{"id":36636,"date":"2019-05-31T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36636"},"modified":"2019-05-31T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:46:43","slug":"open-thread-5-31-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/open-thread-5-31-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/31\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m feeling very tired on a hot muggy day.&nbsp; The move is set for the week of 6\/9.&nbsp; I just took a ride in the elevator.&nbsp; They fixed it yesterday afternoon.&nbsp; If I can sign the lease and get the keys next week, I can go see it before moving day.&nbsp; That would make me much more organized then.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:21 (average 4:19).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-05-31-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=niWgzB0TnWs\" 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>Smoking Gun Evidence Of President Donald Trump&#8217;s Push To Rig The Census<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/niWgzB0TnWs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The goal of the Republican Party is to create permanent, racist, fascist, totalitarian, plutocratic Republican Reich in which elections exist for show only, because the Reich controls who gets to vote. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FE7Uzv6AkgU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font>He broke with GOP under Nixon; hear his advice for them today  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FE7Uzv6AkgU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Effectively, that divides Republican Reps and Senators into three categories: complicit criminals, quivering cowards, and Amash. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/05\/this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AlterNet<\/a>: <\/font>If the United States weren\u2019t in the midst of its own \u201cconstitutional crisis,\u201d a headline like this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/29\/world\/middleeast\/israel-election-benjamin-netanyahu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">would be<\/a> big news: \u201cIsrael Moves to Hold New Election as Netanyahu Fails to Form a Coalition.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Seven weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared \u201ca night of tremendous victory\u201d in Israel\u2019s election, his failure to form a government by midnight Wednesday has turned into a stunning debacle for him and thrust Israel into a new election.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><em>Israelis will return to the ballot box in about three months, the first time in the country\u2019s history that it has been forced to hold a new national election because of a failure to form a government after the previous one.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To maintain his parliamentarian majority, Netanyahu\u2019s conservative Likud Party needed to form a coalition government with right wing secular ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox factions. A refusal by those parties to compromise on proposed legislation about military service made that impossible. But here is a critical element of the story.  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Facing possible corruption charges, Mr. Netanyahu had less political wiggle room to turn to more liberal parties and failed to assemble the 61-seat majority required to form a government.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The best thing that could happen for Israel and for Palestine is for Butcher Bibi to crash and burn. He has dragged Israel into multiple war crimes. <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\/0531Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling very tired on a hot muggy day.&nbsp; The move is set for the week of 6\/9.&nbsp; I just took a ride in the elevator.&nbsp; They fixed it yesterday afternoon.&nbsp; If I can sign the lease and get the keys next week, I can go see it before moving day.&nbsp; That would make me <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/31\/open-thread-5-31-2019\/' 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-36636","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\/36636","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=36636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}