{"id":35166,"date":"2018-12-28T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35166"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:00:52","slug":"open-thread-12-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/28\/open-thread-12-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/28\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">After all yesterday&#8217;s craziness, I did not sleep very well, so call this pooped Friday.&#160; TGIF Hugs!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:57 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2018-12-28-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=mV4QrGJ57UU\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>See Why U.S. Voters Overwhelmingly Opposed Trump From 2016-2019<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mV4QrGJ57UU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Blue Wave seemed smaller than it was because the deck is so stacked against them. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ApFyxJZDTzI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Sexism on Fox News in 2018<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ApFyxJZDTzI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, propagates the misogyny rampant in the Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/27\/us\/politics\/government-shutdown-trump-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Republican leaders gave up hope on Thursday of reopening the government before the new year, leaving the border wall impasse to House Democrats as they assume the majority next week \u2014 and presenting Representative Nancy Pelosi with her first major challenge as speaker.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats, who take control on Wednesday, are weighing three approaches to getting funds flowing, none of which would include additional money for President Trump\u2019s proposed wall along the southwestern border. Whichever path they choose, party leaders said they would vote promptly on Jan. 3, hoping to project the image of Democrats as a steadying hand in Washington even as Republicans try to blame Ms. Pelosi and her party for the shutdown and lax border control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will vote swiftly to reopen government and show that Democrats will govern responsibly in stark contrast to this chaotic White House,\u201d Ms. Pelosi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Pelosi is determined to prevent the shutdown brinkmanship from interfering with the Democrats\u2019 assumption of power and her ceremony-soaked return to the speakership. But it appeared almost certain that the careful rollout of Democrats\u2019 legislative agenda \u2014 including a sweeping anticorruption and voting rights bill \u2014 would be at least partly eclipsed by the funding crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown has affected about a quarter of the government, left 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay, and on Thursday entered its sixth day.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump and his allies showed no signs of letting up. Though the president said on national television that he would proudly shut down the government to secure wall funding, Republicans are no longer embracing the mounting crisis.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is a key difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats govern. Republicans destroy. <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\/2016\/12\/1228Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Republicans attribute this to the founding fathers, they are lying.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all yesterday&#8217;s craziness, I did not sleep very well, so call this pooped Friday.&#160; TGIF Hugs! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:57 (average 5:48).&#160; To do it, click here.&#160; How did you do? 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