{"id":60022,"date":"2026-09-01T08:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60022"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:56:34","slug":"this-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/this-that\/","title":{"rendered":"This &#038; That &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just learned about this travesty &amp; tragedy this morning &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AI Companies Are Destroying Rare Physical Books To Feed Their Chatbots | Vantage on Firstpost | 4K\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YFaHjv1PNMc?start=1&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>MUCH BETTER<\/strong><\/em><\/span> approach &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:bfsv7y5se2pppzza3qbmilsh\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mudaecnbcs2w\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreigqrm6kqj4mge26l27wobxh7bhexs26jlobiq73wve6ns4hadyxmu\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Upbuilding and constructive instead of tearing down and destructive. I like this much better.IG: @wainwrightbookbinding<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:bfsv7y5se2pppzza3qbmilsh?ref_src=embed\">Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:bfsv7y5se2pppzza3qbmilsh\/post\/3mudaecnbcs2w?ref_src=embed\">2026-08-30T20:32:11.422Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Who else thinks the DJT has taken his renaming stunt too far?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Canadian_Geese_Renamed_Donald_Ducks-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Canadian_Geese_Renamed_Donald_Ducks-.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Canadian_Geese_Renamed_Donald_Ducks--300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Canadian_Geese_Renamed_Donald_Ducks--150x127.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Canadian_Geese_Renamed_Donald_Ducks_Hair-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Canadian_Geese_Renamed_Donald_Ducks_Hair-.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Canadian_Geese_Renamed_Donald_Ducks_Hair--277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Canadian_Geese_Renamed_Donald_Ducks_Hair--139x150.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And just like his bungling of the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, a satellite shot now shows Lake Ontario is full of algae &#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lake_America_Ontario_-Algae-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lake_America_Ontario_-Algae-.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lake_America_Ontario_-Algae--300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Lake_America_Ontario_-Algae--150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s possible that there might be one bright &amp; welcomed outcome &#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Boat_Sinking_Lake_America_WHERE_HELL-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Boat_Sinking_Lake_America_WHERE_HELL-.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Boat_Sinking_Lake_America_WHERE_HELL--300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Boat_Sinking_Lake_America_WHERE_HELL--150x143.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Boat_Sinking_Lake_America_WHERE_HELL--24x24.jpg 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just learned about this travesty &amp; tragedy this morning &#8230; Here&#8217;s a MUCH BETTER approach &#8230; Upbuilding and constructive instead of tearing down and destructive. I like this much better.IG: @wainwrightbookbinding &mdash; Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social) 2026-08-30T20:32:11.422Z Who else thinks the DJT has taken his renaming stunt too far? And just like his bungling of the Lincoln <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/this-that\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4201,7750,7749,7748,7746,7747,4864],"class_list":["post-60022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-ai","tag-canadian-geese","tag-lake-america","tag-lake-ontario","tag-rare-books","tag-rebinding","tag-trump","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\/60022","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60027,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60022\/revisions\/60027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}