{"id":31649,"date":"2018-03-04T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31649"},"modified":"2018-03-04T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T17:04:36","slug":"open-thread-3-4-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/04\/open-thread-3-4-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/4\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a WWWendy w\/wings day here at the CatBox, and in addition to fumigating the stinky TomCat, we have several chores, including the dreaded task.\u00a0\u00a0 I miss my beloved Orb! <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sadsmile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wlEmoticon-sadsmile.png\" alt=\"Sad smile\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I just heard from Wendy, who isn&#8217;t feeling well and will be late, so I&#8217;m rushing to finish, before she gets here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:16 (average 5:10).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6IL4sMC_XBE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Presidential Address Cold Open<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6IL4sMC_XBE?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">No wonder Melania likes Alec better, but Alec gave it away. He held up large hands. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/critics-blast-trumps-dictatorial-ambitions-he-praises-xis-president-life-power-829723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a>: <\/span>President Donald Trump has made no secret of his admiration for strongmen leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Philippines\u2019 Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>And, according to a tape of closed door remarks Trump made at his Mar-a-Lago estate obtained by CNN, he supports President Xi Xinping of China&#8217;s move to extend his power indefinitely. \u201cHe\u2019s now president for life,\u201d Trump told Republican donors, after the Chinese Communist party last week moved to alter the constitution to allow Xi to remain in power beyond the two-term limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>President for life. And he\u2019s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it\u2019s great. Maybe we\u2019ll give that a shot some day<\/strong>.\u201d [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Both the Fuhrer and the Republican Party would love that. But they only admit it when they think nobody is listening.\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-european-cars-tariff-trade.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>President Trump warned on Saturday that he would apply higher taxes on imported European cars if the European Union carried through on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/02\/business\/europe-steel-tariffs-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its threat to retaliate<\/a> against his proposed stiff new tariffs on steel and aluminum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S.,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter [<em>Fool delinked<\/em>] from Florida, where he was spending part of the weekend. \u201cThey make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the latest indication that Mr. Trump, despite pressure from foreign allies and American business leaders, is standing by his decision to impose a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports from all countries. The action is likely to be signed this coming week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The fool claimed this measure woul<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">d target China, but he appears to be after the EU and Canada. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0304Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0304Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0304Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"0304Cartoon\" width=\"650\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I made this cartoon six years ago.\u00a0 We&#8217;re still trying!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a WWWendy w\/wings day here at the CatBox, and in addition to fumigating the stinky TomCat, we have several chores, including the dreaded task.\u00a0\u00a0 I miss my beloved Orb! I just heard from Wendy, who isn&#8217;t feeling well and will be late, so I&#8217;m rushing to finish, before she gets here. Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/04\/open-thread-3-4-2018\/' 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-31649","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\/31649","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=31649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}