{"id":59605,"date":"2026-07-02T05:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59605"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:59:38","slug":"open-thread-july-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/02\/open-thread-july-2-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 2 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.&#8221; &#8211; attributed to Jimi Hendrix. Quoted on a banner two people were attempting to fly from the top of the Statue of Liberty. I hope they have survived. I don&#8217;t know the whole story as I type &#8211; perhaps y&#8217;all do by now.<\/p>\n<p>If you know anything about the British Constitution, you know that a King or Queen nactually has far less power than our President &#8211; especially this one. The monarch of England, for example, is forbidden by the Constitution to speak publicly about politics. Elizabeth II spent what, over 70 years? &#8211; living up to that. I mention this because Robert Reich implies in the video that SCROTUS made our so-called President a King. They did not. They made him into an emperor- or maybe a demigod. An autocrat. A Dictator. But not a King.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethemighty.com\/history\/how-the-us-protected-utterly-irreplaceable-documents-during-world-war-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;We Are The Mighty&#8221;<\/a> is a flashback to World War II which has a happy ending. This quote &#8211; &#8220;The Nazis took perverse pleasure in trying to destroy anything that their enemies held dear&#8221; rings very now to me. Therearestill Nazis &#8211; and they are still practicing this.<\/p>\n<p>Archived from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/WJeAO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huff Post<\/a>. One response to Mike Johnson: &#8220;Don&#8217;t threaten us with a good time&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the subject of this from <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/06\/28\/age-verification-privacy-surveillance-journalists-whistleblowers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept<\/a> is getting the attention it deserves. Possibly because it doesn&#8217;t sound that bad &#8211; but the unintended consequences are massive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDvH5ImF_l0?si=yIvBt54T5bdPwB9Z\" 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\/fjgelMCW3-A?si=M1lMjV-Vr-Y0DVQm\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>sorry the URL is embedded in Paint. But I put it below the image in case you want to read the story and haven&#8217;t already seen it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59602\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59602\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/headline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/headline.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/headline-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/headline-150x73.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/headline-768x374.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/archive.is\/ohZGx<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.&#8221; &#8211; attributed to Jimi Hendrix. Quoted on a banner two people were attempting to fly from the top of the Statue of Liberty. I hope they have survived. 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