{"id":60166,"date":"2026-09-24T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60166"},"modified":"2026-09-24T02:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:31:16","slug":"open-thread-september-24-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/open-thread-september-24-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread September 24 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept until later than I have been lately, but at least was awake when up, and no dizzy spells.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/the-fine-print-in-democrats-hollywood-merger-surrender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Not good<\/a> &#8211; but better to know about it than not to.<\/p>\n<p>More about AI, his time from <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/xi-and-the-dilemma-of-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a>, and extending as far as China.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/68a3a7a086f56252a95e0de0\/t\/6ab3d9b9c5a96627eb37a462\/1790171577687\/VA+Privatization+Playbook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is 40 pages<\/a>. And, at least as long as Medicare stands, it doesn&#8217;t affect me as a veteran (although it does, of course, as a taxpayer. Privatization of anything is a bad idea for taxpayers.) Naturally, the idea traces back to the Kochs &#8211; to when more of them were still alive &#8211; but there are plenty to carry on.<\/p>\n<p>One thing <a href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/fdr-build-it-trump-broke-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Schmidt<\/a> is good at is history. Maybe not as good as a professional historian, but able to make it easy for a reader to get a feeling of the time in question, and in this case, a feeling for what we have lost and are losing more of.<\/p>\n<p>RR Cleanup<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sjAlkvjdhww?si=mP36sZJLsffS-Zcy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dog 2fer<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p9OymgsKZ-4?si=nKqbeY7CKQK8L41x\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/extinction-e1790238868764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I slept until later than I have been lately, but at least was awake when up, and no dizzy spells. Not good &#8211; but better to know about it than not to. More about AI, his time from Robert Reich, and extending as far as China. Yes, this is 40 pages. And, at least <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/open-thread-september-24-2026\/' 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":[4201,4355,4134,4531,7817,3727,7815,3811,3792,7816],"class_list":["post-60166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-ai","tag-animals","tag-china","tag-dogs","tag-entertainment-mergers","tag-fdr","tag-human-extinction","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","tag-veterans-health-care","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\/60166","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=60166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60174,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60166\/revisions\/60174"}],"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=60166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}