{"id":32997,"date":"2018-07-06T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32997"},"modified":"2018-07-06T13:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:11:05","slug":"open-thread-7-6-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/open-thread-7-6-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/6\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s not as hot today, but the sun hit the window early, and the building was already overheated from yesterday.&#160; I was sweating on the throne at 6:00 AM.&#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 3:10 (average 5:19).&#160; To do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-06-CE2504A965A9\">click here<\/a>.&#160; Hoe 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=EarLx8dq-Fg\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Rick Wiles Says Democrats Will Kill Republicans To Prevent Them From Voting In 2020<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EarLx8dq-Fg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Some men in white coats need to throw something on Wiles: a net. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/07\/06\/626453571\/china-says-u-s-has-begun-largest-trade-war-in-history-retaliates-with-tariffs\">NPR<\/a>: <\/font>As the day dawned across the U.S. on Friday, a new economic reality dawned with it: The tariffs long threatened against billions of dollars in Chinese goods took effect just at midnight ET while many Americans were sleeping \u2014 but Beijing was ready immediately with a wake-up call of its own.<\/p>\n<p>The new trade regulations imposed by the Trump administration, which levy a 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports to the U.S., have &quot;violated [World Trade Organization] rules and launched the largest trade war in economic history to date,&quot; China&#8217;s Ministry of Commerce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mofcom.gov.cn\/article\/ae\/ag\/201807\/20180702763232.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">declared in a statement<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities quickly retaliated with equivalent tariffs on $34 billion worth of imported U.S. goods \u2014 previously promised as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/04\/04\/599391926\/chinas-50-billion-tariff-threat-targets-u-s-soybeans-cars-whiskey\" target=\"_blank\">ranging from<\/a> vehicles to soybeans, beef and other agricultural products.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid tit for tat follows weeks of anxious anticipation over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/trade\/programs-administration\/entry-summary\/section-301-trade-remedies-be-assessed-certain-products-china-effective-july-6-2018\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;trade remedies&quot;<\/a>President Trump vowed last month to implement. At the time he announced the tariffs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/06\/15\/620259820\/trump-levies-50-billion-in-tariffs-as-china-says-it-will-retaliate\" target=\"_blank\">back in mid-June<\/a>, Trump said the current U.S.-China economic relationship had grown to be &quot;no longer sustainable.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The people Trump is hurting most are US consumers and workers. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/scott-pruitts-replacement-expected-to-carry-on-trumps-anti-regulatory-agenda-at-epa-dda503c3ad10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>With a top coal lobbyist stepping in to serve as acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), few people are expecting Scott Pruitt\u2019s resignation to slow down the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to deal a knock-out blow to the agency\u2019s ability to protect the environment.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump on Thursday named EPA deputy administrator Andrew Wheeler \u2014 whose beliefs on environmental protection are as radical as Pruitt\u2019s \u2014 to serve as acting administrator of the agency.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As extreme as Pruitt&#8217;s graft became, it did not hold a candle to the level of damage the Republican Reich is doing to the environment. <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=\"0706Cartoon\" 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=\"0706Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0706Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not as hot today, but the sun hit the window early, and the building was already overheated from yesterday.&#160; I was sweating on the throne at 6:00 AM.&#160; TGIF! 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