{"id":60404,"date":"2026-11-06T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60404"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T10:36:57","slug":"open-thread-november-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/11\/06\/open-thread-november-6-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 6 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Guy Fawkes Day. I lmow the picture didn&#8217;t look much like the masks &#8211; but then the masks don&#8217;t look much like the man. I&#8217;m always aware of Guy Fawkes day -not because I hare Treason (although of course I do), but because the 5th of November is exactly 6 months from the 5th of May, which is Virgil&#8217;s and my anniversary. We did not plan it that way &#8211; it just happened And it&#8217;s always good for a laugh or two.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borowitzreport.com\/p\/desperate-jd-vance-rebrands-himself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy<\/a>&#8216;s best. He had me LOLing multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>As a native of the South, and a former DOJ prosecutor, <a href=\"https:\/\/joycevance.substack.com\/p\/whats-happening-in-mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joyce<\/a> gets the legal points of what&#8217;s going on here &#8211; and how long, at a minimum we&#8217;ll have to wait. Mary Peltola;s race is a bit different &#8211; they have ranked choice voting, and there were four or five candidates on the ballot, and that&#8217;s a lot of math. And they may also have to wait for some ballots &#8211; until thw 10th, IIRC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is just <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/the-best-vicory-speecht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich&#8217;s opinion<\/a>. But Robert Reich tends to have good opinions. So I thought I&#8217;d share it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S2tPLLYBuxg?si=FhC69Y0OLZS5ftpK\" 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\/1qYjr-8ESCI?si=Jt2KPBqnOmJXpkIN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Canada-e1793957936525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"797\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Guy Fawkes Day. I lmow the picture didn&#8217;t look much like the masks &#8211; but then the masks don&#8217;t look much like the man. I&#8217;m always aware of Guy Fawkes day -not because I hare Treason (although of course I do), but because the 5th of November is exactly 6 months from the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/11\/06\/open-thread-november-6-2026\/' 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":[6431,4355,7943,4117,4531,7944,3866,4354,7945,3811,3792],"class_list":["post-60404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-andy-borowitz","tag-animals","tag-blue-tsunami","tag-canada","tag-dogs","tag-election-aftermath","tag-history","tag-journalism","tag-mississippi-election","tag-personal","tag-robert-reich","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\/60404","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=60404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60409,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60404\/revisions\/60409"}],"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=60404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}