{"id":36545,"date":"2019-05-22T09:12:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36545"},"modified":"2019-05-22T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:24","slug":"open-thread-5-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/open-thread-5-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/22\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries later.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming this evening.&nbsp; In addition to de-stinking and normal chores, we need to set up and activate my new phone.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll probably be moving late next week or early the week after.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be offline for a few days then.&nbsp; Yesterday, I published our 9000th article at PP.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still improving slowly.&nbsp; Hump day hugs!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 4:46).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-22-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=YggUXlRqHHA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RWWBlog\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RWW Channel<\/a>): <\/font>RWW News: Mark Taylor Predicts Trump Will Impose Martial Law to Round Up His Political Enemies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YggUXlRqHHA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These pseudo-Christian monsters are NOT Christians. Can you even imagine the real Jesus putting his political opponents in concentration camps? They are even more evil than Nazis. They are Republicans. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C1n6v76wPlU\" 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>): <\/font>EMBARRASSING!!! Ben Carson is EXPOSED by Rep. Katie Porter as a Know-Nothing About His Job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/C1n6v76wPlU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Who could ever forget Nine! Nine! Nine!? When Carson wears his Republican Swastika it&#8217;s Nein! Nein! Nein! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/sen-ron-wyden-im-tired-of-republicans-ignoring-election-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Think Progress<\/a>: <\/font>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is tired of Republicans ignoring election security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]hat happened in 2016 could be really small potatoes compared to 2020,\u201d said Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who sits on the Intelligence Committee.  <\/p>\n<p>Wyden is especially concerned that, as he said, \u201call of the political muscle is on the other side trying to protect the status quo.\u201d Now he\u2019s hoping to take his message straight to voters.  <\/p>\n<p>Fourteen other Democrats joined Wyden earlier this month to sponsor legislation that would force states to use hand-marked paper ballots and audit their election results. The bill, called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Protecting%20American%20Votes%20and%20Elections%20Act%20of%202019%20Bill%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Protecting American Votes and Elections Act<\/a>, would also set cybersecurity standards for voting systems and provide funding for states to implement the changes.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich have no interest in tightening election security. They depend on the lack of security to enable Russian help in 2020. Oregon leads the way. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0522Cartoon.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A day for Republicans to commemorate.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering groceries later.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming this evening.&nbsp; In addition to de-stinking and normal chores, we need to set up and activate my new phone.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll probably be moving late next week or early the week after.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be offline for a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/open-thread-5-22-2019\/' 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":[35,3,5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-religion","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36545","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=36545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}