{"id":58242,"date":"2025-12-22T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58242"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T09:06:07","slug":"open-thread-december-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/open-thread-december-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 22 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from Jasmine Crockett about a new poll &#8211; she is leading the Republican by 9 points, 51% to 43%, and this was just days after she entered the race. Fingers crossed! Also Trinette was by. Always so great to see her. We didn&#8217;t talk as much as usual &#8211; she is learning to crochet and\u00a0 I&#8217;m doing my best to help make it easier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0iIxhCK5go\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/ice-has-domestic-abuser-agent-locked-up-in-their-own-facility\/\">ICE Has Domestic Abuser Agent Locked Up In Their Own Facility<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;ICE Has Domestic Abuser Agent Locked Up In Their Own Facility&#8221; &#8212; PolitiZoom\" src=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/ice-has-domestic-abuser-agent-locked-up-in-their-own-facility\/embed\/#?secret=91GRAdWjJJ#?secret=0iIxhCK5go\" data-secret=\"0iIxhCK5go\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhen I first saw this story, I hoped o find it in &#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221; &#8211; but no luck I&#8217;d love to see what their take would be. It seems to me wrong on so many levels.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/archive.is\/ICy7q<br \/>\nThis (archived) from The Nation is not brand new, but I just received it yesterday from Dose of Democracy. All things considered, it probably should not be surprising, but I hadn&#8217;t thought about it. So I was surprised.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/jfk-vs-donald-trump<br \/>\nThis is not new either &#8211; except to me, probably. I was alive and I believe sentient during the Kennedy Presidential campaign, though not old enough to vote. I graduated from high school that year and started my freshman year of college. And I knew Kennedy had served in the US Navy during World War II. I had heard about PT-109. But I never realized that he and 12 others had been been presumed dead and actually had a funeral service. Steve Schmidt brings it up now to emphasize the contrast between JFK and the Orange Oligarch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-_OyI4Ztlw?si=DzSYtn2H0FzNklQS\" 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\/L6Ljtm9wVSw?si=8C5xvWyWCnnFJBo0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record.png 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/permanent-record-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an email from Jasmine Crockett about a new poll &#8211; she is leading the Republican by 9 points, 51% to 43%, and this was just days after she entered the race. Fingers crossed! Also Trinette was by. Always so great to see her. We didn&#8217;t talk as much as usual &#8211; she <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/open-thread-december-22-2025\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,6008,4531,6565,4373,6959,6932,6960,6962,6961,3811,6169,3803,4864],"class_list":["post-58242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cia","tag-dogs","tag-epstein","tag-first-amendment","tag-huac","tag-jasmine-crockett","tag-joe-mccarthy","tag-kennedy","tag-orwell","tag-personal","tag-poetic-justice","tag-terrorism","tag-trump","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\/58242","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=58242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}