{"id":36157,"date":"2019-04-08T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36157"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:00:18","slug":"open-thread-4-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/open-thread-4-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/8\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">My medical expenses were so high last year that I got away from Infernal Revenue for nothing.&nbsp; Today is eye torture day.&nbsp; I have more for you than yesterday, but this is my only article today, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be back in the saddle tomorrow, if I can see straight. <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:01 (average 4:45).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-08-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=dyq9ximBRUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is leaving, Trump tweets<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dyq9ximBRUE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Good riddance to bad rubbish. Sadly, the replacement rubbish will be even worse. Downhill is the way of the Republican Reich and their beloved Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IOJX1OzLelM\" 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>WHEN YOU GO AWAY &#8211; Parody<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IOJX1OzLelM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thanks Don. When Putin&#8217;s Puppet goes away, it will be the best day ever. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/3\/30\/1846566\/-Alex-Jones-Gets-Laughed-Out-of-a-Chicken-Restaurant-in-Austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>I&#8217;m sort of surprised I didn&#8217;t find this here, but here we go.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Jones, purveyor of stupid conspiracies and making money off even stupider people, thought he could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/A-bunch-of-cowards-Alex-Jones-filmed-loudly-13720836.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tough guy his way through Lucy&#8217;s Fried Chicken<\/a> in Austin, TX.&nbsp; While Texas is unfortunately red, many places (most cities) are strongly Democratic, with Austin perhaps being the most so.&nbsp; (I&#8217;m in the DFW area, and we&#8217;re a close second in my opinion.)  <\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, Alex decided this was a good forum to start calling people &#8220;libtards&#8221; and other creative names while roaming the restaurant like a lost raccoon looking for scraps.&nbsp; You may think this would&#8217;ve amounted to a fight or otherwise a strong verbal altercation, but no.&nbsp; The patrons laughed at him, made jokes, videoed it from who knows how many phones, and ultimately watched him get escorted out by management&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8rWmcIgTuzQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LMAO!!&nbsp; I guess I&#8217;m not the only one that put that Republican asshole on parade. <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\/2017\/04\/0408Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My medical expenses were so high last year that I got away from Infernal Revenue for nothing.&nbsp; Today is eye torture day.&nbsp; I have more for you than yesterday, but this is my only article today, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be back in the saddle tomorrow, if I can see straight. 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