{"id":34316,"date":"2018-11-11T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T19:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34316"},"modified":"2018-11-11T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T19:44:48","slug":"open-thread-11-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/11\/open-thread-11-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very cold day with a high wind warning.&#160; I slept poorly due to stress.&#160; It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are bi this week so may the Orb shine it&#8217;s Blessed light on your team.&#160; It&#8217;s also a Wendy day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:04 (average 6:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-11-11-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you so?<\/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=EGy-xpK-1mw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SaturdayNightLive\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Jeff Sessions Farewell Cold Open<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EGy-xpK-1mw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">KKK Beauregard must be thinking those exact things. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tnVPVd5YXnI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: How Blue States Help Red States<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tnVPVd5YXnI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right, but the real unjust welfare is the welfare we pay to billionaires. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/1811904\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>: \\<\/font>Tremendous news! Late on Saturday night, after the latest batch of votes to be counted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hellofasandwich\/status\/1061424310278021120\" target=\"_blank\">extended his lead<\/a>, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politicoelex\/status\/1061432762559881216\" target=\"_blank\">called the race<\/a> in California\u2019s 48th Congressional District for Democrat Harley Rouda. With this win, Rouda has defeated none other than Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/11\/putin-congress-rohrabacher-trump-231775\" target=\"_blank\">best known as \u201cPutin\u2019s favorite congressman,\u201d<\/a> thanks to an embarrassing affinity for Russian autocracy matched only by Donald Trump\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Rouda\u2019s victory gives Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ZwL51WmRmqnHAoaIQj96pP_Psd7HYEDn5HBPDubJy3s\/edit#gid=692076271\">their 35th flip<\/a> (and 33rd net gain) of the 2018 midterms, and with seven races still uncalled, more pickups are looming. Rohrabacher\u2019s loss also cements a profound shift in Orange County, which for the better part of a century had been the blood-red citadel of California conservatism. But like many other affluent and well-educated suburban areas around the country, it reacted with great hostility to Trump, and now voters there are punishing his abettors in the Republican Party. May this trend continue to spread.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen! <strong>RESIST<\/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\/2017\/11\/1111Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very cold day with a high wind warning.&#160; I slept poorly due to stress.&#160; It&#8217;s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; My Broncos are bi this week so may the Orb shine it&#8217;s Blessed light on your team.&#160; It&#8217;s also a Wendy day. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/11\/open-thread-11-11-2018\/' 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-34316","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\/34316","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=34316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}