{"id":35373,"date":"2019-01-17T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35373"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:56:18","slug":"open-thread-1-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/17\/open-thread-1-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/17\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; Tomorrow I&#8217;m going to look at an apartment.&#160; Assuming it&#8217;s feasible the application process takes around three weeks.&#160; Here&#8217;s hoping.&#160; I will be out most of the day, so please expect no more than a personal update.&#160; I will not be sending links messages on Care2.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:22 (average 4:29).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-17-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=HkCdkTPbTVE\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Rep. Rashida Tlaib: &#8216;Absolutely&#8217; I Still Think President Trump Should Be Impeached<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HkCdkTPbTVE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I agree with her that he should be impeached, but as long as impeaching him means replacing him with Pence, who is as evil as Trump, if not more so, impeaching just Trump is a trip from frying pan to fire. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/16\/world\/europe\/brexit-theresa-may-no-confidence-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Prime Minister Theresa May narrowly survived a vote of no-confidence in Parliament on Wednesday, but that did little to quell the turmoil gripping the British government over her plan to leave the European Union, coming a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/15\/world\/europe\/brexit-vote-theresa-may.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\">she suffered a historic defeat<\/a> on that proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Commons voted 325 to 306 to reject the opposition motion of no confidence. A day earlier, it dealt Mrs. May a crushing defeat on her painstakingly negotiated agreement for Brexit, or the process of exiting the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Had it been successful, the no-confidence motion almost certainly would have ousted Mrs. May and probably have forced a general election, adding more layers of uncertainty in a country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/15\/world\/europe\/brexit-deal-vote-takeaways.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\">fast approaching the March 29 date<\/a> for leaving the European Union \u2014 yet unable to agree on how to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The head-snapping sequence of events leaves Mrs. May \u2014 the leader of an intractably divided party, with a split cabinet, no parliamentary majority and no clear path forward on Brexit \u2014 more politically wounded than ever, but somehow still standing.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Damn! I offer my sincere condolences to citizens of the UK. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2019\/01\/17\/disaster-for-trump-as-white-non-college-voters-reject-him-during-shutdown.html\" target=\"_blank\">PoliticusUSA<\/a>: <\/font>The group of people who put Donald Trump in the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/15\/politics\/white-noncollege-shutdown-polling\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">are becoming increasingly critical of him<\/a> due to the financial distress caused by his partial government shutdown, the longest in US history.<\/p>\n<p>The longer the shutdown has continued, the more Trump loses support from that group \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2019\/01\/13\/non-college-white-voters-abandon-trump-shutdown.html\" target=\"_blank\">white Americans who don\u2019t have college degrees<\/a> \u2014 who are his strongest supporters. If this continues much longer it will be a major political disaster for the president and his party.<\/p>\n<p>These white non-college voters are Trump\u2019s true \u201cbase\u201d and the source of his political strength. They are also now the bedrock of the Republican Party. Over the past two years they have remained loyal to the president through all of his ups and downs, but that loyalty is now wavering as they experience the devastating impacts of the shutdown. It is estimated that one-fourth of all Americans have been negatively impacted in some way due to Trump\u2019s shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Among white non-college voters just 45% now say they approve of the job Trump is doing as President, according to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/13\/politics\/cnn-poll-shutdown-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s about time that the Archie Bunker set realized that Trump and the Republican Reich scammed them. <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\/2014\/01\/0117Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another busy day here in the CatBox.&#160; Tomorrow I&#8217;m going to look at an apartment.&#160; Assuming it&#8217;s feasible the application process takes around three weeks.&#160; Here&#8217;s hoping.&#160; I will be out most of the day, so please expect no more than a personal update.&#160; I will not be sending links messages on Care2. 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