{"id":24907,"date":"2016-11-23T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24907"},"modified":"2016-11-23T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T18:36:37","slug":"open-thread-11232016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/23\/open-thread-11232016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/23\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m hurrying this morning, because I&#8217;m hoping for time for a nap, before Wendy and her niece arrive for early Thanksgiving dinner.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:54 (average 5:01).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-11-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Tales<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/11\/21\/1602618\/-MSNBC-host-Joe-Scarborough-has-been-advising-Trump-behind-the-scene\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Oh, national &quot;news&quot; media. What the hell <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/it-s-time-msnbc-address-reports-joe-scarborough-advising-donald-trump\/214579\" target=\"_blank\">are you even for<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On November 19, The New York Times reported that Trump \u201cstill maintains the routine that sustained him during the campaign,\u201d which includes \u201coften seek[ing] out\u201d advice from [MSNBC host Joe Scarborough]. CNN media reporter Brian Stelter referenced the Times report on the November 20 edition of CNN\u2019s Reliable Sources, stating that Scarborough has been giving Trump advice.\u201d Scarborough failed to address the allegations during the November 21 edition of Morning Joe. <\/p>\n<p>Scarborough has repeatedly attacked those who claimed he was supporting Trump on-air. In November, Scarborough lashed out at the \u201creally disgusting\u201d people who suggested he favored Trump, adding that he doesn\u2019t want viewers to believe \u201cthat anybody [on Morning Joe] is rooting for Donald Trump because we\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Outstanding. Just outstanding. So Joe Scarborough has been giving Trump regular advice, and the MSNBC appendage has nothing to say about this beyond his past attacks on people who would suggest such things.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As I have said, while MSNBC is the most balanced cable news network, it is anything but liberal. The Fuhrer&#8217;s goose-stepping shill, Joe Scarborough and Joe&#8217;s ersatz liberal punching bag, Mika Brzezinski, control the three hour breakfast time slot on the network, and get as much air time as Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow, and Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell combined.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gnnj_YjdJgs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Surprisingly Easy Way to Get Rid of Donald Trump | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Gnnj_YjdJgs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As much as I love Keith, I disagree. The only difference between Trump and Pence is that Pence dog-whistles what Trump says.. Furthermore, Republicans are too foul for enough of them to take those actions.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/business\/article\/Koch-Brothers-others-can-keep-Madoff-billions-10631360.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> (Hat Tip JL A): <\/font>Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch\u2019s company fought for years to hold on to millions of dollars in profit from Bernard Madoff\u2019s Ponzi scheme. That battle just paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Koch Industries and dozens of other former Madoff customers are expected to keep as much as $2 billion they made from the con man\u2019s bogus securities transactions after U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Stuart Bernstein in Manhattan ruled the cash is out of reach of a trustee recovering money for victims.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling on Monday underscores that even eight years after the collapse of the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, the litigation stemming from the scam is still being defined by which Madoff customers profited at the expense of others. Many are still waiting for their principal.<\/p>\n<p>Koch Industries and defendants in about 100 other suits argued the profit was beyond U.S. jurisdiction because it had been transferred \u2014 usually from offshore feeder funds to foreign banks \u2014 in the years before Madoff\u2019s December 2008 arrest. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In short, thousands lost their homes, their pensions and their life savings, and they will recover nothing, because the Koch Brothers and other Vulture Capitalists hid their ill-gotten in secret offshore accounts, co the courts cant make them return it, the judge says.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1123Cartoon\" 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=\"1123Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1123Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">TC will chow down tonight!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hurrying this morning, because I&#8217;m hoping for time for a nap, before Wendy and her niece arrive for early Thanksgiving dinner. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 2:54 (average 5:01).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Tales: From Daily Kos: Oh, national &quot;news&quot; media. 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