I don't know what to call it (other than NewSpeak), but there's something very wrong with people who buy the bullshit the GOP is peddling.
Colorado GOP Alleges Decades of Election Fraud Conspiracies ... As Party Boasts Republican Wins
The Republican Party's luncheon featured talks of election rigging, political hangings and FBI brainwashing.
The Colorado Republican Party opened its luncheon on Tuesday, November 26, by celebrating the gains it made during the November election. Speakers then spent the next two hours preaching about why the election results cannot be trusted.
The state GOP held its bimonthly Capitol Club luncheon with a panel of election deniers as the special guests: Shawn Smith, Mark Cook and Joe Oltmann. What began as an event discussing the election results and Secretary of State Jena Griswold's errors in handling the state's voting system password leak, ended with the promotion of unsubstantiated conspiracies about decades of alleged fraud they say invalidates every election in recent memory.
"I don't think anybody has any idea what the election results have been in Colorado for twenty years. I would not be surprised if Colorado is still a red state," Smith said to thunderous applause from the crowd of around seventy people gathered at the Maggiano's Little Italy in Englewood.
The election rigging claims didn't end with Colorado: "This was the number-one strategic result I thought we would see in this election — let [Donald] Trump win while everyone steals the down-ballot while no one is looking," Cook said. "We don't know what the results of the election are. We haven't, likely, for a long time. Decades."
"If I was a bad actor, I would be your president right now," Cook said, spurring laughs from attendees between bites of Caesar salads and fettuccine alfredo. "I'm serious," he replied. "It would not be that difficult."
Smith, Cook and Oltmann are the state's most vocal election deniers, the former two of whom infamously coached Elbert County Recorder Dallas Schroeder on how to break into voting machines in 2021.
Smith is also the whistleblower who found the leaked voting system passwords posted on the Secretary of State's website on a hidden tab of a public spreadsheet. However, he's perhaps better known for participating in the January 6 insurrection or calling for Griswold to be hung in 2022 — a comment that he repeated during Tuesday's event.
"I think anybody who has engaged in election fraud needs to hang, deserves to hang," Smith said to scattered claps from the audience. "The media immediately said 'he's threatening Jena Griswold.' I'm not threatening Jena Griswold. If you violate the law, and you violate a law like treason law, then there are punishments for that."
Smith also addressed the whistleblowing, revealing that he did not discover the passwords on his own. Smith said he was tipped off by state Representative Stephanie Luck and failed House District 38 candidate Jeff Patty, who knew that Smith regularly downloads the office's spreadsheets and were informed by an unidentified party that there were hidden passwords in one of the files.
Because of the password leak, Smith argued that the results of Colorado's 2024 primary and general elections cannot be trusted. A judge ruled on Election Day that there was no evidence that voting system components were compromised due to the leak. The Denver District Attorney’s Office is now investigating whether the incident violated state law regarding accessing and tampering with voting equipment.
Smith called for a return to hand-counting ballots and in-person voting only, a demand echoed by the other speakers. He also said Griswold should be prosecuted for "election crimes," though he did not lay all of the blame at her feet.
"I uncharitably called Jena Griswold a meat puppet and meant it," Smith said. "She is probably one of the dumbest people to ever hold office in the state of Colorado."
The election fraud conspiracy goes much deeper than Griswold or Colorado, GOP speakers claimed. Cook alleged that the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies "psychologically condition the public to expect the [election] results they're about to manipulate."
He says these shadow government figures use voter registration information, social media activity and early voting results to "figure out how many votes they need to inject in order to" make elections go to their preferred candidate.
"It's a magic show. You're getting played," Cook said. "You've been fed an illusion. We are operating in a world that is different than what a lot of people think it is. There is something else going on in the background. ...I've got no more Fs to give. I'm on a warpath to expose all of this."
Oltmann, a conservative political activist and owner of DCF Guns, also spoke at Tuesday's event via Zoom. He's best known for his violent political rhetoric calling for the mass execution of politicians, including Governor Jared Polis. Most recently, he made headlines for calling for the execution of President Joe Biden in March over Biden's support for an assault weapons ban — a comment that Oltmann partially walked back on Tuesday.
"I didn't call for violence. I said he should be tried for treason and if he's found guilty he should face the penalties — which, by the way, is death," Oltmann said.
Colorado voters largely resisted the red wave that hit the rest of the country during the November election, though GOP candidates managed to flip Congressional District 8, take three state House seats to end the Democratic supermajority and made gains on the state Board of Education and RTD board. In addition, their presidential candidate, Trump, won a decisive victory over current Vice President Kamala Harris.
Darcy Schoening, director of special initiatives for the Colorado GOP, highlighted these achievements at the beginning of the event: "The liberal media is lying to you," she proclaimed. "The Republican Party made massive gains in Colorado and will continue to do that."
How does that align with the speakers' insistence that the state election, national election, and perhaps all elections for the last two decades, were fraudulent?
"I don't think that we know yet how to feel," Schoening tells Westword. "They ask valid questions. ...We're just looking for answers."
Maybe they're just so completely Borg-assimilated that they've lost the ability to self-reflect, so they obey whatever instructions they get from the mothership.
Maybe they've finally broken down and they've so fully accepted Daddy State conditioning, that they need reality dictated to them.
Any way I look at it, I'm always left a little confused that so many Americans can be so fucked up in the head.
In the not-too-distant past, Republican voters were like "If my guy wins, then it's OK, but if your guy wins, then it's gotta be rigged."
This new little wrinkle seems to be setting it up so they'll accept the premise that all elections are rigged no matter who wins, so why bother with elections at all? And of course, their guys own the White House, and bother chambers of the Congress, so "we'll just call it good for now, and dispense with all this democracy stuff - cuz this isn't a democracy anyway, remember? It's a republic - and never you mind about the contradictions, just leave it to the man in charge - he's playing 47-dimension chess so we couldn't possibly understand it - he's got it all under control, and blah blah blah."
The Republican Party's luncheon featured talks of election rigging, political hangings and FBI brainwashing.
The Colorado Republican Party opened its luncheon on Tuesday, November 26, by celebrating the gains it made during the November election. Speakers then spent the next two hours preaching about why the election results cannot be trusted.
The state GOP held its bimonthly Capitol Club luncheon with a panel of election deniers as the special guests: Shawn Smith, Mark Cook and Joe Oltmann. What began as an event discussing the election results and Secretary of State Jena Griswold's errors in handling the state's voting system password leak, ended with the promotion of unsubstantiated conspiracies about decades of alleged fraud they say invalidates every election in recent memory.
"I don't think anybody has any idea what the election results have been in Colorado for twenty years. I would not be surprised if Colorado is still a red state," Smith said to thunderous applause from the crowd of around seventy people gathered at the Maggiano's Little Italy in Englewood.
The election rigging claims didn't end with Colorado: "This was the number-one strategic result I thought we would see in this election — let [Donald] Trump win while everyone steals the down-ballot while no one is looking," Cook said. "We don't know what the results of the election are. We haven't, likely, for a long time. Decades."
"If I was a bad actor, I would be your president right now," Cook said, spurring laughs from attendees between bites of Caesar salads and fettuccine alfredo. "I'm serious," he replied. "It would not be that difficult."
Smith, Cook and Oltmann are the state's most vocal election deniers, the former two of whom infamously coached Elbert County Recorder Dallas Schroeder on how to break into voting machines in 2021.
Smith is also the whistleblower who found the leaked voting system passwords posted on the Secretary of State's website on a hidden tab of a public spreadsheet. However, he's perhaps better known for participating in the January 6 insurrection or calling for Griswold to be hung in 2022 — a comment that he repeated during Tuesday's event.
"I think anybody who has engaged in election fraud needs to hang, deserves to hang," Smith said to scattered claps from the audience. "The media immediately said 'he's threatening Jena Griswold.' I'm not threatening Jena Griswold. If you violate the law, and you violate a law like treason law, then there are punishments for that."
Smith also addressed the whistleblowing, revealing that he did not discover the passwords on his own. Smith said he was tipped off by state Representative Stephanie Luck and failed House District 38 candidate Jeff Patty, who knew that Smith regularly downloads the office's spreadsheets and were informed by an unidentified party that there were hidden passwords in one of the files.
Because of the password leak, Smith argued that the results of Colorado's 2024 primary and general elections cannot be trusted. A judge ruled on Election Day that there was no evidence that voting system components were compromised due to the leak. The Denver District Attorney’s Office is now investigating whether the incident violated state law regarding accessing and tampering with voting equipment.
Smith called for a return to hand-counting ballots and in-person voting only, a demand echoed by the other speakers. He also said Griswold should be prosecuted for "election crimes," though he did not lay all of the blame at her feet.
"I uncharitably called Jena Griswold a meat puppet and meant it," Smith said. "She is probably one of the dumbest people to ever hold office in the state of Colorado."
The election fraud conspiracy goes much deeper than Griswold or Colorado, GOP speakers claimed. Cook alleged that the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies "psychologically condition the public to expect the [election] results they're about to manipulate."
He says these shadow government figures use voter registration information, social media activity and early voting results to "figure out how many votes they need to inject in order to" make elections go to their preferred candidate.
"It's a magic show. You're getting played," Cook said. "You've been fed an illusion. We are operating in a world that is different than what a lot of people think it is. There is something else going on in the background. ...I've got no more Fs to give. I'm on a warpath to expose all of this."
Oltmann, a conservative political activist and owner of DCF Guns, also spoke at Tuesday's event via Zoom. He's best known for his violent political rhetoric calling for the mass execution of politicians, including Governor Jared Polis. Most recently, he made headlines for calling for the execution of President Joe Biden in March over Biden's support for an assault weapons ban — a comment that Oltmann partially walked back on Tuesday.
"I didn't call for violence. I said he should be tried for treason and if he's found guilty he should face the penalties — which, by the way, is death," Oltmann said.
Colorado voters largely resisted the red wave that hit the rest of the country during the November election, though GOP candidates managed to flip Congressional District 8, take three state House seats to end the Democratic supermajority and made gains on the state Board of Education and RTD board. In addition, their presidential candidate, Trump, won a decisive victory over current Vice President Kamala Harris.
Darcy Schoening, director of special initiatives for the Colorado GOP, highlighted these achievements at the beginning of the event: "The liberal media is lying to you," she proclaimed. "The Republican Party made massive gains in Colorado and will continue to do that."
How does that align with the speakers' insistence that the state election, national election, and perhaps all elections for the last two decades, were fraudulent?
"I don't think that we know yet how to feel," Schoening tells Westword. "They ask valid questions. ...We're just looking for answers."
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