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Lefty London Publisher Knocks the Sentinel and Custer County’s Citizens
Plus: The Real Deb Adams!

by George Gramlich,  Sangre de Cristo Sentinel
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Last July 4th, just after the parade ended, I walked back from the end of the parade route to the Sentinel where there was a whole bunch of people on the lawn and inside talking and having fun. I went inside, put my rifle down on a table and grabbed some water. Somebody outside said that there was a reporter from London, United Kingdom, outside and he wanted to talk to me about Custer County. All the red flags went up in my deplorable head (London, reporter, our Independence Day Parade/GUNS….) but I thought, hey why not, this could be fun. And it was.
So this young, white guy comes into our main room at the Sentinel and we greet each other. He has a pretty heavy English accent but is well spoken. His head is spinning around as he sees all the conservative flags, signs and posters on the walls and sees our life size cardboard cutouts of John Wayne, the Lone Ranger, Tonto and President Trump in the corner. There is an AR-15 on a table and me and about half the people inside and outside of the building are packing heaters. This is obviously not London.
Joshua Zitser is a reporter from the big internet publication, Business Insider (BI), which is head-quartered in London but has offices all over the world. He says he is on a two-week assignment to do stories about the Rocky Mountains and was told to come to Custer County and interview, who else, the Unicorn Transgender guys at their Alpaca “ranch”. (They have been quiet for awhile but I guess they need more GoFundMe money.) I know BI is lefty, and Joshua just spent two days with the Uni’s, so I KNOW what this is all about: another puff piece on the courageous Uni’s and a hit piece on the Sentinel and most of the citizens of Happy Valley. Bring it on, Limey.
Joshua tells me about his Uni visit and says he was told to come see me as we had written about them before and he wants my take on them. He says the Unis told him they were attacked by people on their property and are constantly patrolling their 35 acres looking for people who want to harm them. I said the “attack” was probably a fib, that all their neighbors complain about their behavior (gunfire at night, spotlights on the neighbors, etc.) and their con with the persecution thing and their fundraising on GoFundMe. I told him the Unicorn ranchers are always packing and open carrying when they come to town. But nothing wrong with packing when you go to town.
I told Joshua that we, and the rest of the county have no problem with them and nobody is bothering them. They are just doing their persecution thing to get attention and raise money and if that is what they want to do, so be it. Most of us here in Happy Valley just want to be left alone and that includes leaving them alone.
I said, multiple times, that nobody has any problems with them being here and that all the vitriol and hate is coming from them (like calling everybody in our Independence Day Parade “nazis” and “fascists”). That stuff doesn’t bother us, I told Joshua. We know what is
behind it.

Joshua says he is going to write an article about them and Happy Valley and I told the limey that if he doesn’t put the GoFundMe
angle in it and the fact that the Uni’s never made ONE complaint to the Sheriff’s Office about any problems, he would be writing a lie. Joshua says, Oh no, I will get both sides in. I am a journalist, he said. Once he said that I knew it was going to be a hit piece
and I smiled inside.
I showed Joshua our editor’s room (The War Room) and our conference room with the only office bar in town. Joshua’s eyes were bugging out with all the conservative stuff on the wall and our Vietnam War Memorial wall. We talk some more and he leaves.
No news from Joshua since then and then all of a sudden his article finally came out August 19, 2022, on BusinessInsider.com (see: https://www.businessinsider.com/custer-county-trans-alpaca-ranchers-are-forging-a-new-frontier-2022-8.  The title is, “How the trans alpaca ranchers of Custer County, Colorado, are forging a new frontier.” Catchy.

Lib Comedy
And a hit piece it was. But it did contain some slices of lib comedic ranting and errors. I thought we might take a look at a few of them and have a good laugh at lib “journalists”. However, Joshua literally made some stuff up and there are many incorrect quotes. But, hey, he’s a  “journalist”. (Joshua didn’t record the interview or take notes.) Plus, it had an inadvertent exposé of a lady running for office here that you won’t believe.

In the article, Joshua starts right out with some of his observations on our now very well known Independence Day Parade with noting that the Custer County Republican’s float “elicited lively cheers” and that he saw a woman “waving a huge flag of the Three Percenters” right behind the Republican Float (OMG! The Three Percent flags freak out the libs). Stunned, Joshua then says, “At the rear, a column of smiling men and women marched forward with rifles strapped to their shoulders”. That would be our 2nd Amendment parade entry that is now world famous.
Joshua then makes his first totally inaccurate statement, “George Gramlich, the editor of the town’s far-right newspaper, the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel, stood watching the parade from the paper’s office on Main Street.” Joshua must have been puffing on some Colorado devil’s lettuce because I was IN the parade in the 2nd Amendment entry. I think Joshua wanted to paint a picture that didn’t happen, but, who cares, he is a “journalist”. (Like somebody else in town.)
He then writes, “Nearby, a ‘Trump Won’ sign had been planted on the paper’s lawn”. Next, he writes “‘It’s there to annoy the liberals,’ Gramlich said with a smirk.” Totally true. What he didn’t say is that Joshua let out a belly laugh when I told him that. I also told him the local libs, mature as they are, give the Sentinel the finger and yell obscenities at us, the sign and our building as they drive by. He laughed at that, too.
Joshua then writes poetically about how wonderful the Uni’s are and their struggle is hard with all the “fascism” around here. This goes on and on. He then talks about our latest July 4th day and the Parade. He says the Uni’s boycotted the parade this year and went to a ““not a July 4th” party” at some neighbor’s house. (In other words, an anti-Independence Day, anti-American party. Nice. I see patriotism runs strong with them.) Joshua then tells the Uni’s famous fairy tale of discovering
two guys with rifles and body armor on their property at three or so in the morning and the brave Uni’s chased them off. He says they didn’t call the Sheriff’s Office as “they didn’t have faith that they would do anything about it”. (Yeah….) “We don’t call the cops for anything we do, ever” one Uni stated.
That incident which occurred a few years ago, once reported in the liberal press, caused multiple lib media outlets to descend on the Uni’s ranch and write puff pieces on the poor things. Joshua then whines that those articles, in turn, caused other internet sites
to mercilessly mock the Uni’s about this.
Joshua then profiles some of the Uni’s and their tales of winding up on the ranch. Quite moving. He then returns to last July 4th and writes that the four Uni “ranchers” and himself went to the “not a July 4th” party. This, apparently, was some party.

Is This the Real Deb Adams?
Joshua writes that when they got there, a “lesbian
couple” was finishing adding icing to their “F*** Y** Cookies” that were featured at the party. (Again, that is knocking our Independence Day with profane cookies. Very mature.)
Joshua then states that inside the house was a smiley, blond haired woman sitting on a camping chair with a paper plate of cookies on one knee (based on the prior “FU” cookie comments you would have to assume that these were the same cookies) and a campaign leaflet on her other knee. He says the woman introduced herself as Deb Adams and she is the chairperson of the Custer County Tourism Board and that she is running for the Board of County Commissioners. Joshua states that the lady then asks the Uni’s,
“Is everyone here registered to vote?”. Joshua writes that after Deb’s comments, the Uni’s are “not thrilled by the direction the night has take them” with this politician here. The Brit then writes that Adams gave a little history of herself (unaffiliated, from California). This apparently disturbs the Uni’s more and Joshua writes that two of the Uni’s “suggest to the room that perhaps armed resistance is more effective than voting”.

Joshua reports that Adams is “unfazed” by this radical talk and “continues to smile and socialize” with the leftist group. Now, READ THIS: Joshua then writes that the Uni’s want to leave and they decide, “it’s time to go home, rather than to the flag-burning party they’d originally planned to hit next.” (“flag-burning party”!!! On Independence Day? That’s all you need to know, folks. And they want to “build community”! Just unbelievable.)

(So the rest of the county is having barbecues, family reunions, etc with Independence Day as the theme and background and where is Deb Adams? At a left wing “not the 4th of July” anti-American party featuring “FU” anti-Independence Day cookies with talk of violence as the only solution to political issues. Nice. This is the real Deb Adams, folks. Beneath that smiley face and every platitude in the book is a hardcore, lefty who detests our most sacred non-religious holiday of the year, Independence Day. Remember this in November, folks. )

Time to Knock the Sentinel
Joshua then pivots the article to the “interview” he had with me at the Sentinel after the parade. And there are some juicy morsels here. He rages that “in the Sentinel’s Main Street office, which wouldn’t be out of place in a Spaghetti Western movie if it wasn’t for the life-size cutout of former President Donald Trump that dominates the room”. (“Spaghetti Western”!!! Pure poetry. Good job, Josh. Plus Trump ALWAYS gets them.) He then talks about our conference room with our Vietnam Memorial Wall and our office bar at one end saying “where antique weapons from the Vietnam War are laid out beside a (sic) half-empty bottles of whiskey”. (When Josh saw the Memorial Wall he almost fainted. A small correction on the “half-empty bottles of whiskey statement: we have several high end “whiskey bottles” there. Only one was “half-empty”. The bar also has premium wines and German beer. It is, after-all, The Sentinel.)
Joshua returns to his inspired “spaghetti western” theme and writes, “Rifles are seemingly every where in this town, and one sits atop one of the room’s wooden tables. When Gramlich turns, his handgun, nestled in a holster, is in clear view.” (Showdown at the OK Corral!!!) Heck, half the people inside and outside of the Sentinel were carrying. And just for the record, Joshua, we own good guns. The rifle on the table was a BCM Recce AR15 and my pistol was an H&K P30. Just say’n. This Londoner has never seen anything like Happy Valley before and it is hysterical.

(photo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Loos,_Croydon_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2618840.jpg)
License and attribution Two Loos, Croydon by Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Joshua knocks the Sentinel and most of Custer County for the next few paragraphs, then knocks Lauren Boebert and Republicans. The usual. He then pivots to the Uni’s “vision for the future” which turns out to be some progressive, fairy tale, gender based “it takes a village” thing. And finally, he says the Uni’s hope in the future is to “avoid being targeted by right-wing agitators.” Mercifully,
it ends there.
So there you have it, folks. We didn’t ask for this article. The Uni’s and the lib media did. (And I doubt ol’ Deb Adams did!) But it is always fun playing with the libs with their four-year old
emotional makeup. Can’t wait ‘til the next one.