{"id":46008,"date":"2021-11-24T07:15:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46008"},"modified":"2021-11-23T14:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T22:18:19","slug":"open-thread-for-november-24-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/24\/open-thread-for-november-24-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for November 24, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, thankfully, it was quiet again. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, and I am hoping to be able to fill this thread with stories to be thankful for. I&#8217;m less confident about being able to do that for the Video Thread, but I can certainly try.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11706 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1124Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1124Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/1124Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2021\/11\/22\/2065607\/-Bottom-feeder-in-Arkansas-put-an-Apple-AirTag-on-a-woman-s-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos (Darrell Lucus) &#8211; Bottom-feeder in Arkansas put an Apple AirTag on a woman&#8217;s car<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Apple introduced the AirTag in April, billing it as a way to help users find lost keys, bags, clothes and electronic devices as well as lost cars. If you have an iPhone, you can use the \u201cFind My\u201d utility to find any item where you\u2019ve placed an AirTag. But Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler discovered in May that it\u2019s also an all-too-handy tool for stalking. As part of an experiment not long after the AirTag rolled out, fellow reporter Jonathan Baran put an AirTag into Fowler\u2019s bag.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2021\/11\/22\/2065607\/-Bottom-feeder-in-Arkansas-put-an-Apple-AirTag-on-a-woman-s-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details,<\/a> including what is needed to protect against this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/trump-cant-walk-down-a-ramp-but-he-just-got-a-black-belt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politizoom &#8211; Trump Can\u2019t Walk Down A Ramp But He Just Got A Black Belt<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Well, look at it this way: he didn\u2019t have to pay anybody to cheat on a test, right? They just gave it to him. And it\u2019s an award that actually exists, unlike Michigan Man Of The Year. So there\u2019s some improvement there, right? I mean, when you\u2019re talking about Trump you need to look for the silver lining any freaking place you can possibly find it. Even if somebody just overturned liquid mercury in the pop corn popper and now everybody\u2019s going to get sick and die, hey, at least it\u2019s silver, right? Right.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/trump-cant-walk-down-a-ramp-but-he-just-got-a-black-belt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through &#8211; may as well<\/a> &#8211; heaven knows I have no words.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/11\/22\/capitol-riot-trump-523211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico &#8211; Capitol riot suspect\u2019s court hearing turns to potential criminal charge for Trump<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Nichols made no specific mention of Trump, who appointed him to the bench, but the then-president was publicly and privately pressuring Pence in the days before the fateful Jan. 6 tally to decline to certify Joe Biden\u2019s victory. Trump also enlisted other allies, including attorney John Eastman, to lean on Pence.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/11\/22\/capitol-riot-trump-523211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for discussion.<\/a> Politico is not the most progressive tool in the shed, and in this case, that appears to me to give even more significanece to this article.<\/p>\n<p>Food for Thought &#8211;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/dVTnMBdX\/sack8-25-21color.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43898 aligncenter\" 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, thankfully, it was quiet again. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, and I am hoping to be able to fill this thread with stories to be thankful for. I&#8217;m less confident about being able to do that for the Video Thread, but I can certainly try. Cartoon &#8211; Short Takes &#8211; Daily Kos (Darrell Lucus) &#8211; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/24\/open-thread-for-november-24-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","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\/46008","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=46008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}