{"id":57060,"date":"2025-06-23T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57060"},"modified":"2025-06-22T17:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T00:55:01","slug":"open-thread-june-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/23\/open-thread-june-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread June 23 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it became obvious that I would need to address the illegally declared war today. Yes, I&#8217;m a veteran, but i also know my limitations, and one is that that I&#8217;m not qualified to discuss the strategic aspects of this other than to opine that it&#8217;s damned dumb along with being unconstitutional. So I&#8217;ll just provide some links instead from some better qualified people and let you choose which if any to read.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Larson of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefuckingnews.substack.com\/p\/trump-bombs-iran-constitution-international\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F* News<\/a>. Title: Trump Bombs Iran, Constitution, International Law, and Last Surviving MAGA Principle<\/p>\n<p>Norm Eisen of <a href=\"https:\/\/contrarian.substack.com\/p\/trumps-national-insecurity-and-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Contrarian<\/a>. Title: Trump&#8217;s National Insecurity and What We Can Do About It<\/p>\n<p>Steve Schmidt of The Warning. Title: America is at war in the Middle East. Again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-dogs-of-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> at his Substack. Title: The Dogs of War (the cartoon is not his. It&#8217;s maybe a century old.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56DCJ2UYYMY?si=D7LDqL0BzYsotRfF\" 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\/UH2Z2f-nHyI?si=uO09nNSEmdWuEf-E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nobel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nobel.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nobel-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nobel-150x122.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nobel-768x625.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, it became obvious that I would need to address the illegally declared war today. Yes, I&#8217;m a veteran, but i also know my limitations, and one is that that I&#8217;m not qualified to discuss the strategic aspects of this other than to opine that it&#8217;s damned dumb along with being unconstitutional. So I&#8217;ll just <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/23\/open-thread-june-23-2025\/' 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":[4355,4531,3826,3865,3792,6495,6198,6496,3777],"class_list":["post-57060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-dogs","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-robert-reich","tag-steve-smith","tag-the-contrarian","tag-the-f-news","tag-war","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\/57060","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=57060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57060\/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=57060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}