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March 03, 2017 11:21 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.”

–Dale Carnegie

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    1. You're a very, very stupid, pathetic, ignorant individual, utterly divorced from reality. I pity the people forced to live with or work near you — assuming there's anyone left.

      2. Coming from you I take it as a compliment. Obama DOJ stooge Eric Holder put wire taps on reporters, James Rosen an his family. Golf critic and  grandmother advisor, Loretto Lynch visits with Bubba behind closed airplane cabin doors  and decide to tap Trump Tower in favor of Hillary's campaign.  It's what corrupt Democrats do. 

        1. Pear's Prune-like mind has been polluted for so long by Rush and Levin and Hannity that the progressive history of the United States has been twisted beyond recognition in his poor, putrified thoughts. 

    3. What's most interesting to me is that this is either (a) utter bullshit, or (b) the president just released classified information on Twitter.  There's no way such a project would be anything less than TS/SCI, with few folks having access.

      While a president is free to declassify anything she chooses, this would have sent a bitter chill through the spooks who now have to wonder what they share with the president will end up being twat.

        1. I think it's critical to get comments from both our senators asking if they support an immediate Senate investigation into this activity.  Either Obama has engaged in illegal activity, or there was a compelling case to monitor the phone calls of our then-future president.

          1. WHAT?  That's crazy talk. Obama would never think of doing anything illegal or over the line. Pols are not going to sign on to anything that  would have the chance of implicating Obama. 

    4. If he's not doing anything wrong and he doesn't know Putin, why would he care, Putrid? Let me guess? NOW you’re concerned about the FISA Court?

      1. One thing I learned years ago, Michael is that thieves (and criminals, generally) are lazy. They really do think they are so smart they can steal from us and lie to us endlessly and we will never catch on. Sometimes it is actually that way but most often it is that arrogance that trips them up.

        Gee …what evidence did they (if they actually tapped his campaigns' phone) have that could convince a FISA judge.? 

        Sounds like a no-win to me….

        1. ^^^this^^^

          PS: PeePee missed the part where FISA orders the warrants, not POTUS. When you campaign against the Intelligence community as a candidate calling them Nazi's – one might guess how this would end – particularly when THIS is your cast of characters. 

          I don't think we'll need to waste anytime speculating how our junior senator will non-respond. He's hopelessly stuck in the middle between the pitchfork- teabilly-base and the Senators he has to raise money for re-election.  I don't think even Chuck and Dave's checkbook can extinguish the fire burning that outhouse to the ground. 

          1. I was reading something in the morning paper about that. Chuck and Dave think POTUS is nuts. They're on the verge of joining The Resistance.

  2. This is just wrong. (Below, families locked up at a border immigration station – photo from INN)

    Trump administration, tacitly acknowledging that most undocumented immigrants are not drug-smugglers or criminals, but women and children seeking safety, or men seeking work.

    This proposal to quadruple the detention capacity for women and children, while separating mothers from their children, is cruel and inhumane. It will profit Corrections Corporation of America, a private prison company., which is now rebranded as Core Civic. Trump dehumanizes victims by characterizing present policy of allowing low-risk immigrants to be released as "Catch and Release", which is a name for when you throw back a fish, not a person.

    So, to recap: women and kids are fleeing horrible conditions in central America: druglords, gangs, violence, rape, no work.  If they are caught at the border, ICE takes the kids and warehouses them, and lock the women up.  This does not make the country safer. It does not save money. I know some students who have survived this process, and it's brutal enough without traumatizing little kids by isolating them from parents.

    Other immigrants have been held in virtual slavery in Denver, per this Post article.

    I'm marching for Global Refugees in Greeley today.  It's not much, but it's what I can do today.

     

     

        1. In Leadville, though it's widely known that we're meeting at a local, community oriented church, we aren't presently marching. We are having local meetings to plan sanctuary responses. Personally, I am carrying $200 in cash at all times for bail should I be arrested for obstruction.

          Our Latino community and their supporters are quite concerned. We are receiving guidance/education from an immigration attorney

          1. Good on you, Gray. It's going to take resistance all across the spectrum, from legal advocacy and sanctuary to marching to publicity and journalism, like that of this 12 year old girl who videotaped ICE arresting her father after dropping her off at school.

             

            I really think churches and interfaith organizing will be key here. Telling people's stories  of family breakup and unnecessary hardship will be key here. So far President Twitter-dee and Tweeter-dumb has bamboozled the American people with his ability to be a rage-filled hypermaniac one minute, and a slow-talking, teleprompter reading "Presidential" statesman the next.

            Rather than focusing on 45's latest shiny object, if we can keep people focusing on real human beings really impacted by these cruel and inhumane immigration policies and practices, 45 will lose the ratings and public opinion and media wars …. and eventually, this will translate into policy.

  3. This is just the kind of story that keeps the lead in Moddy's little pencil.  Private Prisons are back and making some select insiders very, very rich.  What could be more American?  Corrections Corporation of America has remade itself with a new name, CoreCivic.  Doesn't that just put a warm spot in your heart and make you want to wave your flag? 

    So after our legislature bailed out CCA in 2012 ($9 million), and then propping up our local prison economies with even more money, ($3 million to Kit Carson County last year with another request in 2017) it looks like the alligators are (still) in the swamp and making out like the real bandits.  

    Billionaire Paul Singer Wins Big on Prison Stock Trump Trade

    Prison stocks broke out of their funk after the presidential election last week, as Trump's victory assuaged fears that Hillary Clinton would shut down private prisons, something she'd suggested during her campaign out of public safety concerns. CoreCivic, then still called Corrections Corp., was the top-performing stock the day after the election, up nearly 50%, while GEO Group stock rose 21%. (The company since then has implemented a name change that it announced in October.)

    Last quarter, Singer's firm Elliott Management placed bets worth approximately $100 million on two private prison stocks, GEO Group (GEO, -1.45%) and CoreCivic (CXW, +1.06%), the company formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. Today, Singer's holdings in the jail operators are worth more than $150 million—a profit of more than $42 million and a return of almost 40% in less than two months.

     

      1. I’m sure the moron that calls himself "Pus-filled Pate" (or something like that ) is rushing out to buy CoreCivic stock as we speak. Wouldn't want to let the opportunity to get rich by exploiting the pain and suffering of the poor, brown people go by without getting his share…

        1. Come on Pearbottom.  Show us your funding otherwise you are part of the conspiracy to blame Obama for all of Trump's failings and his going to fail YUUGELY.

          1. I'm telling you, the ColoradoPols love the clicks generated by the three sane people on this kook web site. Don't you know they (Pols) generate ad revenue from the page views? 

            It doesn't take a conspiracy to blame Obama, just look around. The Democratic Party the weakest since the 20s. The poorest recovery from a recession. Kook extremist like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Keith Ellison as leaders of the Democratic Party.

            The Clinton's are   amateurs when compared to Obama in corruption.

            1. That's about as plausible as a conspiracy theory that you three (kooks) are actually one of us and on Alva's payroll to generate clicks.  The only thing that makes that theory remotely possible is that two of the three of you couldn't possibly be as stupid as you portray yourselves to be.

              Is 'Clinton amateurs' the new talking point today, PeePee?

              1. I don't know which of the three actually is as stupid as he seems.  But I think we all agree that Moddy at least gives it the old college try!

        1. If you put on the Ghostery extension, it will block the automatic video play in that ad, that won't let you scroll down until you x it out.  Ghostery will also make all your pages load faster, since you won't also be running trackers and ads.

  6. Read the Letter Trump's Immigrant Grandpa Wrote Begging Not to Be Deported

    Trump returned to his homeland in the early 1900s, but he was scheduled to be deported because of his draft-dodging history.

    "Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family," Trump writes. "What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree—not to mention the great material losses it would incur."

    That move lost him his citizenship, and he later became a US citizen where he made his fortune running brothels and bars during the Yukon gold rush.

  7. Anyone have pics from today's March 4 Trump at the state capitol?  I can't wait for the crowd comparison photos and Moddy realizing that the "Trump supporters are all hard at work" doesn't cut it.  Maybe they're all Seventh-day Adventists?

  9. Despite the newest Trump diversionary tactic on his Russian connections (School yard Bully to teacher: "He hit me first!"), what we really need to watch this week is the ACA "Replacement" aka "DonTcare":

    Under the current system, if you make less money, or if insurance in your area costs more, then you will get a bigger tax credit.

    Republican schemes would get rid of those subsidies and offer a more straightforward tax credit that would vary only because of age. Republicans have said their proposal would be simpler for the government to administer, and that is true. The distribution of tax benefits would also change, with federal money shifting away from the poor and old and towards the wealthy and young.

    Some people who now get little or no assistance, because their insurance isn’t so expensive relative to their incomes, would get a nice new tax break. But millions who now depend on those tax credits to make comprehensive coverage affordable would lose much of that assistance. And the problem would get worse over time, because from year to year the value of the tax credits would probably not keep up with the rising cost of medical care. The near-certain result, as multiple analyses have indicated, would be millions of newly uninsured. (Tellingly, these credits are still too generous for many conservative Republicans to stomach.)

    Changes to the private insurance market wouldn’t stop there. Republican leaders hope to scale back requirements on what or whom insurers must cover. That would make insurance cheaper for young and healthy people, but only by once again shifting costs onto the old and sick ― who, in turn, would have a harder time finding coverage or end up with substantially higher out-of-pocket expenses.

    Another big focus of Republican efforts would be Medicaid. GOP leaders are not seeking simply to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid by withdrawing the extra federal funds that states have used to make the program more widely available. Republican proposals would also end the fundamental guarantee that the law’s architects wrote into the program when they created it back in 1965 ― a promise that if more people need the program, the federal government will put up its share of the money to pay for their care.

    So again, the underlying principles driving this are:

    1. Screw old, sick and poor families

    2. Send money to the wealthy

     

    Or as Moldy would said, "Everything was great in 2009!  Those 20 million people just need to suck it up and get out of my way!"

    Because, as he always reminds us, he’s “Pro-life”

     

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