Wednesday Open Thread
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
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Gig worker transparency and more ways to fight for progress this week (April 24)
We’re in the closing days of the 2023 session of the Colorado General Assembly, and it’s crunch time to make sure some of the most important priorities of the year don’t get lost in the shuffle. Action item #1 this week: It’s time for consumers and the gig workers we all rely on to work […]
“Skin In The Game” Medicaid Policy Ends With Bipartisan Support
As the Denver Post’s Nick Coltrain reports, legislation that you might not have heard about being less exciting than the major fights this session nonetheless marks a significant policy victory for Democrats, expected to ease a major burden to obtaining care by the state’s most in need: Coloradans who rely on Medicaid — the public […]
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson Out At Fox News
UPDATE #2: Colorado’s far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert stans up for Tucker: “Wherever Tucker Carlson goes, America will follow!” Even Newsmax? Our prediction: even less fact-checking where Tucker lands. —– UPDATE: Washington Post suggests Tucker Carlson was let go for biting the hand that feeds: Many of Carlson’s private messages were released in motions filed by […]
Weekend Open Thread
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.” –Hyman Rickover
Boebert Unintentionally Turns Glenwood Springs Fabulous
As the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent reports, last Saturday saw the town’s first-ever drag queen storytime event go off without a hitch, an event unintentionally inspired by Colorado’s premiere culture-warrior headliner Rep. Lauren Boebert: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Silt, shared tweets last year telling drag queens to stay out of her district with storytimes, and recently […]
Election Conspiracist Mike Lindell On Fox News Settlement: ‘This Solidifies I Will Not Have Any Liability!’
(That’s not how any of this works — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Seven hundred eighty-seven and a half million dollars. We can now put a price tag on promoting election fraud conspiracies, as least as measured by the lawyers advising Fox News. That eye-popping sum has legal observers wondering how defendants in Dominion Voting Systems’ […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (April 19)
Get outside and enjoy the weather before it cools off over the next couple of days. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget […]
Ken Buck “Soft Endorses” Ron DeSantis, Says Team DeSantis
As USA TODAY’s David Jackson reports, as-yet undeclared Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is changing swamps for the day to court potential supporters in the nation’s capital: The Florida governor was scheduled to attend a “meet and greet and policy discussion” sponsored by an issue advocacy organization called “And To The Republic.” […]
Get More Smarter on Tuesday (April 18)
Comedian Conan O’Brien turns 60 years old today. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter. FIRST […]
Rep. Richard Holtorf Guerilla Markets “The Devil’s Lettuce”
It’s not even the most controversial thing GOP gaffe-o-matic Rep. Richard Holtorf has said this week, but for the deejays and stoners among the readership we decided it’s worth a mention: Uh where I come from, you know we don’t like the Devil’s Lettuce, it’s not good for our communities, but that’s not here. Okay, […]
House Republicans Literally Work to Achieve Nothing
The 2023 legislative session in Colorado’s House of Representatives is not unlike a typical first grade classroom. Most of the kids in the room are excited to be there – to learn new things and make new friends and sing new songs. Some of the kids have trouble playing nice with others, and they […]
Rot to the Top: Conservative Institutions in CO Promote the Same Extremism as GOP Base Voters
(There are no “voices of reason” anymore — Promoted by Colorado Pols) When it comes to explaining why conservatives lose so many elections in Colorado, what we see is establishment Republicans — exemplified by hopping-mad GOP strategist Dick Wadhams — blaming their own powerlessness on the election deniers and Trump supporters, including those who control […]
Join The Elbert County Militia! No Or All Skills Required
We were forwarded this strange advertisement recruiting members for something called “Elbert County Community Response,” being organized to “withstand any challenge that may come” the county’s way–as long as they’re challenges you can address with guns: The Neighborhood Reliance Network (NRN) is about building strong self-reliant Elbert County neighborhoods. It’s about people – and their […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (April 12)
Happy Birthday to David Letterman. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and Twitter. FIRST UP… ► […]
Colorado Republicans: You Really Don’t Want TABOR
Colorado is the only state in the country that has intentionally handcuffed itself on fiscal policy, which it did in 1992 when voters passed the so-called “Taxpayers Bill of Rights” (better known as TABOR). Two former Republican lawmakers in Colorado are now warning Arizona not to make the same mistake. Former Republican legislators Don Marostica […]
Buck All Over Phillips County “Chinese Spy Helicopter” Mystery
Brian Porter at the Fort Morgan Times put out a story late last week bizarre enough that no matter how it ends, it’s worth a mention in this space on grounds of sheer absurdity: [Phillips] County Commissioner Garold Roberts initiated the concern over “the red helicopter” Wednesday during a Northeastern Colorado call with U.S. Rep. […]
Ganahl Assumed Conservative Nonprofits “Would Have The Ground Game Ready” For Her in 2022
(¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Promoted by Colorado Pols) It would be hard to name someone who knows Colorado’s conservative training program, the Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR), better than Heidi Ganahl. After graduating from LPR in 2013, she joined its Advisory Board, a position she still holds today. Following her election as a statewide Regent for […]
Caldara ‘More Than Honored’ To Have Election Conspiracists at the Independence Institute
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Every second Saturday of the month at its headquarters on 17th Avenue, the Independence Institute hosts a “Barter Market,” ostensibly for freedom-loving citizens to exchange goods and avoid sales tax. Items listed as either on offer or requested at the monthly gathering include organic local food items, homemade candles and guitar […]
How Justice Clarence Thomas Beats The High Cost of Living
A story from a team of investigative reporters at ProPublica is rocking the halls of power today in Washington, D.C., with Democrats calling for the impeachment or resignation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after revelations of hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed gifts from a Republican billionaire donor over the course of […]
Get More Smarter on Friday (March 31)
It’s more blustery outside than the guy inside that paper sack. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and […]
Radio Host Who Left the GOP Because She Didn’t Want To Be in Trump’s ‘Cult’ Will Vote For Trump
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) A Colorado talk radio host, who got lots of backslaps from alienated Republicans when she announced she left the Republican Party earlier this month, is now saying she would “probably” vote for Trump if he’s the GOP nominee. Connell “As much as I hold conservative ideals and values in many, many […]
Who is Gonna Win in Denver’s Slow Turnout Election?
The race for Denver Mayor — and other municipal offices — is down to its final days. Election Day is on Tuesday, April 4, which means that if you still have a ballot sitting on your counter at home, DO NOT put it in the mail at this point (CLICK HERE for more information on […]
Of Course Lauren Boebert Now Supports Earmarks
It has been said that hypocrisy is not a bug, but a feature of the modern Republican Party. We saw it in 2022, when Republicans promoted candidates across the country (Herschel Walker in Georgia, Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania, and even Joe O’Dea in Colorado, to name a few) who expressed ideas that were contradictory to […]
“Caucus of One”: Mike Lynch and The Art of Losing The Deal
The biggest political news of the last week in Colorado has been the end after weeks of increasing obstruction by the Republican micro-minority in the Colorado House of the Democratic supermajority’s patience–leading to the invoking this past weekend of the body’s longstanding Rule 14 to limit debate on an individual piece of legislation, thus […]