{"id":54079,"date":"2024-03-07T06:25:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54079"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:28:22","slug":"open-thread-march-7-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/open-thread-march-7-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 7, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Beau video I have posted for today actually got a &#8220;Wow!&#8221; out loud from me (right about in the middle.) The Israeli government may be negligent and pidheaded, but the Israeli Armed forces (the IDF) &#8211; well, sometimes I wish our military were as smart and as outspoken as the Israeli one is being now.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/hLNdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times (without the paywall)<\/a>. You know we always put a lot of effort into GOTV efforts, because when we vote we win &#8211; we are the majority. Republicans know that no amount of GOTV will give them wins, so they are putting effort into disqualifying legitimate voters .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/03\/did-russian-army-attack-golf-carts-why-yes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I&#8217;m not sure what to make of this<\/a>. It&#8217;s so crazy it&#8217;s funny &#8211; but it seems inappropriate to laugh at something so likely to cause so many deaths. (I wonder what Beau will have to say, if anything.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HiNlJf00gN8?si=PKE7IUEg2PeS6OZg\" 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\/Ga1Pg1pWRRs?si=e3NSzkGT8oAdNwFX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LOTR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LOTR.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LOTR-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LOTR-150x116.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Beau video I have posted for today actually got a &#8220;Wow!&#8221; out loud from me (right about in the middle.) The Israeli government may be negligent and pidheaded, but the Israeli Armed forces (the IDF) &#8211; well, sometimes I wish our military were as smart and as outspoken as the Israeli one is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/open-thread-march-7-2024\/' 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":[5389,3865,3838,3805,3766,3831],"class_list":["post-54079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-gop-cheating","tag-middle-east","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-voting-rights","tag-world","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\/54079","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=54079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54079\/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=54079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}