{"id":21684,"date":"2016-05-06T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21684"},"modified":"2016-05-06T08:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:24:41","slug":"open-thread-562016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/open-thread-562016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/6\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I celebrated Cinco de Mayo by having a couple Burritos delivered.&#160; Today I\u2019m rushing to finish in time to go get George a new ankle.&#160; It\u2019s a hot humid day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:02 (average 5:08).&#160; To do it, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-05-06-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/5\/4\/1523002\/-Sit-back-and-watch-republican-women-react-to-the-idea-of-a-Donald-Trump-nomination-video\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: How do Republican women feel about Donald Trump as the likely presidential nominee for the Republican party? <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WIs0xHoz4zo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On the other hand, some Republican women are so brainwashed, that they want to be kept the way Rump Dump wants them:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0506TrumpGal\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0506TrumpGal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/0506TrumpGal.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"272\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From, <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/06\/us\/politics\/paul-ryan-donald-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">: In an extraordinary rebuke of his party\u2019s presumed nominee, Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation\u2019s highest-ranking elected Republican, said Thursday that he was \u201cnot ready\u201d to endorse <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/us\/elections\/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per\" target=\"_blank\">Donald J. Trump<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> for president.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Mr. Ryan\u2019s announcement represented a split among Republicans not seen in at least a half century, and it came only two days after Mr. Trump said he would unify the party after essentially clinching the nomination with <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/04\/us\/politics\/indiana-republican-democratic.html\" target=\"_blank\">his victory in the Indiana primary<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A rejection, albeit temporary, from Lyin&#8217; Ryan is a failure to top a VERY low bar!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/video-stop-calling-donald-trump-controversial\/210149\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">:News networks frequently use the word \u201ccontroversial\u201d to describe Donald Trump\u2019s anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican comments, and it\u2019s setting a dangerous precedent for the way the media talks about bigotry in American politics..<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">&#160;<\/font><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/S7Jy-yGdO9A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><font color=\"#0000ff\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There&#8217;s nothing controversial about Rump Dump! Hid fascist hate mongering is just plain anti-American!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0506Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0506Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/0506Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"420\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Originally posted on this date in 2012.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I celebrated Cinco de Mayo by having a couple Burritos delivered.&#160; Today I\u2019m rushing to finish in time to go get George a new ankle.&#160; It\u2019s a hot humid day. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:02 (average 5:08).&#160; To do it, click here. How did you do? 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