{"id":49151,"date":"2022-09-09T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=49151"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:03:56","slug":"open-thread-september-9-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/09\/open-thread-september-9-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 9, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth II quietly passed away. This saddens me because I don’t have a lot of respect for, or confidence in, the new Charles III. But – of course – it is what it is.\u00a0 The New Yorker has published a very thoughtful retrospective on her<\/a>.\u00a0 Also yesterday, I received approval to visit Vergil Sunday, so it will be one of those days.<\/p>\n

Cartoon –<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

HuffPost – Hundreds of Law Enforcement, Military Part of Jan. 6-Linked Oath Keepers: Report<\/a>
\nQuote – The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies \u2014 including as police chiefs and sheriffs \u2014 and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military. It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets.
\nClick through for story.<\/a> On one level this is terrifying – but Beau actually found it encouraging, because 370 out of 38,000 and 100 out of 38,000 are not very large percentages. If he had looked up the actual number of law enforecement and active duty military (665,380 and 1.195 million respectively), he might have felt even better. But it’s important to know, and good that there’s now a database.<\/p>\n

The New Yorker – The Election Official Who Tried to Prove \u201cStop the Steal\u201d<\/a>
\nQuote – Douglas Frank,… a high-school math and science teacher with a doctorate in chemistry, had previously been promoting another mathematical formula that, he claimed, allowed him to determine the number of covid cases more accurately than state health authorities and the media. \u201cI was modelling every single county in the United States, and people would come to my social-media pages to find out what the real numbers were,\u201d Frank said. \u201cSo that\u2019s how Sherronna first met me. I was on her podcast, and I had her on mine.\u201d Frank told me that, after building an audience of covid skeptics with his revisionist statistics, he was invited by several politicians to examine their 2020 election results. \u201cI noticed a pattern,\u201d Frank said. \u201cAnd the pattern enables me to go into any state and look at one county. And, once I\u2019ve looked at one county, I can predict all of the other counties to preposterous accuracy.\u201d PolitiFact, the fact-checking arm of the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism school and research organization, has given one of Frank\u2019s claims about vote manipulation a hundred-per-cent \u201cPants on Fire\u201d rating,
\nClick through for full investigative reporting<\/a>. This really scares me, more so than the obviously violent.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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