". . . This is supposed to be a 'wave year' for Democrats. All we are seeing is sludge."

I’ll be interested to see whether any “Manning for Senate” lawn signs pop up in my neighborhood.

With Chelsea Manning, Democrats are scraping bottom in their 2018 lineup

Chelsea Manning is the latest to join this clown cavalcade, filing to run for a seat in the Maryland Senate.

. . . "It's an astonishing development, given the scope of Manning's crimes. While in a position of trust, Manning downloaded 700,000 government secrets and then forked them over to Wikileaks for global distribution, endangering U.S. agents and nullifying countless intelligence operations. He was then caught, sentenced to 35 years in Leavenworth, whined about not liking it, got special treatment in a government-funded sex change, and then received a pardon from President Obama, which he has since used to taunt the last two administrations and America in general, free and unaccountable for his crimes. He took to writing columns for the Guardian and living the celebrity lifestyle, taunting his detractors in Twitter, communicating almost exclusively in emojis." . . .

McCain claims,"The Taliban went after and murdered" people identified in the Chelsea Manning leaks. Politifact disagrees, if you trust them.

Senator Chelsea Manning?  . . . "Manning received a commutation from President Obama. During the trial and sentencing, Manning’s lawyers blamed Manning’s gender dysphoria for leading to his crimes, and in 2016 then-Bradley Manning declared in a commutation application, “I am Chelsea Manning, a proud woman who is transgender and who, through this application, is respectfully requesting a first chance at life.” Since then, Manning has been feted by elite society as a symbol of trans heroism and overcoming hardship.' ”

Manning's Twitter account