Wyoming, it’s time to tune your bull$#*% detectors!

Tune up your bullshit detectors!

Spring cleaning is the perfect opportunity to do some overdue bullshit detector maintenance. Clean the filters, charge the batteries and switch the setting to “high” because you’ll need it functioning to perfection this election season.

Here’s why: This past budget session was a rough one for the redcoats of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus. Their dream to transform the Cowboy State from a pearl-snap paradise into a low-rent booger farm fell flat on its face, and they’re pissed.

Checkgate and the failure of their legislative agenda have left the sour face of the Freedom Caucus bloody from self-inflicted punches. They have painted themselves into a narrow corner in the right wing of their seedy outhouse, and soon they’ll start behaving like wounded beasts, flailing like a frightened skunk caught in a leg trap. The wheels of the Freedom Caucus train are already starting a death wobble.

Folks are waking up to the goofball rhetoric of these brittle right-wingers, calling them out and mocking them for wasting the public’s time on nonsense like chemtrails and UFOs. The FC will react like reactionaries always do — doubling down and going all-in on anger-mongering. Blaming everyone but themselves for their ineptitude. Viciously attacking in every direction.

This schoolyard behavior has landed them in court for defaming their legislative opponents with outright lies. Nothing says “drugstore cowboy” more than an inability to tell the truth.

It’s already starting, and will reach the zenith of desperation as the election gets closer. So tune up those bullshit detectors pronto!

The propaganda arm of the Freedom Caucus’ captive media, bloated by Checkgate cash, is stumbling all over itself to protect its friends who were exposed and embroiled in the scandal. It is lashing out at “mainstream media” (mistakenly using “mainstream” as a pejorative) and launching ad hominem attacks on journalists who reported on Checkgate, calling into question their objectivity. This desperate, bubble-chamber apologism will do nothing but further diminish its already minuscule share of the media market in Wyoming.

The turmoil in the Freedom Caucus media silo has fostered a snarling match between its two noisiest bobblehead dolls. If that soap opera isn’t enough, Checkgate money has prompted the flagship outlet to ambush conservative Republicans in the Big Empty to the point that they will jump overboard like rats leaving a sinking ship. This from the nincompoops who say they want to “save” the Big Empty.

See what I mean about the importance of being able to detect bullshit?

It won’t be long before we start seeing those garish Freedom Caucus mailers show up in our mailboxes. You know the ones I’m talking about: bright colors, lots of exclamation points,full of false quotes, cherry-picked statistics and hair-on-fire hyperbole attacking opponents as commies and worse. We all had a bellyful of them two years ago, and the Freedom Caucus is fixin’ to try to shove another dose down our throats.

This propaganda is foisted upon us by Freedom Caucus shot-callers from far outside our borders. Big money is behind them, and if Checkgate proved anything, it proved that the redcoats in the Freedom Caucus and its captive media dance when big money sings.

If you pay attention to these mailers and find yourself getting pissed off, that’s precisely what was intended. The purveyors of this propaganda want you to be pissed off. They’ll push your buttons and pull any lever they can to make you angry, because they know that an angry voter is not a smart voter.

Mailers like this, and the media smokescreens for Freedom Caucus campaigns, are directed to excite the emotional, limbic part of your brain and stimulate it toward anger. The political professionals behind this strategy know that anger overrides common sense, and they don’t want you to think critically about the Freedom Caucus. They want you pissed off. They win if they can keep you from using your bullshit detector.

Several highly qualified candidates have already announced to challenge the Freedom Caucus in the upcoming primary, and more will be forthcoming. Coupled with the Checkgate debacle and a disastrous performance during the session, the Freedom Caucus smells its own blood in the water. So it’s no wonder that the mere mention of 8/18/26 makes them blow snot bubbles of fear.

We can expect a kamikaze attack of bullshit from them as they struggle to hold on to power. We’ve seen it before.

This time, let’s all make sure that the Freedom Caucus can expect Wyoming voters to have switched on our high-performance bullshit detectors to meet the onslaught.