{"id":30829,"date":"2017-12-22T12:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30829"},"modified":"2017-12-22T12:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:57:04","slug":"open-thread-12-22-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/22\/open-thread-12-22-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/22\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As we wind down toward Christmas, the site and Care2 are both getting very slow.&#160; I plan to keep going, so there is something for those that remain. Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten signed the Republican Tax Scam this morning.&#160; See the Cartoon.&#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 3:23 (average 5:25).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-12-22-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=gSlHVZpNxMM\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How Get Out of It<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gSlHVZpNxMM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>T<font color=\"#0000ff\">he Reich on the left drew it right.&#160; Spread it around!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/un-vote-jerusalem-trump_us_5a3beeade4b025f99e158445\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>More than 100 countries defied President Donald Trump on Thursday and voted in favor of a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for the United States to drop its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that voted in favor. A total of 128 countries backed the resolution, nine voted against and 35 abstained.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s threat appeared to have some impact, with more countries abstaining and rejecting the resolution than usually associated with Palestinian-related resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Washington found itself isolated on the world stage as many of its Western and Arab allies voted for the measure.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to all nations that voted against Fuhrer Nincompoop Nazi and for peace. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trumps-ambassador-to-the-netherlands-caught-lying-about-his-own-conspiracy-claims-dc493bb385d7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Michigan Republican Pete Hoekstra earned a reputation for <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/hoekstra-latest-candidate-to-run-xenophobic-ad-showing-prejudiced-chinese-stereotype-94e3930d2454\/\" target=\"_blank\">xenophobia and racism<\/a>, for attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/hoekstra-tries-to-raise-money-off-failed-terrorist-attack-c2a523877d5\/\" target=\"_blank\">capitalize<\/a> on terrorist attacks to advance his political career,&#160; and for <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060701140845\/http:\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0%2C2933%2C200763%2C00.html\" target=\"_blank\">spreading<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/rep-hoekstra-was-source-of-joe-kleins-fisa-lies-decries-paranoid-self-absorbed-far-left-critics-8f900f675802\/\">false information.<\/a> [<em>sic<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Nearly seven years since he vacated his House seat, little has changed. A month ago, Hoekstra was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/11\/09\/senate-confirms-hoekstra-netherlands-ambassador\/107513132\/\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> by the U.S. Senate, on a voice vote, to be Donald Trump\u2019s Ambassador to the Netherlands, his birthplace. Already, he has been caught in multiple lies by a Dutch journalist.<\/p>\n<p>At a 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/145894012\" target=\"_blank\">conference<\/a> hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/islamophobia-networks-david-horowitz-responds-to-thinkprogress-by-calling-us-fascistic-e52edd7d2967\/\" target=\"_blank\">pro-Islamaphobia<\/a> David Horowitz Freedom Center, Hoekstra made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-01-14\/debunking-the-muslim-nogo-zone-myth\" target=\"_blank\">false claims<\/a> that some parts of the Netherlands were so dominated by Muslim extremists that non-Muslims could not even safely enter those communities \u2014 \u201cno-go zones\u201d \u2014 and that these extremists were actually setting fire to politicians. Many Dutch citizens have <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/08\/01\/dutch-wary-trumps-ambassador-imagines-no-go-zones-netherlands\/\" target=\"_blank\">expressed concern<\/a> about having a U.S. Ambassador who spread such completely false Islamaphobic conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang! I didn&#8217;t know the Republican Reich sent Hoekstra to the Netherlands. Now I understand why Lona is leaving!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1222TrumpTurd\" 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=\"1222TrumpTurd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1222TrumpTurd.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we wind down toward Christmas, the site and Care2 are both getting very slow.&#160; I plan to keep going, so there is something for those that remain. Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten signed the Republican Tax Scam this morning.&#160; See the Cartoon.&#160; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:23 (average 5:25).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/22\/open-thread-12-22-2017\/' 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-30829","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\/30829","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=30829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}