{"id":33922,"date":"2018-10-05T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33922"},"modified":"2018-10-05T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T20:08:38","slug":"open-thread-10-5-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/open-thread-10-5-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/5\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s been such a busy week that I&#8217;m feeling so burned out that I thought it was Thursday, until just a few minutes ago.&#160; Pardon my brevity.<\/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 5:53).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-05-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=OQ-d-VSaywE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">KAVANAUGH &#8211; A Parody<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OQ-d-VSaywE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks Don. Pervert Kavanookie can&#8217;t wait to have a pervert party with Clarence Thomas and Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yCGJRlSXIU8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): <\/font>CNN 10 04 2018 Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says NO to Kavanaugh nomination<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yCGJRlSXIU8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This has never happened before. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/historian-nazism-explains-why-gop-senate-leader-mitch-mcconnell-gravedigger\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>: <\/font>In a new piece for the New York Review of Books, historian Christopher Browning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2018\/10\/25\/suffocation-of-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">warns<\/a> that <strong>there are troubling parallels between the present-day United States and the days of fascism&#8217;s rise in Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Browning, a specialist in the areas of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and world war-era Europe, isn&#8217;t arguing that President Donald Trump is a modern Adolf Hitler or that Trumpism is akin to Nazism. But he does argue that certain stress fractures in the society and the international order appear to be re-emerging and that these patterns portend troubling trends for the United States and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>And there is one figure in American politics that Browning does see as a relatively direct \u2014 and troubling \u2014 analog to a crucial world war-era figure. <strong>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, is becoming &quot;the gravedigger of American democracy,&quot; Browning wrote, a role played for Germany beginning in the 1930s by President Paul von Hindenburg<\/strong>&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for more.&#160; Now why I call them the Republican Reich should be clear. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><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\/2014\/10\/1005Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been such a busy week that I&#8217;m feeling so burned out that I thought it was Thursday, until just a few minutes ago.&#160; Pardon my brevity. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:15 (average 5:53).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): KAVANAUGH &#8211; A <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/open-thread-10-5-2018\/' 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-33922","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\/33922","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=33922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}