{"id":34155,"date":"2018-10-30T12:58:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34155"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T19:58:28","slug":"open-thread-10-30-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/30\/open-thread-10-30-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/30\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s been a busy day here in the CatBox with lots of chores keeping me too busy.&#160; It&#8217;s cool fall weather, but with 89% humidity, my clothes stick to me and feel clammy.&#160; That and pre-election brain-drain have been keeping me awake at night, so I feel quite tired.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:28 (average 6:08).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-10-30-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=xH-Q0HA7CAU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Trump plans on ending birthright citizenship<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xH-Q0HA7CAU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Fuhrer wants to add &quot;white&quot; to the 14th Amendment and stoke the Republican Reich to create more bombers and mass-murderers. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! <strong>VOTE BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mICxKmCjF-4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Admit it. Republicans have broken politics.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mICxKmCjF-4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Anyone who has read me over the years knows that I&#8217;ve talked about the exact same things throughout the last decade, but I love the term &quot;asymmetrical polarization&quot;. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!! VOTE <strong>BLUE<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/fox-news-says-megyn-kellys-blackface-comments-not-racist-enough-to-get-old-job-back?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20102918&amp;amp;CNDID=24434635&amp;amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;amp;utm_mailing=Borowitz%20102918&amp;amp;MD5=9d54bb0c88106690a1e251c173475a5e&amp;amp;SHA1=bb3d6652b432e27c51faf401b1e062e4a51c3670&amp;amp;spMailingID=14518614&amp;amp;spUserID=MTMzMTgyNDM5NjgyS0&amp;amp;spJobID=1502247793&amp;amp;spReportId=MTUwMjI0Nzc5MwS2\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>The chief executive officer of Fox News said on Monday that Megyn Kelly\u2019s nostalgic remarks about blackface were insufficiently racist for the right-wing cable channel to consider rehiring her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe at Fox have nothing but respect for Megyn\u2019s achievements as a racist television personality,\u201d Suzanne Scott, the Fox News C.E.O., said. \u201cHaving said that, we do not feel that her blackface comments represent her best work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott expressed concern that, by trying to tone down her racism for the morning-television audience on NBC, Kelly might have \u201cgotten a little rusty, hate-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! Do you think it&#8217;s really that? The way the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, treats women, I think it&#8217;s because her boobs sag a bit. <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\/2016\/10\/1030Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s as true today as it was when I made it in 2011.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy day here in the CatBox with lots of chores keeping me too busy.&#160; It&#8217;s cool fall weather, but with 89% humidity, my clothes stick to me and feel clammy.&#160; That and pre-election brain-drain have been keeping me awake at night, so I feel quite tired. 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