{"id":55635,"date":"2024-11-28T05:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55635"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T01:23:27","slug":"open-thread-november-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/28\/open-thread-november-28-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 28 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, for a change, I caught up on my email. That doesn&#8217;t mean I didn&#8217;t find anything in my inbox this morning, of course.\u00a0 I hope the featured image doesn&#8217;t squish today.\u00a0 I tripped over the quote, from a survivor of the Holocaust, but finding the right background and getting the quote into the right place took time.\u00a0 Just in case:\u00a0 &#8220;I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving the worst conditions conceivable<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t going to post anything about Matt Gaetz following his dropout, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/11\/22\/resistance-is-not-futile-matt-gaetzs-implosion-shows-how-magas-chaos-can-be-turned-against\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amanda Marcotte<\/a> used him as our poster boy to help us decide exactly what to oppose and exactly how to oppose it. Of course at this point I don&#8217;t suppose anyone ia 100% correct on that (though there probably are some who are 100% wrong), but Amanda Marcotte writes well and makes a good case. There isn&#8217;t a pay wall, but there is an ad blocker wall. You can keep the trackers blocked.<\/p>\n<p>You may have already heard this from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/biden-lock-blocks-entire-trump-transition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a>, but maybe not said so well, and maybe not in quite as much detail. This would not be the only thing where what&#8217;s floating around is not 100% accurate. In fact, I used one yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to get <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthubbell.substack.com\/p\/short-holiday-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this up<\/a> for the holiday because is is something I have been concerned about for a while now off and on, and maybe you have also &#8211; conservatives pushing an Article V convention. In fact, I&#8217;m going to quote a couple of sentences: &#8220;Two bodies can <em><strong>propose<\/strong><\/em> constitutional amendments: Congress or a \u201cconvention of the states\u201d called under Article V of the Constitution. But regardless of which body proposes a constitutional amendment, an amendment does not become effective until it is <em><strong>ratified<\/strong><\/em> by three-fourths of the state legislatures (38). Accordingly, any <em><strong>13 state legislatures<\/strong><\/em> can block ratification of a constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y6ttdQbLdXA?si=G_wEUBJYz9UgImxr\" 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\/vOLvUrQXAQ8?si=fdaCcOTme83srTHz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/T-day.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/T-day.png 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/T-day-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/T-day-150x108.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, for a change, I caught up on my email. That doesn&#8217;t mean I didn&#8217;t find anything in my inbox this morning, of course.\u00a0 I hope the featured image doesn&#8217;t squish today.\u00a0 I tripped over the quote, from a survivor of the Holocaust, but finding the right background and getting the quote into the right <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/28\/open-thread-november-28-2024\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4111,3712,3751,3725,3844,4358,6042,6067],"class_list":["post-55635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-insanity","tag-holiday","tag-senate","tag-the-constitution","tag-the-resistance","tag-the-transition","category-145-id","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\/55635","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=55635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}