{"id":32639,"date":"2018-06-05T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32639"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:45:10","slug":"open-thread-6-5-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/open-thread-6-5-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/5\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Last night street noise awakened me around midnight, and that was fortunate.&#160; I was up the rest of the night with Republicosis.&#160; I&#8217;m feeling very tired.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:24 (average 10:02).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-05-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=7vrOwAGGnos\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How cable news poisons the conversation about abortion<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7vrOwAGGnos?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How about fining the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, $100,000 per lie about abortion and use the $millions in raised revenue to fund Planned Parenthood? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kpw-oiJSs30\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Inequality Media Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Unconstitutional Census Power Grab<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kpw-oiJSs30?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. Republicans have more ways to steal elections than <em>dawgs<\/em> have fleas.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trumps-lawyers-argue-that-he-cannot-be-impeached-because-he-was-never-actually-elected\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In what they believe is a legal masterstroke, lawyers for Donald J. Trump are now claiming that he cannot be impeached because he was never actually elected.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy memo sent to the special counsel, Robert Mueller, the lawyers pushed back vehemently against any allegation that Trump was legally elected President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Russian interference made the election of Donald J. Trump wholly illegitimate, any attempt to remove him from an office that he does not legally hold is clearly impossible,\u201d the memo asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The memo claimed that the Constitution contains \u201cno provision for removing a person from office when that person was installed there by a foreign power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! That&#8217;s a compelling argument!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0605Cartoon\" 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=\"0605Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/0605Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Vintage 2011 and equally valid today.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night street noise awakened me around midnight, and that was fortunate.&#160; I was up the rest of the night with Republicosis.&#160; I&#8217;m feeling very tired. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:24 (average 10:02).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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