{"id":31272,"date":"2018-02-01T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31272"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T20:33:55","slug":"open-thread-2-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/open-thread-2-1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/1\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s am extremely busy day, here in the CatBox.&#160; It&#8217;s the first of the month.&#160; In addition to normal first chores on the home front, I changed the poll, and did my normal research.&#160; I also made all the graphics and prepared all the data I shall need for tomorrow&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; That&#8217;s two pounds of kitty shit in a one pound box, but I&#8217;m determined not to get way behind this month.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:37 (average 5:50).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-01-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=F5JFOlx8fBU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Rep. Adam Schiff: Nunes Altered Approved Memo Before Sending To Trump Admin<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/F5JFOlx8fBU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What the F\u2026.?!!? We&#8217;re getting an exacerbated fantasy from Nunes&#8217; Republican (lower than lizard) amygdala! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_02aVQmqLOg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>: <\/font>Congresswoman Maxine Waters Drags Trump In The Classiest Way<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_02aVQmqLOg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Maxine! I could not agree more! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-collapses-from-exhaustion-after-ninety-minutes-of-faking-empathy\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump collapsed from exhaustion after approximately ninety minutes of pretending to be a human being with empathy, the White House doctor has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all my years of practicing medicine, I have never met a patient as healthy and vigorous as President Trump,\u201d Dr. Ronny Jackson said. \u201cBut the sustained effort of simulating compassion proved too much for someone who has never exercised that part of his brain before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Trump spent a gruelling ninety minutes pretending to care about immigrants, the unemployed, and other people whom he normally dismisses as losers, aides noticed that he was turning from a bright orange to a slightly paler orange before crumpling to the ground in a giant heap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have never spent a moment thinking about a human being besides yourself, imagine trying to pretend you are doing that for a solid ninety minutes,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cIt\u2019s physically punishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! It&#8217;s too bad Trump didn&#8217;t actually care for a split second. The strain of that would have killed him. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0201Cartoon\" 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=\"0201Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0201Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s am extremely busy day, here in the CatBox.&#160; It&#8217;s the first of the month.&#160; In addition to normal first chores on the home front, I changed the poll, and did my normal research.&#160; I also made all the graphics and prepared all the data I shall need for tomorrow&#8217;s Monthly Report.&#160; That&#8217;s two pounds <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/01\/open-thread-2-1-2018\/' 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-31272","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\/31272","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=31272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}