{"id":36434,"date":"2019-05-08T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36434"},"modified":"2019-05-08T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T16:50:35","slug":"open-thread-5-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/08\/open-thread-5-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/8\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">As I continue to improve slowly, it&#8217;s a very busy, very hot, day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; It&#8217;s grocery delivery day, and WWWendy is coming to scrape the stink from the TomCat.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:38 (average 5:48).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-08-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=rGiplxhEsCM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump Red Line Failing Despite Urgency To Keep Finances Opaque (19 min.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rGiplxhEsCM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Fuhrer lost that much, did he? I&#8217;m surprised it wasn&#8217;t more. Due to dementia, he is even less competent now than he used to be. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-to-step-away-from-making-his-businesses-bankrupt-to-focus-on-bankrupting-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>President-elect Donald J. Trump will no longer have day-to-day responsibility for driving his businesses into bankruptcy and will instead focus on bankrupting the country, one of his leading surrogates said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Fox News, Kellyanne Conway said that while Trump no doubt could \u201cplunge both his businesses and the country into bankruptcy at the same time,\u201d he feels that he \u201cowes it to the American people to put them first.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging that Trump has no government experience, Conway said that his years of bankrupting a variety of companies would prove \u201cinvaluable\u201d as he does the same to the United States.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to surprise a lot of people when they see how great he is at this,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! For the very first time, Smellyanne was right! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2019\/05\/trump-asserts-executive-privilege-over-mueller-report-in-last-bid-effort-to-protect-bill-barr-from-jerry-nadler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raw Story<\/a>: <\/font>resident Donald Trump on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over all of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s report on Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election.  <\/p>\n<p>The assertion of executive privilege came just as the House Judiciary Committee was about to hold a vote on holding Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt. The president\u2019s assertion over the entire report comes despite the fact that most of the report has already been made public.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m not sure where we go from here, but resolving it through the courts could take years. We should still charge Barrf with Contempt of Congress. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><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\/05\/0508Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I continue to improve slowly, it&#8217;s a very busy, very hot, day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; It&#8217;s grocery delivery day, and WWWendy is coming to scrape the stink from the TomCat.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:38 (average 5:48).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? 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