{"id":54957,"date":"2024-08-07T05:56:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T12:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54957"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T00:40:08","slug":"open-thread-august-7-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/07\/open-thread-august-7-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 7 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the exterminator came, and my rep is still out on family leave. The replacement didn&#8217;t kow whether it was a boy or a girl,so I asked him to take both to the office for the new dad and tell him to just keep the other one for the next addition. I may not have any childen of my own, but I still have a by God commitment to the future.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Schmidt has a new video title: <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/introducing-the-schmidt-storm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Schmidt Storm&#8221;<\/a> I don&#8217;t know whether he plans on changing the name of his column or if this is just for the election &#8211; heaven knows it would fit either way. About this first use, he says &#8220;In the first edition of \u201cThe Schmidt Storm&#8221;, I answer your questions about the post-Trump Republican party, battling negative Kamala Harris narratives and preparing for another MAGA loss&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This story from <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2024\/08\/border-czar-kamala-harris-immigration-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 19th<\/a> was reproduced from Politifact. I couldn&#8217;t find it there (probably just didn&#8217;t have the patience), but I did want to point out that the &#8220;we&#8221; in the last sentence is &#8220;we at PolitiFact.&#8221; not &#8220;we at The 19th.&#8221;\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know about the 19th, but personally, I would rate it &#8220;Pants on Fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vgTNXH-jdBQ?si=lh_BI8QS5lbqChk5\" 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\/MqJ-5iLYsJE?si=DahZEkftbs3fp1uG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Walz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Walz.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Walz-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Walz-138x150.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the exterminator came, and my rep is still out on family leave. The replacement didn&#8217;t kow whether it was a boy or a girl,so I asked him to take both to the office for the new dad and tell him to just keep the other one for the next addition. I may not have <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/07\/open-thread-august-7-2024\/' 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":[4355,4553,4111,5906,4069,3941,5905],"class_list":["post-54957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-cats","tag-gop-weirdness","tag-immigration","tag-kamala-harris","tag-tim-walz","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\/54957","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=54957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54957\/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=54957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}