{"id":53935,"date":"2024-02-08T06:26:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53935"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T03:31:49","slug":"open-thread-february-8-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/08\/open-thread-february-8-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 8, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I read more about the actions of Al Green (D-TX) &#8211; leaving the hospital on a gurney soon after surgery, going to the Capitol, resting in a room prepared for him by fellow Democrats, then arriving on the floor in a wheelchair, wearing scrubs, to cast the deciding vote to kill the proposed Mayorkas impeachment. Congratulations to TX in generl and Pat B in particular (though not in his district) in having sent such representation to the House.<\/p>\n<p>We already went over this beheading, but <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/02\/trumper-beheading-part-larger-right-wing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I wanted to share this article<\/a> which makes the case that, even though the dude was obviously nuttier than a fruitcake, that does not necessarily mean that MAGA was not involved, if only in validating his crazy. It&#8217;s a good point. If you don&#8217;t know the real reasons behind something, you&#8217;re not going to succeed at alleviating it.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2024\/02\/07\/georgia-medical-examiner-rules-death-of-baby-decapitated-during-complicated-childbirth-as-a-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speaking of beheadings<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t suppose this one was intended, but it was damnably irresponsible. And what appears to be an attempted coverup is even worse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4QaqcxR_3fI?si=Q1OEJNqgj48TctLI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5zCvvcIyhA?si=EcJzM0vAWJBd5Lt_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53939\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ExTwit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ExTwit.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ExTwit-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ExTwit-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I read more about the actions of Al Green (D-TX) &#8211; leaving the hospital on a gurney soon after surgery, going to the Capitol, resting in a room prepared for him by fellow Democrats, then arriving on the floor in a wheelchair, wearing scrubs, to cast the deciding vote to kill the proposed Mayorkas <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/08\/open-thread-february-8-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[5698,5696,4173,5697],"class_list":["post-53935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-above-and-beyond","tag-decapitation","tag-georgia","tag-homicide","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\/53935","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=53935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}