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June 15, 2020 06:46 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”

–Charles Babbage

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31 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread

      1. Foxlandia needs to focus their concerns on the real problem: Trump evangelicals. 

        Bless his heart. Maybe some alone time with Paula White to buy some salvation is in order? A hug from Jr

        Trump's Oklahoma campaign chair to plead guilty to child sex trafficking

        [S]hortey's fall from grace exposed the "family values" politician as a hypocrite. Troy Stevenson, executive director of the LGBTQ organization Freedom Oklahoma, said he knew Shortey as a person who cared a great deal about maintaining his image as a good Christian lawmaker.

  1. Buckle up Buttercup, we're going for a ride (just not the one you thought it would be): 

    Revealed: The Family Member Who Turned on Trump

    One of the most explosive revelations Mary will detail in the book, according to people familiar with the matter, is how she played a critical role helping The New York Times print startling revelations about Trump’s taxes, including how he was involved in “fraudulent” tax schemes and had received more than $400 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire.

    Mary Trump, 55, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. and eldest grandchild of Fred Trump Sr., is scheduled to release Too Much And Never Enough on Aug. 11, just weeks before the Republican National Convention.

     

     

        1. Looks like 'stache is getting some heat: 

          Trump: Former adviser Bolton faces charges if book released

          President Donald Trump said Monday that his former national security adviser, John Bolton, could face a “criminal problem” if he doesn’t halt plans to publish a new book that describes scattershot, sometimes dangerous, decision-making by a president focused only on getting re-elected.

          Trump said it would be up to Attorney General William Barr to issue any charges, but hinted that the matter would end up in court.

  2. The only place Gym Jordan should be standing right now is before a judge "splaining locker room stuff"

    J.J. Watts clearly didn't receive the Whitest House memo: 

     "If you still think it's about disrespecting the flag or our military, you clearly haven't been listening," Watt tweeted on Saturday.

     

     

  3. Because, you deserve a little break today . . .

    Ted Cruz’s College Roommate Says Texas Senator Has Been ‘Pathetic Since 1988’

    The pair lived together during their freshman year at Princeton University in 1988. The Hangover 2 screenwriter openly despises Cruz and has quite the history of disparaging him on Twitter.

    One of his tweets from the time reads: “Sadly, the fact that Ted Cruz jacks off to mediocre porn spam is the most human thing we can say about him. This is actually his high point.”

    He also hit out at Cruz for supporting a ban on sex toys in Texas, writing: “Ted Cruz thinks people don’t have a right to ‘stimulate their genitals.’ I was his college roommate. This would be a new belief of his.”

    https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-college-roommate-craig-mazin-twitter-1510850?amp=1

    . . . we now return you to your regularly scheduled Ttump/Gardner/Neville/Saine outrages . . . 

      1. Now just imagine Gym Jordan in a wrestling match officiated by Rafael Edward (in a onesie): 

  4. Republicans playing Republicans like a fiddle.  #Floriduh edition: 

    Florida ordered 1M doses of a Trump-touted drug. Hospitals didn’t want it

    Florida is sitting on more than 980,000 unused doses of hydroxychloroquine, a drug President Donald Trump touted as a “game changer” in the fight against the coronavirus, after only a handful of hospitals in the state asked for access to the medicine.

    …and then: 

    FDA ends emergency use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus

    In April, roughly a month after the FDA authorized emergency use of the drugs, the agency warned against using hydroxychloroquine outside of hospitals and clinical trials because of potentially fatal cardiac side effects. Trump toned down on mentions of the pills during his White House briefings around the same time, but in May told reporters he was taking a course of hydroxychloroquine after a White House aide was diagnosed with the coronavirus.

  5. On everything . . . 

    Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In
     

    . . . And if we don’t address the why of that treatment, the how is just window dressing. You know, we’re in a bizarre time of quarantine. White people lasted six weeks and then stormed a state building2 with rifles, shouting: ‘‘Give me liberty! This is causing economic distress! I’m not going to wear a mask, because that’s tyranny!’’ That’s six weeks versus 400 years of quarantining a race of people. The policing is an issue, but it’s the least of it. We use the police as surrogates to quarantine these racial and economic inequalities so that we don’t have to deal with them.

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html

     

  6. This is today's interweb champion: 

    "Little known fact: Banana bread is actually the first step on one's journey to radicalization because it requires recognizing when something is rotting and needs to be turned into something else." – @staciemichelle

  7. Our five-decade-old War on Drugs Colored People is a massive failure; a stain on our morality.  Change is slow, particularly at the federal level with far too many old white guys vested in their life-long drug warrior status.  But change is happening, and it's starting here one step at a time.  In fact, this is almost the only way change happens, first in our state laboratories.  It's how we ended the federal scheduling of hemp as a drug; it's how we'll end the scheduling on the entirety of the cannabis plant. 

    Well played, CO legislature.  This is big. 

     

      1. Marble and her husband  own bail bond and liquor store businesses- there must be a way to monetize this “social equity in cannabis business licenses” thing somehow. Sin is lucrative, doncha know.
         

        However weird the bipartisan support,  it looks like a good amendment. We’re still punishing youths for low level cannabis possession and use, still searching high school lockers for weed, still disproportionately criminalizing black and brown kids for possession. Being able to get those “offenses” expunged, and opening up business opportunities for prior “offenders” is indeed a social good. 

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