{"id":32452,"date":"2018-05-17T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32452"},"modified":"2018-05-17T13:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T20:14:15","slug":"open-thread-5-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/open-thread-5-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/17\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another comfortable day here in the CatBox, and I completed all my tasks yesterday.&#160; Unfortunately, my brain was still racing, when I went to bed, and it took hours to relax enough to get to sleep.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-17-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=jCc1X8Cc_YY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Four FBI Vets Discuss One Year Of Robert Mueller&#8217;s Russia Investigation<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jCc1X8Cc_YY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Had the FBI been as circumspect about Hillary Clinton as they were about Donald Trump, we would likely have a President. Mueller, from everything I can tell, has Donnie Do-wrong by the short hairs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-orders-replica-nobel-peace-prize-to-display-on-his-desk\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump has ordered a replica of the Nobel Peace Prize and is displaying it prominently on his desk in the Oval Office, the White House confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The replica of the Nobel medallion is mounted on what the White House described as a \u201ctasteful black-velvet background\u201d with an engraved plaque reading, \u201cDonald J. Trump, 2018 Winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the daily White House briefing, the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said that Trump \u201ctook the initiative\u201d to award himself the Peace Prize rather than \u201cwaiting around\u201d for the Nobel committee, in Oslo, to bestow it on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat with his successes in Syria, Iran, North Korea, and whatnot, the President already knows he\u2019s a lock for the Nobel,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a formality at this point.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Great minds fall in the same ditch, Andy. I said this week that the Fuhrer would demand the Nobel Peace Prize for moving the Doomsday Clock closer to Midnight. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/these-arent-people-theyre-animals-trump-unleashes-racist-anti-immigrant-rant\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump engaged in deeply disturbing rhetoric about immigrants on Wednesday at a Cabinet meeting on immigration, echoing some of the worst and most dangerous language he used on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;re taking people out of the country, you wouldn&#8217;t believe how bad these people are,&quot; he said. &quot;These aren&#8217;t people, they&#8217;re animals.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Denying the humanity of certain groups \u2014 as well as wildly exaggerating their rates of committing crimes, as the president frequently does \u2014 is a rhetorical technique often used to promote racist and bigoted ideas.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Fuhrer does not set the tone for Republican racism. He merely reflects it. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0517Cartoon\" 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\" alt=\"0517Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0517Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another comfortable day here in the CatBox, and I completed all my tasks yesterday.&#160; Unfortunately, my brain was still racing, when I went to bed, and it took hours to relax enough to get to sleep. 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