{"id":55436,"date":"2024-10-28T06:06:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55436"},"modified":"2024-10-27T18:20:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:20:42","slug":"open-thread-october-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/28\/open-thread-october-28-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 28 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by &#8211; besides the normal help with mail, trash, and rcyclables, she also helped with hangin up some drapes which I had finally gotten all the stuff preventing access pout of the way, helpedn me get an old fashined monitor (one of the big ones &#8211; remember those?) out of a corner so I can tie it up and put a handle on it, and took in for a refund a product which was an unauthorized substitution (and I already have the email that it&#8217;s processing)\u00a0 I&#8217;m short of sleep &#8211; but I did mange to lie down for six hours las night and get up without being crippled.\u00a0 Sorry yesterday&#8217;s went up so late in the day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty well useless when I&#8217;m not getting sleep.<\/p>\n<p>As a child, <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/henry-wallace-and-american-fascism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> had the privilege of meeting Henry Wallace (FDR&#8217;s VP in his third term.) He was so young at the time that he didn&#8217;t appreciate it them. But he does now. It&#8217;s interesting how often in history political figures have been put into place because the inseen party powers believed that those figures could be controlled by them &#8211; for good and for bad. Sometimes it has worked, and sometimes not.<\/p>\n<p>At eight days before the election, I&#8217;m glad this film (64 Days) in <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/jan-6-never-ended-and-is-still-ongoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Point Memo<\/a>&#8216;s report has comeout,but hope it isn&#8217;t too little, too late.<\/p>\n<p>Belle gotcha<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8baOCsEOGI?si=2oMGAgxvV13slPnA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cat<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOLvUrQXAQ8?si=awtjfIqwcyO0IxH7\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TorT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TorT.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TorT-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TorT-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TorT-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TorT-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by &#8211; besides the normal help with mail, trash, and rcyclables, she also helped with hangin up some drapes which I had finally gotten all the stuff preventing access pout of the way, helpedn me get an old fashined monitor (one of the big ones &#8211; remember those?) out of a corner <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/28\/open-thread-october-28-2024\/' 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":[6010,4355,4111,3866,3725,4268,6011,3792],"class_list":["post-55436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-gotcha-questions","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-history","tag-holiday","tag-insurrection","tag-january-6","tag-robert-reich","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\/55436","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=55436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55436\/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=55436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}