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December 13, 2016 06:41 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!”

–Tennessee Williams

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          1. In typical Trumpspeak, our cowardly little chickenshit who hides behind his curtain has it upside-down: the special snowflakes are the Fossilonians who demand access to public lands for free, treat our water and air as a free dumping ground and hide their profits offshore. Gluttons at the public trough.  You'll notice the Heritage Foundation is silent on the fossil subsidies in their latest news release while calling for an end to federal 'green programs'.  

  1. A refreshingly astute letter published today in the Denver Post:

    The front page of Saturday’s Denver Post was dominated by news of the CIA concluding that Russia worked to help Donald Trump — whose campaign team, transition team and administration picks have been packed with those most friendly to Vladimir Putin’s government — win the election.

    In “This Day in History,” we are reminded that on Dec. 10, 2011, “tens of thousands of Russians staged anti-government protests, charging electoral fraud and demanding an end to Vladimir Putin’s rule.” Then there’s the sports section featuring a new report to the International Olympic Committee detailing a systematic Russian doping regime involving more than 1,000 athletes.

    Yet our president-elect and Republican Party leadership still prefer to take Putin’s word over that of our intelligence community. One may well wonder what’s going on here.

    Felice Sage, Littleton

    Putin's Poodles (Trump and his cabinet picks) will see how much money they can get for selling out our country.

    1. Well done, Felice Sage!

      People need to connect the dots between the pro-democracy, anti-Putin movement in Russia, and Trump's fawning attempt to recreate Russian autocracy here. In the long run, it won't work in either place, although we are definitely in for a bumpy ride the next few years.

  2. V. is right, Zap. This started a long time ago and will not soon be resolved…if ever.

    It is as basic as survival itself….

    Long ago, the first "republican" pushed some poor, weak brother away from the tribal campfire and forced him to do without, or cast him out entirely. Then he took the brothers' share for his own. By repeating this process, he became powerful enough to control his tribe, thereby permanently securing the most and best for him and his family.

    He taught his children they were superior to the ones cast out, taught them to scorn those "others" and set up a regime to perpetuate his families' dominance and privilege forever. He taught them to esteem money, status, and control.

    To hell with those "others", he said, often enslaving them to provide him with ever more money…

    Not far away, the first "democrat" said to one of those who either escaped from or was cast out by the first republican, " welcome..let us feed you and warm you and help you become a useful part of our tribe…"

    This oversimplified scenario is fundamental to understanding the difference between the modern political parties. Those parties are much more complicated than my illustration indicates, but my point is about exclusion versus inclusion.

    One of the things my late mother told me repeatedly over the years was, "whenever the Republicans are in office, the wealthy do better and when the Democrats are in control, the average working person and the poor do better." Impossible to dispute.

    The elevation of Donald Trump by the white working class was a natural reaction to the displacement of two generations of workers, who blame their woes on the new neighbors with the dark skin and the name they can't really pronounce. They believe it was their families and their ancestors that made this country great because their history books have always been full of white men "making America great". Their heritage has been stolen from them. But not by the "thief" they suspect.

    That angry demographic has once again come to the rescue of the Robber Barons who would rejoin the world aristocracy by creating the great American age of corporate fulfillment. Welcome back to the fabulous Industrial age when industry can run unfettered through the American landscape, snatching wealth and leaving destruction at every turn.

    "Our wages are too high"….

                     Donald J. Trump,   Dec. 2016

     

    1. Not our Pyrus. Nosiree…Trump is going to make him rich I tell ya. RICH!! More richer than he's ever been in his life!!  Now Duke, don't you go listening to those words that fall out of Donald's mouth saying wages are too high. Them's just words. Not to be taken literally. 

  3. jeezus h. kanye west, Dems:

    All the noise out of Camp Runamuck largely drowned out the clamor of the Democratic Party fucking up again. Over the weekend, the state of Louisiana had a runoff election for the United States Senate. The Republican, an ironically monickered suit named John Kennedy, beat Democratic candidate Foster Campbell. This was the last election of the plague ship campaign of 2016, and the most astonishing part of it is that the national Democratic Party spent most of the time since the presidential election not caring about the race one way or the other.

    You would have thought that, given what happened on November 8, the Democrats would have thrown all hands on deck to at least try to win what was admittedly an uphill campaign in a tough state. You would have thought that they would have overwhelmed the state with money and surrogates. Win or lose, this at least would have demonstrated that the Democratic Party still had a pulse.

    And the results were entirely predictable, per the Times-Pic:

    The statewide turnout of 29.2 percent made it one of the lowest-attended Senate elections in recent years, according to the Secretary of State's office.

    Granted, Bennet did send out a few fundraising emails on this one. He is, after all, a great fundraiser. But I actually got more live phone calls from Trump volunteers asking me to vote for Trump than communications from Hillary, Bennet, and the rest this year. Sad and unacceptable and incompetent about sums it up.

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