{"id":45782,"date":"2021-11-07T07:10:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=45782"},"modified":"2021-11-06T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T22:27:04","slug":"open-thread-for-november-7-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/07\/open-thread-for-november-7-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for November 7, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the radio opera was Carmen &#8211; an opera set in Spain, by a French composer. The Carmen was from Georgia (not ours, the one in Asia.) The Don Jose was from Poland, and the Escamillo from Germany. The performance was done in Vienna, Austria, and the radio station broadcasting it is in Chicago. I suspect Republican heads would explode.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/FallBack.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2021\/11\/04\/adam-schiff-confirms-that-trumps-staff-are-flipping-on-him.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PoliticusUSA &#8211; Adam Schiff Confirms That Trump\u2019s Staff Are Flipping On Him<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; When MSNBC\u2019s Lawrence O\u2019Donnell asked if any of the nearly 150 interviews conducted by the 1\/6 Committee contained Trump officials, Rep. Schiff answered: They do include people from the former administration. They include people in the private sector. They include people are experts in some of the \u2014 for example, the social media issues that we\u2019re investigating. So they run the gamut.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2021\/11\/04\/adam-schiff-confirms-that-trumps-staff-are-flipping-on-him.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for a little more.<\/a> Of course he can&#8217;t name names at this point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/11\/rittenhouse-juror-dismissed-after-telling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Rittenhouse Juror Dismissed After Telling Racist Joke<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; To make matters worse, the jokester tried to defend himself by claiming that the so-called joke had nothing to do with the current trial, showing how utterly clueless the juror was not only to what the trial was about but to his own inherent racism.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/11\/rittenhouse-juror-dismissed-after-telling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story, including complete &#8220;joke.&#8221;<\/a> I am so glad the bailiff reported him &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/thank-you-brandon-trends-as-october-jobs-report-is-so-stellar-not-even-fox-news-can-spin-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politizoom &#8211; Thank You Brandon Trends As October Jobs Report Is So Stellar Not Even Fox News Can Spin It<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Revenge may be best served cold but Crow is a dish that Fox News really does not digest well at any temperature. Be that as it may, they\u2019re eating a lot of it. The October jobs growth exceeded the original prediction of 450K and came in at 531K. People are rejoicing, and right-wing media is not sure quite what to do.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/thank-you-brandon-trends-as-october-jobs-report-is-so-stellar-not-even-fox-news-can-spin-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more detailed good news<\/a>. If you have no idea how &#8220;Brandon&#8221; got into this, you can look <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lets-go-brandon-what-does-it-mean-republicans-joe-biden-ab13db212067928455a3dba07756a160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here (NSFW)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/greta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/greta.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/greta-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/greta-150x126.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/greta-768x645.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter 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 the radio opera was Carmen &#8211; an opera set in Spain, by a French composer. The Carmen was from Georgia (not ours, the one in Asia.) The Don Jose was from Poland, and the Escamillo from Germany. The performance was done in Vienna, Austria, and the radio station broadcasting it is in Chicago. I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/07\/open-thread-for-november-7-2021\/' 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":[3704,4406,3918,4315,4115,3748],"class_list":["post-45782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-diversity","tag-economy","tag-jobs","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\/45782","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=45782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45782\/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=45782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}