{"id":28313,"date":"2017-06-30T07:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28313"},"modified":"2017-06-30T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T16:38:32","slug":"friday-fun-brief-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/friday-fun-brief-potpourri\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Brief Potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be very short bits and pieces because my pseudo-uncle (my aunt\u2019s brother) just got released from the hospital and needs to have someone stay with him.\u00a0 His son is a head pharmacist of the oncology section at a large teaching hospital here in KCMO and has to be at work (and his other three kids live out of town).\u00a0 So my pseudo-aunt (his other sister) and I are going to stay with him today.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re all aware of the Tweet storm <strong><em>Twitler<\/em><\/strong> set off \u2013 <em>AGAIN<\/em> \u2013 with another misogynistic series against <strong>Mika Brzezinski<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0I think today\u2019s front page of the New York Daily News aptly summarizes how the huge majority of Americans view Twitler\u2019s toddler behavior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Trump_Headline_Eagle-Hang-Head-Shame_Humiliation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Trump_Headline_Eagle-Hang-Head-Shame_Humiliation-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Trump_Headline_Eagle-Hang-Head-Shame_Humiliation-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Trump_Headline_Eagle-Hang-Head-Shame_Humiliation-124x150.jpg 124w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Trump_Headline_Eagle-Hang-Head-Shame_Humiliation.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for <strong>Melania<\/strong> to take notes from her predecessor on how to deal with this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;You tired of winning yet, you orange mothe\u2014&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UAsOe4YH8G\">pic.twitter.com\/UAsOe4YH8G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gabe Ort\u00edz ?\ufe0f\u200d? (@TUSK81) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TUSK81\/status\/845456242801729536\">March 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But I did get a kick out of <strong>Mika\u2019s<\/strong> trolling rejoinder to the insults<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8YhzcCUwM1\">pic.twitter.com\/8YhzcCUwM1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/morningmika\/status\/880415526371176448\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re as tired of seeing Twitler\u2019s mug \u2013 and happen to use Chrome as your browser \u2013 you can install an extension that will change the news sourced pictures he\u2019s in to cute little kittens.\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t work with social media sites.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Background story:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/make-america-kittens-again-google-chrome-extension-replaces-donald-trump-with-kittens-2016-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/make-america-kittens-again-google-chrome-extension-replaces-donald-trump-with-kittens-2016-12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Chrome Extension Link:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/make-america-kittens-agai\/klchnmggepghlcolikgaekpibclpmgcm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/make-america-kittens-agai\/klchnmggepghlcolikgaekpibclpmgcm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And you\u2019ll get a huge kick from the former president of Mexico, <strong>Vicente Fox<\/strong>, giving Twitler some sound advice on how to avoid starting a nuclear war.\u00a0 The entire five minutes are well worth it!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2FrQRHW3XHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s end on an upbeat note and enjoy a symphony orchestra concert in Turkey.\u00a0 If you\u2019re lucky, you can grab a front row seat just like this dog did \u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R6BjWIbY4Ok?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty clear that \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>His Bach was worse than his bite.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be very short bits and pieces because my pseudo-uncle (my aunt\u2019s brother) just got released from the hospital and needs to have someone stay with him.\u00a0 His son is a head pharmacist of the oncology section at a large teaching hospital here in KCMO and has to be at work (and his other <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/friday-fun-brief-potpourri\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","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\/28313","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}