{"id":53022,"date":"2023-09-14T05:59:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53022"},"modified":"2023-09-13T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T02:05:03","slug":"open-thread-september-14-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/14\/open-thread-september-14-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 14, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the sun shone, and the temperature barely broke 70, so the yard got done. Mitt Romney announced he will not run for re-election. Liz Cheney had some choice words for what she calls &#8220;the Putin wing of the Republican Party&#8221; (AKA the Sedition Caucus.) In Pennsylvania, they found and captured the escaped prisoner. And I picked two ery different short takes from very different sources, and &#8211; surprise, surprise! &#8211; They&#8217;re both on Substack. So crank up your mouse to click on &#8220;continue reading.&#8221; Everyone on Substack whom I have seen talk about it is very happy to be there &#8211; it&#8217;s easy for authors to use, and it saves them a lot of money compared to other venues. So I don&#8217;t see any of them moving away from it any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>In case you noticed Nameless missing a few days, he&#8217;s healthy, but tied up with taxes, in his own state and in the state in which a relative lived from whom he received an inheritance. He&#8217;s on an extension, but the date for that is getting closer faster than he would like<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon &#8211; On 14 September 1867 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Marx-9-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Marx-9-14.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Marx-9-14-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Marx-9-14-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Marx-9-14-768x473.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Short Takes &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-awful-legacy-of-robert-bork-corporations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich &#8211; Who\u2019s most responsible for the monopolization of America?<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; Yet the federal courts have been reluctant to do anything about this and are pushing back against the Biden administration\u2019s efforts. Why? Because of a man named Robert Bork&#8230;. I first met Bork in September 1971, when I took his class on antitrust at Yale Law School. I recall him as a large, imposing man, with a red beard and a perpetual scowl&#8230;. We kept challenging his view that the only legitimate purpose of antitrust law was to lower consumer prices&#8230;. Even in our mid-20s, we knew this was bullshit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-awful-legacy-of-robert-bork-corporations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through for history<\/a>. If you didn&#8217;t already know, you will learn why &#8220;borked&#8221; is now a synonym for &#8220;inoperable,&#8221; chaotic,&#8221; or even &#8220;SNAFU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/lauren-boebert-kicked-out-of-theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette &#8211; Lauren Boebert Kicked Out Of Theater For Acting Too Lauren Boebert-y<\/a><br \/>\nQuote &#8211; <em>U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the \u201cBeetlejuice\u201d musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and \u201ccausing a disturbance\u201d during the performance.<\/em> VAPING. The woman was VAPING. The paper says they got warned during intermission that others around them were complaining (LMAO), so clearly it was time to shape up and sit nicely with our hands folded in front of us, even though it is a fun show like Beetlejuice. We can go to Chuck E. Cheese afterward, OK?<em> The incident report states that after receiving the intermission warning, about five minutes into the second act security officials received \u201canother complaint about the patrons being loud and at the time (they) were recording.\u201d Taking pictures or recording is not permitted at shows.<\/em> Tacky.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/lauren-boebert-kicked-out-of-theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click through to read embarrassing details<\/a> and see optional surveillance footage. The part in italics is direct quotes from the Denver Post.<\/p>\n<p>Food For Thought<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/BoBo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" \/><\/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, the sun shone, and the temperature barely broke 70, so the yard got done. Mitt Romney announced he will not run for re-election. Liz Cheney had some choice words for what she calls &#8220;the Putin wing of the Republican Party&#8221; (AKA the Sedition Caucus.) In Pennsylvania, they found and captured the escaped prisoner. And <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/14\/open-thread-september-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":[5163,3704,5458,3751,4887,5589,4923],"class_list":["post-53022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-capitalism","tag-cartoon","tag-fafo","tag-gop-insanity","tag-lauren-boebert","tag-monopolies","tag-regulation","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\/53022","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=53022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53022\/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=53022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}