Posted on 03/25/2026 5:20:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
ocky Mountain high, Colorado,” sang John Denver, AKA Henry Duetschendorf Jr. in 1972. Those were heady days for Colorado. Ski resorts, the Rockies, natural beauty aplenty and the promise of new beginnings enticed many, including me, to move to Colorado. My stay on the west slope was brief, and over the years, Colorado has descended from a more-or-less business-friendly and affordable state to a Democrat People’s Republic, increasingly crowded and hostile to civil liberties and prosperity.
I occasionally travel to Colorado Springs for service on my recumbent trike and bike at the best recumbent shop in this part of the country. The traffic on I-35 is always horrific, driving through Denver is a nightmare and road construction and delays are eternal. I yet have friends and family in Colorado. My family worries about entrusting their still-infant kids to Colorado schools when the time comes. They also worry about Colorado’s increasingly draconian anti-liberty/gun laws.
They have other worries too. Colorado is facing a $1.5+ billion dollar budget shortfall, a half-billion more than expected. Republicans blame Democrat overspending. Democrats blame Republicans for noticing.
Coloradans are also noticing increasing power outages. Colorado currently is 26th in the nation for power outages and is 27th for the number of power customers affected. At Complete Colorado, Jon Caldera has noticed—when his lights have been on. He’s noticed that Colorado can be windy.
But only in the last few months have I witnessed our power utilities preemptively turning off electricity during high winds to “prevent fires.”
Caldera is suspicious:
Is Colorado suddenly windier than it has been during my entire life? Unless our eyes have been lying to us, the answer is comfortably: no.
Yet, I type this under an official warning that my power might be turned off because of another rather normal day
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I see Victor Marx is trying to get on the June primary ballot for CO. What do you think his chances are?
The only place in Colorado I’d visit would be Casa Bonita in Denver. I wonder if they ever reopened.
Betcha they wish they had back those power plants at Page AZ, Waterflow and Kirtland that Obama had shut down and destroyed.
Are the ones at Craig still running? Last I heard all those areas still have huge amounts of coal Clinton locked up in National Monuments to keep it from being mined.
Guess what kind of voting machines and tabulators CO uses.
Ending mail-in, which needs doing, won’t fix that.
It won’t fix that particular problem, no. However, every state with universal mail-in balloting is either one-party rule or headed that way. Guess which party...
We have tons of power from the Permian.
Supply is not the problem in this part of NM.
It’s 100% aging infrastructure and environmental regs affecting transmission.
Thruput.
Technically, so was I!
However, every state with universal mail-in balloting is either one-party rule or headed that way.
That was the plan all along when Colorado Rats implemented The Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act of 2013. Colorado has been “Blue” ever since.
It’s great for the economy when a good chunk of your workforce can’t pass an employee p*ss test. (sarcasm)
Just pass a wealth tax on all those second homes and the liberals in the Rockies. High taxes always work.....
Do you think Theresa Heinz’s gigolo husband tells the accountant to make sure he pays as much taxes on everything she owns?
It’s I-25 ...by the way. From Ft. Collins to Colorado Springs it’s pure shit.
It’s that nasty ole fossil fuel again that they’re getting rid of.
“Our leaders — and the corporate energy leeches who feed off them — know they need to prepare you for wildly intermittent, Third World energy.”
Not familiar with Victor. Brief look reminds me of J D Vance. (Hillbilly Elegy is a good read). Spent college years in Boulder in the early ‘70s and returned to CA afterword.
Our population has exploded with coastal immigrants that have brought their vermin with them. My little town has and is building apartments on every square inch of vacant land. They used to lecture us on limited resources but now you don’t hear a peep. Every sign has Spanish and the illegals aren’t afraid at all.
“Key component: universal mail-in balloting.”
I think there’s a bill in now for RCV. Our legislature is comprised of cat ladies who take out of state money. I can’t outvote the Starbucks/yoga pants crowd.
Antonio Gramsci + Coudenhove-Kalergi + Cloward-Piven. There’s a nasty convergence for you.
They have. :)
Colorado was a 3rd world dump when I moved there 50 years ago. Businesses struggled so badly that many business owners were in foodstamps. Pueblo was an unkept dump and the steelmill was only operational intermitently, and then it closed leaving people without jobs. Most mountain towns were barely villiages and didnt have jobs. Thats why my family and I moved. In the 90’s things began to puck up, communities began to look nicer. But even in the late 70’s the Cali’s were floating in and the democrat changes became more prevailent. If she falls back into the dumphole, it might be a good thing. Maybe prices will drop.
In the meantime, it seems I may end up back there in a few weeks. I like the town and the people in the town, butI hate the state policies,especially those policies of the current state govetnment.
Well if there is ever any hope of change, getting rid of voter fraud would be the only way to do it.
Well if there is ever any hope of change, getting rid of voter fraud would be the only way to do it.
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