{"id":35726,"date":"2019-02-19T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35726"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:31:24","slug":"open-thread-2-19-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/open-thread-2-19-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/19\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a chilly muggy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not feeling very well, as I have Republicitis.\u00a0 I had to take a Dulcolax, as my blue eyes are turning brown.\u00a0 I submitted my grocery order to Store to Door.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:55 (average 6:13).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-19-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4mXohCXK2bQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Robert Reich: Who Will Be the Next President<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4mXohCXK2bQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The only way to defeat the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, which is wrong, is to change. We need a grass roots progressive campaign. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uplf8A9sX94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/karinmoveon\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MoveOn Channel<\/a>): <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nationwide Protests Against Trump&#8217;s Fake Emergency<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Uplf8A9sX94\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kudos to all who protested nonviolently. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/1835694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/span>Republicans have made their strategy for the 2020 elections crystal-clear: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/2\/13\/1834448\/-After-losing-big-to-Pelosi-a-racist-GOP-targets-the-newest-women-of-color-in-the-House\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">going after the newly serving Democratic women of color in Congress<\/a>.\u00a0 Given this, we can only anticipate conservatives becoming even more rabid over the next two years, ramping up their claims that progressive Democrats in the House are all socialists, who also happen to be anti-Semites that get a kick out of murdering unborn children. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/17\/us\/republicans-democrats-messaging.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> reports that this is how Republicans hope to appeal to voters, and that they have unabashedly claimed this as their plan for victory going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s always super fun for the GOP to make false claims about Democrats and paint them as out-of-control lefties who threaten the American way of life. But this time, it isn\u2019t just business as usual. By pinning their hopes on this as a viable campaign and fundraising opportunity, Republicans are also hoping they can \u201cstrangle the new Democratic majority in its infancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As absurd as this sounds, beware! If the Republican Reich were 1\/10th as adept at governing as they are at disinformation, they would be half competent. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/0219Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As true today as it was when I made it, eight years ago<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly muggy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not feeling very well, as I have Republicitis.\u00a0 I had to take a Dulcolax, as my blue eyes are turning brown.\u00a0 I submitted my grocery order to Store to Door. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:55 (average 6:13).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 How <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/open-thread-2-19-2019\/' 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":[35,3,141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-plus","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-141-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\/35726","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=35726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}