{"id":46366,"date":"2021-12-28T06:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T14:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46366"},"modified":"2021-12-27T17:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:55:15","slug":"open-thread-for-december-28-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/open-thread-for-december-28-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for December 28, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I took deep dives into all the comments plugins WordPress has to offer, and made a short list of five. I sent out an email on them, hoping someone will know more about one or more of them than I could find.\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t get one, that means I don&#8217;t have your email address. that can be fixed. Also, I don&#8217;t usually post three short takes from the same source, but I couldn&#8217;t find any of them quickly elsewhere, and they are all noteworthy. Many news sources seem to be taking a day off, and I was tied up looking at plugins.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211; 28 1228Cartoon.jpg<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1228Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1228Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1228Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/alex-jones-turns-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Alex Jones Is Done With &#8216;Completely Ignorant&#8217; Donald Trump<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Candace Owens is doing damage control after \u201cso many donors and supporters\u201d are upset over Trump\u2019s vaccine comments. She says he is old, isn\u2019t tech savvy, doesn\u2019t keep up with or read obscure internet conspiracies, and only follows the main stream media so doesn\u2019t have the facts.<br \/>\nClick through if you will. The headline makes this sound like good news. But it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s the worst possible news. They are now embedded so deep, they will take the BS over Trump** now. Any resonably competent leader who tells tham what they wany to hear can make them do whatever he (and, yes, it will be a &#8220;he&#8221;) wants. We are in more danger than ever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/did-madison-cawthorn-marry-russian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Did Madison Cawthorn Marry A Russian Honeypot?<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Grant Stern on Twitter said, &#8220;Madison Cawthorn&#8217;s divorce just went from boring information to national security concern in about 77 seconds of interview time with the Daily Caller. &#8220;This does not sound a normal meet-cute story whatsoever. Very few of these stories involving Russia are.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/did-madison-cawthorn-marry-russian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for evidence.<\/a> This would explain the divorce, too. I know it&#8217;s serious, but &#8211; lots of Congressfolk are russian assets. Only one married his handler. How dumb is that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/reporter-scolds-chuck-todd-crt-think-just\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Reporter Smacks Chuck Todd For Racist Framing Of CRT<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; &#8220;Well, I think you should think just a little bit about your framing,&#8221; Hannah-Jones replied. &#8220;You said &#8216;parents&#8217; and then you said &#8216;parents of color.'&#8221; &#8220;White parents and parents of color,&#8221; Todd interrupted. &#8220;No. Fair point. As a matter of fact, white parents are representing fewer than half of all public school parents,&#8221; Hannah-Jones noted. &#8220;And yet, they have an outsized voice in this debate.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/12\/reporter-scolds-chuck-todd-crt-think-just\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for a little context<\/a> &#8211; not that it;s necessarily needed. And it did not come a millisecond too soon.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ruby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ruby.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ruby-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ruby-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ruby-768x431.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, I took deep dives into all the comments plugins WordPress has to offer, and made a short list of five. I sent out an email on them, hoping someone will know more about one or more of them than I could find.\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t get one, that means I don&#8217;t have your email <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/28\/open-thread-for-december-28-2021\/' 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":[3704,4115],"class_list":["post-46366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-justice","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\/46366","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=46366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46366\/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=46366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}