Shitty people slinging poop at each other to see who ends up stinking the worst. It must just suck so badly to be a Republican. And the Colorado law criminalizing misinformation by a campaign should be adopted nationwide. America is suffering terribly due to the proliferation of misinformation online and in politics. If we are to turn this 7 year maga nosedive around we must at a minimum insist on the truth.
Lamborn is kind of famous around here for never having anything to do with his constituents besides the occasional photo ops. He’s never done a town hall that I can remember and refuses to debate his opponents. It’s a testament to how safe his district is that he doesn’t need to bother - the (R) behind his name on the ballot meant that he could do pretty much whatever he wanted.
Let us also recall that in the 2022 primary, Williams actually sued the secretary of state to have himself listed on the ballot as "Dave 'Let's Go Brandon' Williams."
Lamborn is a Ron Paul level leech. When he leaves, he'll have been collecting taxpayer checks for 18 years while providing jack shit to that district. Things won't be getting any better, either, as his replacement - Williams or some other shithead - will be a slobbering trumpanzee maniac.
I think District 4 is actually the most reactioinary. However, I have observed, myself, as well as been told by omeone in a position to know, that Buck was willing to work with Democrats to get at least things done. District 5 is likely the next most reactionary. Colorado Springs may not be a metropolisbut is a healthy medium size city with colleges, and would probably lean left if only the soi-disant Christians would go take a hike.. Dostrict 3 - well, we all know how close the race was in 2022. Pueblo is in D-3, and it was always a solid union town as long as i can remember. I admit when I saw the announcement he was retiring, my reaction was "Well, there's a poster email for 'Becareful what you wish for.'"
With all these GOP retirements the RW welfare circuit will soon be overly saturated. There are only so many Christian colleges, think tanks, lobby firms, PACs, and media willing to hire unqualified ignoramuses to go around. Some of these losers will have to get real jobs. Or start a MLM.
What exactly does LGBTQ indoctrination consist of, I wonder? Forced viewing of Queer Eye? Taking classes entitled, From Judy Garland to Madonna, the Essential Listening? Dance lessons?
Being strapped to a chair with your eyes propped open like Malcolm McDowell in “A Clockwork Orange” while being forced to watch reruns of “Will and Grace” while Taylor Swift plays in the background.
You can't even get said "training" until law school, and even then not before the 2nd year.
Not that these aren't people who would love to have any talk of civil rights or Black history BANNED at every level of education (racist Texans literally stealing books from the library, for crying out loud) -- but that's WHY they keep trying to label any study of Black history or civil rights (or, if we're going to talk about slavery in this country, WHITE history, since regardless of the shade of the enslaved, it was White people DOING the enslaving ... even as White people weren't even "White people" till they came to the Americas from Europe and felt they needed to distinguish themselves as an economic dominating class able to extract forced labor from OTHER PEOPLE) as "CRT"
And people who claim to care about democracy just let it happen. It's infuriating.
to begin with, these weirdos have issues with any kind of post-modernist analysis and deconstruction.
not that the flock would notice, as they're simply being gaslit and demagogued and let loose on a concept that they didn't even know existed five minutes earlier.
most people can do without any of the critical theories or comparative literary analysis and they would have never known or cared if it weren't for hucksters in media and politics.
Dems should always run in every race, regardless of the odds. Anything can happen, including the opponent on the ballot winding up in jail or "retiring to be with their family" at election time. This actually has happened in the past.
Do you want to be the person puts two years of their life on hold, attending constant meetings where you suffer abuse and ridicule from mouth-breathing idiots and trying to raise funds without any help from the state or national party? Running for office, even local office, isn't easy.
"Lamborn served nine terms in the House and apparently ranks helping keep Space Command headquarters in Colorado Springs as one of his proudest achievements. Last year, President Joe Biden overruled Trump’s decision to move the headquarters to Alabama"
So, yet another Republican taking credit for something Biden actually did?
I suppose that in theory, with gerrymandering and polarization so extreme now, the Republican candidates in those kinds of districts will get crazier and more irresponsible until somehow, in some way, a line gets crossed and the actual people in those districts, Republicans or not, say "Enough already."
"...continuing our important lawsuit battles to keep President Trump on the ballot..."
Who is "President Trump"? Were he "President" now he would be removed from your damn ballot immediately on the grounds that he's barred from seeking a third term.
Oregon just decided that Trump could stay on the ballot. Meandrea Mitchell just called the use of the 14th amendment precedent setting, and I swear if I could have reached through the TV screen and punched her in the nose, I would have done it.
You know what else was "precedent setting"? Three SC justices saying they weren't interested in overturning precedent in their job interviews, and then immediately overturning precedent.
You know what's "precedent-setting"? Taking an utterly unqualified clown, ignoramus and fraud, and promoting him from reality TV to the White House, due to the ignorant whim of a tiny minority and the ridiculous vagaries of the so-called Electoral College. Everything that flows from that will be "precedent-setting" almost by definition.
Well, exactly. The use of the 14th amendment isn't really precedent setting, what happened to make us need to use it, is. But we need to hit all of trump's talking points, huh Mrs. Greenspan?
Shitty people slinging poop at each other to see who ends up stinking the worst. It must just suck so badly to be a Republican. And the Colorado law criminalizing misinformation by a campaign should be adopted nationwide. America is suffering terribly due to the proliferation of misinformation online and in politics. If we are to turn this 7 year maga nosedive around we must at a minimum insist on the truth.
Lamborn is kind of famous around here for never having anything to do with his constituents besides the occasional photo ops. He’s never done a town hall that I can remember and refuses to debate his opponents. It’s a testament to how safe his district is that he doesn’t need to bother - the (R) behind his name on the ballot meant that he could do pretty much whatever he wanted.
Let us also recall that in the 2022 primary, Williams actually sued the secretary of state to have himself listed on the ballot as "Dave 'Let's Go Brandon' Williams."
Lamborn is a Ron Paul level leech. When he leaves, he'll have been collecting taxpayer checks for 18 years while providing jack shit to that district. Things won't be getting any better, either, as his replacement - Williams or some other shithead - will be a slobbering trumpanzee maniac.
I think District 4 is actually the most reactioinary. However, I have observed, myself, as well as been told by omeone in a position to know, that Buck was willing to work with Democrats to get at least things done. District 5 is likely the next most reactionary. Colorado Springs may not be a metropolisbut is a healthy medium size city with colleges, and would probably lean left if only the soi-disant Christians would go take a hike.. Dostrict 3 - well, we all know how close the race was in 2022. Pueblo is in D-3, and it was always a solid union town as long as i can remember. I admit when I saw the announcement he was retiring, my reaction was "Well, there's a poster email for 'Becareful what you wish for.'"
Boebert is a dead candidate walking. She just doesn’t realize it yet.
With all these GOP retirements the RW welfare circuit will soon be overly saturated. There are only so many Christian colleges, think tanks, lobby firms, PACs, and media willing to hire unqualified ignoramuses to go around. Some of these losers will have to get real jobs. Or start a MLM.
What sort of real job could they possibly do? Every one of their job skills would do nothing but get them dragged down to HR in a heartbeat.
“CRT training and LGBTQ indoctrination.”
this is going to be a loooooooooong election year. ugh!
What exactly does LGBTQ indoctrination consist of, I wonder? Forced viewing of Queer Eye? Taking classes entitled, From Judy Garland to Madonna, the Essential Listening? Dance lessons?
Being strapped to a chair with your eyes propped open like Malcolm McDowell in “A Clockwork Orange” while being forced to watch reruns of “Will and Grace” while Taylor Swift plays in the background.
also, CRT training? like, take it apart and put it back together blindfolded?
You can't even get said "training" until law school, and even then not before the 2nd year.
Not that these aren't people who would love to have any talk of civil rights or Black history BANNED at every level of education (racist Texans literally stealing books from the library, for crying out loud) -- but that's WHY they keep trying to label any study of Black history or civil rights (or, if we're going to talk about slavery in this country, WHITE history, since regardless of the shade of the enslaved, it was White people DOING the enslaving ... even as White people weren't even "White people" till they came to the Americas from Europe and felt they needed to distinguish themselves as an economic dominating class able to extract forced labor from OTHER PEOPLE) as "CRT"
And people who claim to care about democracy just let it happen. It's infuriating.
https://planamag.com/white-supremacy-is-systemic-narcissism/
to begin with, these weirdos have issues with any kind of post-modernist analysis and deconstruction.
not that the flock would notice, as they're simply being gaslit and demagogued and let loose on a concept that they didn't even know existed five minutes earlier.
most people can do without any of the critical theories or comparative literary analysis and they would have never known or cared if it weren't for hucksters in media and politics.
And again
(WTH is happening right now??)
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1746603256975933852?t=OXRwsnPApJnIL9vgT32oDg&s=19
And speaking again of those same hucksters
https://twitter.com/protecttruth_/status/1746596540893073773?t=xXnxqxtDWDaZ78up5ukDEw&s=19
Speaking of the hucksters
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1746675255664382189?t=J99vMgzHWiX8H_mWi556_g&s=19
Dems should always run in every race, regardless of the odds. Anything can happen, including the opponent on the ballot winding up in jail or "retiring to be with their family" at election time. This actually has happened in the past.
Do you want to be the person puts two years of their life on hold, attending constant meetings where you suffer abuse and ridicule from mouth-breathing idiots and trying to raise funds without any help from the state or national party? Running for office, even local office, isn't easy.
"Lamborn served nine terms in the House and apparently ranks helping keep Space Command headquarters in Colorado Springs as one of his proudest achievements. Last year, President Joe Biden overruled Trump’s decision to move the headquarters to Alabama"
So, yet another Republican taking credit for something Biden actually did?
What a surprise.
Big Bird is flightless, goddamnit!
science and popular culture are kind of lost on the GOP
The man did a fucking metaphor.
We're Democrats. We believe in participation trophies.
Will his son have to quit living in a congressional broom closet like an unmagical extra sad Harry Potter?
Oooh, yay! An Elmer Gantry reference!
Apparently Lamborn is unaware Big Bird works for HBO now.
Yup. Yup. Yup yup yup yupyupyup. BRIIING.
𝐴𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑘. 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑜’𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑓𝑡ℎ 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒.
I suppose that in theory, with gerrymandering and polarization so extreme now, the Republican candidates in those kinds of districts will get crazier and more irresponsible until somehow, in some way, a line gets crossed and the actual people in those districts, Republicans or not, say "Enough already."
This is an untested theory.
Either that or they will all rise up in the dead of night and proceed to kill and eat their neighbors.
"...continuing our important lawsuit battles to keep President Trump on the ballot..."
Who is "President Trump"? Were he "President" now he would be removed from your damn ballot immediately on the grounds that he's barred from seeking a third term.
What lawsuit battles? Anyone who tries to file a 2020 court challenge these days is going to get sanctioned.
Oregon just decided that Trump could stay on the ballot. Meandrea Mitchell just called the use of the 14th amendment precedent setting, and I swear if I could have reached through the TV screen and punched her in the nose, I would have done it.
Something concerning Donald Trump being precedent-setting isn't even precedent setting.
And sock her in the snout. And kick her in the c...
You know what else was "precedent setting"? Three SC justices saying they weren't interested in overturning precedent in their job interviews, and then immediately overturning precedent.
You know what's "precedent-setting"? Taking an utterly unqualified clown, ignoramus and fraud, and promoting him from reality TV to the White House, due to the ignorant whim of a tiny minority and the ridiculous vagaries of the so-called Electoral College. Everything that flows from that will be "precedent-setting" almost by definition.
Well, exactly. The use of the 14th amendment isn't really precedent setting, what happened to make us need to use it, is. But we need to hit all of trump's talking points, huh Mrs. Greenspan?
They fear it because one successful use means bye bye to somewhere between 15 and 50 serving republicans, house and senate.