{"id":32925,"date":"2018-07-02T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32925"},"modified":"2018-07-02T12:35:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:35:47","slug":"open-thread-7-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/open-thread-7-2-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/2\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m back in the saddle again today.\u00a0 Yesterday, Katie was very efficient.\u00a0 I was glad to have her, even if she wasn&#8217;t WWWendy.\u00a0 Tomorrow\u00a0 I have a grocery delivery coming from Safeway.com\u00a0 I&#8217;d rather not use them, but Store to Door is closed for the 4th, and WWWendy is out of town.\u00a0 The extra time that will take is likely to limit me to a Personal Update or and Open Thread, with no links messages on Care2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:04 (average 5:08).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-02-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F_OxSZp1m_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert Reich: How to Prevent Future Trumps<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/F_OxSZp1m_4?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Reich on the left is 100% right. Those are the things we need to do, which is why I have maintained that Democrats need to focus more on economic issues, while standing strong on social issues. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/01\/world\/americas\/mexico-election-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory that upended the nation\u2019s political establishment and handed him a sweeping mandate to reshape the country.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s victory puts a leftist leader at the helm of Latin America\u2019s second-largest economy for the first time in decades, a prospect that has filled millions of Mexicans with hope \u2014 and the nation\u2019s elites with trepidation.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome represents a clear rejection of the status quo in the nation, which for the last quarter century has been defined by a centrist vision and an embrace of globalization that many Mexicans feel has not served them.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mexican voters are smarter than US voters. They elected a progressive, not a Nazi. Kudos to Mexico. Obrador is anti-Trump! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/you-get-played-cnns-jake-tapper-corners-gop-rep-claiming-she-wont-vote-anti-roe-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/span>During an interview on CNN\u2019s State of the Union, Tapper noted: \u201cYou\u2019re going to get a lot of pressure from groups and individuals who support abortion rights and one of the things that they think about you is that you get played by these judges and that ultimately, if you vote to support whoever President Trump nominates presuming the person comes from the list of 25, that one of your longest lasting legacy is likely going to be you vote to confirm a justice that ultimately tipped the balance of political power on court and voted to overturn [Roe v. Wade].<\/p>\n<p>Collins, however, defended her record.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xyyj8oMPkeA?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">She is talking about <em>stare decisis<\/em>. I have no doubt that Trump&#8217;s pick will promise to abide by it. Every Republican appointee since Thomas has made that promise, and they were all lying. We can&#8217;t depend on Collins. She will probably make sure they give her the answers she needs to goose-step, and claim she was duped later. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/0702Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back in the saddle again today.\u00a0 Yesterday, Katie was very efficient.\u00a0 I was glad to have her, even if she wasn&#8217;t WWWendy.\u00a0 Tomorrow\u00a0 I have a grocery delivery coming from Safeway.com\u00a0 I&#8217;d rather not use them, but Store to Door is closed for the 4th, and WWWendy is out of town.\u00a0 The extra time <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/open-thread-7-2-2018\/' 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-32925","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\/32925","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=32925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}