{"id":32555,"date":"2018-05-26T13:06:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32555"},"modified":"2018-05-26T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T20:06:40","slug":"open-thread-5-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/26\/open-thread-5-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/26\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a relatively cool day here in the CatBox.&#160; I slept poorly last night as there was a kitchen fire on the floor.&#160; By the time I rousted, dressed, popped on George, and prepared myself to be evacuated, the FD had arrived, and it was out.&#160; I returned to bed wide awake with elevated adrenalin.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:09 (average 5:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-05-26-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=NgP-Bqr-r0Y\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Turnout is Everything<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NgP-Bqr-r0Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left is right! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xRh1YeVGgCw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC18vz5hUUqxbGvym9ghtX_w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Full Frontal Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Real or Fake: #BeeBest Edition<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xRh1YeVGgCw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The one that misspelled garbage may have been Trump. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/05\/25\/devin-nunes-russia-probe-fundraising-609492\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Devin Nunes, the California congressman whose allegiance to Donald Trump has made him public enemy number one to many Democrats, is beginning to feel the heat back home.<\/p>\n<p>His little-known challenger is awash in cash from across the country as a result of Nunes\u2019 polarizing role in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. An independent expenditure campaign has posted hostile billboards along Highway 99, the heavily traveled main road through Nunes\u2019 Central Valley district.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/business\/article210912434.html\" target=\"_blank\">a report in the Fresno Bee<\/a> linked Nunes to a winery that allegedly held a wild cocaine-and-prostitutes evening yacht cruise \u2014 a winery where the congressman is a part-owner.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It all makes sense now. Nunes keeps his nose buried in Trump&#8217;s butt crack in the hope that Putin&#8217;s Pervert can get a few Russian hookers for Nunes&#8217; cocaine and sex cruises.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE<\/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\/2016\/05\/0526Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Convict Trump!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a relatively cool day here in the CatBox.&#160; I slept poorly last night as there was a kitchen fire on the floor.&#160; By the time I rousted, dressed, popped on George, and prepared myself to be evacuated, the FD had arrived, and it was out.&#160; I returned to bed wide awake with elevated adrenalin. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/26\/open-thread-5-26-2018\/' 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-32555","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\/32555","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=32555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}