{"id":29276,"date":"2017-08-31T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29276"},"modified":"2017-08-31T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:33:28","slug":"open-thread-8312017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/31\/open-thread-8312017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/31\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here we go again!&#160; Portland is under an excessive heat warning through Monday night.&#160; I expect it to be extended.&#160; Catch-up is all I have on tap today and tomorrow, but there&#8217;s a lot of catching up to do.&#160; YouTube changed their format and it sucks!&#160; We can no longer control video size, or protect your privacy by preventing their cookies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:58 (average 5:15).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-08-31-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=QPY3Q-0KN48\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Would Impeaching Trump Truly Lead to Civil War? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QPY3Q-0KN48?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In my opinion, impeaching Trump would lead to widespread violence, but not against the government, per se. Like their Fuhrer, Republican Trump supporters are cowards.&#160; They would maul people not prepared for self-defense: women, seniors, the disabled, and greatly outnumbered progressives, Blacks, Latinos, LGBT, etc. When police arrived, they would scurry away. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N3x17iXso24\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Robert Maginnis Says Demonic Forces Are Waging A Revolution Against Trump<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N3x17iXso24?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is that pseudo-Christian a master of deceptive projection or what? But he&#8217;s right that we should confront lies. Someone tell him to stop lying! <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>New evidence about Russia hotel deal raises stakes in probe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Rubin and Eugene Robinson talk with Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell about Trump&#8217;s relationship with Putin and new reports about Trump attorney Michael Cohen&#8217;s role in a business deal with Russia in 2015. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_lw_crussiahoteldeal_170830\" width=\"635\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On a scale of one to ten, how busted is Putin&#8217;s Piddle Puppet?! RESIST!!<\/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\/08\/0831Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0831Cartoon\" 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=\"0831Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0831Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If you make less than they do, Republicans plan to raise YOUR taxes!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again!&#160; Portland is under an excessive heat warning through Monday night.&#160; I expect it to be extended.&#160; Catch-up is all I have on tap today and tomorrow, but there&#8217;s a lot of catching up to do.&#160; YouTube changed their format and it sucks!&#160; We can no longer control video size, or protect <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/31\/open-thread-8312017\/' 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-29276","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\/29276","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=29276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}