Between August 2016 and February 2020, Shooters Grill, the gun-themed Rifle restaurant owned by Boebert, accumulated eight liens for nonpayment of unemployment insurance premiums, according to records from the Garfield County Clerk and Recorder’s office.
The liens, filed by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, indicate that Shooters Grill was delinquent on UI premiums dating back to its opening in 2013. By early 2020, Boebert’s restaurant owed the state a total of $19,552.86, including interest and penalties.
Boebert appears to be as much of a failure at running a business as Trump himself.
On a congressional financial disclosure statement that Boebert filed as a candidate in January 2020, she reported that Shooters Grill had posted a net operating loss of $242,347 in 2018. Boebert also disclosed liabilities that included a “business loan” valued at between $15,000 and $50,000.
And, of course, like Trump she doesn't believe in following the rules to keep the public safe during a global pandemic.
In May, public health officials in Garfield County revoked Shooters Grill’s license after Boebert repeatedly opened the restaurant for in-person dining in defiance of state and local coronavirus restrictions. The license was reinstated two weeks later, and Shooters Grill was allowed to reopen under the condition that it followed certain restrictions, including operating at 50% capacity.
Republicans have decided to unleash phonies like Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the United States. As a political party Republicans gave up on truth and honest government back in the Reagan days and gave up on integrity and public service in the 1990s. Now, it appears that they have given up on the very concept of reality.
Just like he claims that he wasn't fired as president, Trump has quit the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) just before being expelled by that organization.
The president's resignation comes after the Screen Actors Guild board voted "overwhelmingly" that Trump violated the union's membership guidelines in the wake of the Capitol riot.
"Donald Trump attacked the values that this union holds most sacred – democracy, truth, respect for our fellow Americans of all races and faiths, and the sanctity of the free press," Carteris said last month. "There’s a straight line from his wanton disregard for the truth to the attacks on journalists perpetrated by his followers."
"Our most important role as a union is the protection of our members. The unfortunate truth is, this individual’s words and actions over the past four years have presented actual harm to our broadcast journalist members," said SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director David White. "The board’s resolution addresses this effort to undermine freedom of the press and reaffirms the principles on which our democratic society rests, and which we must all work to protect and preserve."
As we most things Trump does, his departure from SAG was done in the most classless and clueless possible way.
..."Which brings me to your blatant attempt at free media attention to distract from your dismal record as a union," Trump wrote. "Your organization has done little for its members, and nothing for me—besides collecting dues and promoting dangerous un-American policies and ideas.
Without me, you're nothing. How can we get by without Trump?
Trump's MAGA mob includes large numbers of self-described "Christians". In fact this group makes up Trump's most fervent and, increasingly violent, faction among the various fascists, white supremacists, misogynists and other anti-democratic hoards that have decided to elevate Trump to near godlike status.
...the Christian right is readying its troops for an escalation of the culture war: a campaign to delegitimize not only Biden’s presidency, but any Democratic election victory. Bachmann, during the prayer call just hours after the insurrection, claimed that Democrats also “stole” control of the Senate when Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won their seats in Georgia – a development Bachmann repeatedly called a “coup.”
That narrative means that Republican lawmakers can rest assured that their most loyal base will have their back as they reject Trump’s second impeachment, obstruct the Democratic legislative agenda and refuse to accept the legitimacy of the Democratic president and Democratic leadership of Congress. The movement’s new jeremiad, a battle against the democratic process itself, is just getting started.
The GOP bears no resemblance to the party of Abraham Lincoln. It is now the party of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who believes in the hallucinatory QAnon conspiracy theory, who has suggested that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is a child murderer and who thinks 2018's California wildfires may have been ignited by a giant space-based laser somehow controlled by Jews. Also, high-speed rail is involved somehow.
Just look at the party’s state affiliates. On Jan. 4,the Arizona G.O.P. retweeteda “Stop the Steal” activist who’d pronounced himself willing to “give my life” to overturn the election. Said the party’s official account: “He is. Are you?” An Arizona lawmaker hassince introduced a billthat would let the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, override the presidential vote of the state’s increasingly Democratic citizenry.
The Oregon Republican Party approved aresolutionsuggesting that the Capitol siege was a “false flag” attack. The Texas Republican Party has adopted the QAnon slogan “We are the storm” as its motto, though it insists there’s no connection. The chairman of Wyoming’s Republican Party, who attended Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, said he might be open to secession.
If this is how the vast majority of those Americans that register as Republicans think, the United States is doomed.
One of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol during the January insurrection asked a federal court to let her leave the US for a vacation she booked in Mexico.
...[she] streamed a live video on Facebook after leaving the Capitol where she said that she had attended Trump's speech and went to the Capitol before Trump had finished speaking.
It said she mentioned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office being broken into, saying "We did break down the Nancy Pelosi's office door and somebody stole her gavel and took a picture sitting in the chair flipping off the camera."
And, according to the FBI, she said in the video: "f--k yes, I am proud of my actions. I f---ing charged the Capitol today with patriots today. Hell, yes I am proud of my actions."
Trump's whole "stolen election" tantrum wasn't really about the election at all. It was a scam. Trump found a way to make a boat load of money crying about the election he lost by millions of votes. His MAGA hoards dumped millions to help with his legal cases and Trump repaid them with a small dollar public relations campaign and the worst (as in cheapest) legal team in history. Keep in mind that he is even refusing to pay Rudy Giuliani for his efforts. His cult members at the Republican National Committee got 35 cents on every dollar Trump raised so you can see why they were on board with amplifying his lies.
Former President Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party leveraged false claims of voter fraud and promises to overturn the election to raise more than a quarter-billion dollars in November and December as hundreds of thousands of trusting supporters listened and opened their wallets.
But the Trump campaign spent only a tiny fraction of its haul on lawyers and other legal bills related to those claims. Instead, Mr. Trump and the G.O.P. stored away much of the money — $175 million or so — even as they continued to issue breathless, aggressive and often misleading appeals for cash that promised it would help with recounts, the rooting out of election fraud and even the Republican candidates’ chances in the two Senate runoff races in Georgia.
