{"id":27249,"date":"2017-04-20T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27249"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:36:25","slug":"open-thread-4202017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/20\/open-thread-4202017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 4\/20\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still in a lot of pain, but I slept last night, so I can publish.  For the most part, until I improve, whether or not I publish will depend on whether I slept the night before.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 2:42 (average 4:58).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Offering a stunningly blunt appraisal of the North Korean leader, Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that Kim Jong-un was a \u201ctotally unqualified person\u201d who attained his position of power only through nepotism.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere you have a guy who has no government experience, and he\u2019s in charge of the whole thing,\u201d Kushner said, in an interview with Fox News. \u201cIt\u2019s the craziest thing I\u2019ve ever heard of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kushner noted that, instead of working his way up and acquiring the skills necessary to do his job, the North Korean leader had been given huge responsibilities and power \u201conly because of family connections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Very observant Andy. Kushner is the "how to" expert on nepotism. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Trump might have won the elections (which again is controversial), but he couldn\u2019t win the hearts of the people. We believed that at least his supporters who voted for him would be happy with his performance, but a new Pew poll<\/a> confirmed Trump\u2019s low approval ratings.<\/p>\n

Compared to Obama\u2019s 61% during his first term, Trump scored 39%, which is the lowest approval rating for any president in his first term. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s worse among the minorities. 81% Blacks and 78% Hispanics disapproved of him.<\/p>\n

63% believe Trump is too impulsive.<\/p>\n

The ratings are worse for Ryan, who has an approval rating of 29% and disapproval rating of 54%.<\/p>\n

I like it, but the disapproval would be most gratifying if both were unemployed. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s reign as the top-rated host in cable news came to an abrupt and embarrassing end on Wednesday as Fox News forced him out after the disclosure of a series of sexual harassment allegations against him and an internal investigation that turned up even more.<\/p>\n

Woooo Hoooo!! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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I’m still in a lot of pain, but I slept last night, so I can publish.  For the most part, until I improve, whether or not I publish will depend on whether I slept the night before. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 2:42 (average 4:58).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27249","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\/27249","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=27249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}