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Texting While Driving Now Legal In Colorado -- In Some Cases (kdvr.com)
Fines for texting and driving in Colorado have jumped to $300, but according to the fine print, the increased fine only applies to drivers who are texting in "a careless or imprudent manner." Therefore, drivers who are texting in any other manner are still within the law. FOX31 Denver reports: Before the new legislation, any texting while driving was illegal. Tim Lane of the Colorado District Attorney's Office confirmed the softening crackdown on all texting and driving. "The simple fact is that if you are texting while driving but not being careless, it's no longer illegal," he said. What constitutes "careless" driving is up to the discretion of each individual law enforcement officer. Cellphone use of any kind is still banned for drivers younger than 18. Teens caught with a phone in hand while driving will be slapped with a $50 fine.
Sorry to hear that you live in a socialist nanny-state.
Jesus Christ, hyperbole much? Trump has already been in office nearly six months, have you seen that the emergency services have stopped responding to calls? Have you seen the hospitals just turning people away en masse? Nothing of the sort is happening, I assure you.
However, the threat of fines and imprisonment is real in Canada, at least in the province of Ontario according to the OP, for holding a fucking POWERED DOWN CELL PHONE at a RED LIGHT. And somehow to you, that is preferable to having to deal with the headache of living in a free country that honestly seems to be operating just as it has always been.
I'm being serious, maybe you're just being snarky but no one is being left to die in a fire because someone you don't like got elected to be President of the United States. But the nanny-state IS real, and I for one choose to live taking the risk of being T-Boned by some moron than have the authorities breathing down my neck at every turn.