{"id":54802,"date":"2024-07-13T06:08:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T13:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54802"},"modified":"2024-07-12T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T23:19:48","slug":"open-thread-july-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/13\/open-thread-july-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 13 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Robert Reich posted <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/debunking-myth-7-america-is-socialist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode #7 in his DEBUNK<\/a> series.\u00a0 Also, the New York Times <strong>finally<\/strong> nailed Trump** &#8211; in an opinion piece (SMH). At least it was the full board, and I have to admit they did it thoroughly. We don&#8217;t need to be told this. But you may know people who do. Not MAGAts, who won&#8217;t listen, but &#8220;independents&#8221; and &#8220;undecideds.&#8221; And people who have never heard of Project 2025 (Joyce herself ran into one of these a few days ago. She says she didn&#8217;t try to convey the full scope of it, but instead focused on a topic close to the person&#8217;s heart. This person was a naturalized citizen, so she focused on immigration.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/07\/11\/opinion\/editorials\/donald-trump-2024-unfit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k0.Qo1R.UjSVrQpHrHrX&amp;smid=url-share&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the gift link from Joyce Vance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marytrump.substack.com\/p\/job-opening-republican-vice-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Trump<\/a> makes some very sound points here. I hope that the American people are not too caught up in the hysteria to hear her message.<\/p>\n<p>Wonkette knows, and AOC knows, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/aoc-gonna-impeach-justices-thomas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that this won&#8217;t go anywhere<\/a> in the current House. But Wonkette also points out that that fact is &#8220;half her point.&#8221; I personally am more interested in the other half &#8211; but that&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V1IPYQGPD0Q?si=3AdthXIj9OT4JB6f\" 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\/rwE6nMRvRfo?si=R2R3We10wPuDe8sr\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bothsides.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bothsides.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bothsides-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bothsides-150x110.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Robert Reich posted Episode #7 in his DEBUNK series.\u00a0 Also, the New York Times finally nailed Trump** &#8211; in an opinion piece (SMH). At least it was the full board, and I have to admit they did it thoroughly. We don&#8217;t need to be told this. But you may know people who do. Not <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/13\/open-thread-july-13-2024\/' 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":[4355,4049,5105,5084,4531,3722,4643,5846,3792,5872],"class_list":["post-54802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-aoc","tag-both-sides","tag-citizenship","tag-dogs","tag-impeachment","tag-new-york-times","tag-project-2025","tag-robert-reich","tag-vice-presidency","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\/54802","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=54802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54802\/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=54802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}