{"id":49429,"date":"2022-10-07T06:53:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T13:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=49429"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T23:41:06","slug":"open-thread-october-7-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/10\/07\/open-thread-october-7-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 7, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I received an email from Adam Schiff which was … unbelievable. Or at least would have been unbelievable eight years ago. Nowadays – I didn’t look for the story in the news, but I wouldn’t be sirprised if it didn’t make the news. Readers Digest version – over last weekend a MAGA cultist ran an event for children<\/strong> featuiing a castle, a catapult [or trebuchet], and watermelons decorated with photos of Adam. The guests were allowed to launch the watermelons toward the castle … just like in the Dark Ages. I have no words. The event was a promotion for Kash Patel’s book for children<\/strong>, about which the less said the better.<\/p>\n

Cartoon –<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone – Michael Fanone Is Not Your Fucking Hero [NSFW]<\/a>
\nQuote – \u201cSo little of my life has been spent in that building, and \u2014 fuck that place,\u201d he tells me later, after we have spent two days together very much not visiting the U.S. Capitol. \u201cAnd fuck the people inside it too.\u201d Like, fuck, for instance, the 21 House Republicans who voted against awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6. Well, when Fanone got a load of that shit, he called up his friend Harry Dunn \u2014 a Capitol Police officer who had testified with Fanone during the congressional hearings in July 2021 \u2014 and the two decided to pay a little visit to every one of those House Republicans (\u201cI was like, \u2018I\u2019ve got nothing better to do today. I\u2019m going to go annoy some people on Capitol Hill\u2019\u201d).
\nClick through for story.<\/a> I admit it’s long. It’s also colorful (much of Rolling Stone is) and kind of tragic. Having survived January 6 is probably better then having been killed there. But maybe not as much better as one would think.<\/p>\n

Washington Post [gift link] – VP was in car accident; Secret Service first called it \u2018mechanical failure\u2019<\/a>
\nQuote – A motorcade taking Vice President Harris to work was in a one-car accident on a closed roadway in D.C. on Monday morning, an incident that concerned both the Secret Service director and the vice president and revived worries about the agency\u2019s history of concealing its mistakes, according to two people familiar with the incident…. By Monday afternoon, Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle received information from other agents that the alert did not accurately convey what happened, one of the people said. In fact, many other Secret Service agents on Harris\u2019s detail and at the White House, as well as Harris, knew her driver had actually hit the side pavement of a tunnel…. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the driver overcorrected when steering, leading to the accident. He said Harris was unharmed and delivered safely to the White House.
\nClick through for details.<\/a> Maybe. After some other things which have happened with the Secret Service in recent memory … anything is pollible.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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