{"id":58608,"date":"2026-01-20T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58608"},"modified":"2026-01-19T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:15:32","slug":"open-thread-january-20-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/20\/open-thread-january-20-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 20 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Robert Reich had this<\/a> to say. It has zero to do with Dr. King, and it’s not even really funny because it’s too real. But it is definitely clever. This from Andy<\/a>, on the other hand, is funny – sort of – an appealing idea but not really able to be implemented. And then there’s this<\/a> – from Sunday, so we knew about it. But this is in their own words.<\/p>\n

Since the Mango Moron does not understand cause and effect any better than he understands anything else, he would not recognize a consequence if it came to the door and showed RealID. And those of us not in the military or veterans, and even some veterans, have no experience of the signs of impending war, and would not recognize them either. But Malcolm Nance<\/a> does know about them, and wrote this to give us knowledge to interpret what is happening as it happens.<\/p>\n

You may have seen this news – I saw a reference to Laura’s story somewhere else, but it was very incomplete. (And Democracy Now is not on my radar) Mary Trump<\/a> has all the details.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/wolvesandsheep.substack.com\/p\/the-three-reasons-donald-trump-backs
\nThis by Chris Bowers is a thoughtful piece. I’m not sure we have enough information to generalize from, nor how much the information we do have applies to the Saffron Sauron and how much applies to his handlers. Nor how much we can actually bring about. But it’s worth thinking about.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how many episodes of this Richardson has planned – this is episode three = but I expect there will be more.
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