{"id":36037,"date":"2019-03-26T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36037"},"modified":"2019-03-26T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:08:54","slug":"open-thread-3-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/open-thread-3-26-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 3\/26\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a chilly day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Yesterday&#8217;s meeting was very long and I&#8217;m very tired, but we accomplished everything we needed to get done.&nbsp; On 2\/19, I blasted Jussie Smollett.&nbsp; <strong>Jussie<\/strong> <strong>Smollett has been cleared<\/strong>.&nbsp; When I&#8217;m wrong, I say I&#8217;m wrong.&nbsp; I apologize to Jussie and to you all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:08 (average 4:17).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-03-26-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=Iy5XPyGcyAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trey Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; Mueller Report Schmueller Report<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Iy5XPyGcyAE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dayyum! &#8220;2020 is the only play and it always has been!&#8221; Amen to that. However, we need to make the truth obvious. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W2jp3ecTYss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich &amp; W. Kamau Bell: A Tale of Two Tickets<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/W2jp3ecTYss\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is half right. Bell is the other half right. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/03\/here-are-5-disastrous-impacts-of-trumps-plan-to-undermine-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>The Trump Administration told a federal court on Monday that it will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2019\/03\/25\/trump-administration-agrees-texas-judge-obamacare-decision\/3273842002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urging federal judges<\/a> to strike down the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare. A lower court ruled in December that the law is unconstitutional, and Justice Department attorneys have asserted in a letter filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans that the December 2018 ruling \u201cshould be affirmed.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Here are some of the most harmful results of the Trump Administration gutting and undermining the ACA.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Undermining the ACA is bad for Medicare<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Trump asserted that unlike other GOP presidential candidates, he had no interest in gutting Medicare. But when Republicans attack the ACA, they also attack Medicare. Obamacare didn\u2019t hurt Medicare, contrary to what Trump claims; it strengthened it. But in 2017, it was estimated that the GOP\u2019s anti-ACA efforts would cause Medicare\u2019s revenue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2017\/03\/gutting-obamacare-opening-salvo-republican-war-seniors-middle-aged-and-poor-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drop by $346 billion.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Gutting Obamacare is terrible for Americans with preexisting conditions<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>Most Americans over 40, even if their health is generally good, have some type of malady that insurance companies call a \u201cpreexisting condition\u201d\u2014which could be anything from asthma to acid reflux. Pre-ACA, insurance companies could deny coverage to Americans because for a long list of reasons. But the ACA brought health insurance to millions of Americans who were uninsurable before, and everyone from diabetics to cancer survivors to asthmatics will be imperiled if Trump\u2019s assault on health care reform progresses.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared the first two. Click through for the other three. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/0326Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Yesterday&#8217;s meeting was very long and I&#8217;m very tired, but we accomplished everything we needed to get done.&nbsp; On 2\/19, I blasted Jussie Smollett.&nbsp; Jussie Smollett has been cleared.&nbsp; When I&#8217;m wrong, I say I&#8217;m wrong.&nbsp; I apologize to Jussie and to you all. Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/open-thread-3-26-2019\/' 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-36037","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\/36037","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=36037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}