{"id":31603,"date":"2018-02-28T12:38:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31603"},"modified":"2018-02-28T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T20:38:18","slug":"open-thread-2-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/28\/open-thread-2-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/28\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In breaking news, several sources inside the Mueller investigation have revealed that Mueller is probing into Trump&#8217;s prior knowledge of and involvement in the release of the DNC emails.&#160; The noose tightens.&#160; I don&#8217;t know why, but I had insomnia last night and slept poorly.&#160; Since this is such a busy day, this is my only article, and I&#8217;ll send no links messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:41 (average 5:49).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-02-28-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=hwCEeMLUEFA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Jared Kushner Eyed Over Foreign Contacts, Vulnerability To Manipulation<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hwCEeMLUEFA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In any other White House, this would be the biggest scandal in history. But in today&#8217;s Republican Reich, it&#8217;s just one of the daily dozen. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jw6RiNDgNac\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Paul Ryan: &#8216;We shouldn&#8217;t ban guns for law-abiding citizens&#8217;<\/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\/Jw6RiNDgNac?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans always use this &quot;law abiding citizens&quot; BS, coupled with the claim that we need to keep guns out of just the wrong hands. I can prove that they are lying. If that&#8217;s what they wanted, they wouldn&#8217;t keep refusing to close the gun show loophole. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-hides-under-desk-after-diet-coke-can-opens-loudly\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a moment of high drama at the White House on Tuesday morning, Donald J. Trump dove under his desk after a can of Diet Coke opened with an unexpectedly loud sound.<\/p>\n<p>Moments earlier, Trump had pressed a button on his desk, summoning Vice-President Mike Pence to the Oval Office to serve him the frosty beverage.<\/p>\n<p>According to one aide, when Pence opened the can, it made \u201can unusually loud noise,\u201d sending Trump ducking under his desk in a millisecond.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference, minutes later, the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, attempted to tamp down speculation that Trump had acted in a cowardly manner during the Diet Coke incident. \u201cThe President prudently repositioned himself under his desk in an aggressive crouch,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was ready for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pence agreed with her assessment. \u201cThe President was putting himself in a position where, if need be, he could defend the entire country against an attack,\u201d he said. \u201cI, for one, am honored to serve a man of such valor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Isn&#8217;t it miraculous that Donny Dump-in-Pants couldn&#8217;t find his nuclear button with his tiny hands? <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\/02\/0228Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0228Cartoon\" 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=\"0228Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0228Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" width=\"654\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">May the founding be undone ASAP!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In breaking news, several sources inside the Mueller investigation have revealed that Mueller is probing into Trump&#8217;s prior knowledge of and involvement in the release of the DNC emails.&#160; The noose tightens.&#160; I don&#8217;t know why, but I had insomnia last night and slept poorly.&#160; Since this is such a busy day, this is my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/28\/open-thread-2-28-2018\/' 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-31603","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\/31603","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=31603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}