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February 21, 2025 11:49 AM UTC

Colorado House GOP (Literally) Show Their Asses On January 6th Pardon Resolution

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE 1:45PM: Colorado House Republicans are attempting to hold the floor in a politically ill-advised protest of the resolution condemning Donald Trump’s January 6th pardons, with debate stretching into Friday afternoon:

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This morning, the Colorado House is in the process of passing Senate Joint Resolution 25-006, a joint resolution condemning Donald Trump’s pardoning of violent offenders from the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol attempting to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. While no one expected minority Republicans to vote for the resolution, given the polling that shows clearly the public does not agree with the pardoning of violent January 6th convicts, we didn’t expect the minority to engage in a high-visibility performative protest:

They didn’t have to do this. It would have been easy to simply allow this resolution to pass with their “no” votes (which is what Republicans in the State Senate did earlier this month). This was a deliberate choice by the Colorado House GOP minority to show their support for violent criminals who assaulted police officers and smashed their way into U.S. Capitol four years ago. Since a strong majority of Americans including a substantial percentage of Republicans agree with the resolution condemning Trump’s blanket pardons of violent January 6th rioters, the intended audience for this protest is…well, one man. Who himself isn’t popular in Colorado to say the least.

Posting the above photo of the GOP caucus turning their backsides to injured cops to social media, the House GOP decried the Democrats’ resolution:

Not a single life in Colorado will be saved by this political stunt.

Democrats can retort that not a single vote will be won for Colorado Republicans by theirs. Public opinion in Colorado has never been on the side of the January 6ers, and it isn’t today. This photo immortalizes the choice of the Colorado House GOP minority against public opinion to throw their support behind the violent insurrectionists of January 6th.

It’s a performative protest some of them may still come to regret.

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17 thoughts on “Colorado House GOP (Literally) Show Their Asses On January 6th Pardon Resolution

  1. If I barge in to a Colorado Republican's office wearing body armor, wave a flag around like a weapon and take a shit on their desk while they're at it what is the chance that they treat me like a peaceful tourist?

    Fucking embarrassing. MAGA is a cult.

    1. Why not have Democrat leadership promise to pardon those who choose to take democracy in their own hands that the Democrat Governor agrees with? Oh and we still pay for a diversity program in the Benson Center of right wing criminals.

      If you’re thought was “ha, yeah right”. Imagine you had someone used your image and likeness to communicate a lie and you did nothing. That’s Democrats taking punch after punch and not reacting. Every example is being done to Democrats yet no response.

        1. 1. The Governor should direct "the people" to go to the capital to demand Republicans listen to the overwhelming results of the election where Democrats won in a landslide and resign. If Republicans refuse to resign "the people" should do what they will and if it's violent the Governor will pardon them. 

          2. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is dead as such why is the Benson Center in existence, which justification rest on "diversity of views", why is it still drawing breath? It should be closed down and the state attorneys general go after the professors for stolen funds having drawn a salary on a fraudulent diversity program. 

          If you disagree with these policy suggestions it's illustrative that Democrats will never punch back. Just as they didn't punch back after Amendment 80 supporters used elected officials images but also union representatives images to advance their position through lies.

          1. 1. it's not the governor's role to make Republicans resign. Those are Trump tactics. 2. Amendment 80 was http://defeated, but just barely Your point is well taken that there should've been more pushback on the deceptive ads.There was pushback.

            3. Although the Board of Regents, especially RWNJ Chance Hill, are still championing "diversity of viewpoints", the Benson Center still exists. They had enough sense of shame to remove John Eastman’s picture from their visiting scholar web page. I hear that CU students “vote with their feet”, and the Benson classes and lectures are sparsely attended.
            The Marshall – Brennan center, on the other hand, is going strong. studies the Constitutiion , , which is fine by me. 

            So far, CU seems committed to its DEI goals, although some webpages for it have been taken down. As far as the "diversity of viewpoints", after visiting scholar, John Eastman, promoted the insurrection, I don't think CU will be beating that particular drum. 

            1. Reply to kwtree: “Those are Trump tactics” Winning tactics. Stop weeping about the rules. The rules are dead long live the new rules. 

              Republicans are playing the game and people like you are holding Democrats back pretending like the rules matter while taking foul after foul as the refs laugh. 

              Also they didn’t remove Eastmans photo out of shame they took it down to skirt culpability. But hey they study constitutions. What weak bs. 

              1. I am comforted by my certainty that Polis pays no  attention to people  like you…or me. 

                So what are you doing for the resistance?

                do you march and assemble?

                do you write to your reps?

                do you go to town halls?

                Do you donate to the ACLU or other organizations that are fighting back legally?

                Or is your " resistance" limited to trashing Democrats on here for not doing enough?

                 

                1. Correct in a few days Polis will refuse to sign gun safety regulations. Democrats will continue to alienate voters like me through inaction. 

                  As for me yeah I do go to protest. Yeah I do voice my opinion. Thought you have done your job. Why? Why should I continue. It’s clear Democrats are losers who have nothing to contribute and don’t want my contribution. 

                  I was wrong when I called my Democrat house representative about anti-China legislation. Heck I was wrong keeping how Rep Caraveo staff laughed at me to myself.  

                  So you are correct Im trashing Democrats because they are not listening to me a person who does show up to protest, who does donate to them and other organizations on the left.

                  I don’t care about gas prices, I haven’t over a decade. I don’t care about egg prices, eat vegan three days a week price issue solved. I’m tired of reading about shopping markets, restaurants and bars, churches, parking lots… becoming shooting galleries. 

                  Democrats want to win voters back why not do something about guns after years of talk?

          2. Just an update – there were 2 formal campaign finance complaints filed against Colorado Dawn for what they did on Amendment 80. One of the complainants, Bri Buentello, is definitely a Democrat. I don't know anything about the other complainant.

            On Feb. 13, 2025, the Sec of State's office released files for both complaints called "Notification of Investigation." In very short, both cases are still open though they were filed in October. Slow wheels of justice.

            Pre-emptively, I said on Pols a long time ago that I wouldn't have minded if CEA filed a lawsuit. I also said I imagine Hickenlooper had bigger things to worry about. John North of Denver may legitimately want a stronger fight, I won't argue with that. But anyone who's following should know complaints were filed pretty immediately last October.

             

            1.  

              As I said when they were doing their weak as piss complaint. Get a lawyer, call a press conference in front of a court building, pound your fist at the injustice, demand Republicans apologize, act indignant. 

               

              My point is even if it doesn't result in stopping Republicans it's not a bad idea to show you are not afraid to smack the shit out of them. 

              1. Remember it well, and here's one of my responses:

                Agreed, that's why sometimes I feel like we need a Senator Blutarsky to yell about stuff until his mouth froths like he's rabid.

                That said, the campaign finance complaints and Hick's/Vick's very direct responses got quite a bit of media at the time, so they did get their messages out at least to media consumers. I'd say A-80 got the most media out of all the Colorado-only measures for skeezy campaign practices. Did the teacher's associations storm the Advance Colorado / Colorado Dawn facilities and scale the walls while carrying bear spray? Of course not, but maybe they should've to get the TV coverage.

                 

  2. And I'm not keeping score, but while the 1,600 or so J6ers pardoned by Trump are being lauded at CPAC

    Yet, at CPAC, the atmosphere was one of triumph. Several pardoned rioters were interviewed on Bannon’s “War Room” show in the CPAC exhibition complex. For many of them, this year’s CPAC represented a moment of vindication.

    we know of at least one killed by police as he resisted arrest, a couple more re-arrested on weapons and drug charges.  Tarrio just got arrested for a misdemeanor assault during a J6 celebration at the Capitol.  

    And just for fun — "When FBI agents first arrested Costianes and searched his residence on Feb. 12, 2021, they found four guns, along with evidence that Costianes used and sold cocaine and testosterone."  And now, the Justice Department has requested those additional charges be dropped.

    This week, the Department of Justice said in a court filing that it had concluded that Trump's pardon order extended to Costianes' drug and gun case, because it was sufficiently related to his Jan. 6 charges.

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