But the Springs is one of the reddest red urban bastions in a state dominated by blue metro areas, so golly, when you turn the leopards loose you’ll discover that they’re really not all that picky.
Also, it’s almost as if someone mistakenly thought their loyalty was going to be reciprocated. Sad, the naivety.
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It’s another part of our messed up immigration system. By law, our government reserves the right to use any deviation from a perfect clean record at any point as a justification to fail you in the pursuit of permanency; but then largely leaves it to the will of the Executive of the day as to if, when and how that’s enforced. So the deviation can hang over your head for a lifetime.
Good thing we can still safely make fun of the LEFP here. I hope you are right, but I’ve seen so many articles about faces getting eaten and I don’t see a lot of remorse. Fuck all them.
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At Reddit they noted that Lauren Boebert (Who’s district is also very red and next to Colorado Springs) is swallowing her words:
Reddit - The heart of the internet
I love it when people get what they voted for!
For what little worth this is, the string “%27” is a single apostrophe in URL-encoded text. It is easy to miss - or add - in a copy/paste situation.
So, “google.com’” vs “google.com”
Coincidentally, “%27” also correlates to the capacity of the organ that lies in between Mr. Trumps ears, though the character “%E2%80%BD” is probably more suitable.
(Spoiler: that is the interrobang, “‽” char code)
As for the residents of Pueblo, Colorado, that voted for Trump in the last 2 elections…
Well, they could revive the Consumer Catalogs…
Not if they’re a Trump supporter. If they’re a Trump supporter (or were until he bit their face off), it’s addition by subtraction IMHO. Fuck her and fuck her husband. I wish we could deport every Trump supporter.
Speaking from Vast experience, the Republican crowd in Colorado Springs is dumb as fuck. They listen too their churches, and the listen to anything that is claimed to be pro-military, and are completely uncurious about anything else.
Over the… OMG, now 30ish years I’ve been here, I’ve seen the area slowly grow more purple, and a lot of the people moving here are much more blue and simultaneously much more politically aware and motivated. I will say, in the most minor defense, the local Republicans are more of the Regan/Bush variety than MAGA, but even so they buy BIG into the Culture/Religious wars.
And and howdy, is there much gnashing and wailing over the changes, but to absolutely NO ONE here’s surprise it’s being blamed on “them California libruls” moving in and making things bad for us God-fearin’ hard working normal folks".
Sorry. /Rant off. About 80% or so of my wife’s family (who live in the city and surrounding areas) fall into the mild end of the group above.
My wife and I recently moved. Still in Colorado though. We looked at a lot of areas to retire to.
Now my wife did most of the leg work on this, she’s a real estate appraiser so it just made sense. We use our strengths.
She drove the 2 hours to Colo Springs to check it out and basically poke around. She saw so many Trump signs and Trump flags she didn’t even bother stopping the car.
That area is way too religious for our tastes too.
Who cares? These people are howl-at-the-moon stupid. I wouldn’t mind them being so if they had not gotten this country into the greatest crisis in a century. Why be nice about it?
When it comes to MAGA it’s something much deeper and far more sinister than a lack of intelligence. Even stupid people learn from their mistakes. A stupid person might have to burn their hands on a hot stove two or three times before the lesson sinks in, but eventually they learn. MAGA is defiantly ignorant. They will proudly bury their heads in the sand in an effort to maintain their ignorance.
“It ain’t what they don’t know that makes them MAGA. It’s what they know know for sure that just ain’t so.” ~ Not Mark Twain
MAGA is the epitome of fractal wrongness.
That Not Mark Twain came up with some pithy quotes.
Here’s the Quote Investigator’s report.
I first saw it in the book Peter’s Quotations, which I owned, but I thought (incorrectly) it was said by Will Rogers.
My favorite sources of quotes are Not Oscar Wilde, Not H.L. Mencken, and Not Abraham Lincoln.
Don’t forget Not Yogi Berra.
Too-online MAGA can be belligerently ignorant, but in general cognitive dissonance is a major feature of modern conservatism. From its earliest days, Fox News existed to insulate its audience from information, as opposed to inform them, which is what normal news organizations do. Reality is too harsh for most (not all) self-identified American conservatives, so they choose information sources that protect them from it. It gets to the point where Fox News will go beyond distortion and actually screw up their facts on a weekly basis, so as pander to the sensitive dispositions of their audience.
This is combined with sensationalism: modern conservatives crave stimulus, but need to be protected from information. They freak out a lot, and they enjoy freaking out.
Liberals complain about media that screws up its facts and discriminates against minorities. Conservatives complain about bias, which is a way of saying that excessive factual content hurt their feelings. You can see this in the material created by media watchdogs of the left and right.
That’s faith. This is exactly what the skeptic community warned people about for years; that constantly playing up faith as something good and desirable meant we were creating a population that would proudly deny reality when it’s right in their face, because they’ve been told all their lives how that’s what good and virtuous people do. Changing your beliefs when the facts contradict them is weak and sinful. Only wicked people like scientists do that.
Also, they’re wrong. Factually wrong, about basically everything they believe. They have to avoid or deny reality in order to continue to be conservatives in the first place. If people were somehow magically forced to only believe in things that are real, conservationism would pretty much evaporate overnight. Underneath the lies, there’s no there there.
Brian Gavidia knew the 2024 election was important. He consulted with a variety of publications online, carefully compared his stances on the issues with the positions of the major candidates, prayed to his God, consulted with his family, then cast his vote for Donald Trump.
Ok, I made all that up, except the part about his voting for Trump. On June 12th, he began to have misgivings as ICE twisted his arm and shoved his face into a metal fence. “I’m an American, Bro!”, he yelled, because he was a US citizen. ICE returned his cell phone to him, but kept his ID.
He says he was brainwashed. He may have a point. In his defense -and I mean this - he has taken steps. In August he joined a lawsuit against ICE asking the court to bar them from conducting raids, “without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.”
Mr. Gavidia tattooed “We the People” on himself 6 years ago. Here’s what he says today:
I truly believe I was targeted because of my race… I believe I was racially profiled. I believe I was attacked because I was walking while brown. "Where is the freedom? Where is the justice? We live in America. This is why I’m fighting today. This is why I’m protecting the Constitution.
Joining a lawsuit is not a trivial step. Mr. Gavidia has put his shoulder to the wheel to make the country a better place. I say, “Welcome”.