{"id":33258,"date":"2018-07-29T13:03:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33258"},"modified":"2018-07-29T13:03:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T20:03:53","slug":"open-thread-7-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/29\/open-thread-7-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/29\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here in the CatBox it looks like it will top 100\u00b0 again today, as Portland is still under an excessive heat warning.&#160; WWWendy is due in half an hour.&#160; It&#8217;s frustrating to get a shower, need another by bedtime, and know it will be three days, before I get it.&#160; Speaking of frustrating, I was working on an idea for another &#8216;Republicans on Parade&#8217; graphic.&#160; I typed &#8216;asshole&#8217; to Google Images.&#160; It displayed no pics of a real asshole, but several of the pics were of Trump.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We had ribs.&#160; They tasted almost as good as BBQ <em>dawg<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:58 (average 4:29).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-07-29-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=xzsNnAePx3E\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>IT&#8217;S ALRIGHT NOW &#8211; Parody of Garden Party Rick Nelson<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xzsNnAePx3E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don certainly knows about Putin&#8217;s Pervert, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4soui9GMU2g\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: 6 Reasons for Hope in Trump Times<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4soui9GMU2g?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 right! &quot;The future depends on every one of us becoming an activist.&quot; Assuming that we win in 2018, the future also depends on every one of us remaining an activist, not saying &quot;we won&quot; and returning to apathy. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/28\/opinion\/sunday\/mike-pence-holy-terror.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>There are problems with impeaching Donald Trump. A big one is the holy terror waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n<p>That would be Mike Pence, who mirrors the boss more than you realize. He\u2019s also self-infatuated. Also a bigot. Also a liar. Also cruel.<\/p>\n<p>To that brimming potpourri he adds two ingredients that Trump doesn\u2019t genuinely possess: the conviction that he\u2019s on a mission from God and a determination to mold the entire nation in the shape of his own faith, a regressive, repressive version of [pseudo-]Christianity. Trade Trump for Pence and you go from kleptocracy to theocracy.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for much more. Pence is just the pus-oozing boil. The Republican party is the filth that grew it. <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\/0729Cartoon_thumb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the CatBox it looks like it will top 100\u00b0 again today, as Portland is still under an excessive heat warning.&#160; WWWendy is due in half an hour.&#160; It&#8217;s frustrating to get a shower, need another by bedtime, and know it will be three days, before I get it.&#160; Speaking of frustrating, I was <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/29\/open-thread-7-29-2018\/' 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-33258","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\/33258","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=33258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}