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Wednesday Open Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Wed Sep 16, 2026 at 08:08:54 PM EST
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Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome.

I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fashion Show. Pro Publica has a feature article on how Little Trump's wedding in Aruba was funded by a Russian businessman close to Putin.

I am keeping up with Senor de los Cielos.

I couldn't care less about almost has-been Trump, other than wishing him and his supporters a miserable new year, filled with legal fees and election losses and a diminution of his brand name for licensing purposes. (I'm not cruel enough to wish ill health on anyone).

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    Well I'm not cruel enough (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by fishcamp on Wed Sep 16, 2026 at 09:49:34 PM EST
    To wish him Ill health either, but I would like to see him incarcerated in a Federal prison and name it after him.

    Its tough (none / 0) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 09:48:13 AM EST
    but if the choice is the grim reaper or accountability I would have to go with accountability.

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    I've always expected (none / 0) (#4)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 09:51:52 AM EST
    that when accountability finally came for him he would very quickly become far to sick and frail to be put on trial.

    That is not the kind of ill health I would wish.

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    I'm happy to wish him ill health. (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 09:22:13 AM EST
    I just discovered a cool thing. Its a site for unclaimed property.  Money in this case.  It says to check every state you lived in - its point and click - and as you know I've lived in many states.

    So far I've found three states that have 100.00 or more for me.  And it's real.
    I got this minutes after filing my first claim

    Ill be filing more

    Unclaimed.org

    Yes, absolutely. One of our (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by Peter G on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 12:57:02 PM EST
    daughters did this for us a couple of months ago, and brought in several hundred dollars.

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    I found (none / 0) (#7)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 04:44:51 PM EST
    Warner Bros owes me 288 bucks.  Probably a final paycheck or something

    I left unexpectedly

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    The PA Dept of State emailed me today (5.00 / 2) (#18)
    by Peter G on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 04:17:27 PM EST
    to say I should expect to see my mail-in ballot for November arrive by mail within the next 7 days. When I fill it out, I will certainly use a drop-box, not the USPS, to return it.

    I always vote early (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 06:46:04 PM EST
    I like doing it in person.  There are no lines here to vote early

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    The only drop box here (none / 0) (#21)
    by Chuck0 on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 08:11:50 PM EST
    is downtown in the county bldg. If I could get up those stairs out front, I'd vote in person. I'm stuck with USPS. It is illegal for someone else to drop off your ballot. You have to do it yourself.

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    Big, big difference between your county (none / 0) (#24)
    by Peter G on Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 12:46:37 PM EST
    government and mine, ChuckO. Night and day.

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    You have to consider (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by Chuck0 on Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 12:55:29 PM EST
    I live in an area that elected Scott Perry over and over. Hopefully, fingers and toes crossed, we get rid of him in 2026. Of course if that happens, the election will be "rigged."

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    Wait, are you saying that the drop box is (none / 0) (#26)
    by Peter G on Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 12:54:38 PM EST
    located in a spot that is not handicap accessible? No ramp or elevator? That is definitely a violation of federal civil rights law.

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    The handicap entrance is around (none / 0) (#28)
    by Chuck0 on Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 01:03:39 PM EST
    To the back of the bldg. An even longer walk than going up the stairs out front. I think they assume handicap means wheelchair. I do not have a wheelchair. I have knee problems and walk with a cane. But my primary issue is breathing. My bout with COVID left me with permanent lung damage.

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    Interesting (none / 0) (#22)
    by jmacWA on Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 04:48:27 AM EST
    I'm in PA and received no such notification.  Anyone else in PA get one?  Maybe I have to look into this.  The pa.gov ballot status site seems to say I should get a ballot.

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    You wonder if CNN and MSNOW (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 10:43:05 AM EST
    understand that Trumps "announcement" has had exactly the intended effect in that for 2 days now they have not talked about anything else.

    Nothing ekse.

    Not the war or the corruption or D Jr's wedding.

    Just that

    Did anyone watch MSNOW (none / 0) (#6)
    by desertswine on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 02:58:38 PM EST
    today?  What are those things on the palms of Katy Tur's hands?  The resemble large black and blue band-aids.

    I am optimistic about my country (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 06:06:05 PM EST
    If we survive past January as a democracy, and I absolutely believe we will, our system will have withstood a stress test from a scifi movie or a Star Trek episode.

    Our government will have survived being led by one of the stupidest meanest most vile men on earth and a cartoonish  cabinet of misfit toys.

    Seriously, we are currently led by corrupt idiots bent on destroying and/or betraying the country for money. And we are still here.  That's a solid system.  

    Vote.

    While (none / 0) (#10)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 07:33:06 PM EST
    All that is true I worry that something can happen after he is out of office and before the problem can be fixed.

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    You were worried about Abdul (none / 0) (#11)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 08:01:01 PM EST
    He's looking better and better.

    The Hill/Emerson College Polling survey released Thursday found that El-Sayed garnered 48 percent support and Rogers received 46 percent

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    He (none / 0) (#12)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 08:13:22 AM EST
    Underperformed his primary polling so I hope those polls are correct.

    I feel like it is kinda like Georgia in that Assortment may pull Bottoms over the.line and in MI if Benson has enough of a cushion she can pull El Sayed over the line as his polling is always lower than Benson.


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    Darn (none / 0) (#13)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 08:14:47 AM EST
    Autocorrect put assortment instead of Ossoff

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    Chem trails (none / 0) (#9)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Sep 17, 2026 at 06:45:02 PM EST
    F'ing chem trails

    This is good.  It really is.

    YES please do this (none / 0) (#14)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 09:00:31 AM EST

    An impeachment can still be effective as a way of damaging a president, but Trump is already deeply unpopular and will never face voters again, so the upside is limited, and an impeachment might give him a way to rally his remaining base around him--which would only strengthen his power and resolve."

    "But what if House Democrats impeached Trump's Cabinet members instead?"

    Link

    I agree (none / 0) (#17)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 02:59:18 PM EST
    As long as we have the senate and can hold a trial there. It could be a mini Nuremberg

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    I think Trump has a plan (none / 0) (#15)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 10:39:04 AM EST
    I really think in his madness he believes he is all powerful.  Have you seen him talking about how he could ban fishing if he wanted to? .

    His plan is to make everyone hate him intentionally and then prove he can still do whatever he wants anyway.  

    I think his bubble allows him to believe this.

    Here

    Trump tells outdoorsmen at White House dinner he is so powerful he could ban fishing

    For instance (none / 0) (#16)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 02:36:12 PM EST
    "The Trump administration has started building the border wall through a west Texas section of the Big Bend region, marking the first major construction in an area of the U.S.-Mexico border where the administration's plans have met with heavy opposition," the Washington Sun reports.

    It seems like bad politics to further antagonize Texas voters just before competitive midterm election races.

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    Desperate distraction (none / 0) (#20)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Sep 18, 2026 at 07:51:26 PM EST
    President Trump said Friday he would demand drug companies split vaccines into five doses given in six-month intervals, claiming it would reduce autism rates," the Washington Post reports.

    "He did not specify which immunizations he was targeting."

    Said Trump: "The vaccine size will be much, much less. I think you're going to see a massive reduction in autism. And that's a big deal, a very big deal. We're going to be recommending that and actually demanding it."

    Complete snake-oil quackery. And (none / 0) (#25)
    by Peter G on Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 12:51:20 PM EST
    in fact it is my understanding that there are no separated MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccines approved or offered on the market. If this regimen were somehow to go into effect, the result would be a massive increase in those diseases, particularly among kids.  And no decrease, needless to say, in autism.

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    Going back (none / 0) (#29)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Sep 19, 2026 at 06:26:36 PM EST
    To NC tomorrow. I am in Niagara Falls. This is the last stop but have driven through western NY, Eastern Pa, western Maryland, mountains of Virginia and saw 1 Trump sign and one bumper sticker.

    Spent two nights in Lancaster PA and saw ads for the lady running against Perry.

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