{"id":60418,"date":"2026-11-09T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=60418"},"modified":"2026-11-08T20:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:14:46","slug":"open-thread-november-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2026\/11\/09\/open-thread-november-9-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread November 9 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by and of course we talked about the election. I asked her whether her sons had voted, and she said Zach did, but she couldn&#8217;t get Josh interested. I asked her to tell Zach that I am proud of him for voting. (Zach is the one who takes good care of my front yard. Of course I pay hin &#8211; but there are other friends of Trinette whom he won&#8217;t work for, regardless of pay, because they are micro managers. I guess I can be proud of that too.)<\/p>\n<p>I am still a bit giddy from last week&#8217;s elections &#8211; much like <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/sunday-thought-d6c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich<\/a>. And I 100% am with him on what comes next. So this is the ony short take today I am actually serious about. Two of the following three short takes have serious content, but my response is not serious, and the last one doesn&#8217;t even pretend to be serious. I am, however, serious about Robert Reich&#8217;s thoughts. Not that they are anything you aren&#8217;t already aware of. But, as G.K. Chesterton one said (quoted from memory so likely not word perfect): The human race requires ti be reminded fat more often than it needs to be instructed.<\/p>\n<p>I really only posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2026\/11\/04\/lauren-boebert-election-results-eileen-laubacher-cd4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> so I could say &#8220;That&#8217;s <strong>Admira<\/strong>l Eileen Laubacher to you scurvy Republicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.confrontthehate.com\/p\/the-thiel-tapes-what-do-anti-lgbtq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I just noticed this<\/a>. If you look at the &#8220;l&#8221; in &#8220;Thiel&#8221;, and you take a hyphen ans add it about halfway up&#8230;and the upper half of a small citcle, and put it at the top, out side up&#8230; and then look at the whole name again &#8230; what do you see?<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/pentagon-war-china-munitions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Duffel Blog<\/a>, via Vote Vets. &#8220;Pentagon confident U.S. will be ready for 2027 war with China by 2035.&#8221; Like The Onion *afterwhich it is modeled), The Duffel Blogoften often rings more true than reality.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JBQu5vbgHAM?si=Wxn6rJBFTZ6XYjcd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cat<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBJJ-iTBOiQ?si=nfCQ-RQ6HPzYZ-xK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/OpEds-e1794193743352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Trinette came by and of course we talked about the election. I asked her whether her sons had voted, and she said Zach did, but she couldn&#8217;t get Josh interested. I asked her to tell Zach that I am proud of him for voting. 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