{"id":34638,"date":"2018-12-10T14:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34638"},"modified":"2018-12-11T12:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T20:42:31","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-10-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/10\/squatchs-open-thread-10-december-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch’s Open Thread 10 December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is mid afternoon and as TC would say, OGIM!!!\u00a0 It has finally “stopped” raining but it is due to start up again tonight and last all week.\u00a0 For me, this is a busy week with getting the blog out as best as possible, physio, teaching, a visit to the vet’s for my Winnie for more blood tests, a hair cut (she’ll have to use a weed wacker as it looks and feels particularly long and bushy!) and assorted other smaller things.\u00a0 So, if I miss one day, I hope you’ll forgive me.\u00a0 With any luck, perhaps TC will back online this week.\u00a0 It must\u00a0 be terribly frustrating for him to hear news but not be able to publish and opinionate because he lacks the internet connection.\u00a0 Well, have a good week all!<\/span><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 5:02 (average 5:38).\u00a0 To do it,\u00a0click here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

TC\u2019s took me 4:31 (average 5:51).\u00a0 To do it,\u00a0click here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

AlterNet<\/span><\/strong><\/a> —\u00a0So, now that we know that Donald Trump and Mike Pence reached the White House through at least two specific and separate criminal conspiracies, what do we do about it?<\/p>\n

Can they be removed from office? Can the election be done over? Can the Trump\/Pence administration\u2019s actions over the past two years be reversed, particularly the appointments of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and all the damage to our federal agencies?\u00a0 …<\/p>\n

But there is a constitutional route that can be taken by Congress, via impeachment.<\/p>\n

In January, Nancy Pelosi will become the Speaker of the House. \u00a0As such, should the nation lose its president and vice-president to impeachment, we\u2019d have President Pelosi. \u00a0It wouldn\u2019t reverse the damage the GOP and Trump\/Pence have done, but it would be a start.<\/p>\n

The key is to illuminate Mike Pence\u2019s role in Trump\u2019s frauds, so both men succumb to impeachment in the House, and conviction and removal from office by the Senate.<\/p>\n

Hmmm . . . President Pelosi!\u00a0 How does that strike you?\u00a0 I would love to see it if only to put this Trump\/Pence nightmare to rest, or at least partially to rest.\u00a0 I say partially because as long as there is no prison time nor public accounting for Trump’s crimes, the nation will not rest.\u00a0 But there is one thing that the author did not account for — agreement by the Republican lead Senate.\u00a0 Right now, I do not see that happening because they are more worried about remaining in power than in doing right by the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Yorker<\/span><\/strong><\/a> —\u00a0Pushing back against criticism of her lack of diplomatic experience, Donald J. Trump\u2019s choice to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Heather Nauert, said on Friday that a memorable visit to the \u201cIt\u2019s a Small World\u201d ride at Disney World made her eminently qualified for the U.N. post.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people look at me, they think Heather Nauert, former Fox News anchor,\u201d Nauert told reporters at the State Department. \u201cWhat they don\u2019t realize is I\u2019m also Heather Nauert, who went on \u2018It\u2019s a Small World\u2019 three times when she was nine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nauert said that, while career diplomats might spend twenty to thirty years learning about only one country, \u201cI learned about twenty-five countries in fifteen minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laying out her objectives for her tenure at the United Nations, the prospective Ambassador said, \u201cRight now I\u2019m just looking forward to seeing all of the other Ambassadors wearing their festive costumes and doing their dances. That\u2019s going to be amazing, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sounds like Andy is doing straight news again.\u00a0 I wish I could say otherwise, but she seems to be on par with the rest of Trump’s hires.<\/span><\/p>\n

Huffington Post<\/span><\/strong><\/a> —\u00a0Remember that painting of President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0that viewers\u00a0spotted hanging in the White House<\/a>\u00a0during his bizarre \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview in October?<\/p>\n

Artist Andy Thomas\u2019 piece, titled \u201cThe Republican Club,\u201d depicted Trump shooting the breeze with other GOP presidents.\u00a0 …<\/p>\n

New York artist\u00a0Michael D\u2019Antuono<\/a>,\u00a062, has reimagined the work in accordance with how he believes the scene would\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0play out …\u00a0titled \u201cParty Pooper,\u201d …<\/p>\n

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I find this painting so relatable, so spot on! . . . and look at those little hands! However, if I have trod on a copyright, I apologise and will remove it.\u00a0 The painting is in the article.<\/span><\/p>\n

My Universe<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is mid afternoon and as TC would say, OGIM!!!\u00a0 It has finally “stopped” raining but it is due to start up again tonight and last all week.\u00a0 For me, this is a busy week with getting the blog out as best as possible, physio, teaching, a visit to the vet’s for my Winnie for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/34638","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}