{"id":29365,"date":"2017-09-08T13:31:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29365"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:31:18","slug":"open-thread-982017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/open-thread-982017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/8\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s forecast high is a refreshing 72\u00b0 and my room is comfortable, even though the hallways and bathrooms in the building are still super-heated.&#160; Having just taken two doses of Immodium for Republicosis, and an Oxycodone shortly after breaking the tooth, I gutted out the rest of the day yesterday with no additional pain meds to minimize Republicitis.&#160; For once, today has been a disaster-free day, so far.&#160; Speaking of disasters, everyone is covering Irma constantly, so I&#8217;ll say only one thing.&#160; Any sane person&#8217;s responses to Florida and to the Republican Party must be identical.&#160; Get the hell out of there!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:03 (average 4:24).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-09-08-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=Bo0koTYc4zg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GQVideos\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">GQ Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump Will Soon Be the Ex-POTUS | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bo0koTYc4zg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From Keith&#8217;s mouth to God&#8217;s ear! However, I still cannot see goose-stepping Republican legislators impeaching their Fuhrer, until and unless they are convinced that failure to do so will cost them their jobs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PZzSAqpe4eE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FunnyorDie\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Funny or Die Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">They Came From The Alt-Left!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZzSAqpe4eE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course, there is no such things as the Alt-Left. If there was, they would be the both non-violent and well-intentioned folks that were way too fast to believe and parrot Russian propaganda about Clinton, and foolish enough to consider their own intellectual purity more important than saving America from Trump and the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/9\/6\/1696593\/--Mike-Pence-Would-Be-No-Relief-An-Indianan-Writes-NYT-And-It-s-Going-Viral\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>This resident in the congressional district which Mike Pence used to represent in Indiana isn\u2019t saying anything here that we don\u2019t already know, but he does say what everybody needs to hear about Mike Pence. He is no savior waiting in the wings, he\u2019s just a different flavor of GOP disaster. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/04\/opinion\/pence-trump.html?mcubz=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>For months I\u2019ve been hearing comments, often from President Trump\u2019s most ardent opponents, that in spite of the turmoil our country is in, fear not because Vice President Mike Pence is merely an impeachment vote or resignation away from the presidency. These folks should visit Indiana, where Mr. Pence served as governor for four years, and in my congressional district we were subjected to 12 years of Mr. Pence as our representative.<\/p>\n<p>During his time as governor, Mr. Pence was the most divisive leader this state had ever seen. If he had not accepted Mr. Trump\u2019s offer to be his running mate, he most likely would have lost a bid for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: Mike Pence is little different from his boss. He wears a smile on his face and his religion on his sleeve, but a President Pence would be no relief from what this nation is going through right now.<\/p>\n<p>DAN DIERCKS, HAGERSTOWN, IND.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank you Dan Dierks for confirming from your personal experience what I&#8217;ve been saying all along. All the violence, greed and hate are Republican problems, not just Trump problems. Republicans were just better at hiding them, before Trump. <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\/09\/0908Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0908Cartoon\" 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=\"0908Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0908Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"602\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s forecast high is a refreshing 72\u00b0 and my room is comfortable, even though the hallways and bathrooms in the building are still super-heated.&#160; Having just taken two doses of Immodium for Republicosis, and an Oxycodone shortly after breaking the tooth, I gutted out the rest of the day yesterday with no additional pain meds <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/open-thread-982017\/' 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-29365","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\/29365","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=29365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}