{"id":54493,"date":"2024-05-18T05:56:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T12:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54493"},"modified":"2024-05-17T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T03:30:08","slug":"open-thread-may-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/18\/open-thread-may-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 18 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Wonkette informed me about the male-genitals-shaped balloons Trump** supporters had released Thursday outside the courthouse where he is being tried. Most of us outgrow our toddler obsession with genitals at an age much younger than these people have (God knows how) achieved. Also, there was a kerfuffle in the House involving Representatives Jasmine Crockett and Marjorie Three Names. Many people have had something to say about this. My take is that I&#8217;m going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2024\/05\/17\/dont-take-any-s-t-from-her-jasmine-crockett-praised-for-epic-clapback-at-marjorie-taylor-greene-for-comment-on-her-appearance-in-a-heated-exchange-that-some-deemed-racist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta Black Star<\/a> to get some Black folks&#8217; take before I even begin to formulate my lily-white take.\u00a0 And then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218957821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there&#8217;s this<\/a>.\u00a0 (And no, you aren&#8217;t losig it, Jamie is still from Maryland -that was in error.)<\/p>\n<p>This story from <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.yahoo.com\/d\/folders\/1\/messages\/AONeGW4LRZKHZkak5Q7YyFGNal4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> is years old &#8211; but she (and the nation) have only just learned about it now. And that fact alone may be the biggest part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. I suppose we should have known <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218953020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this was coming<\/a> &#8211; somewhere. And it will probably be repeated. It is well sourced, but I chose this link rather than ne of the sources, partly because I thought there was value in the comments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MdHRcyfWhOM?si=9K2CnIqiyWmsnjlM\" 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\/WhBssYB3dno?si=u8C4xfCLDdnzrM19\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zinger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zinger.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zinger-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zinger-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Wonkette informed me about the male-genitals-shaped balloons Trump** supporters had released Thursday outside the courthouse where he is being tried. Most of us outgrow our toddler obsession with genitals at an age much younger than these people have (God knows how) achieved. Also, there was a kerfuffle in the House involving Representatives Jasmine Crockett <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/18\/open-thread-may-18-2024\/' 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":[4355,5796,4111,4165,5797,3746,3751,3709,4172,3910,3972,3768],"class_list":["post-54493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-bribery","tag-cats","tag-congress","tag-decorum","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-humor","tag-north-carolina","tag-public-health","tag-scotus","tag-sedition","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\/54493","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=54493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54493\/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=54493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}