw, I gotta say, I like how he talks.
Captain C
@HeleninEire:
There’s a ton of veto points which will likely make this not happen, but Mamdani’s still miles better than the awful alternatives.
Betty
Neguese and Mamdani! Two awesome guys!
WTFGhost
@Professor Bigfoot: you know, with the right kind of eyes, you can see hate sticking out in big ugly lumps, but, usually people keep it tamped down. Right now, these people think that hate is their superpower, because it won the election, and I think they’re going to find out they’re wrong.
But with that much hate, man, it’s going to be a hard road getting there.
NutmegAgain
Gorgeous dogs. Just gorgeous! That’s all I’ve got.
Mike in Boulder
I’m a big fan of Neguse. My daughters go to the same elementary school as his daughter so we get to see a bit of him not as a congressman but as “N’s dad” at drop-off and pickup. Seems like just a down to earth guy that cares about what’s important. I’m grateful to have a strong voice as my representative in congress
WaterGirl
@Mike in Boulder: Welcome!
Sorry I didn’t see your comment sooner. Now that this first one has been approved manually, your future comments will show up for everyone right away.