{"id":30254,"date":"2017-11-11T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30254"},"modified":"2017-11-11T12:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T20:45:03","slug":"open-thread-11112017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/11\/open-thread-11112017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/11\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I thought about spending the day in bed, but my Republiciosis was sufficiently, severe that I needed to stay up for the five trips to the throne room that it took to empty me (I hope).&#160; Now I won&#8217;t let all that research go to waste.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos worship in Foxboro Sunday evening.&#160; I have the Vaseline ready.&#160; It&#8217;s also a Wendy day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>: Today&#8217;s took me 4:38 (average 6:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-11-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=68EWe-Un4NI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Fox News &quot;Legal analyst&quot; says sexual harassment &quot;very few and far between&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/68EWe-Un4NI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda would rather have a pervert than a Democrat in the Senate. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-columnists\/the-gop-tax-plan-has-a-fatal-flawand-neither-the-house-nor-the-senate-can-fix-it\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>[T]he White House wants to get a tax bill passed, and on Thursday\u2014just hours before Senate Republicans unveiled the outline of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/09\/us\/politics\/facing-math-trouble-house-panel-races-to-adjust-tax-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\">their tax proposal<\/a>\u2014Gary Cohn, Donald Trump\u2019s top economic adviser, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/11\/09\/gary-cohn-trickle-down-is-good-for-the-economy.html\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> CNBC\u2019s John Harwood that the President had laid down \u201ctwo really important principles\u201d to guide the lawmakers and officials putting the legislation together. \u201cNumber one is we have to deliver middle-class tax cuts to the hardworking families in this country,\u201d Cohn said. \u201cNumber two, our corporate tax system just is not competitive with the rest of the world. We have to create a corporate tax rate, and along with that a pass-through tax rate, that makes us competitive with the rest of the world so we can attract businesses back to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet since last week, when Paul Ryan and the House Republicans released their tax plan, it\u2019s been clear that Trump\u2019s two principles have run into conflict with each other. Or, rather, these principles have run into the laws of arithmetic, and the fact that there isn\u2019t enough money in the Republicans\u2019 own budget, even using the fuzzy fiscal math the Party favors, to provide big giveaways for all businesses and all households. Something had to give, and between businesses and households, House Republicans went with the businesses.<\/p>\n<p>From what we\u2019ve seen of the Senate bill, so far, it does the same.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for the rest of this superb article. Since the Republican tax plan cannot deliver the benefits promised to both giant corporations and households, bend over and grab your ankles. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/11\/11\/he-said-he-didnt-meddle-trump-talks-with-putin-about-u-s-elections-syria-in-brief-interactions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump said Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin again denied his nation tampered in the U.S. presidential election last year.<\/p>\n<p>The two men spoke during brief conversations on the sidelines of an international summit. Trump told reporters that he and Putin had more than one informal discussion after crossing paths at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Danang, Vietnam, before Trump flew to Hanoi for a bilateral meeting Sunday with Vietnamese leader.<\/p>\n<p>The conversations mostly centered on the war in Syria, Trump said, but he added that he pressed Putin on Moscow&#8217;s role in attempting to tamper in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he didn&#8217;t meddle,\u201d Trump said, answering questions in the press cabin on the Air Force One. \u201cI asked him again. You can only ask so many times. \u2026 He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Do you think Trump was being honest, considering that his ass was fill of Putin&#8217;s dick? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1111Cartoon\" 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=\"1111Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1111Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about spending the day in bed, but my Republiciosis was sufficiently, severe that I needed to stay up for the five trips to the throne room that it took to empty me (I hope).&#160; Now I won&#8217;t let all that research go to waste.&#160; Tomorrow is a holy day in the church of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/11\/open-thread-11112017\/' 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-30254","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\/30254","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=30254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}