{"id":25052,"date":"2016-12-01T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25052"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:31:16","slug":"open-thread-1212016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/open-thread-1212016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/1\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The beginning of the last full month of even partial sanity in the US has been an incredibly busy day.&#160; In addition to my normal first of month record keeping tasks, I have changed the poll and collected all the data for and made all the graphics for tomorrow&#8217;s Monthly Report, so I&#8217;m getting a late start here.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:58 (average 5:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-01-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=cZ8zSsKW0zg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Government-Backed Attackers\u201d May Have Hacked My Account | The Closer with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cZ8zSsKW0zg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Shit!!&#160; What else is there to say?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2016\/11\/29\/1605167\/-Morons-who-voted-for-Republicans-now-worry-they-will-take-away-their-health-care-as-promised\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Trying hard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/11\/19\/502580120\/in-depressed-rural-kentucky-worries-mount-over-medicaid-cutbacks\" target=\"_blank\">not to roll my eyes<\/a> too much.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>People in poverty-stricken Clay County [Kentucky] worry about what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin&#8217;s and President-elect Trump&#8217;s ambitions to overhaul Medicaid proceed. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Clay County, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/11\/20\/1602221\/-Clay-County-KY-a-window-into-the-devastation-of-Trump\" target=\"_blank\">60 percent<\/a> of residents are covered by Medicaid. They voted for Republican Matt Bevin 71-27, and for Donald Trump 86-11. Neither Bevin, nor Trump, made their opposition to Obamacare secret.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As much as I hate to say it, I&#8217;m not sympathetic to the plight of people who did not oppose Trump and will suffer because of his evil Republican policies. At least they will be suffering the consequences of their own idiocy, unlike the plurality of Americans, who knew better, voted responsibly, and will still share equally in those sufferings. Responsible deserve relief first.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-to-step-away-from-making-his-businesses-bankrupt-to-focus-on-bankrupting-country\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: Pre<\/font>sident-elect Donald J. Trump will no longer have day-to-day responsibility for driving his businesses into bankruptcy and will instead focus on bankrupting the country, one of his leading surrogates said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Fox News, Kellyanne Conway said that while Trump no doubt could \u201cplunge both his businesses and the country into bankruptcy at the same time,\u201d he feels that he \u201cowes it to the American people to put them first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging that Trump has no government experience, Conway said that his years of bankrupting a variety of companies would prove \u201cinvaluable\u201d as he does the same to the United States.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! You&#8217;ve hit on a skill at which Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten will surely excel.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1201Cartoon\" 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=\"1201Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1201Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of the last full month of even partial sanity in the US has been an incredibly busy day.&#160; In addition to my normal first of month record keeping tasks, I have changed the poll and collected all the data for and made all the graphics for tomorrow&#8217;s Monthly Report, so I&#8217;m getting a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/open-thread-1212016\/' 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-25052","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\/25052","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=25052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}