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June 09, 2025 08:10 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

  • 35 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“Create the hype, but don’t ever believe it.”

–Simon Cowell

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35 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread

  1. Quote Of The Day (Talking Points Memo)

    “I’ll say it over and over again; you can’t build the mass deportation machine without first building the police state machine.”–Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council

    1. C'mon. allyn, don't be obtuse. How many agitators have gone to LA to have a little fun.and give the Trump an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law. Trumps' playbook, updated for him and provided by Vladimir Putin, is straight out of "strongman takeover 101"..

      From Allende to Duterte, from Putin to Bolsonaro. The script never changes.

    2. So are you gonna ignore that Trump is in the Epstein's files and is probably a creep at best or at worst something I can't mention here. I noticed how Trump cultists are ignoring that and all of a sudden don't care about Epstein or uncovering the "deep state". 

    3. You're a good little fascist lickspittle, quisling.  If you're cheering this regime bullshit on, then you can proudly wear a swastika.  You've earned it. 

  2. "It’s Not About Unrest. It’s a Campaign Promise." Josh Koivensky at TPM.

    Way back in August 2022, Trump lamented during a speech at CPAC that he hadn’t used the military during the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

    Next time, he promised, things would be different.

    1. Why do you ask, you will be in Washington DC at the Commander in Chiefs' coronation as the "General of Generals, Lord of Warriors, and Keeper of the Lie"

      Won't you? I hear all the good traitors will be there.

    2. So are you gonna ignore that Trump is in the Epstein's files and is probably a creep at best or at worst something I can't mention here. I noticed how Trump cultists are ignoring that and all of a sudden don't care about Epstein or uncovering the "deep state". 

    3. Hey there pear-shaped Vietnam Vet! I'm SOOOO glad you could drop by for your usual capricous commentary!

      I have a suggestion – perhaps you could show up at the Thank You VA rally on the same day. That way you could explain to the VA providers taking care of your rotund self why you think 20% of them need to be fired.

    4. won't know the address until there is an ICE mass arrest plan … 

      there will be a NO KINGS rally at the Capital Building. Probably NOT a riot, as Denver police tend to not want to add to their civil damage settlement costs. 

  3. I''m guessing one of the reasons is that the job requirements include doing shots with SecDUI…

    White House struggles to hire senior advisers to Pete Hegseth
    At least three people have turned down potential roles working for the defense secretary and former Fox News host. Supporters say his leadership has been effective.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/white-house-struggles-find-qualified-people-willing-work-pete-hegseth-rcna211602

  4. Looks like Trump has gone Full Cheetolini:

    Donald Trump Calls for Gavin Newsom's Arrest

    Within the hour, Governor Gavin Newsom issued a grave and urgent response:

    “The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor.

    This is a day I hoped I would never see in America.

    I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican — this is a line we cannot cross as a nation. This is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.”

  5. The brother of one of the Legal Mean Girls, Brad Bondi, lost his election for DC Bar President by about 92-8%. The winner was Diane Seltzer. I don't know either of the candidates, but have to wonder if Brad Bondi might've done better without his familial ties and the bad press emanating from the U.S. AG's office. 

  6. History Rebounds: Second Time as Farce. Josh Marshall at TPM

    It’s easy to make too much of the ironies or contrasts history presents us with. But the contrast and ironies here are particularly potent. A crowning moment of the Civil Rights movement versus Trump’s intentionally inflammatory immigration raids on … Home Depots. (It gets somewhat lost in all the other high octane dimensions of this story that a raid on a Home Depot is literally an effort to arrest people who are eager to work and whose labor is in great demand. It’s about as far as you can get from just going after the bad guys, as the White House routinely claims.) But there’s a more specific point: all the federalizations during the Civil Rights Era were over the refusal of segregationist state governments to enforce federal law under court order. Trump’s argument is much different — and this is literally their argument, not one I’m imputing to them: It’s the right of the President to decide when a state government isn’t protecting or enforcing civil order to his liking and to intervene with federalized National Guard or the U.S. military to do it at the point of a bayonet. Beyond all of our correct fears about Trump’s budding autocracy, this is in a very direct sense an attack on the sovereignty of the people of California.

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