{"id":32698,"date":"2018-06-13T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32698"},"modified":"2018-06-13T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:56:56","slug":"open-thread-6-13-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/13\/open-thread-6-13-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/13\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running a bit behind today, because Store to Door delivered my groceries late, and I needed to unpack and put them away.&#160; WWWendy is bringing her niece for training this evening, since her niece will be filling-in when Wendy is away the first week in July.&#160; It&#8217;s been a busy day, and I&#8217;m 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 3:41 (average 4:30).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-13-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=9OSNxUb_VN8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>President Trump Military Exercise Giveaway To N. Korea Suits Putin&#8217;s Goals (19 min.)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9OSNxUb_VN8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Why give so much for nothing is a good question. My best guesses are that he did it as a distraction, or his master told him to. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HVPjoEN1a8k\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheNewYorkTimes\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times Channel<\/a>): <\/font>I Escaped North Korea. Here\u2019s My Message for President Trump<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HVPjoEN1a8k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course she&#8217;s right. The problem is, Trump envies Kim. He wants to exercise dictatorial power like Kim&#8217;s. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/6\/4\/1769442\/-This-incredible-ad-from-a-New-York-progressive-candidate-is-exactly-what-the-Democrats-need\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>As much as New York is a reliable blue state during presidential and senatorial elections, it is far from being a progressive utopia. Just look at congressional district 14, which is represented by one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, with little to show for it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ocasio2018.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>\u2019s primary campaign against Joe Crowley had earned a little bit of coverage, but her press team couldn\u2019t find any news outlet willing to premiere <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rq3QXIVR0bs\" target=\"_blank\">her new campaign ad<\/a>. \u201cThey were like, \u2018no, no, no,\u2019 so I was like, alright, I\u2019m just going to put it on Twitter,\u201d the 28-year-old political organizer tells Progressives Everywhere. \u201cThankfully it turned out really well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the ad:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rq3QXIVR0bs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">She has my endorsement! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/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\/2016\/06\/0613Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running a bit behind today, because Store to Door delivered my groceries late, and I needed to unpack and put them away.&#160; WWWendy is bringing her niece for training this evening, since her niece will be filling-in when Wendy is away the first week in July.&#160; It&#8217;s been a busy day, and I&#8217;m tired. <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/13\/open-thread-6-13-2018\/' 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-32698","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\/32698","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=32698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}