{"id":59018,"date":"2026-03-26T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59018"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:30:26","slug":"open-thread-march-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/open-thread-march-26-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread March 26 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent much of my day on Substack video, or YouTube, or, in the case of the F*ing News, just audio. Not because i intended to, but because there was so much, and so much of it seemed important. I left out the one about Mike Flynn getting awarded a large settlement with our money, and the one which did a deepish dive into our tax laws, and although I still think Malcolm&#8217;s is the best, there&#8217;s enough war news out there that I don&#8217;t need to report every day (Malcolm had the news already that Robert Reich&#8217;s report reports.)<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/uncle-luke-told-the-truth-about-the-democrats-black-men-uncle-luke-told-the-truth-about-the-dems-black-men-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Root<\/a> is, I believe, important. But it will become even more important if and\/or when we achieve a Congressional majority again we will seriously need to put up &#8211; or we will be back to being shut up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/a-report-you-need-to-read\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> points to a report from the Wall Street Journal &#8211; which, as he also points out is &#8220;hardly an outlet of left-wing propaganda.&#8221; You can read &#8211; or listen to , your choice &#8211; the full article at the link Bob provides (unless they limit free stories and you have already used yours. If that happens, you &#8211; or I if I know it is needed &#8211; can archive it.) I don&#8217;t think these occurrences were predicted quite as loudly as some others, but they were predicted.<\/p>\n<p>If you have about 42 spare minutes, and want to get the taste of the Evil Emperor&#8217;s disgusting Xeet about <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/live-with-joyce-vance-and-andrew-079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Mueller<\/a> out of your mouth and mind, this conversation between Joyce Vance and Andrew Weissman should help. Caution: it may also make the loss even more painful.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n9BcqN2kYdg?si=_TTWlcQ7IaSj5bb8\" 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\/n9xXGLCc0J0?si=YG039yvxA3AbSYGn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/comma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/comma.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/comma-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/comma-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/comma-768x503.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I spent much of my day on Substack video, or YouTube, or, in the case of the F*ing News, just audio. Not because i intended to, but because there was so much, and so much of it seemed important. I left out the one about Mike Flynn getting awarded a large settlement with our <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/open-thread-march-26-2026\/' 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":[4355,7261,4111,7174,7258,3811,7257,7259,3792,4747,7260],"class_list":["post-59018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-black-men","tag-cats","tag-democratic-party","tag-lies","tag-personal","tag-promises","tag-remembering-robert-mueller","tag-robert-reich","tag-us-postal-service","tag-wall-street-journal","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\/59018","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=59018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59018\/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=59018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}