{"id":28177,"date":"2017-06-20T12:49:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28177"},"modified":"2017-06-20T12:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T19:49:04","slug":"open-thread-6202017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/20\/open-thread-6202017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/20\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday we set another heat record for the date, 88\u00b0 with extreme humidity.&#160; Now we have two days in the mid 70\u00b0s, before the next heat wave including mid 90\u00b0s this weekend.&#160; The building&#8217;s hallways and bathrooms are still so hot, that after my last trip to Republicate, my hair was sweat soaked and I had to dry it.&#160; Except for the heat, I&#8217;m feeling pretty well.&#160; Having gone from extreme Republicitis to extreme Republicosis, I returned to mild Republicitis.&#160; Now I have mild Republicosis.&#160; I guess this is what it takes to return to normal.&#160; I just put in tomorrow&#8217;s grocery order, and Thursday is my first outing.&#160; I have the preliminary appointment before my cataract surgery.&#160; Have a Republican-free day.<\/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 5:27).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-20-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=F4sGcQhdWns\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump Appears to Be Self-Destructing | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/F4sGcQhdWns?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Party is desperate to hold the Fuhrer together, until they finish their task of giving the rest of YOUR money to billionaires, destroying YOUR freedom, and establishing their permanent, totalitarian Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-last-word\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Word<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Jon Ossoff responds to Trump&#8217;s attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the Georgia 6th District special election, Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff joins Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell to react to President Donald Trump&#8217;s attacks on him and explains why he is trying to talk about health care as much as possible during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_eossoff_170619\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Jon is an example of a Democrat, who has tailored a progressive agenda to the needs of his own constituents. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/20\/opinion\/voter-turnout-democrats-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>If liberals voted at the same rate as conservatives, Hillary Clinton would be president. Even with Donald Trump\u2019s working-class appeal, Clinton could have swept Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>If liberals voted at the same rate as conservatives, Democrats would control the Senate. Clinton or Barack Obama could then have filled the recent Supreme Court vacancy, and that justice would hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/19\/us\/politics\/scalias-death-offers-best-chance-in-a-generation-to-reshape-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\">the tiebreaking vote<\/a> on campaign finance, labor unions and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>If liberals voted at the same rate as conservatives, the country would be doing more to address the two defining issues of our time \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/11\/28\/science\/what-is-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\">climate change<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/11\/opinion\/a-great-fight-of-our-times.html\" target=\"_blank\">stagnant middle-class living standards<\/a>. Instead, Trump is making both worse.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! And\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<h1><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0620Cartoon\" 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=\"0620Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0620Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we set another heat record for the date, 88\u00b0 with extreme humidity.&#160; Now we have two days in the mid 70\u00b0s, before the next heat wave including mid 90\u00b0s this weekend.&#160; The building&#8217;s hallways and bathrooms are still so hot, that after my last trip to Republicate, my hair was sweat soaked and I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/20\/open-thread-6202017\/' 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-28177","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\/28177","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=28177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}