{"id":26402,"date":"2017-02-18T14:18:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T22:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26402"},"modified":"2017-02-18T14:18:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T22:18:48","slug":"open-thread-2182017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/18\/open-thread-2182017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/18\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running late as I have a lot to do, so please pardon my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:20 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-02-18-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=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">All In<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Scott Pruitt won&#8217;t get a warm welcome at EPA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An enemy of the Environmental Protection Agency has been confirmed as its leader. And the staff is revolting. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_cpruittepa_170217\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to EPA employees, but they are resisting.&#160; Pruitt is revolting&#8230; VERY revolting!!&#160; If those emails reveal what I think they will, Republicans will have another criminal scandal.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/2\/16\/1634600\/-Trump-s-pick-to-replace-Flynn-as-National-Security-Advisor-says-no-way\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The man who was reportedly tapped by Trump to replace the disgraced Michael Flynn as National Security Adviser has said no dice to this administration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robert-harward-turns-down-national-security-adviser-job\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=34592132\" target=\"_blank\">Vice Admiral Robert Heyward has reportedly said thanks but no thanks.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two sources close to the situation confirm Harward&#160; Harward demanded his own team, and the White House resisted.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Mr. Trump told Deputy National Security Adviser K. T. McFarland that she could retain her post, even after the ouster of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Harward refused to keep McFarland as his deputy, and after a day of negotiations over this and other staffing matters, Harward declined to serve as Flynn\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Since then even David Petraeus, who earned the label Betraeus for goose-stepping behind Crawford Caligula, turned the Fuhrer down. Potential appointees in many areas are coming to realize that appointment in the Rectum Reich is a career ender. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/david-daubenmire-lets-get-our-pitchforks-and-torches-and-arrest-that-traitor-obama-for-undermining-president-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Right Wing Watch<\/a>: <\/font>On his \u201cPass The Salt Live\u201d webcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j8qx1Wn_vJM\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a>, Religious Right activist Dave Daubenmire called on citizens to rise up with pitchforks and torches and arrest that \u201ctraitor\u201d Barack Obama for undermining President Trump and trying to \u201cdestroy America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump, now we know his own CIA, FBI\u2014what do they call those guys? The snoops\u2014they\u2019re not sharing all their information with the president now,\u201d Daubenmire said. \u201cThey\u2019re not giving him the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They\u2019re undermining him at every turn. Why? Well, we have to understand that we\u2019re in a war. We\u2019re at war and to see what President Obama put into place, his desire to destroy America, I think he ought to be arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/l0bYNTGFExA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Attributing mob violence to Jesus is what Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian Trump Nazis do. It is NOT what Christians do! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0218Cartoon\" 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=\"0218Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0218Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running late as I have a lot to do, so please pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:20 (average 5:06).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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