{"id":59859,"date":"2026-08-07T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59859"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:38:44","slug":"open-thread-august-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/07\/open-thread-august-7-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 7 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I found a taxi service that would and could get me to the clinic and home. To the clinic went great. From was a bit tougher &#8211; I didn&#8217;t get home until five &#8211; but I did get home safe and sound. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Go Go Grandparent&#8221; and it requirea minimum technology &#8211; no apps. And it costs very litle more than the last taxi I used before there was Uber. (In fact, if I remembered what year it was I last used a taxi and adjusted that cost for inflation, GGG might turn out to be less.<\/p>\n<p>This from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allrisenews.com\/p\/hearn-filing-nps-knifed-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Rise News<\/a> is interesting &#8211; not least because of the reason the Apricot Antichrist wanted Hearn&#8217;s charges to be dismissed without prejudice. I&#8217;m not inside his head &#8211; but I think it&#8217;s because he needs enemies (or believes he does) to get what&#8217;s left of his base fired up and voting.<br \/>\n&#8211; all three topics. There&#8217;s a photo from above of the Zorro Ranch (and you thought Trump** had bad taste!)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really need to comment on this <a href=\"https:\/\/morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com\/p\/the-ruthless-persecution-of-anthony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morning Memo<\/a> story from TPM. The title alone pretty much says it all. And, as always, it&#8217;s not the only story.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2026\/08\/06\/colorado-history-three-governors-voter-fraud-1904\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Even in fraud<\/a>, Democrats are morally superior to Republicans. We used the carrot, they used the stick. (JK.) As long as I have been working elections, this could not have happened, so at least we as a state did something about it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wcHa4CgQOo8?si=L0x87dONK4kZ1lgx\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2fer<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cezZUefJHFo?si=x2_XE5EN_GZho5RI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/climate-scale-e1786078921963.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I found a taxi service that would and could get me to the clinic and home. To the clinic went great. From was a bit tougher &#8211; I didn&#8217;t get home until five &#8211; but I did get home safe and sound. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Go Go Grandparent&#8221; and it requirea minimum technology &#8211; no <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/07\/open-thread-august-7-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4355,3938,4111,4344,3866,7674,3811,7522,7673],"class_list":["post-59859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-cats","tag-colorado","tag-history","tag-james-a-garfield","tag-personal","tag-reflecting-pool","tag-smoke","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\/59859","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=59859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59863,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59859\/revisions\/59863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}