{"id":36323,"date":"2019-04-24T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36323"},"modified":"2019-04-24T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T16:58:49","slug":"open-thread-4-24-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/24\/open-thread-4-24-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/24\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a chilly morning, here in the CatBox, and a very busy day.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries, and I&#8217;ll have to unpack and put them&nbsp; away.&nbsp; This evening, WWWendy is coming to destink the putrid TomCat.&nbsp; I think I&#8217;ll share my chili with her to make a stereo green cloud.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:42 (average 4:38).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-24-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=Su1eIhMrtBw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Trae Crowder &#8211; Californians<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Su1eIhMrtBw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">LOL! Trae Californicated Californians. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/24\/us\/politics\/russia-2020-election-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as homeland security secretary: preparing for new and different Russian forms of interference in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s chief of staff told her not to bring it up in front of the president.  <\/p>\n<p>Ms. Nielsen left the Department of Homeland Security early this month after a tumultuous 16-month tenure and tensions with the White House. Officials said she had become increasingly concerned about Russia\u2019s continued activity in the United States during and after the 2018 midterm elections \u2014 ranging from its search for new techniques to divide Americans using social media, to experiments by hackers, to rerouting internet traffic and infiltrating power grids.  <\/p>\n<p>But in a meeting this year, Mick Mulvaney, the White House chief of staff, made it clear that Mr. Trump still equated any public discussion of malign Russian election activity with questions about the legitimacy of his victory. According to one senior administration official, Mr. Mulvaney said it \u201cwasn\u2019t a great subject and should be kept below his level.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich is the place where organized crime and narcissism join forces. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/04\/think-of-me-as-the-grim-reaper-mcconnell-vows-to-block-progressive-proposals-after-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to block Democratic proposals like the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d and \u201cMedicare for All\u201d after the 2020 elections.  <\/p>\n<p>McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/K105Kentucky\/videos\/582467885574855\/?t=1730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told constituents<\/a> in Owensboro, Kentucky, that none of the proposals would come to pass if he is still in power in 2021.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What&#8217;s the best solution for Bought Bitch Mitch&#8217;s promise. Any ideas? \ud83d\ude09 <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\/2017\/04\/0424Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly morning, here in the CatBox, and a very busy day.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries, and I&#8217;ll have to unpack and put them&nbsp; away.&nbsp; This evening, WWWendy is coming to destink the putrid TomCat.&nbsp; I think I&#8217;ll share my chili with her to make a stereo green cloud. Jig Zone Puzzle: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/24\/open-thread-4-24-2019\/' 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-36323","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\/36323","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=36323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}