Link ShareColorado is underwater, and the regime that drowned it is proud of the water

Gov. Jared Polis declared a disaster emergency late Thursday in response to the flooding, unlocking the Colorado National Guard for evacuations and search-and-rescue across Alamosa, Archuleta, Conejos, Dolores, Hinsdale, La Plata, Mineral, Montezuma, Ouray, Rio Grande, San Juan, and San Miguel counties. The San Juan River's 15-foot peak near Pagosa Springs Friday morning was roughly 10 feet above its pre-flood level and just two feet below the record of 17.8 feet, according to NOAA. In October 2025, the same river peaked near 13 feet, forcing evacuations and damaging more than 100 homes in neighboring La Plata County, the Denver Post reports.

This is the same river, in the same state, breaking itself against the same record twice inside a year.

And it arrives on schedule, because the Trump regime has made it policy: FEMA defunded, climate science denied, global warming treated as a rumor the weather keeps spreading anyway.

Colorado has been punished twice for this.
Last year, after Governor Polis initially refused requests for the release of Tina Peters, Russ Vought (the brainchild of Project 2025, installed as head of OMB) announced the National Science Foundation would dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which sits in the foothills above Boulder. Polis eventually relented last June and let Peters go, where she was immediately whisked into the Trump administration and installed as an "election integrity" voice — this after her crimes of providing unauthorized access to voting equipment and covering it up. But the damage was done, and the damage was the point: the world-renowned institution that studies these storms, and that develops and deploys the sensing technology behind early detection, was gutted as a political lesson. When the river needed forecasting this week, the forecasters had been taken away on purpose.

The Marshall Fire is the preview, not the exception.
This New Year's Eve marks five years since the Marshall Fire (December 30, 2021), driven by 100+ MPH winds, ravaged southeast Boulder County, with most of the damage in Superior and Louisville. Dozens of neighborhoods were razed outright. The aftermath looked like a war zone: chimneys and cinder block left standing as the only evidence, besides the paved streets and sidewalks, that a neighborhood had ever existed. The event was so costly and so serious that it is now nearly impossible, or extremely expensive, to insure a house in Colorado, with most insurers halting new policies in Boulder and Denver proper. Xcel Energy was sued over it, on the presumption that amid a winter drought, the winds brought down a transformer and ignited a fire that became uncontrollable. Other theories pointed to collapsed coal-mine fires that reportedly still burn thousands of feet underground to this day.

When you combine major meteorological events with extreme wind and drought, you get Marshall. When you get them with rain, you get Pagosa Springs. This past summer, Marseille, France, took its own unprecedented flooding. The globe is running the experiment on all of us at once.

And the regime's answer is to delete the sensors and defund the rescue.
"Not just a weather story" is the whole point: this administration denies the climate while gutting the Department of Education, privatizing federal agencies, defunding FEMA, and dismantling the environmental research institutions that develop the early-detection technology — a rogue administration more invested in "getting even" and capitulating to the lie than in doing right by its citizens. An uneducated public trivializes weather events; a gutted science sector can't see them coming; a defunded emergency sector can't respond to them. Each failure compounds the others, deliberately.

We already ran this experiment too. The en-masse DOGE cuts of 2025 laid off "unnecessary" federal workers wholesale: the nation found itself short of the minutemen running, managing, and protecting our nuclear deterrent arsenal (the same arsenal Trump has repeatedly threatened to obliterate Iran with, in actions deserving of the terms war crimes and crimes against humanity), and the country suffered an unprecedented string of plane crashes after the layoff of air-traffic controllers and aviation inspectors. This is not mismanagement. This is the management.

We are being led by the blind, the stupid, the sadistic, the narcissistic, the entitled, and the cruel.
Trump embodies anti-reality, and the citizenry is perpetually gaslit by a system of intentional conflations: his accusations serving as self-admission (projection); victims and perpetrators swapped (January 6, and the Epstein files); "our country has never been more successful and more hot" while he undermines the democracy underneath it. When he says "we," he means either himself ("I, the royal we... you know, the editorial") or the top 1% of the top 1%; "they" means whoever negatively affects him alone. His hijacking of the narrative, his attacks on truth-tellers, the ad-hominem reflex, the gross injustice and denial of January 6, claiming zero knowledge of Project 2025 while implementing its exact playbook with Heritage Foundation alumni (Russ Vought, among several others) forming the core of his cabinet — none of it is accidental. It is the operating system.

Take MAGA at its word, because they tell you exactly what they are.

Now the ledger, because they claim to be the fiscal hawks.
The debt numbers, in sequence: the national debt when Trump took office in January 2017 sat at $19.5 trillion. Today it sits above $41 trillion. It has increased by over $4 trillion since he took office in January 2025 alone, skyrocketing with his failed gambits and aggressions against Iran. His first term raised it by $7.8 trillion; under Biden it grew $8.45 trillion, much of which traces to COVID-19 and Trump's denial of the pandemic ("it's never coming here").

Per president:

• Richard Nixon / Gerald Ford (1969-1977): $358B to $703B, +$345B, +96.4%
• Jimmy Carter (1977-1981): $703B to $1.00T, +$299B, +42.5%
• Ronald Reagan (1981-1989): $1.00T to $2.86T, +$1.86T, +186.4%
• George H.W. Bush (1989-1993): $2.86T to $4.19T, +$1.33T, +46.5%
• Bill Clinton (1993-2001): $4.19T to $5.73T, +$1.54T, +36.8%
• George W. Bush (2001-2009): $5.73T to $10.63T, +$4.90T, +85.5%
• Barack Obama (2009-2017): $10.63T to $19.95T, +$9.32T, +87.7%
• Donald Trump, Term 1 (2017-2021): $19.95T to $27.75T, +$7.80T, +39.1%
• Joe Biden (2021-2025): $27.75T to $36.21T, +$8.45T, +30.5%
• Donald Trump, Term 2 (2025-present): $36.21T to $40.05T+, +$3.80T and climbing, +10.6% in under two years

The pattern: under Republican leadership the deficit balloons and recessions — or worse — follow (Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Trump). Under Democrats, especially with concurrent legislative control and respect for the balance of powers, the deficit has been reduced and prosperity followed. The One Big Beautiful Bill's entire purported premise was that national spending was unsustainable and the cuts were fiscal hygiene. The reality: the "savings" came from mass layoffs of federal workers, stripping citizens of entitlement programs they paid into, deregulating corporate America wholesale, and doing away with consumer protections — while permanent tax breaks went to big business, capped with a meager no-tax on tips and overtime, plus a first-term reduction in the standard deduction for ordinary taxpayers. The accusation theater about Democratic "heated rhetoric" and "pro-violence" carries the same relationship to reality: Republicans and MAGA disproportionately engage in the radicalism they project onto others.

And the oligarchs built the fog machine.
The tech-evangelists and technocrats — Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman — would like us all to believe that (1) if they and the other ~3,000 billionaires and countless corporations operating off capitalistic welfare paid their fair share of taxes, it wouldn't make a difference. Wrong. It absolutely would. And (2) that when technology, the internet, and modern social media arrived to make our lives easier and more connected, and the major platforms capitalized on it as AI rolled out, the promise that AI would "never take our jobs, just make us more productive" was a lie from the start. The technocrats were always out to own and commodify our information, our attention spans, and our influence, to peddle disinformation and propaganda while suppressing the truth, allowing elections to be foreign- and corporate-influenced, and bending reality to the desires of the minority at immediate and lasting cost to the majority — all culminating in subverting the will of the people.

"Cheat like hell" — and like they do, separately, because that part isn't true.
When Trump tells his supporters to "cheat like hell," he's describing his own playbook. Democrats have never in any way acted like this. The worst crime Democrats have committed, as far as I can see, was attempting to nationalize healthcare. Republicans call the ACA a failure; in eleven-plus years they have failed to produce a cheaper equal alternative, and have instead sought to undermine it with race-baiting bigotry like "Barrack Hussein Obama" (a not-so-indirect nod to Osama bin Laden). Trump himself berated, attacked, and falsely accused President Obama of being a terrorist, a spy, and not born in the United States. It is rather not so ironic, then, that this was projection too: "your country is going to hell... your country is falling apart... it will be decimated under Democratic leadership" — spoken about himself and his, the entire time.

Under Trump 2.0 — and God we pray we're at least halfway through this dystopian nightmare — we've experienced a failing job economy, a failing economy overall, an unprovoked war, Gestapo attacks on blue states, the continued attempt to overturn an election that already led to a near-constitutional crisis on January 6, illegal tariffs, a country edging itself toward initiating WWIII, and a leader telling his supporters they're going to hell if they don't cheat for him — all while he self-acclaims having "freed us from 8 wars, no new wars," that the economy has never been better, and that Americans got massive tax cuts. For the wealthy, perhaps. For everyday Americans, absolutely not: we've been taxed more.

So: if America is doing so well, and if Trump is right that the country pulled in nearly $21 trillion, why is the deficit not being reduced — why the mass layoffs of federal workers, the stripped entitlements and research grants, and MAGA Mike Johnson promising further cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, and Social Security if Republicans win the midterms? Why was a bill that permanently enriches big business named "The One, Big, Beautiful Bill"?

Why is the river 15 feet high, the science center empty, the fire uninsured, and the ledger $41 trillion deep?

Because it isn't a climate story. It's one story, and we're living in all of it.