{"id":59850,"date":"2026-08-06T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59850"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:34:37","slug":"open-thread-august-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/06\/open-thread-august-6-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 6 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YesterdayI thought I had my in person follow up with my new PCP and discovered I was off a day (after trying and failing to book a taxi.) Hopefully I can make it today. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, I could have told this. You probably could have also. If you ae depending on someone to keep a promise, just &#8220;in writing&#8221; isn&#8217;t enough. It has to be signed under oath, witness, and certified or notsrized by someone legally authorized to certify or notarized. And you, the person who is requiring it, are the person who gets yto keep the original = the signator may keep a copy only. That&#8217;s just for starters &#8211; I&#8217;m not trying to imply that <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/the-1776b-slush-fund-isnt-as-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce&#8217;s explanation<\/a> isn&#8217;t fuller &#8211; becuse it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wolvesandsheep.substack.com\/p\/the-loop-of-denial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolves and Sheep<\/a> addresses the war and how the Mango Moron&#8217;s decision-making habits are affecting it &#8211; and other things he touches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/revealed-the-scope-of-ices-surveillance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Points Memo<\/a> in how Markwayne Mullen is seeking and finding people to prosecute under the anti-Antifa executive order.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dt2fg3NPn6U?si=XTqRFmRkxyr5HiYO\" 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\/tG9XUU-KEx0?si=HxG5knO92VEuUNVN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Dumbest-e1785982636179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YesterdayI thought I had my in person follow up with my new PCP and discovered I was off a day (after trying and failing to book a taxi.) Hopefully I can make it today. We shall see. Heck, I could have told this. You probably could have also. If you ae depending on someone to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/06\/open-thread-august-6-2026\/' 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":[4355,5151,7671,5259,4640,7672,4531,3811,4683,7535,6456],"class_list":["post-59850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-billionaires","tag-decisions","tag-dhs","tag-disinformation","tag-document","tag-dogs","tag-personal","tag-surveillance","tag-todd-blanche","tag-unintended-consequences","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\/59850","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=59850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59855,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59850\/revisions\/59855"}],"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=59850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}