{"id":56971,"date":"2025-06-09T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=56971"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:18:57","slug":"open-thread-june-9-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/open-thread-june-9-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 9 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/a-gift-for-free-subscribers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Borowitz<\/a> revealed that a vote among his readers had elected Mitch McConnell America&#8217;s Top Traitor. (The runner up was Steven Miller.) The purpose of the vote was to find a modern replacement for the word &#8220;quisling.&#8221; So now, if you see someone on the &#8216;net calling a person a &#8220;mcconnell,&#8221; you&#8217;ll know why. Also, here is a petition that <a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/letters\/tell-the-smithsonian-stand-strong-against-the-trump-administrations-attempts-to-erase-us-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> is promoting. An explanation is at the link.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/patel-petrified-of-musk-i-know-my-lane-and-that-aint-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PolitiZoom<\/a> is not good. It&#8217;s also mostly not news. But Ursula&#8217;s description of Patel&#8217;s appearance and demeanor is too wickedly accurate to pass up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/wag-the-dog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> calls this post &#8220;Wag the Dog,&#8221; and although I didn&#8217;t see the movie, I can see why. His statement about the deployment of the National Guard is correct &#8211; the Ohio National guard was deployed to Kent State by the Ohio Governor at the request of the Kent Mayor (I had to look that up &#8211; Schmidt is generally accurate but I wanted to be sure.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOEvBdqWN7U?si=rmXYcFVAJ_9jj2KH\" 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\/elExCzdlzJM?si=wepc5mx6RaZ56sxC\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DTF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DTF.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DTF-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DTF-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DTF-768x562.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Andy Borowitz revealed that a vote among his readers had elected Mitch McConnell America&#8217;s Top Traitor. (The runner up was Steven Miller.) The purpose of the vote was to find a modern replacement for the word &#8220;quisling.&#8221; So now, if you see someone on the &#8216;net calling a person a &#8220;mcconnell,&#8221; you&#8217;ll know why. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/09\/open-thread-june-9-2025\/' 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":[4355,4111,6144,6459,6460,6462,6060,6461],"class_list":["post-56971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-los-angeles","tag-militarization","tag-national-guard","tag-quisling","tag-the-cabinet","tag-the-smithsonian","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\/56971","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=56971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56971\/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=56971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}