{"id":55898,"date":"2025-01-03T05:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=55898"},"modified":"2025-01-02T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:59:34","slug":"open-thread-january-3-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/open-thread-january-3-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 3 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I expect everyone knows that a couple of Cybertrucks were uses in incidents in which people were injured or killed or both. There&#8217;s a lot of speculation, but what appears to have been confirmed is that the two drivers &#8211; a white man from Colorado Springs who drove the truck to Las Vegas, NV, and a black man from Houston who drove the truck to New Orleans, rented the trucks, both from the same company online, Truro (or Turo &#8211; I didn&#8217;t verify which was correct.) We need not to jump to conclusions. In better news, my state&#8217;s Attorney General, Phil Weiser, announced that he is running for Governor. That&#8217;s good news, and gave me some hope. I&#8217;d been worried about that since our current Governor is term limited out, and I couldn&#8217;t think of anyone else who had the necessary visibility who hadn&#8217;t already served (and been term limited.) Phil has a real chance, and, while I&#8217;m now worried about the Attorney General position, I feel this is more important.<\/p>\n<p>As a non-subscriber to <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2024\/12\/trump-coming-ways-prepare-authoritarian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>, I find it difficult to read their stuff. And this particular one I wanted to save, since it has a lot of advice I&#8217;ll want to keep on hand, at least for the next four years &#8211; including a few Substacks (and I remind you that you can subscribe to any of those for free). I didn&#8217;t want to print it, even just to a PDF, so I used Ctrl A followed by Ctrl C to copy everything &#8211; then Ctrl V to put it into a Notepad file, and deleted everything before and after it (in simple text, it isn&#8217;t hard to tell when it starts and stops. If y&#8217;all subscribe, you shouldn&#8217;t need to do that. But it works for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-20-realities-of-the-american\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> could easily have written this years ago. It&#8217;s too bad he didn&#8217;t. Not that it would have changed much except a few people&#8217;s minds, and people not powerful enough to change much at that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U4geaTllkE0?si=37YQSeP4ibSp_nPY\" 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\/6CPxJhBoRmQ?si=AmXsaviMhIElCAx3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/torches.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/torches.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/torches-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/torches-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/torches-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I expect everyone knows that a couple of Cybertrucks were uses in incidents in which people were injured or killed or both. There&#8217;s a lot of speculation, but what appears to have been confirmed is that the two drivers &#8211; a white man from Colorado Springs who drove the truck to Las Vegas, NV, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/open-thread-january-3-2025\/' 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":[4355,4344,4531,6134,5678,5205,5415],"class_list":["post-55898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-colorado","tag-dogs","tag-preparation","tag-reality","tag-speaker-of-the-house","tag-violence","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\/55898","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=55898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55898\/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=55898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}