Posted on 07/29/2018 7:37:10 AM PDT by Yosemitest
As the clock struck midnight last Sunday, Grand Junction night owls saw redliterally.
The digital billboard looming over Rimrock Marketplace now displays a massive crimson and yellow GOP, but with the O replaced by the Russian hammer & sickle icon used by the former Soviet Union.
Mesa County progressives purchased the billboard to call out the Republican Partys refusal to challenge Trumps apparent preference for Russian denials of election interference over the unanimous assessment of United States intelligence agencies.
Grand Junction resident Anne Landman, who paid for the billboard, says its purpose is to draw attention Republicans alarming acceptance of President Trump cozying up to authoritarian dictators who disregard human rights.
While musing about a billboard on her Facebook page, a friend shared a photo of the GOP Russia design.
Landman reached out to the creator, MadDogPac of Odenton, Maryland and received permission to use the image free of charge.
Mad Dog PAC was founded in December 2017 by Claude Taylor, a former White House staffer under President Clinton.
The organization says it solicits contributions from concerned citizens to fund billboards censuring Trump, the GOP and the NRA.
The fine print on the board reads Paid for by informed citizens of Mesa County and Mad Dog Pac.
Landman says the informed citizens arent an official group of any sort, but rather friends and like-minded Mesa County residents.
The Russian GOP billboard isnt the only piece of Mad Dogs artwork to appear in Colorado.
Drivers in the Denver metro area may have seen a billboard reminding them that Mike Coffman Took $30,843 in NRA Blood Money.
The Grand Junction billboard isnt targeted at a specific elected official, but rather focuses on the Russia-friendly attitude of the Republican Party.
Furthermore, it reflects the sentiments of Mesa County progressives who are decidedly outnumbered, according to Landman.
Says Landman,
Just like Democrats ignored the Soviet Unions mistreatment of its own people at home and in their satellite nations in Eastern Europe. You couldnt turn on the TV in the eighties without watching lib Dems slobbering all over Russians. Remember Phil Donahues lovefest with Soviet propagandist Vladimir Pozner, and how about the aptly named Gorbasms (Thanks Rush) the left had when that man landed in DC. The Democrats constantly trashed Ronald Reagan and clung on to Mikhail Gorbachev as the savior who would save the world. The Dems dont want to talk about any of this, do they? Lets not get started about the numerous Democrats who spied for the Soviets. Putin has a mountain of documents showing Democrats and their association with his nation as the USSR and now Russia!
Good question, given that she/he/it seems to have a case of Male Pattern Baldness beginning.
The irony being that the left was apoplectic over Reagans efforts at bringing down the Soviet Union.
Cognitive Dissonance.
“Republican Partys refusal to challenge Trumps apparent preference for Russian denials of election interference over the unanimous assessment of United States intelligence agencies.”
You mean thise agencies that exonerated Clinton while trying to sabotage Trump? Those agencies?
Guess she slept in that day? But, maybe some credit for the grapic. Now back to the ‘DUH-NC’.
It's no longer, "17" intelligence agencies, it's now unanimous.
No more allowing democrats to scream russia russia russia without providing a full detailed explanation of what the russians did, and how it took down the highest funded candiate in history
And, Democrats want Republicans to be angry about this!
Basically, Democrats are telling President Trump that he should've brought hellfire down on Putin for letting their gal lose!
Absurd.
I think that rich leftists are dumping a lot of money to spread lies and try to bring down the constitutional republic. I am listening to Pandora radio, and the *only* ad Ive heard in two days is misinformation about tariffs, encouraging people to visit a website to get even more misinformation.
There is also this billboard...how many others will pop up around the country? And the social media have engaged in outright censorship, essentially giving Socialist Democrats free campaigning.
Who is paying for all of this?
I knew when I voted for Trump that we might not be able to preserve a free country even with his leadership. Indeed, the destroyers are redoubling their efforts. Its worrisome.
Also, I wonder if it would help to complain to Pandora? If I keep hearing that misinformation ad, I will have to find an alternative.
That was back when the Russians were communists.
Now that they are apostates the left hates them.
Which party was it that was so friendly with the U.S.S.R.?? Maybe not so warm to Russia, but they will grab onto any excuse, any means to vent their hate.
I think I’ll pass.
Burn the apostate!
It is so sad to me to see Colorado become insane...
My grandfather had a beautiful ranch in Colorado, I was born there and still have family there. I have cousins that guide hunters, raise peaches, ETC. It is so hard for me to see the crazies take over. Colorado people I know were/are all conservative as can be- even those that used to be Democrats. My family and others I knew there left the Democrat Party years ago though.
Why don’t we just start screaming ‘McCarthyism’ at the Left, just like they used to do to conservatives whenever we brought up the Soviet threat back in the day?
My first thought on seeing the image in the story?
Holy crap - gas is under $3 a gallon in rural CO!!!!
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