{"id":33654,"date":"2018-09-09T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33654"},"modified":"2018-09-09T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:32:30","slug":"open-thread-9-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/09\/open-thread-9-9-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/9\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m in a hurry this morning.&#160; WWWendy is due in about an hour and a half.&#160; Football starts in three hours.&#160; My Broncos play in six.&#160; We have a lot to do.&#160; Today should be the last day in the 80\u00b0s for a while.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:15 (average 5:17).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-09-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=iaWeYqotUJs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>LIE LIE LIE &#8211; a Parody<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iaWeYqotUJs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don has oversimplified. Strategic voting is honest common sense, not a lie. Regressive concrete thinking like this here is the reason Trump is in the White House. I&#8217;m embedding this video out of respect for the great work Don has done, but the truth is this. Every third party vote on the left increases the chance of electing a fascist Republican. Progressives are taking over the Democratic Party from within. The change won&#8217;t happen all at once. It&#8217;s incremental, but it is happening. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1McWB2nBVfg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: The Dangerous Myth of Deregulation<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1McWB2nBVfg?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. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, hurts people for profit. Regulations exist to protect citizens against the many forms of damage Republican corporations would inflict upon them instead of paying the cost of preventing the damage. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/08\/us\/politics\/republicans-midterms-ted-cruz.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A pair of top Republicans acknowledged in a private meeting on Saturday that the party was battling serious vulnerabilities in the midterm elections, including what one described as widespread \u201chate\u201d for President Trump, and raised the prospect that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas could lose his bid for re-election because he is not seen as \u201clikable\u201d enough.<\/p>\n<p>The two Republican leaders, Mick Mulvaney, the federal budget director, and Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, assured party officials and donors at a closed-door event in New York City that the right would ultimately turn back a purported \u201cblue wave\u201d in November. Mr. Mulvaney also questioned whether Democrats could marshal support from outside the left, criticizing them as a party defined solely by opposition to Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Mulvaney and Ms. McDaniel also offered an unusually raw assessment of their own party\u2019s strengths and weaknesses in the midterm elections. They pointed to the burning energy among Democratic voters and the dozens of open House seats, where Republican incumbents decided not to seek re-election, as fearsome obstacles to retaining control of Congress. And Mr. Mulvaney suggested Republicans would fare better if they could \u201csubtract\u201d the president\u2019s divisive persona from voters\u2019 minds, and stress instead that the country is in a \u201cpretty good\u201d condition.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Go, Beto, Go! If he beats Cruz, that&#8217;s a progressive wet dream! <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\/09\/0909Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a hurry this morning.&#160; WWWendy is due in about an hour and a half.&#160; Football starts in three hours.&#160; My Broncos play in six.&#160; We have a lot to do.&#160; Today should be the last day in the 80\u00b0s for a while. 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