{"id":55629,"date":"2024-11-25T06:09:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55629"},"modified":"2024-11-24T22:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T06:09:52","slug":"open-thread-november-25-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/25\/open-thread-november-25-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 25 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday,\u00a0 I got my internet back, but only on one computer, not the one I usually use for this.\u00a0 It had ben down since Friday, and so were my phones.\u00a0 SO I didn&#8217;t hear the opera Saturday, since for the summer season (which is for one more week now) I need the internet &#8211; no internet, no opera.\u00a0 Fortunately it&#8217;s one I know well, and some time ago I even downloaded an old recording of it.\u00a0 And on December 7 the Met season starts, and my local radio station carries that.\u00a0 Anyway, I&#8217;ve been struggling all weekend with trying to reach my provider, and this is my first chance to post.\u00a0 I hope things are better with all of you than they have been this weekend.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s just the electronics, not me, which are ill.\u00a0 I&#8217;m fine physically,\u00a0 I have all my meds now and am taking them<\/p>\n<p>With the one exception that this uses the term &#8220;Christianity&#8221; and &#8220;Christian&#8221; where it should use &#8220;Christian Nationalism&#8221; and &#8220;Christian Nationalist,&#8221; this article is as good a portrait of the Republican concept of education as you are ever likely to see. Yes, there&#8217;s a lot of profanity in it. That&#8217;s just how <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/why-theyre-really-gonna-kill-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a> rolls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marytrump.org\/p\/cruelty-as-tactic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Trump<\/a>&#8216;s observation that cruelty is the point is not new, but it&#8217;s at least as accurate as it ever was. And there is no simple answer (in fact, there&#8217;s more than one complex answer &#8211; probably as many of those as there are people on earth) to the question, &#8220;Once a person gets into that mindset, how can they get out of it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ldv5QiWRdgI?si=SH2oe4_PbCLsptzV\" 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\/QHE30Pa7soA?si=KhymN1WTejDgUuqT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/wall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/wall.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/wall-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/wall-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Claudia is saying, &#8220;You know what, we will pay for that wall after all!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday,\u00a0 I got my internet back, but only on one computer, not the one I usually use for this.\u00a0 It had ben down since Friday, and so were my phones.\u00a0 SO I didn&#8217;t hear the opera Saturday, since for the summer season (which is for one more week now) I need the internet &#8211; no <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/25\/open-thread-november-25-2024\/' 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":[5631,4355,4111,4809,3712,3775,3811],"class_list":["post-55629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-the-wall","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-christian-nationalism","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-personal","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\/55629","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=55629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55629\/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=55629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}