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January 24, 2025 12:25 AM UTC

Friday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”

–Marcel Proust

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  1. I was just reading that Democrats want to punish black owned marijuana businesses in this legislative session. Ummm 🤔 and the university still has that conservatives coup program we pay for… 

    Really losing confidence in Democrats priorities.

    Look at Caraveo she wasted her time on crime and drugs got her nothing. Quick name me the veterinary drug added to fentanyl that the bill she sponsored limited to protect the youth of Colorado…? 

    The LA fires showed us one thing the next few years will be very transactional. Thus the legislature should pass loads of liberal, far left, far out laws and programs to use in a negotiation if climate change related weather or natural disasters were to befall the state.

    How about Democrats create some leverage and pass a law making a woke holiday or something and offering to cancel it in exchange for federal funding. Use their dumb reactionary lizard brains against them. Call it wokemas and put it July 3rd “We could cancel our rotten holiday if you fund Colorado Public Radio for the century” 

  2. South African immigrant who makes N_zi salutes and has lucrative business contracts with the US government to get access to "unclassified data in every government agency" as a result of reclassifying an existing Obama-era agency to incorporate DOGE into the federal bureaucracy. Other than that….

    Noah Kunin, former infrastructure director at the US General Services Administration, tells WIRED that “the government has access to incredible amounts of sensitive or proprietary business information that [businesses] had to share with the government in order to get a contract or take some action.” And while not everyone gets to access this—it generally requires some form of clearance, and government employees are not supposed to share it—this kind of information could be particularly useful to someone like Musk or other members of the business community who might be brought into DOGE.

    1. You just know this won't end well for Hegseth or The Screaming Yam. Mr Secretary will either scream in the face of the wrong woman or turn up inebriated to a meeting of the Joint Chiefs during a crisis. Who wants to bet on which it'll be?

      1. I'm looking forward to the BroSecDef being jerked around in circles by the O6/O7 mafia….and at some point, a critical program or unit will suffer some sort of catastrophic mission failure that the media is going to demand some answers about. At that point some disgruntled O6 or GS15 will pull out a doc that BroSecDef signed, and he'll be out the door fired by angry PravadSocial post. 

        I give him a year….maybe less. But it's probably going to involve SMs dying in some stupid and loud manner. 

          1. O6/O7 are military ranks — O6 is a colonel, O7 is the lowest level of general or admiral.  My guess — Hegseth has more to worry about with those O7 and above or possibly the Secretaries of the individual branches of the military.  I suspect the "warrior culture" is going create negative impressions among female, LGBTQ personnel, and minorities — worsening the problems of retention and making recruiting for jobs beyond combat roles a challenge.

            GS-15 is the highest grade of the General Schedule classification and pay system for civilian white-collar Federal employees.

            SM refers to Service Members — in this case, probably those assigned to jobs that go sideways.  I don't know that we will reach Reagan-esque levels of the destruction of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings.  But it won't take much to go well beyond the 13 killed during the Afghan withdrawal.

             

             

            1. I've spent some time at EAR (Echelons Above Reality) and will warn you to never doubt the treachery and maliciousness of an 06 scorned at a Corps or higher HQ…esp if they've been passed for promotion to O7 and they feel they have nothing to lose.

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