{"id":32843,"date":"2018-06-24T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32843"},"modified":"2018-06-24T13:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T20:23:10","slug":"open-thread-6-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/24\/open-thread-6-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/24\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The heat has returned.&#160; I&#8217;m trying to finish writing before WWWendy arrives in about an hour.&#160; We have a very busy day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We finished all the work and it&#8217;s hot as hell.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-06-24-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=OAucWKatb_s\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Leigh Valentine Says Undocumented Immigrants Are Treacherous Murderous God-Haters<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OAucWKatb_s?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These are NOT Christians. They are Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the opposite of authentic Christians. You can tell by their gospel of cruelty, hatred and racism. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/6\/20\/1773832\/-If-you-re-even-thinking-about-not-voting-in-November-f-ck-you\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>This is the price of voter apathy. This is what happens when good people sit on their hands and think they have no voice \u2014 that their vote just doesn\u2019t matter:<\/p>\n<p>Kids are snatched away from their parents and thrown in cages.<\/p>\n<p>If we don\u2019t get out in droves upon droves this November to kneecap this shart-slurping, retrograde prick who minces about like King Fuckwit in the West Wing, listening to nauseating encomiums from his fawning shit brigade while kids languish in concentration camps, we deserve to lose our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>How much quasi-Nazi B.S. do we have to bear witness to in order to make the upcoming midterms a historic repudiation of our dictator-in-waiting?<\/p>\n<p>My fear is that when November comes around, too many of us will forget what\u2019s happening now.<\/p>\n<p>But we can\u2019t. We just can\u2019t. Whatever happens, we need to be just as angry on November 6 as we are today. It\u2019s the most important day of the year, by far. Fuck you, Christmas. Our holiday comes early this year.<\/p>\n<p>We have to remember every outrage of the past two years. Every. One<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I fully agree. Click through for a partial list of outrages. However, for every outrage, we also need to explain exactly how we would do it differently. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2018\/06\/masha-gessen-hits-truth-hard-fascist\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Journalist Masha Gessen joined Joy Reid this morning to help us figure out what stage of fascism the United States has achieved. There&#8217;s a sentence I still cannot believe I had to write in seriousness.<\/p>\n<p>On the scale from Democracy to Fascism:<\/p>\n<p>Fascist Ruler? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Fascist attitude towards Immigrants? Check.<\/p>\n<p>Fascist Rule? Not yet. Not completely.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/bbLpCJ2H\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Whether or not we become a Fascist nation is up to 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\" 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\/06\/0624Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heat has returned.&#160; I&#8217;m trying to finish writing before WWWendy arrives in about an hour.&#160; We have a very busy day. We finished all the work and it&#8217;s hot as hell. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 4:42).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (RWW <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/24\/open-thread-6-24-2018\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843","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=32843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}