{"id":33160,"date":"2018-07-20T12:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T19:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33160"},"modified":"2018-07-20T12:47:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T19:47:01","slug":"open-thread-7-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/20\/open-thread-7-20-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/20\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was cool this morning, here in the CatBox, and I enjoyed it until the sun hit the wall.&#160; Then the inside temperature increased 15\u00b0 in the 8 minutes it took me co close the window, blinds, and door and fire up the AC.&#160; Tomorrow will be the last cool morning until we&#8217;re back in the 90\u00b0s for at least a week.&#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 4:25 (average 5:23).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-20-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=DQgHyJ3E4Nk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Yates: W.H. Knew Flynn Under Investigation As Donald Trump Coaxed Comey<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DQgHyJ3E4Nk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wouldn&#8217;t it be great, if she had become AG, instead of KKK Beauregard? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sxAOPrifDOA\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Jerome Corsi Says Trump, Putin United in War Against \u2018Deep State\u2019<\/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\/sxAOPrifDOA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican fascist conspiracy theorist got it half right. Trump and Putin are united in a war, but it&#8217;s against the US. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/usa-usa-house-democrats-chant-republicans-refuse-vote-amendment-protecting-us\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) introduced a measure on Thursday to designate additional funding to states for the protection of elections. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) <a href=\"https:\/\/shareblue.com\/house-gop-shamed-democrats-chant-usa-refusing-protect-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\">spoke<\/a> in support of the measure, saying, the federal government should help \u201cslam the door in the face of the Russian bear or any other adversary who seeks to steal the integrity of our elections.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Hoyer explained that the amendment was about &quot;one of the most pressing issues of our time.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely we can rise above pandering to party and Putin to act on behalf of our freedom and our security,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have sworn an oath to defend our Constitution and our liberty against all enemies, foreign and domestic. You have the opportunity to do that today. Do so. Vote yes on this amendment for your country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats applauded and began to chant &quot;U.S.A.! U.S.A.!&quot; as <strong>Republicans went silent and voted against the measure to protect elections<\/strong>. [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now we know how Republicans plan to win in 2018. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/i-was-never-this-blatant-says-benedict-arnold-in-hell\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Saying that he was \u201cflabbergasted\u201d by the events of this week, the Revolutionary War-era traitor Benedict Arnold offered a ringing defense of his own career in treason, asserting, \u201cI was never this blatant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was brought up to believe that betraying your country was something you\u2019d do very secretively,\u201d Arnold, who now resides in Hell, said. \u201cIf you were going over to the enemy side, you\u2019d do everything you could not to be detected. You wouldn\u2019t go around announcing it to the world like a jackass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Is Benedict jealous or relieved, now that he knows that his reign as America&#8217;s most infamous traitor is at an end. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!<\/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\/0720Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was cool this morning, here in the CatBox, and I enjoyed it until the sun hit the wall.&#160; Then the inside temperature increased 15\u00b0 in the 8 minutes it took me co close the window, blinds, and door and fire up the AC.&#160; Tomorrow will be the last cool morning until we&#8217;re back in <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/20\/open-thread-7-20-2018\/' 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-33160","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\/33160","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=33160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}