{"id":27316,"date":"2017-04-25T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27316"},"modified":"2017-04-25T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T20:19:03","slug":"open-thread-4252017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/open-thread-4252017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/25\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another day that the pain remains severe, but I did get enough sleep to publish.&#160; I expect to publish tomorrow as well, as I have to be up to receive a grocery delivery.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 4:04).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-04-25-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=JghI3-IUM3U\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s Downfall (And Trump\u2019s, Too?) | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/JghI3-IUM3U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">All should boycott all things Trump. As I said\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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-1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">\u2026 and a few more. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/obamas-barrage-of-complete-sentences-seen-as-brutal-attack-on-trump\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In an appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, former President Barack Obama unloaded a relentless barrage of complete sentences in what was widely seen as a brutal attack on his successor, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing at his first public event since leaving office, Obama fired off a punishing fusillade of grammatically correct sentences, the likes of which the American people have not heard from the White House since he departed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe totally restricted his speech to complete sentences,\u201d Tracy Klugian, a student at the event, said. \u201cIt was the most vicious takedown of Trump I\u2019d ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout five or six sentences in, I noticed that all of his sentences had both nouns and verbs in them,\u201d Carol Foyler, another student, said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe he was going after Trump like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! It must be an attack on the Fuhrer for Obama to have used the science of grammar! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/4\/25\/1656096\/-Collapse-Against-fierce-Democratic-opposition-Trump-surrenders-on-funding-for-his-wall\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump still insists that Mexico is going to pay for the border wall. Except Mexico stubbornly refuses to send an up-front check for something that would cost as much as their national budget, is designed to wreck their economy, and is basically the world\u2019s biggest and \u201cmost beautiful\u201d screw-you. So until Trump figures out exactly how to get Mexico to shell out for a giant slap in the face, there\u2019s the problem of finding that money in your pocket. <\/p>\n<p>Last week Trump budget director, and chief torturer of both reason and common decency, Mick Mulvaney, proposed that Trump might let slip a dollar worth of health care for every dollar that Democrats provided for hate concrete. Mulvaney insisted that the Wall was a must-have, take-it-or-leave-it item, but his healthcare for hardware exchange was not exactly a deal anyone rushed to embrace.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, there was no need to, because faced with the idea of hitting a government shutdown on Day 99 of his regime, Donald Trump appears ready to <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-opens-door-delaying-funding-border-wall\/story?id=47001806\" target=\"_blank\">fold like a gaudy gold napkin<\/a> in the Mar-a-lago dining and strategic planning room.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump has two choices, fold or face the consequences of his shutdown. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0425Cartoon\" 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=\"0425Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0425Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another day that the pain remains severe, but I did get enough sleep to publish.&#160; I expect to publish tomorrow as well, as I have to be up to receive a grocery delivery. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 4:04).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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