{"id":36655,"date":"2019-06-01T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36655"},"modified":"2019-06-01T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T16:31:53","slug":"open-thread-6-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/01\/open-thread-6-1-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/1\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy Saturday here in the CatBox on another hot muggy day. As I&#8217;m up to my ears in moving prep, I will not be preparing a Monthly Report for May.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a busy WWWendy day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I trust I speak for all at Politics Plus in offering our heartfelt condolences over to Lona over her sudden loss of her beloved husband and soul mate.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:23 (average 5:09).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-01-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=11zZFgke4Y0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Laura Ingraham&#8217;s history of promoting hate and white supremacy<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/11zZFgke4Y0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How typical for the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, and for the Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Njxl721L2p8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHQAmn49BObyOsPHCnKRC4w\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Snopes Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Lindsey Graham Called Trump &#8220;Race-Baiting, Xenophobic Bigot&#8221; in 2015?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Njxl721L2p8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"650\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now Lindsey Poo has an ugly orange shit stain on the tip of his nose. RESIST!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/5\/31\/1861686\/-Nevada-governor-becomes-first-Democrat-to-veto-popular-vote-compact-but-it-still-made-gains-in-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>The growing campaign to elect the president by popular vote met two defeats on Thursday, as the governor of one swing state rejected a bill to add his state\u2019s Electoral College votes to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, while lawmakers in another did the same.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak unexpectedly became the first Democratic governor in the country to <a href=\"https:\/\/thenevadaindependent.com\/article\/sisolak-vetoes-bill-that-would-pledge-nevadas-support-to-winner-of-national-popular-vote-reject-electoral-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">veto a bill to join the compact<\/a>, meaning the state\u2019s six electoral votes won\u2019t get added to the 189 that are already part of the compact. Sisolak defended his decision<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/21\/opinion\/electoral-college-warren-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with the fallacious claim<\/a> that the Electoral College benefits small states such as Nevada, and his veto statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/411950725\/5-30-19-AB186#from_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaves little room for a future reversal<\/a>. Supporters lack the votes in the legislature to override Sisolak\u2019s veto, and it appears unlikely that they will be able to do so while Sisolak remains governor.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s time for a primary challenge to DINO Sisolak! <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\/06\/0601Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy Saturday here in the CatBox on another hot muggy day. As I&#8217;m up to my ears in moving prep, I will not be preparing a Monthly Report for May.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a busy WWWendy day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow, with no links messages on Care2.&nbsp; I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/01\/open-thread-6-1-2019\/' 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-36655","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\/36655","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=36655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}