Russia’s campaign to influence U.S. elections and help Donald Trump get elected must not be any big deal to Colorado’s Republican Senator Cory Gardner, who joined Senate Republicans in blocking an attempt by Democrats to include $250 million in the…
Tag: Trump Insanity
Documenting hate in Grand Junction
Here are additional recently-spotted signs that bring the hate and racism lurking in Grand Junction right out into the open: A “Haji” is a slur for a Muslim, specifically one who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca. The “ZF” stands…
Trump’s war on worker safety
Falling from scaffolding, getting hurt by chemical hazards, getting cut by, caught in or crushed by equipment… many Mesa County workers face hazards like this every day on the job. A significant number of people in Mesa County work in…
Rep. Scott Tipton votes to let Trump’s family and senior officials benefit financially from changes to federal banking rules
Western slope Congressional Representative Scott Tipton on March 14 voted against a motion to prohibit President Trump and his family from benefitting personally from a bill currently under consideration by the federal legislature to change federal banking rules.
Disgraced white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos plans talk in Grand Junction
People are hyperventilating over a scheduled appearance in Grand Junction by white supremacist provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at 7:00 p.m. on April 14th at a currently undisclosed location. Some are planning protests, but the best thing to do might be to just…
Get ready, Mesa County Republicans. President Trump wants to take your guns!
President Trump on Wednesday called for seizing guns belonging to people who are deemed to present a danger to others without allowing them due process first. “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just…
Trump’s Border Wall Folly
While still promising Mexico will pay for it, President Trump is now trying to extort $25 billion from U.S. taxpayers to build a “big, beautiful” border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and he’s holding DACA recipients hostage to do…
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…
Trump on immigration: “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
Kick the kids out of the room. The president in on TV again, and again, it’s for a shockingly offensive comment, especially coming from an American president. The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump actually told a bipartisan group of Senators…
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-linked hate graffiti found at Horizon Drive Safeway
An employee at the Horizon Drive Safeway discovered hateful anti-gay graffiti scrawled in the store’s restroom tonight and posted photos of it on social media. The employee discovered the graffiti while changing out of work clothes in the restroom. One…
Trump babbles incoherently while delivering a speech in South Korea, Nov. 7, 2017
Watch for yourself!
Tipton and Gardner vote to end consumers’ right to sue when big banks steal from them
Why is the stock market zooming up so high? Because the Trump administration is gutting consumer protections, most notably against the big banks, so the banks can more freely commit fraud and fleece customers like you and me without being…
CBS/Washington Post: U.S. Congress complicit in advancing the U.S. opioid epidemic
A blockbuster CBS News/60 Minutes and Washington Post investigation reveals that after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) cracked down on big pharmaceutical distributors who were knowingly pumping millions of addictive opioid drugs into the black market in cities and…
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…
Daily Sentinel Completely Omits Coverage of G.J. Tax Day March
Sometimes, what newspapers don’t cover is as important than what they do cover. Today’s Daily Sentinel is a case in point. Hundreds of people marched in the streets of downtown Grand Junction on Saturday, April 15 yelling and protesting President…
Tax Day March Planned in Grand Junction to Push Trump to Reveal his Tax Returns
Activists are organizing a local tax day march on Saturday, April 15 in solidarity with a national effort to show President Donald Trump that Americans very much want him to reveal his tax returns. The Trump administration poses unprecedented economic conflicts of interest…