{"id":23028,"date":"2016-07-14T09:33:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23028"},"modified":"2016-07-14T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T16:33:43","slug":"open-thread-7142016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/open-thread-7142016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 7\/14\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please pardon me for being very brief.  I slept very poorly last night, and feel very tired.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 2:52 (average 4:51).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>It was somewhere around North Dakota when the realization began to take hold. Donald Trump really is going to be the Republican nominee for president.<\/p>\n

Republican insiders were looking forward to cavorting in Cleveland with their regular cast of money men, evangelicals on vacation, and money men, but Trump has frightened away most of the big donors along with what passes for the cool crowd in the GOP (can I get a \u201clet\u2019s replace income tax with a value added tax?\u201d Whoop!). It all points to one terrible conclusion: the parties are going to suck.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Many GOP regulars are skipping Cleveland entirely. (\u201cI would rather attend the public hanging of a good friend,\u201d says Will Ritter, an up-and-coming Republican digital strategist who worked on the three previous conventions.) And among those who are making the trek, there\u2019s an overwhelming sense it won\u2019t be fun at all. At a time when many Republicans are deeply dissatisfied with their nominee, pessimistic about their prospects for victory in the fall and alarmed about the direction of their party, there\u2019s a reluctance about attending the convention more typically reserved for going to the DMV, being summoned for jury duty or undergoing a root canal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When I lived in Phoenix I had a friend, who was a high-end call girl (non-professional friendship) She explained to me that when groups of Republicans and\/or Talibangical pseudo-Christians had conventions there, the working girls imported backup from Vegas, because the demand was far more that the local talent could bear. That said, other than strutting with guns, we know what kind of "Family Values" parties Republicans will throw for themselves in Cleveland.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>After a startlingly swift transfer of power that made her Britain\u2019s prime minister, Theresa May<\/a> took charge of a new government on Wednesday, vowing to honor the referendum to leave the European Union and naming Boris Johnson, the former London mayor who had been widely considered politically dead, as foreign minister.<\/p>\n

Correct me, if I’m wrong, but isn’t Johnson the UK version of Rump Dump Rectum?<\/font><\/p>\n

From CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump is currently winning more of the white evangelical vote than 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, according to a Pew Research Center poll<\/a> released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Trump — a Presbyterian<\/a> who has been married three times and has said he has never sought forgiveness from God<\/a> — is hardly a prototypical candidate for evangelicals, and Romney, a Mormon<\/a>, also faced questions about the authenticity of his Christian faith.<\/p>\n

But if the election were held today, 78% of white evangelical registered voters say they would vote for Trump, including about a third who "strongly" back his campaign. That number is higher than the 73% of white evangelicals who supported Romney at a similar point during the 2012 election.<\/p>\n

There is propaganda from lefty regressives that lefties should vote third party, because Trump is not a serious threat. Hogwash!  We thought Crawford Caligula could never win reelection  in 2004.  I still remember the shame of apologizing to foreign friends all over the world, because we thought the win was in the bag.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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