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February 21, 2025 12:54 AM UTC

Friday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.”

–Phaedrus

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27 thoughts on “Friday Open Thread

    1. Let's see …. who shot at Trump and was killed?

      the FBI uncovered a social media account "believed to be associated with the shooter" with about 700 comments from 2019 to 2020. Reports regarding the content of the posts are currently not unanimous. One account from Gab CEO Andrew Torba said that posts requested from his platform by the FBI were "pro-Biden's immigration policy",[141] whereas a public statement from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate described Crooks's activity on social networking services as antisemitic, anti-immigrant, extreme, and espousing political violence.[142] Crooks's Internet activity before the attack included searches related to the 2021 Oxford High School shooting and for other politicians and their events.[143]

      He was a registered Republican;[133][144][145] his voter registration had been active since September 2021, the month he turned 18.

  1. DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

    The restrictions are already in place at the General Services Administration along with several other agencies. Soon they’ll roll out to most of the federal government, sources say.
     

    Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency put a $1 spending limit on most credit cards belonging to employees and contractors of the General Services Administration—a critical agency that manages IT and office buildings for the US government—along with at least three other federal agencies. Similar restrictions are expected to roll out to the entire government workforce soon, according to several sources familiar with the matter.
    “Effective immediately, all GSA SmartPay Travel and Purchase Cards issued to GSA employees and contractors are being paused and will not be available for use except in very limited circumstances,” GSA wrote in a memo to staff Thursday morning viewed by WIRED. The memo later stated that for “up to 0.1% of the GSA workforce, requests may be made for certain individual purchase charge card spend thresholds be set above $1. Please provide the rationale for all such deviations on an employee-by-employee basis along with the proposed increased threshold.”

    https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-credit-cards/

    This might possibly be the STUPIDEST thing NaziTechBro and his Teenage minions have done so far. Government Purchase Cards (credit cards) are used for pretty much every purchase the government needs to do, from fueling vehicles at gas stations to buying comfort items for Veterans at VA Nursing homes. (There are some big $$$ exceptions, like a Navy IT engineer I worked with that had a card with a purchase limit sufficient to buy Installation-sized satellite dishes.)

    They also have a level of oversight that is vastly superior to anything I experienced in the private sector…as a Service chief I had to review my subordinates purchases on a weekly basis, along with a random audit from our Fiscal service.
     

    1. President Musk and his companion Trump are working diligently to destroy our federal government and bring this country to its knees. Each savage action like the one you describe makes it closer to impossible for the government to work. But the MAGAts will not understand until their Social Security and healthcare are cut off.

      1. I really like  ” President Musk and his companion Trump”. Might I offer another noun as a substitute for companion?

        “President Musk and his sidekick, Trump.” 

        Also…I would like to hear your (and other Polsters) suggestions for a recurring post entitled, “Questions Elon Musk must be asking himself.”

        I think he must be aware how ignorant is his partner in crime, so I can’t imagine he accepts Trumps’ direction without prior or immediate input. And…I’m guessing there aren’t many who can blow smoke up Trumps’ ass better than Musk.

        Everyone needs to keep one thing in the front of their minds…

        Elon Musk has no loyalty to the people of the United States, their government, nor their troublesome Constitution. He is entirely self-obsessed and self- interested. I am interested to see what happens when he tangles with the Boys from Big Religion. I see trouble ahead on that front.

         

        1. "Sidekick" seemed too positive . . . "Pet" might work but it's an insult to dogs and cats. "Useful idiot" might come closer to fitting the situation. 

          Frankly, I don't know if Musk is asking himself any questions. There is no room for self-reflection or self-doubt with a megalomaniac. He will destroy and demean until he is stopped.

          1. Oh, yes…I agree. I don't think the Domo of DOGE has any self-doubt. The questions I imagined were along the lines of, "How much longer do I have to let that idiot sit in my chair?"

            It would be interesting to know their true relationship.

    1. The most amazing part of that article for me is the reaction by white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Is Fuentes having a "leopards eat your face" moment?! His reaction seems to be like "Guys, I thought we were just doing this to troll the libz for the lulz and the money and clout! I didn't think we were serious!"

      1. It's part of the reason I think it would be awful, simply awful, if Colorado media could make this an issue that the Colorado GOP could either justify, condemn, or embarrassingly duck the question. Once upon a time I might have wondered how it could've selected Bannon even before he thrust his arm, but apparently the bar has not just been lowered, it's disappeared completely.

  2. Protest stupid Colorado Republican immigration bill on Tuesday, Feburary 25th at 2pm.

    The State, Veterans, & Military Affairs will be holding a hearing on SB25-047: Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law where Republicans are proposing the stupid idea of encouraging people unsure of their immigration status to not show up to court or to probation and encourages more use of private prisons.

    I learned about this from the Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition Instagram account that is encouraging folks to show up wearing white to help make our voices heard.

    As an extra bonus, stick around to mock the idea of SB25-135: Colorado Government Efficiency Authority which basically looks like "DOGE but for Colorado" because Republicans, the independent thinkers that they are, just wanna do what Trump does.

    (If I remember right, the Colorado State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee is nicknamed the "Kill Committee" so there's no chance of either of these bills becoming law, but Republicans should still be loudly shamed and mocked for proposing such idiocy.)

  3. The Inflection Point. Josh Marshall at TPM.

    As always, insightful reading:

    2025 might be the first time in human history where we have a genuine supervillain walking among us. Humanity has spawned numerous monsters, of course: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. But I’m talking about the supervillain on the Gotham/Metropolis model. The glad-handing, fantastically rich, this-dial-goes-to-11 over-the-top weirdo with his raucous bevy of cheerleaders who is in fact evil and has a cartoonishly stupid but yet very real plan to take over the world.

    I want to state again what I’ve been saying since November: your health care coverage for Elon’s tax cuts. That is the fundamental fulcrum on which the next two years of American history — and quite possibly many years into the future — will turn. This has always been and will remain fundamentally a battle for public opinion. The issue is not “kitchen table issues” versus democracy. The two are fundamentally conjoined. Any effective politics to confront the current moment must join the two together. Because they are joined together. To the extent that “democracy” has no tangible impact on anyone’s lived experience, it hardly matters. But of course it does impact everyone’s lived experience in tangible and graphic ways.

    As all of this is happening, Musk himself is getting higher and higher on the destruction. The stunt at CPAC is just the latest example. Drugs, mania … whatever it is, it’s got him. And that unfurls just as he gets less and less popular with the general public.

     

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