{"id":59326,"date":"2026-05-15T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59326"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:42:17","slug":"open-thread-may-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/15\/open-thread-may-15-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread May 15 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the &#8220;President&#8221; landed in China and unsurprisingly behaved like an idiot. There were moments when Xi was clearly struggling not to laugh. But if we laugh too, we should still be keeping in our minds who he took with him. Also, I took in a grocery delivery. Everything is as put away as it is going to get.<\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re all aware that whatever the Evil Emperor says, the opposite is true. This is no exception. <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-most-important-thing-you-should\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a> spells it out.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/suspending-federal-gas-tax-wouldnt-save-drivers-as-much-as-they-might-hope-heres-what-goes-into-the-price-of-a-gallon-of-gas-282702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a>. I know Colorado couldn&#8217;t suspend taxes on gas even if the Governor wanted to.Thanks mistly to TABOR, we currently have the worst budget deficits we&#8217;ve had for years.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/hS2VH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Atlantic<\/a> &#8211; so I could read it. I almost wish I hadn&#8217;t &#8211; But it&#8217;s safer to know than not to know.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fi3IExuCTy4?si=S-EaFpZ27Xe4uiN8\" 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\/WAfATgY-6W4?si=ZWR61aZQ6EKg4wZq\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bad-Luck.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bad-Luck.png 800w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bad-Luck-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bad-Luck-150x116.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bad-Luck-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the &#8220;President&#8221; landed in China and unsurprisingly behaved like an idiot. There were moments when Xi was clearly struggling not to laugh. But if we laugh too, we should still be keeping in our minds who he took with him. Also, I took in a grocery delivery. Everything is as put away as it <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/15\/open-thread-may-15-2026\/' 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":[4355,4111,4134,4339,4586,4504,7385,3735,3811,7386],"class_list":["post-59326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-china","tag-corporations","tag-fbi","tag-grift","tag-j-d-vance","tag-misogyny","tag-personal","tag-price-of-gas","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\/59326","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=59326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59326\/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=59326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}