{"id":28322,"date":"2017-06-30T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28322"},"modified":"2017-06-30T13:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T20:11:05","slug":"open-thread-6302017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/open-thread-6302017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/30\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As June comes to an end, it&#8217;s heat wave time in Portland with 88\u00b0 forecast and high humidity, currently 62%.&#160; I need to install a new poll tomorrow morning.&#160; Does anyone have a good idea for a poll question?&#160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:40 (average 5:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-06-30-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=WwqUyDmvy5w\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Fox News shames Medicaid recipients<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WwqUyDmvy5w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only way the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, can defend RepubliCare is to viciously attack RepubliCare&#8217;s intended victims. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/6\/28\/1676216\/-Video-of-Trump-having-spoiled-brat-fit-at-children-s-school-goes-viral\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Donald Trump\u2019s Achilles\u2019 Heel and\/or the soft, dark, underbelly of his weakness is clearly his ego. So, it would make sense that one way for the frustrated and angry American people to get back at him would be to mock his fragile, legend-in-his-own-mind, immature self-importance. Donald Trump has been called the man-child\/boy-president and been spoofed all over the Internet with images of him as a grown toddler. You can see some of those images <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/2\/21\/1636372\/-The-internet-is-trolling-with-funny-Tiny-Trump-images-sure-to-get-his-tiny-fingers-tweeting?salzillo\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. This video falls right in line.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Th5uVIhQ8VY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared the long version, because I could embed it. The character in the video is far too ethical, mature, and well-behaved to be Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Maddow Show<\/a>: <\/font><strong>Trump allies work to smear FBI, discredit Russia investigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Miller, former chief spokesman for the Justice Department, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump allies going on offense to discredit the FBI officials and the Trump Russia investigation. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_bsmear_170629\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Both Snake in the Grassley and Lindsey Poo will stop at nothing to protect their Fuhrer and their Reich from the truth. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0630Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0630Cartoon\" 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=\"0630Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0630Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As June comes to an end, it&#8217;s heat wave time in Portland with 88\u00b0 forecast and high humidity, currently 62%.&#160; I need to install a new poll tomorrow morning.&#160; Does anyone have a good idea for a poll question?&#160; Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:40 (average 5:34).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/open-thread-6302017\/' 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-28322","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\/28322","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=28322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}