{"id":54014,"date":"2024-02-23T06:15:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54014"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T03:16:49","slug":"open-thread-february-23-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/23\/open-thread-february-23-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 23, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had a visit from an old peoples&#8217; services organization whom Trinette referred me to. She was very pleasant, but of course time was consumed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218709288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Certainly one doesn&#8217;t need to study the book<\/a> (or the movie) to be able to see clearly what is happening,just based on published news (some true, some not so much). And just think how much more the FBI knows. With Trump** or without him, it&#8217;s not going to get any better unless it gets actively contained. And I have no idea how that&#8217;s to be done.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cLrTS6Qj48s?si=pNMu9d3TtE6RfUYI\" 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\/ZxNN3QHDsHo?si=X32e5eGp9Q2Ftqb9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-54013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/vitro-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/vitro-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/vitro-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/vitro-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/vitro-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/vitro.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had a visit from an old peoples&#8217; services organization whom Trinette referred me to. She was very pleasant, but of course time was consumed Certainly one doesn&#8217;t need to study the book (or the movie) to be able to see clearly what is happening,just based on published news (some true, some not so <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/02\/23\/open-thread-february-23-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[3734,3751,3811],"class_list":["post-54014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-insanity","tag-personal","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\/54014","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014\/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=54014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}