{"id":55726,"date":"2024-12-10T06:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T14:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55726"},"modified":"2024-12-09T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T23:25:45","slug":"open-thread-december-10-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/10\/open-thread-december-10-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 10 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The plumber was later than he had said (it snowed a little the night before and was still snowing when he got here &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t all that heavy then, but by afternoon the ground was a blanket of white.\u00a0 And even light snow means scraping all glass before driving) But once he got here he was through very quickly. He thinks I probably need a new toilet, but I don&#8217;t like doing that while I&#8217;m still paying for the water heater, so for now I&#8217;ll stock up on Drano and use it religiously<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/preemptive-pardons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> is probably right about preemptive pardons. But even so, she agrees that they should be offered to the most vulnerable, without specifying exactly who she thinks they are. I would certainly include Dr. Fauci as one of the most vulnerable myself. He and his family have surely suffered enough.<\/p>\n<p>I did not see this coming, and neither did <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/conscientious-objectors-wont-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a>. But in a kind of a sort of a way, neither of us is really surprised. People who helped round up Jan 6 rioters are people who are interested in the welfare of the country, and that probably more than they are interested in individuals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ntkxwJErzwM?si=JrExvk_aP8PGvPE8\" 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\/VKIwdgyEdIY?si=t9LEdBBgJ9jpXrLY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/right.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/right.jpeg 547w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/right-230x300.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/right-115x150.jpeg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The plumber was later than he had said (it snowed a little the night before and was still snowing when he got here &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t all that heavy then, but by afternoon the ground was a blanket of white.\u00a0 And even light snow means scraping all glass before driving) But once he got <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/10\/open-thread-december-10-2024\/' 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":[4355,4111,3811,6086,6084,6085],"class_list":["post-55726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-personal","tag-preemptive-pardons","tag-right-and-wrong","tag-us-house-of-representatives","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\/55726","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=55726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55726\/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=55726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}