{"id":31063,"date":"2018-01-15T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31063"},"modified":"2018-01-15T12:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:52:46","slug":"open-thread-1-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/open-thread-1-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/15\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s yet another muggy day here, and I&#8217;d like to catch a holiday nap, but I want to post for MLK Day.&#160; To do otherwise would be&#8230; Republican.&#160; Since the situation this year is the same but worse, I&#8217;m recycling last year&#8217;s lead article, because I don&#8217;t know how to improve it.&#160; Have a safe holiday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:25 (average 8:29).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-15-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=gMKX8Ld3bC4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>&quot;&#8212; &#8212; &#8212;,&quot; a parody inspired by &quot;The Thing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gMKX8Ld3bC4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks to JD for introducing me to their work.&#160; I hope I live to see the &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; join Sturmbannf\u00fchrer Scalia and ol&#8217; Split-foot. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/video\/2018\/01\/11\/national-reviews-rich-lowry-defends-trumps-racist-comments-common-sense-immigration\/219051\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>National Review&#8217;s Rich Lowry defends Trump&#8217;s racist comments as &quot;common sense on immigration&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lowry: &quot;These countries he was referring to, they are basket cases. They are disaster areas&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for video, if you dare. <em>National Review<\/em> is a standard Republican site. They aren&#8217;t even openly alt-right. Racism is just a Republican norm. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/14\/us\/politics\/david-perdue-trump-shithole.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The bipartisan group of senators, including Mr. Durbin and Mr. Graham, reached an agreement last week that would provide a path to citizenship for DACA recipients while also providing money for border security and making other changes to immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Trump dismissed the proposal, calling it a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/951785587765280768\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cbig step backwards.\u201d<\/a> And on Sunday, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/952528011869478912\" target=\"_blank\">offered a pessimistic take on Twitter<\/a>, writing that DACA was \u201cprobably dead\u201d and blaming Democrats. He kept up the finger-pointing when he spoke to reporters on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re ready, willing and able to make a deal on DACA, but I don\u2019t think the Democrats want to make a deal,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cAnd the folks from DACA should know the Democrats are the ones that aren\u2019t going to make a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When the Fuhrer says Democrats don&#8217;t want to make a deal, after they already made one in which they were giving up too much, he is lying. Trump is the one who refused that deal. He wants to blame Democrats unless we cave-in. <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\/2018\/01\/0115Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0115Cartoon\" 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=\"0115Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0115Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s yet another muggy day here, and I&#8217;d like to catch a holiday nap, but I want to post for MLK Day.&#160; To do otherwise would be&#8230; Republican.&#160; Since the situation this year is the same but worse, I&#8217;m recycling last year&#8217;s lead article, because I don&#8217;t know how to improve it.&#160; Have a safe <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/open-thread-1-15-2018\/' 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-31063","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\/31063","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=31063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}