{"id":54924,"date":"2024-08-02T06:12:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54924"},"modified":"2024-08-01T17:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T00:09:35","slug":"open-thread-august-2-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/02\/open-thread-august-2-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 2 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was schedued to get a maintenance visit from the exterminator. But his wife went into labor, so they postponed it until Tuesday. Well, that will give me time to see whether I can find a pair of baby booties. I almost certainly can. But in case I can&#8217;t, I know I can find a sweater.Also, I replaced the pads on the bottom of my mouse, which works just fine but has been driving me nuts with the way it moves over the desk.\u00a0 I knew there was a reason I had been saving those scraps of fuzzy Contact paper.\u00a0 It works so smoothely and quietly now.\u00a0 Oh, and the news was released that 3 prisoners of Russia are being released and returning to the US, and one of them is Paul Whelan!\u00a0 Did you write to him when his brother asked people to do so?\u00a0 I did, and even printed some labels because I don&#8217;t expect even American to read my 79 year old writing with ease, let alone Russians.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever been as happy to be recycling something as I am recycling those which are left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2024\/07\/31\/former-mesa-county-clerk-tina-peters-heads-to-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tina Peters&#8217;s trial<\/a> started this week. CPR posted an article on the back story of how she got here. She&#8217;s really creepy (a word I personally prefer to &#8220;weird,&#8221; because good weird exists &#8211; but good creepy does not).\u00a0 Apparently the evidence will remove any lingering suspicion that her actions might have been impulsive.\u00a0 I wonder how many like her there are in how many states.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t often send you to <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/jd-vances-war-on-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> these days, but this time he was the first (at least the first I have seen) to tie JD Vance to Himmler, and I find it convincing (and, of course, frightening.)\u00a0 Himmler was almost certainly smarter.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s not necessary to be smart to do monumental damage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSBhd_VHUi0?si=inw3ZbVpibbjZUT_\" 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\/REKacNeDOqk?si=8MfDaA2riVNybmot\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54933\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/teead.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/teead.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/teead-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/teead-150x112.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was schedued to get a maintenance visit from the exterminator. But his wife went into labor, so they postponed it until Tuesday. Well, that will give me time to see whether I can find a pair of baby booties. I almost certainly can. But in case I can&#8217;t, I know I can find <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/02\/open-thread-august-2-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,4344,3765,3811,3972],"class_list":["post-54924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-colorado","tag-election-theft","tag-personal","tag-scotus","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\/54924","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=54924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54924\/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=54924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}