{"id":55834,"date":"2024-12-28T06:06:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55834"},"modified":"2024-12-27T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T01:28:08","slug":"open-thread-december-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/28\/open-thread-december-28-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 28 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another day I didn&#8217;t do much. I enjoy being idle, but I&#8217;d also like to get more done. Oh well, if I don&#8217;t, then I&#8217;m the one who has to live with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/do-not-move-to-the-center-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> &#8211; the reich on the left &#8211; is right. How right is he? So right that I feel the need to emphasize it by meming a quote from it for today&#8217;s cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Eve is past, but, as <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/christmas-eve-crazy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> points out, this is too important to ignore. I suspect some (not here, but elsewhere) may be thinking that at least he&#8217;s turning his crazy on someone besides us. But at a veteran, I have to point our that out military IS us &#8211; and when you include the families and colleagues and friends in whose circles veterans, active duty military, and those now considering enlisting live, that involves a lot of us.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEopZC_HeeU?si=AuI-9NyOcZolvGVG\" 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\/kGIoM-ZPzBQ?si=72bA6H4JsJ8ayOgV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55875\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55875\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reich2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reich2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reich2-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reich2-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; JANUARY 16: Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich testifies before the Joint Economic Committee January 16, 2014 in Washington, DC. Reich joined a panel testifying on the topic of &#8220;Income Inequality in the United States.\u00d3 (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another day I didn&#8217;t do much. I enjoy being idle, but I&#8217;d also like to get more done. Oh well, if I don&#8217;t, then I&#8217;m the one who has to live with it. Robert Reich &#8211; the reich on the left &#8211; is right. How right is he? So right that I feel <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/28\/open-thread-december-28-2024\/' 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":[4355,4531,3792,3972,6129],"class_list":["post-55834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-robert-reich","tag-scotus","tag-us-military-the-center","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\/55834","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=55834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55834\/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=55834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}