Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by Pete Brayton

My wife's second cousin, Jessica Killin is currently leading Republican Jeff Crank here in Colorado. That would be the district that includes among other parts of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS!

Not sure how you feel about this Pete, and I certainly don’t wanna make any value judgments, but I’m really bummed that Amendment 87 passed giving Colorado a graduated state income tax. At least it appears to be passing by one percent.

The bill has significant flaws, for example the brackets not being indexed for inflation.   Mostly I think it will likely discourage high earning young professionals, entrepreneurs and corporations from moving to Colorado.   Democrat governor Jared Pollis was opposed to this amendment, and I agreed with him for all sorts of reasons. Hopefully it does not damage our economy too badly.

P.S.  no one has called the Killin race in ElPaso county or Amendment 87 officially.  The Colorado Secretary of States shows all counties have completed their Election Day counts, which should be most everything, since we are entirely mail-out, drop-off voting.  No late ballots except military, I think.   Still the NYT says that only 75% of the vote is in, so take my conclusions with a grain of salt please,

Originally Posted by Pete Brayton

My wife's second cousin, Jessica Killin is currently leading Republican Jeff Crank here in Colorado. That would be the district that includes among other parts of Colorado, COLORADO SPRINGS!

Which explains where Richard Davis is. No doubt he’s still partying with the Killin campaign staffers, since we all know he’s a closet liberal.  🤔

Originally Posted by James Brown

As best I can tell from the Colorado Secretary of State‘s webpage Killin beat Crank handily.  That is Colorado’s District five. After the Democrats finished gerrymandering our state, district 5 includes El Paso County and nothing else. I guess the goal was to pack all of the Republican influence into one district to keep the surrounding districts more blue. Turns out they didn’t have to worry.

Carpet-bagger Lauren Boebert went down in her new “safe” East slope district.

One Republican might win a house seat in Colorado in the district covering the far western and southern corner of the state. He is ahead by 1200 votes out of 300,000 cast, so I’m sure it is not officially gonna be over for a long time.

By the way, most of you probably know this but El Paso county in Colorado has a huge military presence, in addition to a strong cabinetmaker community.  The military vote has made this district reliably R forever.  If Killin continues to kill the vote that tells a lot about what our military men and women think of Trump’s second term so far.

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark

Found this obituary to MAGA that someone posted online. Quite good.

Yes, funny - but don’t forget how the Democrats were written off as dead forever after getting shellacked a mere 24 months ago.

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark

Found this obituary to MAGA that someone posted online. Quite good.

Trust me Maurice, I hate to be serious and analytical in response to a mock obituary, but the obituary itself illustrates why, unfortunately, MAGA is not going away any time soon.  The mock obituary also amply illustrates how smug elitist leftism is as strong as ever.

The author says:  "MAGA is survived by...poorly educated yahoos still deep in mourning who wonder why they are poorer than ever."  I can almost hear the chuckling, nodding, and winking from so many of my highly educated lefty friends.  

The "poorly educated don't know what's good for them" attitude is pervasive on the left.  This unjustified attitude is the real father of MAGA, not Donald Trump.  MAGA is a right-populist sentiment born of resentment.  Trump merely saw and exploited the moment.  

The Democrats are now the party of a highly educated and self-assured minority who deems itself smarter and objectively superior to anyone who might have slightly different values on any number of social issues.  They have not only abandoned the working class, but indeed have actively mocked and heaped ridicule on the working class. 

Without the working class the Democrats have no long term electoral strength.  This was the lesson of 2024, which is now unfortunately obscured by the smashing success of 2026.  But the 2026 midterms were a perfect storm of war, domestic upheaval, and economic mayhem directly caused by an incompetent fool in the White House.  Donald Trump won't always be on the ballot.  Unless the lessons of 2024 are learned by the Democrats they will be the ones getting their asses handed to them by MAGA (or some other right-populist successor movement) in the next few years.

In my opinion, look out for wild swings in electoral sentiment - like we saw between 2024 and 2026 - until we get a party and politicians who actually work to solve the kitchen table issues.

This sort of level-headedness makes me happy:

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

"Yes, funny, but...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ie5iZ2fEI

That's always a good one - but on my screen German subtitles kept obscuring the English punch lines.  

Originally Posted by James Brown

That's always a good one - but on my screen German subtitles kept obscuring the English punch lines.  

Here’s a joke that made me laugh out loud. It’s not original, I wish I could take credit. I read it in the comments section of the Washington Post where the overwhelmingly lefty readership was aptly ripping apart today’s Marc Thiessen defense of Trump’s war in Iran/hit job on Vance.   Anyway:

“At least the war in Iran led to regime change.… Just not in Iran!”

😎

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark

Hi James, 

I totally agree.  I think that the Democrats must realise that they did not really win the election,  but rather the Republicans lost it.

Unless the Democrats show clearly they are willing to govern to improve people's lives,  they will lose next time.

On another topic, I have seen speculation that the newly blue states could join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and if they did, it would take it over the 270 electoral votes required.  What do you think?

I think that would be horrible.  

Also, what you are really looking for is the statehouse make up shifting blue, since the statehouse or a referred ballot measure (direct vote) is needed to pass a state law about how a state distributes its electors in the EC.   Did Texas or any other state statehouse shift significantly blue?

Originally Posted by James Brown

I think that would be horrible.  

Also, what you are really looking for is the statehouse make up shifting blue, since the statehouse or a referred ballot measure (direct vote) is needed to pass a state law about how a state distributes its electors in the EC.   Did Texas or any other state statehouse shift significantly blue?

Texas does have a state Senate and it is still red. So they are not gonna be taking up any laws on the electoral college soon. Any permanent flip from red to blue in the Texas statehouse, with a strong majority in both houses, is something that can only come in the relatively distant future I think.