{"id":49853,"date":"2022-11-16T06:57:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T14:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=49853"},"modified":"2022-11-15T21:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T05:41:57","slug":"open-thread-november-16-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/16\/open-thread-november-16-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 16, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I concentrated on getting my trash and recyclables out to their respective polycarts. Hopefully, by the time today is over, I will have gotten those carts to the curb for pickup tomorrow. Also, I received confirmation to see Virgil this Sunday.\u00a0 I am still treading water with my short takes.\u00a0 I feel that I know what the balance of poer will be int the Senate &#8211; but I don&#8217;t know about the House.\u00a0 I believe some news is due today &#8230; but not all of it.\u00a0 Late breaking &#8211; I&#8217;m not going into it here, but I bumped a planned video to insert one on Russia bombing Poland.\u00a0 Also late breaking, Katie Porter is up again,thank heaven.\u00a0 Bu there are a lot of votes still not counted.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1116Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1116Cartoon.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1116Cartoon-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\/11\/ann-coulter-tells-trump-shut-fck-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks &amp; Liars &#8211; Ann Coulter Tells Trump To &#8216;Shut The F&#8212;k Up, Forever!&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Right Wing pundit Ann Coulter is of course no stranger to being dissatisfied with Donald Trump. But after the GOP\u2019s humiliating showing in the midterm elections, and ahead a possible announcement he will run for president in 2024, Coulter had a simple message for Trump: \u201cShut the f\u2014 up, forever.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2022\/11\/ann-coulter-tells-trump-shut-fck-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> This is what happens when someone is stupid enough to believe in everything Trump** ever said, but yet smart enough to grasp that he never accomplished any of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/2022\/11\/15\/couy-griffin-confronts-dubois-over-appointment-derails-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NM Political Reprt &#8211; Couy Griffin confronts DuBois over appointment, derails meeting<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Former Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin caused a fuss at the Otero County Commission meeting last week when his time at the public comment table became so heated, one of the sitting county commissioners plans to file a restraining order against Griffin. Griffin was unhappy that Stephanie DuBois, a Democrat, was appointed to his old seat after Griffin was removed from office based on the U.S. Constitution\u2019s 14th Amendment\u2019s Disqualification Clause after his conviction related to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection in Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/2022\/11\/15\/couy-griffin-confronts-dubois-over-appointment-derails-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for story<\/a>. Remember &#8220;Cowboys for Trump**&#8221;? GRiffin is still giving cowbays a bad name (and, for that matter, griffins &#8211; if you know your magical beasts.)<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49861\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/But-Biden-did.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/But-Biden-did.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/But-Biden-did-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/But-Biden-did-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/But-Biden-did-768x718.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Steal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Steal2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Steal2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Steal2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Steal2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I concentrated on getting my trash and recyclables out to their respective polycarts. Hopefully, by the time today is over, I will have gotten those carts to the curb for pickup tomorrow. Also, I received confirmation to see Virgil this Sunday.\u00a0 I am still treading water with my short takes.\u00a0 I feel that I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/16\/open-thread-november-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":[3704,3711,4644,3734,3746,3751,4268],"class_list":["post-49853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-division","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-insurrection","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\/49853","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=49853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49853\/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=49853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}