Denver Election Results: Not great but could have been worse
These went as I expected. Mike Johnston will be the new mayor, beating Kelly Brough. Best news of the day: Candi CdeBaca got stomped by Darrell Watson in District 9. One of the other socialists (Shannon Hoffman) lost (to Chris Hinds) in District 10 but other socialist (Shontel Lewis) is ahead by 50 votes (over Brad Revare) in District 8 with not too many votes still to count. I note that there are over 500 "undervotes" in that race, meaning 500+ people who live in that district voted in the mayor's race but not in the city council race.
Denver Election Results (denvergov.org)
Mike has a tall task ahead of him. His instincts are collaborative but also leftist and the latter usually leads to failure on the issues that he will be judged on, homelessness and crime. I do think he'll be data-driven so perhaps if his plans don't seem to be working, he'll be willing to change them. Meanwhile, he got endorsements from the far-left and big labor and one wonders what bones he'll throw to those various parasites. I wish him will, of course, though I'm not very optimistic. Certainly, his election does NOT represent Denver's turning away from it's pivot toward wanting to be Portland or Seattle and all of the ruin incorporated in those once-lovely cities.
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Just One Thing: The Denver School Board is a disaster
I touched on this on yesterday's show but it bears repeating:
In case you were wondering just how utterly radical and dysfunctional the Denver school board is, before and after members of the Board were arguing over the board president cutting off board members’ microphones, one board member said that both perfectionism and operating with a sense of urgency were characteristics of white supremacy. Then, our diversity hire superintendent who must have said all the most woke stuff in interviews, added that while apparently everyone knows that police exist to oppress non-white people, the other system designed for just that purpose is, wait for it, education. Yep, the guy hired by a racist school board to take care of almost 90,000 Denver public school students, loathes our educational system. All these people need to go. The need to go as far away as possible, and the sooner the better.
One of the craziest members of the school board said that police were created to keep slaves enslaved. Jonah Goldberg has addressed this contention:
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Today's Guests
Colorado Governor Jared Polis joins me for the 11 AM hour. Rare to get this much time from any governor. I'm very pleased to be able to bring you the sort of in-depth interview that you probably will not hear anywhere else during Jared's time in this office. We will take some listener questions by text.
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Dan Mitchell is President of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity. We'll discuss America's current fiscal path, which is toward "fiscal crisis" if not national near-bankruptcy, caused by an utter lack of spending discipline by both political parties, though one is slightly worse than the other.
Staff – Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Selfish Politicians Are Setting the Stage for Fiscal Crisis | International Liberty (wordpress.com)
Entitlement Collapse and Demographic Change | International Liberty (wordpress.com)
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Other Stuff
Holy moley: Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network - WSJ
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There's hypocrisy, and then there's this: 9/11 group slams PGA commissioner Jay Monahan following LIV partnership (golf.com)
One wonders if Monahan will survive through this and stay on the job. Normally, executing a major merger creates job security (if you want it) but in this case it could do the opposite.
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Well that didn't last long. Jeff Zucker must be rolling on the floor laughing: CEO Chris Licht out at CNN (msn.com)
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Misinformation must, unfortunately, be accepted as a price of freedom. Of course we need to identify it and call it out and try to make sure people aren't fooled, but censorship of what some self-appointed information czars think is not fit for consumption has never worked out well, and will never work out well.
Big Tech rolls back misinformation measures ahead of 2024 (axios.com)
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This is right in line with what Ken Buck told us a week ago:
Right-wing House Republicans sabotaged debt ceiling vote (axios.com)
Conservatives revolt against GOP leaders on House floor | The Hill
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This is a remarkable story: People with student loans who did not have to pay during COVID (and still) did not react by paying down other debt; they reacted by taking on MORE debt.
The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea - My Us Times
Student Loan Borrowers Get Deeper in Debt from Pause in Payments | Craig Eyermann (independent.org)
Related: If Joe Biden's insane plan to transfer student loan debt from people who got college and grad school educations to people who didn't actually happens, it will cost Americans a fortune.
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Today's Videos
Nerdy word stuff
Is she trolling us?
It's the Monty Python Killer Rabbit!