I was one of about a dozen people who spoke at the Capitol in front of an internal design committee. It was the first step in this process and they had never held public comment on anything prior to this.

I was the last speaker. The first dozen "against" folks provided level-headed reasons for why this project shouldn't be approved. Then I got up, looked his deputy Chief of Staff directly (she's on the committee by reason of representing the governor) and said:

"Make no mistake about it, this project is stupid."

I've been in several meetings since with people and groups getting ready for the next steps in opposing this at the City of Denver level (it would have needed a zoning approval by our feckless City Council). During those meetings, one person who's worked for the governor's office on similar matters described his taste in art this way:

"He collects stuff that is best described as 'Salvador Dali Meets Pee Wee Hermann".

"I think Amanda Marcotte is onto something here.

During a roundtable in Pittsburgh last week, Trump claimed his uncle taught Kaczynski at MIT and that his uncle said the future terrorist was a “seriously good” student. This is not true. John Trump died in 1985, 11 years before Kaczynski was outed as the Unabomber. Plus, Kaczynski attended Harvard, not MIT. Trump’s story sounds an awful lot like a fake story that Epstein used to tell, according to Stuart Pivar, another old friend of Epstein’s who gave an interview to Mother Jones in 2019. “Jeffrey told me that he studied math at UCLA with the Unabomber, who was a math teacher,” Pivar said. This is also not true — Epstein didn’t go to UCLA and Kaczynski didn’t teach there. Trump no doubt has been thinking a lot about his 15 years of close friendship with the deceased sex offender. Some B.S. story he likely heard from his old friend bubbled into his brain, and he mixed it up with other B.S. stories he tells about his uncle."

A truly inspired post!

Polis always creeped me out not just because he’s a libertarian middle aged white dude. He’s also Jewish, and for some reason I am more offended by douchebags from my own tribe.

This post is a thing of beauty and a pleasure to behold.

He won't fade into obscurity. He'll join Peter Thiel's authoritarian, tech bro, Nazi, crypto death cult...

Hard not to think of the Khrushchev quote, which ironically you normally hear from libertarians: "politicians are all the same, they build bridges even where there are no rivers."

I mean... as ridiculous a time-waster as this seems, good on him for abiding by the poll results, I guess? Musk, Trump, or Romney would've just gone back and "unskewed" the polls, then gone full speed ahead on the bridge. God, the bar in U.S. politics these days really is lower than a snake full of buckshot, isn't it.

"They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now!"

Polis bought his way into politics with the money from putting the Blue Mountain greeting card company (his family's company) on the internet during the first dot com boom.

He spent a lot of money on a school board run, and that allowed him to be a "serious politician."

He has spent philanthropic dollars on a number of charter schools, and the vaccination rate in those charter schools is abysmal. Libertarian galaxy brain prevents him from saying anything positive about vaccines whether or not he vaccinates his own children. It's like he doesn't believe in public health, and we could withstand this goofy nonsense when it wasn't in control of the federal government. Now, we need people who are loud and proud pro-vaccine.