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Colorado Springs road sign: F*ck Trump (Original Post) Rorey Apr 2020 OP
Every road in America should have one of these. Funtatlaguy Apr 2020 #1
I can just imagine the pearl clutching when Magats saw that. NT Rorey Apr 2020 #5
+1 dalton99a Apr 2020 #13
My tank commander in the Gulf is gonna shit when he sees that. Aristus Apr 2020 #2
He's got lots of company in the Springs Rorey Apr 2020 #3
See, we're not all Trump-humpers here. cos dem Apr 2020 #4
oh, I wish I knew how to do that!!!! FoxNewsSucks Apr 2020 #6
That's great. It's such a right-wing city, I'm surprised but delighted. Laffy Kat Apr 2020 #7
Childess. greytdemocrat Apr 2020 #8
? Celerity Apr 2020 #14
That Is A Thing Of Beauty, Ma'am The Magistrate Apr 2020 #17
thankies Sir, it is an oldie but a goodie, just like Celerity Apr 2020 #18
I missed that! kentuck Apr 2020 #20
Gotta love Colorado. notinkansas Apr 2020 #9
Sure the control box was left unlocked... SUUUUURE it was. :-/ Jim_S Apr 2020 #10
"Drivers in Colorado Springs were shocked to see a vulgar message..." dchill Apr 2020 #11
Works for me. calimary Apr 2020 #12
Right-wing Colorado Springs is known as "the Evangelical Vatican" VOX Apr 2020 #15
Colorado Springs - or, as my wife and I call it, "Mordor." ZZenith Apr 2020 #26
Hats off to the Springs Proud Veteran Apr 2020 #16
My brother used to live there. Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2020 #19
My oldest son did too Rorey Apr 2020 #21
I visited my brother a few times. Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2020 #22
Back in the 80s Rorey Apr 2020 #25
I made a stepping stone a couple of years ago that says the same thing ismnotwasm Apr 2020 #23
Colorado Springs is a hot bed for trumpers and dominionist (think Bill Barr). Hotler Apr 2020 #24

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
2. My tank commander in the Gulf is gonna shit when he sees that.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 12:07 AM
Apr 2020

He's a Trumpster and lives in Colorado Springs.

cos dem

(895 posts)
4. See, we're not all Trump-humpers here.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 12:13 AM
Apr 2020

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?

Celerity

(42,673 posts)
18. thankies Sir, it is an oldie but a goodie, just like
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 03:32 AM
Apr 2020

this

John Lee Hooker - Going Down

From his LP “Born In Mississippi, Raised Up In Tennessee” (ABC Records ABCX-768) issued in 1973.



Jim_S

(58 posts)
10. Sure the control box was left unlocked... SUUUUURE it was. :-/
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 02:07 AM
Apr 2020

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

(38,324 posts)
11. "Drivers in Colorado Springs were shocked to see a vulgar message..."
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 02:29 AM
Apr 2020

The message isn't vulgar. Trump is vulgar.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
15. Right-wing Colorado Springs is known as "the Evangelical Vatican"
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 03:08 AM
Apr 2020

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 Lee’s 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
<snip>
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. It’s 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

(4,110 posts)
26. Colorado Springs - or, as my wife and I call it, "Mordor."
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 07:14 PM
Apr 2020

It was always a bastion of the military mindset - Air Force Academy, Fort Carson, NORAD, Peterson Field, Ent AFB - but in the early ‘90’s 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. It’s a small gesture but if it makes even one “Christian Soldier” doubt their invincibility it was worth doing.

Proud Veteran

(35 posts)
16. Hats off to the Springs
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 03:14 AM
Apr 2020

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

(14,848 posts)
19. My brother used to live there.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 04:48 AM
Apr 2020

He worked as an electrical engineer at Honeywell and Cray Computer Corp (which he quickly and correctly predicted would fail) back in the 80’s. 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 he’d 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)
21. My oldest son did too
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 07:54 AM
Apr 2020

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

(14,848 posts)
22. I visited my brother a few times.
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 10:19 AM
Apr 2020

I liked Colorado a lot.

I was never there long enough to get a good “feel” for the politics, or I just didn’t pay enough attention.

He showed me some political cartoons from their newspaper, and I replied, “Are those supposed to be funny?!” (I don’t recall the details.) He said something like, “Those are examples of the conservative politics around here!”

I don’t 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 wasn’t 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 weren’t 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 day’s 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)
25. Back in the 80s
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 12:46 PM
Apr 2020

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.

Hotler

(11,353 posts)
24. Colorado Springs is a hot bed for trumpers and dominionist (think Bill Barr).
Fri Apr 10, 2020, 11:41 AM
Apr 2020

when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.

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