{"id":34384,"date":"2018-11-17T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T20:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34384"},"modified":"2018-11-17T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T20:20:13","slug":"open-thread-11-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/17\/open-thread-11-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/17\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m sorry to be brief.&#160; I feel like something I should bury in my box.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:58 (average 6:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-11-17-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=fEIDZ1lRRjs\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s Speaker Fight Goes Back To 2012<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fEIDZ1lRRjs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I used to oppose Nancy for the Speakership, but now that she has earned endorsements from MoveOn and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, I&#8217;ve changed my mind. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0tofB-Fd_ms\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Liz Crokin Says California Wildfires Were Set To Burn Evidence Of Pedophilia in Hollywood<\/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\/0tofB-Fd_ms\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What garbage! But if that fool is right, Russian hookers will put those fires out. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-refuses-to-pardon-white-house-turkey-after-accusing-it-of-working-for-soros\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a startling break with Thanksgiving tradition, Donald J. Trump refused to pardon the White House turkey after claiming that it was working as a secret operative of the billionaire George Soros.<\/p>\n<p>A group of fourth graders from Bethesda, Maryland, who had gathered on the White House lawn for the annual turkey-pardoning ceremony appeared unprepared for the anti-Soros outburst that Trump unleashed on the Thanksgiving bird.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat turkey was sent by Soros to spy on me,\u201d Trump said, angrily turning on the fowl. \u201cA lot of people are saying this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the oblivious turkey pecked desultorily at the ground, an increasingly enraged Trump spewed a stream of conspiracy theories linking the feathered animal to global \u00e9lites, election fraud in Florida, and Jim Acosta.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I&#8217;ll save the turkey! (<strong>burp<\/strong>!) <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1117Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It hasn&#8217;t found the way in six years.&#160; It never will, because it can&#8217;t turn left.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry to be brief.&#160; I feel like something I should bury in my box. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:58 (average 6:05).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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