{"id":32092,"date":"2018-04-11T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32092"},"modified":"2018-04-11T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:46:29","slug":"open-thread-4-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/open-thread-4-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, and tonight, Wendy comes to destink the TomCat, so guess what?&#160; It&#8217;s also Republicosis day.&#160; Now that is literally a pain in the ass!&#160; ARGH!! <\/font><font size=\"7\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today.s took me 4:52 (average 5:27).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-11-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=IfTOlLITdTs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Exclusive: Handwritten Notes Appear To Back James Comey Claims On Trump <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IfTOlLITdTs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We knew that notes like these existed, but by actually seeing them, we are watching history in the making. May that cloud rain on Trump&#8217;s Republican Parade. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DchsRZrMzY4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>John Bolton pushes out Bossert as homeland security adviser<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DchsRZrMzY4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I understand that Bossert was one of the last competent people in the West Wing. God knows that Boom Boom Bolton does not want anyone competent interfering with his war spiel. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-04-11\/ex-speaker-john-boehner-joins-marijuana-firm-s-advisory-board\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>: <\/font>The U.S. marijuana industry has a new spokesman: John Boehner.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican former Speaker of the House has joined the advisory board of Acreage Holdings, a company that cultivates, processes and dispenses cannabis in 11 U.S. states. Boehner\u2019s endorsement, after saying nine years ago he was \u201cunalterably opposed\u201d to legalization, could be considered a watershed event: Marijuana has gone mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last 10 or 15 years, the American people\u2019s attitudes have changed dramatically,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cI find myself in that same position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang!! Agent Orange must have figured out that it&#8217;s possible to mix it with booze and drink it!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fox-news-says-it-will-decide-trumps-syria-response-in-next-forty-eight-hours\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Fox News Channel announced on Monday that it would decide what Donald J. Trump\u2019s Syria response will be in the next forty-eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference at the network\u2019s headquarters, Sean Hannity, Judge Jeanine Pirro, and the \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d co-host Steve Doocy said that, as the people who have been entrusted with the decision of whether to use military force, they were not taking their responsibility lightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. military is the mightiest force in all the world,\u201d Hannity said. \u201cHowever we decide that President Trump will use that force in Syria, we promise that it will be a decision he will be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pirro said that she and her colleagues were taking \u201cfull advantage of the entire Fox News brain trust\u201d to craft Trump\u2019s Syria response. \u201cThe American people should sleep well at night knowing that we are keeping Tucker Carlson in the loop,\u201d she said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hmmm\u2026 Andy forgot he&#8217;s a satirist again! <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; 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\/2014\/04\/0411Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This led to the racist Dixiecrat abandonment of the Democratic Party, the adoption of the Southern Strategy by the Republican Party, the ensconcement of the racists as the Republican base, the birth of the Republican Reich, and hopefully, the Republican demise.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, and tonight, Wendy comes to destink the TomCat, so guess what?&#160; It&#8217;s also Republicosis day.&#160; Now that is literally a pain in the ass!&#160; ARGH!! 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