{"id":27267,"date":"2017-04-21T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27267"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:36:19","slug":"open-thread-4212017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/21\/open-thread-4212017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/21\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Physically, I remain the same.&#160; I got some sleep, so I&#8217;m here to publish and we&#8217;ll see what tomorrow brings.&#160; I&#8217;m so sick of pain I could &#8230; never mind.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:17 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-21-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=umIUrYlKDPY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump Wants to Ride in a Gilded Coach?! | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/umIUrYlKDPY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Actually, the Fuhrer may be stalking his owner. I bet he want&#8217;s that open coach, because Vladimir Putin [R-RU] got it first. He&#8217;s too vain to accept that he could get his ass assassinated by Brits. That would be problematic, unless he took Pence and others with him. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Winking smile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile.png\" \/>&#160;<strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/4\/19\/1654304\/-Sad-Trump-s-favorite-QB-last-minute-bails-on-White-House-ceremony-with-the-unpopular-president\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>:<\/font> New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Donald Trump have known each other for 16 years. In September 2015, reporters spotted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/new-england-patriots\/2015\/09\/08\/tom-brady-talks-deflategate-fallout-relationship-with-gisele-friendship-with-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Make America Great Again hat in Brady&#8217;s locker.<\/a> Only days before the presidential election, Trump claimed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/donald-trump-tom-brady-bill-belichick-endorsement-2016-11\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Brady endorsed him:<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026When the Patriots won the Super Bowl in February, Trump was thrilled to see his future hall of fame backers win again.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Brady\u2019s teammates announced they would not attend the traditional ceremony at the White House honoring the Super Bowl champs. They did not want to meet or be seen with Toxic Trump. Patriots team captain Devin McCourty made the case for his absence, saying, <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4661940\/new-england-patriots-devin-mccourty-white-house-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;Basic reason for me is I don&#8217;t feel accepted in the White House. With the president having so many strong opinions and prejudices I believe certain people might feel accepted there while others won&#8217;t.&quot;<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026And today, on the day the celebration was supposed to take place, Brady is leaving Trump out to dry. The five time Super Bowl champion suddenly has better things to do.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang!! Thank you Holy Ellipsoid Orb! Now Brady isn&#8217;t the only one with deflated balls.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/jeff-sessions-judge-hawaii-pacific-island.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke dismissively about the State of Hawaii while criticizing a Federal District Court ruling last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-travel-ban.html\" target=\"_blank\">blocked the Trump administration<\/a> from carrying out its ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power,\u201d Mr. Sessions said this week in an interview [<em>Nazi delinked<\/em>] on \u201cThe Mark Levin Show,\u201d a conservative talk radio program.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_bwms_sessions_170420\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In Beauregard&#8217;s defense, at his age, wearing his hood and robes interferes with his vision.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0421Cartoon\" 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=\"0421Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0421Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physically, I remain the same.&#160; I got some sleep, so I&#8217;m here to publish and we&#8217;ll see what tomorrow brings.&#160; I&#8217;m so sick of pain I could &#8230; never mind. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:17 (average 4:54).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (GQ Channel): Trump <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/21\/open-thread-4212017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-27267","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\/27267","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=27267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}