{"id":34131,"date":"2018-10-27T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34131"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:04:29","slug":"open-thread-10-27-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/open-thread-10-27-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/27\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Yesterday&#8217;s trip to the eye surgeon&#8217;s office came off without a hitch.\u00a0 Lori said the eye point is unchanged, increasing the odds of a successful corrective surgery in December.\u00a0 I slept very poorly last night so I am tired today.\u00a0 Pray for those harmed by the Republican domestic terrorist in Pittsburgh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:35 (average 5:01).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-27-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NidkK2rVSFs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Chunnel<\/a>): <\/span>Trump Era Unique For Violent Extremists Inspired By US President | Rachel Maddow (28 min.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NidkK2rVSFs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Rachel did a superior job of linking Trump&#8217;s mouth to the MAGA Maniac and a bevy of other violent Republican terrorists. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pa5cRIYZv-M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">VOTE THE BASTARDS OUT &#8211; The Spooky Mens Chorale<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Pa5cRIYZv-M\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In a word, Amen. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/white-house-staff-nervously-checking-whether-trump-retweeted-anything-by-bombing-suspect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>Moments after law enforcement apprehended the pipe-bombing suspect, Cesar Sayoc, in Florida, White House staffers scrambled to make sure that Donald J. Trump had never retweeted anything from Sayoc\u2019s demented Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>The alarm bells went off at the White House after the chief of staff, John Kelly, reviewed Sayoc\u2019s feed, which is riddled with right-wing conspiracy theories and paranoid attacks on George Soros, and thought that some of the tweets \u201clooked kind of familiar,\u201d an aide to Kelly confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>After spotting the similarities, Kelly enlisted Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Jared Kushner to comb through Trump\u2019s Twitter feed and ascertain whether he had in fact retweeted any of the bombing suspect\u2019s unhinged ravings.<\/p>\n<p>As of late Friday afternoon, the team of staffers had not yet identified any retweets of the alleged pipe bomber by Trump, but cautioned that their work was \u201cfar from over,\u201d a White House source said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dang, Andy! I think they&#8217;ll find dozens. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1027Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s trip to the eye surgeon&#8217;s office came off without a hitch.\u00a0 Lori said the eye point is unchanged, increasing the odds of a successful corrective surgery in December.\u00a0 I slept very poorly last night so I am tired today.\u00a0 Pray for those harmed by the Republican domestic terrorist in Pittsburgh. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/open-thread-10-27-2018\/' 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-34131","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\/34131","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=34131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}