{"id":51527,"date":"2023-04-20T06:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=51527"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T01:06:42","slug":"open-thread-april-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/20\/open-thread-april-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 20, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I managed to get trash and recyclables out to the carts, and then the carts out to the curb, all before sunset. Of course sunset is later now than it has been the last few times I didn&#8217;t manage to get everything out until after dark, but I still impressed myself. A note about the first short take &#8211; I could have put it in the video thread, but wanted to make sure Pat saw it &#8211; and wanted to use this particular FFT with it. And there is transcript, so if the video doesn&#8217;t work for you, you&#8217;ll still get the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/motor-race.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/motor-race.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/motor-race-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/motor-race-150x115.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100217842033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">democratic Undergroud (In It to Win It) &#8211; Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday just destroyed Republican talking points that attacked &#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday just destroyed Republican talking points that attacked a non-binary Navy Officer who was proud that they had the chance to read a poem to their crew mates on an LGBTQ spoken-word night.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100217842033\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through<\/a>. Tommy Tuberville is the Senator whom Alabama was &#8211; unfortunate &#8211; enough to put in instead of Doug Jones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumps-fake-georgia-electors-are-now-ratting-on-each-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Beast &#8211; Trump\u2019s Fake Georgia Electors Are Now Ratting on Each Other<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; According to the memo, prosecutors in July last year dangled immunity deals for \u201calternate electors\u201d who were willing to cooperate with the investigation\u2014but their defense lawyer is now accused of never telling them about the potential deal. Following a special purpose grand jury recommendation in December that the DA seek indictments against some people involved in the fraudulent scheme, investigators have turned up the pressure. It turns out, these Republican officials and political operatives are now starting to squirm, identifying illegal behavior by their colleagues while trying to save their own skin\u2014a sudden pivot that came when Willis\u2019 investigators met with these fake electors last week.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumps-fake-georgia-electors-are-now-ratting-on-each-other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for details<\/a>. Good.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tuberville.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tuberville.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tuberville-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tuberville-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Tuberville-768x556.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\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, I managed to get trash and recyclables out to the carts, and then the carts out to the curb, all before sunset. Of course sunset is later now than it has been the last few times I didn&#8217;t manage to get everything out until after dark, but I still impressed myself. A note about <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/20\/open-thread-april-20-2023\/' 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":[3704,4173,4644,3734,3746,3751,4115,3714],"class_list":["post-51527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-georgia","tag-gop-division","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-justice","tag-video","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\/51527","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=51527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51527\/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=51527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}