{"id":54508,"date":"2024-05-21T05:54:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54508"},"modified":"2024-05-20T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T00:55:34","slug":"open-thread-may-21-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/open-thread-may-21-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 21 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after seeing Virgil, I slept in, as pretty much always. It isn&#8217;t the visit that is tiring, nor the driving, but the missed sleep before it. Yeah, I know, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d take something for that, but my reactions to all substances, on and off the schedule are so paradoxical, I haven&#8217;t found anythong I can trust to always work. For instance, caffeine tends to help(as I said &#8211; paradoxical) but isn&#8217;t reliable. I&#8217;ve been playing a bit with chocolate, which works better than caffeine alone, but again, not reliable. I&#8217;m really not comfortable any more playing with anything on the schedule. Oh, and I&#8217;ve also tried deliberately shorting my sleep for a few days before the night I need to get up early, and that also doesn&#8217;t work. I ticed when posting that I ssem to have picked a good deal of snark for today. All of it is appropriate for the material, so I hope y&#8217;all don&#8217;t mind. Even Beau is unusually snarky. Also, my package from Katie Porter&#8217;s merch arrived, as did an email that what she still has is all 20% off, in case anyone is interested.<\/p>\n<p>Of course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/buncha-hippies-at-interior-just-made\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette is going to be snarky<\/a> even with good news, and this is indeed good news. It&#8217;s well sourced &#8211; even includes a gift link to the Washington Post &#8211; so if you want it more serious it&#8217;s available.<\/p>\n<p>(Gift link &#8211; you stll need to click but it looks different) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jefftiedrich.com\/p\/cowardly-dipshit-donald-trump-already?utm_source=substack&amp;publication_id=1162742&amp;post_id=144750976&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;utm_campaign=email-share&amp;triggerShare=true&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=elvx&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Tiedrich<\/a> puts more substance between his profanities in his blog but doesn&#8217;t dispense with them entirely, and of course he is always snarky. You may already have read about this new demand for Joe to take a drug test before he&#8217;ll debate him. I think I&#8217;d say &#8220;Sure, pal &#8211; after you.&#8221; But that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lunMO6ZvSvg?si=W8RxXuUmE_hb8dpS\" 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\/CZpZmpPh3NY?si=HClgxRVO2FE2EZNS\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/T-era.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/T-era.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/T-era-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/T-era-150x139.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, after seeing Virgil, I slept in, as pretty much always. It isn&#8217;t the visit that is tiring, nor the driving, but the missed sleep before it. Yeah, I know, you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d take something for that, but my reactions to all substances, on and off the schedule are so paradoxical, I haven&#8217;t found anythong <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/21\/open-thread-may-21-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,4810,5001,5802,5626,5186,5801],"class_list":["post-54508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-church-state-separation","tag-conservatives","tag-drug-testing","tag-louisiana","tag-public-lands","tag-snark","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\/54508","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=54508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54508\/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=54508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}