{"id":35553,"date":"2019-02-02T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35553"},"modified":"2019-02-02T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:11:31","slug":"open-thread-2-2-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/open-thread-2-2-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/2\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox, because it&#8217;s January Report day.&#160; The groundhog saw a Republican.&#160; He reacted normally and retreated to his burrow to clean the feces from his fur.&#160; He muttered something about hell freezing over.&#160; Tomorrow is the highest holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; May the blessed Orb deflate Brady&#8217;s balls.&#160; Go Rams!&#160; Therefore please expect no more than a Personal Update from me, and I won&#8217;t 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 3:55 (average 5:11).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-02-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=khvbkz4Qz3o\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>President Trump Hands Vladimir Putin Gift In Missile Treaty Withdrawal <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/khvbkz4Qz3o\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><em>Quid pro quo<\/em>. By withdrawing, the Republican Reich gives Trump&#8217;s boss free reign to deploy nuclear weapons. It also gives 0.1% so-called defense contractors an arms race. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HjwxA0kiJUk\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Virginia governor Ralph Northam&#8217;s yearbook has people in blackface, KKK robe<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HjwxA0kiJUk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This wasn&#8217;t high school. &quot;Coon man&quot; was an adult. I appreciate that he has now apologized and acknowledged the harm he did, but unless he steps down as part of taking responsibility, he is no different from a Republican. Now, even after apologizing, the damn DINO is denying it. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/eris-greek-goddess-of-chaos-confirms-that-she-wanted-trump-to-be-president\" target=\"_blank\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Partially confirming Sarah Huckabee Sanders\u2019s theory of divine intervention in the 2016 election, Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, discord, and strife, revealed on Friday that she had wanted Donald J. Trump to be President.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from her temple on Mt. Olympus, the usually reclusive deity said that Trump was \u201cfar and away\u201d her first choice to be President in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d been following his career for years,\u201d the goddess of disorder and ruin said. \u201cThe bankruptcies, the business failures. There was a lot for me to love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! If that&#8217;s the case, we need to get the Erinyes to Erinyate on Trump! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/0202Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox, because it&#8217;s January Report day.&#160; The groundhog saw a Republican.&#160; He reacted normally and retreated to his burrow to clean the feces from his fur.&#160; He muttered something about hell freezing over.&#160; Tomorrow is the highest holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&#160; May <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/open-thread-2-2-2019\/' 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-35553","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\/35553","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=35553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}