{"id":35447,"date":"2019-01-25T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35447"},"modified":"2019-01-25T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:44:19","slug":"open-thread-1-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/25\/open-thread-1-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/25\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a comparatively lazy day here in the CatBox, because I feel almost exhausted after yesterday.&#160; The entire interview process was nothing but confirming financial data and signing more papers than Republicans have crimes.&#160; I&#8217;ll know something in one to three weeks, and we&#8217;ll go from there.&#160; In the meantime, I&#8217;m still looking, because I am competing with others for the unit, and I may be at a disadvantage, as I&#8217;m opting not to take their amenities package of senior services.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:00 (average 5:34).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-01-25-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=OvDuPfoUyro\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Senator Elizabeth Warren On Her Wealth Tax Proposal<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/OvDuPfoUyro\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich&#8217;s bevy of billionaires is clueless regarding the pain they are inflicting. Liz is the polar opposite. She gets it. I like her wealth tax, except that 2% on $50 million+ and 3% on $1 billion+ is too low. Perhaps 20% and 30%? If someone can&#8217;t get by with $40 instead of $50 million, I&#8217;d be happy to demonstrate how!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gujo7OdyWdI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1Z1i5ClfrJhyu9z1hlmDkQ\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) annihilates Ted Cruz on government shutdown<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Gujo7OdyWdI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Kudos to the Democrat from CO! That was refreshing!&#160; Go for it, JD!&#160; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/dems-agree-to-fund-wall-and-reopen-government-if-trump-leaves-country-forever\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a bold initiative aimed at ending the shutdown, congressional Democrats on Thursday agreed to fund a border wall and reopen the government if Donald Trump leaves the country forever.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the deal \u201ca huge win for America,\u201d the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said that Trump would get the wall he wanted plus the opportunity to do something \u201cincredibly patriotic\u201d for his country.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi brushed aside criticism of the offer\u2019s 5.7-billion-dollar price tag, telling reporters, \u201cWhen you consider what we are getting in return, nine trillion dollars would be a bargain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, even as Pelosi touted the offer, some details remained unresolved, such as finding a country willing to accept Trump.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, I disagree. It&#8217;s a great idea, if and only if Pence leaves too, so Pelosi becomes President.&#160; RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0125Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a comparatively lazy day here in the CatBox, because I feel almost exhausted after yesterday.&#160; The entire interview process was nothing but confirming financial data and signing more papers than Republicans have crimes.&#160; I&#8217;ll know something in one to three weeks, and we&#8217;ll go from there.&#160; In the meantime, I&#8217;m still looking, because I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/25\/open-thread-1-25-2019\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-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\/35447","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}