{"id":33201,"date":"2018-07-25T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33201"},"modified":"2018-07-25T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:37:35","slug":"open-thread-7-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/open-thread-7-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/25\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As the heat wave enters it&#8217;s worst day, I&#8217;m running a bit late.&#160; Store to Door was late delivering my groceries, and I just finished putting them away and eating lunch.&#160; WWWendy is spending a couple days at the beach, and her niece, Katie, is filling in again.&#160; She&#8217;s a sweetheart.&#160; My lone complaint is that she lacks the sadism needed to scrub a back properly.&#160; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:23 (average 5:14).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-25-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=8Ha3dvgtKBc\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Why Is The Right So Scared Of A Democratic Socialist?<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8Ha3dvgtKBc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How terrible she is for luring people to spend their tax dollars on what people need, at the expense of the people, who Republicans say need welfare dollars most: billionaires! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PnlzCPv8ad4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (Remember this?): <\/font>P!nk &#8211; Dear Mr. President (from Live from Wembley Arena, London, England<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PnlzCPv8ad4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Pink first sang this song about GW Bush in December, 2006, I thought he was the worst White House resident in my memory. At his worst, he could not hold a candle to the evil that Trump is today. But remember, as bad as Trump is, he only reflects his Republican Reich. Trump is just the symptom. The Republican Party is the disease. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-threatens-to-yank-security-clearance-from-frederick-douglass\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump\u2019s crusade to revoke security clearances from perceived critics was on display again on Tuesday as he threatened to yank credentials from a man he had previously praised, Frederick Douglass.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear why Trump had turned on Douglass, because, unlike other targets of Trump\u2019s security-clearance rampage, Douglass had not made disparaging comments about him on cable news in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Trump offered few clues as to the source of his unhappiness with Douglass, but he broadcast his disapproval of the abolitionist in a tweet that read, \u201cHE IS NO LONGER DOING AN AMAZING JOB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Trump is just pissed because he realized that Douglas was black. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0725Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0725Cartoon\" 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=\"0725Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0725Cartoon_thumb-1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the heat wave enters it&#8217;s worst day, I&#8217;m running a bit late.&#160; Store to Door was late delivering my groceries, and I just finished putting them away and eating lunch.&#160; WWWendy is spending a couple days at the beach, and her niece, Katie, is filling in again.&#160; She&#8217;s a sweetheart.&#160; My lone complaint is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/25\/open-thread-7-25-2018\/' 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-33201","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\/33201","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=33201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}