{"id":25926,"date":"2017-01-19T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25926"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T18:16:34","slug":"open-thread-1192017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/19\/open-thread-1192017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/19\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the last day of comparative national sanity in the US, and it is my prayer that we all will have survived to celebrate together on the day it returns.&#160; As I see it, the earliest possibility is four years from now, because even if the Perverted Puppet is impeached on Monday, the Pensive pseudo-Christian Psycho is no better.&#160; Tomorrow, Politics Plus will have a day of mourning.&#160; I will post a graphic&#160; announcing it and will spend the rest of the day isolated from political affairs.&#160; It&#8217;s bad enough that I have to suffer through another Republican Reich.&#160; I&#8217;ll be damned if I&#8217;m going to sit and watch that vile pile of excrement rub our noses in it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:42 (average 4:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-01-19-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=s3zNV1ZQ0YM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump\u2019s Devious Plan to Destroy the White House Press Corps | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/s3zNV1ZQ0YM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Isn&#8217;t it interesting that Keith and Robert Reich are mirroring each other.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8okdzcz7PTM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Swamp Dwellers<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8okdzcz7PTM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s not just Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. It&#8217;s how all Republicans &quot;drain&quot; swamps.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/moving-vans-arrive-at-white-house-to-remove-all-traces-of-competence-dignity\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Moving vans arrived at the White House on Wednesday to remove all traces of competence and dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Working around the clock, movers started clearing out the optimism and progress that had accumulated during the past eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we\u2019ve packed up that stuff, we\u2019ll start moving out the wisdom and maturity,\u201d one of the movers said. \u201cThe guy who\u2019s moving in wants all of that gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the movers complete their work, a cleaning crew will come in and scrub the White House of every last speck of compassion.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s more straight news from Andy.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0119Cartoon\" 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=\"0119Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0119Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last day of comparative national sanity in the US, and it is my prayer that we all will have survived to celebrate together on the day it returns.&#160; As I see it, the earliest possibility is four years from now, because even if the Perverted Puppet is impeached on Monday, the Pensive <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/19\/open-thread-1192017\/' 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-25926","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\/25926","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=25926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}