{"id":52920,"date":"2023-09-05T05:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T12:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=52920"},"modified":"2023-09-04T16:50:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T23:50:06","slug":"open-thread-september-5-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/05\/open-thread-september-5-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 5, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, The New Yorker’s “Name Drop” was most appropriate for Labor Day. The first two clues were news to me, but I did get it on the third one. Also, Steve Schmidt quoted a big chunk of Theodore Roosevelt’s Labor Day speech given in 1903<\/a>. I’ll spare you the need to look for “continue reading” and just link to the speech in the Educational Video inc.’s Speech Vault. It contains the quote “The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us,” which was worked into a rug placed in the oval office in 2010 (yes, during the Obama Administration.) I don’t know whether it is still there (or possibly there again.) The speech is remarkable – and should be trotted out more often by Democrats, if only to emphasize that we are the ones who have preserved this orignally Republican platform.<\/p>\n

Cartoon – 05 great fire of london<\/p>\n

Short Takes –<\/p>\n

Wonkette – Matt Schlapp\u2019s CPAC Team-Building Exercises Sound Fun, If You’re Into Exorcisms<\/a>
\nQuote – Oh. My. Lord. They have been on Twitter posting pictures of their favorite saints and begging those saints to rain down hell on the Daily Beast. It\u2019s so deranged. \u201cOur Lady of Guadalupe, strike down the BEAST,\u201d tweeted Schlmatt. \u201cSt Michael the Archangel take down the beast,\u201d tweeted Schlmercy, with a bit less flair and punctuation. We guess all this has put people in the mood to spill more Schlapp Schlecrets to (natch) the Beast. Now Roger Sollenberger is bringing us the story of that time last year when Matt Schlapp got a priest to come in and do exorcisms to get all the demons out of the CPAC offices.
\nClick through for details<\/a>. Remember it is Substack now. If Matt Schlapp could exorcise himself, he would disappear in a puff of smoke.<\/p>\n

Liberals Are Cool (on tumblr)<\/a>
\nQuote – To remind everyone, January 6th wasn’t Trump’s Plan A. It wasn’t even Plan B. Plan A was to steal the 2020 election with Putin’s help, just as he’d done in 2016. Blackmailing Ukraine for dirt on Biden was part of that effort. But it didn’t work twice.
\nClick through<\/a>. This is a Twitter thread, rolled on a thread reader, reposted on Tumblr, which was shared on Democratic Underground. It’s not long and it’s all important.<\/p>\n

Food For Thought
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