{"id":46689,"date":"2022-01-28T06:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=46689"},"modified":"2022-01-27T17:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T01:46:42","slug":"open-thread-for-january-28-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/28\/open-thread-for-january-28-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for January 28, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I heard from WWWendy (we are still working on my getting ownership of the blog esablished at BlueHost) She added a personal update:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Right now, I am continuing work as a caregiver &#8211; I care for two clients &#8211; one with alzheimers and one with dementia. Both will probably need to be placed soon so I want to stay with them until the transition is made. What will I do after that? Not really sure- guess I will deal with that when the time comes. Give my best to everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0128Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0128Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/0128Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2022\/01\/capitol-rioters-used-game-thrones-quote-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars &#8211; Capitol Rioter Invoked &#8216;Game Of Thrones&#8217;: &#8216;I Choose Violence&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; &#8220;In stating, &#8216;I choose violence&#8217;, Cersei Lannister embraced \u2014 and then carried out \u2014 mass murder to achieve her political ends,&#8221; the document adds. &#8220;In the context of Caplinger posting this just two days after January 6, Caplinger&#8217;s adoption of this quote is alarming and provides insight into his mental state and intent in storming the Capitol.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2022\/01\/capitol-rioters-used-game-thrones-quote-i\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story.<\/a> Maybe I should try to figure out the poll app so we can vote on who is stupider &#8211; this dude or the ones who called the &#8220;Lost and Founf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2022\/01\/oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-guns-january-6-qrf-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Jones &#8211; Oath Keepers Anticipated \u201ca Bloody and Desperate Fight\u201d to Overturn the Election for Trump<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; \u201c[Edwards] Vallejo and his co-conspirators coordinated at least three regional QRF teams stationed at a Comfort Inn in Arlington, Virginia, to support the co-conspirators\u2019 plot and the January 6 Capitol attack. The QRF teams guarded an arsenal of firearms and related equipment and were prepared to speed those weapons into the hands of co-conspirators on the ground in Washington, D.C., when directed by Rhodes or other conspiracy leaders.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2022\/01\/oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-guns-january-6-qrf-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> We are <strong>not<\/strong> making this up. I don&#8217;t understand why more people aren&#8217;t terrified.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-694838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jerusalem Post &#8211; Biden references Colleyville in Holocaust Remembrance Day statement<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; &#8220;Today, and every day, we have a moral obligation to honor the victims, learn from the survivors, pay tribute to the rescuers, and carry forth the lessons of last century\u2019s most heinous crime,&#8221; said Biden. &#8220;From the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, to a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, we are continually and painfully reminded that hate doesn\u2019t go away; it only hides.&#8221; The president stressed the need to teach accurately about the Holocaust and to push back against attempts to ignore, deny, distort, and revise history, making reference to a US co-sponsored United Nations resolution to combat Holocaust denial.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-694838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more.<\/a> Yes, I&#8217;m a day late. It isn&#8217;t the first time, and it won&#8217;t be the last. In any case, as Joe said, &#8220;and every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/files\/imagecache\/full_800\/primary_image\/15\/05\/9_stages_of_activism.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I heard from WWWendy (we are still working on my getting ownership of the blog esablished at BlueHost) She added a personal update: Right now, I am continuing work as a caregiver &#8211; I care for two clients &#8211; one with alzheimers and one with dementia. Both will probably need to be placed soon <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/28\/open-thread-for-january-28-2022\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4832,3704,4833,4268,4115,4820],"class_list":["post-46689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-activism","tag-cartoon","tag-holocaust","tag-insurrection","tag-justice","tag-seditious-conspiracy","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\/46689","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=46689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}