The original movie poster. Who can’t tell this is not a suitable movie for mother and son?

Why would John Hickenlooper take his mother to see an X-rated porn movie?

More importantly, why would he even publish the story in his book, or talk about it in a presidential campaign?

Does he think it gives him cool street cred, or solidify his reputation as a nerd, or a complete moron?
Quite frankly, we don’t even believe it.

God help us, but we’re about to discredit a Democrat politician’s claim he took his mom to see “Deep Throat,” the most infamous pornographic film to ever hit the silver screen.

Hick says he was 18 and naive about what the film was about, but he was actually 20 when the film debuted in June of 1972. Hickenlooper was born in 1952.

Hick says he had no clue what the most infamous porn flick was about when he took his mom to see it during his Thanksgiving break from college — five months after the film was released and EVERYONE knew what it was about (Don’t Google this at work).

Maybe he accidentally got the timing all wrong because it allegedly happened 36 years ago?

Or maybe it didn’t happen at all. We hope that’s the case, because it’s not the kind of story any woman wants her son bragging about, especially to the point where’s its a joke in his presidential campaign.

Why anyone would brag, or lie about such a thing is beyond us.

Short answer: Because they’re always on the ticket.

Democratic former Governor John Hickenlooper’s staff used to wince every time he opened his mouth to speak. In fact, we heard that one staffer said it was like watching a baby crawl across a highway. Perhaps their fears were justified by his latest verbal gaffe. Just watch the CNN exchange here. And an excerpt from the CNN write-up:

“Governor,” CNN’s Dana Bash said at a presidential candidate town hall, “some of your male competitors have vowed to put a woman on the ticket. Yes or no, would you do the same?”

“Of course,” Hickenlooper said, before saying he wanted to ask Bash a question.

“How come we’re not asking more often the women, ‘Would you be willing to put a man on the ticket?’ ” he said with a shrug, to audible groans from the audience.

Of course, Bash responded by reminding him that there hasn’t been even a female vice president yet.

We get what he’s saying, but in this era of “me too” and on a station that caters to left of center viewers, we have to ask whether his question makes any sense whatsoever. But it may have revealed something about Hick’s ambition. Was he posturing for a veep position? Maybe, maybe not. Even if he was, it may be irrelevant.

Other than being the state’s most famous bartender, we’re not sure what Hick brings to the table. Colorado votes are already going to the Democratic candidate. He’s maybe a capitalist on days where his poll numbers are up, but truly in this field, he’s just another white dude and his competitor, Beto O’Rourke, has a billionaire father in law to help pick up his tab.

Colorado House Democrats dealt another body blow to Colorado taxpayers this week with renewed talk of a ballot measure to retain constitutionally-mandated TABOR refunds.  Predictably, they claim that this money will be earmarked for education.  Maybe that will be in the same way the marijuana tax was supposed to be for education.  We all know how that went…or something.

Why don’t they account for the financial windfall from pot tax dollars that were supposed to bolster the government schools across the state, first?

House Speaker KC Becker claims bi-partisan support, although we are unaware of any House Republicans lining up behind her.  Not that she would need it though, considering she has a multi-generational super-majority of Democrats in her chamber at the present time.

Under a formula in the state’s Constitution, TABOR limits the amount of money that the state government spends, and mandates a return of unspent tax dollars that were collected in excess of that amount. Pretty common sense measure – what responsible household spends every penny that it takes in, and when time are good, spends anything extra that it may find under the sofa cushions?  Importantly, TABOR requires a vote of the people before raising their taxes.

The long term result of diverting the TABOR refund to other government programs is that the refund only exists in good economic times, but once government programs are funded at a certain level it is nearly impossible to dial it back.  Are Democrats going to suddenly claim they need less money for the teachers union a few years down the road, when we are in the grips of the next recession? Certainly not.  For them, it’s never enough.

Giving just 24-hour notice (the minimum required), the Adams County Commissioners last night voted unanimously to ban oil and gas development for six months as the legislature shoves local control measures through the state. The vote came as the testimony from Coloradans was overwhelmingly pro-oil and gas industry. We’d love to spend another 150 words on how wrong Adams County Commissioners are, but we’ll turn it over to the nonpartisan 9News’ Kyle Clark, who does a fine job here.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, we were right that SB19-181 was a de facto ban on oil and gas development. In fact, the language of the moratorium referenced 181 several times. That’s awkward, especially for the Democrat leadership in the legislature, which claimed that they did not intend for this to be a ban on oil and gas.

Adams County Commissioners should be ashamed of themselves for trying to destroy the jobs of their constituents, but even more ashamed for laughing at the people who showed up to give testimony in defense of their way of life.

That whole “white guy” excuse for failing to gain ground in the Democratic presidential primary was working out pretty good for John Hickenlooper.

No plain old white man can win — it’s pretty much all CNN ever talked about.

And then super white dude Beto O’Rourke comes flailing into the room like Kramer from Seinfeld, and the Democrat Party makes it rain with $6.1 million in donations in the first 24 hours.

Hick only raised about $1 million in nickels and dimes after passing the hat around for 48 hours after he announced.

Hickenlooper has even gone so far as to shun his capitalist cred in favor of socialism and the Green New Deal. Looks like he sold out for nothing.

Turns out Democrats really, really do like white guys, but just the hipster types who belonged to secret computer hacking clubs, and fantasized about killing kids when they were teenagers.

It’s not even the law yet, but state Attorney General Phil Weiser is already telling sheriffs to resign if they follow locals laws passed in 26 counties that declared themselves 2nd Amendment sanctuaries.

But wait, there’s more.

Weiser blinked.

He also said this during his testimony in favor of the bill at a state Senate committee meeting:

“Any commission that says ‘I don’t want my sheriff upholding an unconstitutional law,’ they’re on solid ground,” Weiser said, adding that he expects the question to go before a court.

But Weiser, whose job it is to defend Colorado statutes, says he believes that if the red flag bill becomes law as expected and is challenged, it will be found to be constitutional and therefore must be enforced.

So county commissions passing the sanctuary laws and the sheriff’s following that order, are totally within the law to thumb their nose once the state bill becomes law, Weiser concedes.

And the bill is certain to become law, once it skips through a second state Senate panel and floor passage, and Gov. Polis signs it.

But the sheriffs have wiggle room until the constitutionality is tested in what could be a lengthy court battle.

Until then, El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder says he will stick to his oath of office, in that order.

“I don’t remember swearing to uphold the rule of law,” said Elder, who heads Colorado’s largest county law enforcement agency. “I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the state of Colorado, and the laws of the state of Colorado.”

Just a friendly reminder, House Bill 1177 is sponsored by House Majority Leader Alec Garnett of Denver and state Rep. Tom Sullivan of Centennial, with state Senate President Pro tem Lois Court of Denver and state Sen. Brittany Pettersen of Lakewood, all Democrats.

Yesterday, Twitter ignited upon hearing that infamous Twitter drama queen David Sirota was going to work as a communications director and speechwriter for Democratic Socialist presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. Among the many sentiments expressed by those on Twitter was pearl clutching that a “journalist” like Sirota would hang up his media credentials to advocate for Sanders.

To that we reply – who actually thought that Sirota was a legitimate journalist?

For the uninitiated, here are a few things Sirota (David, not to be confused with his equally-wrong wife, Emily at the state legislature) has written about in his lengthy so-called journalism career: the “economic miracle” of Venezuela (we’d be laughing still, if people weren’t having to eat their pets to survive), his hope that the Boston marathon bomber is white, why every Democrat except Bernie Sanders sucks (while he was working as a so-called journalist), and on and on.

This crap is laughable. It’s a parody. It’s Sirota’s gaslighting of the Twitter universe that has everyone’s panties in a bunch. See exhibit A:

he accused people who said he acted like a Sanders campaign staffer of being part of a conspiracy that was out to get him.

other than that, totally normal. sure.

— sous la plage🥚 (@SousLaPlage) March 19, 2019

Of course, everyone flocks to Twitter for mentally healthy conversations, right?

But perhaps the best thing to come out of this hilarity is pile on from other Democrats. It warmed our heart to hear fellow limousine liberals “champagne socialists” as if one was worse than the other.

He’s always been a propagandist for Bernie’s wacky brand of champagne socialism. This isn’t even the first time he’s done that job for Sanders. And frankly he’s another example of the revolving door between journalism and the subjects they’re supposed to be critically covering.

— Michael Ditto (@janus303) March 20, 2019

It’s delicious.

The honeymoon is officially over.

Gov. Polis and his Democrat-controlled state legislature have barely been in power three months and voters are in pure rebellion mode.

It’s not just rumblings of a recall election to revoke Polis’s most unpopular law, among many, signing away our presidential votes to the Popular Vote compact.

Democrat lawmakers are also being targeted individually for recalls on the red flag gun seizure vote.

But now voters have their eyes on the big prize, planning a recall election to kick the governor out of office and bring an end to this crazy Democrats-contol-all experiment gone horribly wrong.

KOAA reports from Pueblo:

The ‘Recall Polis – Pueblo County’ group held its first official meeting Monday night. Around 50 people showed up to decide their next moves. They’re one of dozens of groups, originating on Facebook, that want Polis removed from office.

9 News is reporting “Official Recall Colorado Governor Jared Polis” filed as an issue committee with the Secretary of State’s Office.

Another group calling itself “Resist Polis PAC” is a political action committee with a stated purpose to “oppose the re-election of Jared Polis as governor of Colorado, including orchestrating a recall effort, by raising public awareness regarding his political acts and ideologies and mobilizing the grassroots of Colorado.”

The hurdle, as the stories points out, is the massive amount of organization and funding it will require to collect a whopping 631,000 valid signatures, a little more than half of all votes captured by Walker Stapleton in last year’s election.

Another hurdle requires voters to wait six months before initiating a recall of the governor.

Will their anger hold out that long?

If the Democrat-controlled legislature keeps sending outrageous bills to Polis for his signature, like SB 181 to cripple to the oil and gas industry, or red flag bill to seize guns, it’s very possible.

Go Team.

There used to be a time in the Colorado legislature when Coloradans could come to testify and legislators actually listened to and digested who was being affected by the legislation they proposed. This is a new era in Colorado lawmaking and ain’t nobody going to divert Colorado’s elected Democrats from industry-destroying legislation. Not even hours of testimony against SB19-181, a bill that could irreparably harm Colorado’s oil and gas industry.

Despite hours of testimony in Senate committee and hours of testimony in House committee, nary a single Democrat listened to the workers whose jobs were in danger and voted against this measure. Not. A. Single. One.

What is wrong with these people? Democrats have a three-seat majority on the House Energy and Environment Committee. The thing could have passed with two Democrats voting no. But being right was more important than putting these workers’ jobs first. Who are these cold-hearted Democrats?

Democrats should definitely keep it up. The only reason that people like Democrats is because of their bleeding hearts. Take that away and they’re just cruel. Just like they were last night.

And SB19-181 continues its march to Governor Polis’ desk with a couple more stops in the House. But if the Democratic Representatives in the House Committee on Energy and Environment couldn’t see it in their hearts to vote against this measure, we have no hope for the floor votes. Good luck funding all-day Kindergarten, or any education for that matter, without the oil and gas industry.

Earlier this month, liberals’ heads exploded when WilmerHale lawyer (and former Secretary of the Interior under Obama and former Colorado Attorney General) Ken Salazar came out against the radical oil and gas bill moving through the legislature that has the potential to severely damage the oil and gas industry in Colorado. In his op-ed to the Denver Post, Salazar wrote:

“Colorado has played a key role in securing that energy independence for our nation. Colorado is a leader of renewable energy. Colorado is also a center of oil and gas. The oil and gas industry in Colorado creates over one hundred thousand jobs for hard-working Coloradans, provides over one billion dollars to fund our schools and roads, and is responsible for 11 percent of the state’s gross domestic product.

“Now SB 181 will wrongly bring our Colorado energy success story to an end.”

We’re man enough to admit when a Democrat is right and Salazar is right here. Let’s just say that Democrats didn’t exactly see it our way. That’s why it’s so odd that Democrats have been cheering for fellow WilmerHale lawyer, John Walsh (the former U.S. Attorney, not the television host and co-creator of America’s Most Wanted), who recently left WilmerHale to explore a run against Republican Sen. Cory Gardner. In addition, Walsh has been making a name for himself down at the State Capitol defending the constitutionality of the so-called “Red Flag” bill that would confiscate weapons from those that someone somewhere deemed a threat at some point? Or something?

So, WilmerHale greedy lawyers are bad if they are speaking truth to power about the harm of over-regulation in oil and gas, but good when they’re supporting a big Democratic gun grab? Do Democrats lack all self-awareness or are they that politically craven?