{"id":60120,"date":"2026-09-18T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60120"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:41:32","slug":"open-thread-september-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/18\/open-thread-september-18-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 18 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned that Amazon&#8217;s electric delivery trucks (which they are touting as green) are charged with Diesel generators, Also, after findng out Wednesday that my old Yahooemail had been hacked, I got up early (for me) so I could find a phone number (which is not available from the help postings) &#8211; because the hackers has deleted my new email address, and the phone number I had on record with them was my landline. Also I took in a (thankfully small) grocery order. By the time I got that put away, I was really feeling the lack of sleep &#8211; I was all the way to groggy. So I went to bed as soon as I had scheduled this post. Also, I missed Constitution Day yesterday, so the image is today instead.<\/p>\n<p>Referred by <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/215393\/ice-attacks-us-citizen-minors-enlist-marines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VoteVets<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know how this looks to someone who is not a veteran. To, me it looks a lot like murder. ICE did not kill their bodies &#8211; but it did kill something in them &#8211; some pary of their spirit which wanted to serve their country. Something like patriotism. And, of course, these two youths are not alone. I don&#8217;t know whether thw goal of the current regime is to murder patriotism in every American who has any &#8211; but, you know, it might as well be. One thing which cannot move through the internet (not even with a 3D printer &#8211; not yet) is tears &#8211; so at least mine won&#8217;t splash onto you. So at least I don&#8217;t have to apologize for that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/09\/15\/g-s1-143407\/massie-impeach-hegseth-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This is from Tuesday<\/a> &#8211; but by now we should know whether it went anywhere. I doubt it does. Possibly after early January the new Congress might be able to accomplish something. There are more and more pundits (since we don&#8217;t have a perfect word for &#8220;people with education, brains, and solid experience in real administrations&#8221;) who are starting to fear, as I do, impeaching the Mango Monster &#8211; because J D Vance. But there is no one in the cabinet who does not merit impeachment. Kegsbreath is just the most obviously destructive. (Update &#8211; this scared Mike Johnson so that he called a recessfor Congress. They won&#8217;t be back in session until after the midterms. He might eventually regret that &#8211; unless he&#8217;s thinking that Hegseth will get impeached whenever the House votes on it &#8211; but afyer the midterms maybe he can blame it on Democrats.)<\/p>\n<p>Look, this is how dangerous AI could be &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/sanders-bannon-ai-regulation-washington-b3050333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon<\/a> are teaming up to fight it. If that doesn&#8217;t scare you, I don&#8217;t know what would.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cR6HJ2S3BGk?si=0slzQo9jqL1Ee7-N\" 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\/fgUK5JTsAQg?si=tyzwAWbrZkQqHX-C\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/batteries-e1789692227288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned that Amazon&#8217;s electric delivery trucks (which they are touting as green) are charged with Diesel generators, Also, after findng out Wednesday that my old Yahooemail had been hacked, I got up early (for me) so I could find a phone number (which is not available from the help postings) &#8211; because the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/18\/open-thread-september-18-2026\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,35,3,5],"tags":[4355,4111,7794,3869,7796,3725,4077,3722,3811,7797,7795],"class_list":["post-60120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holiday","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-animals","tag-cats","tag-charging-electric-appliances","tag-constitution","tag-cruelty-is-the-point","tag-holiday","tag-ice","tag-impeachment","tag-personal","tag-russo-japanese-war","tag-strange-bedfellows","category-145-id","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\/60120","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=60120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60129,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60120\/revisions\/60129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}