{"id":59936,"date":"2026-08-20T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=59936"},"modified":"2026-08-20T00:21:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:21:29","slug":"open-thread-august-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/20\/open-thread-august-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread August 20 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I assume y&#8217;all don&#8217;t follow X, let alone unTruth antiSocial, any more than<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59944 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/territory-e1787114815504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" \/> I do. But there are good people who do &#8211; in order to share with us the most egregious BS so we know what is going on. And this is one from yesterday (I wasn&#8217;t looking for anything, just watching for personal reasons.) BTW, I did scale the Xeet, more than once, but itdidn&#8217;t take.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/18\/iran-war-strait-hormuz-ship-traffic-oil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a>, referreed by VoteVets (Star#1 of their &#8220;daily four star&#8221;). It includes 7 minute video (feel free to skip).<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/harrylitman.substack.com\/p\/the-doj-parachutes-into-the-slush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Feds<\/a>. Is anyone surprised? I doubt it.OK,, I&#8217;m a tiny bit surprised they did it so fast and asstracted attention. Onthe other hand, they are as dumb as they are corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogo.org\/investigates\/inside-ices-broken-system-for-inspecting-detention-facilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project on Government Oversight<\/a> does that Oversight that the administration doesn&#8217;t -which in this regime means pretty well everything. Im previous administrations there has always been something to investigate, but nowhere near everything, even under Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lkopwXxRMgY?si=BPq-42c21GuhZMzX\" 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\/2k3_HxBTpVU?si=LnVvbVmyvunqEnwO\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/testosterone-scale-e1787114746861.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"614\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I assume y&#8217;all don&#8217;t follow X, let alone unTruth antiSocial, any more than I do. But there are good people who do &#8211; in order to share with us the most egregious BS so we know what is going on. And this is one from yesterday (I wasn&#8217;t looking for anything, just watching for personal <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/20\/open-thread-august-20-2026\/' 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":[6410,7703,3811,7213,7554,7702],"class_list":["post-59936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-trump-derangement-syndrome","tag-government-oversight","tag-personal","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-territories","tag-weather-disasters","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\/59936","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=59936"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59948,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59936\/revisions\/59948"}],"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=59936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}