{"id":27878,"date":"2017-06-02T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27878"},"modified":"2017-06-02T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:11:33","slug":"open-thread-622017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/02\/open-thread-622017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/2\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;d like to say yesterday went well, but my Ophthalmologist&#8217;s front office really screwed the pooch.&#160; The doctor was waiting for me at a different office, where they have all the equipment needed for both tests.&#160; However the only way I had been notified was in an the fine print of an online appointment reminder notice at their web portal.&#160; That&#8217;s the wrong way to inform someone who can barely see!&#160; So I had to reschedule the main test, and a technician performed the small test that required only partial dilation.&#160; When I was done, I asked Tri-Met if the could move up my ride home and they got me 45 minutes sooner.&#160; I was frustrated and exhausted from recent heat and humidity, so I just posted that I was OK, and went to bed.&#160; Except for a meal break and Republican depository breaks, I stayed there until morning.&#160; I&#8217;m feeling recovered, but groggy.&#160; The poll change and Monthly Report will be a few days late.&#160; I&#8217;ll finish ASAP.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:11 (average 5:47).&#160; To do it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-02-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=hdoX5rpYMeY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Has Michael Flynn Already Flipped on Trump? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hdoX5rpYMeY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From Keith&#8217;s mouth to God&#8217;s ear. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Also from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s9VZTrtRhN0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The GOP Must Take Responsibility for Trump | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/s9VZTrtRhN0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why don&#8217;t they? This is likely to be the last time that Republican leaders will ever have an opportunity to strip mine all the nation&#8217;s wealth, give it to billionaires,&#160; and create a totalitarian state. If they desert Trump, their chance goes with him. May they rot in hell. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rQsaE3u_ou0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: 7 Reasons Trump&#8217;s Corporate Tax Cuts Make No Sense<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rQsaE3u_ou0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich in the Left, Robert Reich, is right and the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, is anti-American. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/all\" target=\"_blank\">All In<\/a>: <\/font>Report: From start, Trump pushed to lift Russia sanctions<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_hayes_DTrumpRussians_170601\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In three words, <em>quid pro quo<\/em>. In one word, treason. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0602Cartoon\" 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=\"0602Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0602Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to say yesterday went well, but my Ophthalmologist&#8217;s front office really screwed the pooch.&#160; The doctor was waiting for me at a different office, where they have all the equipment needed for both tests.&#160; However the only way I had been notified was in an the fine print of an online appointment reminder <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/02\/open-thread-622017\/' 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-27878","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\/27878","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=27878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}