{"id":55169,"date":"2024-09-13T06:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T13:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55169"},"modified":"2024-09-12T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T23:19:31","slug":"open-thread-september-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/open-thread-september-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 13 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I came across a just-under-six-minute presentation by <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8VdFM1sExuA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anonymous<\/a> on Christian nationalism &#8211; in the Christian nationalists&#8217; own words. It&#8217;s pretty awful. But it should get as wide exposure as possible so that as many people as possible become aware of the real stakes in this election. All those people who are thinking about the economy, or womens&#8217; rights, or anything else, don&#8217;t get it. Sure, all those things are important. but Trump**II would destroy all of them and far more.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219450339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is encouraging<\/a>, and what really makes it so is the fact that the author at the source holds focus groups with swing voters.<\/p>\n<p>They are telling the same lies about Aurora, Colorado &#8211;\u00a0 but if Aurora has a four-generation journalist resident, he or she has not yet spoken up in the way that David Dewitt of the Ohio Capital Journal has. It&#8217;s highly personal and it is touching in a way thay MAGA Republicans can never hope to be (not that they would want to), and <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2024\/09\/09\/vance-yost-targeting-haitians-in-springfield-ohio-with-ignorant-fear-mongering-disturbs-me-deeply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kGbmvFkhBH0?si=iSy5I5uh1Tvj0xWC\" 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\/zQHJ0qgLXm8?si=U9F1NVclAGy6myfp\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/parasites.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/parasites.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/parasites-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/parasites-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I came across a just-under-six-minute presentation by Anonymous on Christian nationalism &#8211; in the Christian nationalists&#8217; own words. It&#8217;s pretty awful. But it should get as wide exposure as possible so that as many people as possible become aware of the real stakes in this election. All those people who are thinking about the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/open-thread-september-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":[4355,4111,4809,3734,3721,3717,4371,5955,5956],"class_list":["post-55169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-christian-nationalism","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-lies","tag-gop-violence","tag-infrastructure","tag-parasites","tag-swing-voters","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\/55169","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=55169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55169\/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=55169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}