{"id":22111,"date":"2016-05-28T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22111"},"modified":"2016-05-28T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T23:01:39","slug":"open-thread-5282916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/28\/open-thread-5282916\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/28\/2916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I was so tired that I took a nap in the morning, took A nap in the afternoon. and took a nap in the evening.&#160; I&#8217;m getting a late start today, because Julie was here.&#160; After I was shined and refined to puddy perfection, I helped her with a few things on the computer and took her out for lunch from a neighborhood food cart.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:33).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-05-28-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/americanbridgepac.org\/watch-the-t-files-donald-trump-conspiracy-theorist\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Bridge PAC<\/a>: <\/font>From birtherism to 9\/11-trutherism, and a long-held conviction that global warming is \u201ca hoax,\u201d Donald Trump has for years dabbled in widely-debunked and discredited conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lci6Q79DSAs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Except for the 9\/11 Truther BS, his nut-job theories are standard Republican Party line.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/05\/26\/1531300\/-Trump-Hotel-Bookings-Plummet-59\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>From The <em>Daily Mail<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bookings at Trump Hotels have plummeted by more than half since The Donald launched his controversial presidential campaign. <\/p>\n<p>While Trump&#8217;s own popularity among his voters did not waver as he strode towards the Republican nomination, the hotel arm of his empire has taken a hit, according to data from travel firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hipmunk.com\/tailwind\/are-trump-hotels-trumping\/#.V0bssIUrJaR\" target=\"_blank\">Hipmunk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reservations at his hotel collection have fallen by 59 per cent year-on-year as their market share has crumbled.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not be more pleased that people are protesting against Rump Dump with their wallets.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/17\/report-rupert-murdoch-and-fox-news-all-donald-trump\/210466\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>In a New York magazine article, Gabriel Sherman reported that Rupert Murdoch, executive co-chairman of Fox News&#8217; parent company, \u201chas signaled he plans to fully back Trump in the general election against Hillary Clinton\u201d in \u201ca sharp reversal from the hostile view he held over much of the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I told you that the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda would goose-step behind whomever the Reich picked as Fuhrer.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0528Cartoon\" 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=\"0528Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/0528Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was so tired that I took a nap in the morning, took A nap in the afternoon. and took a nap in the evening.&#160; 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