{"id":29061,"date":"2017-08-18T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29061"},"modified":"2017-08-18T14:05:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T21:05:03","slug":"open-thread-8182017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/18\/open-thread-8182017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/18\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m preparing to leave for my medical appointment and will publish this when I return this afternoon.&#160; I misread the football schedule.&#160; My Broncos play on Saturday evening and will be televised here.&#160; Wooo Hooo!!&#160; Back.&#160; Excellent results!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:01 (average 4:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-18-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=OU2_Gk4rYYE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Josh Bernstein Says Liberal Group Leaders Should Be Tried For Treason In Wake Of Charlottesville<\/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\/OU2_Gk4rYYE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Damn that Obama! What criminal audacity he had to govern while black. And he even said that black people should be allowed to vote! Treason!!! \u2026 Is this Fascist serious? No wonder the pseudo-Christian sheeple still goose-step with a piddle pervert! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/ivanka-and-jared-vacationing-in-moral-vacuum\" target=\"_blank\">New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>After many noticed their silence amid the calamitous events of the past several days, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, confirmed on Wednesday that they have been enjoying a late-summer vacation in a moral vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief interview with reporters, Trump said that she and Kushner were \u201cjust loving\u201d their time in the moral vacuum, calling it \u201cour very favorite place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s heaven,\u201d she said. \u201cWe get up in the morning and never give a thought to our responsibility as Jews, Americans, or moral actors whose decisions have consequences for other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy is reporting straight news again. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/8\/16\/1690446\/-The-New-York-Times-Confirms-Trump-Is-Not-Only-A-Racist-In-Public-But-In-Private?\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: \\<\/font>There is still a segment of America out there that believes Trump\u2019s public pronouncements\u2014about African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, Jews, really anyone of different color or faith than himself\u2014are some type of political invention,&#160; an opportunistic, contrived pose to please the base of people who put him into office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-charlottesville-white-nationalists.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=a-lede-package-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\">No.<\/a> He\u2019s a real, genuine, dyed-in-the-wool racist. The real deal.<\/p>\n<p>Buried in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-charlottesville-white-nationalists.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=a-lede-package-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\" target=\"_blank\">this New York Times<\/a> piece about how Trump has emboldened the white supremacist movement is an observation about Trump by his aides that explains when Trump is away from the cameras he\u2019s just as much of a racist as he has sounded during this past week:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No word in the Trump lexicon is as tread-worn as \u201cunprecedented.\u201d But members of the president\u2019s staff, stunned and disheartened, said <strong>they never expected to hear such a voluble articulation of opinions that the president had long expressed in private<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, Trump wakes up hating African Americans, Latinos, Jews and Muslims, and goes to bed hating African-Americans, Latinos, Jews and Muslims. When he goes to the bathroom or eats his Froot-Loops he\u2019s thinking\u2014and more than that, he&#8217;s talking\u2014about how much he hates African- Americans, Latinos, Jews and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s spouting so much bigotry at his aides in private that they&#8217;re embarrassed it\u2019s all now being spilled out in public. <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Fuhrer has pegged himself again! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/17\/us\/politics\/gorsuch-speech-trump-hotel-ethics.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>[In]Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump\u2019s Supreme Court appointee, is scheduled to address a conservative group at the Trump International Hotel in Washington next month, less than two weeks before the court is set to hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban-case.html\" target=\"_blank\">arguments on Mr. Trump\u2019s travel ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics at New York University, questioned the justice\u2019s decision to speak at the hotel, which is at issue in lower-court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/12\/us\/trump-lawsuit-private-businesses.html\" target=\"_blank\">cases challenging the constitutionality of payments to Mr. Trump\u2019s companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this highly divisive political moment, especially as many Trump decisions are likely soon to reach the court\u2019s docket, one just days later, a healthy respect for public confidence in the court should have led Justice Gorsuch to demur,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Gorsuch declined to comment, said Kathleen L. Arberg, the Supreme Court\u2019s public information officer.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Whoresuch sees no conflict. He already knows he&#8217;ll side with his Fuhrer no matter what evidence is presented. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-bannon-exits-20170818-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>Exactly one year ago, Donald Trump tapped conservative media insurgent Stephen K. Bannon as chief executive of his campaign, affirming that while Trump was the nominee, his was a hostile takeover of the Republican Party: with Bannon, he would take it in a new direction \u2014 nationalist, nativist and economically populist.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon got some credit for Trump\u2019s upset win and then, as chief strategist in the White House, for his early orders against immigrants, refugees, and more. On Friday, suddenly he was out. Perhaps appropriately, his ouster came in a week in which Trump left no doubt his voice is his own. Bannon was no ventriloquist.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump is not a Nazi because of his association with Bannon. Trump is a Nazi, because he represents the views of the Republican Party, and they represent his views. Bannon sees the bottom of the bus, only to give Trump a way to hide. Nothing has changed. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0818Cartoon\" 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=\"0818Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0818Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m preparing to leave for my medical appointment and will publish this when I return this afternoon.&#160; I misread the football schedule.&#160; My Broncos play on Saturday evening and will be televised here.&#160; Wooo Hooo!!&#160; Back.&#160; Excellent results! 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