{"id":31922,"date":"2018-03-26T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31922"},"modified":"2018-03-26T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T19:59:11","slug":"open-thread-3-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/open-thread-3-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/26\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another muggy day here at the CatBox and I feel tired, because I slept poorly last night.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:51 (average 4:17).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-03-26-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=yS0qXScPR7I\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Polls: Facebook Favorability Takes Big Plunge<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yS0qXScPR7I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only way to win with Facebook is not to play. <strong>UNPLUG<\/strong>!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wSB6pryDTGE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Tim Kaine: Trump &#8216;lying&#8217; or &#8216;delusional&#8217; on DACA<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wSB6pryDTGE?start=340\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kaine is spot-on. To protect Dreamers we need Democratic control. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/what-we-learned-from-stormy-daniels-on-60-minutes-donald-trump-anderson-cooper\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>As Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, told the story to Anderson Cooper on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/stormy-daniels-describes-her-alleged-affair-with-donald-trump-60-minutes-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">60 Minutes<\/a>\u201d on Sunday night, she was heading into a fitness class in Las Vegas one day in 2011, with her infant daughter in tow\u2014\u201ctaking, you know, the seats facing backwards in the back seat, diaper bag, you know, getting all the stuff out\u201d\u2014when a man she didn\u2019t know walked up to her. Clifford said that she remembered the man saying, \u201cLeave Trump alone. Forget the story.\u201d The \u201cstory\u201d was one that she had told a few weeks before the day of the fitness class to a writer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trumps-stormy-history-the-seven-year-battle-between-the-president-and-the-porn-star-1521561532\" target=\"_blank\">Bauer magazines<\/a>, which owns <em>In Touch<\/em> and <em>Life &amp; Style<\/em>, in which she described a sexual encounter that she said had taken place with Donald Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006. <em>Life &amp; Style<\/em> had offered her fifteen thousand dollars for the story; it then called Trump for comment and, in response, two former employees of the magazine told \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d Trump\u2019s lawyer Michael Cohen threatened the publication with a lawsuit. The magazine held the story and didn\u2019t pay Clifford. But that, according to Clifford\u2019s account, did not count as going far enough; hence the guy in the Las Vegas parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, \u2018That\u2019s a beautiful little girl,\u2019 \u201d Clifford continued. \u201c \u2018It\u2019d be a shame if something happened to her mom.\u2019 And then he was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is SOP for Donald Trump, aka Putin&#8217;s Pervert, and the Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0326Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A National Shame<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another muggy day here at the CatBox and I feel tired, because I slept poorly last night. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:51 (average 4:17).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Polls: Facebook Favorability Takes Big Plunge &#160; The only way to win with <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/open-thread-3-26-2018\/' 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-31922","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\/31922","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=31922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}