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Funtatlaguy
(10,890 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)Aristus
(66,478 posts)He's a Trumpster and lives in Colorado Springs.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)I hope they don't catch who did it.
cos dem
(903 posts)There are too many of them, but there are a few of us good guys holding up the fort.
The article called it "unfortunate". What exactly was unfortunate about it?
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,389 posts)greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)The Magistrate
(95,257 posts)Celerity
(43,589 posts)this
John Lee Hooker - Going Down
From his LP Born In Mississippi, Raised Up In Tennessee (ABC Records ABCX-768) issued in 1973.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)And that is within walking distance of my home, Sir.
notinkansas
(1,096 posts)Jim_S
(62 posts)And someone who happens to know how to program the message just happened to stop by and notice that the box was unlocked. Ya that's what happened, it was just luck, and random. Sure it was...
dchill
(38,562 posts)The message isn't vulgar. Trump is vulgar.
calimary
(81,527 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)There is no shortage of articles online stating that Colorado Springs in continually ranked among the most conservative cities in the United States.
All of which makes the sign manipulation at once risky and downright heroic.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/28/colorado-springs-a-playground-for-pro-life-pro-gun-evangelical-christians
The Guardian
November 28, 2015
Colorado Springs: a playground for pro-life, pro-gun evangelical Christians
Anti-abortion rhetoric is not hard to find in the city where the fortress-like Planned Parenthood centre is the subject of regular protests.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/blackkklansman-colorado-springs-spike-lee-boots-riley-714602/amp/Beyond BlacKkKlansman: Colorado Springs and the Legacy of The Hate State
Spike Lees poignant movie made a statement about the world at large at the end, but the real-life plot continued in harrowing ways
Rolling Stone
by Kory Grow
August 23, 2018
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I still have vivid memories of how hate culture persisted in the state in the Eighties and Nineties. I grew up [in Colorado Springs] hearing white friends and, more shocking, their parents casually use the n-word and other slurs. Its also a patently conservative area, due to the presence of evangelical Christians and two military bases
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https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2019/11/right-wing-lawmaker-tapped-to-be-trump-liaison-in-colorado-springs-area/19391/
Right-Wing Lawmaker Tapped to Be Trump Liaison in Colorado Springs Area
by Jason Salzman
November 5, 2019
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ZZenith
(4,130 posts)It was always a bastion of the military mindset - Air Force Academy, Fort Carson, NORAD, Peterson Field, Ent AFB - but in the early 90s Focus On the Family infested the place and a virulent form of militant Christianity took hold. Reading their daily newspaper is like going back in time sixty years and the social pressure to conform to the local zeitgeist is tremendous.
Three cheers to the Frodo who changed the wording on the traffic sign. Its a small gesture but if it makes even one Christian Soldier doubt their invincibility it was worth doing.
Proud Veteran
(35 posts)Fond memories having spent 18 months of military time at neighboring Fort Carson in 65/66. Locals treated military just fine.
Also met my bride of 53 years and counting there.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)He worked as an electrical engineer at Honeywell and Cray Computer Corp (which he quickly and correctly predicted would fail) back in the 80s. Then he moved back.
He was thrilled to move to Colorado to work at Honeywell, but soon discovered that Colorado Springs was a right-wing hotspot. It was extremely depressing to him, and hed never previously gave much thought to politics at all. He said cruelty and meanness seemed to be the main theme of their newspaper.
Other than that, he loved Colorado overall e.g., the hiking, skiing, etc.
It also provided tremendous relief for his ragweed allergies.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)I spent quite a bit of time in the Springs when I'd go up to take care of my baby grandson. I loved watching my grandson, but did not like the city, as a whole. Of course "Focus on the Family" seemed to be a lot bigger back then. I feel like there was never a night when it wasn't mentioned on the local news. Thankfully, that no longer seems to be the case.
And then of course there was the New Life Church, led by Ted Haggard, who had been having a long-term secret relationship with a male prostitute, while preaching against homosexuality.
The section of I-25 that runs through Springs is called Ronald Reagan Highway. Whenever I'm coming home, I always feel a lot better when I'm through that part and reach the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway.
I love my city, Pueblo, and I love Denver. I think that Colorado Springs is getting better than it used to be. Fingers crossed.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)I liked Colorado a lot.
I was never there long enough to get a good feel for the politics, or I just didnt pay enough attention.
He showed me some political cartoons from their newspaper, and I replied, Are those supposed to be funny?! (I dont recall the details.) He said something like, Those are examples of the conservative politics around here!
I dont recall if we ever visited Pueblo together, but we took some trips to Denver. We ate at Casa Bonita a couple different times.
Snow skiing was fun! The snow is so much dryer and fluffier there, it wasnt even painful to wipe out in it.
We went hiking/camping in the mountains and forgot to bring sleeping pads (ground insulation). It was so sunny and hot during the day, we maybe thought they werent necessary. We were both sunburned.
That night, I could easily see the Milky Way! I have NEVER seen it so clearly anywhere else (especially not in Ohio).
On the other hand, without a cloud in the sky, the days heat easily escaped into space and it got cold in a hurry! Our teeth were actually chattering as we tried to sleep in our sleeping bags that night! (We were good sports about it, in the sense that we chuckled a few times about us maybe freezing to death up there. Lol.)
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Pueblo was a whole different town back then, and there probably wouldn't be much reason to come down here. I came here in the fall of 1980, and I absolutely hated it for the first year. It was just such a culture shock for me, and my life, on a personal level, was not good. I think my dislike of the town was predicated on the attitude of the people I first became acquainted with in the beginning.
After I had been here for a couple of years I really warmed up to Pueblo, and I eventually grew to just love it. For me it's a very friendly place, with a slower pace, and I love that I can get from one side of town to the other in about 12 minutes. I guess we still have sort of a reputation in the state of being an industrial town, but that's not who we are anymore.
I'm still not particularly fond of Colorado Springs, but I do like Denver. And yeah, it can get cold in the mountains, even in the summer. I always have a variety of outerwear in my van. It's all about layers.
Honestly, I think I'm in the place I'm supposed to be.
ismnotwasm
(42,020 posts)I might make another one
Hotler
(11,452 posts)when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.