{"id":55003,"date":"2024-08-16T05:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55003"},"modified":"2024-08-15T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T22:50:01","slug":"open-thread-august-16-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/16\/open-thread-august-16-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 16 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wondered whether anyone who comes here lives in Chicago. Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/sunday-in-the-bar-i-think-it-will\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette is having a sort of party<\/a> there on Sunday. I believe there will be snacks, and I&#8217;m certain there will be drinks. (If they were bringing their own bartender, there would be drinks you did not know existed. I&#8217;ve read some of his recipes and he is a perfectionist. But they&#8217;re not. So it will be mostly beer.) It will be between 5 and 7:30 PM in the bar of the Kaiser Tiger. Details here. Also, Tim Walz&#8217;s dog Scout is on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/tim-walz-dogue-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cover of Vogue&#8217;s September issue<\/a>, Also, too my stuff got picked p &#8211; so my porch is cleared and ready for more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/kamalaconomics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> on what Harris could do as President to make the economy better. Yes, it gets a bit technical. But it&#8217;s Robert Reich, so it&#8217;s clearly explained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/reports-investigations\/crew-investigations\/election-certification-under-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)<\/a> has done an investigation of the Republican plan to infiltrate state election systems with themselves in order to refuse to certify elections they don&#8217;t like the results of. I&#8217;ve seen stories on this, and I&#8217;m sure you have too, but nothing beats an investigation report from a responsible citizens&#8217; group. You do have to use the &#8220;download&#8221; button in order to read it. It downloads as a PDF and does so very rapidly, and it requires less than 7MB of disc space.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8Sufwt3KVg?si=8OCvQpdKAQEEf6-n\" 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\/yLmeJTfzl_I?si=sDYyR8rpBCl3Hzw9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/voteu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/voteu.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/voteu-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/voteu-124x150.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I wondered whether anyone who comes here lives in Chicago. Because Wonkette is having a sort of party there on Sunday. I believe there will be snacks, and I&#8217;m certain there will be drinks. (If they were bringing their own bartender, there would be drinks you did not know existed. I&#8217;ve read some of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/16\/open-thread-august-16-2024\/' 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":[4355,4553,4111,5919,4531,5914,5918,3928],"class_list":["post-55003","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-dnc-convention","tag-dogs","tag-gop-shenanigams","tag-presidential-debates","tag-vote-blue","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\/55003","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=55003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55003\/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=55003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}