{"id":36686,"date":"2019-06-03T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36686"},"modified":"2019-06-03T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:22:02","slug":"open-thread-6-3-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/open-thread-6-3-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 6\/3\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a muggy, hectic day here in the CatBox.  Moving day is tentatively set for next Monday.  I will probably be offline for at least two days, but I’ll give you all a heads up.  OGIM!<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:54 (average 5:17).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  how did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From USA Today<\/a>: <\/font>President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived at Buckingham Palace Monday just after noon, local time, to meet Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> and be treated to the kind of royal pomp-and-ceremony the president loves receiving and the British love staging. <\/p>\n

During Monday’s visit, the queen greeted President Trump as he ascended the palace stairs with Prince Charles, as Melania walked behind with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The queen wore a big smile as she greeted the president with a handshake, wearing a mint suit and matching hat. She then acknowledged Melania, and the three royals walked inside with the president and first lady.\\ <\/p>\n

The POOR Queen! If I were her, I would have abdicated first! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>A move by House Democratic leaders to thwart party members from mounting primary challenges to incumbents, even in safe Democratic districts, could have the unintended consequence of arresting the party\u2019s shift toward a more female<\/a> and racially diverse caucus, one of its most striking achievements of the last election<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Last week, a Democratic political consultant with longstanding ties to the party\u2019s campaign committees quit a senior-partner position at the firm Deliver Strategies after it, like most dominant campaign outfits, agreed to comply with a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee policy barring it from conducting business with a primary opponent of a sitting Democrat. <\/p>\n

Her reason: She feared the policy\u2019s impact on female challengers. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hard enough for challengers, for a lot of reasons,\u201d said the consultant, Amy Pritchard, who worked last year for Representative Ayanna Pressley, Democrat of Massachusetts, in her successful campaign to defeat a 10-term Democratic incumbent. \u201cAnd this policy is a bridge too far. I\u2019d like to see a majority of women in Congress, and it\u2019s not going to happen with this policy.\u201d <\/p>\n

When my party does something wrong, I don’t avoid it. I speak out that we need to fix it. The DCCC is so far off base that they are acting like Republicans. All Democrats must oppose this policy. RESIST!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, currently under indictment over his misappropriation of roughly a quarter million dollars<\/a> in campaign funds, continues to go out on a limb in his party\u2019s new defense of American war criminals. First Hunter argued for a pardon<\/a> of former Navy SEAL team leader Edward Gallagher, accused by his fellow soldiers of repeatedly targeting innocent civilians in Iraq<\/a>, by dismissively telling a town hall that that he, too, was guilty of \u201ctaking a picture of [a] body and saying something stupid.\u201d <\/p>\n

This admission of a plain breach of military rules by ex-Marine Hunter did not do much to discredit the more damning accusations against Gallagher, that he so consistently targeted innocent civilians with his sniper rifle that his fellow SEALs tampered with his weapon in order to throw off his aim. So Hunter is now back with a more on-point defense of the intentional targeting of civilians, arguing that why of course he did that too<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI was an artillery officer, and we fired hundreds of rounds into Fallujah, killed probably hundreds of civilians, if not scores, if not hundreds of civilians,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cProbably killed women and children, if there were any left in the city when we invaded. So do I get judged, too?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The answer to Hunter’s question is “Yes”. I believe his statement that he is also a war criminal and he should be imprisoned as such. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font> <\/p>\n

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It’s a muggy, hectic day here in the CatBox.  Moving day is tentatively set for next Monday.  I will probably be offline for at least two days, but I’ll give you all a heads up.  OGIM! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:54 (average 5:17).  To do it, click here.  how did you do? Short […]<\/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-36686","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\/36686","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=36686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}