{"id":54993,"date":"2024-08-14T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54993"},"modified":"2024-08-13T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T00:51:07","slug":"open-thread-august-14-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/14\/open-thread-august-14-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 14 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn&#8217;t accomplish much. But I did accomplish what I wanted to, so I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s all right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219325293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yes, this is a video<\/a>. But it has CC and also (therefore) a transcript, which like all auto-generated transcript has some errors, but appears not too difficult to clean up. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Schaeffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Schaeffer<\/a> is an author, among other things (here&#8217;s his Wiki), and as such he gets advance copies of numerous books to review, and he got a copt of Kevin Roberts&#8217;s book (which now won&#8217;t be published until after the election &#8211; I would hope it would be fatal to the Trump** campaign if it were. But since Schaeffer knows &#8211; let him tell you.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7ubJFPJgL3Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is a video also<\/a>. It shows parts of a speech by Sean Fain, the leader of the UAW. It was made to be an ad, I presume on TV, so it doesn&#8217;t have CC, but it does have its own, so it is accurate. I did not plan for two videos today in addition to the normal two videos, but these two just captured me. Back to print tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9d8nEGdBU1w?si=x0TBw4xgU2HkTBiq\" 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\/X2PBqjqQr7k?si=-C6wv4KyGH_NvzTs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/weather-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn&#8217;t accomplish much. But I did accomplish what I wanted to, so I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s all right. Yes, this is a video. But it has CC and also (therefore) a transcript, which like all auto-generated transcript has some errors, but appears not too difficult to clean up. Frank Schaeffer is an author, among <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/14\/open-thread-august-14-2024\/' 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":[4355,4531,5917,5905,4792],"class_list":["post-54993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-jd-vance","tag-tim-walz","tag-weather","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\/54993","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=54993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54993\/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=54993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}