March 12, 2024 12:25 PM UTC
3 Feedback- by: Colorado Pols
Freshman Rep. Scott “There Is No” Bottoms of Colorado Springs, whose day job is lead pastor at an space evangelical Christian church, has a status for couching most if not all of his views on the temporal world within the language of “non secular warfare”–this in accordance with Bottoms’ apocalyptic worldview during which we’re presently within the Biblical Finish Occasions the place stuff will get actually unhealthy earlier than Jesus comes again. Bottoms’ strident theology makes it troublesome to debate any topic with him rationally, because it’s exhausting to persuade anybody who believes the world as we all know it’s about to finish that they need to care about such mundane issues as taking good care of the planet or tolerating of us who will not be equally apocalyptically minded.
However on Sunday, Rep. Bottoms took the hearth and brimstone rhetoric to a brand new degree whereas being interviewed by conservative journalist Christine Dolan. It began with Backside’s by-now acquainted rants about how Colorado “doesn’t defend kids from predators” and the lack of “parental rights” to laws defending LGBTQ+ folks from discrimination. However from there, the dialog took a wild flip into the conspiratorial, with Bottoms providing his concept about how Gov. Jared Polis is himself being “groomed” (a distinct sort of grooming, we assume) for the Presidency by “Davos,” a reference to the Swiss city the place the World Financial Discussion board convenes annually.
And that’s not all:
BOTTOMS: So, so issues are coming from D.C., to Polis, as an excessive leftist globalist, and right here’s two different issues to recollect is, Washington D.C. is extraordinarily corrupt with pedophilic mentality. [Pols emphasis] Okay? Because of this Epstein by no means, Epstein didn’t dangle himself however no person cared. That is the place that is come from and no person’s investigating, no person cares. As a result of why? Epstein owned Washington D.C. They had been…
At this level, Dolan reduce Bottoms off to return the dialog to some semblance of actuality:
DOLAN: Properly, I feel that’s, that’s, he didn’t personal it. Okay, that’s a bit bit too far. [Pols emphasis] He definitely frolicked with lots of people on each side of the aisle…
It’s not the primary time that Bottoms has acknowledged on the file that he doesn’t consider intercourse offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein dedicated suicide in 2019, however the terrifying depiction given by Bottoms of a pipeline of “pedophilic mentality” from Washington, D.C. and past to Colorado through Gov. Polis is a window into Bottoms’ mentality. There are Republicans who regurgitate far-right conspiracy theories, no less than to the restricted diploma they will themselves abdomen, just because it’s what they assume their constituents need to hear. After which there are Republicans who’ve, because the saying goes, “drunk the Kool-Support” and actually consider the conspiracy theories that underpin QAnon, PizzaGate, and the remainder of the MAGA-era crazypants canon.
Scott Bottoms is among the Republicans who believes.