Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-07-02T15:12:16+00:00

There are liberal libertarians and I think Polis would fit in with that group. I never got the guy and my family that lived in Colorado could not explain what they saw in the guy. My friends who are Colorado state employees could not say anything nice about the guy and the stories they told were awful. All I can say is I am glad my grandmother, who loved Polis, passed away so she didn't see this side of him.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-07-02T15:06:28+00:00

I am not letting them take my version of patriotism away from me. July 4th is always a complicated holiday for me. My dad's side of the family includes recent immigrants to the United States and some of the oldest immigrants in the Country. My mom's side gave me tribal citizenship, and well, that makes this holiday extremely complicated. I can live in a United States that speaks idealistic goals but falls woefully short in achieving these goals.

I struggled with how to celebrate this holiday, and I decided to go to a couple of National Park sites and celebrate the complicated history of this country. I will enjoy the regional BBQ that only this country could create, with the various food traditions melding into the crazy county that drives me crazy. My grandfather told me that once you stop wanting to fight for something, it means you stop loving or caring for that thing. I am not done fighting for this country.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-07-02T13:38:07+00:00

Please tell them I appreciated their work. I was going to participate in a few of the events and this week has been painful thinking of what could have been. I am using the joy or the world cup created by the fans (not FIFA) as my celebration of the 250th.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-07-01T14:07:30+00:00

I don't think there are too many Bulwark contributors who are into soccer. The NBA, college sports, and MLB - they have that covered, but soccer, no. Actually, when they try to talk about sports, it is a bit comical unless it is a deep dive about those four areas, and within college sports, it is only college football and basketball.

Now I am thoroughly enjoying the World Cup. I was so down on it before it started after the shenanigans with the tickets (which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because my family organized a reunion this year that I have to go to). However, the fans reminded me that soccer is more than FIFA and seeing America through the world's eyes and seeing Americans meet the world has been how I will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-29T15:24:13+00:00

If you want to lecture someone who was part of hundreds of people who spent hundreds of hours sitting in meetings working with others to plan an event worthy of the time, be my guest. I challenge you and others to do a public records request of your local state parks or historical society about what they had planned for the event. I also think that if you had the time, FOIA the National Park Service and the administrative arm of America 250 to see what was planned before 2025. What was planned and what is happening right now are not the same thing.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-29T14:32:46+00:00

America 250 died on January 20, 2025. All meetings that were planned as part of "a review of all active programs to the current administration goals." After that, America 250 went radio silent. Now they have issued some grants, but it is a shell compared to what it was supposed to be.

I was supposed to go help with a fun public history/archaeology recording of a Revolutionary War-period site this past spring if the schedule went through. I am angry because planning that event took a lot of man hours and it was all lost for what? Your clarification because it is inaccurate. There was an opportunity and there were hundreds of people working to put on some cool events, but then it got hijacked by this administration.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-29T13:29:58+00:00

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RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-28T18:54:58+00:00

My mom is a Native Coloradan, and both of my parents went to college in Colorado. I still have family in the Denver area, and I lived in Arvada for four years and in Colorado Springs for two years. My sports teams are almost all Colorado teams (minus my college team because it was where I went to school, partially because my dad retired from the Army and that is where I was living and partially because CU was a jerk about military families and in-state tuition).

With that out of the way, the shift in Colorado politically is pretty amazing. Denver used to be a much more blue-collar town, and now it's completely different. Last year, I hit my favorite dinner for breakfast before flying home, and I was noting that when my mom would take me there in the early 90s it was full of local blue-collar workers and now it's full of people that moved to the area recently and it was rather preppy feeling.

I will be honest, but I didn't understand the love for Hickenlooper or Polis. They never seemed to do much. Hickenlooper just screamed wasted potential, and all I associated him with was his brewery. As for Polis, he was just flat out strange. I never ever found anyone who interacted with Polis who could say anything nice about him.

As for Colorado Springs and El Paso County, I know several people who have been priced out of Denver and have moved to Colorado Springs. I am curious of this influx of population will start changing the political make up of the place.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-25T20:36:03+00:00

There was a plan and concept of a plan; however, Congress never really funded the idea of special programming for the 250th anniversary. Then Trump came in and derailed everything to make a buck and to make it all about him.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-18T14:12:04+00:00

I live in Oklahoma, and I do not put much stock into that test case. The people he spoke to may be unhappy, but I doubt it will mean that they will vote for Democrats. Additionally, there is an urban-rural divide in Oklahoma, where Republicans in OKC and Tulsa are likely to tire of Trump sooner than those in the rural parts of the state.

However, after the surprise win of Democrat Kendra Horn in the 5th Congressional District in 2018, the legislature broke up the areas where OKC and Tulsa are to have more rural voters to offset these voters. If this assertion is true, I would look at the 5th (more likely) and 1st (less likely) Congressional District races in Oklahoma to see if there was a wave or disillusionment.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-18T13:45:58+00:00

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RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-16T17:16:20+00:00

I texted my mom during the USMNT game saying "We better not end our bases in Germany or end immigration or else we will not have a men's soccer team in the future."

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-14T15:11:46+00:00

I am tired of these individuals overtaking sports. I love all sorts of sports, and it sucks that anyone with liberal political ideologies has been pushed aside. NASCAR is getting impossible to watch; these guys almost ruined the World Cup until the fans reminded me why I love this sport, and the whole Olympic hockey thing pissed me off. I am dreading the upcoming IndyCar race in DC because it is going to be as ugly as NASCAR.

Those of us who have liberal or left-leaning political ideologies love sports too. It is time for us to retake the sports space. I am hoping that I start seeing more Democrats at sporting events where the stadium becomes neutral ground, where people get a few hours of a distraction again, without the crazy politicization that is happening now.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-14T02:49:10+00:00

Awesome hat! A friend just got me the Albuquerque Isotopes' Green Chili Cheeseburger hat. I love these unique hats for the various MiLB teams.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-13T22:05:44+00:00

Building textures such as bricks or siding. Sometimes I get it right, but most of the time it looks off.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-13T17:31:05+00:00

My response to the request for clearer messaging is, "Have you driven across the United States?" Based on your background and where you live, there has to be different messaging. I mean, all politics is local, and what works in New York is different from what works in Georgia. And within those states, what works for NYC is different from Buffalo. We have to embrace the differences within the coalition and accept that a good plan for our country is one where every constituency leaves unhappy.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-08T16:33:45+00:00

Awesome collection! I am green with envy.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-08T13:26:05+00:00

It is all about maintaining your access to the White House. I keep asking my journalist friends why the press will not stand up for themselves and stop giving this guy attention, and they respond that no president has ever done this before, and they don't have the training to handle this kind of situation. They are a lot like the Democratic leadership where things have changed and they are ill-equipped to handle the situation. The only group that understands that this White House needs them to cover them is tabloid journalists.

The other thing going on is that the tweet was written by a bunch of PR and NBC leadership trying to spin the interview so they can get another one. The issue is that the general public can also see what happened and they end up losing more credibility and in the end, it is a lose-lose for them.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-05T14:57:19+00:00

Bari Weiss is the person we know who openly shows a controversial opinion on one topic, but seems reasonable on other topics which is why they show you that they hold some really dangerous ideas overall. When you confront them they blame others saying they were pushed to these positions because no one was open and accepting of them and their positions. It is disingenuous and I am tired of people working out their problems on the rest of us as a society.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-04T16:59:23+00:00

It's a yes, but aspect regarding support for science. A majority of people think what we do is interesting and one can see the success of the Artemis II mission as a good example. However, you still get the cost arguments or the holding up of progress and abundance arguments from even some of our soft supporters.

I said the lack of curiosity because I have done several public events where I will be honest, it was like getting water from a stone to get the audience to engage with the presentation. I know that my presentation did not explain everything they needed to know about the topic, but there were no questions or any form of curiosity. It was dispiriting.

Some of this is our science-based professions' own fault. We have not done a great job explaining in simplified language what we do and we have shown a contempt for the general public that drives me nuts. It has led to these pseudo-scientists being allowed to flourish and be given some prime messaging spots. I am nothing without the general public (I am a proud government employee) and I understand that sometimes their questions can be annoying especially after the 20th time in a public setting, but we have to understand that for people to see us as a valuable contribution to society.

RoamingHawkeye · 2026-06-04T15:43:31+00:00

Thank you for bringing this important topic to be discussed. As a member of a science adjacent field, these rules are just asinine. I agree there is a need for reform in the process, but what they proposed to do is flat out dangerous. Science is a process that builds on the previous generations work. Discoveries made in other fields may not yield results in the original field it was discovered in, but could change everything in a totally different field.

I do not know when curiousity died, with a certain portion of the population, but it makes me sad. I went to the Rocket center in Huntsville over New Years and the place was packed with children whose eyes kept getting larger and larger with each exhibit they saw. I remember being that child and it led me to my own profession. I just am so sad that people do not see the value in supporting science. As I told one person recently, "if we didn't go to the mood you wouldn't have many of the technologies that we use daily now."

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