The Colorado Republican Party under chairman Dave “Brandon Who?” Williams wrapped up their minimal contribution to the 2024 elections on Tuesday morning with yet another low-budget email blast substituting for a coordinated campaign, before a national “red wave” broke on Colorado’s Front Range with local Republicans totally unprepared to capitalize on this change of fortunes once again humiliated–failing to end the Democratic supermajority in the Colorado House, and settling for basically status quo ante everywhere else.
We’ll have much more to say on what happened in Colorado during this year’s elections in the coming days, but this image from the Colorado GOP’s final Election Day missive to their dwindling list of supporters could sum up the dysfunction that prevented Colorado Republicans from gaining any ground despite the most favorable national political climate since George W. Bush beat John Kerry in 2004:
The first thing that struck us as odd in this obviously AI-generated image was the eagle in the upper left that seems to be genetically crossed with a jellyfish, and the elephant that appears to have two trunks instead of a trunk and a tail–both we assume examples of what they call “AI hallucinations.” Those oddities momentarily distracted us the much more obvious problem, spelling the all-important word VOTE “VOITE” with the T and the E mashed up in some weird manner that does not so far as we know exist in any language. We can only conclude that the big checks Williams is drawing from the party account for his services aren’t paying for qualified graphic designers, or even someone to proofread before the party faithful receive these amateur mistakes in their inboxes.
AI-generated junk content is certainly not worth the tens of thousands Williams is billing the party, but it is a suitable metaphor for what the Colorado GOP has become under the current leadership. Williams had no plan for the 2024 elections beyond winning his congressional primary, and after that didn’t happen, Williams’ objectives shifted to saving his job and getting paid.
It’s the work product of a party chairman who checked out months ago.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
BY: DavidThi808
IN: Wednesday Open Thread
BY: DavidThi808
IN: Wednesday Open Thread
BY: JohnInDenver
IN: Wednesday Open Thread
BY: Chickenheed
IN: Wednesday Open Thread
BY: spaceman2021
IN: Wednesday Open Thread
BY: 2Jung2Die
IN: Tuesday Open Thread
BY: joe_burly
IN: Tuesday Open Thread
BY: harrydoby
IN: Tuesday Open Thread
BY: Pam Bennett
IN: Tuesday Open Thread
BY: JohnInDenver
IN: Tuesday Open Thread
Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay in the loop with regular updates!
You just don't speak covfefe, Guvs. VOITE is VOTE in covfefe.
LMAO! OMG! THIS IS SO BAD!!
The utility of sending an email blast about the election when AT LEAST two-thirds of the voters have already turned in their ballots also seems to worth a mention. In Denver, ~475k ballots went out, ~360K were cast, 104k came in on the last day. Slightly less than 21k were in-person votes on that day, and I'd guess maybe half of the dropbox/mail ballots were filled in and dropped off, while the other half were done, but not turned in.
I do take some solace in the fact that at least Colorado Dems had a great election, even if CODems seemed to often buck trends (or often go with the flow if it's a good trend) since the olden days. Dems did very well in local and even muncipal elections, including winning very competive races I expected some to lose (Bob Marshall for example, I like the guy and his win felt very deserved). Another bright spot was the heavy Latino support for Dems in Colorado, a trend sadly not seen nationally which feels personal as a Latino myself. Lastly, the local GOP is comically bad at the one job they have: campaign so people can vote for them. This AI stuff feels so on brand I'm hardly amused. It's the smaller things that do wonders I suppose.
Also, I have a brother who lives in Washington state and coincidentally, WA Dems also had a good year. Just a little trivia I suppose but interesting to point out perhaps.