{"id":32189,"date":"2018-04-22T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32189"},"modified":"2018-04-22T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T20:16:30","slug":"open-thread-4-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/open-thread-4-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/22\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m still quite tired.\u00a0 Wendy is on her way to destink the foul TomCat and help with chores, including the dreaded task.<\/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 3:43 (average 4:58).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-04-22-CE2504A965A9\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FbT9VgWMVQU\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/span>New forecast predicts trillion-dollar deficits<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FbT9VgWMVQU?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The first step to economic health has to be removing every Republican from office from <em>Dawg<\/em> Catcher to White House Resident. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/georgia-neo-nazi-rally-police-militarized-arrests_us_5adbf0f6e4b075b631e65f49\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/span>A heavily militarized police force of some 400 officers aggressively patrolled a small neo-Nazi rally in this city 40 miles southwest of Atlanta on Saturday and arrested about 10 counterprotesters, many for the crime of wearing a mask.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers arrived before the rally began and approached a group of about 50 anti-fascist protesters. They demanded the protesters remove their masks or face arrest. The officers \u2014 who wore bulletproof vests and helmets, and carried semi-automatic rifles \u2014 cornered the anti-fascist protesters, then grabbed those who were still masked, tossing them to the ground and handcuffing them.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, an officer pointed what seemed to be a modified AR-15 at the faces of counterprotesters, none of whom appeared to be armed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This was all the Republicans demonstrating,\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"0422nazis1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0422nazis1.jpg\" alt=\"0422nazis1\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u2026expect for the police that sided with them against the people demonstrating for freedom. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/mueller-says-that-until-yesterday-he-had-almost-forgotten-to-investigate-giuliani\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>The independent counsel, Robert Mueller, told reporters that, prior to news reports on Thursday, he had \u201calmost forgotten\u201d to investigate the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike most Americans, I had totally forgotten about Rudy Giuliani\u2019s existence,\u201d he said. \u201cBut then when he popped up on the news I was, like, \u2018Hold on\u2014shouldn\u2019t we be investigating him?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mueller was at a loss to explain why he had failed to investigate Giuliani earlier. \u201cI have no idea how it could have slipped my mind,\u201d he said. \u201cHis role in Trump\u2019s campaign was as fishy as all get-out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Andy, I suppose we can forgive Mueller&#8217;s oversight, considering how much more important the other Republican criminals are than Rudy 911. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0422Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still quite tired.\u00a0 Wendy is on her way to destink the foul TomCat and help with chores, including the dreaded task. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:43 (average 4:58).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (CNN Channel): New forecast predicts trillion-dollar deficits The first step to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/open-thread-4-22-2018\/' 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-32189","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\/32189","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=32189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}