{"id":31101,"date":"2018-01-18T12:38:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31101"},"modified":"2018-01-18T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:38:28","slug":"open-thread-1-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/open-thread-1-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another super muggy day, and I&#8217;m very tired, because I slept intermittently last night.&#160; So please pardon my brevity.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 4:37).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-18-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=1cSaamOcUoY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/JimmyKimmelLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Porn Donald Trump Doesn&#8217;t Want You to See<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1cSaamOcUoY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Frankly, I don&#8217;t believe it. It overrated his performance. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/1\/16\/1733227\/-Republican-senator-nearly-gets-laughed-out-of-rural-town-hall-for-defending-Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Republican senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley have been back home in Iowa to hold small town halls in rural areas, places they probably thought would be \u2018safe spaces\u2019 from angry voters. WRONG. The rural voters who turned out were not happy with Donald Trump and they unloaded on Ernst and Grassley. In one particularly embarrassing moment for Sen. Ernst in Red Oak, Iowa (population 5,476), she drew laughter and scorn.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Pig Nuts Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qk34RAFU1Gw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Joni Pig Nuts is too stupid to know that both Sweden and Finland are between Norway and Russia. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/17\/us\/politics\/democrat-senators-presidential-election-left.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>It was a made-for-TV moment, perfect for a presidential campaign advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>His fists clenched and his voice rising, Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, delivered a 10-minute verbal thrashing to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week, recalling his \u201ctears of rage\u201d when he learned that President Trump had used vulgarities to describe African nations.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, Senator Kamala Harris, Democrat of California, who was seated next to Mr. Booker, also skewered Ms. Nielsen, suggesting that Americans could draw a \u201creasonable inference\u201d that she is racist.<\/p>\n<p>The next presidential election is nearly three years away, but in the Capitol the race is already unfolding, with no fewer than six senators \u2014 Mr. Booker and Ms. Harris, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota \u2014 eyeing the Democratic nomination in 2020, with each angling to get to the left of the others.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Personally I think this is premature. Our eyes need to be focused on 2018, not 2020. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0118Cartoon\" 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=\"0118Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0118Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another super muggy day, and I&#8217;m very tired, because I slept intermittently last night.&#160; So please pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 4:37).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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