{"id":45249,"date":"2021-09-23T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45249"},"modified":"2021-09-22T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:51:10","slug":"open-thread-for-september-23-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/23\/open-thread-for-september-23-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for September 23, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was cool again.\u00a0 Or maybe I should say what most people would call cool.\u00a0 My body does not recognize &#8220;cool&#8221; as a thing.\u00a0 It recognizes three temperature ranges &#8211; uncomfortably hot, comfortably warm, and freakin&#8217; cold.\u00a0 So I wrapped up in a warm winter bathrobe &#8211; over my clothes &#8211; and finally got my hands to the point where I could no longer use tham as an icepack.\u00a0 \u00a0I never did get my feet to that point.\u00a0 This explains why I am not really ready for fall.\u00a0 But it is what it is.\u00a0 It may get warmer for at least a few days.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/23Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/23Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/23Cartoon-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quoting this comment in full because it puts things in perspective. It&#8217;s from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/?com=view_post&amp;forum=1002&amp;pid=15865828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernardo de La Paz<\/a> at Democratic Underground.<br \/>\nWhich is more likely?<br \/>\nA) It takes time to get it all right because you get only one chance with the main case against an ex-President.<br \/>\nB) The case is huge because more stuff is being discovered.<br \/>\nC) A and B.<br \/>\nD) Garland is corrupt.<br \/>\nE) Garland is incompetent despite being nominated to the Supreme Court and to Attorney-General.<br \/>\nF) Obama and Biden are incompetent or worse because Garland is incompetent or worse and they nominated him to the Supreme Court and to Attorney-General.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/?com=view_post&amp;forum=1002&amp;pid=15865828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If you choose to click through<\/a>, you can click through again and see all the comments, not just the reactions to this one, but also reactions to the original tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/573306-house-passes-bill-to-prevent-shutdown-and-suspend-debt-limit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill &#8211; House passes bill to prevent shutdown and suspend debt limit<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Democrats are nonetheless attaching the debt limit suspension through Dec. 16, 2022, to a must-pass bill to avoid a government shutdown on Oct. 1 in an attempt to pressure Republicans to drop their threats. It\u2019s also unclear if the reconciliation package would be ready in time to be used as a legislative vehicle for addressing the debt limit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/573306-house-passes-bill-to-prevent-shutdown-and-suspend-debt-limit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through if you like<\/a>. It&#8217;s the same old Republican tactic We&#8217;ve seen this movie way too many times already.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/haitian-migrants-whipped-by-cbp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette &#8211; Border Patrol \/ Slave Patrol, Tomato \/ Other Tomato<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; At least one officer of the federal government cosplaying a slave catcher used a whip against the migrants. One officer on horseback yelled, &#8220;This is why your country&#8217;s shit, because you use your women for this.&#8221; The people that Customs and Border Protection officers were attacking were returning to the US with supplies for a group of thousands of people who have been living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. People living there say they are just trying not to starve to death.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/haitian-migrants-whipped-by-cbp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> You may have seen this elsewhere (maybe not as bluntly.) DHS could be useful if its mission were turned around to focus on domestic terrorism &#8211; provided its focus was on white terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cohen.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was cool again.\u00a0 Or maybe I should say what most people would call cool.\u00a0 My body does not recognize &#8220;cool&#8221; as a thing.\u00a0 It recognizes three temperature ranges &#8211; uncomfortably hot, comfortably warm, and freakin&#8217; cold.\u00a0 So I wrapped up in a warm winter bathrobe &#8211; over my clothes &#8211; and finally got <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/23\/open-thread-for-september-23-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,3711,4115,3748],"class_list":["post-45249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-crimes","tag-justice","tag-racism","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}