{"id":55377,"date":"2024-10-22T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55377"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:52:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T23:52:45","slug":"open-thread-october-22-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/22\/open-thread-october-22-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 22 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The technician came to install what was necessary for the phone and internet to work.\u00a0 He arrived exactly at the start of the time window I was given, and I think finished up a little early. So I am actually typing on a windows 10 desktop.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t promise to stay on Windows 10 (not, I suppose, that there&#8217;s any difference readers could see), but most of my information is now on both computers (technically, on separate portable hard drive of which each has one, and yes, I did that in advance and it took forever,) so I can start transitioning in earnest.\u00a0 Also, I received 2 emails from the Election Department &#8211; first that my ballot was received, and the second that it had been counted. Yippee:\u00a0 I can put up that &#8220;I voted&#8221; sticker now11\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/october-18-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Cox Richardson<\/a> writes about control of the Senate &#8211; why it&#8217;s so important, how it is determined, how the 2024 election could affect it, what the Republican Party is doing to influence the election, how events in the 1890&#8217;s led to the passage of the 17th Amendment, and why the events of that decade resemble events today.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I started a subscription to the newsletter of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/new-report-cracks-mystery-of-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F*cking News<\/a>&#8221; whose motto is something like &#8220;If you prefer your news delivered with profanity, this is the news for you.&#8221; I can take or leave profanity, but I do like the attitudes and world views which lead journalists to use profanity, so I thought I&#8217;d give it a go. This report which headlines my first newsletter from them (and also the page to which it links &#8211; they are apparently using old print newspapers&#8217; quaint habit of putting multiple unrelated articles on the same page) doesn&#8217;t have much profanity but it is chock full of attitude, and presents demonstrable facts from a perspective of the appropriate reaction to them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YjYpisHyg9I?si=i2rTp8gr8RT-uVIZ\" 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\/n8gGNCgL1Mo?si=2gjCImWOaPXYC5dv\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Seuss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Seuss.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Seuss-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Seuss-150x135.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The technician came to install what was necessary for the phone and internet to work.\u00a0 He arrived exactly at the start of the time window I was given, and I think finished up a little early. So I am actually typing on a windows 10 desktop.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t promise to stay on Windows 10 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/22\/open-thread-october-22-2024\/' 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":[4355,6002,6001,4531,5129,3866,6003,3811,3844],"class_list":["post-55377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-assassinations","tag-brain-parasites","tag-dogs","tag-evidence","tag-history","tag-mystery-of-maga","tag-personal","tag-senate","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\/55377","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=55377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55377\/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=55377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}