{"id":36367,"date":"2019-04-30T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36367"},"modified":"2019-04-30T10:53:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T17:53:52","slug":"open-thread-4-30-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/open-thread-4-30-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 4\/30\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a chilly morning here in the CatBox, but it will be uncomfortably warm by supper time.\u00a0 CCC has been dragging their feet on getting my AC out of storage.\u00a0 I&#8217;m squeaking the wheel.\u00a0 I have some antihistamine eye drops coming with my groceries tomorrow.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait.\u00a0 My eyes are on fire.\u00a0 My COPD is severe too, so I feel tired.<\/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 4:04 (average 5:34).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-04-30-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=CGEyRRNFLhc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Submits Resignation Letter<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CGEyRRNFLhc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">For a while Rosenstein wore a halo, but he&#8217;s leaving office with as vile orange stain on his rosy rectum. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ekmzvfKf8n0\" 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>): <\/span>Robert Reich: 5 Responses to Climate Change Deniers<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ekmzvfKf8n0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, use crude oil as butt lube. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2019\/04\/ex-fbi-agent-rains-hell-trump-administrations-response-white-nationalist-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/span>Former FBI counterintelligence agent Clint Watts has been sounding the alarm for years about white nationalist terrorism \u2014 and he scorched the Trump administration\u2019s lackluster response to the growing threat.<\/p>\n<p>Watts appeared on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d to discuss the Poway, California, synagogue shooting that left one dead and three injured, and he said these massacres were clearly linked \u2014 and deserved pre-emptive intervention, rather than just a reactive response\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Host Joe Scarborough, who has been threatened by a white nationalist Coast Guard officer, said the Trump administration has done \u201cnothing\u201d about this domestic threat, and Watts offered an alarming explanation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational terrorists don\u2019t vote, and domestic terrorists do vote,\u201d Watts said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And you can be sure they vote Republican. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/0430Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly morning here in the CatBox, but it will be uncomfortably warm by supper time.\u00a0 CCC has been dragging their feet on getting my AC out of storage.\u00a0 I&#8217;m squeaking the wheel.\u00a0 I have some antihistamine eye drops coming with my groceries tomorrow.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait.\u00a0 My eyes are on fire.\u00a0 My COPD <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/open-thread-4-30-2019\/' 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-36367","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\/36367","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=36367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}