{"id":33823,"date":"2018-09-26T13:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33823"},"modified":"2018-09-26T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:18:11","slug":"open-thread-9-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/26\/open-thread-9-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/26\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running behind, because Store to Door delivered groceries, and I had to unpack and put them away.&#160; In addition, I had to research the breaking news on Pervert Kavanookie&#8217;s latest victim.&#160; WWWendy comes later to destink the TomCat, and it&#8217;s a good thing as we&#8217;re headed for the high 80\u00b0s, and the humidity is 62%.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:58 (average 4:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-26-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=T23FMD8K4nk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>A Laughing Matter: President Donald Trump Again Takes The World Stage <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/T23FMD8K4nk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That&#8217;s nothing. The world has been laughing at Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten for well over a year now. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y_tgCfOGw54\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: Trump&#8217;s Betrayal of the Working Class<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Y_tgCfOGw54?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right, and the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, always betray workers, even the fools that vote for them. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/republican-party-declares-moral-bankruptcy\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The Republican Party officially filed for moral bankruptcy on Tuesday morning, a move that many in the nation considered long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>In filing for moral bankruptcy, the Republicans will formally attest that they have no morals, standards, or ethics on their balance sheet, and will agree to cease all activity as a political party in exchange for indemnity from any and all legal actions.<\/p>\n<p>Harland Dorrinson, a Washington attorney who specializes in moral bankruptcies, said that, by making its moral vacuum official, the G.O.P. could theoretically break itself up and sell off the parts, but, he warned, \u201cThere are no buyers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Lindsey Graham to Ted Cruz to Mitch McConnell to Chuck Grassley, all of the Republican Party\u2019s assets could only be described as toxic,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir breakup value is zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Straight news again, Andy? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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\/09\/0926Trumpnocchio.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running behind, because Store to Door delivered groceries, and I had to unpack and put them away.&#160; In addition, I had to research the breaking news on Pervert Kavanookie&#8217;s latest victim.&#160; WWWendy comes later to destink the TomCat, and it&#8217;s a good thing as we&#8217;re headed for the high 80\u00b0s, and the humidity is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/26\/open-thread-9-26-2018\/' 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-33823","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\/33823","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=33823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}