{"id":50224,"date":"2022-12-21T06:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=50224"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T02:01:38","slug":"open-thread-december-21-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2022\/12\/21\/open-thread-december-21-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 21, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Joyce Vance shared this link at the New York Times for the Executive Summary<\/a> of the January 6 Committee’s Report. This is not the full report, but it is 154 pages, so it still may be a bit long for anyone who has a life.\u00a0 I also placed a grocery order for tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Also, the top tentative news was that President Zelenskyy might<\/strong> be in Washington DC today, and if so, may address a joint session of Comgress this evening. Of course, evening in Washington is pretty much afternoon elsewhere. I could not find a specific YouTube channel for Congress as a whole like the one the January 6th Committee has\/had. But you can bet if that happens, and if it isn’t classified, everyone will carry it live. So keep an eye out – I certainly will – and I’ll post a link afterwards even if it takes me all day\/night to find it.<\/p>\n

Cartoon –<\/p>\n

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Short Takes –<\/p>\n

PolitiZoom – A British Village Displays Its Feelings For Vladimir Putin In Graphic Terms<\/a>
\nQuote – “A penis-headed statue of Vladimir Putin has been erected in the village of Bell End to commemorate him as \u201cBellend of the Year\u201d in protest against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.”… And it doesn\u2019t stop there. The villagers also gave eggs to passers-by in case they wanted to throw them at the statue.
\nClick through.<\/a> There are photos. I personally am speechless. (Correction: there is no village called ‘Bell End’ but there is a Bellend Road, which is where the statue is. ‘Bell end” is British slang for the tip of I’m sure you can guess what)<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast – Onetime Friends Lauren Boebert and MTG Go to War Against Each Other<\/a>
\nQuote – At Turning Point USA\u2019s winter student conference on Monday, Boebert said that her support for McCarthy isn\u2019t as firm as Greene\u2019s\u2014before ripping into the Georgia Republican over her belief in \u201cJewish space lasers.\u201d But Greene wasn\u2019t about to let Boebert get the last word, with the 48-year-old firing back at her younger colleague on Monday evening with a trio of tweets accusing Boebert of partaking in \u201chigh school drama.\u201d
\nClick through for story.<\/a> I never in a million years expected to be saying that it appears Boebert is a little smarter than Marge … but it certainly looks like it. Maybe she just has better advisers. (Anyone know a word which roughly means the same as “disarray” but begins with an “R”?)<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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