{"id":46311,"date":"2021-12-23T07:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46311"},"modified":"2021-12-22T20:31:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T04:31:48","slug":"open-thread-for-december-23-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/23\/open-thread-for-december-23-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for December 23, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday just sort of melted away &#8211; gone before I knew it.\u00a0 I did get some amall things accomplished, but nothing to write home about.\u00a0 Of course going to see Virgil is far up front in my mond!\u00a0 Oh, and Pat has company, so she&#8217;ll be a little scarce for a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1223Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1223Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1223Cartoon-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/mike-lindell-is-donating-mypillows-to-kentucky-tornado-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Jones &#8211; Mike Lindell Is Donating MyPillows to Kentucky Tornado Victims<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; But not to worry citizens of Kentucky. Mike Lindell is on the case! The founder of the MyPillow empire\u2014and a MAGA world luminary\u2014says he\u2019s donating 10,000 pillows to Kentucky tornado victims. Those lucky souls may not have a house or a job, but they will now have pillows that Costco won\u2019t sell anymore.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/mike-lindell-is-donating-mypillows-to-kentucky-tornado-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C,ick through for a little more insnity.<\/a> This sounds like a business tax deduction to me. He will write them off as a donation at full retail value (which he could never possibly get for that many) and likely end up paying no taxes. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if he had calculated the number to give with that in mind &#8211; just enough to zero out his taxes and not one pillow more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/steve-bannon-naomi-wolf-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Surprise! Wingnuts Find A Vaccine They Like \u2014 Guess Why!<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; But apparently the J&amp;J shot is good now because we&#8217;re saying that it isn&#8217;t &#8212; mainstream scientists have determined that it&#8217;s less effective than the mRNA vaccines against the Delta and Omicron variants, and it&#8217;s sometimes responsible for dangerous blood clots&#8230;. We don&#8217;t like the J&amp;J shot anymore &#8212; so of course Wolf does.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/steve-bannon-naomi-wolf-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more<\/a>.\u00a0 What is more dangerous than an educated idiot? No, that&#8217;s not the beginning of a joke &#8211; it&#8217;s a serious question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/jan-6-committee-invites-coup-curious-pa-rep-scott-perry-to-come-in-for-a-little-chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette &#8211; Jan. 6 Committee Invites Coup- Curious Rep. Scott Perry In For A Little Chat<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; It&#8217;s nice of Thompson to let witnesses know up front that he&#8217;s already got &#8217;em by the short and curlies, in case Perry wasn&#8217;t already on notice that the committee had a whole bunch of his comms after Vice Chair Liz Cheney read that text saying, \u201cPlease check your signal\u201d during the vote to hold Mark Meadows in contempt. The Washington Post confirms that Perry sent that text to Meadows, who turned it over to the committee as a non-privileged document before he stomped off and quit cooperating. So Perry knows that Thompson and Cheney already have at least some of his comms.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/jan-6-committee-invites-coup-curious-pa-rep-scott-perry-to-come-in-for-a-little-chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more<\/a>. Not that they don&#8217;t all sound alike.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.creators.com\/588\/316360\/316360_image.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<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 just sort of melted away &#8211; gone before I knew it.\u00a0 I did get some amall things accomplished, but nothing to write home about.\u00a0 Of course going to see Virgil is far up front in my mond!\u00a0 Oh, and Pat has company, so she&#8217;ll be a little scarce for a couple of days. Cartoon <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/23\/open-thread-for-december-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":[3704,3913,3751,4268,4115,4345],"class_list":["post-46311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-gop-insanity","tag-insurrection","tag-justice","tag-vaccines","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\/46311","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=46311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311\/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=46311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}