{"id":54650,"date":"2024-06-15T05:53:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54650"},"modified":"2024-06-15T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T23:52:31","slug":"open-thread-june-14-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/15\/open-thread-june-14-2024-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 15 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Daily Beast had an article titled &#8220;Who Will Live Longer\u2014Trump or Biden?&#8221; My immedaite response was &#8220;your answer to that depends on whether you believe in science, or in the folk belief that evil lives longer.&#8221; And then I thought, no, it won&#8217;t really. Because the same people who believe folktales are true are the ones who think TFG is good.&#8221; So, either eay, the answer is Biden. And Robert Reich&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/debunking-myth-3-the-rich-deserve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DEBUNK Episode 3<\/a> was published.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/mesa-county-is-still-reeling-from-election-denying-county-clerk-tina-peters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tina Peters<\/a> is not what I would like to see from Colorado in national news. Not that this story is directly about her, but it&#8217;s about what Mesa County is doing to attempt to move on from her, and her name is the one that leaps out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erininthemorning.com\/p\/trans-woman-and-computer-pioneer?utm_source=substack&amp;publication_id=994764&amp;post_id=145571911&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\">For Pride Month<\/a>, here&#8217;s an article about the life (and death at 86) of a transgender woman to whom we all owe gratitude if we ever use anything involving microchips. I don&#8217;t ecpect her legacy to impress any gender bigots, of course, but I also don&#8217;t expecct any of them to be reading this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UFjXFN7FuEU?si=pYonyPx0j26pc9qL\" 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\/b_mYMoe9uEI?si=bBP_gvXv4DGtKD4W\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/unnatural.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/unnatural.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/unnatural-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/unnatural-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Daily Beast had an article titled &#8220;Who Will Live Longer\u2014Trump or Biden?&#8221; My immedaite response was &#8220;your answer to that depends on whether you believe in science, or in the folk belief that evil lives longer.&#8221; And then I thought, no, it won&#8217;t really. Because the same people who believe folktales are true <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/15\/open-thread-june-14-2024-2\/' 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":[5745,4355,4553,3723,3781,5713,3902,5299,4276,4740],"class_list":["post-54650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-age","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-climate-change","tag-elections","tag-ivf","tag-lgbtqia","tag-reptiles","tag-texas","tag-transgender","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\/54650","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=54650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54650\/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=54650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}