{"id":59659,"date":"2026-07-08T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59659"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:18:02","slug":"open-thread-july-8-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/08\/open-thread-july-8-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread July 8 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I heard something very disheartening from Malcolm Nance&#8217;s warcast &#8211; and all three agreed &#8211; that the MSM in Europe is parroting Russian talking points as much as ours are. The latest is that Russia is claiming their current strikes are retaliatory (when they&#8217;ve been doing the same thing since 2022 &#8211; or maybe even 2014.) What&#8217;s going on with global oil prices is also not pretty. It is currently artificially low (so keep your tank filled &#8211; maybe even some full containers on hand). But we are closer and closer to a real worldwide shortage, and the pricing won&#8217;t matter much when there isn&#8217;t any to be had. Oh, and in case you were wondering why the Orange Ogre is whining about Greenland again &#8211; it could be because, after he bribed or threatened FIFA into lifting a suspension they had imposed on the biggest bully on our team, Belgium beat us anyway &#8211; and Denmark was rooting for Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Substack video &#8211; in which <a href=\"https:\/\/glennkirschner.substack.com\/p\/dojs-absurd-new-court-filing-in-katie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glenn Kirschner<\/a> is PISSED to the point of 37 minutes and &#8220;legal terms&#8221; such as &#8220;shitshow,&#8221; &#8220;assclowns&#8221;, &#8220;grabass&#8221; as well as addressing Todd Blanche as &#8220;sport.&#8221; I don&#8217;t really expect anyone to watch it, but, being Substack, there is a transcipt.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-milestone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> will surprise anyone here. And it appears to me that most of this increase is initiated by the Papaya Palatine personally. (My apologize to papayas, which alleviate nausea rather than initiating it.)<\/p>\n<p>To me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/they-want-us-to-forget-how-we-saved-democracy-the-first-2000113693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this undersells<\/a> the contributions of African Americans to the American Republic. IIRC, the first American killed in the Revolution was Crispus Attucks &#8211; a Black man, Many more Black men fought for the Union in the Civil War &#8211; and in World Wars I and II &#8211; and since. And Black women too &#8211; if not allowed to fight with arms, by caring for the wounded, gathering intelligence, dealing with mail, breaking codes, and more than I can think of. But I get it &#8211; the authors here are more interested in putting together an effecive playbook for a better future than in remembering the past. And they are right. An effective playbook is needed. And so is the will to use it &#8211; in people of all colors.<\/p>\n<p>Just as there are decent and kind people in red states &#8211; there are monsters in blue states. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlblackstar.substack.com\/p\/15-million-verdict-exposes-alleged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington may be blue<\/a> &#8211; but it still has monsters like these. I&#8217;m inclined to hope they are all in debt for the rest of their sorry lives paying for the $17 million they owe &#8211; plus interest. Including the school employees.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jFfqj-82j_o?si=2gj2iV0lmREh5p63\" 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\/yixKjwVQvo0?si=td2e2BHWSBrmGHnG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bulwark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bulwark.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bulwark-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bulwark-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bulwark-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I heard something very disheartening from Malcolm Nance&#8217;s warcast &#8211; and all three agreed &#8211; that the MSM in Europe is parroting Russian talking points as much as ours are. The latest is that Russia is claiming their current strikes are retaliatory (when they&#8217;ve been doing the same thing since 2022 &#8211; or maybe <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/08\/open-thread-july-8-2026\/' 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":[7577,4355,6396,5403,7575,4531,3778,5232,6151,3866,7576,4115,7120,3811,7574,3972,3805],"class_list":["post-59659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-african-americans","tag-animals","tag-apathy","tag-bullying","tag-cruelty","tag-dogs","tag-doj","tag-fifa","tag-greenland","tag-history","tag-inaction","tag-justice","tag-oil","tag-personal","tag-poultry","tag-scotus","tag-ukraine","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\/59659","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=59659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59679,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59659\/revisions\/59679"}],"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=59659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}