{"id":47183,"date":"2022-03-16T06:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=47183"},"modified":"2022-03-15T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T02:37:18","slug":"open-thread-march-16-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/16\/open-thread-march-16-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 16, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was pretty quiet. Which is just fine with me.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0316Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0316Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/0316Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Headline from Democratic Underground &#8211; Cawthorn said he used his wheelchair to transport &#8220;multiple weapons&#8221; during Jan 6 insurrection<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unearthed: Madison Cawthorn called into the Charlie Kirk show during the January 6th attack and said he used his wheelchair to transport \u201cmultiple weapons\u201d ahead of the Capitol riot and armed those around him. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AoQDaqSDjs\">pic.twitter.com\/AoQDaqSDjs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patriottakes\/status\/1503376879453147140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe video is short. But it contains all the necessasry &#8220;receipts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/helplessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich &#8211; Helplessness in the face of evil &#8211; An allegory<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; It\u2019s like watching a three-hundred-pound bully beat up a kid half his size, for no reason \u2014 bloodying the poor kid, pulverizing him. Yet you don\u2019t dare try to stop the mayhem because the bully has a gun that he\u2019ll use on you if you intervene. You look for police, but there are none&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/helplessness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click thorugh for the rest of the story<\/a>. Yes. This is is exactly what it is like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2022\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-support-qualifications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women&#8217;s History &#8211; The 19th &#8211; Black women\u2019s qualifications have long been questioned. Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s allies were prepared.<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; \u201cVicious, racist, sexist tropes have long been levied against Black women,\u201d said Karen Finney, a Democratic strategist and member of the Black Women\u2019s Leadership Collective, which has worked in tandem with the White House on messaging efforts around Jackson\u2019s nomination. \u201cThese are outlandish tropes, but they\u2019re designed to undermine Black women based on stereotypes, based on trying to play to people\u2019s worst instincts and fears.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2022\/03\/ketanji-brown-jackson-support-qualifications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for &#8211; I guess I have to say aaalysis.<\/a> And at least some of it, if not all of it (we can hope), will turn out to have been necessary. I do hope it doesn&#8217;t take forever (even though Justice Breyer has arranged things to provide plenty of time.)<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1503446745258369031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweet including letter<\/a> on the loss of American Journalist Brent Renaud. (And i still cut off some of the signature) Yes, you&#8217;ll ned a hanky (at least I did).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1503446745258369031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47195 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/renaud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/renaud.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/renaud-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/renaud-598x1024.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/renaud-88x150.jpg 88w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/renaud-768x1316.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it was pretty quiet. Which is just fine with me. Cartoon &#8211; Short Takes &#8211; Headline from Democratic Underground &#8211; Cawthorn said he used his wheelchair to transport &#8220;multiple weapons&#8221; during Jan 6 insurrection Unearthed: Madison Cawthorn called into the Charlie Kirk show during the January 6th attack and said he used his wheelchair <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/16\/open-thread-march-16-2022\/' 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":[3704,3866,4268,3838,3805,4873],"class_list":["post-47183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-history","tag-insurrection","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-womens-history","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\/47183","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=47183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47183\/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=47183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}