{"id":48935,"date":"2022-08-20T07:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=48935"},"modified":"2022-08-19T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T21:16:48","slug":"open-thread-august-20-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/20\/open-thread-august-20-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 20, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, although I know I have to rest today (being an opera day), I tried to rest, and especially to rest my shoulders and knee. I&#8217;m succeeding in managing them, but it&#8217;s delicate, and I want to be sure to be able to get all those bags out for the pickup Thursday. Some things I can put out in advance &#8211; but even the heaviest duty 30gal (that&#8217;s 113 and a half liters) bags will deteriorate if left outside for more than a day or two. And I want to be sure I can get them all out by the end of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0820Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0820Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0820Cartoon-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100217050400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Underground (kpete) &#8211;<\/a> The forever war has been cut back by like 95 percent and Biden has gotten no credit for it<br \/>\nQuote &#8211; [E]very time I point this out the main reaction is astonishment. both Biden&#8217;s people and the press are falling down at communicating a real basic fact about the world<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100217050400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for more.<\/a> This is a compilation (links provided) with readable charts and facts which need to be more widelt known.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/reports-investigations\/crew-investigations\/secret-service-held-onto-pelosi-threat-until-after-insurrection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CREW &#8211; Secret Service held onto Pelosi threat until after insurrection<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; On January 4, Secret Service agents discovered a Parler account, which we\u2019ve chosen not to name, posting a series of violent threats towards lawmakers. Other profiles with the same name appeared on Twitter, MeWe, Bitchute, Youtube and Facebook. On December 31, the account posted, \u201cJanuary 6 starts #1776 all over again\u2026Fight for EVERYTHING\u201d and listed \u201cEnemies,\u201d including Pelosi. At 5:55 pm on January 6, after hours of defending the United States Capitol from a violent mob, the United States Capitol Police received the post along with a message from the Secret Service: \u201cGood afternoon, The US Secret Service is passing notification to the US Capitol Police regarding discovery of a social media threat directed toward Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/reports-investigations\/crew-investigations\/secret-service-held-onto-pelosi-threat-until-after-insurrection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for full story.<\/a> After Trump** fired a number of IGs for telling the truth about his lies, Joe promised not to fire and IG, and I get it. But Cuffari needs to go. A ongressional investigation might accomplish that, keep Joe out of it, and perhaps even make the wrongdoing more public than CREW can.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Joe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Joe.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Joe-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Joe-127x150.jpg 127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, although I know I have to rest today (being an opera day), I tried to rest, and especially to rest my shoulders and knee. I&#8217;m succeeding in managing them, but it&#8217;s delicate, and I want to be sure to be able to get all those bags out for the pickup Thursday. Some things I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/20\/open-thread-august-20-2022\/' 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":[3704,3712,5088,3760,5037,3777],"class_list":["post-48935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-inspectors-general","tag-joe-biden","tag-secret-service","tag-war","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\/48935","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=48935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48935\/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=48935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}