{"id":54606,"date":"2024-06-08T06:09:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54606"},"modified":"2024-06-07T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T01:50:37","slug":"open-thread-june-8-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/08\/open-thread-june-8-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 8 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Robert Reich&#8217;s second <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/debunking-myth-2-government-obstructs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;DEBUNK&#8221;<\/a> article posted here. As last week, there&#8217;s both a video and a transcript. Good thing, since nothing much happened here. I took in a grocery order is all.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantablackstar.com\/2024\/06\/04\/teens-jumped-onto-hood-of-sinking-car-to-save-passed-out-man-trapped-inside\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good news story about a rescue<\/a> in Florida. I am 100% behind the Mom who is pushing for lifesaving rings to be readily available, but also feel I need to point out that in this case a ring would not have worked, though in many, maybe most, cases a ring would have been the best choice.<\/p>\n<p>I have hardly mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/hunter-biden-prosecutors-mightve-already-lost-the-jury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden<\/a> at all, because the GOP efforts to turn him into a monster have been so cringworthy. But this is a very interesting speculation. I hope The Beast is reading the room correctly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ijXzw_0iks?si=H-WLvZymJhj281pr\" 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\/opRSktsLaE8?si=EOMSOq2kQT0WbnlH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Earth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Earth.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Earth-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Earth-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Earth-768x375.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Robert Reich&#8217;s second &#8220;DEBUNK&#8221; article posted here. As last week, there&#8217;s both a video and a transcript. Good thing, since nothing much happened here. I took in a grocery order is all. This is a good news story about a rescue in Florida. I am 100% behind the Mom who is pushing for lifesaving <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/08\/open-thread-june-8-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,3723,3762,4330,4908,5833,3792],"class_list":["post-54606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-climate-change","tag-courts","tag-environment","tag-good-news","tag-heat-stroke","tag-robert-reich","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\/54606","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=54606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54606\/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=54606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}