{"id":33141,"date":"2018-07-18T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33141"},"modified":"2018-07-18T12:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:24:53","slug":"open-thread-7-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/open-thread-7-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a little cooler with the forecast high in the mid 80\u00b0s, but the building is still superheated.&#160; Store to Door delivered groceries.&#160; I unpacked and put them away.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening, and it won&#8217;t be a minute too soon.&#160; I stink.&#160; Happy Hump Day, but no humping Trump unless you are a foreign dictator.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:08 (average 8:31).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-18-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=r3RWHfF_8sk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Liberal Redneck &#8211; Vlad n Donnie 2gether 4ever<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/r3RWHfF_8sk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I love Trey, but he missed a third possibility. Trump wants Putin&#8217;s ongoing help to transform the US government into a mirror image of Putin&#8217;s Russia, and to team with Russia to dominate the world. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tyLCkZC2aHA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Fly On The Wall At The Trump-Putin Meeting<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tyLCkZC2aHA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That may be close to what happened. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/report-gop-rep-dana-rohrabacher-referenced-in-affidavit-of-russian-spy-3b29a9be-d6d9-4d3d-9bf8-0eac4919a25c.html\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is the U.S. Congressman named in Monday&#8217;s FBI affidavit against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/russian-national-charged-influence-nra-c4f6934c-2fee-4155-9632-b3473f3e6604.html\" target=\"_blank\">Russian national Maria Butina<\/a>, which alleges Rohrabacher was part of a 2015 delegation that traveled to Moscow and planned to meet with a Russian official widely believed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/report-fbi-investigating-whether-1516308991-1efd1e3d-3774-4e6b-abf2-39dff9d6f1d0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Torshin<\/a>, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/maria-butina-russia-nra-spy-charges-touch-reps-rohrabacher-meeks\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why it matters: Torshin, who has been described as a &quot;godfather&quot; in a Russian organized crime syndicate, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/report-fbi-investigating-whether-1516308991-1efd1e3d-3774-4e6b-abf2-39dff9d6f1d0.html\" target=\"_blank\">under FBI investigation<\/a> for potentially funneling money through the NRA to help President Trump win the 2016 election. The notoriously pro-Russia Rohrabacher did not deny being the congressman referenced in the document, but said that the charge against Maria Butina is &quot;bogus,&quot; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/07\/17\/rohrabacher-russia-nra-indictment-butina-726306\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is that treason? I wonder how many Republican Ammosexuals realize that the NRA is knowingly being used as a Russian front to funnel money to Republicans? Would they care? <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\/07\/0718Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little cooler with the forecast high in the mid 80\u00b0s, but the building is still superheated.&#160; Store to Door delivered groceries.&#160; I unpacked and put them away.&#160; WWWendy comes this evening, and it won&#8217;t be a minute too soon.&#160; I stink.&#160; Happy Hump Day, but no humping Trump unless you are a foreign <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/open-thread-7-18-2018\/' 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-33141","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\/33141","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=33141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}