{"id":54942,"date":"2024-08-04T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T13:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54942"},"modified":"2024-08-03T15:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T22:27:18","slug":"open-thread-august-4-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/04\/open-thread-august-4-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 4 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my Informed Delivery email showed a note from Paul Whelan in my mailbox. I&#8217;ll be picking it up today. I can&#8217;t imagine how many notes were sent to him that he wasn&#8217;t allowed to answer (or maybe even to see.) I hope (and kind of assume) he has people helping him to answer every single one. I&#8217;m so glad he&#8217;s home (and of course the others.) I gather Kamala had a big part in the dilomacy, though I haven&#8217;t (as I type) seen any details yet (too busy listening to the opera &#8211;\u00a0 Berlioz &#8220;Damnation of Faust&#8221;). If you see any details on that before I can post, feel free to share in a comment.<br \/>\nAlso &#8211; I don&#8217;t intend to start adding commentary on Beau as a regular thing. But if you ever watch him at all, do so today. If you don&#8217;t, the next time you do, you will think that either he or I, or maybe both, have lost our collective minds. That&#8217;s not actually the case.<\/p>\n<p>Weekends tend to be slim pickings. But this is as good a <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/maintaining-momentum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summary of the week<\/a> (actually the last two weeks) as you are likely to find. And if you&#8217;re interested in astronomy, don&#8217;t leave the page without scrolling to the bottom. I am pretty sure he is no relation to the telescope (it&#8217;s not even spelled the same) but I did wonder.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be extremely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219276984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good news<\/a>. I have a lot of respect for retired Judge Luttig. Of course, he&#8217;s 70, which means he&#8217;s not only old enough to remember when there were Republicans with honor &#8211; he&#8217;s old enough to be one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UWyPPw6vv8M?si=aOhUXEztUcOIlQwe\" 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\/lvvnR4Gu1lM?si=lCCKODKAbvUD94FO\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/candy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/candy.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/candy-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/candy-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/candy-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/candy-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/candy-1536x1093.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my Informed Delivery email showed a note from Paul Whelan in my mailbox. I&#8217;ll be picking it up today. I can&#8217;t imagine how many notes were sent to him that he wasn&#8217;t allowed to answer (or maybe even to see.) I hope (and kind of assume) he has people helping him to answer every <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/04\/open-thread-august-4-2024\/' 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":[],"class_list":["post-54942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","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\/54942","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=54942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54942\/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=54942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}