{"id":33332,"date":"2018-08-07T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33332"},"modified":"2018-08-07T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:30:23","slug":"open-thread-8-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/open-thread-8-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/7\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Portland is under another excessive heat warning.&#160; I expect highs of or near 100\u00b0 for the next three days with high humidity too.&#160; I overslept this morning because I had trouble sleeping last night.&#160; I had to don George, because another resident hogged the only handicapped restroom I can use without wearing George for over an hour.&#160; It was almost puddle and mop time.&#160; I&#8217;ve burned most of my morning rest time, so I&#8217;ll just work through.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:45 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-07-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=oOXrQi3wFhY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The right-wing obsession with the \u201cdeep state\u201d conspiracy theory<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oOXrQi3wFhY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only deep state is the Republican Reich. It is the deep state because of the depth of the bullshit that is piled above the heads of Republican sheeple. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qFk8dEGEtqo\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Late Show Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Chris Hayes Unpacks Rick Gates&#8217; Testimony<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qFk8dEGEtqo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Chris has developed into a journalist on par with Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell.&#160; It&#8217;s interesting to see he more relaxed and laughing in the role of interviewee.&#160; Manafart is toast.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!&#160; <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2018\/08\/07\/trumps-walk-of-fame-star-the-west-hollywood-city-council-wants-it-permanently-removed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Since the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump\u2019s Hollywood Walk of Fame star has seen just about everything. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/reliable-source\/wp\/2018\/07\/25\/someone-took-a-pickax-to-trumps-hollywood-star-and-shattered-it-again\/?utm_term=.97e66f334646\" target=\"_blank\">smashed into pieces<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/arts-and-entertainment\/wp\/2016\/10\/26\/video-shows-donald-trumps-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-destroyed\/?utm_term=.40bd676b0bba\" target=\"_blank\">twice<\/a>. It was vandalized with a swastika, enclosed with a miniature border wall, defaced with profanity and graced with the presence of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/reliable-source\/wp\/2017\/05\/08\/people-keep-messing-with-trumps-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star\/?utm_term=.99f26bd1584c\" target=\"_blank\">gold-painted toilet<\/a> telling passersby to \u201cTAKE A&#160; TRUMP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump supporters have fought back, defending the star. Late last month, hours after a man destroyed the star with a pickax, a fierce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2018\/07\/29\/a-bloody-brawl-erupted-over-trumps-hollywood-star-hours-after-it-was-destroyed-with-a-pickax\/?utm_term=.eb4bb0a487b7\" target=\"_blank\">brawl<\/a> ensued, leaving one person kicked in the head and another bleeding from the face.<\/p>\n<p>The site has become a symbol not only of the nation\u2019s celebrity president but of the polarization surrounding him. And a nearby city council has had enough of it.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, the West Hollywood City Council voted unanimously in favor of a <a href=\"http:\/\/weho.granicus.com\/MetaViewer.php?view_id=&amp;event_id=1064&amp;meta_id=153340\" target=\"_blank\">resolution<\/a> to ask for the removal of Trump\u2019s star because of the president\u2019s \u201cdisturbing treatment of women and other actions that do not meet the shared values of the City of West Hollywood, the region, state, and country.\u201d It cited Trump\u2019s lewd comments on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005\/2016\/10\/07\/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?utm_term=.0d0fb24961fc\" target=\"_blank\">Access Hollywood<\/a>\u201d tape, his policy of separating families at the border and his denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to West Hollywood!! Take a TRUMP?!!? ROTF!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/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\/08\/0807Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This may be too generous, but I made it in 2011.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland is under another excessive heat warning.&#160; I expect highs of or near 100\u00b0 for the next three days with high humidity too.&#160; I overslept this morning because I had trouble sleeping last night.&#160; I had to don George, because another resident hogged the only handicapped restroom I can use without wearing George for over <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/07\/open-thread-8-7-2018\/' 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-33332","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\/33332","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=33332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}