Jill Davis

[Jill Davis @jillcd11]

@RyanSchuiling @victormarx So he can't run away.

[Colorado Unfiltered @COUnfiltered]

Last night @victormarx held a town hall and finally laid out what he called his “top 10 priorities” and his first 100 days agenda if elected governor.

To be fair, there was a semblance of policy positions in there. Sanctuary state policies, Medicaid reform, regulations, school choice, oil and gas permitting, water rights, property taxes, infrastructure, law enforcement support, veterans issues, etc.

That’s a step up from vague campaign slogans and “trust me bro” politics.

But there were also a few things that stood out.

First, this wasn’t really presented like a normal gubernatorial rollout. It felt more like a revival meeting mixed with a campaign rally. There were repeated references to spiritual warfare over states, fasting to “shift the heavens,” consecrating Colorado back to God, and discussions about supernatural influence over governments and elections.

Whether people agree with that or not, voters should probably understand what worldview is driving the campaign.

Second, Victor spent a significant amount of time attacking the political process itself while simultaneously running for the highest office in the state. Debates were called “dumb,” forums were described as “small and boring,” and he openly said he intentionally avoids doing things the way campaigns traditionally do them.

Which brings us to today.

Because this morning the “maybe debates are dumb” energy turned into “maybe I’ll show up, maybe I won’t” energy, which is kind of a bold strategy for someone asking to run an entire state and not just ghost a group project.

On Jeff & Bill this morning, Victor said he may or may not participate in the 9News debate depending on whether there is any “funny business.” Apparently Colorado voters are now waiting to see if the debate stage passes a paranormal investigation before he commits.

And honestly, that raises questions about the whole “first 100 days” pitch too. It’s easy to lay out a long list of priorities at a friendly town hall. It’s harder to explain exactly how those policies would get implemented, funded, negotiated through the legislature, or survive legal challenges when pressed in a debate setting.

That’s… interesting considering he also said last night he’s already winning and doesn’t really need debates. He also argued that being governor isn’t about debating, it’s about negotiation and leadership. But making commitments and then backing out when things get uncomfortable doesn’t exactly project strong leadership either. It projects more “I was definitely going to do the homework but my printer broke.”

Here’s the thing:
If you’re asking to lead a $50+ billion state government, debates are part of the job. Tough interviews are part of the job. Hostile questions are part of the job. Standing next to opponents and defending your policies in real time is part of the job.

You don’t get to govern only in rooms full of supporters.

And before someone says “the media is biased”:
Yeah. Sometimes they are. Welcome to politics. Every candidate deals with that. The answer isn’t avoiding scrutiny altogether.

Now politically speaking, I’ll say this:
Victor absolutely understands messaging, emotion, and crowd energy better than most candidates in this race. That room was engaged. The audience clearly believes in him. He knows how to command attention and connect emotionally with people frustrated about affordability, crime, taxes, regulations, and feeling ignored by Denver politics.

That matters.

But eventually every campaign reaches the same moment:
Can the candidate handle direct policy scrutiny without controlling the environment?

Because rallies test enthusiasm.
Debates test preparedness.
And governing tests competence.

Those are three very different things.

#copolitics #unfilteredpolitics

[Michael Brown @MichaelDBrown]

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[Jill Davis @jillcd11]

@MandyConnell

[The Driving In Silence Mandy Connell @MandyConnell]

This.

[The Driving In Silence Mandy Connell @MandyConnell]

This is brilliant.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

[Joel Schneekloth @JoelSchneekloth]

Are you having issues with wheat stem sawfly? Attend the meeting tomorrow in Akron or attend online.

Zoom link for virtual attendance:
https://t.co/u8y9054dlH

[Jill Davis @jillcd11]

@FedExHelp @SamsClub @DuluthTradingCo @Walmart @amazon @FedEx I have already been down this road. All I get are excuses about the busy holiday. If you can get me a direct number to the Colorado Springs shipping center, that would be helpful.

[Jill Davis @jillcd11]

@SamsClub @DuluthTradingCo @Walmart @amazon and anyone else who uses @Fedex. Cool you please offer different shipping options. @Fedex is awful. Some of packages are now 10 days late. They just make excuses.Please give us different shipping options.

[Jill Davis @jillcd11]

@FedEx
Can you please check in on your Colorado Springs depot. I have been waiting on packages for 10 days now. They go out for delivery and the back to the depot. The last time it took 15 days. I have many friends in Eastern Colorado that are also very unhappy.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Any country folk wanna weigh in on wtf this lady saying? 🤠

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Very few Americans realize that, if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election. Far from being a threat to democracy, he is the only way to save it!

Let me explain: if even 1 in 20 illegals become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible, that would be about 2 million new legal voters in 4 years.

The voting margin in the swing states is often less than 20 thousand votes. That means if the “Democratic” Party succeeds, there will be no more swing states!!

Moreover, the Biden/Harris administration has been flying “asylum seekers”, who are fast-tracked to citizenship, directly into swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and Arizona. It is a surefire way to win every election.

America then becomes a one-party state and Democracy is over. The only “elections” will be the Democratic Party primaries. This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.

The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America. Once the whole country is controlled by one party, there will be no escape.

Everywhere in America will be like the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Governor Newsom just signed AB-2655 in response to this meme going viral.

The law could force 𝕏 to ban this video.

DO NOT MAKE IT GO VIRAL AGAIN.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Incredible video.

They tried to assassinate Reagan and Trump too.

The real power lies with the American people and when the people wake from their slumber of distraction, we can fix it.

https://t.co/AExKKtEzqA

[Nicole Shanahan @NicoleShanahan]

My team never sleeps 😂

[Jill Davis @jillcd11]

@catturd2 Colorado 🤛

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

If you vote based on these criteria, you should not vote. Because you're an idiot.

[Josh Linville @JLinvilleFert]

Those of you that farmed thru the tough years, what advice would you give to younger farmers witnessing this for the first time?

What did you do different.
What got you thru it?
What would you do different?

Please re-tweet. I really want to see a broad number of responses.

[Vintage Los Angeles @alisonmartino]

This made me cry