{"id":33569,"date":"2018-09-01T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33569"},"modified":"2018-09-01T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T18:48:54","slug":"open-thread-9-1-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/01\/open-thread-9-1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/1\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Welcome to a new month.&#160; It&#8217;s nice and cool here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m feeling a bit chilly.&#160; I love it!&#160; Later the sun will hit the wall, but that&#8217;s later.&#160; It&#8217;s a very busy day, as I&#8217;m changing the poll in addition to collecting the data, preparing the charts, and making the graphics for August&#8217;s Monthly Report.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:35 (average 4:55).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-01-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=2edoWM2_PHg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>The Story That Set President Donald Trump Off Today <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2edoWM2_PHg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Oh Canada! Here&#8217;s the deal&#8230; You take Trump and you can sell all the timber you want here. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t7Hzzrb3-C0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">RWW News: Josh Bernstein Promises Bloodshed If Democrats Try To Impeach Trump<\/font><\/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\/t7Hzzrb3-C0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is the way Republicans relate to America. This idiot is aping (apology to apes) his Fuhrer! <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-fears-next-election-will-be-decided-by-americans\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Donald J. Trump is \u201cscared to death\u201d that the 2020 Presidential election will be decided by Americans, an aide to Trump has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Trump is panicking over a doomsday scenario in which Americans, sidelined during the 2016 election, play a dominant role in influencing the 2020 contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds paranoid, but, as we speak, representatives of the United States are already plotting to remove him from office in 2020,\u201d the aide said. \u201cThey are determined to replace him with someone who takes a move favorable view toward their country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aide said that the Americans, frustrated by Trump\u2019s open hostility to the United States since taking office, will \u201cstop at nothing\u201d to achieve their ultimate goal: installing an agent of the U.S. in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear what the Americans are up to,\u201d the aide said. \u201cThey want a puppet who will do the bidding of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! You&#8217;re right! A US supporter in the Oval Office could mean the death of the Republican Reich. <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\/2014\/09\/0901Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Koch is Republicans&#8217; favorite drug!&#160; (vintage 2011).<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new month.&#160; It&#8217;s nice and cool here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m feeling a bit chilly.&#160; I love it!&#160; Later the sun will hit the wall, but that&#8217;s later.&#160; It&#8217;s a very busy day, as I&#8217;m changing the poll in addition to collecting the data, preparing the charts, and making the graphics <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/01\/open-thread-9-1-2018\/' 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-33569","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\/33569","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=33569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}