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February 24, 2025 01:17 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.”

–Abraham Lincoln

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  1. Since the border is now secure, why would it be necessary to target the Mexican cartels? I'm not in favor of bombing drug labs in Mexico. Let the Mexicans make Mexico great for the first time.

    1. I'll indugle the fantasy of this post, Pear-shaped Vietnam Vet…pray tell, how is the border magically "secure?" Because the BroSecDef (sober enough to stagger to the podium and croak out a few sentences) said so?

      A few token Guard units are currently camped out somewhere in the vinicity of Border Patrol units, playing spades and on occasion unrolling some concertina wire for the Right-wing media? 

      Hope springs eternal, I guess….

    2. Let the Mexicans make Mexico great for the first time.

      I can only assume this sentiment comes from racism because Mexico is a Republican's dream!

      It has a weak federal government that is unable, and often unwilling, to enforce regulations on large organizations. State and local government officials are easily bribed because they don't have the resources to enforce laws and provide services. Guns are everywhere. Private militias overpower police in many areas. It's a Republican paradise!

      2. I'd have to agree.  But as impotent Pfruit asked, are there not Mexicans in Mexico?  I believe he's asking that to protest your assertion of Mexico as a Republican dream, because you know how they feel about Mexicans.  Meaning the fact that Mexico has Mexicans make them not the Republican dream, or pfruit's dream.

        1. Yeah, before I was just assuming racism but now it's basically confirmed that Pfruit hates Mexicans and assumes that all Republicans should also be ok hating Mexicans. That's gross.

          Racism aside, it seems the system of government that exists in Mexico (weak, ineffective and easily bribed) is the kind of government Republicans want for America.

    3. What is the border secure from (or for)? 

      CBP has touted its increased apprehension of egg smugglers and those with 180 rooster gaffs.

      But Republicans have still not funded the detection units to detect fentanyl that were in last year's border bill. 

  2. WOTD is DOGE Shit: You can’t make this shit up:

    • DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the grandson of KGB agent Valery Martynov, who was executed by the Soviets for spying for the United States, Jacob Silverman reports:

  3. Gears are grinding on the ship of state, engines shudder, lists to port, but slowly starts to turn to starboard.

    Several excellent articles in my substack feed this morning. They all are critical reading.

    "Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." Margaret Chase Smith, H/T Heather Co-Richardson. 

    Historian Johann Neem, a specialist in the American Revolution, turned to political theorist John Locke to explore the larger meaning of Trump’s destructive course. The founders who threw off monarchy and constructed our constitutional government looked to Locke for their guiding principles. In his 1690 Second Treatise on Government, Locke noted that when a leader disregards constitutional order, he gives up legitimacy and the people are justified in treating him as a “thief and a robber.” “[W]hosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law and makes use of the force he has under his command…ceases in that to be a magistrate; and, acting without authority, may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another,” Locke wrote.

    "Mafia State Reallignment" – Philips O'Brien

    The official position of the US government is now that this was wrong, that Russia was not to blame for the invasion, and indeed, it seems, that no withdrawal should be expected. Indeed, the growing chorus from within the Trump Administration is that the US and NATO are the real culprits in this, for having the temerity to discuss having a democratic Ukraine make the sovereign decision to join the alliance (which, btw, was never really going to happen).

    To show how deep the rot has set in on this vision, two more members of the Trump administration came out and said just this yesterday. Ambassador Steven Witkoff, who seems to be a key conduit to Putin, went to the underboss meeting in Riyadh, and was gushing about how well he was getting along with the Russian dictator

    DOGE Shit Innumeracy – Paul Krugman

    imagine that a publicly held company were to release a statement about its earnings that was riddled with major errors — with all the errors going in the same direction, making the company’s earnings look better than they are. What would you conclude? The answer, surely, would be to suspect that the company’s business is going very badly, but that top executives are trying desperately to hide the bad news while they sell off their own shares and possibly loot the company through sweetheart deals and so on.

    By the way, this is the kind of thing Jim Chanos, the famed short-seller, used to look for before making a company a target. I had a long conversation with Chanos that I posted Saturday; paywalled for now, but accounting fraud — sometimes, as he says, legal fraud — was one of his main themes.

    In the case of DOGE, it’s pretty clear that Musk is failing more or less comprehensively at his supposed task of saving money by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. But he doesn’t want the public — or, more important, Donald Trump — to figure that out until he’s achieved his real objectives, which seem to involve taking effective control of large parts of the federal governmentb — particularly those parts of the federal government that are trying to regulate his enterprises and those of his tech-bro buddies.

    1. The wiley coyote moment.

      Halfway back down to where it was before the election.

      The bubble will collapse, not just TSLA, also Bitcoin and the various stock market indices. 

  6. NaziTechBro’s dumbass idea about emailing every Federal worker to “justify their existence” just backfired….

    Federal workers sue over Elon Musk’s threat to fire them if they don’t explain their accomplishments
    Attorneys for federal workers said on Monday in a lawsuit that billionaire T****p adviser Elon Musk had violated the law with his weekend demand that employees explain their accomplishments or risk being fired, the AP reports.
    The updated lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in California and was provided to the Associated Press, is trying to block mass layoffs pursued by Musk and president Donald T****p, including any connected to the email distributed by the Office of Personnel Management on Saturday.
    The office, which functions as a human resources agency for the federal government, said employees needed to detail five things that they did last week by end of day on Monday.
    “No OPM rule, regulation, policy, or program has ever, in United States history, purported to require all federal workers to submit reports to OPM,” said the amended complaint, which was filed on behalf of unions, businesses veterans, and conservation organizations represented by the group State Democracy Defenders Fund. It called the threat of mass firings “one of the most massive employment frauds in the history of this country.”
    Musk, who is leading the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul and downsize the federal government, continued to threaten federal workers on Monday morning even as confusion spread through the administration and some top officials told employees not to comply.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/feb/24/elon-musk-email-donald-trump-us-government-latest-live-politics-news

     Now, the NaziTechBro decided his best defense against this lawsuit (which is probably going to prevail and set a precedent reagrding any future dumabss attempts at blanket-firing of Federal employees) was….JUST KIDDING!

    Elon Musk said that blanket emails sent to federal employees asking for a response about their weekly accomplishments or risk termination was a test to see if they “had a pulse.” 

    Less than 24 hours before the deadline, Musk hinted that the emails were simply a ruse to ensure federal employees were “capable of responding” to his correspondence.

    In the early hours of Monday morning, Musk replied to American venture capitalist Garry Tan on X after he shared a post claiming that DOGE wouldn’t be capable of reading all of the federal workers’ responses, calling the initiative “stupid” and “performance art.”

    https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-emails-resign-federal-employees-b2703536.html

     

    NaziTechBro should take a few minutes to Google “defamation claim by terminated employee” and “actual Malice”….

    1. If I got an email from the organization that manages my HR department over the weekend, the soonest I would read it would maybe be the Monday after that weekend. And if I happened to be off work that Monday then I wouldn't read my email until I get back to work. I imagine many workers reactions are, or will be, a "WTF?" followed by a "Never mind? Oh well. That was dumb." followed by the thought that they should start looking for more stable and enjoyable work.

    1. This is the newest Republican power couple.

      The 2028 Republican Presidential ticket is gonna be Boebert/Musk with Kid Rock campaigning to be the First Gentleman and Musk's team of humanoid robots all run by the Grok AI.

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