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Virtue Signaling Denver Mayor Unhappy that He’s Getting What He Asked for
American Thinker ^ | 2 Jan, 2023 | Brian C. Joondeph

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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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: boulder; climatechange; colorado; communism; denver; illegalimmigration; immigration; signaling; socialism; virtue; virtuesignaling; woke; wokeism
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To: Sgt_Schultze

What is that, someone’s pet rock?


21 posted on 01/02/2023 6:29:00 AM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Retire, Spend Time With His Family.)
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To: Reno89519

Plymouth Rock


22 posted on 01/02/2023 6:32:40 AM PST by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: dynachrome
Nice try. "Plymouth Rock" was moved there in 1920 and often submerged in high tide. So all normal, nothing new.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/07/18/fact-check-plymouth-rock-not-accurate-gauge-sea-level-rise/10010728002/

23 posted on 01/02/2023 7:03:02 AM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Retire, Spend Time With His Family.)
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To: healy61

A lot of Brazilians living in Massachusetts live ten to an apartment, and send money home regularly. Some save enough in two years to return home and start a business. They are not all lazy bums. It depends on the individual, and to some extent, the country.


24 posted on 01/02/2023 7:46:46 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: Reno89519

Plymouth rock was identified years after the last original pilgrim had died by the by then elderly son of one of the pilgrims who said his father had told him that was the at-the-time-of-the-original-landing-submerged rock he and others had used as a stepping stone. It was taken ashore and given the iconic status, which it still retains.


25 posted on 01/02/2023 7:51:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.)
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To: yukong

If I lived in Denver, I would have signs pointing to Aspen...Nosotros te amamos.


26 posted on 01/02/2023 8:02:51 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: Tommy Revolts

Shoot...if I lived in Denver, I might be inclined to load up a few in my SUV AND drive them to Aspen and let them out near some wacko liberal Hollywood type’s vacant vacation home.


27 posted on 01/02/2023 8:49:07 AM PST by yukong
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To: MtnClimber
There is more lying than virtue signaling by the Denver elite.

Nearly every night for over 25 years at least 2 bus loads of "travelers from Mexico" have arrived at Five Points in Denver to offload their passengers.

Do you think anybody checks their immigration status?

28 posted on 01/02/2023 9:27:51 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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