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February 08, 2025 12:11 AM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.”

–E. V. Lucas

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  1. So…

    It appears the Trump Mob has just about completed its coup. It ooks like The RCA ( Reasonable Conservative Army ) is nowhere to be seen. It is the expressed intention of the Orange Destruction to have a third term…at least. 

    Musk will oversee the implementation of a Russian style election process…

    Then the violence begins in earnest.

    LBiaPOS , no doubt, will tell you not to worry..but he is an idiot sock puppet. Or…just an idiot.

     

  2. The tiniest bit of good news to start the weekend – a Federal judge has blocked the NaziTechBro and his Teenage Minions from accessing the DoT payment systems:
     

    A federal judge, citing a risk of “irreparable harm,” has temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system.
    The judge’s order, issued early Saturday, temporarily halts access to a sensitive payment system that distributes Americans’ tax returns, Social Security benefits, disability payments and federal employees’ salaries.
    (THE IMPORTANT SH1T) – US District Judge Paul Engelmayer ordered the destruction of any downloaded information from the payment system by anyone given access to it since January 20, citing “the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking.”

    https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/08/politics/elon-musk-doge-treasury-payment-system/index.html

    Not that it means jack sh!t – did the ElMu crew install their own server to dump the files they want to hack later, or were there a backpack full of SD Drives that were a SneakerNet back to the Bro Crashpad where they could slice up code while playing Helldivers 2? 

    The American Prospect has an interview that should terrify everyone who's even barely techincal aware:

    Crisis is the best word to describe it. And Nathan Tankus, author of the Notes on the Crises blog, is the person best equipped to explain what is happening and why it’s so utterly crucial. Just this morning, Tankus released a great explanation on his website of the events of this weekend, and the threats of what might happen as a result. I talked to Nathan this morning about the situation. 

    Money Quote from this interview:

    As for Musk’s motivations, you have to remember that Musk is a co-founder of PayPal. He has a longtime focus on payment. He swung back around on payments, just announced this Visa deal [with X]. He has had these weird fake deep thoughts about money that he’s said or tweeted out. I think he thinks there’s an answer there. When I read his tweets, obviously there’s a mixture of lying and bloviating. But he is genuinely shocked by the concept of Treasury not stopping a payment. In his mind that’s a huge risk and a problem. Also it’s the data, the information. He realizes that stuff is incredibly valuable. Only as they’ve had this annoying back-and-forth that they’ve realized the power and possibility of this.

    https://prospect.org/economy/2025-02-03-filled-with-unmitigated-terror-musk-treasury-tankus-qa/

    So, is this all just ElMu "lying and bloviating?" No – the DoT has already stood up a Breach Assessment Team, and this is their "no-reason-to-panic-and-change-all-your-account-information" assessement:

    A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’

    An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff’s access to federal payments systems “the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

    Members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team have had access to the US Treasury Department’s payment systems for over a week. On Thursday, the threat intelligence team at one of the department's agencies recommended that DOGE members be monitored as an “insider threat.”
    Sources say members of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s IT division and others received an email detailing these concerns.

    “There is ongoing litigation, congressional legislation, and widespread protests relating to DOGE’s access to Treasury and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service,” reads a section of the email titled “Recommendations,” reviewed by WIRED. “If DOGE members have any access to payment systems, we recommend suspending that access immediately and conducting a comprehensive review of all actions they may have taken on these systems.”

    “There is reporting at other federal agencies indicating that DOGE members have performed unauthorized changes and locked civil servants out of the sensitive systems they gained access to,” the “Recommendations” portion of the email continues. “We further recommend that DOGE members be placed under insider threat monitoring and alerting after their access to payment systems is revoked. Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

    https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/

    Senator Bennet is already over this, but I'm going to start poking Sen Goofenlooper and Rep Neguse on Monday to DO SOMETHING!

    1. "DO SOMETHING" … is a bit vague.  It isn't as if they can stand watch over the servers to make certain bad things aren't being done. 

      Democrats are already opposed to most of this.  It isn't until 4 or more REPUBLICANS in the House are willing to oppose the actions or 4 REPUBLICAN Senators decide to do something that there will be majorities in the chambers opposing Trump & Musk's minions.  It would take even fewer on some key committees to at least insist on hearings on what is being done. 

  3. I’m seeing the T revocation of Joe Biden’s security clearances not as merely a petty tyrant’s swaggering dickish act of one last one-upmanship, but more as a planned Step 1.

    Next will come the several TFBI raids on Biden’s properties and dwellings, the thorough searches of everything on those premises, and the confiscation of various computers, cell phones, and other media devices?

    Undoubtedly, highly classified documents will be “found” and prosecuted for crimes by the TDOJ for “possession of classified and national security information by a person(s) without the necessary credentisls”?

    T gets retribution for his criminal prosecution.  (MT. finally gets retribution for her designer collection drawers of vibrators, dildos, anal beads, restaints, paddles, and S&M fantasy apparel having been gazed upon.)

    With both Is (pl. — i.e., impunity and immunity) wide open, T is going to use every lever of government and everyone at his disposal to cause Joe Biden to go through everything, and more, that T caused himself to go through because of his core belief that no laws should apply to him.

     

  4. What has Trump achieved? 

    An end to the War in Ukraine? No. Rounded up all of TdA? Nope. Made one egg go down in price? No…

    It's all a hoax and it's okay to be aggressive in dealing with trumpets.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-migrant-crackdown-has-more-bark-than-bite-experts-say/

    They wanted a cruel Daddy give them what they want… Throw a punch, throw them into a wall, call them a retard. When they cry do it again and tell them they are too PC if they don't like whatever they are complaining about. When they blame immigrants call them a weak cuck whos wide ass wife is probably blowing a Venezuelan. Trump hasn't lowered your gas prices? Probably because you are failure in a shit job get another one loser. When is your sons suicide? Make them feel despair. 

    Chuck and Nancy are not going to do this for you. It's time to make conservatives afraid. Gang up on them in public. 

        1. JohnNofDenver: "why isn't our democrat leadership…." Now you're getting some place. Unfortunately, too many are still hung up on issues that cost them the election, like undocmented migrants are more important than people hurting from higher gas and grocery prices, trans-gender, and generally letting the far right media define who they were. One could hope that the Dems had learned lessons of what didn't work (in 2016) and what did work (in 2020). But…..

          It would never fly with the far right. But the Dems need somebody in leadership like AOC or Rep. Crockett who can give out as good as they receive. Jeffries isn't too bad, but he's too nice. And time for Chuck Schumer to step aside. Let him be a resource, but out of sight.

          1. I'm talking the general order from the Democrats should be "fuck you".  I agree with a number of things you bring up, the titles of the old people really don't matter. It doesn't need to be the minority leader who is the face that people associate with. Schumer remains minority leader and the Gang of bla bla…

            In regards to issues it goes to a fundamental perception of reality. I think we have a serious immigration issue. We are talking in far too few immigrants. That's not some flipant we need skilled NOPE we need a billion Americans! I agree with Trump in regards to expansion but it's a secondary priority to growth in population in order to compete against Bharat and China.

            The "illegal" immigrant number is a drop in the bucket in the numbers we need. (Even if you took Trump's BS numbers as real) The cost to benefit ratio to the mass deportation effort is laughable. What do we get for the effort more expensive salad? 

            I recognize this is far from the majority opinion nor the reasoning that the Democrat party would express in regards to opposition to deportation efforts.

            The reality is that we have a few million immigrants that fail to meet current standards to be admitted for residency. The reality is some of them work and pay into a system that they get no benefits from. 

            I recognize I'm in the minority that apparently wasn't feeling raped daily by that. 

            Part of the reason the discussion was about immigration was Democrats didn't make the discussion how fucking retarded a topic it was and anyone talking about it has holes in their brain then mock their children as having an alcohol related birth defect. We took the high road. 

             

  5. What a difference a week (or a bit more) can make. 

    January 26, 2025

    “The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Field Division said its agents, as well as partners at the Denver offices for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) conducted an early morning operation targeting drug trafficking and TdA members in Adams County, Colorado.

    The early morning raid targeted what federal authorities deemed a "makeshift nightclub" in Adams County that was "invite-only." The DEA said "dozens connected to the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang were there."

    February 6, 2025

     

    ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — No criminal charges have been filed against any of the people taken into custody by federal against during a Jan. 27 immigration raid in Adams County, 9NEWS Investigates has learned…. 

    But the agents who conducted the raid found only personal-use quantities of drugs and four pistols, and 9NEWS Investigates confirmed that neither state nor federal criminal charges have been filed against any of those taken into custody.

    1. Steffan Tubbs is the reason for that. I mean I love to suck dick but god fuck that is a faggy name. Thank god hes childless. The turd can’t count but the retards in Trumpworld made him king DEA “no really fentanyl is really bad” loudmouth. I haven’t seen any articles about all the poor journalism that got him his job. Now people wonder why the PR blitz doesn’t match reality… Duh it’s Steffan Tubbs 

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