{"id":54635,"date":"2024-06-12T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54635"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T01:30:45","slug":"open-thread-june-12-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/12\/open-thread-june-12-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 12 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette&#8217;s son Zach was by to &#8220;mow the grass&#8221; (a very charitable euphemism for &#8220;mow thw weeds. And I did reach the exterminator, who confirmed they are coming in the late afternoon tomorrow. So that&#8217;s all good. Also, as I&#8217;m sure youall know, Hunter Biden was convicted of a gun felony. And then too, in case anyone cares, I looked up the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/itZKy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no paywall link<\/a> to the Rolling Stone article which captures the Alitos&#8217; real political ideas. It&#8217;s here. And one last thing &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/TOW https:\/\/youtu.be\/PGb9bD4StEU?si=PywOaIDtEcKkS0Xt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theater of War production<\/a> scheduled for 6 pm Eastern today was featured on PBS News Hour over the weekend and the segment can be streamed here if anyone is interested. I&#8217;m sure they aren&#8217;t finished with this project.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/new-apostolic-reformation-splc-hate-report-christian-nationalism_n_665f6fdae4b08e32183f25a8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> calls this geoup &#8220;The greatest threat to democracy you&#8217;ve never heard of.&#8221; The HuffPost Fringe shares the information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/new-apostolic-reformation-splc-hate-report-christian-nationalism_n_665f6fdae4b08e32183f25a8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I do hope<\/a> TFG (Can also stand for That Felon Guy) doesn&#8217;t actually try this. However, as Virgil&#8217;s mother used to say, &#8220;Xit in one habd and hope in the other and see which gets filled first.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vWIvAQUHCpc?si=JeRb2r8kAWe4djuA\" 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\/ysR-Z3JnTz0?si=bRNXKJAVEsxXxwa4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/assimilate.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"914\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette&#8217;s son Zach was by to &#8220;mow the grass&#8221; (a very charitable euphemism for &#8220;mow thw weeds. And I did reach the exterminator, who confirmed they are coming in the late afternoon tomorrow. So that&#8217;s all good. Also, as I&#8217;m sure youall know, Hunter Biden was convicted of a gun felony. And then too, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/12\/open-thread-june-12-2024\/' 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":[4355,4531,3734,3721,3866,3972,5485,5840,3805,5334,3831],"class_list":["post-54635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-lies","tag-history","tag-scotus","tag-theater","tag-therapy","tag-ukraine","tag-white-fragility","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\/54635","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=54635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54635\/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=54635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}