Posted on 01/02/2023 5:11:45 AM PST by MtnClimber
How ironic that Denver is getting exactly what it wanted and voted for but is now complaining and wanting American taxpayers to pay the bill for their cost-free virtue signaling.
Virtue signaling is a current pastime of Democrats and the left. The Cambridge Dictionary defines it,
Virtue signaling is the popular modern habit of indicating that one has virtue merely by expressing disgust or favor for certain political ideas or cultural happenings.
Climate warriors signal their virtue about global warming. For example, those screeching loudest over rising sea levels, including Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and John Kerry, own waterfront homes that will be underwater should their predictions materialize, but which they seem to know won’t happen.
Others like King Charles and Al Gore jet across the globe to attend climate conferences, oblivious to their own carbon footprints.
Immigration is another topic of virtue signaling. Many Democrat chief executives declare their city or state jurisdictions as sanctuaries, theoretically rolling out the red carpet to illegal immigrants. At least until the immigrants show up on their doorstep, at which time the Democrats quickly change their tunes, closing their doors to migrants or quickly sending them to someone else’s back yard.
Governor Ron DeSantis gave Martha’s Vineyard a chance to live up its self-proclaimed sanctuary status by sending 48 migrants their way, only to have residents and officials immediately turn into MAGA racists by shipping the migrants far from their self-proclaimed virtuous sanctuary island.
Closer to my home in Denver, similar hypocrisy was on display when the city got exactly what it asked for, and like the dog chasing and catching the car, discovered that they didn’t know what to do once they got what they wanted.
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Send them to Boulder.
“Send them to Boulder.”
Too close to me.
That would be like sending them to Mars. I want illegals to leave, but expose them to the demented denizens of Boulder?…That’s just cruel. /s
However, the Boulderites would certainly deserve it, though.
Sea level rise? Where, when. And there is none.
We need a new president and then we need to deport all foreign invaders who crossed over that border back to where they came from.
I don’t care if my idea is nice or not either.
“We will be empathetic to people put in a difficult situation.” “
Breaking a nations law by going there and then being rewarded with transport. food, clothes, rent, medical care, free phone, education etc IS NOT A DIFFICULT SITUATION. Any ass can do it and millions are.
I suggested to him that he was enabling their drug habit by giving them money and he was dumbfounded.
When he eventually collected his wits, he asked, "what are you suggesting I do then?"
I responded that charitable contributions are wonderful but you have to dig beneath the surface of a charity if you want to determine if such a gift is virtuous or wasteful...or worse, destructive.
And this gets back to virtue signaling and the Left. The Left is like a river. A mile wide and one inch deep.
Shallow.
The goal was to flood rural red state areas with new Democrats - not to let those new Democrats camp out in their neighborhoods. It's an operational issue, and those red state governors need to be forced to stick to the plan! /s
Don’t tell me it’s Martha’s Vineyard,Rocky Mountain style!
To Rat Party headquarters flipping Texas is their giant wet dream.
Virtue signaling isn’t anything new.
Think about all those holier-than-thou people in the past who went on and on and on about how pure and righteous and godly they were when in reality they were some of the biggest self dealing crooks and fornicators with no actual regard for their fellow man as their religion teaches they should have. No humility either.
I call the “Carbon Credits” pushed by Gaia worshipers the selling of Green Indulgences. That’s exactly what they are.
This is a more secular age, but its the exact same dynamic at work.
It doesn’t matter if it’s Socialism, Communism or Climate Change. It’s all about elites seizing control of a country and imposing their brand of governing and justice on that country. The end result is the elites eating high on the hog and the Plebes eat out of their garbage cans ... e.g. ... Venezuela.
They are all on a free vacation. Why aren’t they taking care of their elders and families. They are selfish. They need to make their home country better.
Time for Denver to put their money where their virtue signaling mouth is.
Denver was once a wonderful big city. Now? Give it another year or so and it’ll be San Pelosi-shitsco II. Years back, Colorado had a plethora of “Don’t Californicate Colorado” bumper stickers. We should have backed up those stickers with threats. Colorado’s three zones of stupidity (Aspen, Boulder, and Denver) are the cancers that threaten to doom the state.
Send them to Mayheeco.
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“Send the to Boulder.”
No…Send them to Aspen! Tell them there are a lot of really nice, empty vacation homes that the uppity, white, rich, liberal owners would he happy to share with them since those same uppity, white, rich liberals always pound their chests proclaiming we must allow the illegals entry to our country.
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