{"id":35914,"date":"2019-03-09T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35914"},"modified":"2019-03-09T10:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:17:00","slug":"open-thread-3-9-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/09\/open-thread-3-9-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/9\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a cold day here in the CatBox, still sub-freezing at night and about 10\u00b0 below seasonal norms.&nbsp; I&#8217;m, as usual, quite busy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:46 (average 7:10).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-09-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; 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=YK1quxI-a7U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trump Says Democrats Have Become &#8216;Anti-Israel&#8217; And &#8216;Anti-Jewish&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YK1quxI-a7U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is from the same monster that said the Nazis chanting &#8220;Jews will not replace us!&#8221; in Charlottesville were fine people. I would hope most Democrats are anti-Butcher Bibi. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nz4p5Zjgaz4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>TOLD THE LIES &#8211; Parody<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Nz4p5Zjgaz4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Magnificent as usual, Don! But it&#8217;s not just Trump. He&#8217;s a reflection of the entire Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/03\/here-are-the-5-biggest-right-wing-outrages-this-week-chaos-unfolds-in-trump-investigations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Louie Gohmert says it\u2019s \u201cdangerous\u201d to pass a House resolution condemning hate.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the week in the news media was eaten up by arguing over whether the complaints of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) about the Israeli lobby demanding \u201callegiance\u201d are anti-Semitic. There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2019\/03\/ilhan-omar-israel-jews-anti-semitism-allegiance-dual-loyalty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">strong case to be made<\/a> that while her comments were badly worded, they weren\u2019t intentionally hateful, and the media uproar was out of proportion and <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2019\/03\/ilhan-omar-israel-jews-anti-semitism-allegiance-dual-loyalty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">erased legitimate contours<\/a> of foreign policy debate.  <\/p>\n<p>For this reason, the House backed off an initial plan to condemn anti-Semitism specifically and instead held a vote on Thursday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/07\/us\/politics\/ilhan-omar-anti-semitism-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">condemn all hate<\/a> \u2014 which was arguably necessary as the media focus on Omar has also led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/03\/ilhan-omar-poster-not-free-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wave of anti-Muslim hatred<\/a> directed at her.  <\/p>\n<p>In the end, Omar herself voted for the resolution \u2014 but in an incredible self-own, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/03\/utterly-bizarre-backfire-how-republicans-just-bumbled-into-saving-democrats-from-their-divisive-debate-over-an-anti-hate-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">23 Republicans didn\u2019t<\/a>. One was Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), who absurdly claimed that condemning all hate would be \u201cdangerous\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is fifth in a list of five Republican outrages last week. Click through for the other four. <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\/2018\/03\/0310Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican sheeple dance in gleeful ignorance, as the 18 wheeler of Republican policy is about to splatter them!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a cold day here in the CatBox, still sub-freezing at night and about 10\u00b0 below seasonal norms.&nbsp; I&#8217;m, as usual, quite busy. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:46 (average 7:10).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do. Short Takes: From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump Says Democrats Have Become &#8216;Anti-Israel&#8217; And &#8216;Anti-Jewish&#8217; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/09\/open-thread-3-9-2019\/' 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":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-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\/35914","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=35914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}