{"id":55202,"date":"2024-09-20T06:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55202"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T22:46:21","slug":"open-thread-september-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/20\/open-thread-september-20-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 20 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received a link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/19ejRy8vsMkM9cIH8mnb4tyOrSlrtDsEu\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">printable flyer (3-page pdf)<\/a> on Project 2025. It&#8217;s in plain English, and organizes the information by groups who will be most adversely affected, explaining how. (I am in all three of the top three groups, as I have realized for some time.) It could come in handy. I also received an email from <a href=\"https:\/\/senatorhickenlooper.substack.com\/p\/ivf-is-personal-for-me-its-jack-its\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my junior Senator (Hickenlooper)<\/a> &#8211; of course it was just a newsletter, but for a newsletter it was very personal indeed. I had not known that the Senator an his wife could not have had their son Jack without IVF. Funny how much more real it becomes when it&#8217;s someone you know, even if you haven&#8217;t even met them face to face. (Apologies for the name of the newsletter. Hick, a Denver businessman, has always fancied himself as a cowboy.) Of course the last thing that would occur to Republicans (at least the crazy ones) is that getting rid of vaccinations for childhood diseases is only going to lower the birth rate when those unvaccinated kids grow up, and the nation will be even more dependent on immigrants than it is now.<\/p>\n<p>I did see this poll, and it did upset me, and yet I&#8217;m not sure that it really sank in until I read <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/the-scripps-news-poll-that-should\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a>&#8216;s take on it. He&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s devastating.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/the-more-desperate-trump-gets-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lead article<\/a> is the one I am posting this link for. But feel free to read anything else below which catches your eye.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gaiuoowjTjs?si=TMGhDai1DssIVxLa\" 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\/W6iyF7-jQCQ?si=uvYf6VZ52hZu6OHO\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/immigrants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/immigrants.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/immigrants-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/immigrants-132x150.jpg 132w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/immigrants-768x874.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received a link to a printable flyer (3-page pdf) on Project 2025. It&#8217;s in plain English, and organizes the information by groups who will be most adversely affected, explaining how. (I am in all three of the top three groups, as I have realized for some time.) It could come in handy. I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/20\/open-thread-september-20-2024\/' 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":[4355,4592,4739,5121,3751,4069,5713,5961,5846],"class_list":["post-55202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-division","tag-fish","tag-gop-insanity","tag-immigration","tag-ivf","tag-mass-deportation","tag-project-2025","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\/55202","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=55202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55202\/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=55202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}