Good evening!The well attended protest in Denver this afternoon. After the rally we marched from the state capitol through the heart of downtown, looping back to finish at the capitol again. An excellent and engaged crowd!
Anyone else who went have any thoughts?
Open thread.
sab
Those bright blue skies are making me very jealous.
Elizabelle
I love the Blue Bronco vaporizing The Felon. Use those eerie eyes for a public service.
eclare
@Elizabelle:
That’s an impressive poster!
WaterGirl
Looks like a really nice day for a protest.
HeleninEire
Hey WaterGirl. I just sent you an email. It’s a picture that is VERY Balloon Juice worthy. It’s on Bluesky but I don’t know how to link it into the comments here.
Elizabelle
@eclare: And teeny tiny hands. It’s a good one. They all are.
FastEdD
That’s Blucifer from the Denver Airport. A creepy sculpture whose creator was killed by a falling piece of it. The blue horse with the piercing eyes was completed by his children after he died. Like other art from the airport locals claim it is haunted.
Ryan
My mom, at 73, went to her very first protest. In Grants Pass, Oregon no less. Pictures forthcoming once she figures out attachments from a mobile phone. Big turnout.
eclare
@FastEdD:
There is some creepy art in that airport.
Nukular Biskits
Wish I could have made it to the one they had in Gulfport.
Assholes like my current GOP state leadership count on people not being able to take the time to engage in civic activities like protesting.
TheOtherHank
@Ryan: I spent a lot of time in Grants Pass back in the ancient times. It’s a beautiful place. I’m glad to hear that there are people there protesting the regime.
MattF
Has anyone linked to Larry David’s My Dinner With Adolf? This is a gift link to the NYT guest essay. People appeared to quickly realize that Bill Maher made a fool of himself in his tete-a-tete with The Orange One, but David twists the knife a few times, just to make sure everyone gets the joke.
zhena gogolia
@MattF: God, I’m blissfully unaware of what this piece is referring to. Please don’t inform me. 😂
TF79
A smaller but vigorous crew was also out in front of NIST in Boulder this afternoon.
Ruckus
The reporting I’ve seen shows rather large crowds everywhere, with some signs that really do show a level of disgust with shitforbrains and his supporting cast that is not at all insignificant.
I actually imagine that a lot of republicans might be at least a tad
pissed offupset as well. Maybe not to the same level of course but any level is a start. And I don’t see them actually thinking this is all well and good, not considering that the economy seems to be, how shall we say, heading to less than stellar. Is it possible that he’s actually pissing off other countries with his bullshit? He’s doing it here, there may be spillage.Gloria DryGarden
@Elizabelle: we have a name for that giant horse sculpture, it’s Bluecifer, he’s out on the road to the airport. Anyone in or out of the airport drives by and sees it.
I forgot about the Saturday protest/ march, but a friend sent me his photos, I’ll see if I can get them off my text app into the on the road form. They were great pix.
WaterGirl
@Ryan:
I laughed.
Will look for photos at some point.
WaterGirl
@HeleninEire: Okay, it’s quite irreverent, and I have been teary about the pope on and off all day, but you’re right, it is BJ material.
HopefullyNotcassandra
The laser-eyed Bronco is awesome
Everybody is so creative.
Gloria DryGarden
@WaterGirl: laughing?
i wonder what your goal is w that comment
It sounds like mocking, or to insult and exclude. Maybe to elicit the laughter of others. I remember those behaviors from a particular time in school.
if it’s not that, I’d be glad to know.
Citizen Dave
@MattF: I’ll have to look into this more. I read Larry David’s piece this morning and didn’t get any of the meaning. Maher certainly a well-deserving target.
Re: Denver, my friend has been visiting me, and he moved there in 2014. He was saying the other day how yes, nearly every day is sunny there; but also many many days are also cloudy as the clouds roll in in the afternoon, etc.
WaterGirl
Never mind. The image in the tweet is just slow to show up.
WaterGirl
@Gloria DryGarden: I meant no offense.
I laughed at his phrasing, telling us his mom’s age and that it was her first protest, and then saying that he would send photos as soon as she figures out the tech side. Lots of new stuff for mom this week.
Matt McIrvin
@Citizen Dave: When I was spending my summers in Boulder, there was this time in the summer when there was a daily thunderstorm that rolled off the mountains in the late afternoon/early evening. I was riding a bike to work and I’d have to judge whether I could beat it home or not.
Matt McIrvin
@Ruckus: Trump is pissing off every other country with his bullshit. Except maybe the ones like Russia that want us destroying ourselves. (China, well, they’re taking an immediate hit but they’re well-prepared and probably figure they come out golden in the long run.)
The Audacity of Krope
@WaterGirl: JD didn’t necessarily have to kill the Pope. It’s what one inevitably happens when the Pope meets the devil’s representative on Earth; if that person is someone other than the Pope, of course.
Elizabelle
@FastEdD: @Gloria DryGarden:
Blucifer. That is a memorable name. And it is startling to see, in person. Like. Wait. Something is not right here.
eclare
@MattF:
That was good, thanks.
Jay
@Citizen Dave:
wonkette.com/p/bill-maher-trumps-useful-idiot
It’s all here.
Citizen Dave
@Jay: Thanks! I always forget about the wonderful Wonkette.
Gloria DryGarden
@WaterGirl: her image is showing fine on my tablet. It’s amusing
Meanwhile, I couldn’t send my photos via your form. It didn’t look like anything attached. Too bad, because I had a fun sacrilegious one about Easter, too.
WaterGirl
@Gloria DryGarden: What file format were the photos? The form won’t take HEIC, but it does list the file formats it will take.
Gloria DryGarden
@FastEdD: well, I understand the airport was built on ancient Ute burial grounds. Some say they negotiated it all and it was ok’Ed by the Ute, others say not entirely true.
Jay
@Gloria DryGarden:
Isn’t everything in ‘Merica built on an ancient Indigenous Burial Ground?
Might explain DJTdiot.
Gloria DryGarden
@WaterGirl: thats why! They were photos in a friend’s phone, but downloaded from text they were HEIC images. He’d have to be asked to send them directly from his phone photos. Oh well.
Pauline
@Citizen Dave: Friday and Saturday it was gray and snowing. Typical Spring weather for Denver.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: you May have a point. We live here, knowing our European ancestors did some terrible genocides. At conferences, often now, presenters acknowledge the land they are standing on as belonging to the people, the nation the tribe of___.
it’s not all burial ground, surely, but it was all somebody else’s hunting/grazing/summer/winter territories. I don’t even know the correct language.
A friend had a lovely watercolor on her wall, of a pioneer home, just a frame clapboard farm house. And painted in faint colors, were a teepee, drying racks,
Other indigenous structures. the memory, the echo of what was before. Overlaid on the European/pioneer house
Seeing this moving art,
a well of grief would open up inside me.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: Theres no explanation for djt. He was a bully. He went to a school to tr6 and civilize him. He just solidified his bullying nature. He had the parents he had, the upbringing he had, all of it came together.
his voters, well, can’t think critically, fall for lies and for cult like loyalty, enjoy hate, went to crappy schools. Really, we’re all trying to figure it out and understand.
sigh
Jay
@Gloria DryGarden:
It was a play on the trope curse of being built on an ancient Indigenous burial ground.
In the stories, the movies, it’s never ancient Indigenous spirits doing the horror, it’s always psychotic white people.
Citizen Alan
@Gloria DryGarden: I refuse to accept that they “fall for lies.” If that were true, they wouldn’t have abandoned Fox for other new sources the first time Fox was forced to correct its lies. They seek out people who will confirm their biases and bigotries. If it hadn’t been Trump it eventually would have been someone else. Pat Buchanan just had the misfortune to have come along 20 years too early.
Wag
I am late to the thread, but these are my photos. The two days prior to the protest had been cold and snowy, and temps during the protest were in the 40s. It was nice and sunny with no wind, and the crowd was in an excellent mood. After a long rally at the state capital we marched through downtown Denver past the performing arts center and then back up Speer Boulevard to return to the capital. An excellent crowd, and lots of positive feedback and thumbs up from the people in Denver that we marched by. Even the police were supportive. At one point the march crossed over light rail tracks, and there was a train that was stopped by the marchers waiting to go through where we were marching. The engineer on the train gave everybody a thumbs up and began blowing his horn repeatedly. He had a big smile on his face as he blew the horn. I’m very proud of my hometown, because multiple protests have been so well attended.
As far as Blucifer is concerned, he has become an unofficial mascot of the city of Denver. I think that he represents the craziness in Denver, and also reflects the Chicano influence in my city. The artist, who was indeed killed when the Blucifer statue collapsed on him, was a well-known Chicano artist in Denver.
Miss Bianca
@Elizabelle:
Me too! Someone was very creative there.
Miss Bianca
@FastEdD:
Wait, really? Blucifer and *other* airport art is haunted? Do tell!