Three days after I graduated from South High School in Denver, Colorado, I was gone, having enlisted in the Navy. I had learned at age 10 - when the kid who became my best friend in school moved in with his family across the street, coming from Salt Lake City - that I didn’t have to stay there all my life and had been planning my escape since. I came back three years later for a year to go to college, since the “number two teacher’s training school in America,” known then as Colorado State College, was the only school a kid with test scores in the top 12 percent and grades 125 from the bottom of a class of 950 could get into. I was gone a year later and other than two three day Christmas visits and two visits to be sure they were burying the right body, I haven’t been back.
And people wonder why Russians have swallowed Putin’s lies wholesale. Far easier than accepting the truth and realizing you have some responsibility to deal with it
The propaganda machine has turned my friends, former coworkers, and some family into these MAGAts. They are such "true believers" that if they were told that up was down, they'd bet the farm on it.
I spent the summer of 1965 at a writers' workshop in Aspen, and Ivan Abrams, the owner of Quadrant Books and Gallery, was a very smart guy. of course, he was from Boston. and I had a wonderful crash of several hours in Boulder in 1970, awakened by a gorgeous hippie chick putting a hash pipe in my mouth. I have no idea how smart she was, but she had a beautiful smile. that was a little levity introduced because this story has already made me sick. it all makes me sick and incredibly anxious because every time one of these miserable, lying pieces of shit do well, it ratchets up my fear that the actual Rubicon we've already crossed was the 2020 election, and disputing every election, then threatening violence (or actually committing it) is the new normal. you keep saying to take them at their word, and I do. and they've been SAYING it in that way they have of saying it by "floating the possibility," as it were. but when they float the possibility, they're announcing their intentions. since, as far as I can see, the one really significant difference between us and those other countries whose "constitutions" have been honored only in the breach of those constitutions is that this country has been largely pretty serious about honoring the peaceful transition of power (obviously that "largely pretty" is necessary for those several times when that hasn't quite happened). but it seems that about half the country has decided that observing these transitions is optional; somehow "out of step" with the realities of contemporary life. so I expect that, having muddied the waters pretty successfully one time, they're not gonna stop.
Sheesh Colorado. Can’t blame everything on the altitude. At some point, somebody must tip over the first domino in the “I’m a Republican so I am bound to act like a traitorous idiot. But why don’t people like me anymore?”
So, back to the soon to be elected federal criminals. Will Colorado put bars on the windows of their palatial state offices and provide transportation for these crooks in the back seat of police cars? Or will they conduct "business as usual" inside a cell? I'm curious. I'm guessing if the PPP voters are so stupid, they'll vote for a criminal, they probably have no legal provisions for what happens when those same elected criminals are sentenced to a few years in the joint. And what happens when they elect a criminal to the US Senate? I guess that's an easy one to answer, given how many are resting on their PPP laurels right now. (Putrid Putin Party)
TC's THE POWER OF THE BG LIE is not a rip-off of Dinesh D'Souza's, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left. Oh, no, it's simply a Burlesque under the umbrella of 'Who Done It?' Where would TC be without Abbott & Costello?
And people wonder why Russians have swallowed Putin’s lies wholesale. Far easier than accepting the truth and realizing you have some responsibility to deal with it
"The Republican Party is the greatest internal subversive threat facing our country."
YES!
The propaganda machine has turned my friends, former coworkers, and some family into these MAGAts. They are such "true believers" that if they were told that up was down, they'd bet the farm on it.
I spent the summer of 1965 at a writers' workshop in Aspen, and Ivan Abrams, the owner of Quadrant Books and Gallery, was a very smart guy. of course, he was from Boston. and I had a wonderful crash of several hours in Boulder in 1970, awakened by a gorgeous hippie chick putting a hash pipe in my mouth. I have no idea how smart she was, but she had a beautiful smile. that was a little levity introduced because this story has already made me sick. it all makes me sick and incredibly anxious because every time one of these miserable, lying pieces of shit do well, it ratchets up my fear that the actual Rubicon we've already crossed was the 2020 election, and disputing every election, then threatening violence (or actually committing it) is the new normal. you keep saying to take them at their word, and I do. and they've been SAYING it in that way they have of saying it by "floating the possibility," as it were. but when they float the possibility, they're announcing their intentions. since, as far as I can see, the one really significant difference between us and those other countries whose "constitutions" have been honored only in the breach of those constitutions is that this country has been largely pretty serious about honoring the peaceful transition of power (obviously that "largely pretty" is necessary for those several times when that hasn't quite happened). but it seems that about half the country has decided that observing these transitions is optional; somehow "out of step" with the realities of contemporary life. so I expect that, having muddied the waters pretty successfully one time, they're not gonna stop.
P.T. Barnum has taken over the Republican Party.
Sheesh Colorado. Can’t blame everything on the altitude. At some point, somebody must tip over the first domino in the “I’m a Republican so I am bound to act like a traitorous idiot. But why don’t people like me anymore?”
So, back to the soon to be elected federal criminals. Will Colorado put bars on the windows of their palatial state offices and provide transportation for these crooks in the back seat of police cars? Or will they conduct "business as usual" inside a cell? I'm curious. I'm guessing if the PPP voters are so stupid, they'll vote for a criminal, they probably have no legal provisions for what happens when those same elected criminals are sentenced to a few years in the joint. And what happens when they elect a criminal to the US Senate? I guess that's an easy one to answer, given how many are resting on their PPP laurels right now. (Putrid Putin Party)
TC's THE POWER OF THE BG LIE is not a rip-off of Dinesh D'Souza's, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left. Oh, no, it's simply a Burlesque under the umbrella of 'Who Done It?' Where would TC be without Abbott & Costello?
Here's a little musical accompaniment for escaping from Denver
https://open.spotify.com/track/3uOSOGpjGWPIyHRuUGFKEW
Nothing to add, except this fucking slog is longer than Nam.
Republicans are fucking traitors plain and simple.