{"id":32015,"date":"2018-04-02T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32015"},"modified":"2018-04-02T12:06:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:06:46","slug":"open-thread-4-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/02\/open-thread-4-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/2\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day, here at the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;ve made four trips to the porcelain worship site to express my opinion of the Republican Party.&#160; I changed the poll.&#160; I researched today&#8217;s articles.&#160; I prepared the graphics and collected the data I will need to prepare tomorrow&#8217;s Monthly Report for March.&#160; I need two things: a nap and a cork.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:54 (average 5:33).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-02-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=08leHJTgM1w\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Challenge<\/a>): <\/font>Dems\u2019 2018 challenge: find message on taxes, health care<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/08leHJTgM1w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Some things must be absolute, like protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Others are more situational.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2018\/04\/02\/morning-bits-trump-attacks-daca-kids-on-easter-yes-really\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>:&#160; <\/font>Somehow, it didn\u2019t seem as though he got the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/01\/politics\/trump-no-more-daca-deal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">spirit<\/a> of the holiday. \u201cPresident Donald Trump again called for an end to the filibuster and said there will be no deal with Democrats on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump still hates Latinos. Republicans would insane to nuke the filibuster now. They are likely to lose the Senate. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/sinclair-forces-reporters-to-read-script-about-fake-news-63ae6fcea30e\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: \\<\/font>Seattle-based ABC affiliate KOMO-TV says its owner, the conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, is forcing its reporters to air pre-scripted segments about fake news media, in an attempt to undermine non-Sinclair stations.<\/p>\n<p>Sinclair has long produced \u201cmust-run\u201d segments for its stations, dispersing them to its various subsidiaries and requiring the local stations to run controversial, typically conservative commentary promos alongside their regular news coverage. However, in recent weeks, it\u2019s begun turning its sights on the competition, throwing in mentions of \u201cfake news,\u201d among other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe promos, which began airing on the station last week, are part of a Sinclair campaign that forces local anchors to read Sinclair-written scripts warning of the dangers of \u2018one-sided news stories plaguing our country,&#8217;\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/seattlenews\/article\/KOMO-fake-news-Sinclair-promos-12792032.php\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Post-Intelligencer<\/a> reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4zve_TXOXz8\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Barrage!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4zve_TXOXz8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">You won&#8217;t see a better example of the Republican bubble machine in action, as they categorize any stations that do not goose-step with Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten as fake news.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0402Cartoon.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day, here at the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;ve made four trips to the porcelain worship site to express my opinion of the Republican Party.&#160; I changed the poll.&#160; I researched today&#8217;s articles.&#160; I prepared the graphics and collected the data I will need to prepare tomorrow&#8217;s Monthly Report for March.&#160; I need two <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/02\/open-thread-4-2-2018\/' 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-32015","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\/32015","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=32015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}