{"id":34742,"date":"2018-12-07T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34742"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:00:21","slug":"friday-fun-this-that-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/friday-fun-this-that-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: This, That &#038; the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose we can be thankful that the <strong>Bush<\/strong> family was gracious enough to extend an invitation to <strong><em>Twitler<\/em><\/strong> to attend <strong>41\u2019s<\/strong> funeral \u2013 and wise enough to <u>NOT<\/u> have him speak!<\/p>\n<p>But that didn\u2019t mean he still couldn\u2019t embarrass an entire nation with his thoughtlessness.\u00a0 Like not joining the congregation in the reading of the <em>Apostles\u2019 Creed<\/em>.\u00a0 How any religious person can support this man is unfathomable to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is your &quot;Christian&quot; evangelical president. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u0478FoSyR\">pic.twitter.com\/u0478FoSyR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithboykin\/status\/1070376816131694593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And he provided further evidence that even the simplest gestures of respect elude him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral-Bush_Hand-Heart_NO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral-Bush_Hand-Heart_NO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral-Bush_Hand-Heart_NO.jpg 344w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral-Bush_Hand-Heart_NO-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral-Bush_Hand-Heart_NO-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But someone perfectly captured the essence of Twitler at the funeral.\u00a0 <em>(Hard to tell, but I think it&#8217;s Photoshopped.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral_High-Chair_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral_High-Chair_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral_High-Chair_2.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral_High-Chair_2-138x150.jpg 138w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Funeral_High-Chair_2-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I was hoping for a reprise of the moment during the <strong>Barbara Bush<\/strong> funeral (that <b>Melania<\/b> attended just by herself) when <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> commented to her about her smile<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION.png 381w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION-137x150.png 137w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Melania_Smile_Obama_Donnie-Casket_Funeral_CAPTION-273x300.png 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Twitler is being riled up by the <strong>Mueller<\/strong> investigation and getting the feeling that the walls are finally closing in.\u00a0 We all enjoyed reading between the lines of Mueller&#8217;s heavily redacted <strong><em>Michael Flynn<\/em><\/strong> court filings this week.<\/p>\n<p>In fact the speculation of what was redacted was so rampant that it forced Mr. Mueller to issue a clarification:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>MUELLER:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Any similarity between our redacted report on Michael Flynn \u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Redacted_Blocked-Blacked-Out-Text_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Redacted_Blocked-Blacked-Out-Text_2-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Redacted_Blocked-Blacked-Out-Text_2-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Redacted_Blocked-Blacked-Out-Text_2-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Redacted_Blocked-Blacked-Out-Text_2.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And prison stripes \u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Shirt_Prison-Jail_Lousy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Shirt_Prison-Jail_Lousy-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Shirt_Prison-Jail_Lousy-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Shirt_Prison-Jail_Lousy-150x125.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Shirt_Prison-Jail_Lousy.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Is purely coincidental.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Twitler\u2019s bad news was compounded when <strong><em>Michael Cohen<\/em><\/strong> agreed to plead guilty to lying to Congress.\u00a0 And in those filings we learned who <strong><em>\u201cIndividual 1\u201d<\/em><\/strong> is \u2013 which created the need for some major changes to Twitler\u2019s campaign logo for re-election \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Pence_Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Pence_Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Pence_Logo.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Pence_Logo-150x57.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Pence_Logo-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the official presidential seal \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Seal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Seal.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Seal-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1_Seal-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the renaming of his New York Home<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1-Tower_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1-Tower_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1-Tower_.png 346w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1-Tower_-150x138.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_Individual-1-Tower_-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it only got worse when Twitler\u2019s <strong>top cybersecurity advisor<\/strong>, <strong><em>Rudy Giuliani<\/em><\/strong>, accidentally created a website <strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/g-20.in\/\">G-20.In<\/a>)<\/strong> in his Tweet, and a prankster immediately took claim to it and is using it to bash Trump.\u00a0 <em>(You have to click the above <\/em><strong>G-20.In<\/strong><em> link, or the one in the Tweet to view it)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ZNrQ6X29a\">https:\/\/t.co\/8ZNrQ6X29a<\/a> July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he left for Helsinki.Either could have been done earlier or later. Out of control!Supervision please?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RudyGiuliani\/status\/1068570837459050496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Giuliani is his top cybersecurity advisor?!?\u00a0 Proving yet again that Twitler hires \u201conly the best people\u201d. \u00a0<strong><em>Righttttttt<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019d appreciate someone explaining to me why CNN felt the need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/05\/opinions\/how-to-read-between-the-lines-of-muellers-memo-on-flynn-honig\/index.html\">insert this correction<\/a> at the bottom of this article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_CNN_Russian_Campaign-Officials_1-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_CNN_Russian_Campaign-Officials_1-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_CNN_Russian_Campaign-Officials_1-2.png 481w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_CNN_Russian_Campaign-Officials_1-2-150x63.png 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trump_CNN_Russian_Campaign-Officials_1-2-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seems perfectly accurate to me!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Closing out with a few more seasonal observations, I got a kick out of some ducks who experienced snow for the very first time \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ducks_1st-Snow_Hate_.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Ducks_1st-Snow_Hate_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And ending with a <em><strong>PSA<\/strong><\/em>: Please be careful when putting up your Christmas decorations.\u00a0 Think things all the way through first to avoid embarrassing faux pas like these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Candles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Candles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Candles.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Candles-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Candles-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And be especially careful when decorating palm trees:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Palm-Trees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Palm-Trees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"824\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Palm-Trees.jpg 824w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Palm-Trees-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Palm-Trees-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Christmas-Lights_Palm-Trees-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose we can be thankful that the Bush family was gracious enough to extend an invitation to Twitler to attend 41\u2019s funeral \u2013 and wise enough to NOT have him speak! But that didn\u2019t mean he still couldn\u2019t embarrass an entire nation with his thoughtlessness.\u00a0 Like not joining the congregation in the reading of <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/07\/friday-fun-this-that-the-other\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","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\/34742","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}