{"id":33836,"date":"2018-09-27T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33836"},"modified":"2018-09-27T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T19:46:11","slug":"open-thread-9-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/27\/open-thread-9-27-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s hot, I&#8217;m very tired, and the Pervert Kavanookie hearings have dominated my time all day.&#160; Worst of all, I have Republicosis.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:38 (average 5:14).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-09-27-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=Rq3zNFhIP9o\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Bill O\u2019Reilly Compares Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh To His Own Disgrace<\/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\/Rq3zNFhIP9o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Pervert Kavanookie is just as innocent as, O&#8217;Lielly, tell the firing squad to AIM! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-45656466\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>: <\/font><strong>China is attempting to &quot;meddle&quot; in the forthcoming US mid-term elections, President Donald Trump told world leaders during a UN meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&quot;They don&#8217;t want me or us to win because I am the first president to ever challenge China on trade,&quot; Mr Trump said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump did not offer proof for his claim. China and the US have been in a battle over tariffs since his election.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s foreign minister denounced the &quot;unwarranted accusation&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">On a projection scale of 1 to 10, that shitload rates 50! <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-brags-that-he-got-much-bigger-laughs-at-un-than-obama\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Calling his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday \u201can unbelievable success,\u201d Donald J. Trump bragged that he \u201cgot much bigger laughs than Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Obama spoke at the U.N. he did not get a single laugh\u2014not one,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cI feel sorry for the people who had to sit through his speeches. They weren\u2019t funny at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Trump said, \u201cI killed at the U.N.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! Only an idiot could think they were laughing for him, not at him.&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!&#160; <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0927Cartoon\" 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=\"0927Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/0927Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hot, I&#8217;m very tired, and the Pervert Kavanookie hearings have dominated my time all day.&#160; Worst of all, I have Republicosis. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:38 (average 5:14).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Bill O\u2019Reilly Compares Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/27\/open-thread-9-27-2018\/' 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-33836","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\/33836","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=33836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}