{"id":54988,"date":"2024-08-13T06:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54988"},"modified":"2024-08-12T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T00:02:30","slug":"open-thread-august-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/13\/open-thread-august-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 13 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Tina Peters was convicted on 7 (out of 10) charges, 4 of which were felonies. Ten out of ten would have been perfect &#8211; but this is pretty good. Since I didn&#8217;t follow the exact charges, it may be very good. Certainly it makes her a felon, and convicted felons can&#8217;t vote, until (and unless) they have completely satisfies all obligations imposed (such as parole successfully completed and no unpaid fines.) She will likely appeal, and want to vote while it&#8217;s pemding, and i don&#8217;t know what the rule is on that. Also, she can&#8217;t legally leave the country (most other countries would not have her anyway) until all obligations are satisfied. And she probably knows all that, but may still get a few surprises.<\/p>\n<p>Nice for me to have <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalread.substack.com\/p\/political-reporters-should-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">someone whose job is to evaluate the media<\/a> saying what I&#8217;ve been saying for years: &#8220;fair&#8221; and &#8220;balance&#8221; are not only not synonyms, they&#8217;re virtual antonyms when one &#8220;side&#8221; lies constantly and the other is a struthful as it possibly can be. That does a real disservice to viewers who just want to know what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Roberts&#8217;s (the architect of Project 2025) book has been postponed, and will now not be published in September but in November, after the election. But I hope and believe it&#8217;s too late for that. The full project, over 900 pages, has been made public on the internet, and just about everywhere you turn, you&#8217;ll see someone else (with credentials) offering to explain the worst parts of it. And now, even their secret training videos have been exposed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro Publica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NEJYBE6ljNc?si=v3QR5TSKAUcgWIQ3\" 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\/7vz2PB803Q8?si=5hSeJXnniZyCnpqB\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SwBoat-g-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Tina Peters was convicted on 7 (out of 10) charges, 4 of which were felonies. Ten out of ten would have been perfect &#8211; but this is pretty good. Since I didn&#8217;t follow the exact charges, it may be very good. Certainly it makes her a felon, and convicted felons can&#8217;t vote, until (and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/13\/open-thread-august-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":[4355,4111,4344,5915,3775,4354,4115,5904,5846,5916,3766],"class_list":["post-54988","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-fairness-doctrine","tag-foreign-policy","tag-journalism","tag-justice","tag-prisoner-exchange","tag-project-2025","tag-tina-peters","tag-voting-rights","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\/54988","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=54988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54988\/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=54988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}