{"id":57904,"date":"2025-10-31T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=57904"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:26:32","slug":"open-thread-october-31-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/31\/open-thread-october-31-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread October 31 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The Mango Menace&#8217;s announcement on Wednesday that he would resume nuclear testing hit my inbox big time. I assume it hit the inboxes of y&#8217;all equally, so I&#8217;ll leave it there. And I had to stay up a bit late, but by golly, I finished that sweater.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of us already don&#8217;t buy anything on Black Friday. This extension of that proposed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/economic-blackout-nov-25-dec-2-blackout-the-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Enterprise<\/a> may require a little more planning &#8211; but some situations call for desperate measures. There may be good reasons why some people cannot take part, but I hope all will at least consider participating.<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, sure-fire solutions are virtually never things that anyone can do. This one from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/white-creator-breaks-down-how-to-stop-racists-dead-in-t-2000070064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Root<\/a> would appear to come closer than most, but there still might be a learning curve. But I think it is well worth sharing anyway. At least it doesn&#8217;t require being a genius.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as long as I already have two articles from black sources, I may as well go three for three. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/if-the-snap-benefits-cutoff-results-in-violence-it-wou-2000070249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Root<\/a>: The Mango Monster said something this week which implied he might be thinking about using the reserve after all &#8211; but in addition to being a chronic liar, he has been so spaced out this week that there&#8217;s really no point in even listening to him, let alone forming an opinion on what he might do from what he says. As to what starving people might do &#8211; well, two words &#8211; Jean Valjean.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Betty Bowers Guest Video<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q0A4SJoYv5s?si=sGHfnUw0RnDL0pJ3\" 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\/4HEQmbfjgSs?si=wbn6mHqWdvCi_2CX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/melt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/melt.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/melt-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/melt-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/melt-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, The Mango Menace&#8217;s announcement on Wednesday that he would resume nuclear testing hit my inbox big time. I assume it hit the inboxes of y&#8217;all equally, so I&#8217;ll leave it there. And I had to stay up a bit late, but by golly, I finished that sweater. A lot of us already don&#8217;t buy <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/31\/open-thread-october-31-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,6804,6805,4111,4167,6801,6802,3811,6803,3740],"class_list":["post-57904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-friday","tag-boycotts","tag-cats","tag-halloween","tag-if-only","tag-mrs-betty-bowers","tag-personal","tag-racists","tag-snap","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\/57904","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=57904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}