{"id":58886,"date":"2026-03-04T05:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=58886"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:55:42","slug":"open-thread-march-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/open-thread-march-4-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 4 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn&#8217;t get a response from Pat B. I hope she is OK and just living her life. Also, Axios reported that the Mango Moron plans to attend the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner. I hope all the real journalists stay away, because I can&#8217;t think of a reason for him to attend other than to collect new names for his enemies list. Can you?<\/p>\n<p>Today is the anniversary of the birth of Lois W, the wife of Bill w, who founded AA, and herself the founder of Al-Anon. She used to say it is the strongest day of the year. Also as expected, I watched Malcolm Nance&#8217;s Day 4 of the war, and picked up a quote for today&#8217;s meme-cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/DmC58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lever<\/a>, which examines possible positions SCROTUS might take, should the question of the legality of the Saffron Sauron &#8216;s strike on Iran come before then at some point. I doubt there are any surprises in it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/03\/lutnick-epstein-files-testify-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is interesting<\/a>. It would have been even more interesting, though, if he had done so before the Cantaloupe Caligula had bombed Iran.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/greg-bovino-under-criminal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking points Memo<\/a>. Best of luck to the investigators (no matter how smart they are, a little luck never hurts.)<\/p>\n<p>In case anyone is wondering about the Nectarine Necromancer&#8217;s neck (I expect Nameless already knows):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hM6ZPwxhaeA?si=I23zIlc0HPSzwgCV\" 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\/_cj_h2sZUuM?si=DVrrZobVrTJQb1kF\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran-150x131.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Iran-768x669.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I didn&#8217;t get a response from Pat B. I hope she is OK and just living her life. Also, Axios reported that the Mango Moron plans to attend the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner. I hope all the real journalists stay away, because I can&#8217;t think of a reason for him to attend other than <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/04\/open-thread-march-4-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4355,7179,4531,6839,7178,3866,4077,3809,3811,3972,7177,4498],"class_list":["post-58886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-bovino","tag-dogs","tag-epstein-files","tag-executive-health","tag-history","tag-ice","tag-investigation","tag-personal","tag-scotus","tag-the-war","tag-witnesses","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\/58886","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=58886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}