{"id":33044,"date":"2018-07-10T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33044"},"modified":"2018-07-10T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T20:10:45","slug":"open-thread-7-10-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/10\/open-thread-7-10-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/10\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a muggy day, here in the CatBox.&#160; It was supposed to be be cloudy, but the sun is on the wall, so there will be no break from the heat wave.&#160; I had a ton of paperwork to do this morning, but I still managed to finish my research.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:18 (average 6:12).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-10-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=76GRo-tWuG4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Liz Crokin Says Trump Has Confirmed That &#8216;Pizzgate Is Real&#8217;<\/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\/76GRo-tWuG4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Trump confirms something is real, that proves that it&#8217;s bullshit! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GhmyIrT_DBA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>President Donald Trump Admin. Won&#8217;t Meet Child Reunification Deadline<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GhmyIrT_DBA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In reality, those children have rights, but in a Republican Reich all children&#8217;s rights end at birth. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/7\/6\/1778407\/-On-The-Seven-Republican-Senators-Who-Just-Betrayed-Us-In-Moscow\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Trump and the GOP want to hold onto their control of the U.S. Senate more than anything in the world. They want it so bad they were willing to go to Moscow and telegraph their new quarterback, Vladimir Putin, to run the same play he ran in 2016, the one where Russian Internet trolls carpet-bombed Facebook and Twitter, spreading nasty smears about Hillary Clinton and thereby allowing Donald Trump to slither into office.&#160; Hell, all Trump had to do for this gesture of friendship was launder a hundred million or so in dirty Russian money and make a few minor foreign policy adjustments. Oh, and find a workaround to those pesky sanctions, too.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t argue with that kind of success. The GOP knows that its base only wants a win, and as Trump demonstrated, it doesn\u2019t matter much to those folks in the heartland how you get there. Besides, their constituents are <a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2017\/05\/24\/republicans-warming-russia-polls-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">now practically lining up in red states<\/a> to learn Russian.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans don&#8217;t need to rush to learn Russian. If they have their way, Russian will soon be available in US public schools, where English will be taught only as a second language. <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\/07\/0710Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy day, here in the CatBox.&#160; It was supposed to be be cloudy, but the sun is on the wall, so there will be no break from the heat wave.&#160; I had a ton of paperwork to do this morning, but I still managed to finish my research. 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