{"id":24635,"date":"2016-11-10T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24635"},"modified":"2016-11-10T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:26:58","slug":"open-thread-11102016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/10\/open-thread-11102016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/10\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m still feeling gob-smacked.&#160; I discarded the poll and will not do a poll results article for it, because I feel shame that we could have been so wrong.&#160; There is a new poll up, and it is most appropriate for the occasion.&#160; In the last fifteen months, I have survived flesh eating bacteria, I have survived a month in a coma, I have survived the loss of a leg, and I have survived cancer.&#160; Whether or not I can survive Herr Reichsfuhrer Drumpfenfart is still an open question, but I sure as hell am not giving up!&#160; Nevertheless, never before have I been so ashamed to be a US American.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jug Zone Puzzles<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday&#8217;s took me 3:49 (average 5:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-11-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; Today&#8217;s took me 2:54 (average 4:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-11-10-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:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uPJtYeUC8x8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A Beautiful, Faraway Dream<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uPJtYeUC8x8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bingo, Sam!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/10\/world\/europe\/for-us-brexit-was-a-sign-of-things-to-come.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>It was a revolt against elite complacency, an almost palpable shock to conventional wisdom and conventional politics. Opponents could barely comprehend the poll-confounding news. This was June in Britain, not November in America, and the upset was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/news-event\/britain-brexit-european-union\" target=\"_blank\">British decision to leave the European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/09\/us\/politics\/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">election of Donald J. Trump<\/a> as America\u2019s 45th president has strong parallels to the British decision, known as \u201cBrexit,\u201d but the impact will be much bigger, in Europe and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump\u2019s victory was hailed by European far-right leaders, including the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban. And there were immediate concerns about how the anti-elitist surge will affect other European votes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I certainly hope this voting trend does not continue in other places, but the impending Reich in the former US&#160; republic proves one thing. The abject fools known as Bridiots for voting for Brexit have now been demoted to the second stupidest group of voters in the world.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=biYHEmzIJwo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Terrorists Have Won: Donald Trump is the New President<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/biYHEmzIJwo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen, Keith!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1110Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1110Cartoon\" 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=\"1110Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1110Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still feeling gob-smacked.&#160; I discarded the poll and will not do a poll results article for it, because I feel shame that we could have been so wrong.&#160; There is a new poll up, and it is most appropriate for the occasion.&#160; In the last fifteen months, I have survived flesh eating bacteria, I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/10\/open-thread-11102016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}