{"id":32717,"date":"2018-06-15T12:32:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32717"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T19:32:36","slug":"open-thread-6-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/open-thread-6-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/15\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I slept poorly last night, because the high pollen was setting off my hay fever, so please pardon my brevity.&#160; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:04 (average 8:57).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-15-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=LglXpD1-0N4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Busted: Comey Misused Personal Email During Clinton Email Probe<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/LglXpD1-0N4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the bottom line. Republicans lied from the start.&#160; Hillary was not guilty of wrongdoing. The FBI inadvertently influenced the election in favor of Trump, because Comey and others cared more about agency PR than long-standing policy. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-agrees-to-let-kim-jong-un-have-pence-as-manservant\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>As new details emerge from this week\u2019s summit in Singapore, the White House has confirmed that Donald J. Trump unilaterally offered to let Kim Jong Un have Mike Pence as his personal manservant.<\/p>\n<p>The offer reportedly came after Kim spoke glowingly to Trump about the Vice-President\u2019s obsequiousness, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven by North Korean standards, Pence puts my toadies to shame,\u201d Kim reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>Once the necessary paperwork is squared away, Pence could begin bowing and scraping in Pyongyang as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! Did the Fuhrer get a selection of Kim&#8217;s Army of Beauties in return? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-wants-americans-to-treat-him-like-kim-jong-un-770a83c41c9e\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>During an impromptu interview on Friday\u2019s edition of Fox &amp; Friends, President Trump indicated that he\u2019d like it if Americans, particularly his staff in the White House, treated him the same way North Koreans treat totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I suggested that desire a few days ago. The article has video. I did not include it out of compassion for you. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/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\/06\/0615Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">2011: Remember?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept poorly last night, because the high pollen was setting off my hay fever, so please pardon my brevity.&#160; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 5:04 (average 8:57).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Busted: Comey Misused Personal Email During Clinton Email Probe &#160; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/open-thread-6-15-2018\/' 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-32717","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\/32717","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=32717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}