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What would make Hanks really happy is a resolution calling for a statue of him . . .
. . . with the word "embiggens" engraved somewhere on the pedestal.
Ummm. That's not the pedestal.
I would oppose a statue. However, I wouldn't mind at all if pigeons begin shitting on him.
What is that thing on top of Chuck's head?
Forget that. What is that thing on his face?
“What is that thing on top of Chuck’s head?”
It looks like the hamster got caught out in the rain
I hope he was not planning a trip to Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, everyone running for the Republican Senate nomination except not-the-leader Hanks "mysteriously disappeared" from the conversations.
O'Day released a financial report and announced he would seek to be on the ballot via petitions. Campana released his quarterly finance report and announced Chad Wolf was endorsing him. Any other stories out there I missed?
It figures that the resolution he cares about most is a symbolic salute to him personally. One of the understated things Trump injected into all these MAGA lunatics is their endless addiction to self-regard.
Ol' Chuck looks like he's spent a few weeks pushing an abandoned shopping cart up and down Colfax Ave.
Does Chuck know Loren is a carpetbagger? A dreaded immigrant from the left coast?
Exactly my thought. A whole bunch of these rightwing extremists would drop Hanks in a minute if they knew he's a Californian. In their minds that's at least as bad as being from Boulder.
That’s probably most of why Loren, losing moderate Republican candidate for CA Sd1, re-invented himself as “Red Meat Ron” and is so secretive about where he actually lives. Of course, Loren may have offed some children and civilians in his Air Force drone-operating days, and be hiding out from those consequences, as well.
It’s hilarious that he’s castigating Republicans for not voting on HR 32-1004, the “Thank the Insurrectionists” amendment– Hanks himself was “excused” from the vote, along with fellow Republican reps Gray , Geitner, and Woodrow.
I want to know what justified his being “excused”. – false modesty? Didn’t realize Loren was such a shy snowflake. And what about the other three “excused” reps- does this mean that they, too, were in DC Jan 6?
Someone who understands legislative processes, please explain what being “excused” from a vote entails.
I think it means what it says. The legislator had some sort of problem; family related, other personal, etc.; that kept her/him from making a vote. I believe that leadership has to approve the excused absence; otherwise, they’re marked as “absent.”
Holy WTF ???? . . .
Isn’t that exactly the kind of leaping to speculative conclusions, without any supporting evidence whatsoever, that would make that other Lauren very proud???
You sure those are CBD gummies (. . . just
jokingspeculating, I got absolutely no evidence)???Seriously now, . . . you just can’t say that kind of stuff.
It is speculation- but not out of line for a comment. People frequently speculate about motives and deeds of political figures in this blog.
And there is supporting evidence, which I have posted before.
Loren Hanks’ last assignment in the military, in Afghanistan, he worked in drone surveillance. This information was front and center in his California Senate campaign, and initially in his Colorado campaign, but has since been scrubbed from all but the archived versions of his websites. This suggests to me that Hanks is at least ashamed of or worried about public reaction to his drone -flying history.
And Hanks stopped bragging about his drone experience in 2020- when Soleimani was killed by drone.
Finally, in another drone coincidence , a threat was called in to the capitol on Jan 6, ostensibly in revenge for the 2020 death by drone strike of General Quassem Soleimani. Hanks was in DC that day; he had high level military clearance ( was in AF reserve after he returned to the States), and would have known how to access the secure frequency the threat was called in on. Not many do.
The unmanned aerial vehicle program, even under Obama, which was when Hanks operated drones, had rather high civilian casualties, which are only recently seeing some reporting. It would in fact be surprising if, in his years of drone work, Hanks had not either sent drones that killed noncombatants, or provided intelligence to some other operator to do so.
You think it’s irresponsible of me to speculate about Hanks’ motives in hiding his address and changing his name. Why?
It’s your unsupported presumption that’s utterly and breathtakingly irresponsible.
By your same dangerous pitchfork illogic: Lots of civilians got killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — how many “children and civilians” do you think Jason Crow “may have offed,” tortured, or given up to torturers? He was there during the time of many atrocities, an Army Ranger, when the Bush/Cheney Administration and many in the military were operating unchecked from the rule of law and human decency, a time of setting up secret prisons, torture, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary renditions, etc., etc.,
Isn’t there already enough to dislike and despise about Hanks without resorting to that kind of make-shit-up-and-then-claim-I’m-only-trying-to-provide-a-possible-hypothetical-explanation-as-to-maybe-why deranged vile Trumpian bullshit nonsense?
You don’t even have circumstantial evidence — nothing but circumstances and a spurious hatred for the person.
You’re not being or acting objective whatsoever — in the most basic sense of that term — quite the opposite, in fact.
You don’t know my name or address; what crimes, immoralities, and sins against humanity do you imagine and wish to adduce that could possibly indicate my being guilty of?
I can’t believe that you actually asked to have this explained to you . . .
I don’t feel the need to be “objective” or conform to journalistic ethics in a comment- only when I write an actual article / diary. I was clear that these were spculations and guesses on my part, and never presented them as anything else. You seem to think the military context makes speculation irresponsible. I still disagree.
My comments about Hanks are well within the norms of speculations other Polsters routinely post about various public figures. I’d expect to see you scold them in similar terms. But haven’t yet.
You seem to be taking this personally- none of this was ever about you or any “crimes, immoralities, and sins” you may be guilty of. That’s quite a leap on your part, and certainly not my intention.
It’s not a problem for me to refrain from speculating about military matters. I lived with a veteran with PTSD. I get it.
But if I continue to comment, I will still feel free to theorize, speculate, and guess about anything else, along with what evidence backs those hypotheses .
And you will continue to react as you do.
Your diagnosis is just as equally fact-based and well-supported as your other irresponsible speculations in this thread.
And, the line between journalistic ethics and spurious and indecent conjecture is not a thin one.
I must have been wrong in my ever speculating that you were better than that . . .
Right?!? You’d think we have plenty of native, red-meat Coloradans that would know the difference between Wray and Ouray? Aspen and Akron? Vail and Vernon? Telluride and Two Buttes? Paonia and Paoli?
We don’t need no stinking California MAGA-wannabe transplant representing
rural valuesour dynamic, diverse state.My grandfather plotted and built one of the 1st houses in Paoli in the early 1900's. He was a dry land farmer, insurance agent and realtor back in the day. I remember going out to Paoli as a child and hearing the creak of the windmill and sweet songs of the prairie birds in the morning. It's kind of a ghost town now.
My great-great grandfather homesteader about 7 miles south of Paoli in the late 1800’s. His wife died giving birth to my great-grandmother, he gave her up to an elderly couple in Holyoke who raised her and he returned to Iowa.
I got a bit nervous reading the headline beginning "Hanks Blasts" because I take things fairly literally!
Flatulence?
I associate that more with Giuliani, but sure