{"id":55728,"date":"2024-12-16T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55728"},"modified":"2024-12-15T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:39:15","slug":"open-thread-december-16-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/16\/open-thread-december-16-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 16 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I visited Virgil and we played cribbage. The deck of cars was practically brand new &#8211; I suspect it was brand new and just had a small defect, about a quarter inch tear in the side of the 3 of spades. If anyone remembers the &#8220;Bicycle&#8221; brand of playing cards, you may or may not now that nowadays they are going by &#8220;Motorbike.&#8221; That gave me a chuckle. Also, besides the yo jokers, they now add a third non-playable card with tips on how to tell if you are playing with someone who fakes cards. Sigh. Virgil continues to get more forgetful, but we still love each other and enjoy each other&#8217;s company, including card playing, and neither of us forgets that.<\/p>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jezebel.com\/idaho-argues-pregnant-women-facing-amputations-from-septic-shock-cant-get-emergency-abortions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jezebel<\/a>, to which Wonkette pointed me. Too bad Luigi Mangione is otherwise engaged. The Idaho government needs a visit from him or someone like him. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sarcasm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"18\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sarcasm.gif 50w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sarcasm-48x18.gif 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wonkette also subscribes to <a href=\"https:\/\/kevinmkruse.substack.com\/p\/cabinet-makers-iii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Campaign Trail<\/a> which posted this. Karma is only a bitch to you if you are a bitch to her. but if you are a bitch to her, she&#8217;s a real bitch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k54B-PSr33o?si=XVGSIdse_XceU7og\" 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\/PtZ6T0h76yA?si=kkr4tP9Z-gK3_599\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs.png 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/tariffs-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I visited Virgil and we played cribbage. The deck of cars was practically brand new &#8211; I suspect it was brand new and just had a small defect, about a quarter inch tear in the side of the 3 of spades. If anyone remembers the &#8220;Bicycle&#8221; brand of playing cards, you may or may <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/16\/open-thread-december-16-2024\/' 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":[4355,4531,5238,3924,3866,5839,4186,6098,5963,4395],"class_list":["post-55728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-gop-ignorance","tag-gop-murder","tag-history","tag-idaho","tag-karma","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-tariffs","tag-womens-health","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\/55728","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=55728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55728\/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=55728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}