{"id":53969,"date":"2024-02-15T05:53:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T13:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=53969"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:53:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:53:50","slug":"open-thread-february-15-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/15\/open-thread-february-15-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 15, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the exterminator came by. He said progress is being made, and if 2 weeks from now there is more, we need to dicuss longer intervals between visits. So that&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was wrong. I apologize to anyone who may have thought I was right and watched the show. <a href=\"https:\/\/marytrump.substack.com\/p\/jon-stewarts-danger-to-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Trump does a far better job<\/a> of breaking down why than I could.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2024\/02\/13\/police-arrest-man-theft-of-jackie-robinson-statue\/72585403007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They have arrested a dude<\/a> (and believe he was not alone) for &#8220;stealing&#8221; (no mention of vandalism) the Jackie Robinson statue. Sometimes it&#8217;s hardest to see things that are right under yor nose for the last 2 weeks he&#8217;s been locked up for something else. Try not to hit yourself in the head over what cops will believe or claim to believe in order to announce &#8220;No evidence of a hate crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qv96GuHSMJw?si=6ekvIGUURxo3v-oH\" 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\/eKAgky6PvW4?si=3tc_hT7XNY_lblkl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/not-same.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"805\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/not-same.jpg 805w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/not-same-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/not-same-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/not-same-768x455.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the exterminator came by. He said progress is being made, and if 2 weeks from now there is more, we need to dicuss longer intervals between visits. So that&#8217;s good. Well, I was wrong. I apologize to anyone who may have thought I was right and watched the show. Mary Trump does a far <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/15\/open-thread-february-15-2024\/' 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":[4355,4837,4181,4111,4115],"class_list":["post-53969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-history","tag-bothsiderism","tag-cats","tag-justice","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\/53969","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=53969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53969\/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=53969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}