{"id":54596,"date":"2024-06-06T05:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54596"},"modified":"2024-06-05T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:53:35","slug":"open-thread-june-6-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/06\/open-thread-june-6-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 6 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Wonkette’s newsletter provided a gift link to a New York Times<\/a> opinion piece, written by Michelle Goldberg (not by some right-wing lackey), whichdoesn’t contain anything we hadn’t figured out, but says it well and clearly. And the gift link makes it easier to share if you’d like to (don’t cut it – the stuff after the question mark is needed to validate that it’s a gift.) Also, Andy Borowitz<\/a> “interviews” the new President of Mexico, who has thoughts on the U.S.<\/p>\n

Well, this is interesting<\/a>. It’s hard to be sure what it means at this point, other that Republicans are so good at creating “plausible deniability” that they have gotten bad at using it, trying to make it work all the time. Denying everything is admitting everything.<\/p>\n

Well, this is really<\/strong> interesting<\/a>. Like puppetmaster, like puppet, I guess. Now, before anyone says “Money is the root of all evil,” let me point out it is not money, but the love<\/strong> of money, which is the root of all evil (or as Chaucer quoted in the Canterbury Tales, “Radix malorum est cupiditas.”)<\/p>\n