{"id":53880,"date":"2024-01-29T06:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T14:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53880"},"modified":"2024-01-28T20:40:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T04:40:26","slug":"open-thread-january-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/29\/open-thread-january-29-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 29, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, what I mostly did was finish two knitting projects &#8211; one fair-sized one on which I&#8217;ve been working for some time, and one so small I started and finished it after finishing the large one.\u00a0 Not exciting, but there it is<\/p>\n<p>Crooks and Liars has posted <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/01\/how-west-wing-episode-shows-how-much-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video by Cliff Schecter<\/a> which really points up the difference between the time when the Republican Party had Joe MacCarthy, and now, when all Republicans are Joe McCarthy. And you may learn something about the Illinois loyalty pledge too. It&#8217;s under 7 minutes, and if you watch it at C&amp;L you won&#8217;t have to pay YouTube to avoid ads.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret Atwood has been using her Substack to share a multi-part history of what the French Revolution (which she calls &#8220;The French Revvie&#8221;) was really like. <a href=\"https:\/\/margaretatwood.substack.com\/p\/the-french-revvie-part-iv-the-vengeance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This link it to Part IV &#8211; subtitled &#8220;The Vengeance.&#8221;<\/a> I used to warn that if we didn&#8217;t make some corrections &#8211; and quickly &#8211; we&#8217;d have another French Revolution. And, yet, when I saw it, I didn&#8217;t recognize it. Margaret did. 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