{"id":25593,"date":"2016-12-23T10:17:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T18:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25593"},"modified":"2016-12-23T10:17:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T18:17:35","slug":"open-thread-12232016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/open-thread-12232016\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/23\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I must have been really tired, because I slept nine hours last night, something I virtually never do, but instead of feeling rested, I feel &quot;under a Republican&quot; pooped.&#160; ARGH!!&#160; This morning, I made two kinds of stuffing for Sunday&#8217;s feast.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:55 (average 5:09).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2016-12-23-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=gG0XVzlemtE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/democracynow\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Democracy Now Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich on the First 100 Day Resistance Agenda Against Trump: Protest &amp; &quot;Boycott Everything&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gG0XVzlemtE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right, and the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is wrong. Boycott Everything! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC-All In<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Sen. Merkley: Trump &#8216;has the maturity of a five-year-old&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jeff Merkley slams the president-elect&#8217;s tweet about expanding our nuclear arsenal, praising President Obama&#8217;s efforts to \u2018Trump-proof\u2019 the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_ASenMerkley_161222\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For once I actually have to disagree with Jeff, the Senator I&#8217;m proud to have worked to elect, on one of his points. Five is much too generous an estimate of the Fuhrer&#8217;s maturity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/12\/21\/1613313\/-Trump-team-boycotts-meeting-with-Israeli-official-to-stand-in-solidarity-with-Swedish-neo-Nazi\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Quite the pattern developing here: First it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/12\/20\/1612991\/-Lie-down-with-dogs-wake-up-with-fleas-Guess-who-Trump-s-national-security-advisor-met-up-with\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that Michael Flynn, Donald Trump\u2019s pick to be national security advisor, had a meeting with the leader of a far-right Austrian political party that was founded by ex-Nazis. And now, a senior member of Trump\u2019s transition team who was in Israel to attend \u201ca gathering of conservative parliamentarians from the US and Europe\u201d joined in a boycott of a high-level briefing with Israel\u2019s deputy foreign minister after Israel refused to allow a Swedish neo-Nazi to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/backing-swedish-far-rightist-trump-proxy-boycotts-top-israeli-official\/\" target=\"_blank\">the meeting:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I find it interesting that the Nincompoop Nazi supports hatred of Jews and also supports Butcher Bibi&#8217;s Zionists.&#160; I think that Zionists&#8217; oppression of Muslims carries more weight with Trump than their Hebrew identity, as long as his Alt-Right cronies aren&#8217;t around.<\/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\/12\/1223Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1223Cartoon\" 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=\"1223Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1223Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have been really tired, because I slept nine hours last night, something I virtually never do, but instead of feeling rested, I feel &quot;under a Republican&quot; pooped.&#160; ARGH!!&#160; This morning, I made two kinds of stuffing for Sunday&#8217;s feast. 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