{"id":30332,"date":"2017-11-17T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30332"},"modified":"2017-11-17T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T20:41:01","slug":"open-thread-11-17-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/open-thread-11-17-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/17\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another rest all I can day.&#160; TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:08 (average 6:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-11-17-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=LuaZS6jV4Jk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Denied the Right to Vote Because They&#8217;re Poor<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LuaZS6jV4Jk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could not agree more. This is nothing more than weaponizing the Republican War on the poor. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-voters-celebrate-massive-tax-cut-for-everyone-but-them\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Jubilant Trump voters on Thursday celebrated the prospect of a gigantic tax cut that will benefit everyone but them.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, Trump supporters were overjoyed that, after months of gridlock and wrangling, the man they voted for was about to make Americans other than them wildly richer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump has taken a lot of hits from the fake-news media, but he stood his ground,\u201d Carol Foyler, a Trump voter in Ohio, said. \u201cToday he honored his pledge to the American people, except for me and anybody I know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through to see Andy&#8217;s pic of fools and their Fuhrer. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/16\/nyregion\/senator-robert-menendez-corruption.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The federal corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey ended in a mistrial on Thursday after jurors said they were unable to reach a verdict, leaving Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, free to return to Congress but injecting uncertainty as he faces re-election next year and his party faces a difficult battle to retake the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>After interviewing jurors individually in his chambers, Judge William H. Walls emerged to tell the court that, after nine weeks of testimony, the jury was deadlocked and that, as a result, \u201cthere is no alternative but to declare a mistrial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One juror told reporters that 10 of the 12 jurors supported finding Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, not guilty, saying that prosecutors had not made the case that the favors and gifts exchanged between the senator and a wealthy eye doctor went beyond what good friends do for each other.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Menendez needs to go, but not until PIGnocchio is gone and cannot flip the seat. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1117Cartoon\" 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=\"1117Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1117Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another rest all I can day.&#160; TGIF!! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:08 (average 6:05).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Inequality Media Channel): Denied the Right to Vote Because They&#8217;re Poor &#160; I could not agree more. This is nothing more than weaponizing the Republican <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/open-thread-11-17-2017\/' 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-30332","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\/30332","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=30332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}