{"id":55250,"date":"2024-09-30T05:59:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55250"},"modified":"2024-09-29T19:09:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T02:09:04","slug":"open-thread-september-30-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/open-thread-september-30-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 30 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Steve Schmidt posted a new &#8220;The Schmidt Storm,&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/the-schmidt-storm-indictments-endorsements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">print<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8CIP46W17Cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>. And Joyce Vance&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-7a9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Week Ahead<\/a>&#8221; is packed so full that I really can&#8217;t just summarize.<\/p>\n<p>I saved <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/how-elon-musk-threatens-national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this for Monday<\/a> hoping not to ruin anyone&#8217;s weekend. I know you&#8217;ve heard the expression that someone is someone else &#8220;on steroids.&#8221; Well, Musk is Donald Trump** with autism. I mean that as a figure of speech, of course, and yes, it is unfair to people on the autism spectrum. Except that most people on the spectrum do not resemble Trump** to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s not a soul here who doesn&#8217;t already know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/republicans-killing-dogs-hurting-threatening-animals_n_66f2fe29e4b0d04575631d0b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the facts here<\/a> already and the general principle\u00a0 intuitively. But intuition isn&#8217;t evidence, and it&#8217;s good to have evidence.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7w4HOuUnpKY?si=BHd7cFin2mSe3ha-\" 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\/wzmiQec6tXY?si=VNkXjCVvjwdtYogT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Back-in-the-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Back-in-the-Day.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Back-in-the-Day-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Back-in-the-Day-150x147.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Back-in-the-Day-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Back-in-the-Day-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Back-in-the-Day-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Back-in-the-Day-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Steve Schmidt posted a new &#8220;The Schmidt Storm,&#8221; in print and video. And Joyce Vance&#8217;s &#8220;The Week Ahead&#8221; is packed so full that I really can&#8217;t just summarize. I saved this for Monday hoping not to ruin anyone&#8217;s weekend. I know you&#8217;ve heard the expression that someone is someone else &#8220;on steroids.&#8221; Well, Musk <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/09\/30\/open-thread-september-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":[5971,4355,4743,4531,5952,3751,3748,5858],"class_list":["post-55250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-the-schmidt-storm","tag-animals","tag-capital-punishment","tag-dogs","tag-elon-musk","tag-gop-insanity","tag-racism","tag-the-courts","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\/55250","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=55250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55250\/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=55250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}