{"id":33106,"date":"2018-07-15T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33106"},"modified":"2018-07-15T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T18:57:49","slug":"open-thread-7-15-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/15\/open-thread-7-15-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/15\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s the hottest day of the week with forecast high in the low 100\u00b0s.&#160; UGH!!&#160; I&#8217;ll stink soon after my shower.&#160; WWWendy is coming this morning.&#160; I expect her in 30 minutes.&#160; The plan is to exert myself as little as possible.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy just left.&#160; Most of my shower was cold water by choice.&#160; The AC is barely holding it&#8217;s own.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Todays took me 3:48 (average 4:59).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-15-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=vImE3ba_PvY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: The Fog of Trump<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vImE3ba_PvY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is partially right. Trump&#8217;s antics distract from what the Reich on the Right, The Republican Reich, are doing to damage our nation. They have been trying to do all the awful things Robert listed for years, before they put Trump on the pedestal. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-pol-ca-senate-feinstein-de-leon-endorsement-20180714-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font>California Democratic Party leaders took a step to the left Saturday night, endorsing liberal state lawmaker Kevin de Le\u00f3n for Senate in a stinging rebuke of Democratic icon Sen. Dianne Feinstein.<\/p>\n<p>De Le\u00f3n\u2019s victory reflected the increasing strength of the state party\u2019s liberal activist core, which was energized by the election of Republican President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement was an embarrassment for Feinstein, who is running for a fifth full term, and indicates that Democratic activists in California have soured on her reputation for pragmatism and deference to bipartisanship as Trump and a Republican-led Congress are attacking Democratic priorities on immigration, healthcare and environmental protections.<\/p>\n<p>De Le\u00f3n, a former state Senate leader from Los Angeles, received 65% of the vote of about 330 members of the state party\u2019s executive board \u2014 more than the 60% needed to secure the endorsement. Feinstein, who pleaded with party leaders meeting in Oakland this weekend not to endorse any candidate, received 7%, and 28% voted for \u201cno endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to CDP! I add my endorsement of DeLeon! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/new-mueller-indictments-prove-donald-trump-illegitimate-president?src=newsletter1094292\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>It\u2019s all right there in <a href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenthelper\/80-netyksho-et-al-indictment\/ba0521c1eef869deecbe\/optimized\/full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the indictment<\/a> \u2014 day by day, hack by hack, theft by theft \u2014 how agents of the Russian intelligence service, the GRU, set out in the spring of 2016 to steal the election for Donald Trump. When you track the actions taken by Russian intelligence in the indictment with statements made by Trump and actions taken on his behalf by members of his campaign, the picture is as clear as an iPhone photo. Agents of the Russian government coordinated with members of the Trump campaign and took cues from Trump himself in order to influence the election of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the <a href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenthelper\/80-netyksho-et-al-indictment\/ba0521c1eef869deecbe\/optimized\/full.pdf?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\" target=\"_blank\">indictment<\/a>, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein may have refused to point to a victim of the Russians\u2019 crimes other than to say it was America itself, but the intent of the Russians was clear. They took active measures over a period of at least nine months to aid the campaign of Donald Trump and to damage the campaign of Hillary Clinton. They stole the election for Donald Trump, and he helped them do it.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The author concludes that the evidence in the indictment renders the Trump Presidency illegitimate. I fully agree. <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\/2017\/07\/0715Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the hottest day of the week with forecast high in the low 100\u00b0s.&#160; UGH!!&#160; I&#8217;ll stink soon after my shower.&#160; WWWendy is coming this morning.&#160; I expect her in 30 minutes.&#160; The plan is to exert myself as little as possible. 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