ROCKIES TAKE OVER AT 12:30 So this is going to be quick.
RAY EPPS IS FINALLY TALKING AND I'M NOT BUYING WHAT HE'S SELLING Ray Epps is the man seen on video tape the night before and the day of January 6th urging people to storm the Capitol. He is now the subject of a theory that he was actually working for the Federal government or FBI and helped incite the riot to bring Donald Trump down. I have no clue if any of that is true, but I'm calling BS on an interview he did with the New York Times yesterday. In it he recounts how his life has been made a living hell by people who suspect he's a rat, and how he had to move into an RV somewhere in the Rockies mountains for his and his wife's safety. Now he says he just went to DC to see Trump's speech, but oddly, he didn't go to the speech. We do know he was there because this is him the night before and the day of telling people that they needed to go IN to the Capitol.
Now he says this:
Mr. Epps said that he had acted stupidly at times when he and one of his sons took a last-minute trip to Washington for Mr. Trump’s speech about election fraud. But he said that he had managed to avoid arrest because he reached out to the F.B.I. within minutes of discovering that agents wanted to speak with him and demonstrated during interviews with them that he had spent much of his time at the Capitol seeking to calm down other rioters, an assertion supported by multiple video clips.
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One of the moments Mr. Epps said he regrets most from his stay in Washington took place the night before the Capitol attack, when he joined his son and a friend for a pro-Trump rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza. During the event, he was videotaped by a right-wing provocateur encouraging people to go inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 in what he described, even at the time, as a form of peaceful protest.
Does the jibe with what you just saw? And I love the fact the New York Times calls a guy videotaping a "right wing provocateur" but they don't call Epps that. If they are trying to allege Trump incited a riot then they must say that Epps incited a riot because he is doing far more than Trump did in this video alone. And if his story is truly this mundane why did he wait until NOW to do an interview? And why with the New York Times? Why not defend himself when the attacks were in full swing? I'm absolutely positive Tucker Carlson would have welcomed Epps onto his show. I don't know what exactly he was up to but I don't believe this version of events now.
HOW DOES A STRAY DOG AT A MALL GET PEOPLE TO PLAY FETCH WITH HIM? He uses the escalator, of course.
DISGRACED MESA COUNTY CLERK TINA PETERS MAY BE HEADED TO JAIL As the DA is trying to revoke her bond because she violated its terms by traveling out of state without permission. I don't care if you believe Peters is innocent, since she was arrested her disregard for the law has been nothing short of disgraceful. She truly believes that the rules don't apply to her. This is yet another example of that entitled attitude she just exudes.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE MOB GOES AFTER LEGAL BUSINESS OWNER Who has never had any issues running his business out of his home since he incorporated in 2017. The issue? He sells guns and many in his neighborhood find them super scary so they want to shut down his livelihood so they can feel better. Stories like this are so stupid.
LAUREN BOEBERT'S SHOOTERS GRILL IS SHUT DOWN And I saw the rumors a couple of days ago but now it's true. The landlord who just bought the building refused to renew her lease because he doesn't like her allegedly, though I've not seen actual quote on that from the landlord.
THE DOUGCO RECALL IS FUNDRAISING NOW And I sure hope they fail miserably in this. They need 30,000 signatures per petition to recall the four non-union controlled school board members they've been planning to recall since election day. The registered agent is a teachers union radical so don't let anyone tell you this is "grassroots" in any way, that is an easily demonstrable lie. The article gets something very wrong when it says that the recall idea was first floated after the firing of Corey Wise. Check out this from the Recall Prep DCSD BOE "Kids First" Facebook page, especially when the group was formed:
JUST 18% OF AMERICANS THINK BIDEN SHOULD RUN AGAIN And even within his own party only 35% of Democrats want him to run again. Good news for Republicans, just 28% of Americans want Trump to run again, while 59% say no.
EVEN DEMOCRATS THINK THE JANUARY 6TH HEARINGS ARE BIASED AGAINST TRUMP And it's hard to argue that it isn't, as the only two Republicans on the committee are two of the most vocal Trump critics in the party. I keep waiting for them to call Tony Ornato or some of the other Secret Service members to defend themselves against some of the things prior witnesses have testified to and about, but they haven't. If they don't, it will only cement the views of the people in this poll.
PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES ARE NOT FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE You want to know why my trust in our public health institutions is next to nothing these days? Read this.
ENES KANTER FREEDOM HAS SOME WORDS FOR LEBRON JAMES And as a guy who understands what it's like to live under a tyrannical government, he didn't appreciate Lebron's slap at the USA in a podcast. He responded to James's comments wondering if WNBA star Brittney Griner would even want to come back to the US and the subsequent walkback here.
You are free to leave indeed.
REPUBLICANS REALLY BLEW THIS IN GEORGIA Hershel Walker is a trainwreck. His team needs to get him off the trail asap.
THIS PGA-LIV SPAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE COMES FOR YOUR MONOPOLY And the PGA is out swinging to protect it's monopoly. Now a golfer who migrated to the LIV for a big payday lost a sponsor here in the states. Did the PGA have something to do with that? I hope not because tortious interference with a contract is a thing.
LESS THAN 7% OF AMERICANS HAVE GOOD CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH And guess why? We're fat, eat a Standard American Diet and don't exercise. This is not rocket science, people. Read how fast our health has fallen here.