{"id":55078,"date":"2024-08-30T05:53:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55078"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T23:59:43","slug":"open-thread-august-30-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/30\/open-thread-august-30-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 30 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I came across a new Randy Rainbow, and this time I can&#8217;t cut the ad for Groun News without losing content. But after his last video, I looked it up, and it really isn&#8217;t bad. I can see why he and Trey both like it. Even without a subscription, it a lot franker than the MSM. Anyway, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EyQ2MLldGRI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link to Randy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see by her title, <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/august-27-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> wrote this late on Tuesday (and I saw it Wednesday.) Very little of it was actually news even then. But it&#8217;s a nice potpourri of things that happened and what an eventful week it was, even as early as Tuesday. If you haven&#8217;t already fastened your psychological seat belts, this might be a good time to do so.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very much not a fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2024\/08\/27\/colorado-idaho-springs-doberman-dog-breeder-killed-missing-puppies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">puppy mills<\/a>, and I can&#8217;t believe that anyone here would be. But murdering a breeder is a couple of bridges too far. And if someone crossed that bridge, and took those puppies, you can bet any important body part that he or she didn&#8217;t do it to rescue them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i6MWOoZguME?si=aUKqM1epABihSZga\" 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\/Si0P5CmgiwU?si=gTcN3y4PvMoaCIR-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Drop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Drop.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Drop-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Drop-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I came across a new Randy Rainbow, and this time I can&#8217;t cut the ad for Groun News without losing content. But after his last video, I looked it up, and it really isn&#8217;t bad. I can see why he and Trey both like it. Even without a subscription, it a lot franker than <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/08\/30\/open-thread-august-30-2024\/' 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":[4355,4553,4531,3736,3866,5941,4926,4276],"class_list":["post-55078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-dogs","tag-gop-greed","tag-history","tag-news-roundup","tag-randy-rainbow","tag-texas","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\/55078","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=55078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55078\/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=55078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}