{"id":36330,"date":"2019-04-25T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36330"},"modified":"2019-04-25T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:57:51","slug":"open-thread-4-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/open-thread-4-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/25\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a chilly morning here in the CatBox, but it promises to be hot late this afternoon and this evening.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 On the Day of Acolytes, Teams pick Orb worshippers from college to meditate with them.\u00a0 My Broncos pick 10th.<\/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 2:59 (average 4:04).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-25-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=TYKsYD4biuM\" 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>1998 interview comes back to haunt William Barr<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TYKsYD4biuM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Barrf has not changed. The difference is that Ken Starr was investigating a Democrat. Barrf is Barrf forever. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From YouTube (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dollemore\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Dollemore Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Trump Wants Supreme Court to Intervene if Democrats Vote to Impeach. (THAT&#8217;S NOT HOW THAT WORKS!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HQvDz5NykU0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">What an idiot! SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) can&#8217;t save him. His best bet is Bought Bitch Mitch and Lindsey Poo. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-furious-after-twitters-bot-purge-leaves-him-with-fourteen-followers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>Donald J. Trump was reportedly \u201cfurious\u201d on Wednesday morning after a purge of right-wing bots by Twitter left him with a total of fourteen remaining followers, aides have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Rising at 3 a.m. to engage in one of his trademark early-morning tweetstorms, Trump was incensed to discover that his Twitter following had plummeted from more than forty-eight million to a little more than a dozen.<\/p>\n<p>At Twitter headquarters, in San Francisco, a company spokesman confirmed that Trump had indeed lost 48,076,920 followers in the bot purge. \u201cIt turned out that over forty-six million of the President\u2019s followers came from a single troll farm in Macedonia,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, Trump\u2019s fourteen remaining Twitter followers included his daughter Ivanka; his sons Eric and Donald, Jr.; several White House aides; and someone named Heinrich Himmler III.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dang, Andy! Isn&#8217;t that fourteen too many? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Cartoon<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0425Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly morning here in the CatBox, but it promises to be hot late this afternoon and this evening.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.\u00a0 On the Day of Acolytes, Teams pick Orb worshippers from college to meditate with them.\u00a0 My Broncos pick 10th. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/open-thread-4-25-2019\/' 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-36330","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\/36330","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=36330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}