{"id":56032,"date":"2025-01-27T06:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56032"},"modified":"2025-01-26T19:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T03:44:50","slug":"open-thread-january-27-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/open-thread-january-27-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 27 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got to see Virgil. The drive down was mostly not as bad as two weeks ago, but I did miss my exit and by the time I managed to get off the interstate I was far enough past where I should be to get lost. I eventually made it though. We played cribbage. I always deal the first hand since I&#8217;ve had the cards and been shuffling while he&#8217;s be getting to the visiting room. But on the second hand, which he dealt, he got a hand with two double runs of three over the 7 and 8 (the fifth card was a 9) &#8211; in the crib. If you&#8217;ve ever played, you know how unlikely that is &#8211; it&#8217;s the highest score I&#8217;ve ever seen in a crib. So that set a nice tone for the day. Coming back home was much easier than getting there, fortunately. On the way there the windshield wiper fluid was still frozen. Coming back, I just picked up a handful of snow and rubbed it over the driver&#8217;s windshield and ran the wipers. And that was all I needed for good vision all the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-world-health-global-cooperation_n_6793d636e4b0a839b98bb4fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huff Post<\/a> points out that &#8220;America First&#8221; policy could make Americans physically ill. The CoViD pandemic was apparently not enough for him &#8211; he wants to make a pandemic out of patchwork.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is chilling. As much of the news coming out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/madison-nashville-school-shooters-online-extremism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProPublica<\/a> is. And that&#8217;s because investigations is what they do. And in particular the things which have the potential for the most danger. I pulled this one from the newsletter, but there are more. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sEYHF0pKuag?si=qfxbcipEONxr8y0F\" 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\/Lan0CF4JeFk?si=bkE8yKpSD3aSO6Q2\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bigger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bigger.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bigger-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bigger-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bigger-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got to see Virgil. The drive down was mostly not as bad as two weeks ago, but I did miss my exit and by the time I managed to get off the interstate I was far enough past where I should be to get lost. I eventually made it though. We played cribbage. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/open-thread-january-27-2025\/' 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":[5463,4355,6190,5813,5059,3811,3910,6191],"class_list":["post-56032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-amphibians","tag-animals","tag-braggadocio","tag-executive-orders","tag-fourteenth-amendment","tag-personal","tag-public-health","tag-school-shooters","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\/56032","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=56032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56032\/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=56032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}