{"id":35748,"date":"2019-02-22T11:26:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35748"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:38:21","slug":"open-thread-2-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/open-thread-2-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 2\/22\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a chilly day in Portland, and I feel very tired, so please pardon my brevity.\u00a0 TGIF!<\/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 4:03 (average 5:10).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-02-22-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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=KYGmyOCrVAY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Fox News has spent years promoting claims of a &#8220;coup&#8221; against Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KYGmyOCrVAY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Is it any wonder that Sheeples&#8217; ideas are moronic, given the onslaught of BS from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aZi8cQIBNEM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Police: Smollett took advantage of racism for career<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aZi8cQIBNEM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I suppose I&#8217;d better weigh-in, lest it appear that I&#8217;m evading it. Race traitor Jussie Smollett no longer deserves to call himself a Democrat. Since he is acting like a Republican, he has become a Republican. <\/span><strong style=\"color: #0000ff;\">RESIST<\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">!!\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>RETRACTION<\/strong>!\u00a0 Jussie Smollett has been cleared.\u00a0 I apologize.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/02\/22\/pelosi-just-challenged-trumps-corruption-lies-heres-what-should-come-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/span>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and her fellow House Democrats just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/congress\/house-democrats-introduce-resolution-to-revoke-trumps-emergency-order-to-fund-border-wall\/2019\/02\/22\/2393e29e-36ab-11e9-8375-e3dcf6b68558_story.html?utm_term=.1412db754043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced a resolution<\/a> to terminate President Trump\u2019s national emergency. In coming days, the resolution will likely pass the House, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/02\/04\/if-trump-declares-national-emergency-pelosi-can-jam-republicans-heres-how\/?utm_term=.d4a751dcebfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">setting in motion a process<\/a> that will force a Senate vote on it. Either Senate Republicans will side with Trump, or they\u2019ll pass the measure, after which Trump will veto it.<\/p>\n<p>This represents a small challenge to Trump\u2019s corruption and lies \u2014 to his corruption of our institutions and political system with autocratic and authoritarian conduct, and to the deep rot of bad faith at the core of his willingness to declare a national emergency to build his wall based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/02\/15\/trump-just-plunged-country-into-dangerous-new-territory-heres-whats-really-stake\/?utm_term=.0d9aa5fc0072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">false pretenses and invented metrics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move probably won\u2019t succeed in terminating the emergency. But it points to something we need to see a lot more of: discussion of concrete proposals and actions designed to fortify our institutions and democracy against Trump\u2019s ongoing degradations of them, and to restore confidence in them once Trump is gone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I fully support this move. If nothing else, it forces Republicans, who have claimed it was Trump, not them, to go on record or be exposed. <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\/2018\/02\/0222Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Note to Puddy Tats:\u00a0 Never walk under one of Trump&#8217;s Russian hookers!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly day in Portland, and I feel very tired, so please pardon my brevity.\u00a0 TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 4:03 (average 5:10).\u00a0 To do it, click here.\u00a0 How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Fox News has spent years promoting claims of a &#8220;coup&#8221; against Donald Trump <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/open-thread-2-22-2019\/' 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-35748","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\/35748","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=35748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}