{"id":33551,"date":"2018-08-31T13:27:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33551"},"modified":"2018-08-31T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:27:42","slug":"open-thread-8-31-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/31\/open-thread-8-31-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/31\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Another month is coming to an end, and here in the CatBox, the morning was cool, but the sum hit the wall, and I had to button up.&#160; I have a very busy weekend with a mug and Tee Shirt to order, a new poll to get out, and a Monthly Report.&#160; Because the 2nd is a WWWendy day, I plan to publish the report on the third.<\/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 5:16).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-08-31-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Ecstasy<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0830P-Broncos21-Cardinals10\" 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=\"0830P-Broncos21-Cardinals10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0830P-Broncos21-Cardinals10.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"100\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As enjoyable as this is, it had little meaning, as none of the starters played.&#160; Next week, the Holy Ellipsoid Orb will shine its light in earnest, and the games will count.<\/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=Diz2f4PbMuI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump Frantic To Shore Up Base As Scandals Deepen, Insiders Flip<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Diz2f4PbMuI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Party faithful 45 years ago were misled but decent. The Party faithful today are a deplorable slurry of racists, nativists, homophobes, misogynists, anti-environmentalists, KKK, Nazis and stupid sheeple.. Today&#8217;s Republican base will goose-step no matter what their Fuhrer says or does. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/08\/31\/trump-approval-rating-poll-washington-post-abc-805563\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Sixty percent of those polled in a new survey disapprove of President Donald Trump&#8217;s job performance, a new high for the president in joint polling conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/page\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2018\/08\/31\/National-Politics\/Polling\/release_528.xml\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a>, released Friday and conducted just days after special counsel Robert Mueller delivered a one-two punch to the Trump administration in federal court, found a little more than one-third of Americans approve of Trump&#8217;s job performance. The poll was conducted last week, when former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on tax and bank fraud charges and Trump&#8217;s former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts, including campaign finance violations, in a Manhattan courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s approval rating, according to the poll, was 36 percent.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s expected, but this is frightening. That 36% not only vote, but even worse, they interbreed reproduce! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/just-hours-after-ordering-pay-cut-millions-public-workers-trump-proposes-100-billion-gift-richest-1?src=newsletter1095819\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Hours after he launched yet another &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardTrumka\/status\/1035282444528877568\" target=\"_blank\">direct attack<\/a>&quot; on workers by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/08\/30\/absolutely-repulsive-after-15-trillion-tax-giveaway-rich-trump-cancels-modest-pay\" target=\"_blank\">canceling a modest pay raise for around two million federal employees<\/a>, President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-30\/trump-says-thinking-about-indexing-capital-gains-to-inflation\">told<\/a> Bloomberg on Thursday that he is considering a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/taxjusticewonk\/status\/1035279880605315074\" target=\"_blank\">regressive and possibly illegal<\/a> plan to use his executive power to hand the rich another $100 billion in tax cuts by indexing capital gains to inflation.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is the Republican way. They take from workers to provide another $100 billion in welfare to 0.1% billionaires.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!&#160; <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\/0831Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another month is coming to an end, and here in the CatBox, the morning was cool, but the sum hit the wall, and I had to button up.&#160; I have a very busy weekend with a mug and Tee Shirt to order, a new poll to get out, and a Monthly Report.&#160; Because the 2nd <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/31\/open-thread-8-31-2018\/' 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-33551","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\/33551","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=33551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}