{"id":56125,"date":"2025-02-05T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56125"},"modified":"2025-02-05T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:11:42","slug":"open-thread-february-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/05\/open-thread-february-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread February 5 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I arrived on time for my bone density test, and it didn&#8217;t take too long, However, when I got home, I found that USPS had not picked up the Valentine I had put there to send to Loveland and get the cache on the envelope for Virgil. So I went out again and dropped it at the post office. And when I got back from that, it wasn&#8217;t even three o&#8217;clock yet. And a good thing too, as I didn&#8217;t have much &#8211; I&#8217;m still, as predicted, in email jail. And today, the exterminator comes. I can at least keep working while he (or she &#8211; so far I&#8217;ve only seen men) is here, but I do lose some concentration. And even at full concentration, I can&#8217;t cover everything.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100219985497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Underground,<\/a> with a link to Lawfare. There really are bunches of good lawyers on the &#8216;Net, and little excuse for not understanding the ways of the law and the (federal)justice system.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most recent message I have received from <a href=\"https:\/\/contrarian.substack.com\/p\/constitutional-standoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Contrarian<\/a>. They have done more journalism since this, but I haven&#8217;t see any emails. If you scroll to the top and click on the &#8220;THE CONTRARIAN&#8221; next to the Statue of Liberty logo, you&#8217;ll get to the home page and see a list of articles. So things are happening. And at the very least, what you read there will be truth. Unlike, for instance, Politico, which Robert Reich tore into smithereens yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vH5wYHF7O7k?si=beSY-wi7XJ08Kwnb\" 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\/rtWd5WJaE1M?si=7vkEI9LBuA41S9Yi\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/undermine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/undermine.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/undermine-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/undermine-150x127.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/undermine-768x648.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I arrived on time for my bone density test, and it didn&#8217;t take too long, However, when I got home, I found that USPS had not picked up the Valentine I had put there to send to Loveland and get the cache on the envelope for Virgil. So I went out again and dropped <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/05\/open-thread-february-5-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,6212,6210,6211,3811,4769],"class_list":["post-56125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-constitutional-standoff","tag-gop-destruction","tag-gop-secrets","tag-personal","tag-raccoon","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\/56125","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=56125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}