{"id":55587,"date":"2024-11-19T05:57:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55587"},"modified":"2024-11-18T17:57:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T01:57:19","slug":"open-thread-november-19-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/19\/open-thread-november-19-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 19 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was stressed out by the feeling that everything I did or wanted to do was fighting with me. So I&#8217;ll likely be brief in my comments on the articles I post. Honestly, I just feel exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/trumps-first-buddy-is-in-deep-shit<br \/>\nRobert Reich reports Elno is calling himself&#8217; Trump**&#8217;s &#8220;first buddy.&#8221; Without comment on intellectual intelligence which Elno may or may not possess, it&#8217;s been clear for some time that his EQ (Emotional intelligence quotient) is a single digit.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-democracy-index<br \/>\nJoyce Vance lays out how she plans to chronicle this Trump** administration (differently from the wayshe did so last time) in hope of minimizing distractions. I&#8217;m not sure she realizes that it&#8217;s not just the media, or MAGA, or Putin, who are actively working to distract us. When I dug out the Windows 10 laptop earlier ths year, and again when I dug out the Windows 10 desktop, I literally spent over a week on each one just uninstalling distractions. And I have not yet finished on either &#8211; I just got to a point where I could cope. But now both are getting worse. Please note too that uninstalling some of this is in no way obvious -but the amount of links providing instructions on how to do so (not all of which even work, which is part of the issue) suggests that I am far from alone in not wanting to be distracted by crap I will never use.<\/p>\n<p>Belle 4 Tuesday<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yxl9Km-Gv9o?si=RxuvXluwdERPYClM\" 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\/SKGg-2_75Vk?si=XSl7jDasvGjGMrCE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Forbes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Forbes.png 748w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Forbes-264x300.png 264w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Forbes-132x150.png 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was stressed out by the feeling that everything I did or wanted to do was fighting with me. So I&#8217;ll likely be brief in my comments on the articles I post. Honestly, I just feel exhausted. https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/trumps-first-buddy-is-in-deep-shit Robert Reich reports Elno is calling himself&#8217; Trump**&#8217;s &#8220;first buddy.&#8221; Without comment on intellectual intelligence which <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/19\/open-thread-november-19-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,3723,4676,6058,3746,3751,3705],"class_list":["post-55587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-climate-change","tag-democracy","tag-distraction","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-resist","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\/55587","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=55587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55587\/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=55587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}