{"id":32313,"date":"2018-05-03T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32313"},"modified":"2018-05-03T13:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:30:21","slug":"open-thread-5-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/open-thread-5-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday really wore me out.&#160; I went to sleep before 9:00 PM and slept eight hours.&#160; That happens once in a blue moon.&#160; It&#8217;s warmer today, and I&#8217;ll have to button up with the AC soon.&#160; I&#8217;m still pretty tired.&#160; I called the IRS to see if I can deduct myself, and unfortunately for Trump, there is no such thing as deductible pussy. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-catface\" style=\"border-top-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-right-style: none\" alt=\"Cat face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/wlEmoticon-catface.png\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:08 (average 5:00).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-03-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=wmxvMG_5wOo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Did Rudy Giuliani Just Contradict President Trump Over Why Comey Was Fired?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wmxvMG_5wOo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He also contradicted his Fuhrer by saying that Trump, aka Spanky, reimbursed Cohen for the Stormy bribe, when Trump had claimed to know nothing about the bribe. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ico-will-continue-to-investigate-cambridge-analytica-2018-5\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a>: <\/font>Investigators have warned that they will continue to pursue Cambridge Analytica <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/report-cambridge-analytica-to-shut-down-2018-5\" target=\"_blank\">despite the controversial data firm shutting down on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO) said it will keep investigating accusations that Cambridge Analytica scraped data from 87 million Facebook accounts and weaponised it during political campaigns, including the 2016 US election.<\/p>\n<p>The ICO said it would press on even if it means going after the executives individually.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good riddance to Cambridge Analytica, and I hope all the people responsible serve time and are stripped of all the money they made off the election theft. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-deletes-nine-tweets-while-attempting-to-spell-subpoena\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump deleted nine tweets early Wednesday morning in a failed attempt to spell the word \u201csubpoena,\u201d a White House source confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, Trump spent more than an hour angrily trying to spell the legal term before giving up in disgust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen him so enraged,\u201d the source said. \u201cHe hates the word \u2018subpoena\u2019 more than the E.P.A. hates the words \u2018climate\u2019 and \u2018change.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s OK, Andy, as long as subpoena writers can spell &quot;Trump!&quot; <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\/05\/0503Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Godwin&#8217;s Law &#8211; a common meme used by Republicans, other fascists, pseudo-intellectuals, and people with their heads in the sand or in smellier places, whenever anyone points out the verifiable commonalities between today&#8217;s Republican Party and Germany&#8217;s National Socialist Party.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday really wore me out.&#160; I went to sleep before 9:00 PM and slept eight hours.&#160; That happens once in a blue moon.&#160; It&#8217;s warmer today, and I&#8217;ll have to button up with the AC soon.&#160; I&#8217;m still pretty tired.&#160; I called the IRS to see if I can deduct myself, and unfortunately for Trump, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/03\/open-thread-5-3-2018\/' 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-32313","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\/32313","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=32313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}