{"id":58620,"date":"2026-01-21T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58620"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:21:04","slug":"open-thread-january-21-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/21\/open-thread-january-21-2025-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread January 21 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept quite late, but also took in a grocery order &#8211; a huge one &#8211; which I might not have had the strength to cope with otherwise. As it is, I didn&#8217;t get it all put away &#8211; just the perishables &#8211; and was rxhausted.<\/p>\n<p>This is from Sunday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/politizoom.com\/massie-tells-greenland-how-to-be-rid-of-trump-forever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politizoom<\/a> newsletter. but I don&#8217;t think it has lost any of its humor over those three days.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 96\u00a2 of every dollar the government receives in tariffs is being paid either by us, or by businesses which are able (for now) to suck it up to avoid loss of custom (same source, different article). I suppose the only reason no one ever thought of this before is that no one figured out how to do it. After all, billionaires also have to eat, use the bathroom, and wear clothes just like the rest of us. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/gabriel-zucman-trump-tariffs\">Zucman<\/a> appears to have a plan which might work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never expected anything good &#8211; or anything true &#8211; to come out of <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/we-are-in-the-midst-of-a-rupture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davos<\/a>. All those billionaires together &#8211; who but another billionaire would expect anything good? But &#8211; apparently &#8211; Canada is the adult in the room of the western hemisphere. I never mind if people skip things &#8211; but I hope no one will skip this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uAKMwLMqxxk?si=2GPxj_uKai_wFoEc\" 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\/TyBiBH8DdfA?si=pA608IA4WYNQcJmL\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/if-only.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/if-only.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/if-only-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/if-only-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept quite late, but also took in a grocery order &#8211; a huge one &#8211; which I might not have had the strength to cope with otherwise. As it is, I didn&#8217;t get it all put away &#8211; just the perishables &#8211; and was rxhausted. This is from Sunday&#8217;s Politizoom newsletter. but I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/21\/open-thread-january-21-2025-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4117,5281,4531,6151,6330,3709,6801,3811,5963,7054],"class_list":["post-58620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-canada","tag-davos","tag-dogs","tag-greenland","tag-heather-cox-richardson","tag-humor","tag-if-only","tag-personal","tag-tariffs","tag-wealth-tax","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\/58620","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=58620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}