{"id":31133,"date":"2018-01-20T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T20:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31133"},"modified":"2018-01-20T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T20:45:28","slug":"open-thread-1-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/20\/open-thread-1-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/20\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another stinky, muggy day, and I slept poorly.&#160; I can&#8217;t wait for shower day tomorrow.&#160; Welcome to the first day of the second year of Trump&#8217;s Russian Republican Reich and the first day of the Republican Shutdown.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:58 (average 4:44).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-01-20-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=W-4FOylGtWs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/font>This is Trump&#8217;s Shutdown<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/W-4FOylGtWs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Even then, Trump was lying. Last night, after the Senate vote failed, Schumer even offered Trump funding, as demanded, for the wall. Trump refused. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-fears-next-election-will-be-decided-by-americans\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump is \u201cscared to death\u201d that the 2020 Presidential election will be decided by Americans, an aide to Trump has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Trump is panicking over a doomsday scenario in which Americans, sidelined during the 2016 election, play a dominant role in influencing the 2020 contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds paranoid, but, as we speak, representatives of the United States are already plotting to remove him from office in 2020,\u201d the aide said. \u201cThey are determined to replace him with someone who takes a move favorable view toward their country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aide said that the Americans, frustrated by Trump\u2019s open hostility to the United States since taking office, will \u201cstop at nothing\u201d to achieve their ultimate goal: installing an agent of the U.S. in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy seems to have a window into Putin&#8217;s Pervert&#8217;s psyche. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/01\/20\/who-will-america-blame-216487\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font><strong>\u201cThe shutdown rests at the feet of the GOP and it appears a majority of Americans agree\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Steele is a former chairperson of the Republican National Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the rhetorical effort to paste Democrats with \u201cSchumer\u2019s Shutdown\u201d and to redefine what constitutes majority control of the senate (\u201c60\u201d? Really?), the fact remains that this shutdown rests at the feet of the GOP and it appears a majority of Americans agree. I don\u2019t like it. It certainly could have been avoided, but the President wound up negotiating against himself by taking a potential agreement off the table, leaving Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to lament, \u201cAs soon as we figure out what he is for, then I would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels.\u201d That put Republicans in the position to spin their wheels right into another government shutdown. Pitiful.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We need to call this disaster what it is: the Republican Shutdown! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0120Cartoon\" 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=\"0120Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0120Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another stinky, muggy day, and I slept poorly.&#160; I can&#8217;t wait for shower day tomorrow.&#160; Welcome to the first day of the second year of Trump&#8217;s Russian Republican Reich and the first day of the Republican Shutdown. 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