{"id":51472,"date":"2023-04-14T06:51:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T13:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=51472"},"modified":"2023-04-13T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T01:00:02","slug":"open-thread-april-14-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/14\/open-thread-april-14-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 14, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a new transaction came out in the Clarence Thomas scandal. Harlan Crow purchsed some property from Thomas. Per ProPublica &#8211; &#8220;The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas\u2019 mother was living.&#8221; You&#8217;ve heard the expression &#8220;He&#8217;d sell his own mother&#8230;&#8221; Well, here&#8217;s someone who actually did. That sale made her a tenant of Harlan Crow.\u00a0 Apparently Crow remodeled and repaired the place &#8211; butshe is still his tenant (assuming she&#8217;s still alive) and therefore owes him rent shold he decide to demand any.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0414Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0414Cartoon.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0414Cartoon-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-florida-gov-ron-desantis-is-taking-a-page-out-of-richard-nixons-playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Beast &#8211; How Ron DeSantis Is Taking a Page Out of Nixon\u2019s Playbook<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; [Steven] Jarvis, who has tracked disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories as an off-duty hobby since the 2016 election, said he\u2019s developed a thick skin. But seeing pro-DeSantis accounts, and other apparent bot networks, accusing him of being a pedophile\u2014and posting details of his marriage that could only have been gleaned from direct messages on Facebook, Jarvis said\u2014shattered the barrier between his compartmentalized worlds. It wasn\u2019t an isolated incident. For some who criticize the Florida governor and likely 2024 presidential candidate, a pattern appears to be emerging: attack DeSantis publicly, and risk your personal information posted online by pro-DeSantis accounts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/how-florida-gov-ron-desantis-is-taking-a-page-out-of-richard-nixons-playbook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for specifics.<\/a> Just what I would expect from a man who laughs at his murder victims as they are dying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/jim-jordan-takes-his-clown-show-on-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bulwark &#8211; Jim Jordan Takes His Clown Show on the Road<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Now Jordan has announced that he\u2019s packing up the tent and hitting the road: Next week, the committee will be taking a taxpayer-funded field trip to New York. Why New York? To go after Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, whom Donald Trump, in his patented racist style, has called an \u201canimal\u201d and about whom Trump has screeched that \u201cTHE DEMOCRATS HAVE TOTALLY WEAPONIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT IN OUR COUNTRY . . . TO INTERFERE WITH OUR ALREADY UNDER SIEGE ELECTIONS!\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/jim-jordan-takes-his-clown-show-on-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details.<\/a> Maybe he&#8217;ll do somethiing illegal and get arrested We can hope.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51477\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51477\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TheLaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TheLaw.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TheLaw-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TheLaw-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/TheLaw-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Law, paking ticket, Trump indictment, arraignment, history, NYPD, political cartoon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Steal-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a new transaction came out in the Clarence Thomas scandal. Harlan Crow purchsed some property from Thomas. Per ProPublica &#8211; &#8220;The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas\u2019 mother was living.&#8221; You&#8217;ve heard the expression &#8220;He&#8217;d sell his own mother&#8230;&#8221; Well, here&#8217;s someone who actually did. That sale <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/14\/open-thread-april-14-2023\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3704,4283,3711,3734,3751,3717],"class_list":["post-51472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-florida","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-insanity","tag-gop-violence","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\/51472","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=51472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}