{"id":54345,"date":"2024-04-19T06:09:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54345"},"modified":"2024-04-18T18:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T01:40:17","slug":"open-thread-april-19-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/19\/open-thread-april-19-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 19, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had had a pretty good night&#8217;s sleep. Of course I had done some stuff the day before &#8211; packed and tied four boxes for pickup, unpacked my new (to me and already obsolete) computer and broke up the box it came in, fighting staples and glue, and a couple of other little things. But I felt good enough to take in a small grocery order, and assemble ingredients for a recipe which I can now make. (Don&#8217;t get too excited about the computer. I am not going to plug it in until I can also plug in a USB multi-hub, since the place I am putting it makes it very difficult to reach the back.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t want to move my present 8-port one from where it is.\u00a0 So I ordered a new one &#8211; probably nect week sometime it should arrive.)<\/p>\n<p>Someone has made what I can only call a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4FTMXWgP5R4?si=_xwT4_1L5tylCLN5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mockyoumentary<\/a>&#8221; out of Trump&#8217;s** anecdote of the Battle of Gettysburg. Yes, it&#8217;s awful, but it&#8217;s also short &#8211; and very funny in a schadenfreude kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Trump, as you know, is following Trump**&#8217;s cases from a personal perspective. She put together <a href=\"https:\/\/marytrump.substack.com\/p\/the-judge-blasts-donald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a group of topics from Tuesday&#8217;s jury selection<\/a>, including a list of characteristics on selected jurors which are allowed to be made public.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-KKT1ioXni0?si=V_uKQZYBCzcAK5SO\" 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\/RPs5WnuHNb0?si=_htYRtRLwQLtAKPw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/knock.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had had a pretty good night&#8217;s sleep. Of course I had done some stuff the day before &#8211; packed and tied four boxes for pickup, unpacked my new (to me and already obsolete) computer and broke up the box it came in, fighting staples and glue, and a couple of other little things. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/04\/19\/open-thread-april-19-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,3762,5761,3709,3706],"class_list":["post-54345","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-fisa","tag-humor","tag-satire","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\/54345","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=54345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54345\/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=54345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}