{"id":55563,"date":"2024-11-18T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55563"},"modified":"2024-11-17T21:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T05:21:48","slug":"open-thread-november-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/18\/open-thread-november-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 18 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played cribbage.\u00a0 It was an interesting visit in that it really showed how unpredictable his mental acuity is &#8211; it&#8217;s all over the place.\u00a0 There were time I had to remind him how many cards he should deal us.\u00a0 But there was also a moment when I was telling him I had started going through my costume jewelry, including watches, of which I discovered I had way more than I thought of basically disposable watches which I hadn&#8217;t disposed of.\u00a0 He asked how many, and I said I hadn&#8217;t counted but at least two dozen, maybe as much as three or even four dozen, and he responded, &#8220;Wow!\u00a0 You sure had a lot of time on your hands!&#8221;\u00a0 All in all it was a great visit, and the drive was good both ways.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bbF4uWeL88\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/trumps-not-hitler-hes-stalin-were-back-in-the-ussr\/\">Trump&#8217;s Not Hitler He&#8217;s Stalin. We&#8217;re Back In the USSR<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Trump&#8217;s Not Hitler He&#8217;s Stalin. We&#8217;re Back In the USSR&#8221; &#8212; PolitiZoom\" src=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/trumps-not-hitler-hes-stalin-were-back-in-the-ussr\/embed\/#?secret=N3d6zOzJwg#?secret=bbF4uWeL88\" data-secret=\"bbF4uWeL88\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is from PolitiZoom. I don&#8217;t know that I 100% agree, but it surely is interesting speculation. When I think of Stalin, I think of anecdote such as Dmitri Shostakovich keeping a suitcase by his front door every night so that then the secret police came to get him in the middle of the night, he would at least be ready with a few small comforts. Definitely something to think about.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/new-zealand-maori-lawmakers-give<br \/>\nWonkette picked up this delightful story. If the two articles I picked for Sunday did not complement each other so well, I might have kicked this up to Sunday. But we need enthusiasm on Mondays too. The Maori haka is sacred to the Maori. We could use something like that (I&#8217;m not advocating cultural appropriation, nd I don&#8217;t mean exactly hakas, but something which might function the same way. Doktor Zoom suggests Jasmine Crockett might provide suggestions.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dBEBHwhjNH0?si=sk65-3X5T6qxHufd\" 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\/ECbw85TNkqQ?si=cWtWwg7tssn80OPt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/axis.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I saw Virgil and we played cribbage.\u00a0 It was an interesting visit in that it really showed how unpredictable his mental acuity is &#8211; it&#8217;s all over the place.\u00a0 There were time I had to remind him how many cards he should deal us.\u00a0 But there was also a moment when I was telling <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/18\/open-thread-november-18-2024\/' 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":[5],"tags":[4355,3723,4531,6055,3746,3709,6054,6051,6056,6057],"class_list":["post-55563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-climate-change","tag-dogs","tag-enthusiasm","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-humor","tag-joy","tag-resistance","tag-stalin","tag-ussr","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\/55563","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=55563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55563\/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=55563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}