1/n There seems to be a coordinated effort across corporate press, and even some in libertarian circles that are pushing very hard to frame @govofco as a Pro-Liberty governor. In the past few weeks he has been on @KennedyNation and @realtimers. Let's investigate that.
2/n We start out with @reason coverage by @nickgillespie. Multiple articles and tweets
3/n Here he is getting mostly positive coverage on @kennedynation about ending the state income tax, being a liberty lover and "breaking with his party ending covid restrictions back in '21"
4/n And again getting to monologue about how libertarian-ish he is on @billmaher
5/n Multiple instances of @GovofCO saying that he wants to reduce/eliminate Co's income tax. And that he passed a property tax cut. But did he? The property tax reduction is an odd thing to campaign on. Look at how the @ColoradoSun reported on it.
6/n so @GovofCO worked with lawmakers to pass a smaller tax reduction than @ColoConcern was going to put to the voters. But there's more... This gambit is only temporary, passed by 'Election Year Polis' to reduce taxes for just 2 years and have this recent win on his record.
7/n But wait, there's even more! Why were property taxes high/going up? Well that's because with @GovofCO's help and endorsement, in a non election year, the legislature put to a citizen vote, a repeal of the taxpayer $ saving Gallagher Amendment and replace it with nothing.
8/n So, "non election year Polis" creates or promotes a crisis that election year Polis can save everyone from and take credit for. And this isn't the only instance. See Prop CC in 2019. Which would have effectively repealed TABOR. He's certainly a
9/n luckily for all of us in Colorado that aren't politically connected, Prop CC failed. Which brings us to this year. The Legislature passed a bill that would basically advance the TABOR refund. @GovofCO stuck a letter in it that looks an awful lot like buying votes.
10/n and it turns out his plot worked, shocking. See this poor soul who fled the NY tyranny for a another tyrant with a slightly better PR team.
11/n That's taxes, how libertarian is our benevolent governor on COVID? People like @KennedyNation, @billmaher, @nickgillespie, and @justinamash say he was the best democrat. Just how low of a bar is that? This is his most quoted pro freedom stance. Let's see.
12/n Masks are up first. @GovofCO is touted as being one of the earliest mask mandate ending Democratic governors. How does that actually hold up?
13/n According to 👆 these screenshots, the freedom he is held up for giving doling out is contingent on covering your face and taking an unproven pharmaceutical product from a mega corporation without liability. And he's not afraid to insult you for not following his diktats.
14/n Mask and Vax, otherwise, no freedoms for you. You selfish bastard. So what of the quote that state officials shouldn't tell people what to wear? I'll let Larimer Commissioner @Jody_forLarimer explain in her regular word salad fashion. Just 4 days after the interview.
15/n The headline quote was immediately walked back and the new one was immediately telegraphed out to all the counties that were instituting mask mandates. Let me sum up "It's still the governments role to tell you what to do, but not in any way that can come back to hurt me."
16/n at this same time in Dec of '21 Denver, Boulder, Jefferson, Larimer counties along with the now defunct Tri-County health departments were all instituting their own mask mandates on their subjects. Polis and @CDPHE made sure to give them their approval.
17/n Worst of all, his vaccine mandate, and the enforcement of it, worsened the hospital capacity problem in the fall and winter of 2021. My body my choice huh Polis?
18/n We've documented a rather poor record on personal freedoms in the time COVID, what about business freedom? Surely he had to do something good for businesses right?
19/n he signed an executive order that injected the state in the private contracts of renters and landlords
20/n do you like skiing? The tourism industry? Sorry, Jared says. Want to go out to eat on mother's day? Get shut down.
21/n don't forget that the @CDPHE
Exposure notification app chewed up almost $900k in funds and had a truly abysmal success rate, even by government standards.
22/n I didn't want to spend this much time exposing the massive gaslighting going on around but the noise was getting deafening. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
23/n So why did I spend the time? Otherwise skeptical and well informed people that I follow have fallen for it. An I want to put a stop to the white washing of Polis' history in CO.
@TheEliKlein and @erichhartmann fell for it in this thread.
24/n it seems incredible the disconnect in the otherwise good media sources. This isn't @9NEWS bloviating about how awesome Jared Polis is. It's @reason and @justinamash we can't reconcile. And it has almost become comical.
25/25 How does one explain this? Now it's OK to have friends across the isle. I'm a libertarian and have many friends on both sides of the duopoly spectrum. But when they're wrong I'm unafraid to call them out and have a spirited debate. I don't uncritically promote them.
Bonus: Twitter limits a thread draft at 25 tweets. We can keep going on and on about how bad a libertarian he is now that this is live.
Polis could apologize. That would go a long way.
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