{"id":28542,"date":"2017-07-11T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28542"},"modified":"2017-07-11T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T20:39:04","slug":"open-thread-7112017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/open-thread-7112017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/11\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m still trying to get appointments squared away.&#160; I&#8217;m about to receive a visit from Melissa from Neighborhood House, the agency that manages the portion of Wendy&#8217;s services that the State pays.&#160; It&#8217;s routine.&#160; She is replacing my previous social worker and wants to get aquatinted, so I&#8217;ll be breaking to visit with her, before I publish today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:24 (average 5:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-07-11-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=OZFX8FEpqOU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Guess What Else Happened on 6\/19\/16 | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OZFX8FEpqOU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I told you that this one would be a doozy. It was. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F2ikgiQp1xE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Medicaid Allowed Him to Die at Home<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/F2ikgiQp1xE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Tell ALL Senators! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/7\/7\/1678637\/-The-Alt-Right-has-an-identity-crisis-in-its-movement-but-we-will-gladly-help-them-out\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>It seems like the alt-right has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-alt-right-branding-war-has-torn-the-movement-in-two\" target=\"_blank\">identity<\/a> problem. It can\u2019t figure out what it wants to be or what it wants to be called. This confusion is driving a wedge between those deplorables who identify with the label \u201calt-right\u201d and white supremacist Richard Spencer who has become the face of the movement, and those who identify with the almost the exact same things he stands for but are uncomfortable publicly aligning themselves with his brand of racism and anti-Semitism. That must be deeply difficult for them, poor little things.<\/p>\n<p>And before you ask, yes, they are serious. They actually see a distinction in their ideologies which is splintering the movement in two. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During the Presidential campaign, the term came to denote several intersecting phenomena: anti-feminism, opposition to political correctness, online abuse, belligerent nihilism, conspiracy theories, inflammatory Internet memes. Some pro-Trump activists adopted this big-tent definition, allowing any youthful, \u201cedgy\u201d critique of establishment conservatism to be considered alt-right. <\/p>\n<p>But a core within the movement always insisted on a narrower conception of the alt-right, one that was inextricably linked with white separatism, and with Spencer specifically. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If the alt-right wants a label, I have two from which they can choose. Nazis and Republicans are equally applicable terms.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0711Cartoon\" 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=\"0711Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0711Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still trying to get appointments squared away.&#160; I&#8217;m about to receive a visit from Melissa from Neighborhood House, the agency that manages the portion of Wendy&#8217;s services that the State pays.&#160; It&#8217;s routine.&#160; She is replacing my previous social worker and wants to get aquatinted, so I&#8217;ll be breaking to visit with her, before <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/11\/open-thread-7112017\/' 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-28542","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\/28542","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=28542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}