{"id":59104,"date":"2026-04-10T05:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59104"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:20:12","slug":"open-thread-april-10-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/open-thread-april-10-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread April 10 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, per &#8220;Black Man Spy,&#8221; Kegsbreath said something on the order of &#8220;Our warriors are preparing for our next conquest.&#8221; &#8220;Conquest&#8221; is a word which has a range of meanings. but in its original basic meaning, it is a war crime. If you go into enemy occupied territory in a war they started, and you take the territory, such as occupied France in WWII, that is not conquest &#8211; it is defense. But if you go into someone else&#8217;s territory with the intention of taking it order &#8211; that is conquest. That is what, for example, Hitler did to Poland in 1939. It&#8217;s what Cortes did to the Aztec empire. That is what white Americans did to Indian territories. That is what Britain did to India. All just examples &#8211; since throughout history, way too many nations did it to too many other nations and thought it was a good and honorable idea. Put that on the ground and it will make the flowers grow. The warcast also went into how new alliances are being formed leaving us out &#8211; which is (though they didn&#8217;t use these words) going to make us a pariah state allied with no one. Except maybe Israel. Which, under Bibi, is already a pariah. Speaking of Bibi, who is at least as crazy and evil as our un-president &#8211; and even more &#8220;Nobody can tell him anything that will change his mind&#8221; than ours. If you want a cease-fire including Israel, you need to discuss it with Bibi personally. Accept no one else&#8217;s word for it.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats aren&#8217;t always bizarre. But when we are &#8211; we are within out constitutional rights, and we don&#8217;t maul or abuse anyone. <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/04\/03\/penis-costume-no-kings-protest-alabama-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2026\/04\/vaccine-friendly-pediatricians-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What a mess<\/a>. Decisions like these are difficult enough when everyone is on the same page. With misinformation flying around like a plague of cicadas, decisions re xlose to impossible.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/free-speech-for-quacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> may be worse than the last one. At least vaccines, and the diseases they protect against, are tangible. Gender orientations are not, although they are very real. You can&#8217;t prove that a person is gay like you can prove that a chiled has measles. There are no blood tests for it. Nor for transgender &#8211; genitalia may be tangible, but they may also lie. Depression and suicidal feelings ae also intangible &#8211; unless they are acted on &#8211; and then it is too late. My state was doing the right thing. SCROTUS is not.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BVAqBrWi0uE?si=Tg7jbsHVS5wFqn22\" 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\/kEjvEtS8aP4?si=VROUC23hs1O_5do0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/farmers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"915\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/farmers.jpg 915w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/farmers-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/farmers-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/farmers-768x567.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, per &#8220;Black Man Spy,&#8221; Kegsbreath said something on the order of &#8220;Our warriors are preparing for our next conquest.&#8221; &#8220;Conquest&#8221; is a word which has a range of meanings. but in its original basic meaning, it is a war crime. 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