{"id":55181,"date":"2024-09-16T14:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55181"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:28:31","slug":"open-thread-september-16-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/open-thread-september-16-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 16 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the first day of National Hispanic Heritage month. It will run through October 15.\u00a0 \u00a0Also yestrday, I got so involved in cleaning up my work area that I forgot to pre-post this. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m fine &#8211; and I&#8217;m also making progres though i may be the only one who can really see it.<\/p>\n<p>My district tried running a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/sarah-mcbride-is-trans-shes-badass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trans woman<\/a> candidate a few elections ago &#8230; I suppose it was worth a try, after we failed twice to elect a moderate Dem white male veteran, but I never expected it to succeed, and it didn&#8217;t. It looks like Delaware has a much better chance of succeeding, and I hope it does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/karl-roves-take-on-tuesdays-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> apologizes for quoting Karl Rove. But I&#8217;d say no apology is needed. I felt no need to apologize for sharing quotes from Liz and later from Dick Cheney when they endorsed Harris. This article isn&#8217;t quite that good, but it&#8217;s good to know this is what he thinks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gOq1KF7ig8?si=JxuvktqOfq-hvq5B\" 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\/iVJyVQ4uT8s?si=pyc-o3rPBrI8b6RJ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/No.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/No.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/No-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/No-150x130.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the first day of National Hispanic Heritage month. It will run through October 15.\u00a0 \u00a0Also yestrday, I got so involved in cleaning up my work area that I forgot to pre-post this. Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m fine &#8211; and I&#8217;m also making progres though i may be the only one who can really see <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/open-thread-september-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":[4355,4553,4531,5275,5959,3902],"class_list":["post-55181","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-anomaly","tag-hispanic-heritage-month","tag-lgbtqia","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\/55181","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=55181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55181\/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=55181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}