{"id":32516,"date":"2018-05-23T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32516"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:14:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T20:14:30","slug":"open-thread-5-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/open-thread-5-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/23\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another hot, busy day here at the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my grocery order.&#160; They are due any time now.&#160; After I unpack and stow them, I&#8217;ll have lunch and finish here.&#160; Next, I have a letter to write to the Parole Board on behalf of one of my guys.&#160; This evening WWWendy comes to destink a very needy TomCat.&#160; Happy Hump Day to all, but be warned.&#160; The Psychiatrist General has determined that Trump Humping is hazardous to your brain.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:22 (average 5:16).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-23-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=eec9iFfmxbw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Beyond Trump: A Federal Jobs Guarantee<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/eec9iFfmxbw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the Left is right. The Reich on the Right is Republican. We need either Robert&#8217;s plan, or a guaranteed living minimum income. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_SLkIb6tBN4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Stacey Abrams Makes History With Georgia Win<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_SLkIb6tBN4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Excellent! Not only is she a true progressive and an authentic Democrat, but also, she has the balls to <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-says-he-has-no-idea-who-fbi-informant-might-be\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump said on Monday that he is \u201ca-hundred-per-cent positive\u201d that an F.B.I. informant infiltrated his 2016 campaign but that he has \u201cabsolutely no idea\u201d who that mole might be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been trying to figure out who would have the opportunity and the motive to do something like this,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I keep coming up empty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpportunity-wise, you\u2019d need to be someone who\u2019s in my inner circle and who could get close to me without raising suspicions,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, then again, the person would have to be able to suddenly disappear for periods of time and report back to the F.B.I. I can\u2019t think of anyone in a position to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy has a guess!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0523Borowitz-TrumpFBIInformant\" 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=\"0523Borowitz-TrumpFBIInformant\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0523Borowitz-TrumpFBIInformant.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"487\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0523Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another hot, busy day here at the CatBox.&#160; I&#8217;m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my grocery order.&#160; They are due any time now.&#160; After I unpack and stow them, I&#8217;ll have lunch and finish here.&#160; Next, I have a letter to write to the Parole Board on behalf of one of my <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/open-thread-5-23-2018\/' 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-32516","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\/32516","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=32516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}