{"id":36429,"date":"2019-05-07T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T16:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36429"},"modified":"2019-05-07T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T16:35:42","slug":"open-thread-5-7-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/07\/open-thread-5-7-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/7\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s another hot day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to climb back into the saddle.\u00a0 I&#8217;m improved, but hot and 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 3:43 (average 4:48).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-07-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>. 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=pFQcp5YdRcc\" 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: Divider in Chief<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pFQcp5YdRcc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" 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, screws YOU to suck Koch. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pwvw2kdRLWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dollemore\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Dollemore Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Donald Trump Tweeted That He&#8217;s Owed an EXTRA TWO YEARS in Office Because of &#8220;STOLEN TIME!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Pwvw2kdRLWE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Excellent points. Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten owes the American people for the years America has had a Resident, not a President. He can pay us from the inside of a cell. Could this be a prelude to seizing power by force after a 2020 loss? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-furious-that-another-baby-is-getting-all-the-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>President Donald J. Trump is reportedly \u201cseething with envy\u201d and \u201cfurious\u201d that another baby is suddenly getting all the attention, White House aides have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Trump was \u201cbeside himself\u201d after watching cable news cover a baby other than himself all Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can\u2019t understand why they are suddenly obsessed with this baby,\u201d one aide said. \u201cHe thinks he should be the only baby that people are thinking about, and this new baby is driving him nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Real news, Andy? Awwww\u2026 Poor widdle Fuhrer! Does Twumpy Wumpy need Stormy to change him again? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TrumpDiaperDump.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0507Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another hot day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying to climb back into the saddle.\u00a0 I&#8217;m improved, but hot and tired. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:43 (average 4:48).\u00a0 To do it, click here. How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Divider in Chief Of course the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/07\/open-thread-5-7-2019-2\/' 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-36429","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\/36429","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=36429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}