Last week State Senator Ray Scott embarrassed Mesa County residents and made a fool of himself by actually saying out loud on the Senate floor that climate change has led to “massive improvements” in our climate. Now Scott is co-sponsoring…
Tag: Extremism
Grand Junction may soon lose its only secular hospital
A previous blog discussed why Mesa County residents should be glad to have an alternative to a Catholic hospital in the valley and why it is so important to people’s health to have a secular hospital option available for medical care. But our…
New form of harassment: weaponization of classified ads
Utilizing a novel form of harassment, someone put a malicious classified ad in the January 3 edition of The Nickel Classified Ads saying our house was for sale “by owner” at a lowball price, and that there will be an open…
Billboard raises awareness of Republicans’ dangerous dalliance with Putin
A billboard on I-70 B takes aim at the Republican Party (also known as the “Grand Old Party” or GOP) which is quickly becoming “the party of Trump.” The billboard is in front of Rimrock Marketplace on I-70 B and…
Grand Valley Business Times repels Democratic business owners
The Grand Valley Business Times (GVBT) has long been a source of business news in Mesa County, usually focusing on helpful items like what new businesses are moving in, the newest soups at Zoup, and which authors will be appearing…
The Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce takes off it’s fig leaf
If there is a shred of doubt left that the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce exists only to promote it’s own political ideology, it dispelled that notion today with an ad in the Daily Sentinel endorsing the Grand Valley Drainage…
Milo Yiannopoulos’s Grand Junction show cancelled
Grand Junction has been spared a potentially embarrassing and costly problem. A show by white supremacist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos scheduled for April 14th at an undisclosed location in Grand Junction has been cancelled. The website for the event, “A Night…
How the President’s racism affects the western slope
President Donald Trump spent years spreading the racist lie that President Obama was born in Kenya. He’s publicly described Mexicans as rapists, called for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” said immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS,” used…
It doesn’t take, “like, a genius” to understand there is nothing adorable about being a “Deplorable”
Many ardent Trump supporters happily call themselves “deplorable,” making fun of a point Hillary Clinton tried to make during her 2016 campaign that many Trump supporters are racist, sexist, xenophobic and homophobic. Members of Trump’s “Deplorable” contingents across the…
Trump accidentally admits Republicans deceptively sold the tax bill to the country
From the Washington Post, December 20, 2017: Trump just admitted the GOP’s tax cuts were deceptively sold By Aaron Blake December 20 President Trump was so excited about passing his first major piece of legislation Wednesday that he blurted out that the Republican Party had…
Trump’s shocking U.S. District Court nominees
Three of President Donald Trump’s nominees for U.S. District Court judgeships have gone down in flames in the last few days for reasons that make Americans scratch their heads about how they could ever have been nominated to in…
Rep. Scott Tipton just voted to end many of your tax deductions
Republican western slope House Representative Scott Tipton just voted to increase the national debt by more than a trillion dollars and alter the federal tax code in ways that will likely create hardship for many of his constituents. Every Democrat…
Read the fine print: Republican “tax reform” bill injects religious dogma into the tax code
You don’t typically think of a tax reform bill as a vehicle to push a religious agenda onto the rest of the country, but Trump’s “tax reform” bill does exactly that. Buried deep inside the Republicans’ proposed “tax reform” bill is…
AZ Senator Jeff Flake’s bombshell speech about Republicans’ “complicity in this alarming and dangerous state of affairs” with Trump as U.S. President
Arizona’s Republican Senator Jeff Flake made a hair-raising speech on the Senate floor today, announcing he will not run for re-election and declaring he “will no longer be complicit or silent” in the face of President Trump’s “reckless, outrageous and…
Local Public Discussion Tonight about Charlottesville, Racism and the Difficulties Local Minorities Face, Hosted by Black Lives Matter GJ
Are you disgusted and distressed with Donald Trump putting neo-Nazi hate groups on the same moral footing as the people opposing them? Disgusted with the outright bigotry being manifested in our country? Many local residents are. As more fliers promoting the…
Trump tells murderous Filipino President Duterte he’s “doing an unbelievable job on the drug problem” in his country
A recently-released confidential transcript of an April, 2017 phone call from President Donald Trump to Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte reveals Trump praised Duterte, telling him he’s been “doing an unbelievable job on the drug problem” in his country. President Duterte has had death…
Reality Check: Does Your Political Affiliation Match Your Best Interests?
Here’s a question for Mesa County workers: When was the last time your political party helped make your life better? If you can’t think of anything, there’s a reason. The dominant political party in our area has long been the Republican Party,…
Trump Appoints White Nationalist, Anti-Feminist Steve Bannon as “Chief Strategist”
President Obama is trying to calm the fears of people abroad about a Trump presidency, while here at home Trump is stoking public fears of his presidency by his appointment of Steve Bannon a his “chief strategist.” Who is Steve Bannon?…