{"id":58070,"date":"2025-11-26T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58070"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:32:49","slug":"open-thread-november-26-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/26\/open-thread-november-26-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 26 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>n Sunday, Richard Ojeda (remember him from when I was posting a separate video roundup daily? He&#8217;s now running for Congress, and I hope he wins. He&#8217;s a fighter) publicly defended the six veterans unlawful order video, and of course pissed off MAGA. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rj0PshVAqrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">His response appeared yesterday<\/a>. Also yesterday, The Smile reported that AOC has donated 1600 turkeys to hungry people in her district. Tell me again how both sides are the same. Also, my &#8220;Daily Dose of Democracy&#8221; newsletter said that Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s resignation is just the first of what will be a bunch. You would think a MAGA President would be aware how whiny MAGA members are, but apparently not. An unnamed GOP rep said &#8220;&#8221;This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL&#8230;&#8221; and threatened the loss of the majority by the GOP before the midterms. Hey, from his mouth to God&#8217;s ear!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/100220827461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Underground<\/a>. Not exactly news &#8211; but I love it. I love what it says &#8211; and even more what it doesn&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/americans-oppose-war-venezuela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a>. Only 70%? Sorry, but that&#8217;s not even close to where it should be (heck, more people disapprove of Citizens United than of a shooting, killing war for no reason.) Venezuela is not Iraq &#8211; there was some excuse for falling for that one. This time &#8211; not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Wednesday is a bit late for <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-week-ahead-a7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Week Ahead.&#8221;<\/a> But it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if it is still unfolding. This week is another big one.<\/p>\n<p>Anothe Robert Reich vid, shared at his request<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QHQygFdcaLo?si=Gv1vBSCzBGhXmz4e\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=124536313\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/StUpid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/StUpid.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/StUpid-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/StUpid-802x1024.jpg 802w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/StUpid-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/StUpid-768x980.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n Sunday, Richard Ojeda (remember him from when I was posting a separate video roundup daily? He&#8217;s now running for Congress, and I hope he wins. He&#8217;s a fighter) publicly defended the six veterans unlawful order video, and of course pissed off MAGA. His response appeared yesterday. Also yesterday, The Smile reported that AOC has <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/26\/open-thread-november-26-2025\/' 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":[4355,4049,6885,6888,4531,5907,4453,6886,6887,6884,6220],"class_list":["post-58070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-aoc","tag-approval-polls","tag-campaigns","tag-dogs","tag-groceries","tag-inflation","tag-perfect-squelch","tag-resignations-from-congress","tag-sainthood","tag-this-week","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\/58070","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=58070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58070\/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=58070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}