{"id":55331,"date":"2024-10-14T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55331"},"modified":"2024-10-13T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:32:17","slug":"open-thread-october-14-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/14\/open-thread-october-14-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 14 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came over and moved a bunch of stuff for recyclables, trash, and sharity, so that I have &#8220;traffic lanes&#8221; again. And she brought in all the mail, which included my ballot, which arrived Saturday (I thought it might, though it was just sent Friday.) She also showed me some pictures from her trip to Portugal last year and of her family. Her mother is as beautiful as she is (and she is names after her mother, Trina &#8211; Trinette means &#8220;little Trina,&#8221; which is ironic considering how tall she is.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure exactly what the author means by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/kamala-harris-medicare-home-care-attention_n_67094dc3e4b0f3da6456d7f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;the political set.&#8221;<\/a> It could mean politicians and their staffs. It could mean people who are outside of politics, but read about it and discuss it because they darned well want to know what they are voting for &#8211; or against. It could also mean that segment of the media which concentrates on politics. Or any combination of those three. If there&#8217;s one group there which really should be listening to &#8220;ordinary people,&#8221; though, it&#8217;s the politicians. Politicians represent ordinary people, and therefore should always be listening to them.<\/p>\n<p>The entire newsletter from <a href=\"https:\/\/inthepublicinterest.org\/the-christian-nationalism-behind-school-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In The Public Interest<\/a> is in this newsletter, but I&#8217;m sharing for just the first article (feel free to read on.) There is a great meme on this topic which I&#8217;ll share as today&#8217;s cartoon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EEs3nUSkJtM?si=vNe96J2vUOvkyd1h\" 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\/ycvPTr7meOA?si=xJ45_2m19tZ_s6fG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers.png 642w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/vouchers-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came over and moved a bunch of stuff for recyclables, trash, and sharity, so that I have &#8220;traffic lanes&#8221; again. And she brought in all the mail, which included my ballot, which arrived Saturday (I thought it might, though it was just sent Friday.) She also showed me some pictures from her trip <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/14\/open-thread-october-14-2024\/' 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":[5991,4355,4553,4531,3915,3781,3941,5990,5755],"class_list":["post-55331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-the-political-set","tag-animals","tag-campaign-2026","tag-dogs","tag-education","tag-elections","tag-kamala-harris","tag-ordinary-people","tag-school-vouchers","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\/55331","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=55331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55331\/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=55331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}