{"id":57352,"date":"2025-08-06T05:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57352"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:54:01","slug":"open-thread-august-6-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/open-thread-august-6-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 6 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-leisure-matters-for-a-good-life-according-to-aristotle-260392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a> featured this article. I think Aristotle was on to something. Among other things, it would explain why MAGA (and all &#8220;conservatives&#8221;) are such whiny bags. Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/takeaction\/908\/009\/043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Care2, AKA the Petition Site<\/a>, has a petition up to the Mango Moron which includes straight up telling him he sucks. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, I thought you might enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2025\/07\/31\/emil-bove-judge-courts-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In case you missed it<\/a> &#8211; putting Bove onto a Court of Appeals puts him into a category from which be Supreme Court justices are selected, without needing to acquire the experience which is normally expected of a justice. Sure, the Mango Monster has been stacking the lower courts too &#8211; but this is something new.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Brennan Center<\/a> is a trustworthy watchdog &#8211; yet not a paranoid one. So this needs to be taken seriously (but you know that.) The link is to the home page, and in case another article has taken the to place, the title of the article is &#8220;The Trump Administration\u2019s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UFdLHatClFM?si=r9sDDUKGPucnz0S0\" 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\/nXzDZszBKGQ?si=x-71xlV_iHUbnIDK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/colbert-harris-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The Conversation featured this article. I think Aristotle was on to something. Among other things, it would explain why MAGA (and all &#8220;conservatives&#8221;) are such whiny bags. Also, Care2, AKA the Petition Site, has a petition up to the Mango Moron which includes straight up telling him he sucks. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/open-thread-august-6-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,6585,6584,4531,3781,6583,6586,4122,5110,4276],"class_list":["post-57352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-aristotle","tag-court-packing","tag-dogs","tag-elections","tag-gerrymandeting","tag-gop-misery","tag-petitions","tag-television","tag-texas","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\/57352","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=57352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}