{"id":56672,"date":"2025-04-28T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56672"},"modified":"2025-04-28T01:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:18:46","slug":"open-thread-april-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/open-thread-april-28-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 28 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/bill-maher-and-the-nazis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> wrote about the point to which bothsiderism has brought Bill Maher. I only point to it because TomCat would be so disappointed. It is easier that ever, knowing that Bill Maher and Bill O&#8217;Reilly are DNA cousins, to see the relationship. Also yesterday, I almost forgot to post this. My credit union has changed a bunch of stuff, and it involved issuing a new card with a new number and expiration date, and yesterday was the day I had to process the change. Also Virgil needed coffee, and the only place I can order it from that he will get it was apparently put (I hope they haven&#8217;t stopped carrying it), so I had to put money in his canteen account instead, and include a note explaining why. And Trinette was over also, which is always a delight, but not conducive to remembering whether I have or have not completed routine tasks. Fortunately. the Sundays I don&#8217;t see Virgil I often stay up past midnight to email for a reservation for the following week, because it can&#8217;t be timestamped before midnight and still be within the right time frame. As a result of all of that, I finished posting it around 2 am my time.<\/p>\n<p>This article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/04\/23\/trump-immigration-crackdown-us-citizens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a> is obvious to anyone who has been paying attention. Sadly, far too few Americans have. It is concise and clear and , for those not paying attention, adds three separate articles at the end which provide examples. Well, that&#8217;s not a bad way to say &#8220;I am not making this up.&#8221; Now if we can only figure out how to get it into the hands of those who need to read and understand it.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, just because someone is a Democrat, even an elected Democrat, does not necessarily mean that they are vary smart, or that they are not grandstanding. This article from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/elissa-slotkins-still-secret-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a> is a case in point.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YIKK2N8G2WM?si=T8jMcO7qQMczW7EG\" 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\/SiORKb8PHxM?si=BBAlBxkQPOahyJ1Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-56650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bullseye-1024x792.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bullseye-1024x792.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bullseye-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bullseye-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bullseye-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bullseye.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Steve Schmidt wrote about the point to which bothsiderism has brought Bill Maher. I only point to it because TomCat would be so disappointed. It is easier that ever, knowing that Bill Maher and Bill O&#8217;Reilly are DNA cousins, to see the relationship. Also yesterday, I almost forgot to post this. My credit union <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/open-thread-april-28-2025\/' 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":[4355,6362,4111,6345,6361,6360,6359,3811,5858,5412],"class_list":["post-56672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-bill-maher","tag-cats","tag-deporting-citizens","tag-due-process","tag-grandstanding","tag-last-week","tag-personal","tag-the-courts","tag-titanic","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\/56672","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=56672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56672\/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=56672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}