Democrats should stand outside grocery stores handing out gift cards. I guarantee that will do more than spending on any number of commercials ahead of the midterms...

National Guard will be deployed to protect Walmart(s) – how much is that wager.

They'll just deploy the National Guard to any city where there's a hint of anyone acting out of line.

walmart can just simply shuttle thier stores to avoid the shoplifting, only opening near more "affluent areas: wheres theres less shoplifitng. this also worsens places for food deserts.

I know it's a quote from Shrek but I feel like Trump has said this at least once in his rambling speeches.

Most likely, yes. I wonder how they'll spin it into being the fault of Democrats.

Colorado has the benefit of wiggle room stemming from the whole TABOR refund thing. Normally they refund several hundred dollars per year to all residents of the state in unspent tax money. This year those refunds are expected to only be around $20 per person, and then are expected to drop to nothing at all for the foreseeable future.

So while Colorado can handle this type of thing once, it also means that we are blowing our safety net in a fairly permanent way. With little means to make up for it either, as the TABOR laws make it quite difficult for the state to raise taxes when necessary.

Its a system that was fairly well designed in some ways, at least for a world where shit was stable. But in the new normal of ridiculousness and unexpected costs it is probably going to bite the state in the ass pretty hard. Its just going to be a delayed effect

The DNC would never rattle the cage