{"id":33209,"date":"2018-07-26T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T21:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33209"},"modified":"2018-07-26T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T21:33:27","slug":"open-thread-7-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/26\/open-thread-7-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/26\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll be getting this up way late, because I slept poorly last night.&#160; Then&#160; I took a nap this morning and overslept.&#160; Next, I just spent an hour on the phone with a nurse form my Medical Advantage Plan for my annual prescription meds review.&#160; The heat wave goes on and on and on.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:59 (average 5:20).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-26-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=gQu3egRLTkk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Soccer Ball From Vladimir Putin Had An Electronic Chip<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gQu3egRLTkk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One has to wonder if Russia has Nano-circuitry tiny enough for Putin to have chipped Trump&#8217;s other balls. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/ivanka-trump-named-dean-of-business-school-at-trump-university\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Calling it \u201can exciting new chapter in my amazing life,\u201d Ivanka Trump has been named dean of the business school at the newly reconstituted Trump University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been incredibly blessed with stratospheric success as a businessperson,\u201d Dean Trump said on Wednesday. \u201cThis is my chance to give something back, for only fifty thousand dollars in tuition and other fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that students enrolling at the Trump University School of Business can look forward to gleaning wisdom not only from her but from another star faculty member, Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to business, Jared has been almost as incredible I have,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m calling BS, Andy! There&#8217;s no way she can turn out graduates as incompetent and perverted as her father. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/1783629\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>In classic con man fashion, the candidate and president who has sworn to bring manufacturing back to the United States isn\u2019t making any attempt to start with his own campaign. In fact, as evidenced by these photos, the Trump campaign is actively getting their gear made in China.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0726Flags2020\" 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=\"0726Flags2020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/0726Flags2020.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hey Shit for Brains! How about a tariff on flags for assholes? <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\/2016\/07\/0726Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be getting this up way late, because I slept poorly last night.&#160; Then&#160; I took a nap this morning and overslept.&#160; Next, I just spent an hour on the phone with a nurse form my Medical Advantage Plan for my annual prescription meds review.&#160; The heat wave goes on and on and on. 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