PERRY: Venezuelan gangs post secret Cherry Creek schools tweets — save us, Trump

Two things are true nearly every day here on the third rock from the sun, out here in the suburbs of the universe.

First, there are new horrible and sometimes horror stories all day, every day associated with humans having broken the climate control on the planet.

Second, there are new, inexplicable things that appear all day, every day in the public realm that are just too freaky to dismiss by saying, “that’s weird.”

After watching the planet revolve a few thousand times over the last several years, about the time a guy named Newt Gingrich started making sense to a lot of worrisome people, I think I have an answer.

Climate change is not only about to put a bevy of Pacific islands under water for good, flood half of Vermont and starve people all over the planet, it makes some people shake their heads in agreement when they listen to Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talk together on stage.

There can be no other explanation other than climate change.

Neither Trump, and especially not Kennedy, make a lick of sense to most cogent Americans.

Not so long ago, Trump was played by his critics, who on social media attributed quotes from famous fascists to Trump. Trump actually retweeted them, fawning over the wisdom.

“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep,” Benito Mussolini said, another human oddity that like to point out how famously he famously did things.

When reporters pointed out he’d been played into lauding the work of fascists, passed off as his own, he flabbergasted his critics and supporters alike.

“I know who said it,” he said, according to The Atlantic. “But what difference does it make whether it’s Mussolini or somebody else?”

OK.

You would think that even Trump couldn’t be that naive or freaky to brush off a little friendly fascism. It has to be global warming. 

Rising temps is what I attributed to Colorado Crazy stuff this week, involving our very own Cherry Creek Schools District.

My phone started blowing up Tuesday morning with people asking whether Cherry Creek officials had gone off the rails with a Twitter stunt.

The consternation came from former Colorado Republican Party Chairperson Kristi Burton Brown posting on Twitter, aka X, Tuesday, that the storied school district was blocking critics from seeing tweets in a horrifying anti-information scam.

Brown posted what appears to be a screenshot of a tweet from Cherry Creek saying, “These posts are protected.” The message said that only confirmed followers could see Cherry Creek school district posts.

Brown had a social media meltdown.

“As a constitutional attorney, I’m going to point that it’s a *big* problem that one of the largest school districts in Colorado is hiding their official social media account from the public.”

She demanded immediate action from Cherry Creek to reverse its new policy and change course.

A short time later, Brown claimed victory for the people’s right to know, citing her right-wing extremist think tank, Advance Colorado, as a provocateur of power.

“Thank you, @CCSDK12 for changing this immediately,” Brown said in a following tweet not long after the first. “At @AdvanceColorado we stand up for government accountability and transparency for citizens.”

That’s nice. Accuracy and facts, however, escape Brown and her fellow soldiers.

If you wonder how you missed a stunt like that yesterday at Cherry Creek schools, it never happened.

A quick call to Cherry Creek communications folks got the, “Sorry, but, ummm, what are you talking about?” response.

I explained that Brown was shocked, shocked and dismayed that Cherry Creek would try and conceal its Twitter posts.

A short time later, spox for the school district could only surmise that, back in May, the school district became a target of the right-wing extremist hate group “Libs of TikTok,” exploding their Twitter account with tens of thousands of hate tweets, based on something about a transgender student.

District Communications Director Abbe Smith said district techies paused the account for a few hours, or maybe a day, until they could figure out what was happening and why.

They restored the account and moved on with school stuff.

Cherry Creek officials on Tuesday had no idea what Brown was referring to, especially when she tweeted shortly after, thanking them for heeding her warning and changing their policy.

Nothing had changed. It all happened in Brown’s private universe of conspiracy and horror.

It’s flooding somewhere in Vermont right now, and there are serious synapse misfires across the conspiracy set here in Colorado.

In the meantime, Cherry Creek officials invite everyone to follow them on Twitter at @CCSDK12 for all kinds of updates.

Thanks, climate change.

Climate change has to be the only thing that could cause some anonymous TikToker calling herself “kami” to insist that everyone in Denver and Aurora are going to die at the hands of rampant and rogue Venezuelan gangs.

Run for your lives, and from your inflated property values, maybe.

“Are you guys keeping up with what’s going on in Denver (nudge nudge) Aurora Colorado? I have friends there that are leaving,” Kami confides to her phone camera. “They high-tailed it out of there.”

Calling herself a “patriot,” she says that gun stores and jewelry stores are being robbed and rampaged by Venezuelan gangs “paired up with MS13.”

What “Kami” is referring to is rampant propaganda about a slumlord in Aurora trying to blame his ghastly ghetto projects on Venezuelan immigrants and Tren de Aragua gangs that may have followed them.

There has been no credible proof, none, nada, zippo, that TdA gangs had anything to do with running two apartments and maybe more into uninhabitable conditions.

The propagandists here would have you believe that Aurora and Denver were formerly paradise, free from gangs, shootings, robberies and all other crimes until Venezuelan refugees got off the bus in Denver about two years ago.

I remember walking the streets of northwest Aurora in the early 1990s with “experts” trying to persuade city lawmakers to put up concrete barricades all over the Alton-Beeler area north of Colfax as a way to stop endless drive-by shootings, by preventing cars from being able to drive by.

Real story, folks.

Kami says that Aurora had it coming because it’s a liberal “sanctuary city” that welcomes immigrants and the gang violence she says immigrants bring.

Clearly, the propaganda is part of a national ploy to breed fear in folks and promote anti-immigrant hate — and voting.

Kami, like Brown, needs to focus on the facts and not the fear when wielding propaganda, which has to be caused by climate change, because nothing else makes sense.

She overlooks that Aurora is run by a solid majority of conservative and extremist conservative city lawmakers, and it has been for a few years. If the amok she thinks Aurora has run is running at all, it runs not because of the liberals she is slighting.

There’s real danger with this kind of propaganda and manipulation. Northwest does have serious problems with poverty, crime and, possibly, issues with gangs. But hyperbole and outright propaganda for the sake of political gain is a quality of North Korea, China and Russia everyone in Aurora, and the nation, should reject. Facts matter more than ever when lives are at stake, and they are.

We’ve got to take climate change seriously, folks. All this came storming across the city and the nation before lunch on Tuesday.

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