{"id":55714,"date":"2024-12-08T06:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55714"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:14:14","slug":"open-thread-december-8-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/open-thread-december-8-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 8 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the radio opera was Richard Strauss&#8217;s &#8220;Die Frau Ohne Schatten,&#8221; considered to be a &#8220;fairy tale&#8221; opera. It certainly is one that would likely warm the hearts of right wimgers, since the shadow of the title is a symbol of the ability to bear children. But, on the other side of the equation, it&#8217;s also all about choice. It&#8217;s long &#8211; four hours including intermission &#8211; but the music is powerful, and in its way so is the story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/getting-mean-and-dirty-only-helps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> goes through a lot of information before he gets to his title point, but that&#8217;s the point for which I am posting it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/in-search-of-sanity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Borowitz<\/a> gets serious with advice to survive Trump** II. Andy is the epitome of the jester of the past who through humor managed to be the wisest person in the room at any given time. I&#8217;ll take him seriously.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/12yQ39vH2VY?si=lu7i2nyd3JB5p7hO\" 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\/mmqu75bnYQs?si=oFITXCxtTYTUfm7a\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/not-bode-well-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the radio opera was Richard Strauss&#8217;s &#8220;Die Frau Ohne Schatten,&#8221; considered to be a &#8220;fairy tale&#8221; opera. It certainly is one that would likely warm the hearts of right wimgers, since the shadow of the title is a symbol of the ability to bear children. But, on the other side of the equation, it&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/open-thread-december-8-2024\/' 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":[6078,4355,4111,3718,3805],"class_list":["post-55714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-advice-for-democrats","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-music","tag-ukraine","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\/55714","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=55714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55714\/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=55714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}