{"id":31641,"date":"2018-03-03T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31641"},"modified":"2018-03-03T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T21:00:34","slug":"open-thread-3-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/03\/open-thread-3-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m relieved that I have the start of the month routine behind me, because I have a busy week coming up.&#160; I have an appointment on Wednesday that will interfere with delivery from Store to Door, so I&#8217;ll have to use Amazon Prime Now instead.&#160; That&#8217;s always complicated.&#160; Then on Friday, I have semi-annual fasting labs for Megan, my PCP.&#160; I better get as much rest as I can over the weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:32 (average 5:28).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-03-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=2NA_DlfTgqA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Are Jared Kushner&#8217;s Businesses Tied To President Donald Trump Policies? <\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2NA_DlfTgqA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They&#8217;re doing it to pay for 666 5th Ave. And I looked, and behold an orange horse: and his name that sat on him was Trump, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bmJUMf8luRQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WashingtonPost\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post Channel<\/a>):<\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> President Trump&#8217;s top 5 claims, updated<\/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\/bmJUMf8luRQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Trump is awake and not lying, the Pope is not Catholic, and no bears, anywhere, are shitting in the woods. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/awkward-trump-brags-economy-1d1906d06be5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/01\/politics\/steel-aluminum-trade-trump-chaos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">proposed<\/a> a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports on Thursday. On Friday he further claimed [<em>Fuhrer delinked<\/em>] that \u201ctrade wars are good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What the president <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-doesnt-understand-how-tariffs-work-5a00bbd94403\/\" target=\"_blank\">seemingly fails to understand<\/a>, of course, is that tariffs are not taxes, and Trump\u2019s attempt to protect American industries in this manner is much more likely to harm American consumers than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddale8\/status\/969641084656738304\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> made his tariff proposal public without first alerting his advisers at the Treasury, State, or Defense Departments. His chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/03\/01\/gary-cohn-white-house-tariffs-432625\" target=\"_blank\">adamantly opposes<\/a> tariff increases and trade wars, complicating things even further.<\/p>\n<p>So Trump is relying, it appears, mainly on his own knowledge to make major shifts in his administration\u2019s economic and infrastructure policies, despite the fact that his understanding of the subject is relatively thin. When Trump talks about the economy, for instance, he touts stock market gains but neglects to mention slower-than-normal job growth, corporations spending very little on bonuses, and stagnant wages, among other problems.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has made plenty of other comments in the past to buff up his own credentials \u2014 all of which sound more than a bit awkward now, given his hasty announcement on Friday.<\/p>\n<h6>1. He\u2019s a financial genius<\/h6>\n<p>\u201cI agree [that I am a financial genius],\u201d Trump tweeted in November 2014, quoting one of his Twitter followers.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared one absurd boast from Resident Idiot. Click through for the other fourteen. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0303Cartoon\" 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=\"0303Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0303Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m relieved that I have the start of the month routine behind me, because I have a busy week coming up.&#160; I have an appointment on Wednesday that will interfere with delivery from Store to Door, so I&#8217;ll have to use Amazon Prime Now instead.&#160; That&#8217;s always complicated.&#160; Then on Friday, I have semi-annual fasting <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/03\/open-thread-3-3-2018\/' 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-31641","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\/31641","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=31641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}