{"id":54322,"date":"2024-04-15T05:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54322"},"modified":"2024-04-14T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T01:53:09","slug":"april-15-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/15\/april-15-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 15, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218862044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new Parody Project video<\/a> at Democratic Underground, and I&#8217;m providing the link to that site (you can easily get to YouTube from it if you prefer.) The poster,, &#8220;DFW,&#8221; is &#8220;The freedom Toast&#8221; just as Don Caron is &#8220;The Parody Project.&#8221; DFW is an ex-pat living in Europe after a lifetime of foreign service. In the one photo I&#8217;ve seen of him, he looks a bit like Santa Claus in a dress suit &#8211; and that&#8217;s probably more than you wanted to know. I recommend the YouTube CC because the white type washes out on some of the light backgrounds &#8211; the CC isn&#8217;t perfect, but it&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<p>This has taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2024\/apr\/14\/abu-ghraib-iraq-torture-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a long, long time to accomplish<\/a>, and it&#8217;s really only starting, but I for one am glad it has at last gotten this far.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of a major trial, <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/april-13-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richardson<\/a> takes a look at the other (neglected by the MSM) story of how the economy works, and when it works best, and why. While attending to the Trump** story, we also need to be telling this one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JuvgzxAwd3c?si=hY47znSD_Hr7lgUX\" 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\/Zk5bGqOhMHI?si=Q19DkuLzB48MJEno\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/upset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/upset.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/upset-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/upset-139x150.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I came across a new Parody Project video at Democratic Underground, and I&#8217;m providing the link to that site (you can easily get to YouTube from it if you prefer.) The poster,, &#8220;DFW,&#8221; is &#8220;The freedom Toast&#8221; just as Don Caron is &#8220;The Parody Project.&#8221; DFW is an ex-pat living in Europe after a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/15\/april-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":[4355,4111,3762,3721,5718,4115,3865,4317],"class_list":["post-54322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-courts","tag-gop-lies","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-justice","tag-middle-east","tag-the-economy","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\/54322","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=54322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54322\/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=54322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}