{"id":54519,"date":"2024-05-23T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54519"},"modified":"2024-05-22T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:31:31","slug":"open-thread-may-23-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/23\/open-thread-may-23-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 23 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I observed that Donald Trump** is now claiming that Biden ordered him assassinated, specifically on the day of the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Magats are, frankly, to evil to eben be able to imagine a person who just wouldn&#8217;t do that, so perhaps we should counter with something like &#8220;Democrats get things done. If Joe wanted him assassinated, he&#8217;d have been assassinated. He wasn&#8217;t. End of story.&#8221; Also, among the petitions I signed was one for Thomas and Alito to recude from the Trump** immnity case. Actually, I&#8217;d rather leave those to on and have the three he nominated recuse.Knocking out those two still leaves it 4-3, and the best hope we have is for Roberts to do the right thing. But if we knock out Gorsuch, Javanaugh and Barrett, it&#8217;s now 3-3. Unless Roberts does the right thing, there&#8217;s an unbreakable tie.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to word my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100218966017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hanky alert<\/a> differently on this by quoting Shakespeare&#8217;s Mark Antony: &#8220;If youhave tears, prepare to shed them now.&#8221; Yes, I&#8217;m preaching to the choir. But sharing it couldn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Just as I&#8217;m highly in favor of the National Interstate Popular Vote Compact, because I don&#8217;t see any possibility to amend the Constitution without the nation being able to see that the popular vote works, I also don&#8217;t see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/massachusettss-millionaire-tax-going\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equirable tax reform<\/a> happening unless people can see it works. That&#8217;s why I;m posting this,and enci=ourage sharing it as widely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>And here is <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/but-the-price-of-groceries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yet another article<\/a> which desperately needs to be widely shared. I&#8217;ll try to help on this one with the&#8221;Food for Thought&#8221; cartoon below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4m1EuQf68Qg?si=rhuuIpWQj0Bpg3vy\" 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\/EZU7mA6TFHE?si=huJr-H7ecR6jCWRR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/greedflation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/greedflation.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/greedflation-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/greedflation-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I observed that Donald Trump** is now claiming that Biden ordered him assassinated, specifically on the day of the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Magats are, frankly, to evil to eben be able to imagine a person who just wouldn&#8217;t do that, so perhaps we should counter with something like &#8220;Democrats get things done. If Joe <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/05\/23\/open-thread-may-23-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,4213,5805,5167,3721,3910,3838,4299,4395,3831],"class_list":["post-54519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-electoral-college","tag-geedflation","tag-gop-cruelty","tag-gop-lies","tag-public-health","tag-russia","tag-taxation","tag-womens-health","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\/54519","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=54519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54519\/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=54519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}