{"id":58284,"date":"2025-12-29T01:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58284"},"modified":"2025-12-29T01:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:24:19","slug":"open-thread-december-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/open-thread-december-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread December 29 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I visited Virgil and &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; we played cribbage. Most of last week snow had been predicted, but Saturday snow dropped off the chart, so I wasn&#8217;t expecting any &#8211; but in the morning, there it was. I have to say it wasn&#8217;t much, though there got to be more of it the closer I got to Pueblo, but it was certainly very dry. And very cold. By the time I needed to leave in order to get home by sunset, the sun had been working on it and it was pretty much gone &#8211; still cold, though. But the cribbage was fun &#8211; there&#8217;s always something weird, and today it was several cribs having double runs of three. Heck, a double run of three is tough enough to set up in one&#8217;s hand &#8211; having one pop up in the crib when each of us puts two in with totally different motives is quite rare &#8211; unless it isn&#8217;t. And yesterday, it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/he-looks-like-a-witness-to-me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce Vance<\/a> has a great point here. His malicious xeet(s) accusing everyone but himself of being what he in fact is, if taken at face value, do make him look like he knows a lot about Epstein and should testify. And there&#8217;s neither law nor DOJ guidance which says Presidents cannot be subpoenaed to testify. I like it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/sunday-thought-a-year-of-reckoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> offers an end-of-the-year pep talk which is not overdone and may help morale. (And he doesn&#8217;t end with &#8220;You look great!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/news\/if-democrats-campaign-on-stopping-scam-calls-theyll-be-re-elected-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Affairs<\/a>, referred by Daily Dose of Democracy. I think the titles is probably an exaggeration &#8211; if we were to solve this problem, another would arise to take its place &#8211; but I do believe that, if Republicans would only allow us to regulate anything &#8211; anything at all &#8211; everyone&#8217;s (except scammers and grifters) lives would improve<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Cooper<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9cJ1IZsp750?si=bKcRRsg1LxmPeF4K\" 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\/aXTIXBXn3ug?si=M3x7h8RfVczl9d92\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/no-soul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/no-soul.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/no-soul-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/no-soul-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/no-soul-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I visited Virgil and &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; we played cribbage. Most of last week snow had been predicted, but Saturday snow dropped off the chart, so I wasn&#8217;t expecting any &#8211; but in the morning, there it was. I have to say it wasn&#8217;t much, though there got to be more of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/open-thread-december-29-2025\/' 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":[4355,6989,4111,6987,6839,5113,3811,6988,4497,6990],"class_list":["post-58284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-campaign-strategies","tag-cats","tag-cheating-the-devil","tag-epstein-files","tag-morale","tag-personal","tag-sarah-cooper","tag-subpoenas","tag-witness","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\/58284","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=58284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58284\/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=58284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}