{"id":55375,"date":"2024-10-21T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55375"},"modified":"2024-10-20T16:57:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T23:57:47","slug":"open-thread-october-21-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/21\/open-thread-october-21-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 21 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and of course we plauyed cribbage\u00a0 We had quite a mix of hands, from terrible to meh to good to great.\u00a0 The drive was easy both ways.\u00a0 I decided to get off the interstate this time at the same exit I always get onfor the return trip, and that worked very well.\u00a0 This aftermoon I have someone coming to switch over my phone and internet service; I did not initiate this, but CenturyLink who has done both for me formore than a decade at least is getting out of local internet and quite possible phone service as well, and this is who they chose to recommend as a replacement.\u00a0 I&#8217;m dreading it &#8211; i already put it off for over a month\u00a0 But the day is now here.\u00a0 Wish me luck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/10\/doj-monitor-votes-county-where-sheriff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars<\/a> picked this story up. It may not make headlines, but maybe it should. Not that the DOJ has enough staff to go into every county &#8211; or even just every county with a MAGA Sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>I almost put this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/missouri-kansas-and-idaho-are-suing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wonkette<\/a> into my intro because I&#8217;m speechless.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xzEJ5rOfXz0?si=fGMANU4SzZSkKF7n\" 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\/1dbUlzMXHD8?si=oWuSFRBfWA3ZPYpy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/undecided.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/undecided.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/undecided-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/undecided-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/undecided-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and of course we plauyed cribbage\u00a0 We had quite a mix of hands, from terrible to meh to good to great.\u00a0 The drive was easy both ways.\u00a0 I decided to get off the interstate this time at the same exit I always get onfor the return trip, and that worked very <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/21\/open-thread-october-21-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,4531,3765,4373,5839,5738,5999,4949,5205,6000],"class_list":["post-55375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-dogs","tag-election-theft","tag-first-amendment","tag-idaho","tag-kansas","tag-maga-sheriffs","tag-missouri","tag-speaker-of-the-house","tag-teen-pregnancy","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\/55375","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=55375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55375\/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=55375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}