{"id":54266,"date":"2024-04-08T05:48:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54266"},"modified":"2024-04-09T17:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:58:31","slug":"open-thread-april-7-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/08\/open-thread-april-7-2024-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 8, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by. I didn&#8217;t have a lot for her to do this week. I was working on my closet more than clutter. She says hi to all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/when-will-americans-start-crediting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Reich on the left is right<\/a> as usual &#8211; about the likely event &#8211; and I hope he is equally right about the lag time. Much more than that and it will be too late. I apologize for not making a note of where i read this, but apparently some polling in swing states specifically showed voters positivw abot their state&#8217;s economy but negative about the national economy (which makes little sense -but i guess that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re swing states.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218844307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how public this knowledg<\/a>e is &#8211; by which I mean, technically it&#8217;s public knowledge, but no one will know it if news outlets don&#8217;t pick it up.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jwXNt3gNlf8?si=_cvoTXAOyQuzHw1f\" 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\/u6kSmYQfu9c?si=mTHWCEIFt7F0yag3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/RFKjr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/RFKjr.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/RFKjr-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/RFKjr-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/RFKjr-768x600.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by. I didn&#8217;t have a lot for her to do this week. I was working on my closet more than clutter. She says hi to all. The Reich on the left is right as usual &#8211; about the likely event &#8211; and I hope he is equally right about the lag time. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/08\/open-thread-april-7-2024-2\/' 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":[4355,4553,4111,5747,3762,3781,3775,4115,4317,3831],"class_list":["post-54266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cats","tag-central-america","tag-courts","tag-elections","tag-foreign-policy","tag-justice","tag-the-economy","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\/54266","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=54266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54266\/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=54266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}