{"id":31356,"date":"2018-02-06T13:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31356"},"modified":"2018-02-06T13:37:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:37:38","slug":"open-thread-2-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/06\/open-thread-2-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s been something so unusual that it&#8217;s almost unheard of here&#8230; a thoroughly routine day.&#160; Other than doing my research, the most exciting thing I&#8217;ve done is order my groceries from Store to Door.&#160; On the other hand, we received&#160; some very sad news.&#160; Prayers for Nameless and his family, please.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:32 (average 6:51).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-06-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=7-7qF3zkbdQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Donald Trump: Dems Not Praising State Of The Union Are Treasonous<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7-7qF3zkbdQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To a large extent, I disagree. What we have here is a clear-cut case of projection. The traitor just accused the patriots of treason. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/trump-and-republicans-discover-the-perils-of-touting-the-stock-market\/2018\/02\/05\/bf43fecc-0ab5-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump and congressional Republicans have spent much of the past year trying to connect a giddy stock market rally with their economic agenda, but stocks\u2019 precipitous plunge in the past five days has delivered a sobering reality: What goes up can come back down \u2014 quickly and with little warning.<\/p>\n<p>With Monday\u2019s steep fall, Trump has presided over the biggest stock market drop in U.S. history, when measured by points in the Dow Jones industrial average. The free fall began in earnest Jan. 30 and snowballed Friday and Monday, for a combined loss of almost 2,100 points, or 8 percent of the Dow\u2019s value.<\/p>\n<p>It is also unclear if the past week will amount to a small correction or the beginning of a painful slide that many investors said was overdue.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I suspect it&#8217;s a correction. Because the tax cuts for billionaires are raising the debt, the US now needs to borrow more at a higher interest rate. Higher interest rates increase bond returns. That makes bonds a more attractive investment.&#160; When investors move to bonds, they pull money from the stock market, dropping stock prices. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-considering-firing-dow-jones-industrial-average\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>After watching it suffer its worst losses since he became President, Donald Trump is \u201cseriously considering\u201d firing the Dow Jones Industrial Average, aides have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the aides, Trump is \u201cfurious\u201d at the D.J.I.A. for going down so precipitously and believes that it has treated him \u201cvery unfairly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasingly, the President has become convinced that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is not on his team,\u201d one aide said. \u201cSeeing the negative Dow numbers in the corner of the TV screen has been wrecking eleven hours of every day for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, Trump is mulling replacing the Dow with a new system, in which Sarah Huckabee Sanders would appear every day at 4 p.m. to announce how high stocks had skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! I thought he would just blame Little Adam for the drop!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0206Cartoon\" 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=\"0206Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0206Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been something so unusual that it&#8217;s almost unheard of here&#8230; a thoroughly routine day.&#160; Other than doing my research, the most exciting thing I&#8217;ve done is order my groceries from Store to Door.&#160; On the other hand, we received&#160; some very sad news.&#160; Prayers for Nameless and his family, please. 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